The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1876-08-16

dates Will set IL ID ot,efock shis syln{r
i Dsiagst es arriving 4n every ain fa sntiin.
Esiastie for .straa4 toni Deuiocrntfc iloIiItnn.
tons. Wade Hanp Ton VIM probably be
/ nominated Tor Governor, fs5g -
;CoEuaA1ly s.. G.. August 49, lie istate
/ Democratic Convention met lid the State
House tonight. IT Is tue largest ana most
linfuentaa body of white. citizens ever as.
sembled In the State Since 1880. Every
county is represented. IL 81 probable that
full Democratic ticket wall pc put n Che
ueiu. fl .af;! si4.. iijfti. .;tis sf; ast+isi
ARREST OF "A NEBCANTiLE BROKER Cti1RGED
| WITH OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES OF A. Y.SToKRs
* co. FORCED. 4. III lirgs sistsi e,
PHILADELPHIA, august 15.-H H. lar
dis, mercantile broker, doing business here,
has been arrested for forgery. He forged
the names, it Is alleged. OF T.. Bliss q Co.,
Chicago; II. BuchoE, OF Charleston s. G. ;
al. Y. Stokes rs Coz, Richmond, Va; But
Ter, Ernart, g. Coz Columbus, Ohio and
Thomas Cochrane. OF this city, president of
the Board of Revision of Taxes and o mem
Der OF the Centennial Board 6f Finance.
The parties who purchased the forged paper
are DIR. III. Geiger, 81 1900 john III. Ktatise.
$50, 1Oe; Thomas r. Betting, $4,000 ;;:snd
Nelson j. Nickerson, SaS,g00. a number OF
others were also swfHdled, II is falleged,
making the total forgeries aboHe 90, 600.
Laudis is now In prison, having been com.
ted'in default 6f ,SI6, 600. h2tiia %:
~, ',;1# :,,,'l sAkAToRA RACES ~. Is ais.,s
,SARAToGA. August l1.-In, the threetquar-
ter-mile race Madge. won; Freebooter sec
ond, Inspiration third. Time, tl:l84s HI {
In the one-and-three-qua rter-mile trace,
free for all ages, Bingo Won; Galway Sec
ond, Vigil third. Time, 3:07l.l tn - .
In the one7and- race, beaten
horses. Radamanthus won; Mary D. second,
Madge third. Time, 1854. ,i::k l.f1unH :
The hurdle-race was wen by Resoaute !;
Kelso second, Stanford third aeuoii as. !
|gnoHIo AND MISSISSIPPI KA1IRoAD TROUBLES.
CINCINNATI, August l5.AThe situation
along the track Of the Ohio and Mississippi
railroad IS unchanged No freight trains
are allowed to pass. Employees at Flora,
ILL.,, on the western division, struck yester-
day. ~, s,.,',..,--...c an, /,
| INDIANA RAILROAD STRIKERS. ,;:a i
INDIANAPOLIS, August 10. 4 Governor
Hendricks to-day issued: a proclamation
calling upon the railroad strikers to disband
| at once; also calling upon the public officers
to exercise all the powers with which they
are endowed to break up this combination
and bring the guilty members who may re-
main contumacous to punishment. III ,tl.
| . HEAVY sAPE-RoBBERY.. '2&i"
WATERFOWL, August 15.-Tte safe Of r.
D. Bullock, OF jackson, Mich, was robbed
july 1st OF $4,000 worth Of bonds. The
burglars correspondent with the owner, and
for $1,000 brought the booty from Canada
in a skiff, when one, named Hawiey, was
arrested with the property. Hawley's con-
federate, named Lee, escaped, and IS stfl at
large. ''i3 ,, -. " -. - -,
- -" CASUALTY AND CRIME. ~; ''''',.I
ATLANTA, GA, August 15.-Thomas Jor-
dan, employed in Laryley & Rohinson's
mill, fell on the moulding this after
noon and was disembowelled, and died in
stantly. ,.1,r,,r ~ rob
+, A negro raped a iourteen-year-old school
girl in Fayette county yesterday, and he
was killed by indignant relatives h,M
aiiia.t POOR CHARLIE ROSS, AGAIN. ls.tt
d PoUGHKEEPsrE, n. Y, August ia
man and woman were arrested at Sharon,
Conn.,, with a boy supposed to be Charlie
Ross. '@" .1't. s.s5t. -'t@.2fH@ IS '"''
SERIOUS FIRE IN NEW JERSEY. a.
New BRUNSWICK, n. j., August 15.---The
| New Jersey rubber factory was destroyed
ifby fire. 1t employed $50 hands. Loss,
5000. 1000. N'.%
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