The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1883-11-21
Rrief News Items

BrIef News Items
James Cook and wife, living three miles
south OF Springfield, H., had quarrel;
oiter which she LEFT him and went to the
house OF a neighboring farmer. Cook WIS.,
tied the house Monday and caught his wife
and held her head between his knees while
he cut her throat with penknife. She VIII
die. Cook surrendered.
A combination waIking-match between
O'Leary and Hart against Hartman ana
Mcintyre for forty-two consecutive hours,
for 81 GOO and the gate-money, began IN
san Francisco at midnight Sunday night.
At 10 O'Clock Monday night the score
stood: O'Leary, SO miles; Hart, 1O7; Me-
Intyre, los; Hartman, 90.
Frederick North, sub-treasurer OF the
Oswego Falls O.. " Manufacturing Com
many. left that village Thursday ostensibly
to 90 To Syracuse. He has not been heard
from since. 1t is said he is defaulter IN
the sum of $1,000. and is believed to have
gone to England. lie has a wife and TWO
children.
The fragments OF rock dividing the east
ern and western galleries OF the ArlDerg
tunnel were removed Monday IN the pres
ence OF a notable assemblage. Baron Won
Prudential. the Austrian Minister oil Com
merce, delivered an address in German ana
Italian. There was much enthusiasm. a
special train passed through the tunnel
from east TO west.
An Augusta (Me.) telegram says George
Wilton, an inmate OF the Soldiers Home
Mt Togus. shot James f. Baker, another in
mate. Saturday night. The deed was COM
mitted on account OF jealousy OF woman's
affections. The ball entered Bakers mouth,
coming out at the back OF the head. He
will probably recover. Wilton is now in
the guard-house. lie says he meant to Xiii
Baker.
The famous canti,ever bridge spanning
the chasm OF five hundred ite wide Of the
Niagara river at Suspension bridge viii be
completed to-day. The last section viii be
the keystone OF the arch. The bridge
has been built in a shorter time than any
work OF its kind ever was before. The first
work was begun on the Goth OF April, so
that in lust seven months from the time OF
beginning it will be substantially COM
| pleted.
Engineers at Mayence have found the re-
mains OF the bridge that Charlemagne
| built over the Rhine near the close OF the
eighth century. and have already removed
more than fifty Of the piles, from fifteen to
eighteen feet long, on which itrested. The
timber is so well preserved that II Is still
fit for building purposes, while the IRON
that was rivetted to the piles has only TIM
coat OF rust to show the lapse Of more
| than thousand years.
At the Seminary Of the Foreign Missions
| in the Rue du Bac. Paris, where the mis-
sionaries are instructed in Asiatic Ian
pllaoes. there is room full OF horrible
pictures which represent cruelties that have
| been practlced in different lands on former
nupils OF the house. Neophytes are made
! 10 study these pictures so that their nerves
NAV be proved; and this ordeal is only oIe
among many by which they have been pre-
yiouslv tested in discretion, temper, and
endurance.
A meeting of steamboat-owners and
MISUNDERSTANDING managers was held IN
New York Monday Tor the purpose OF
making further arrangements for the grand
steamboat parade, which is 10 be one OF
the features of the forthcoming centennial
celebration Of Internationally. IL was
reported that, from present indications, at
I
/ the parade. These include some OF the
/ largest passenger steamboats, plying on the
| Hudson river, as well as tug-boats, Terry
| boats, and other steam craft. A dozen or
| more floating elevators, with their tall
towers gaily decorated, will appear in line.
A special from Elzabethtown, Ohio,
saws Mays Hotel was set on ire by incen-
diaries and burned to the ground at 3
o'clock Monday morning. The guests in
the Ilpper rooms saved themselves by maxi
| inc ropes of the bed-clothng and lowering
themselves. All OF the guests lost every
thing. III. A. Sommers, editor OF the Ne'rS.
I fractured his ankle by jumping from q
window. Charles Rim received danger
ous injuries from falling wall and viii
probably die. Watkins & Co., grocefs,
who occupied the lower story. lost heavily
| Mrs, Dunnavan was crushed by falling
wall The hotel cost over 10000; tota
loss, 100000.
The Philadelphia Musical Association
Monday evening gave banquet 10 soliaoi
! MilOn, a survivor OF the "Old Guard " OF
the first Napoleon, in honor OF the ninety
sixth anniversary OF bis birth. A purse
was also raised and presented to him by
| the ASSOCEtIlOU. OF NHlSu nv II " h'NHi''s
Milon remained with Napoleon on the
Isle OF ST. Helena i'm his dreary captivity
until his old commanders death. lie then
went to South America, where he spent
several years, and from there came to this
city, where be has since remained. The
old soldier has in his possession bis com
mission on parchment, yellow with age, a.
second lieutenant in q company OF tn
..Old Guard" The document bears thu
legible seal Of Napoleon.
A Washington telegram says: The pro
ceedings, findings, and sentence OF The
naval court-martia which tried Medica
Inspector Stephen ID. Kennedy, on charge:
of drunkenness and absence without leave
have been approved by the Secretary OF the
Navy. and will be submitted TO the Presi
dent tomorrow for his action. Medica
INSPECTOR Kennedy will be dismissed tn
service. The naval court-marttal engaged
in the trial OF Chief Engineer Thorn vii
hanson, charged with ineficiency and eX
trayagance, in connection with repairs L
the United States steamer Pinta at the Nor
folk navy.yard. closed IFS proceedings a
the hayward. Washington, to-day. Tn
record Of the court will be submitted u
the Secretary OF the Navy in day or two