Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-07-21
LATE NEWS In BRIEF.

| The thermometer was l02o in the shade
at Ottumwa. Ia, yesterday.
| An earthquake damaged a number Of
houses in Oaxaca, Mexico, Sunday.
| -Troops in Idaho nave returned from an
| other wild goose chase after striking miners
| Chicago people are too mad to see after
the set-down given the Worlds Fair by Con
| gress.
High winds and heavy rains are general
| in Great Britain. Many small shtpwrecks
are reported.
The second convention of Bi-Chloride
| clubs has been called to meet at Dwight, Ill,
September %.
"A bolt of lightning struck house in
| of five children.
The Indian steamer Citta di Roma
caught fire not far from Rio Janeiro, and
was run ashore.
Tho Board Of Trade inquiry into the
wrecking of the Inman Line steamer City Of
Chicago Is in progress at Liverpool.
1T is reported from the Mexican State of
Qure etaro that crops have been ruined by
drought.
The Schooner Argo from North Wales.
foundered Tuesday . mile of Douglass. Isle
of Man. and her crew Of four men were
drowned.
The opinion is growing on the British
Gladstone.
The Mexican Government has begun to
cut of its press subsidies, and it is rumored
several dailies will cease publication.
Diplomats at Tangier, Morocco, have suc-
ceeded in frightening the Sultan, who has
ordered his troops to cease molestfng for
eigners.
Mine men were killed and another badly
injured by the caving in OF a mass Of earth
and slate at Benduf slate quarry, County
Cork, yesterday.
There is a truce in Venezuela now, pend
ing negotiations for peace. The revolution
lists compelled the surrender OF a Govern
ment force at Vela.
Andrew Carnegie contributed EI000
toward the election expenses of j. Kier
Hardie, successful Labor candidate for the
British Parliament.
1t is believed Lord Stanley viii resign as
Governor General of Canada whom Salisbury
steps down, and that Gladstone's man for
the place will be the Earl Of Aberdeen.
The Prefect Of the Department of the
Seine will ask the Paris Municipal Council
for vote of 100000 francs for representa-
tion OF the city OF Paris at the Chicago Fair.
The agitation of the Hebrew question in
France has disclosed the fact that the de.
spised race not only occupy many important
positions, but dominate the Republic finan-
cially, socially and politically.
The trial of Colonel Nieves Hernandez,
captured the rebel, CARA, and who appealed
from the death sentence imposed by the
court martial, is in progress in the City Of
Mexico.
Antonio Sebalio and Angel Santibara,
two Me5icans ms Of Victor .ictoria, An Mex, have been
of Antonio Delrio of Laredo. Tex, upon the
charge of stealing l,OOO parrots, valued at
$4,000.
-Four of the conspirators who murdered
Finance, have been condemned to death,
and several others were sen fenced to various
terms of imprisonment. Others were ac-
quilted.
Lightning struck a colored school in
Brickhead village, near Augusta, Ga. The
so paralyzed scholars and two teachers
were dragged out by people who rushed in.
Two pupils were killed outright, two will
die and one teacher will die.
A meeting OF prominent Scotchmen was
appointed to solicit subscriptions in behalf
of Mr.. Robert Burns Hutchinson and his
wife, Mr.. Hutchinson is the only living
descendant of Scotland's national poet.
king Oscar has summoned Mr.. Stang, the
leader of the Unionist Right, to form a
Cabinet in Norway in place OF the one which
resigned June ~ in consequence of the |
kings refusal to sanction the resolution OF
the Storthing in regard to the establishment
of separate Norwegian consulates.
The commander of the United States
warship Bennington reports from Bahia
that he knows nothing OF the fate
of the missing crew of the Argentine |
warship Rosales. which recently founuered
in a storm. 1t was Supposed that the miss |
ing sailors had been rescued by the BEN
nington.
John Thorpe, in charge of the Floricul-
ture Section in the Department Of Horticul-
ture, has just received from George w.
Childs, of Philadelphia, 100 large bulbs of
caledinms. These calediums are to be pre-
pared so as to form a conspicuous feature of
the floral decorations at the inaugural cere.
monies at Chicago in October.
Northern Pacific Conductor Sloe shot
two men who were riding on the roof Of the |
express car one day last week on the trestie
near Valley City. One died instantly and the |
other will die. The men had pulled the bell
rope to stop the train. When the conductor
ordered them to come down they refused.
1t is supposed they intended to rob the |
train. |
Tuesday night three armed men stopped |
the Montana line: They told Conductor |
Bradley that he had been warned three |
times to keep out Of this part OF the coun- |
try, and that If he ever came back thew |
would kill him. Bradley reported this to |
the Northern Pacific authorities, and thew |
urged General Carlin to send q military |
force to Saltese to protect their trains, which |
was done. A gang Of desperadoes is re. |
ported to be intrenched in the hills along |
the Montana line.