Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-08-18
LATE NEWS IN BRIEF.

-Crespo is advancing on Caracas.
-Rumored that ex-President Bog ran, of
Honduras, has been killed.
There is truce in Morocco pending pro-
posals of surrender by the rebels.
United States authorities in Texas fin
that Garza revolutionists are quiet.
1t is believed the Earl OF Aberdeen will
be the next Governor General of Canada.
"A Southwest Silver Convention has been
called to meet in Ell Paso, Tex, Decem Der s.
Bristol is the latest English port to be-
come n candidate for Transatlantic steam
ship lines.
A strange and virulent disease has be-
prove fatal.
The wealthy postmistress of Leo. Mo, has
been arrested Tor abstracting merchandise
from the mails.
John Reed, a prosperous Beaver county
farmer, has been missing since August g.
Foul play Is suspected.
Fifty persons were hurt by the collapse
of grand stand at Lanuemezan, summer
resort in the Pyrenees.
Decentralization has been accepted as
arbitrator in the boundary dispute between
Brazil and Argentina.
Constant Rossa, for two years manager
of q large business in Cincinnati has been
found to be pigamist.
There is great destitution on the North
ern Mexican border, where several deaths
from starvation have occurred.
-Eleven-year old Harry jackson, OF East
Liverpool. while bathing Tuesday was
seized with cramps and drowned.
During fire in a Paris coal cellar "A fire.
men were suHocated to Inconsistencies.
Three are still in critical condition.
AT Tredegar, England, four persons per.
ished in the burning OF q "model" boarding
house. The 20 sleeping inmates had q mar.
row escape.
The body of Jesus Mano. well.known
Mexican hunter, was recently found tied to
a stump near AsencfoI, Mexico, and hor.
ribly mutflated.
The faith cure doctrine has killed another
VICTIM. Mrs. James Starn, of Elwood, Ind,
allowed her babe to die without calling med.
ical assistance. The neighbors are in.
censed.
The Harlan family held its biennial
national reunion at Richmond, Ind Tues
day. The entire number OF descendants is
S,00O several hundred of whom were pres
cnt, repres entlng almost the entire country.
Minister Tupper of Canada, says of the
Bering Sea arbitration: "The case will be
presented and served on the Hth of Septem-
Der. counter case will be filed in about
three months and then q written brief is to
be filed. 80 that the arbitrators may meet in
March,
1t is said That Consul McCreery will re-
sign his post at Valparaiso soon as the
pending investigation is closed for che rea-
sirous OF resuming business In the United
States He is said to be confident of a COM
plete vindication Of his official conduct.
The Association of Weather Services at
Rochester, n. Y, has chosen the following
officers for the coming year: President
Major II. H. c. Dunwoody, OF the United
States Weather Bureau; Vice Presidents B.
$. Pague, Oregon, and G. NJ. Chappell, Iowa;
Treasurer, W. L. Moore, Wisconsin.
The Economic Entomologist Association
at Rochester, N. Y, elected the following
officers for the ensuing year: President
Professor s. A. Forbes, Champaign, ILL.,.
First Vice President c. j. s. Bethune, Port
Hope, Ont; Second Vice President C. II.
Tyler Townsend, Los Cruoies, N. NJ; Score
tary, Henry German, Lexington, KY.
The preliminary stipulations of the
Franco-Russian defensive alliance has been
agreed upon, to cont1n ue f1v years, on con-
dition France grants Russia zone on the
Red Sea, with Russia's right recognized to
protect the orthodox church in Abyssinnia
France also promises to give assistance in
aiding Russian enterprises in Africa.
Julia Robinson came to the authorities
at Richmond, Ind, Tuesday, for protection.
She said that as soldiers orphan she draws
a pension. Rev. Benjamin Smith, her uncle
and guardian, draws the pension money,
using it for himself. He forces his attentions
upon her and recen tly assaulted her. She
had kept quiet, as he threatened to kill her
il she exposed him. He recently gave her a
savage beating. Smith is pastor of a COL
ored Baptist church.