Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-01-14
LATE NEWS IN BRIEF.

New York City has been partly fog
bound.
The deadlock in the Iowa Senate is
still on.
The revolutionary movement in Morocco
is spreading.
The turks and the Arabian rebels are
treating for peace.
Seville, Spain, has been partly inundated
by the Guadalquiyir river.
Expenses are to be cut down in the Bu-
reau of Latin American Republics.
Owing to the recent financial disasters,
Berlin bankers have formed q union.
Prince Louis Clovis Bonaparte's lawyer,
Thompson, has been arrested Tor conspir-
acy.
The German Reichstag has agreed on the
principle of payment of members OF that
body.
The number of deaths from grip in
London last week was 95, nearly all old
people.
Rev. Mr.. Spurgeon has written an indig-
nant letter on Russian religious perse-
cutions.
The Bank of Geneva, Wis, is in a-bad
box. Creditors will be lucky If they get ~
per cent
Auditor Taggart has been chosen Chair
man of the Independent Democratic state
Committee.
London Tuesday night in behalf of tile
Worlds Fair.
The noted Montenegrin agitator No
cevicsa has been murdered by two of his
fellow-countrymen.
-Abill to appropriate SsOO.OO for State ex-
hibit at the Worlds Fair has been intro
duced in the New York Senate.
Matters look warlike again at Coal Creek,
Tenn. The military garrison there, armed
with gatling gun and howitzer, are look
ing for fight.
The Sioux deny that there have been any
ghost dances at the Rosebud or Pine Ridge
Agencies this winter. They have INDUCED
in social shindigs only.
Most of the French and American men
of-war in Chinese waters have been ordered
TO winter on the Yang-tse-kiang, and the
German and japanese squadrons viii be re-
intorced.
The Board OF Public Grounds and Prop
erty met yesterday in Governor Pattison's
private room. The chief topic under con-
sideration was the insurance of the Capitol
buildings.
Governor Frank Brown, of Maryland,
was inaugurated yesterday in the presence
of the General Assembly. His address re-
lated mainly to matters of interest only
within the State.
The estimates in the Russian budget of
1892 show decline of 2S. SOC. coo roubles in the
revenue and an increase of 3,5O00O0 roubles
roubles is expected.
The Auditor Generals department has
prepared an itemiZed account of the ex
penses o. the extra session, showing total
of S3S, SS3 06. To this amount must be added
a little more than $1,000 to cover certain
salaries not yet paid.
The Worlds Fair Dedicatory Committee
has decided to make grand international
ball. on the night of October Is, one of the
features of the dedicatory exercises. The
committee has elected Congressman w. c.
p. Breckenridge, of Kentucky, to deliver the
dedicatory Grafton.
Reporters polled the New Jersey Legis-
lature Yesterday on the Presidential prefer
ences. with the result: Democrats-Cleve-
land. 81; Hill, 9; Albeit, G: Whitney, l: Gray.
1; absent, 3: non-committal, {; no choice, 8.
RepublicanS-Harrison, Z: Blaine, 8; nom
committaI, ,: no choice. g.
An explosion at the Pahst mine. near
1ronwood, Mich, Tuesday wrecked the
hoisting plant, engine house and mine office
} John Hughes, a drum man, was instantly
killed, and two others were seriously in
jured. Superintendent Riddle was buried
in the ruins o. the Office, but not seriously
hurt.
The London Times says the leaders of the
Catholic party in Quebec are fully alive to
the fact that their unique position would be
lost should Canada be annexed
to the United States, and probably seized
the opportunity TO get rid of a dangerous
ally in Mr.. Mercier, who had long been sus-
pected OF coquetting with annexationist
dealings.