Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1889-08-30
TeIeCrnnhIc Flnshes.

The dock labOrers at DoVer nave gone
on a strike.
George Fawcett Rowe. the playwright
and actor. died last night at the Glen
ham Hotel, in New York.
The London Daily Nctcs is prohi-
bited from entering Turkey on account
OF its articles ON Armenia.
The Shah has presented portrait OF
himself, set IN brilliants, to Herr Won
Tisza, the Hungarian Prime Minister
Jim Snow and George Banks were ar
rested Wednesday in Tuscaloosa, Ala,
charged with the murder OF j. b. How
ten.
The Paris correspondent Of the Times
Of to-day is confident that General Bon
LANCER will return TO France before the
elections.
The village Of Tscherlach, in st. Gaul,
was destroyed yesterday by tho falling
of q portion of Mt Rulbisberg. The VII
layers escaped.
1t is reported Mt Odessa that Armenia
will formally appeal to the Gar to inter
vene for the protection OF Christians
from Turkish outrages.
Whitall, Tatum & Co., of Millyille, n.
j., had conference with their green
glass blowers to-day and agreed to pay
the wages demanded 10y the men.
The carpenters strike is virtually end
ed in Birmingham. The increase of five
cents per hour all round has been con-
coded by nearly all the contractors.
North China and Japan have been
visited by n series OF typhoons of unpre-
cedented severity. st the lowest csti-
mate, 5000 persons have been drowned.
Rev. DR.. Yost, chancellor Of the Uni
versity of Florida. yesterday presented
TO Heidelburg College. at Tiihn, Ohio,
a museum of curiosities valued at $780,
O00.
The Republican Convention at South
Dakota has adopted platform favoring
State and national prohibition and de-
handing the enactment of stringent laws
against trusts
The sealing-schooner Juniata, from
Behring Sea- was seized at Victoria yes
terday. She was boarded and six hun
dred sealskins seized. The schooner
was ordered TO Sitka.
The difficulty between the window
glass workers and their employees at
Pittsburgh is still as far from settlement
as in the start. Both sides appear TO
still be firm and one is as confident as
the other.
A preliminary examination Of the
Richmond Tex. rioters was continued
to-day. OF twenty-three men arrested
for the murder OF Sheriff Carney and
cx-Sherif Blakely fourteen were held
to answer.
An attendance Of fifteen to twenty
thousand people witnessed excellent
racing at Lexington, Ky, yesterday and
saw Bonnie McGregor lower his record
TO q l3l, which ranks as the best mile to
the credit of any living trotting stallion.
At meeting in Belfast yesterday Mr..
Kane grand master OF the OraDgemen,
strongly condemned the new University
scheme. and declared that Mr. BaliOur's
proposals would meet with determined
opposition among the Irish protestants.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, OF Massachu-
sets, Is quietly passing his. cightieth
birthday at his farm. Letters and tele-
grams OF congratulation have poured
in upon him from all over the coun-
Try. He also received a very hand
some remembrance in the form Of 4
solid silver gold-lined loving cup of
beautiful design from personal friends
and classmates He stated that he had
received a short personal note from his
friend Whittier. The Doctor expressed
sorrow 10 hear that Mr.. Whittier was Ill.
A commercial conference consisting OF
thechambers OF commerce and exchanges
IN San Francisco, Los Angeles, and San
Diego was held in San Francisco yester-
day. Reports were read urging en-
couragcment to maritime cOmmere AMI
increased energy in the construction OF
the navy. Repeal of the law refusing
American registry to vessels built III
foreign countries IS asked prompt con
struclion of the Nicaragua canal is de-
manded coast-defences are asked, and
Congress is urged to grant subsidies for
| the establishment and maintenance OF a
permanent ocean mail steamship line.