The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1883-04-05
Brief News Items.

A New York Medical College turned OUT
eight female NJ. DIS Tuesday.
The losses by fire in different parts OF
the country Tuesday amounted to about
100000.
A PENNSYLVANIA manufacturing company
has bought all the liquor licenses wiihin
several miles OF the establishment, ana
thinks IL has solved the temperance pro-
blem for is employees.
The entertainment given In New York
Tuesday night by Colonel Mapleson. and
Under the auspices Of a committee OF ladies,
for the further endowment OF scholarships
al Washington and Lee University, was Il
great success.
Late reports from Coomassie, Upper
Guinea. say that the King OF Ashantee has
rennquished the throne. and that the entire
coast of Western Africa is in state OF con-
fusion. No details of the circumstances
attending the abdication are at hand.
In prize-fght at Dubois, Pa, Tuesday
cfening. between Mike McLaughton and
Martin Linksy, miners, six rounds were
fought In the last round the men clinched
and fell, Linksy breaking his neck in the
fall and dying instantly, Mclaughlin gave
himself up to the authorities. The men
were not over eighteen years OF age.
An explosion OF gas occurred in the
cellar OF the Palace Hotel at san Francisco
Monday. The fire department and the I'M
derwriters' patrol had scarcely reached the
premises when a. second explosion oc-
Cured. which severely burned nine OF
the fremen. Two Of them received in
juries which viii probably prove fatal.
John Bawls, aged sixteen years, belong
ing to a respectable family at Benson Hol-
low. Pa, assaulted a little siX-year old
daughter Of another family. The neigh
bors organized court and sentenced the
culprit to be publicly whipped. Johns
father volunteered to carry ont the sentence.
lie tied his son TO post i'm the barn and
lashcd his bare back with beech switch
until the neighbours committee declared the
punishment sufficient.
A Pittsburg telegram says: The cast end
q this city is now lighted and the business
houses and dwellings heated by natural gas
from the Murraysyille well al a cost OF fifty
cents per | 900 cubic feet. The gGS is per-
iecily odorless and smokeleSS, and is
brought to the city over distance OF
twelve miles in two pipes. Ii is the inten-
ton TO supply the entire city with this eco
nomical and pleasant fuel. The wells are
said TO be ineXhaustible.
4 special dispatch from New York TO the
Philadelphia Press reports that Miss Caihe-
zine Lewis, who has been playing coll
veite" with her company in New York
the past week, on Monday last eds !
charged" her husband, Mr.. Arfwedson,
who has heretofore been her business agent. |
Ii is charged that Mr.. ArfwedsOn has been |
spending his wife's money in champagne |
suppers, leaving the cOmpany's salaries |
unpaid, and recently telegraphed to John |
Stetson, Of Booths Theatre, New York, |
for 5000 in advance on his wife's engage |
ment. Last Monday Miss Lewis called on |
him TO give an account OF his stewardship, |
and then told him TO consider himself dis |
charged and employed another business
agent in his place.
4 Madrid telegram says The official !
announcement is made that two companies |
of Spanish troops have started TO occupy
Santa Cruz de Ia Pequena. This is port
on the Atlantic coast OF Morocco, midway
between Madeira and Canary Islands. Mo-
rocco. after Marshal O'DOnncps campaign
OF 1860, promised 20 surrender this port TO
Spain, which. il was claimed. she held du-
ring the sixteenth and seventeenth CEN
turtles. The question has remained in
abeyance ever since, though Morocco pro-
posed to substitute other territory for the
port Of Santa Cruz. Spain, however, dis
covered that an English company was in
treaty for the port in question, and this
put a stop TO the negotiations and deter
mined Spain to take possession at once.
A Cincinnati telegram of Tuesday says
\ sensation was created in the rooms of
the Duckworth Democratic Club this morn
ing by an attempt by Mayor Means to shoot
John Brady, a county iailer. Both men are
members OF the Club, and had spent the
night at the Club rooms hearing election re-
turns. Early this morning the Mayor, who
had been drinking. made threats that he
was going to insult Brady, who was
upstairs. Means went upstairs, but
Brady's friends got him down. Means
followed, when the men seized him.
He finally drew revolver, and Brady, see
ing this, drew bis, and demanded that
Means's revolver be taken away. This was
done ana bloodshcd was prevented. Bra
dy and Means have not been on good terms
for two years.