The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1873-10-31
THE --LATEST NEWS.
Failure OF lIOyl, Spraguc 4 Co.,
or New York.
Providence COttDn Mills 10 Re.
ducc The Hours OF Work.
Pennsylvania Furnaces Suspend.
Ing Operations.
Favorable Reports from The Vel.
low Fever.
Verdict and Sentence In The
Stokes Case.
Civil War Inangurated In Indi.
ana.
Civil War Inaugurated In lndi.
ana.


New York, October 3O.-The Stokes
verdict Ia granddaughter In the third
degree, and the sentence four year,
hard labor. Judge Davis said, IN rem
dering this verdict: "St0kcs, the jury
have exhausted, and more than cX-
haustel, all mercy In your case. No
appcal to this court can diminish the
conference.-the highest penalty affixed
by the statute In the degree In which
YOU are convicted, and that Is too
light and apparently trifing as com
pared with the great crime you have
committed"
Stokes was surrounded and embraced
hy many relatives, and hurried to the
TOOmtS.
PARIS, October S0.--In the Bazanc
trial to day NJ. Flahant, Il messenger,
testified that under fear OF capture IN
TIE rucmy he swallowed - diepa'c, h,
was carrying from i'hiumVllic to Metz
The dispatch was recovered and dvliN
cred to the officers at headquarters II
Metz on the 29th OF August, bat wa
by them thrown into the tire unread
Lieutenant Nuqucs swurp that he
fruitlesHly attempted to deliver i.azainr
a dispatch entrusted to him on the I'D
of August 10y the Empress He admit
ted after much prcvarication that ho
was also the bearer of dispatch to
General Bourbaki.
VII MINGTUN, DEL, October 30
Captain Daugherty, Chief Clerk in the
postoilice, was Duiled in $4,000 for n
$1,000 defalcation.
NEW YORK, October 30 Suspen-
sions-Williams0n Schmidt d Co.,
produces exporters, HOyte SpiagLe y
TO.
Hoyte Sprague & Co., do not deny
failure, but decline a statement about
their condition
Theodore Tilton was expelled from
the Plymouth church for refusing to
testify in the Beecher scandal.
HARTFORD, October 3O.-The rail
road shops have reduced the hours and
wages twenty per cent.
RICHMOND, Ind. October 30.-A
fight with small arms and Il six pound-
er cannon II progressing in this colln-
ty over the location of the county seat
and possession of the county records.
LOUIsvILLE, October 80. -EX-Mayor
Phil Tompert Is dead.
Little Rock, October 3O.-A heavy
frost and clear weather allay all yellow
fever approximations.
MEMPHIS, October S0.--FOr the TWEEN
ty-f ur hours ending at 6 O'clock last
night there were nine yellow fever
deaths. The Board of Health officially
notify absentees that they may return.
NEW ORLEANS, October 30.--lt is re-
ported that a number of negroes went
ON board the steamer Pargoud at Good
ricl's landing and, demanding social
equality, they were driven off by the
officers and crew OF the boat. Inc ne
groes dispatched m essengers nor rem
torcencnts with arms. Before theyar
rived the boat backed out, but many
shots were fired ut her by the mob on
shore Nobody was hurt.
A band of striking longsh0remen at
temuted to again interfere with those
working for less than four dollars per
day, hut the police dispersed them.
MONTGOMERY, Ala, October 3O.-No
yellow fever deaths and no new eases.
Tie heaviest frost of the season. There
are few old cases, two of which are
serious.
ST. LOUIS, October S0.--Patsy Mulroy,
who was to have had Il mill in the
same ring with Allen aud Hogan, was
fatally shot IN front ofMcCooPs saloon.
McCool was arrested. Fitzgerald saw
McCool shoot Mulroy. Several Others
have been arrested. The Allen-Hogal
fight is adjourned to Canada.
PROVIDENCE, October 3O.--lt is uli-
derstood that A. & W. Sprague, i'll TINS
city, do not suspend to-day. not with
standing the failure of the New YORK
house. Upon application ut the office
of the Messrs. Spraguethc Information
Is furnished that committee Of ilves'
,ipution into the affairs Of the y. " W.
SpiagLt Manufacturing COMPANY, az
pointed by the representatives OF tli'
city banks, will bt prepared al Il meet
ing to he hrld to morrow mori'ii'g 10
make report which II / th"ugi. WIZ
lc highly satisfa tory to the cttuit"'
of \. K y. Spinguc AID iloyI, SpiagI'
Il Go. the surplus oi aNaidmr p'"i
erty III ioW valuation, Ga AL th' cut
stardrug linq,liiics nH"a tdr "'''P
aDre al HOAt, -p'aEGt " Sc. Il g. N'''''
vii ur AOt less t.ian ten ,hilil.i "u'-
lars. y plau viii he presented ~
meeting to-lu Drrlw, ,lccompd ltu WIN
n detailed report of the situation tr"h'
which will il is teIicved ii carried 'n'
render the embarrassment "i y. * W.
Sprague Il Co., and Hoyt Sp:aSue
Co. of temporary duration. H.
NEW York, October ~ Tie iaiiul,
of Hoyt, Sprague d Go. caustd a.
heavy declile in values on the stneh
exchange andalepression outside lhe
restoration of confidence previously go
inv on has received check wliirh
cali only he looked upon as a puniit
calamity IN the present CONDITION VI
affairs. Tie fuiluie OF the Balk oi
England directors to advaice their rae
of discount to-day caused u decline mere
in both gold and foreign tSci'a.loe.
There Is Ito change IN the ho'c'"i!
situation, call lUalis still being u"he u!
: per cent to l-32. The Assorintt1
banks to-day gained SI32,OOO III ie1a'
tenders.
There Is fair activity In rallroa
bonds at lower prices. The stock mar
krt opened steady, hut 80 ~ hc'anie
weak, aud Continued TO decline UNI,
the | o'cDck hoard, when an up 'ar''
rea .tion SGT In. rne derli.ied rang
from to 1 Der cent thruu lioiit inc lT1,
and the recovery up to : O'ci%N' no.i
to | / per cent. Since tileii '''e "'''
ket weakened again. a,