Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1889-05-25
,re,oernnnic FIn.hrs.


All the minlng-pifs IN the >aarbrucken
district are TIE property Of the state.
"Children's dqy" " in the Methodist church
at Williamsburg was great success.
!. J. Barnes. Of Hampton. sold bis hotel
YESTERDAY to George Booker and James A.
leaac p. webb, 4 lciter.carrier OF New
York. va. caught stealing money from let
ter yesterday.
Tee business failures throughout the coun.
try during last wees number for the United
states, 2o1; Canada, %.
Ar the races ia Clucinnlti yesterday Lake
View. Sqmantha. DAISY T., Cs-taway. Naorl,
and ThUniN were the winners.
Dr. Potter, viii shortly leave Zanzibar for
Dohpoa bay. where 4oO native, have been
hired for tine Emn relief expedition.
only $500 IN bonds were accepted ye,tor-
dly st the nted States Treasury at l09.
Fifteen thousand in addition were rejected.
Mr.. John d. Washburu. the new Amsri-
can Minister TO switzerland, presented his
credentials 90 President Pammer yesterday.
Petersburc's great musical festival closed
last night an interesting incident was
speech by Governor FowIe, OF North Clro~
lima.
There wos heavy white frost a. Column
bus. Ind. Thursday night, which did con-
siderable damage to fruit vegetables, aud
wheat.
At the Brooklyn races yesterday the fol-
lowing horses were the winners; Seadrifi,
Inspector b., Marauder, Caynga, Lakewood,
and Miracle
The Chattanooga meeting OF the Southern
Press Association was brought 10 a close
yesterday by an excursion through the Ten
nessee Valley.
The Samoan conference will meet again
MAY 29th. The American commissioners TO
tho conference were presented TO the Em-
rcror last night.
The strike OF miners NJ Saarbruckon is In
croa,ing. II u hoped that the strikes I'm
We,tphalia will be settled through the me-
diauon Of Deputy Hammlcher.
The collections oi inte-usl revenue for the
first tsn months OF the fiscal year ending
June 30. 1889, were 2l0I,S ,92l, being
SL441,JlG more than for the corresponding
year.
The Nineteenth Century newspaper oi
Paris says that 4 number Of Frencbmen
nlve been arrested by Tie German authori-
ties at >outzmstt, Alsace, on the charge Of
treason.
The will Of the late John Bright was
sworn 70 i'm London Yesterday. The tesla
tor bequeaths sn estate valued at ES0.lsi
10 bis children. The will contains no public
beGuests.
A dispatch from Pierre, OAK, says: Agent
McCtesuey, at Cheyenne. has received in
siructiou- TO notify all white settlers now on
the Reservation to leave by order OF >ecre-
tary Noble.
The Denver express on the Union Pacific
ralloqd which lett kansas City Thursday
rolled back into the depot yesterday for
breakfast on account OF 4 washout produced
by severe hlil- aud rlin'storm.
A dispatch from Guthrie, Oak. says
soldiers were Yesterday called ont for the
/ first time since the opening 0i Oklahoma,
/ and for several hours the city Of Guthrie
Nas practically under martial law.
Great damage was done to the corn and
! potato crops near WABASH, lud.. by the
| freeze Wednesday night The wheat was
also slightly I,iured. The weather IS the
coolest ever known in this locality At this
| season.
Al the New York Cotton Exchange yes.
/ torday a communication was received re.a-
/ tive 10 the ad0CtiOn OF a uniform weight by
| the Farmers National Alliance at New Or
leans, Ia. The suggestion was cordially ap-
! proved OF.
Charles s. Zane. OF Utoh. was yesterday
aDpointed by the President 10 be Chief jus
/ tIce Of the Supreme Court o, the Territory u
| Utah, and John w. Heron, OF ONO, 10 be
| Attorney for the United states for the South.
erh district Of Ohio.
The British steamer James Watt, which
| arrived at Boston yesterday from Guam
/ tansmo, reports that On May 22d she passed
| the United States slOop-oi>war Iantic with
| the loss Of her foremost and iibDoom. She
was probably heading for New York.
The third game Of chess between Tschi-
( gorin ana Weiss. to decide which shall have
/ the first prize in the international tourus-
ment, ended m draw after two hours bat.
/ tie in New York yesterday. The play VIII
/ be resumed and decision made Monday.
Robert 7. Lincoln, the new Minister, will
/ leave London for Windsor to-day, when he
will be presented to the Queen. Mr. Linz
/ coin Will make no SET speech on the occa'
/ sion. nor will the Queen make a SET reply.
| They will merely exchange compliments.
II is said at the Navy Department that the
/ Yantic. which is reported to hare been seen
/ two days ago by the British steamer, must
/ have been in collision with another vessel.
| She went ont from New York fortnight
/ ago to blow up wrecks. and from her position
/ when seen by the steamer should have ar
/ rived at New York yesterday.