Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1889-04-16
TELEGRaPnIC FLASHES.
Condensed frOR, Last Nights Teie-
grams 90 the Dispatch.


Parnell's action in the Irish courts against tho
Times will be cancelled
Bond offerings yesterday aggregated s6si,7OO
ut l29 for IS ana los for 45ss. All were ac-
cepted.
The steamer FuIda, from New York, has ar
rived at Southampton and proceeded for
Bremen.
The Chicago bass-ba club defeated the
Americas in Washington yesterday by tue score
of IS TO ,.
Tho Brooke Iron Company at'Birdsboro', Pa.
has lssued orders for the resumption OF ~0rk at
It's nail factory.
Rear-Admiral William Rogers TAYLOR tretired)
died in Washington city sunday nlgnt IN MS
seyeniy-eghth year,
Louis Kossuth, the Hungarian patriot VINO Is
now AT Turin. has suffered another relapse, ana
his life is desp0ired o.
benefit will be given at Palmer's Theatre. in
New York, May 18th, for tho National Confede-
rate Soldiers Home At Austin, Texas.
At Castle Garden. New York, yesterday over
200 emigrants Of the 1900 landed were detained
as liable to become puolic charge.
The Minnesota Legislature has passed q bill
which practically rpid3 tha sale OF Chicago or
Kansas City dressed bOef In the state.
Tho Guion-Llne steamer Wisconsin. bound for
New YORK had 10 return TO Liverpool to repair u
slight damage to her boilers. She hss sailed.
Attorney-G eueral Miller has received the re-
signation Of Van " Richardson as United States
Marshal for the Eastern district OF North Caro-
linn.
The French Tribunal Of Commerce has entered
decree for Judicial liquidation Of the societe
des Metaux.
Judge Ellison rendered decision In tho Court
OF Appeals at Kausas City yesterday to the effect
that under the laws Of Missouri base ball play
ing on sunday Is Illegal
The death Of william A. Cole wss announced
as the New York Produce Exchange YESTERDAY.
lie ives extensively known. not only III thl9 couh-
try but In continental Europe.
Mrs. Hannah Battersby. said TO be the largest
woman 10 the world. dad last night at her home
in Frankfort a suburb Of Philadelphia. IL Is
claimed that she Weighed so pounds.
p. r. Lockwood. Il wen-known real estate deal
er and capitalist OF Minnesota, committed SUI
eide sunday night at Minneapolis, Minn., by
taking poison upon his cemetery lot
James Cunningham g. Co.. OF Mobile, an old
established wholesale hardware mousse, hss @
assigned Liabilities :A5.00l, chiefly 10 northern
creditors. Assets very nearly as much.
The employees Of the Allegheny Bessemer
Steel Companys plant at Dlquesne, Pa. struck
Yesterday afternoon. The mill Is closed down.
Every department and 900 men are idle.
". II. Thompson, recontly managing editor Of
the Kansas CITY lf9Hft ana lbI lulttotn s'ni0
connected with the New York Triban>. has Joined
tho Oklahoma cohorts and VIII locate at Guthrie.
Charlos f. Hatch. president Of tho Wisconsin.
Niuneaots and Pacific Railroad Company, COM
mitted suicide yesterday in his Office at Mime
apolis, Mimi, by shooting himself IN the NOUN
with revolver.
The Berlin Post says that the Samoan confe-
renee will open on the lst OF next inonth. lno
German delegates are Count Herbert Bismarck
aud Or. Kranel, OF the Foreign once. Count
Herbert will preside.
Alta meeting Of tho railroad coal-miners be-
longing % the Miners Progressive | MON, IN
Pittsburgh. the operators scale proposing re-
ductiOn Of ~ cents per ton IN wages Iof the en-
suing year Was accepted.
All the freight breakmen on the i5O-mile d.
vision OF the Atlantic aud Pacific Railroad Com
pany between Wins,OW and hoJaYe went out on
q strike sunday because the company refused TO
allow three men on each train.
Elections for members Of local councils were
held through out France yesterday. aud the Bou-
iangists seized the occasion 70 demonstrate the
strength OF their leader At Chsrenten boulsD-
ger hesded the poll with 2,457 votes, and at
Saints Foye no received l,%D votes
Marshal II. B. Clare and two deputies went on
board the shanty- boat OF d. W. Jones, at war
saw. Ky, yesterday ard attempted 10 search It
for stolen goods Jones resisted, suooung lar s .
iu the shoulder. and the deputies then fred
upon and killed him. Jones Is said TO have been
q notorious river pirate.
The nrst Official act Of Dewitt c. Cregier the
newly-elacted Democratic MAJOR OF Chicago
who was installed last night, was 70 submit 10
the Common Council Tor appointment as city
comptroller the namo OF NJ j. Onahsn, who ~
president Of fhe Irish Catholic Colonization So
ciety Of the United States.
The rules aud regulations Of the new Catholic
University AZ Washington are being printed IN
Latin at the Propaganda Eide In Rome Inoy
will be sent out 70 all the bishops In Americs,
Canada England, Ireland, Scotland, and Austria
Iia, Rector Moasignor Keane will sail for
America tho irst week In May.
The Berlin Gazette says the nomination OF Slr.
! SeEaI a. disburing offcer OF the American COM
r1fssiouers 10 the Samoan conference, together
with the appointment 0f Mr. Bates "a member
/ OF tbs commission, warrants the supposition
/ that the Washington Government does not seri-
| ously desire a friendly settlement OF the ques-
tions concerning samoa
| The amalgamated association OF tho IRON and
eteel- workers will ask that all the iron-niDs be
! elo.ed for two months during the summer. 1usi
a. are tho giess-factories. ms move mas been
/ decided upon by majority OF the lodges, ana
meets With general favor among tbs IRON workers.
| The suspension would throw 25,OO0 men III tnls
| district out Of employment
To-day Giles County Court mests There are
/ two indictnents for murder-one against James
| bolton for infanticide aud one against Robert
1 champ for tho murder Of two men at the Mar
rows. IN Giles county. about q moath since
| Colonel j. II. Hoge Is employed by the defence
! 10 the first case and by the prosecution IL the
I second There have been i've murders in Giles
! in tho last eighteen moatns and not one man
hanged.