The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1891-08-06
5 DAYS, is HOURS, 5 MINUTES
che Majestic Of The White Star Line BREAKS
The Ocean Record.
DR.. EMMETT TALKS OF IRISH AFFAIRS
wa .,oa, s.v,,--a Mao Kills Himself with
Cocaine-0lut of Watermeiohs
in New York City.
Nav Yonx BuRrlu. RICHMOND TIMxs'
IN" ~ August 5, 1891. !

in the shortest time ever inhde Oy hny 'eo'0'
across tho Atlantic. The time between
Roche, Point at the entrance TO Queensto"n
bsrhor and the Sandy Hook lightship was
Ave DAYS eighteen hours and eight minutes
or one hour and eleven minutes less than 'he
citv ~ Paris famous record Of August rs
1889.
The record breaker brought over big load
Of distinguished tourists. h0r passenger IS'
amounting TO 1856 10 al.
The VOYAGE was made without accident or
sny unpleasant incidents. Fine weather
throughout made the passage noteworthy.
Among the passengers was Or. IN omss Aodis
Emmet, the president OF the Irish National
Federation in America. DR.. Emmet has been
In Europe @ month and speaks most
hopefully Of tho cause Of homo rule, Tor
Ireland He says: found that Parneu has
very little following in Ireland, and also
found that the priests were not coeIeing 'he
people. and we're not interfering 10
we 'c Concerned. Mr.. Mccarthy will
continue to be the leader until the next meet
ing of the Irish Party, whom counch VIII VII pe
elected to direct the policy, Ihere VIII ~, 20
no more single leaders of the party. Ihey
have had enough Of one man rule. ,,,,,,.
In Teferepce 10 the rumor that William
OBrien was 10 be prosecuted for bigamy,,
DIR. Emmett said he had heard 1t gossiped
about in London. but that he did not believe
there was any foundation for the charge
The crops in Ireland. the Doctor cohtihueu
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. The potato crop was
excellent owing TO the change Of seed.
wArKBMKLoN GLUT.
Two bundrad and ten carloads Of Georgia
and south Carolina watermelons we're strung
along the tracks of the Pennsylvania rail
road on Monday awaiting delivery. The
average car contains one thousand melons;
There was a complete glut, ana
many thousand were left 70 rot.
The freight, which IS from 500 70 slzo
each car. Is guaranteed by the consignees.
The melons were offered as low as s5 hun
dred without sales. In the present condition
of things the shipper gets nothing.
Editor George Jones. OF the New ork
Times. had a bad night and his physicians
to-day cay that his condition Is dangerous;
but they hope for the best. His wife and
daughter arc with him at Poland Springs
His advanced age, seyenty-nine, makes ms
complaint more serious than 1t otherwise
would be.
Herbert Chester, twenty-si1 years old, the
manager of n theatrical agency on Broadway,
WAS arrested to-day on a warrant charging
him with attempted assault The complain
ant is Beatrice Atheron, AL actress lnspec
Tor Byrnes says that Chester was IA the same
sort of trouble gone time ago IL Richmond,
Va. d,
The RTQDO Jury Gallo luiC Cbull tO~nhy WIN
m indictment against Herman Is. Gueder-
bach. city editor of the Stats Zeltung.
charging him with violation Of the law
relating to the publication Of the details OF
eectrOcutlOn
DOWN GOES SUGAR.
Clans Spreckels. who has been O thorn in
the side Of the rehneries here for many years,
is again at war with the monopoly. II Is SAID
though some OF the New York sugar men to-
day deny the report.
Some ten DAYS ago Mr.. Sprockels announced
reduction of lie of q cent per pound below
the combination prices OF graduated sugar.
President Havemeyer Of the Sugar Trust.
was al that time at the deathbe Of his father
T. {. Havemeyer The other officials Of
the trust thinking that the reduction made
by Spreckols would be withdrawn as soon as
he had marketed his surplus stock, took no
action
Spreckels' supply seemed inexhaustibe,
however. and he continued 10 sell sugar al
the cut price 10 all the trade controlled by the
trust.
President Havemeyer returned Monday
and resolved % retaliate. He first ordered a
reduction OF nc, and followed this with an
other reduction Of Lice, bringing the Sugar
Trust selling price for graduated down TO
4 Lie.
AS soon as this reduction was announced
Spreckels reduced gIanuated sugar to cents
allowed for cash this brings the net price
down to g. 81 cents per pound, which Is the
lowest quotation on record.
The next step by the Sugar Trust is awaited
with interest by every one connected with
the sugar trade. II is generally thought that
President Havemeyer having accepted the
challenge. will now force the fighting.
BoYcoTTNe STATE FAIRS.
News reaches here from Rochester that the
leading manufacturers OF agricultural lmple-
ments throughout the country have formed a
compact which virtually amounts 10 a boycott
upon the county and State fairs and egri-
cultural exhibitions Of all kinds. For the past
twenty-five years the exhibits Of the concerns
have formed one OF tho prominent features
of the exhibitions throughout the United
States.
The space heretofore occupied by these
exhibits will hereafter DO vacant The agree
ment which has been signed by fifteen OF the
eighteen principal manufacturers, including
the Mccormick. the William DeeTing the
Aultman-Mille Company, reads as follows
We hereby agree that during the season Of
1891 We will abstain from exhibiting at any
and all county and State and other similar
exhibitions aud that We will not during this
season furnish our agents with printed matter
70 circulate at their county fairs IN case they
decide to exhibit st their own expense
The reason given for this step 10 that the
that tho thousands Of dollars spent III this
kind OF advertising, while II goes far toward
supporting the fairs, bring no returns.
WHISKY AND COCAINE.
Eliphalet Mott Schoppe had for three years
been doing largo retail business as a drug
gist al POOP Third avenue He was about thirty
years old, unmarried and had a mother and
widowed sister in Brooklyn. Lately ho had
been sleeping in the rear Of his drug store on
a cot and opening up the store himself every
morning Dan. Corcoran, the porter. and
George Bach. the errand boy found the store
locked yesterday morning when they arrived
ut o'clock.
Schoppe was lying dead on his cot, with a
bullet wound in his right temple. A revolver
lay on the floor. and his hat, coat, collar and
cuffs were on q chair.
On Monday evening Schoppe had called on
lawyer and made will, and he told several
people who came into his store that he would
never sell them anything more. He had lost
business because of his incorporate habits
He had been drinking very heavily lately. and
had also been taking cocaine.
One OF Schoppe's friends saws that & young
woman who lives in Brooklyn and to whom
Schoppe was engaged called to see him at his
store three weeks ago. found him not himself
and reproached him. They finally went out
70 dinner together, and when Schoppe re-
turned he said that she had broken off the en-
gagement. She had done this once before
His latUver Satb dc. &lat