Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1890-03-04
UoRAr1o NELSON was born az Burnham
Thorpe. Norfolk. England.
This in answer to query.



Two vOunp farmers Of Laclede county,
Mo. were arre.ted Thursday charged with
setting fire 10 the dwelling of q neighbOr,
John Rue, with whom they had had a
quarrel
The residences of the people Of Milton,
Iowa, have been so Oycrun by rats that
they had 10 organize regular rat hunt.
IN the past two or three days 1900 rodents
have been killed.
In Washington. Sunday. Harry S. Frank
land shot Miss LILLIAN Moore as she was
coming from SUNDAY school. FARMLAND
was in love with Miss Moore, but had been
forbidden her house by her parents. MISS
Mo0re's condition is not considered dan
gerous.
If the stories coming from points in
Name and Nova Scotia concerning the
ice harvest are not III the least started
for the speculative purpose of stimulating
early buying, says the Providence journal,
and so stimulating the wholesale price,
there is not longer much doubt that ice
will be a scarce article
Hugh Mccormick on Sunday defeated
Axe) paulsen in q ten-mile skating race at
White Bear Lake. Mimi. The race was for
the worlds championship OF speed skaters,
$500 q side. and Paulsen's championship
medal. McCormick's time was 3l.9, with
Paulsen one third of q mile behind. Fully
5000 people witnessed the race.
No services were held in the Greek
church in Shenandoah, Pa, Sunday. The
Rev. Mr. Andru hOwicZ. the priest, re-
NAMED in his parsonage all day gazing
moon the locked doors of the edldce.
Forty Of his friends. all armed, remained
in and about the parsonage, determined
not to allow the friends OF the Rev. Mr..
Wolanski to take possession.
A sensational scene was enacted late
SATURDAY. evening IN Hastings. Neb. While
judge William Gastin, OF that district, was
hearing a case in Chambers courthouse a
prominent member of the Hastings bar,
taking exception TO the Judges decision,
struck him terrific blow over the left eve,
The act may result in the disberment of
the attorney. Gastin IS the Oldest district
judge in Nebraska.
The FIRE in the Cameron mine. near Sha-
moken, Pa, is beyond all control. A hole
is being bored from the level above the
fire. When this is completed the slopes
on both sides of the fire Will be walled mp
and water will be forced into the mine
through the new opening. 1t viii take a
week TO accomplish this, and IL the mean
time the work of destruction viii go on
and other chambers NAV be lgnltcd.
John Wilson, a farmerlivins near Erie Pa.
twenty-fOur years ago was bitten through
the thumb by dog. A few weeks ago he
felt numbness in his hand and as soon
as it had reached his shoulder he was
seized with convulsiOrs that soon develop
ed into hydrophobia. During the lucid
intervals the poor fellow bess piteously to
be smothered and put out Of his misery.
He is a single man and twenty-eight years
of age.
New Orleans's diversion on Sunday was
prize-dght between Tommy Ward, OF
Cincinnati, and Charles Wilson, the Eng
hsh KID" The Kid" did most Of the
leading at the start and cut Wards mouth,
hammoring at the wounded member when
he got a chance. Ward was unable TO hit
hard with his left. He has terrific right
for lightweight. but swung II. often IN
vain. Both were badly punished, the po-
lice interlered, and the purse (S4OO was
divided.