Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-11-28
LATE NEWS IN BRIEF.

The Cronin trial will be resumed on Friday.
when eight days will be consumed in making
arguments.
Jefferson Davis continues to improve
and Is now able to sit up occasionally, but is
not allowed to leave his room.
The taking Of evidence in the case of the
Navassa rioters was completed at Baltimore
yesterday and the arguments were begun.
Tho Conservative conference at Noting.
ham yesterday approved Lord Salisburys pro-
gramme, but attached a rider declaring that
the party must adopt an effective labor plat
form.
The first real snowstorm of the season at
Buffalo, N. Y, began at an early hour yes
terday morning. and by o'clock six inches of
snow covered the ground. 1t then changed to
rain and sleet.
Richard NJ. Mansfield, the horse thief of
Buffalo, N. Y, and the escaped convict of
Cleveland, who was sent to the insane asylum a
few days ago, escaped from that institution
late on Tuesday and up to the present has not
been recaptured.
The New York grand Jury yesterday after
noon returned an Indictment for murder in the
hrst degree against Mrs. Hannah B. South
worth, who shot and killed Stephen PettuS last
Friday morning. Later she was arralgned and
pleaded not guilty.
The Citizens State Bank and T. F. Nc
Conaughy, mercant, of York, Nebraska, have
made assignments for the benefit of creditors
The bank will probably pay in full. McCon-
aughy's liabilities are NOT known He was one
of the stockholders in the Citizens bank, and
was cashier of the same.
There was small sized panic among New
York holders of Chicago Gas Trust certificates
in Wall street yesterday morning. In the first
two hours of business 80, 900 shares were traded
in and the price dropped IL per cent. Chicago
houses were the largest sellers. The adverse
decision of the Illinois Supreme Court was the
cause.
The Commissioner of Indian Affairs has
directed the Indian Agent at the Kiowa and
Comanche agency in the Indian Territory to
promptly remove cattle found grazing on the
reservation without the consent Of the indians.
1t is learned that several herds, aggregating
about $1,000 head, are trespassing on the reser-
Vation.
The Governor of South Carolina in his an
nusl message to the Legislature recommends
separate accommodations on railroads for
whites and blacks, the amendment Of the civil
rights law passed by the Republicans In 1876
and the collection and preservation by the
State of all Confederate flags He also pro-
poses manner Of refundiDg $6000, 900 Of the
State debt
The negotiations between President Adams.
of the Union Pacific, and the Denver, Texas
and Fort Worth people have resulted in agree
ments for the formation of corporation, to be
known as the Union Pacific. Denver and Gulf
Railway. which will absorb the Fort Worth
road and the Colorado lines of the Union Pa
cific, except the old South Park road, now
known as the Denver, Leadville and Gunnison.
The passengers and crew of the burned
steamer, Santiago, So in number, arrived in
quarantine, New York, on Tuesday night.
The fire in the Santiago broke nES on the 18th,
of Staten Island, and spread SO rapidly that
the vessel had to be abandoned. The four
boats containing the refugees drifted all night,
but were picked up by the A. ]. Fuller in the
morning. The loss is about d, 900, 900, but the
crew and passengers are unhurt.
DIR. Calvin Case, Of st. Louis, an intelligent
colored physician is at the Maryland Univer-
sIty Hospital, Baltimore, an incurable victim
of the morphine habit. He was found on the
street on Tuesday by policeman, bleeding
profusely from wound in the thigh. He had
partly broken himself of the morphine habit
hut the struggle on Tuesday was too much for
him and he swallowed seven grains Of cncaIne.
and then cut himself with penknife. He was
at one time a surgeon in the United States
Army.