Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1890-03-23
1eIeYrnms.

A food of serious proportions threatens
the section of country around pittsburgh.
The French Chamber of Deputies yester-
dav elected Spuller Nice-Presldent OF that
body.
At1l O'Clock last night the river ct Gin
cinnati registered fifty feet and five inches,
having risen three inches in the last hour.
II was reported at Louisville yesterday
that negotiations of an English syndicate
for the leading distilleries OF Kentucky
had been closed.
The grand jury of San Diego county,
Cal, has created q sensation by finding in
dictments against nine of the prominent
county officials forperjury and frauds.
Eight hundred leather-dressers in Paris
made a demonstration yesterday against
the prohibition Of imports Of live cattle.
Their delegates were received BY the Min
listers.
The Phoenix Manufacturing Company Of
Boston, Mass. yesterday bought four acres
OF land in Knoxville, and the works of tho
Phoenix Company will be transferred from
Boston 10 that city.
A special from Johnstown, Pa, TO Pitts
burch SAYS the effects of the steady RAIN
Yesterday has caused the river to rise and
every minute Is fraught with danger and
there is much alarm.
A McKeesport dispatch SAYS that the Mo-
nongahela and Yonghoughny rivers are
both rising rapidly at that point. Portions
of the Pittsburgh and Western railroad
tracks are under water.
A special to the Montgomery Advertiser
SAYS One thousand log-men in Baldwin
county struck to-day for an increase IN
wages The strike may extend to the dock
men and steyedores at Pensacola.
The report of experts was received yes
terday by the committee representing the
creditors of Belize * Co.. private bank
ing firm of San Francisco which failed re-
Gently. Report placed liabilities at $780,
600 and assets at $751;, 900.
A special 10 the Chronicle from Chester
s. c., says destructive cyclone passed
over the village of Edgemoor, near Chester,
Yesterday afternoon. Fourteen houses
were blown down, a negro named James
Mills WAS killed, and several persons were
seriously injured.
The verdict in the Flack conspiracy case
of New York is that all three are guilty.
Sheriff Flack, his son William. and Refe-
rec james Meek. The charge was cOnspl-
racy to bring about q divorce of Sheriff
Flack from his wife. The case was given
to the jury at O'Clock last night.
Judge Bettes, of the Common Pleas
Court, of Cincinnati, yesterday sent TO the
penitentiary for two and half years Viii
liam II. Myers, q well-hnown citizen and
merchant. lie had been convicted of en-
bezzling funds amounting to $4,000 held
by him as guardian of minor children.
The accident on the Georgia Pacific rail-
road at Horse creek yesterday turns out TO
be a serious affair. freight train COM
posed OF an engine and eight cars went
down with trestle forty-hve feet high.
Conductor Mitchell and colored brake,
man died to-day from injuries. Several
Others were slightly hurt.
The baseball at st. Augustine yesterday
resulted:
Chicagos.. 10 20100 0-l5
broohiyns ..........2 AZ 0 o ia
Base-hits-B rooklyns, 4: Chicagos. IS.
Errors-Brooklyns, 10; Chicagos, 10. Bate;
rles-Sullivan and Lanertery; Hughes and
Daily. Chicagos left for Texas last night.
The students of the University at st.
Petersburg and the Academy of Agricul-
ture engaged in serious riot Yesterday.
The students insist upon the restoration OF
the liberal regulations of 1863 and the re-
lustii Oh Ihe authorities to comply Win
then, demand led to the outbreak. Five
hundred students were arrested and i'm
prlsonea. troops guard the streets IN the
vicihitv OF tne University and oil traffic IN
the neighborhood is stopped. The news
papers make no mention fthe disturbance.
A sensation was created at midnight last
night IN New York by the report that a re-
porter hau peen found in the room WIN
the Jury In the flack-conspiracy case. He
was Dhworth Choate, of the New York
World and admitted that he had conceal
ed himself behind the curtains in the room.
The defence demands that he be punished.
JUICE Darrs'' ssld tho law did not provide
i've up. his notes and Judge Barrett after
expressing his abomination of the act ask
ed Vhoatee to say that he would not publish
whathe had heard. Choste declined to
make promise. de Was allowed 10 60.