Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1889-04-17
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There Is no chanRe IN tne hinucePV"
sireet.car strike.
The evidence for the defendants In the
Stewart will ease OF New York Is closed.
Mr.. ParneIl has Instituted suit against ihe
London Times for libel, claiming ei00,OOO
damages.
The Georgia state Convention OF the
/ Womau's Christian Temperance Union met
| yesterday 10 Augusta.
The colored people OF the District OF
! Columbia celebrated Emancipation day yes
terday by parade, which was reviewed oy
/ the President.
Edward Tilden, OF Chicago, president OF
| the Drovers' National Bank at the Union
stOck-yards, has been arrested on the charge
Of attempted bribery.
! II understood that the liabilities OF John
/ Jackson, who committed suicide In II. Louis
last Saturday, will reacn 5000, 900, and that
/ his family will be left virtually penniless.
John p. Cunning was the special corre-
/ spondent Of the Associated Press who wrote
/ the account Of the loss OF the wsr-ships At
/ Apia. lie is about twenty-eight years oil
/ age.
An Englsbman named Harrison, astudent
OF BalIial College. Oxford, has been arrested
[ at GweedOre, Ireland, for supplying FOOD 70
/ besieged tenants. He was haBd-eufed imme-
/ diately.
The City Council OF Chattanooga last night
| supplemented Baron EranGer and The
1 Queen and Crescent routes gift Of $4,000 for
the public hos pItal at Chattanooga by an sp-
preparation Of $4,000 for the same purpose
The Beet.sugar Company was incorpo-
rated Yesterday in san FrsnciscO with
capital Of $4,000, 900, with Louis Schoss. A.
| L. Cuts. L. Ebmarr, Claus Spreckes. aud
John d. Spreckels as directors, the last two
holding half OF the stock. The object Il to
erect large sugar-Te0neTies at various points
on the coast.
The London Standards Vienna CORE
spondcnt says: Sugar again rose to-day.
The Prague and Austrian trade journals de-
clare that the rise IS due TO the scarcity and
prospect OF the international Convention
abolishing bOuntics, but II is believed that
the chief cause II the existence OF on inter-
national sugar trust on the American model.
General Franz sigel, who has been pension
agent In New York for many years. has re-
signed. Since his sons misconduct recently
the General has called for an examination OF
his Office by special examiners. Their re-
port was entirely in his favor. When II bad
been accepted General Sigel announced his
intention 10 retire 10 private lie, and his
resignation was received yesterday.
4 blast fred at Duluth, Mimi, last night
at the Masonic-Temple excavation, In the
heart OF the city, revealed vein OF copper
bearing rock Of exceeding richness. The
vein was at first thought 10 extend only
nj a.. in FAM
pounds Of rock thar would assay g. per cent.
OF copper. However, It was found later
that it IS much more extensive, and IL Is con-
sdered a rich and valuable find.
A Chicago Daily News Rockford Qll.) spc-
cial says: George 5. Haskell. the big seeds
man Of Rockford, and president OF the state
Agricultural Society, made an assignment
last night TO secure the National Bank and
II. II. Stone. The bank has a judgment
note OF $4,000 and Mr. Stone oue Of $4,000.
The failure was caused by $4,000 suit
brought by A. b. Cleveland, Of New York city.
Cleveland ran away 10 Canada with $50, 000
The scale conference Of the Western Penn
sylyanla and Ohio railroad coal miners and
operators adjourned yesterday evening after
adopting a scale providing for the payment
Of III cents per ton for mining in Western
4
and 7Gf cents I'm the winter, and G2t and
ca cents per ton for the same seasons in
Ohio This is q reduction OF - cents per
ton on the present scale, which expires on the
Both instant. A strike amoug the miners is
inevitable.
A special TO the Age.Herald, Of Brming-
ham, from Warrior reports sad tragedy at
Reeds Gap, near that place. Four young
10 I fytnn
brother objected TO one Of the visitors and
went olfand got pistol. When be entered
the room he fred at the one whom be sup
posed to be the Objectionable young man,
but who turned out TO be bis sister. The
ball struck her ia the cheek and lodged at
the base Of the brain. The attending ply
sicians say she will die. Young Livingston
Is said TO have been drunk and is still at
large.