The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1883-04-14
Brief News Items.

The engines In the Dome steamer Meteor.
which was TO drive her across the Atlantic
I'm six days, have been pronounced failures.
and are TO be replaced by others. The first
engines were the invention OF man who
believed that the more cranks. cylinders,
and plstons she had the more work could
be done.
Sponga, the Italian who is implicated in
the murder OF Count Won Mailathyon SEE
khely, was arrested Thursday at Pressburg.
Wien captured he fired five shots from a
revolver but no person was injured. He
| afterwards shot himself i'm the mouth. in
ilictmg severe wound. He Is able to
! speak, however. and has made confession
o his guilt.
y new style OF piano. called the Ada
! phone, is now made in Germany, in which
the hammers play upon graded tuning
forks instead OF wires. The foreign Jour
mails prophecy brilliant future for 1t, rs
they claim thai the ideal tone has been pro-
duced at last, infinitely superior in depth.
sweetness. and length TO that of any other
| piano manufactured.
Thursday three constables went TO the
southwestern part OF Chicago TO arrest Mo-
/ ritz StadclmaGn. a salOOn-kceper, Tor nj
| tempting TO Kill his wife. lie made des-
pcrate resistance, shooting and probably
| fatally wounding constable named Moo
ney. slightly wounding second, and mar
rowly missing the third. lie was subse-
Quently arrested and locked up.
\ telegram from Hamilton, Ont, says !:
PhIpps. the Philadelphia almshousc forser.
| left here this evening for home in charge OF
Il detective. Robert McWadc, city editor
Of the Philadelphia Lodger, while waiting
| for train TO accompany Phipps, took oc-
casion to curse the Queen and the Canadian
/ Government. Information was sworn
against him by bystandcr. and he was AZ
rested and fined $40. lie reports being
robbed Of $500 while here.
StilweN II. Russell, late United States
marshal for the Western district Of Texas,
who was recently tried and convicted upon
/ a charge Of presenting false expense ac-
counts, was Thursday sentenced 10y Judge
| Turner at san Antonio, Texas, TO impris-
onmcnt for two years in the pcnitcnliary at
! Chester. 1T. II Is estimated that during
| the term OF his service rs marshal Russell
! doirauded the Government out OF at least
| Sj0,00C. His official bond, however, Is
good.
4 Cleveland telegram says \ terrible
tornado passed over Milan, Lorain county,
Thursday and last night. Buildings and
crops are badly damaged. \ farmer named
Nicholas Gira was blown from a roof where
ne was at work and was instantly killed.
! He leaves 4 large family. John james,
struck by a barn door, had both his legs
broken. Several others were injured. \
man named Speron was Killed at Chicago
! junction. II WAS the scVcrest storm IN
wears. The cyclone only struck small
/ portion OF the county, and did no damage
! 10 localities twenty miles distant.
Governor Rusk. OF Wisconsin. has We
tocd a bin providing for the placing OF eX-
teinal frc-cscapeS upon hotels and other
| buildings, principally for the reason that
" the balconies provided for by the bill eX-
| nose TO midnight thieves the windows and
external approaches TO the building 10 such
| degree that no occupant OF rooms, espe-
ciaty when summer heat requires an open
window. could lie down to sleep without
frepidatIOn. The risk OF burglary would
| far out>trip the risk OF fire. The act fails
| TO proyidc. what would be far more neces-
sarv in such cases, watchmen within, or
armed Sentinels to patrol the external ap-
proaches.'
The body Of Fred. Wagner, brother OF
| the late Senator Wagner, native OF New
York. and for whom an extended search
was made last fall, was found by cmigrants
hast sunday on the bank OF creek eight
miles from Powers station, on the santa
Re railroad. The body was terribly dis
figured. Considerable money was found
scattered about it; also, a plain gold ring
with the inscription a. b. to F. w, Fen;
1,t. 1851" and business-card marked
&" Frederick Wagner. successor to }. Blu
miller. New York" \ bullet-hole IN the
back Of the necl, proved conclusNely that
Wagner was murdered for the large
amount OF money he was supposed to car
~ about his person.