Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-01-08
LATE NEWS In BRIEF.

"A blizzard has been raging in Germany.
A heavy snow storm has buried North
ern Scotland.
San Francisco sealers arc hurrying pre-
parations for the coming season.
The French revenue returns for 1891 show
surplus of 100, 600 900 francs over eNpendl-
lures.
-Rumored that the Pope msy excommuni-
cate the President, Cabinet and Congress OF
Brazil.
The rumor that Bulgaria intends TO de-
clare her independence is semi-oficially
denied.
"A gang of burglars who ransacked so
houses have been rounded up by the Paris
police.
Wednesdays tornado extended into
Florida, devastating strip of country near
Oakland
"A man claiming to be Charlie Ross has
made himself known to the Columbus au-
thorities.
The wife of Embezzler Hoke, of Chicago,
formerly q Lancaster girl, mas SUED 1of
divorce.
Albert King, one of the abductors OF little
Junior Beals at Kansas City, has again
been arrested.
M. GUY de Maupassant, the Frenchman
who attempted suicide, is now confined in a
private asylum.
British exports show a decrease for De-
cember, as compared with tne same inohtn
OF 1890, of about sic, 100000
The Tariff Committee of the Fren ch
Chamber of Deputies has accepted the SEN
ate's decision in regard to petroleum
Samuel Dickie, Chairman of the Prohibit
tion National Committee, says john X. st.
John will again be the nominee OF that party
for the Presidency.
A freight train struck Halstead street
car in Chicago Wednesday night Smashing
it to splinters. Several persons were hurt,
but not dangerously.
M. Roche, French Minister of Commerce,
will introduce in the Chamber of Deputies
bill granting q credit to be expended III
making French exhibit at the Worlds
Fair.
The agitation started by the priests
against the Persian Government tobacco
monopoly resulted in the Government with
drawing from the company holding the con-
cession.
j. H. Meek, a prominent lawyer of Dand-
ridge, Tenn, is missing and is suspected OF
being about $4,000 short in his accounts. He
was Chancery Court Clerk of that county
ana managed a school fund OF $4,000.
Leon C. Labelle, son of the late Captain
Labeile, ex-member of Parliament of Mon
treal. has been arrested on the charge of
numbering his wife, who was foun dead on
the floor of her house December 2S from the
effects of carbolic acid.
Three men were arrested in Chicago
Wednesday charged with swindling the
banking firm of William G. Press & Co. by
fraudulent 5000 mortgage. The prisoners
give their names as II. II. Hobart, p. w. Nc
Worter and Charles Albrecht.
The Legislature of Tennessee refused to
make an appropriation for the Worlds Fair,
but authorized the County Courts to appro-
pirate funds to be expended by State Com
mission. The County Court OF Knox county
has set aside $4,000 for an exhibit.
The New York Chamber of Commerce
has passed resolutions to petition Congress
to assist in representing the general interests
of the country at the Worlds Fair by eX-
tending financial aid. The State Legislature
is also asked to appropriate $l,000,0O0.
-Borlas, the crazy student who fired at
the British House of Commons building. was
arraigned yesterday and remanded. He is
pronounced insane. He is descendant of
Kate Douglas who enabled Mary Queen of
Scots to escape in 1868 by barring the door
with her bare arm against the soldiers.