Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-02-10
LATE NEWS In BRIEF.

| yellow fever is spreading at COSTA hlca.
-Spurgeon's remains are lying in state in
his London tabernacle.
New Zealand floods have stopped rail-
4 road traffic and ruined crops.
The Parnellites have formally elected
| John Redmond as their leader.
A general demurrer has been flec in the
| o. III. quo warranto case.
Western railroads may grant the de-
| mands of their organized employees.
| The Pope has again warned French
| priests not to NEEDLE in political affairs
The Queensland Deposit and Building
| Bank has suspended at Brisbane, Australia
The Presidency OF the New York Life In
surance Company has been offered to John
A Mccall.
st. Paul is to have big auditorium, de-
suite her failure to get the Democratic con-
vention.
A man in Prussian Silesia has just awak-
ened from q sleep which lasted four months
and half
The anniversary OF the death of Mary
Queen OF Scots was observed IN Lonoon
Monday by $50 Jacobites.
The Canadian immigration agent will
canvas the burnt district Of Northern Mlchl'
gan for settlers for Manitoba.
The Governor of Connecticut has called
a convention of those interested to prepare
for State exhibit at the Worlds Fair.
-Four of the riotons anarchists will be
publicly executed at Xeres, Spain, Wednes-
iay, which will be observed as holiday.
Russian roads are so bad that no matter
how much relief provisions are landed at
the ports they can't reach the famine suf-
ferers.
George W Tussner proprietor of the st.
Paul Mosaic and Decorating Works, shot
himself in the head Monday, while insane
from grip.
The Mississippi Lower House has passed
a bill appropriating s64, 200 year for pen
sions This will give those now on the rolls
$50 apiece
The India troop ship Euphrates collided
with the German steamer Gutenfells in the
Suez canal recently. The latter vessel was
badly damaged.
Miss Mona Morse stood before mirror
in her home at Garrett, Ind, Monday. and
deliberately put a bullet through her brain.
The cause is q mystery.
london editors contradict the report of
the American immigration commissioners
that English criminals are being systemat-
ically deported to this country.
-Guatemalan military officers are accused
of provoking street brawls so as to give
President Barillas pretext to declare q
state of siege and continue in power.
On Roumanian railroad the other day,
q coach caught fire and is of the passengers,
who were locked in, as is the European fash
ion, were roasted alive. Two other inmates
escaped alive.
I'm his newspaper. the Raleigh IN. CD
Gazette, Editor John H. Williamson, colored,
announces himself candidate for Con-
gress. His platform will be a compensation
for ex-slaves, as proposed by President Lin
coin.
Two boys were killed Monday night by
the explosion of a Reading Railroad loco
motive in Philadelphia, and were identified
yesterday as William Cavanaugh, aged 19.
and James Dean, aged Il, both of Falls of
Schuylkill.
The draw span of the new Burlington
railroad bridge across the Mississippi river
at Burlington, has been swung successfully.
and just in time, as the river has risen 81
inches and vast field of ice above the
bridge has moved out.
The New York Court of Appeals yester-
day decided that jeremiah Cotto the Italian
now awaiting death at Sing Sing by electro
cution, must die as ordered BY the lower
Luigi Francatosa, on July a, 1891
The British bark Lizzie Bell. has arrived
at Coquimbo, Chile, after frightful expert
ence She was laden with gunpowder and
other war material for the British Govern
ment, and her cargo caught fire. The captain
was stricken with paralysis. the mate was
i'll, and the clothing and chronometers of
the crew were destroyed.
Lord Salisbury and Mr. Balfour gave
dinners to their prominent supporters Mon
day evening, as is customary on the eve of
the reopening of Parliament. The Queens
speech, winch is exactly as outlined in
FRIDAYS dispatches, was read to the guests.
Lord Derby and the Duke of Devonshire
gave dinners to the Dissident leaders, and
Sir William Vernon Harcourt entertained
the principal Liberals.
At England, Ark, Saturday. Jonathan
Ford, a deputy constable. undertook to ar
rest Hamp Biscoe, .colored a well-known
desperate character. Biscoe and other
negroes at his house resisted. On Sunday
Ford and another deputy constable went to
BiscOeis house to make the arrest. and Bis-
GOES son shot and seriously wounded Ford. A
posse then went to make the arrest and
we're forced to kill Biscoe and his wife and
son.