Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1890-05-10
mems Union. A committee Of five was ep-
pointed TO advertise fof men and distri-
cute them among the master carpenters.

mems Union. A committee Of Eve was ep-
pointed to advertise for men and distri-
butte them among the master carpenters.
About forty counties in Alabama have
neld county conventions TO select dole
gates to tho approaching State Conyen-
ton which will nominate candidate for
oovernor and other State officers. The
excitement Is greater than for many years.
II was given out last night that there is
something wrong with the finances of the
Norristown CPa.) Water Company. Sling
iuh who is responsible for the troubles Of
tue Bank and Trust Company, is also re-
sponsioie Tor the water company trouble.
The situation between striking miners
ana nine-owners at Pana, ILL.,. is becoming
strained owing to efforts to start with non
pnlon men. A large special police force
has been sworn in and the Mayor has is
sued proclamation forbiddiug the collec-
ton Of crowds.
Sandy Jones was hung at Birmingham.
Ala, Yesterday for the murder of Police
officer Manning at Bessemer. On tho
scaifold he said he was ready to die aud
that he was going TO Heaven. His nerves
forsook him, however. and he died trem-
biing and praying.
A large delegation from the National
Canned-Good Packers Association, which
has benin session at Baltimore for several
DAYS, was before the Federal House Com
mittee on Ways and Means yesterday TO
protest against the proposed increase of
duty on tin used in canning.
There has arrived in San Francisco for
the United States flagship Charleston a
handsome silver punch-bowl with the COM
pllments of the citizens of Charleston. s.
G.. after which city the vessel was named.
The GIFT bears the arms of the city and
State with an appropriate inscription.
The paiut-works of Masury a. Sons
and the Atlantic Starch Works. on Sixth
street, South Brooklyn, N. Y, were burned
yesterday afternoon. The FIRE broke out
in the drying-room Of the paint-works, the
employees Of the works narrowly escaping
with their lives. The loss is estimated nj
100000, about equally divided between
the two firms:
4 Chicago paper publishes Interviews
with President Baker and other officials
and members of the Board of Trade in
regard 10 the results achieved by stopping
the dissemination of quotations. They
are all enthusiastic and declare that the
move has proved such a pronounced sue
cess that the sending out of quotations will
never be.resumed.
The st. Louis FIRE proof plasterers' struck
yesterday for eight hours and the same
pay they have been getting, and the sign
painters also went out. About 125 press
men working in the Drummond tobacco
factory have also demanded an eight-hOur
day and the same wages as heretofore. and
have gone out This throws about 700
other hands, men and girls. out Of work.
Thirteen bodies have been taken from
the ashes of the almshOuse fire Mt Preston,
Chenango county. n. Y, and the proba-
bilities are that these are not all. One OF
the imbeciles was scared into her senses by
the fire, and escaping from her burning
room by window reached the roof and
crawled along the ridge-board and reused
the keepers wife from slumber, thus
saving her life.
The larger part of the session Of the
Young Mems Christian Association General
Secretaries Conference at Nashville, Tenn,
yesterday was given up TO the departments
covering the different phases Of work foi
college-men, for physical culture. for those
interested in library work. for those en-
gagged in boys work, and for those more
especially interested in the financial work
of the association.
The Georgia Temperance Association, il
session at Atlanta. yesterday adopted reso
lutions urging the Georgia delegation il
Congress to urge legislation which WI
give to the States the right TO control the
prohibition question for themselves re
CARELESS of interstate commerce. Resolu
tons were also adopted for the election tC
Congress of Senators and Representative
favorIng q national prohibition law.
Senator Butler yesterday presented {
petition of the heads of nine families, az
gregating seventy-two persons, that Con
gress appropriate 800 per capita to enable
them to emigrate to Liberia and MAINTAIN
themselves there for a period Of siJ
months. The petition has a printed head
ing indicating an organized movement &
support a scheme of wholesale deportation
of the negroes of the South TO that coun
try. An accompanying paper gives the
testimony Of neighbOrs of the petitioner
as to their worth and respectability.