Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1890-04-29
Latest T.,eyrams Briefcd.


The labor strikes ct ST. John, n. B., are as
Stunning grave aspect
The Clayton Breckinridge Investigation Com
mittee at Little Rock, ARK, examined iV5 wilt
nesses yesterday.
The congressional subcommittee appointed
10 investigate certain practices in the District
and Circuit courts Of Alabama began work In
Mobile yesterday.
Tho protest against the passage OF the Butter
worth bin has received many signatures among
cotton firms In New York. IL Ia addressed 10 the
cotton growers and businessmen Of the south.
Judge Allen, yesterday. at New York, substi-
tutei Lowell Lincoln. assignee Of the iirm OF John
/. Hummer \ Co, in plsce OF Jeremiah 7. Nur-
ply, on the application OF Strong & Cadwalader.
Another bncket-ehop failure was reported at
Pittsburgh. Pa, yesterday. j. X. Johnson & Co.,
doing business 10 tho Petroleum Exchange
building, suspended in the morning. Liabilities
not known.
William W. Allen, superintendent Of the dis
patch division Of the Buffalo post-offlce, was ar
rested Ia Buffalo yesterday afternoon by De-
partinent Inspectors HartshOrn and CLARK on
suspicion Of robbing the mails.
Coroner W. W. vreeIand. Of Newark. ". J.,
was yesterday sentenced 10 one year In the
penlteutary. He was convicted OF having re-
ceyed s2,o0O from tho cashier OF he National
Newark Banking Company on 500 check.
About 400 housed in the suburbs Of Dallas,
Texas, have been abandoned on account Of ths
Hood. The Trinity river a. this rise was few
inchos higher than that OF 1886. which was the
highest recorded within the memory OF the Oldest
inhablianL
perfect day smiled on Nashville Ucnnl
West Side Park yesterday. but out of ak races
not fayorito won. Bliss won the nrst race;
Black knight the second; Gocsner the THRU:
Ida Pickwith the fourth; Billy Parker the attn,
and Mamie Fonsi the sixth.
T,.a 4 mi. D.u.o.t
Pittsburgh, Pa. yesterday granted the demands
Of their employees for An advance, giving day
conductors 1913 and nigh. conductors $500 Day
brakemen will be paid 1850 and night mon s2'O,
ton hours 70 constitute a days work. This Is the
nrst break In the railroad lines.
J. J. Kennedy. who has been the financial
backcr OF he Worcester tMass,l Baseball club,
announced last night that he was through with
the business. lie says he has been disappoint-
Ell la the aid promised him by the stroet-rail-
way people. The franchise royorts 10 the At
lantic association syndicate.
Secretary-of- War Proctor has received several
replies 20 hls kilograms asking for Information
IN regard 10 On o oKtentOf suffering In tho over
flowed districts " the South. Tho Governor
OF Louisiana said that ten days rations tor ~
600 persOns should be sent 10 Now Orleans Tor
distribution throughout the State. Tho Gov
ernor Of Mississippi said thcre are probably
- 90 crsons In that state needing assistance,
aud the Governor Of Arkansas said thss 600 pee
pie In Phillips county and a considerable num-
Der In Dosha county are In great need Of relief.
The Director OF tho Mat has submitted %
| Congress his report on the production o. pre-
| CiOus medals for the calendar year lso9, from
which Il appears that the gold product Of tho
! United states was $4,000 dne ounces. Of tho
value Of s82,s00,0OO, against S3SO0000O IN the
| preceding calendar year. OF the gold product
| OF the United states t3l959,0E WAS deposited at
the mlnts for coinage and manufacture into
bars Tho silver product Of our mines Tor tho
calendar year 1889 was approximately fA,UnOO0
| nne ounces, OK the commercial value % Si6l50,-
! 600 and VI coinage value OF SGL6i6,ti, against
| an estimated product for tho calendar year
1855 Of I5.7s3 G32 line ounces. of the commercial
| value OF 100000. and of a coinage value Of
| fEgl95,000, on increase oyer 1858 Of about
42lG S6s fine ounces, VI the C Numerical value Of
| & . O01