The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1889-09-12
PERSONS AND THINGS.
News Notcs Compiled from the "Tim'
Exchanges.

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covered means boy which water once used
In running a wheel IS not lost. but isrcverscd
and used again. He has applied his inven-
ton toa churn and other light machines.
James McinerDey. Of Brooklyn, who |
died ON sunday. was supreme Trustee Of the |
Catholic Kuign's OF America. a beneficial |
society. ana one Of the most influential OF |
the Irish-Ameucan ORGANIZATIONS Of the |
United States. lie was nfty-two years old.
A curious strike is in progress al
Rochester. Tho osterOloeists aud taxiderm- !
lists in WaId's natural science establish
mcnt. where Jumbo's skeleton was pre-
pared, have stopped work. and as a result
many rare birds and animals being prepared
Tor collections In different parts of the
country are left partly mounted. and the loss
VIII Doe severe.
The new cruiser Philadelphia. which
was launched on Saturday, VIII he one Of the
finest and most formidable vessels Of our
new navy. IL She succeeds ina coming up 10
The contract requirement regarding speed.
She VIII carry powerful armament and
should She reach her contract speed Of nine
| teen knot. per hour She will be q war-ship of
which patriotic Americans VIII have reason
to be proud
A Wilmington DELI special states
that Mrs Mary T.. Whibblcy aged fifty years
the jauitress of the Women's Christian Tenn
peunce MONS rcadn. rooms In that city,
| fell from the second story OF The s0cioty's
rooms while cleaning the windows yesterday
afternoon and was killed. She turned
double somersault I'm the descent and struck
her head on the marble steps ~ tie building.
/ Her skull was frightfuliy crushed. She lived
five minutes after the accident.
Another Niagara Falls crank has been
developed in The person Of Walter G.. Camp
Dcn, OF loungs y. y, who has cone
s'ructcd lifc-prcscryer with which he says
hc viii ON Sunday next swim the Niagara
rapids from tine Maid of the Mist landing
through the whirlpool rapids Ills lifo-pfe-
server, or rather double ife-pfcscrycr, rs me
calls IT, is similar 10 the one worn by Kendall
in his trip 10 is made Of sixteen pieces or
cork. five by fourteen inches and one inch
thick.
Information has been received at
Helena. Mont that one of The hefccsi forest
fires Vet reported is raging I'm the ST. Regis
district in M.ssoula county. Oh Use Cokcly
ranch. Cokcly and the hostess of the ranch
mounted horse and barely escaped with their
lives % tho river. less than quarter of
milo away, and reached the water after hav-
ns the clothes nearly AN burned from their
bodies. A swedish prospector and his horse
persisted In the iamos. j. &. Necdcr. who
mas returned from ihc 81. Regis country. says
Dee feels certain that several men persisted in
tine confiagatiOn higher mp the mountains.
There was remarkable occurrence at
the mills ofthc Combined Locks Paper Com-
pany. 40, Combined Locks, five miles below
Appleton. Mis-, ON sunday. From some un-
known cause there was am uphcaval Of rock
upon which the mills was located. throwing
the mill walls out ofplumb, cracking a great
wall of stone and cement twenty feet thick
and making saddle back several hundred
icei long and six inches high i'm the bed rock
beneath the mill. An aTicsian well POO feet
away. on the blum. has dried up. The up
heaval is thought 20 have resulted from some
hydraulic pressure between the seams Of
rock beneath
One Of the most serious mining acct
dents ever known in Colorado occurred late
Monday afternoon I'm the White Ash coal
mine near the town Of Golden. An ADAM
doned mine alongside Of the White Ash has
I Dr months been fun Of water. which, yostcr-
day afternoon. without moments warm
ing. burst through into The White Ash mine.
Milling II with mud and water. Ten miners
are known % have been no work In the mine
at The time Of The disaster and not one Of
/ them could have lived hVe minutes after the
suigng mass broke IN upon them. II Will
probably take two or three weeks 10 reach
their bodies
The st. Louis Republic prints map
showing 5OO-mie circle drawn around
region having ST. Louis for its centre. and
claims that 10 cncios population number
ing 23.7IIO9s and = railroad mileage OF ~
81 miles. \ similar circle, with Chicago in
IT'S centre. has 2l,914,9i7 population ana
81. sol miles OF rail- and the New York circ.e,
which Is not complete because IL touches the
Atlantic ocean, has l9,0ii.GO2 population
and 80. 800 miles Of rail Therefore the Re-
public thinks the Worlds FAN should be hold
iu 81. Louis. But the people Of Missours
chief city 90 not seem 20 be- quite so much
.
as are those OF Chicago
The friends of the Johns Hopkins
University are unanimous in their indgna-
ON over the circulated report, published rs
n Baltimore dispatch. saying that the uni
v.rsity. owing 20 its investment in Baltl-
more and Ohio stock. which was paying no
dividend. was eking out a miserable MAIN
tcnance by passing around the hat. Mr..
Joseph Merreneld. the treasurer. said that
the university was by 10 means wrecked.
lie said II WIS true that the institution had
been Inconvenience by It's failure 10 collect
dividends from L. 800 shares of Baltimore
and Ohio. but that the income Of S1,76OOOO
WAS sufficient TO mcet MI expenses. Other
Gentlemen connected with the institution
said that they failed 10 see the cause for the
notification OF such a story, and IL IS likely
that the directors will publish letter Ia
answer 10 the story.
Some sensational occurrences are tax
ing place with regard to the Will II the late
II. X. Hughes. a wealthy and prominent
brewer. who died in Pittston, Pa, few
months age. leaving an estate valued AT nearly
Sgoo coo. In the will YVES a clause which De-
aucathcd 20 his daughter Mrs' j. '" p"'i's'
nm annuity of $500 during her life upon con-
dillon that she should separate ana liNenpaft
from her husband. to whom Hughes had
Great personal dislike. The VIII caused a great
al, when II was first made public, ms all con-
concerned were among the most prominent
,.oo,lo Of the town. saturday last Mrs. Ia
yies created a sensation by makius puDnc
Gard la which she brands the assertions iu"de
hv her father In his VIII as erroneous hoci-
ons and false. She further says; "iiad my
e,,he,,s estate been valued at ten times lis
inventory AT the time Of his demise ana ihe
sa,oe placed ut my disposal subject 10 tueh
'''' -. = ,y.uld spurn, scorn and rtfuse