Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-01-22
LATE NEWS In BRIEF.

The Morocco Rebellion is said to be sub
siding.
A fine quality of Iithograph stone has
been found near Independence, Ia.
The ice gorge on the lower Ohio has In
jured several Pittsburg steamboats,.
Cardinal Manning's funeral and burial
took place in the Brompton Oratory yester-
day.
Belgian authorities are accused of favor
itism in comforting deccoratlons upon
artists
The biggest irrigation ditch in the
Northwest is now being constructed in
Yakima county, Wash.
Ice has choked mp the end OF the chicago
water works tunnel, and that city is threat
ened with a water famine.
Another Kansas county-seat war is
threatened, this time in Garheld county,
between Ripanna and Emlnence.
The Methodist Layman's Association of
Philadelphia has petitioned the General AS
sembly for equal representation with the
ministry.
The case of Brennan, the murderer OF
Sam Wood, at Hugoton, Kan, has been dis
missed without prejudice, owing to the i'm
possibility of getting jury.
The German steamship Moltke sank
in London yesterday morning, as the result
of a collision with the Carlo Pietro, an Italian
steamship. London fog did it.
The trial of Dukes francesca and Pietro
Notarba rtala- Villarosa, the Malta murderers
in Rome has ended. Pietro is acquitted
and Francesca will only spend few months
in prison.
The Moulders Union at Hamilton, Ont.
having decided not TO accept reduction OF
10 per cent on piece, and e5 cents on day
work, the foundrymen have determined to
run non-union shops.
Marion v Dudley, the poet, of Lake
Mills, Wis, may be sent to an insane asylum
Hugh James, City Treasurer OF Frank
fort, Ky, is defaulter to the amount OF
81, 600 and has disappeared.
Arthur Edward Smithers. formerly man.
ager of the English bank of the River Platte,
charged with stealing fl, ,S04 belonging to
the bank, was convicted in London yester-
day and sentenced to four years penal servi-
tude.
The use of American freight cars on the
Midland Railroad in England, has been
vetoed, it is claimed, because the manager
of the railroad has personal grudge against
the person who is seeking to made the inno
walton.
The whole of the Rio Grande frontier is
covered with snow, the first time ever
known The suffering among the poorer
classes of MeNicans and among the United
States troops has been intense for the past
two days.
The Sioux City train on the Chicago st.
Paul, Minneapolis and Omaha road was
wrecked by a broken rail at Hamilton,
Mimi, yesterday morning. -Four sleepers
were ditched and piled up in confusion, but
no one was killed.
The London Lancet publishes an analysis
of the bread in common use in the famine
stricken districts of Russia, showing that 10
per cent and probably more OF the article is
matter, seeds, silica, sand and other foreign
substances.
Deputy Collector Colquitt has just re-
turned from successful raid in Cleburne
county, Az. Last night at Red Oak, about
30 miles from this city, small still, cap and
worm were destroyed, together with about
90 gallons of whisky. The officers had q hard
fight with the moonshiners.
James White, O stowaway from Homo
lulu, says that last Nav he deserted from an
on a trading voyage among the
islands of the Pacific. At the first place the
vessel touched, five young girls were alb
Quoted. The natives pursued in canoe,
and when near the ship were fired upon.
Six or eight being killed, the canoe was
overturned and the rest were devoured by
sharks. Two weeks later the vessel touched
at another island, and in hight with natives
one of the crew was killed. At another ;
island lot of sandal wood was stolen, and
the schooner was chased by a French gun
boat, but got away.
Three burglars broke into the Office
Of the Sacramento transportation Com
pany Wednesday midnight, and sue
ceeded in drilling open the safe
in which about s6O0. One OF
the men was stationed outside to act as
guard, armed with double-barreled shot
gun. Watchman Howard saw the guard
and hailed him, when the burglar fired a
charge of buckshot, taking effect in How
ards abdomen. The shooter then ran to-
ward the river, followed by two others who
left the coin and tools behind them in haste.
Howard, though mortally wounded, fired
several shots after the fleeing safe-crackers.
None of them hit their mark, however, and
Howard dropped exhausted and dying.