The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1886-12-22

Elizabeth Grund, aged about II years,
died in St. Louis Sundry Of hydrophobia.
A fire in Galveston. Texas, yesterday,
destroyed property valued at from $50,
600 to 100000
In the Choctaw Nation Sam Starr
killed Frank West and was in turn shot
and killed by West.
Frank Sanders charged with the mur-
der Of the Sweeney family, was lynched
at Toccoa, Ca, Monday.
Jacob Sharp wants change Of venue.
lie says there is too much prejudice
against him in New York.
The town of Viluli, Ark, was fired in
many places Sunday, and property to the
amount Of $1jO,OOO destroyed.
The widow Of General Mcclellan has
received from publishers $4,000 advance
payment upon the Generals book.
James O. Smith, butler for the late Mrs.
4. r. Stewart, was killed on the street
railway in New York Monday night.
Cardinal Gibbons is much annoyed by
neWsmongers who prut fictitious inter
views after trying in vain TO impeuenently
prig him.
In the recent local election the Prohibi-
tiouists were defeated in every district,
their opponents carrying Clarke county,
Va, by 300 majority.
Mrs. William Tucker, living near Mar
shall, H., wandered away from home in Il
fit Of temporary insanity, and was found
frozen 1t is expected She will die.
In Columbia, ). c., b. T. Walsh tried
to kill Chief-Justice Simpson because he
failed to pass examination for admission
to the bar. iIe should be put behind the
bars.
Mrs. Kate Lynn Conde, Of St. Louis
has applied for divorce from her hus-
band, Henry Clay Conde, on the ground
of desertion Mr.. Conde was cousin Of
Samuel j. Tilden.
Jay Gould has rented a pew in DR..
John II. PaXton's church on Forty second
street for 81 800 year. He listened to
the doctors discourse on the proper dis
tribution of wealth
The suit of ReY w. w. Downs,
against the Bowdoin-square Baptist
church, Boston, for $4,000 for salary was
commenced yesterday, General Butler ap-
pearing as leading counsel for the plain
tiff.
The suspension Of J. H. McCoon was
announced on the New York Stock Ex-
change This is one of the houses report
ed in trouble in the panic Of last Wednes-
dav, but which tided the trouble over till
yesterday.
A meeting of the City Council and tax
payers have been called for the purpose
of discussing the financial condition Of
the city Of Houston. The total bonded
Indebtedness is over $1,50O,00O, and the
city is bankrupt.
Mr.. Powderly has written 10 commit
tee of the United Labor party, declining
10 address the convention, and says so
long as he is at the head of the Knights
he will never again occupy place on a
political platform.
Yesterday the counsel for McQuade, in
New York, obtained copy of the SEN
tence and then left the room. McQuade
was Immediately taken to the Tombs,
and, after the usual formalities, was
locked up in cell II.
The friends Of j. w. Vickerman, the
tailor who made charges against Juror
Rosenberg in the McQuade trial, fear that
he is going crazy lle.is confined in the
tombs, in the civil suit brought by Rosen-
berg, and refuses to eat
The Land and Labor League of New
York is afraid that professional politicians
will control the labor convention which
meets in Cincinnati next February, and
IA has issued circular pointing out the
dangers which are TO be guarded against