Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-12-20
LATE NEWS In BRIEF.

| Honduras rebels have been winning vic
tories
| -Carleone a Sicilian town, was shaken by
an unuuatory earthquake, Friday.
| National Bank Examiner Diamond has
| taken charge of the Huron, S. D., National
Bank.
|. The Brazilian Congress has reassembled
and listened to the message of President
Peixotto.
Zanzibar will become q free trade port
after February ], except for alcohol and war
materials.
Vienna, Including Billroth, the eminen:
urgeon, have the grip.
Judge Gresham feels the selection Of
Woods as Circuit Judge as a personal insult
and may resign, says the Chicago Times.
-Clarkson tells Iowa Republicans that
long as the party clings to the prohibition
issue.
Harmon Shriver. the wealthiest retired
German resident of Massillon, was bunkoed
out of 5000 Friday by means of bogus
| check.
quietly returning for some time, and the
fact has just attracted the notice Of the
Government
The Central Distillery in St. Louis was
robbed by tour masked men OF about $l00,
Friday evening. They beat to insensibility
the only man on the premises.
The British steamer Springhill ran into
and cut in twain the schooner Gladys at the
| entrance to the English Channel. Three OF
the Gladys crew were drowned.
The Colonial Parliament of New South
Wales, Australia. has passed the Govern
ment tariff act. Ali but three of the Ministry
abstained from voting and left the House.
-Four bombs were found i'll Paris subur-
ban police station yesterday. The fuses had
been fired, but failed to burn to the danger.
Gus point. Socialists are strong in that
quarter.
Tho jury in the case of Noah Richards,
colored, on trial for the murder OF Police
man John j. Sherman, in New York, yester-
day brought in verdict OF murder in the
first degree.
When william Kallert, a salesman in D.
Holloway & Sons New c, stle shoestore. was
found to be q defaulter to the extent of g, 1OO
he promptly returned the whole sum- He
had saved the money.
Tho Nebraska Beet Sugar Convention
passed a resolution asking the State Legisla-
ture to restore the old bounty of ST ton for
manufactured product
The reciprocity treaty with Cuba, re-
ducing the duty on -four from Sc so to 81
dity to be thrown into the Buffalo market
for 300, 900 barrels, with the certainty Of
trade being increased in the near future.
The latest famine item from Russia is Of
an act of cannibalism. Three peasants had
murdered shoemaker to rob him, but find
ing no money they cut up the corpse and at
tempted to burn it. The charred flesh was
found by other peasants, who grsedily de-
voured it.
When Secretary Mobiles award OF 40
acres more of town lots to Guthrie Okla,
was made known Friday evening, there was
a grand scramble for lots. The working
force in the office of the State Capitol news
paper were the first to hear the news, and
were able to take their pick of the claims
number of women and girls are among the
fortunate ones.
There has been general complaint bv
Chicago householders that the bills for the
month of November rendered by the Gas
Trust were from 40 to 60 per cent larger than
usual. The explanation given at the Office
of the company is that the state of meters
was not taken as early as usual by about 10
days. and that instead of paying for gas used
during the so days, the period was in reality
40 days. A local paper says, however, that
this was stock-jobbing move, intended to
help on the boom in Gas Trust stock in New
York in order to facilitate the work of "run-
ming in" the shorts