Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-12-15
LATE NEWS IN BRIEF.

The Quebec Cabinet resigned Tuesday.
Spain will send q military band to the
Worlds Fair.
-Nihilists at Kieff, Russia, murdered Col
onel Davidof.
The first rain of six weeks has just fallen
at Burnet, Tex.
-Four persons were killed in the tornado
at Summit, Miss.
-"Papal detective" is what the opponents
of Mgr. Satolli call him.
The South Carolina prohibition bill has
passed the Lower House Of the Legislature.
The damaged North German LLOYD
steamer Elder has been sold at auction for
$4,000
English Liberal have unseated Sir Pryce-
Jones, Conservative NJ. P, on the charges of
bribery.
A workhouse inmate named Sherman, at
Lambeth, England, has just inherited
81 SOC, 600.
The London police court has decided
case against newspaper missing word"
contests.
The British garrison in Egypt will be re-
duced, owing to tho present effective condi-
tion of the Khedive's army.
"A Santa Fe express train fell through
trestle near Kansas City. The baggagenaS-
ter was the only one hurt, and he not seri-
ously.
doctor, has been sentenced for 60 days for
swindling an lrishman with his alleged
powers.
While resisting arrest Henry Starr, a
half-breed Indian, shot and killed United
States Marshall Floyd Wilson near Cotfey-
vile, Kan.
The bodies of James Mills and Judson
Wilkinson supposed to have been drowned
by Philip Nicholas at Richmond, Va, have
been recovered.
Frequent skirmishes between Federal
and Republican forces have occurred in Rio
Grande do Sui. 1t is believed that a serious
battle is imminent.
Two masked outlaws robbed the railroad
depot Mt Whitewater, Kan, early yesterday
morning of 500 and some express packages.
The agent was held up.
M. Tirard, ex. Minister of Finance, andat
present representing France at the Brussels
Monetary Conference, has been appointed
to succeed NJ. Rouvier.
-Gwyneth Maude, the young woman &C
cused of swinding Sphinx & Son, London
silversmiths, pleaded guilty yesterday,
blaming her dead mother.
-Marshy Lyles, a colored woman near
Sylvania, Pa, over 20 years of age, started
to school for the first time last Monday
morning. and is learning her letters.
-Manitou island, which hitherto has been
completely isolated from the outside world
during the winter, is now connected with
A Mexican priest at San Luis Potosi has
discovered a remarkable cure for typhus. 1t
is a drink made of crushed spiders and
water. He got the recipe from Indians.
Governor Flower has pardoned John e.
Mcnamara, of Corning, n. Y, who was
serving life sentence for killing his sweet
heart l6 years ago when he was IL years old.
The body of Patrick MacAdury, Of
Brooklyn, n. Y, was found in the hold of
the Anchor Line steamship Bolivia, al Glas-
gow, embedded in the grain, which had
smothered him to death.
Within the last few weeks the relations
between the Vatican and Russia, though
not grown so close as to warrant the belief
in a near reunion of the Greek and Latin
churches, have become extremely cordial.
The Conservative Conference at Shelf
field adopted resolutions in favor Of meas
ures to remedy the depression OF the agri-
cultural industry in Great Britain, provided
such measures should involve no increase in
general taxation.
The death watch has been placed upon