Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-02-19
LATE NEWS In BRIEF.

| Smallpox is epidemic at Bombay.
| An earthquake shock was felt in Maine
| Wednesday.
Illinois farmers are complaining Of in
jury to the wheat crop.
| The London Times thinks the Bland SILL
| yer bill is an electioneering dodge.
"A movement has been started in Chicgo
| for q new Cover nment building.
Lee Barrett, little child at Keokuk, Ia,
| choked to death while eating an apple.
| Many people in continental Europe were
frozen to death during Wednesdays snow
| storm.
The system of nominating candidates
| for office by convention is being adopted in
| Mexico.
"A tremendous boom is in sight for Du-
luth owing to the recent ore discoveries in
| the Mesabi range.
Thirty square miles OF California timber
lands changed hands in one deal Wednesday,
at $l6 an acre.
A factory at Lundenberg, Baden, Ger
| MANY, is making gun barrels for Russia, and
Emperor William is displeased
| The United Workmen. in session at
OTTAWA, Canada, have rejected proposal
TO secede from the Supreme Lodge of the
United States.
The Canadian reciprocity commissioners
complain that the accounts OF their nego-
tiations published in American newspapers
are grossly inaccurate.
| The Austrian War Minister has issued q
decree enjofning the officers of the army to
take the men of their respective commands
to church at least once a month.
-Hanckel & Riordan, the New York cot
ton firm which, during the big furry in the
market on January Z, was compelled to sus-
pend, has arranged its affairs and resumed
business.
New Mexican cattlemen complain that
for the past tour years they have been
robbed of cattle by Indians. They say there
will be trouble if the redskins are not kept
on their reservations.
IN II w,
james Powers, is in Jail for firing a school
house. His idea was that new one would
be built near his home SO he wouldn't have
SO far to go to school
"A small boat containing Captain Gault
and four seamen of the schooner Oscar and
Hattie. capsiZed at Nestucca, and all hands
were drowned. The party was in search of
several deserters from the vessel.
Chief Justice Beasley verbally announced
in the New Jersey Supreme Court yesterday
that the court sustains the verdict in the
Lingo case of murder of Mrs. Mary Miller.
The Judge said the evidence sustained the
verdict of the court below.
After Henry Armstrong, an aged settler
of Junto, Tenn, died the other day, it was
discovered by the neighbors for the first
time that she was a woman. During the war
her lover, a Confederate soldier, deserted
her and she has worn male attire ever since.
John F. Hamman, a printer employed in
the Dubuque, 1a Herald office, committed
suicide yesterday morning by firing two
bullets into his mouth. He had been suffer-
ing from the grip, and was very melancholy.
Hamman inherited a fortune of $40, ,000 but
lost it in business.
-Twenty-three workingmen's clubs have
held joint meeting in Rome at which a res
olution was adopted to organize a general
strike on all trades tomorrow and to ab-
stain from work until the Government
starts the proposed public works to furnish
employment for men who are idle.
The ases of the six alleged murderers
of sheriff Dunn. near Arkalon, Kan, have
been held for trial February by Judge
Botkin. The case of one of the prisoners
will be tried by special judge but the 9TH
ers will be heard by Judge Botkin. Thirty
bailiffs armed with Wfnchesters have been
in attendance at court this week, ana the
number will be doubled next week.
The cases of the last of the notorious
Mccoy gang, who held up the Rio Grande
train last August near Cotopaxi, Col, ended
Wednesday, when the two Price brothers,
were acquitted. Kid Mccoy and Frank Hal
lock were released Wednesday, as there was
no testimony to hold them on. "Peg Leg
EldridGe and Burt Curtis, who are now in
the penitentiary at Detroit are the only two
members of the gang who were convicted.
Cardinal Rampolla, Papal Secretary OF
State, has notified the French Government
that the Papal Nuncio at Paris has been in
trusted to distribute copies of the Pope's
letter to the bishops, enioining adhesion to
the republic. Cardinal Richard, in reply to
this letter, declared that he was unable to
its contents to the bishops
for he did not believe the time opportune to
do So 1t was charged at the Vatican that
the Cardinals action in refusing the Pope's
request to make the letter public was due
to the influence of the Royalists. 1t was |
stated in Paris at the time that SO Royalist |
members of the Chamber of Deputies had |
threatened to resign If the letter was pub |
lished.