Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1890-03-18
News Notes.

Judge Allen G.. Thurman is a great sui
ferer from rheumatism. lie longs, IL -
said, for summer weather.
II is stated that four or more of the
largest school-book publishers have formed
combination to monOpollze as far as pos
sible the manufacture OF schoOl-books ana
to raise the prices.
People are laughing at q doctor in little
village in Pennsylvania who. IN filing out
certificate of death, inadvertently wrote
his own name in the blank space reserved
for cause Of DEATH"
A man at Winborne, Eng, sixty-six years
old, married his twenty hve-year-O old SER
want q week after his first wife died. and on
their way from the Registers Office the
couple were pelted with rice. flour, and
peas by mob.
Joseph Furman, prisoner in the jail at
Schenectady, n. Y, who was granted the
freedom of the institution, procured
number of saws Saturday and gave them
| to five other prisoners with the aid OF
which the six men escaped.
Harry W. King. project Of the Pennsyl-
yania Institution for the Instruction OF the
| Blind. at Philadelphia. was arrested Sun
| dav, charged with immoral conduct on o
warrant sworn out by Thomas W. Barlow,
"
Rev. DR.. Daniel r. Goodwin, ex-provost
| of the University of Pennsylvania, and pro-
| fessor and lecturer of systematic divinity
in the Protestant Episcopal Divinity
School, died Saturday evening, after few
DAYS illness, at the age OF seventY-Iane
years.
The Mora mines, in Glamorgansbire,
Wales. where disastrous explosion
| ocorrra1 IL uUQin on fire. The
mine will be flooded. The bodies of forty
three victims of the late disaster have
| been taken out, but it is impossible to get
| the Others.
The President and Mrs. Harrison, on
| Tuesday evening. April Sth, will give a
state dinner to the Justices of the supreme
| Court. and on Tuesday, April 29th, they
will give a reception in honor Of the army,
navy, and marine corps. A week later a
reception TO the public Will be given.
The King of Samoa is a prohibitionist evil
| IDENTITY as witness the following proclama-
| ton: No spirltuous, Vlnous, orfermented
| liquors or intoxicating drinks whatever
shall be sold. given. or offered TO or bought
or bartered by any native Samoan or Pa
cific islander resident III Samoa to be taken
| as q beverage"
Senior Mendonca, DELEGATE from Brazil to
| the 7 lD-AultEltdu Ooikir9S, l'loEOoOS bilt.O
| the delegates from Centyal and South
America inaugurate a movement for the
erection in the city of Washington, as q
! gift to the people of the United States, of
| a monument 20 commemorate the gather
| ing of the first congress of all the nations
on the western hemisphere.
Saturday morning Charles ShafIer and
| Ida Conrod were found living III the snow
| in an open field near Weston, w. Va. Both
were unconscious, and the woman's body
was so badly frozen that 1t had begun TO
! turn black. They were put in charge of
| the physicians and Skaters life may be
| saved, but the woman is dead. How they
came to be out all night Is unknown.
Mrs. Cheney, wife Of Ex-Governor P. c..
| Cheney, of New Hampshire, while IN q
| somnambulistic state at an early hour Sun
| day morning, fell over the railing OF the
stairs to q landing beneath, distance OF
nearly twenty feet. She was very serious
| IL Injured. and is considered to be in q
most critical condition. Governor and
| Mrs. Cheney returned in late train last
night from trip to Washington.
The immense armor- plate bending ma
| chine made at Hamilton, Ohio. for the
\ navv-yard at Mare Island, Cal, was
| shipped Saturday over the Cincinnati,
| Hamilton and Dayton and Southern Pacific
railroads. The machine was loaded upon
eleven specially built and extra-heayy, flat
| cars. The two largest casting weigh re-
spectiyely &C. 400 and 81, 200 pounds, and the
gross weight of the train was 675,S5O
pounds.
The Howard-street pumping station, a
part Of the Allegheny water-works system,
was completely wrecked Sunday morning
| by the explosion of battery of sixty-horse-
power boilers. A. L. Armstrong, son of
| Superintendent Armstrong, of the water
works, was in the station at the time and
was badly injured, but he managed TO get
out of the ruins and was found insensible
on the street. The ruins took fire but the
| flames were soon extinguished.