Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-08-17
LATE NEWS In BRIEF.

-Cahfornia officers have given up the pur.
suit of the Coils train robbers.
A colony Of non-polygamous Mormons
recently settled in Lees Creek, in the Cana
dian Northwest
General Newton W. Curtis, Of Chicago,
has started movement to abolish capital
punishment in the army.
1t is now proposed to issue bank note
souvenir in honor Of the quadra-centennlal
Of the discovery Of America.
The Bureau of Engraving and Printing
is now working on DESIGN for the $50 note
authorized by the law of July Is, 1890
w. R Paulus, of Springfield, ILL., lost $50
at cards, gave his check for the amount and
then stole the check. He was arrested.
-Schornerhorn, the geologist, writes that
he has discovered in Idaho an immense
glacial field underlaid with glacial lakes.
The body of Russell Benedict, who died
in Austria in July, was sent to this country
in a soliQ silver casket ornamented with
gold.
The department of Mississippi and Louis
lana, G. A R., mas been organized, and the
colored posts have been admitted to full
membership.
-Capriello Rosa, aged 80 years. fatally
at Portland, Ore, during an alteration
Monday night.
A company of soldiers on the march in
Montana encountered hot wind during
shade and 1880 in the sun.
The Bureau of Engraving and Printing is
preparing actively for the display which tt
will make at the Worlds Fair. There Will
be no mechanical exhibition.
Loyal Canadians at Hamilton, Ont, are
paraded there Monday without displaying
single British or Canadian flag.
A bookkeeper in the First National
Bank, at Joplin. Mo-, has been found to be
short in his accounts s6,oOo He has partly
reimbursed the bank, but was arrested.
The Secretary OF the Navy yesterday
made the tenth payment of sl07, 427 to the
Union Iron Works at San Francisco on ac-
count of the construction Of the battle ship
Oregon.
Handsome John Green, alias George
Howard Chevelan, who up to date is accused
of having married nine wives during the
past two years, is wanted in Cincinnati for
wire tapping.
Henry Beackman, a nfe-convict in the
jackson (Mich) State prison, murdered
Contractor Cuddy with a hammer at the lat
ter's desk Monday. He had sworn revenge
for having been 1ogged by the prison au-
thorities.
&C. F. Neff, of Dousman, Wis, revenged
by starting an opposition postoffice, thus
beating his enemy out of cancellation fees.
Nef has been arrested by Deputy United
states Marshal.
When l+year-old Olive Morgan, of
Chicago, eloped with l9-year-old Henry
NOVEL;, and married him in Milwaukee, the
little bride took her dolls with her. The
couple being "dead- broke - the mother of
the girl took her back to Chicago.
Orders were issued by the Navy Depart
ment yesterday for the United States steam
ship Boston, now at San Francisco to pro-
ceed at once to Honolulu to relieve the
United States steamship San Francisco,
which is under orders to return to San Fran
cisco.
was hanged near Mt Sterling, KY. yesterday |
morning by mob of 800 men, who took him |
from the jail by force In September, 1891 |
Murphy killed his father near Salyersville, |
because he objected to his cooking stolen |
turkey in his house. He was sentenced to /
be hanged January s, but was granted re-
spite.
The people of Canton, Mimi, are in a
FEVER OF excitement over picture, which, |
it is alleged. suddenly appeared in the little
round window high up in the steeple of the
Roman Catholic Church. The picture is
that of a grotto. in which is the form of
woman with her infant lying on her left
arm, while just in front and slightly above
the woman is another face looking down at
the pair.
Archbishop Ireland's latest letter saws:
ut is not true that what the Catholics ask is
touching the Catholic religion in schools. |
w hat they wish is that the teaching in the |
schools be So conducted as not to injure tho |
fa1th OF children or to prevent instruction |
Of children in the Catholic faith. The
'chools OF the State must be, according to |
aw, non-religious, or to use q common word, |
But this does not mean they
must be conducted as to practically efface
religion, or to render the teaching of relig- |
on difficult or impossible.