Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1890-04-10
TeIegrams Condensed.


Mrs Elizabeth Stores Billings Meade, OF
Springfield. Mass, widow OF the Rev. DR. Meade,
was yesterday elected president Of Mt Holyoke
College.
Tho organized carpenters OF New York city
held q meeting az Webster Hall last evening
and decided To demand eight hours a. days
work after May ist and wages al $3.50 per day.
The bonds stolen by Teller Kimbsll. Of the
Peoples savings Bank 81 Worcester, Mass, we're
mostly gilt-edge railroad bonds readily nego-
tiated. Their face value was $500. but tho mar
ket value vas between $4,000 and 5000 addi-
tiOnaL
The Department Of State 1T Washington has
been notified by 100 Mnirtor from France that
the French Government on the an Instant. IN
Or,ler 70 prevent tho importation Of arms and
munitions Of var into Dshomey, declared
blockade OF tho Dahomey coast
Twenty Cinnamon wers intercepted Tuesday
night aud yesterday coming INTO san Diego hAr-
Dor, California. from the southwark ON a ASKING
smack. This makes ihirty-thire smuggiel nm
migrants into California from China rid Lower
California aud Mexico captured within three
days.
By practically unanlm.ns vote tho New Jor-
sey Assembly yesterday afternoon passed. The
hallotToform bill reported 10 the Legislature
last week by a non-partisan committee. aud
since thon amended only by the addition 0t a
provision that each ballot shall be enclosed Ia
An official envelope 70 be- furnished at the polls.
A dispatch from Crestline, Onto, says Miss
Campbell, the only daughter Of steward o. lt.
Campbell, Of the Continental Hotel, left homo
last week and was supposed % have gone 10
Berea 10 visit friends. The day after her de-
parture one of the hotel walters, a colorod man,
was also missing, and it Is now known mat thoy
both went 10 Cleveland and were married.
Two Florida companies contested for the
state prize In the Sub-1ropical military
drill at Jacksonville yesterday-the Gaines
VILE Guards and Metropolitan Light ln-
fantry Of Jacksonville. The judges with
hold their decision until Friday To-day
the contests for the Interstate lriZes ho-
gin, there being six entries including Georgia.
Florida, and south Carolina companies. The at
tendance Is large and the excitement great
Numerous creditors AMI clients from all parts
Of Bucks county, Pa, flock0d into DOylestown
yesterday eager to learn The whereabouts OF the
weli-knOwn lawyer and politician, j. Monroe
Shsllenberger. who decamped sunday last for
parts unknown. AMI also 70 ascertain the full eN-
tent Of their losses. An official statement made
Yesterday shows ~ claims against him, aggro-
eating 1000 in sums Of from 800 10 5000, the
latter amount being claimed by tho father OF the
abscOnder
The Detroit broweries, which were Organized
into an English stock company last Spring. nave
not been successful under the now OWuershi y,
although practically under tho same manage
nent ~ before the sale. Tho management At
tribute the falling or in business o. patriotic re-
tailers, who would not purchase their beer OF "A
foreign corporation. The chairman of tho Eng
l-h cjmpRny to-day concluded negotiations by
which the former owners resume control ~ their
respective breWcrie5 NJ price. 10 n understood,
greatly below what the English company paid
for the property originally.