Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1891-01-03

The Ohio river In rising from PittspurEn
70 Cairo. and hfty-foot rise at Cincinnati
h predicted.
The German Emperor did no. send be
usual New-Yesr greeting to Prince BIZ
marck this time.
News comes from Well Spring, az iso-
listed village In Claybourne county, Tenn,
Of bloody battle there, in which one man
was killed and another badly injured.
Owing o the stokers d coal-trimmers'
strike, WHOM uegan at Hamburg Thurs
day, Ave loaded steamers are lying at their
docks there unable to sail for their desti-
nations.
Yesterday while party of laborers were
digging trench at Nobles's factory at
Hamburg, Germany, frigbtful explosion
of nitro-glycerine occurred, by which
several OF them were killed.
The Paris (France) Court of Appeals up
holds the sentence of o months lmprison-
ment for the Journalist Moro. who inter
viewed the jurors in the Eyraud-Bompard
murder trial.
Berlin dispatches report an explosion in
the Heinrich GusCave coal-pit st Langen-
dreer. Eve miles from Bochum. Westpha-
liz, and say nine men were killed and that
ten Others are not expected to survive IN
Jur1ea received.
Semi-oficial journals in Lisbon. Portu-
cal, announce that IL Is probable that a
definite agreement with England in the
matter of the South African difficulty Will
be signed there before the English Perlia-
ment meets.
II is learned at Rome, Italy. that the
budget deficit Is 10 be fixed at 40.0O0.000
lire. The statement is made that General
Viale intends to resign his office OF Minis
ter of War because he dIsapproves OF csr-
tain economies proposed by the Govern
ment.
The British steamship Yesso, at Charles
ton. s. c., with 5,l20 bales of cotton for
Bremen. caught fre last evening. Inc
flames, however. were confined TO the
forward hold and were under control at
latest accounts. The main damage will
come from water.
Railway traffic in Scotland is resuming
its normal condition and IL seems that the
men who are unyielding must permanently
lose the positions they recently left.
Several hundreds Of the strikers continue
TO hold meetings. Their places are being
rapidly filed.
Davis Brott ers, music dealers in Savan-
nah. Ga, assign a 'sterdaY. blaollities,
$50, 900; assets, $4,000. The principal cred
itors are local Gustave Kiesling was the
principal hacker of the firm and is a cred.
itor to the amount % s2i.000. The Old
Honesoad masazine. published BY the firm,
WAS turned over to New York ere ditors.
The Legislative Committee Of the Kan
sas State Farmers Alliance has sixteen
bills prepared for introduction in the state
egislature, which conyenes the middle OF
the ponth. These bills have been ap-
prov. d by tie sub-alliances and will I =
ceive the united support of the Farmers
Alliance Legislature.
Thirty coal-miDes along the Monongahe-
Ia river are now idle on account OF strike
for an advance of one-half cent per bushel
in the price of mining. About 5000 men
are out, and the strikers claim that the
strike will be general in few days. The
operators say they will not grant the adj
vance and have arranged for an indefinite
suspension of operations.
Professor +. s. Holden, Of the Lick OBJ
servatorv at Mt. Hamilton, California.
telegraphs that shock of earthquake ex-
perienced yesterday was the most severe
that has occurred in Northern California
cracked in the observatory and fell TO the
floor. The large telescope at the OBSERVE
tory. it Is believed, was uninlured.
The steamer City of Macon, at Boston
yesterday from Savannah, carried
into port Captain Dunchand the crew
of seven ell told of the three-masted
schooner Dudley Farling. founded of
Body Island, December 2sth.. The crew
suffered intensely from cold for twenty
hours, when they were picked up by the
Mallory steamer Almc, which subsequent
ly Transferred them to the City of Macon.
According to trade statistics published
yesterday f2S.000 worth OF Sheffield eng
land) cutlery was exported during the past
quarter az against $4,000 worth du-
ring the previous quarter. This decrease Is
stated to be owing TO the working OF the
new United States tariff. 1t Is expected,
however. that an Improvement in Shelf
fields export trade will be shown when
American firms have worked of the large
stocks of cutlery which they imported in
anticipation OF higher duties.