The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1884-05-31
Rrtef News Items.

Brief News Items.
The annual spring review OF troops in
Berlin was held Thursday by Emperor
William, who appeared on horseback.
The royal princes and princesses were
present.
Grand Duke Louis OF Hesse persists in
his demar DIS for a legal separation from
Nine. Kolemine. The latter has referred
her claims in the case TO the Hessan Minis
ter from Darmstadt.
Lewis Simms was struck in the left tenn
pie with brick Wednesday night at Wash
ington by William Davis at the Brick Ma.
chine Company's grounds. The fight was
the ending OF a baseball game. Simms
will probably die.
News has reached Cairo that q new black
False Prophet appeared before Darfour
and defeated El Mahdi's troops. The new
Mahdi states that FL Mahdi was one OF his
former dervishes. The Catholic bishop OF
the Soudan has just arrived at Cairo from
the South. He reports that seven Italian
priests and four Sisters OF Mercy have
been mastered at Ell Obeid. He also
reports that three priests were exposed
naked to the sun for four days, and died
from the effect Of their exposure.
Twenty years ago six silver spoons and
q silver butter-knife were missed from a
table in the house OF Mrs. N. Crandali, at
Cohoes, n. Y, and suspicion rested upon
a servant-girl. The summer kitchen has
lust been raised for the purpose OF making
repairs, and the missing silyerware has
been found uniniured in a rats nest.
A dispatch from Winnipeg, Manitoba,
SAYS: Adyices received this morning from
Maple Creek state that Indians ralded the
settlement last night. They killed a man
named Paul Pollock, and stampeded forty
horses. The raiding party numbered about
twenty. 1t is not known whether il was
made up of Canadian or American Indians.
A Dublin telegram of Wednesday says:
At a meeting OF the Irish National Land
League here to-day Timothy Harrington,
secretary of the League, mentioned the
fact that whereas two or three years ago
from 1000 to $4,000 was received weekly
from America, they were now obliged TO
depend almost exclusively upon funds
contributed in Ireland.
Nearly three thousand immigrants from
Hamburg, Bremen, and Antwerp have
been landed in New York. Among those
from Hamburg were fourteen families.
comprising one hundred and twenty per-
sons. who are grape-culturists, and are
bound for Lower California. Some OF them
are prepared to buy vineyards, while the
others will be employed by wine-manu-
featuring company.
A natural gas.well was struck on the
Westinghouse premises, in the Nineteenth
ward OF Pittsburgh, q few days ago. be-
Iieved to be the largest in the country.
Gas was struck at a depth Of 1,660 feet,
and at two feet lower the flow was the
heaviest ever encountered. This opens a
new region, and, being in the city limits,
the benefits resulting to Pittsburgh indus
tries will be incalculable.
Thursday night at Albany a German
woman, named Caroline Schreifn. living
on Third street, and insane from the loss |
OF bank book, murdered five OF her |
and, running with the oldest. age |
nine years. threw herself in front of |
train on the Central railroad, and was
killed. The child had an arm and leg |
crushed, and cannot survive.
A Co,Tier-Journdi special contains intel
egince OF the death Of Special Bailiff w.
K. KiDlion. He was killed in Laurel county
BY party OF moonshiDers" while try
ng to arrest them. -Four moonshiners for
ited themselves in a house, which was at
acked by officers. Eight or ten volleys
we're fired before the moonshiners surren-
Tered, and Killion was shot four times,
Iying almost instantly.
A hundred head Of imported Guernsey
attic were sold in Philadelphia Wednes-
ay. The highest price paid was for the
COW Lady Emily Foley Sec
nd. famous prize winner at the many
'nglish shows. She was bought by III.
slmer, OF Avondale, Pa, for 81, 900. Mr..
avis OF Baltimore. paid 1910 Cor Luke
nd S426 for Darling's Jewel. A. VIII
Elm, OF York, Pa, paid S425 for Cherry.
A Gibraltar telegram Of the Goth says |:
r. Nachdgal, the explorer. and several
erman officers, are embarking to-day upon
Q gunboat Moewe. The vessel will pro- :!
ed TO Angra Pequena, on the west coast y
Africa, and will take formal possession :
Che bay and harbOr Of that name, and OF
> surrounding territories, In the name OF =
rlnany. From there the expedition will \
10 the upper or middle Congo for the A
rpose Of 6nding Q suitable trade route !.
m the interior to Angra Pequena. -