Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1890-10-28
latest from the Wires,


In Gurnnett county, Ca, yesterday
Jennie Chambers, negress, quarrelllng
with Pierce Wright, her lover, cut of hlE
head with q razor.
The Russian Government has closed
the Catholic churches in Volhynis and
Prodalia and also Dominican monas-
terry III the town OF Ostrog.
The firm of Clark & Partridge, pro-
prietors Of the Queen City Planing-Mill,
at Buffalo, n. y, yesterday made gen.
eral assignment Preferences about
100000.
Buffalo N. - Branch, No. 403,
of the Irish National League, at Its
meeting yesterday reported that 81, 23e
had been collected for the famine sui
ferers OF Ireland.
D. H. Wickham & Co., importers OF
diamonds, at "a Maiden Lane, New York,
assigned yesterday. The senior member
Of the firm, ID. II. Wickham, is tho
father of ex-Mayor Wickham.
The grand jury OF the Court OF Oyer
and Terminer OF Buffalo, n. Y, yester-
day presented an Indictment against
fourteen sewer contractors, charging
them with conspiring to cheat and de-
fraud the city.
The extremely high tide of the past
two days has caused much damage along
the line of the Boston. Revere Beach
and Lynn railroad, and had ii been ac-
companied by wind the property loss
would have amounted to many thou
sands OF dollars.
Walter Barttellot, brother OF Major
Barttellot, writes to the London press
that Stanley never before limited at his
present charges against Major Barttellot,
even in a lengthy private communication
addressed to the dead mans father,
which contains eight separate charges.
The remaining seven sections oil the
bill OF rights were disposed OF by the
Mississippi Constitutional Convention
yesterday. None of them are of inter
est except the following: No property
qualification for eligibility TO Office OF
for the right Of suffrage shall ever be re-
Quired 10y law in this State except as
otherwise provided in this Constitution.
All the operators, thirty-seven in nun
Der, in the Western Union Telegraph
Compsnys Office in St Paul, Mimi,
struck at s O'Clock last night, and all the
company's wires into the city named are
idle. The walk-out is on account of the
discharge by the company few day;
ago of six operators supposed to belong
to the Brotherhood
Steam-fitters of Chicago yesterday tC
the number OF between 800 and i0l
went on strike. The strikers demand
that eight hours be considered day:
work and that for all overtime they bt
paid at double rates, that the minimum
salary of steam-ftte shall be 80 per day
and that of their helpers 81 per day, snC
that their union be recognized. The
bosse are not so strenuous about any Of
the terms except recognition Of the
union, and this they say they will never
grant.
Advices from Yakootsk, Siberia, re-
port another mutiny of Siberian con
victs. This outbreak occurred on board
steamer on the river Lena, there being
many convicts on the vessel. The in.
habitants of village which the steamer
was passing came to the conyicts' as
sistance and helped them to disarn ard
bind the guards. The vessel was then
set adrift. The Governor of the Pro
vince sent troops in pursuit, who killed
two of the fugitives and recaptured five
of them. The Minister OF the interior
has ordered an investigation Of the af-
fair.