Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1885-03-28


ony on Gold river in Africa. killing six
Spaniards, and took many into captivity.
The Baltimore and Ohio Telegraph
Company, in testing the induction sys-
ten. sent Geographic messages from
train running forty miles an hour.
A gang Of ruffians unsuccessfully
tried to break up the performance OF
Miss Van Zant at the Opera Comique in
Paris. They were driven off by the
police.
During n fire at Memphis, Tenn.
Thursday night, the walls Of the burn
ing building fell in upon the firemcn.
all Of whom were more or less injured,
one fatally.
The representatives Of the nail-milis
Of Pennsylvania and New Jersey in
Philadelphia Thursday reafiirmed the
card-price, $3.50 base, and that price
will prevail throughout the Eastern and
Middle States.
Professor Otto Scheuler. Of Louis
vile. Ky., director Of the Liederkranz
Singing Society, and well-known mu-
stefan and composer, died Wednesday
from blood poisoning, caused by cutting
a corn on his foot.
Captain Charles j. johnson, a promi-
nent citizen Of Hamilton. Madison coun-
ty, n. Y, and commander of the Ar
thur l.. Brooks Post, G.. A. R., killed
himself with a shotgun Thursday.
Financial troubles were the cause.
Contrary to the wild rumors tele-
graphed from the West during the win
ter, leading stock-growers Of Wyoming.
Colorado, and Nebraska state that the
past winter has been the finest for many
years, both for range and trail, and the
losses will be below the average.
When the family of Mr.. Hoffman, of
Birdsboro', Pa, arose Thursday morn
ing they found hanging about the front
porch two handsome gold watches, two
pairs Of gold bracelets, two necklaces,
and other jewels, stolen from the house
by burglars some time since.
Both chambers of the Landtag have
deputed their presidents to wait on
Prince Bismarck and tender him their
congratulations on his attaining his
scventy-frst birthday on April LIST
next. The action of the Landtag in
this matter is unprecedented.
4 special from Gumboro', Sussex
county. Del, says that George Caray, a
young man living just across the Mary
land line, committed suicide Thursday
by jumping into well, having first tied
his legs together with plow-lines, so as
to be sure of going into the water head
foremost.
Thursday evening W. ID. Gushing.
book-keeper Of the Belmont IRONY orks,
Wheeling. was arrested for embezzle-
ment of the company's funds. so far as
known, amounting to s2,l00. lie was
held for examination next week III the
sum of $4,000. Late that night Cush-
ing killed himself.
At the hearing in Philadelphia Of
Peter Joseph Schroeder, charged with
setting fire to the almshouse on the 10Th
Of February, Joseph Nadine. the in
mate of the institution who testified
against Schroeder before the coroner,
denied his former story, and the judge
took the case under adyisement.
A Titusville (Pa.) special says: A
twenty-hOrse power boiler burst Thurs
day afternoon in the Pineville saw-mill,
blowing man working near a distance
Of thirty feet, his body passing through
a two-inch oak-board ceiling, mangling
him in terrible manner. When pick
ed up life was not yet extinct, but the
sufferer cannot possibly live.
In Stewartsville, Ind, Thursday
afternoon two farmers named Fleich-
man and Scharndial, between whom a
feud existed. met in the road and
Fleichman cracked Scharndial's head
with plow-point. Scharndial, though
MORALLY wounded, made an onslaught
with paring-knife and literally cut
Fleichman to pieces. Both men were
prosperous farmers. Scharndial leaves
a wife and one child.
A distressing accident occurred on
the Western and Atlantic railroad near
Tilton, Tenn, Thursday. As the north
bound express train Numbered around
curve near the station Engineer Nc
Nabb saw two-year-old girl toddling
along the track. He did all in human
power to stop the train. When the
locomotive whistle sounded the little
girl turned, and seeing the train, threw
its hands to its face and knelt down on
the track, where it met horrible death.
The child was daughter Of Engineer
Walker.