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


n-Hunger typhus is spreading in parts OF
/ Russia.
-Rinderpest is spreading among the hogs
around Altoona, Germany.
The British Mediterranean flagship is
stlii ashore anu has sprung bad leak
| The first four vessels of the San Fran
cisco sealing fleet have sailed for Arctic
waters. -,
-Rumored that in Minnesota the Farmers
AInance and the Federation OF Labor WILL
amalgamate.
The highest tide in % years swept up the
River Elbe Sunday. Suburbs of Hamburg
were flooded
| Senators Teller and wolcott, OF Colorado,
are said to be working hard for anyone to
beat Harrison, so far as their State is con-
cerned
THE Montreal Mo,aitesur oi Rome, the dip
| lomatic organ of the Vatican among the
french Canadians, attacks Mercier and ad-
Vlses all Catholics to side with the Liberals.
The mail steamer Labrador has just az
/ tempestuous voyage. All the passengers
feared they were going straight to the DOT
| tom.
-ExMayor John Black yesterday pre-
Sented Father Keogh, the pastor of st.
Johns Cathedral, Milwa ukee, with check
for SIC, 600 with which to build u spire for the
church.
AN incendiary poured petroleum over
the floors OF the German royal castle at
konigsburg Sunday and set it on fire. The
names were extinguished before much DAM
age was done.
Thomas Bell, Sunday evening, left the
supper table while the rest of the family
were still eating. He went to the bathroom
IN an upper story, locked himself in, and cut
MS throat from ear to ear.
The Brussels Journal lie Nord, which was
long subsidized by the Russian Foreign Of
flee, has ceased to be published, owing to
the death of its editor. Its Russian subsidy
was stopped recently because it attacked NJ.
de Giers.
1t is reported that a man named John
Boyd is in Jail in North Carolina on his own
confession that he was the principal in the
wrecking of tine Richmond and Danville
train near Statesville, September 6. Twenty
persons were killed in the wreck.
The Board of Arbitration at Indian
apois has decided in the late street car
strike that the street car company had the
right to recall the free ride badges held by
the men, but that the company should COM
pensate the men for extra service in report
ing accidents.
w. H. Arnoux, A W. Louzer and Robert
Graham, on behalf of the Associated Tenn
perance. Excise Reform. Sunday and Pro-
City, have issued an appeal to the people of
the State against the proposed excise legis-
lation at Albany.
The peasants of Riazian have been
taught to believe that Tolstoi is anti-Christ;
that to accept his bounty means the loss OF
their souls, and that all thus accepting Will
be stamped with the mark of the beast on
their left hand. This amazing superstition
Is attributed to the prejudice of the Greek
Russian clergy.
John Prengel, a workman in a litho-
graphing establishment in Cincinnati died
last Friday. Sunday night in an old trunk,
the family found stored away SIG, 900 IN cash.
three sound policies of life insurance, aggre-
q md hr1J1I linz ocia inrh l.
calling for $780, The strange thing about
this is that none of his family, with all of
whom his relations were entirely happy, had
ever been apprised by him of any valuable
contents of this mysterious trunk.