The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1891-12-30

VAT Whitman was better yesterday,


The n. g. G.. Taylor Company, which has
been operating a small tin plate factory in
Philadelphia. has completed arrangements
for the erection Of "a factory which, when
completed. will be the largest establishment
OF the kind in the United states.
A special dispatch from Montreal avs that
the wholesale tweed and wooden firm OF Mills
a. McDougah. owing to Il succession OF bad
seasons. las been forced b. call a meeting of
in creditors yesterday. The firms liabilities
are stated % be goo. .0O0, principally owing n
Canala.
The interment Of the remains of. Pay
Director Horace NJ lleiskell, United States
navy. retired whose death occurred On Sat
urlav M bis home in Germantown. Pa, took
p.ace Yesterday at Bristol. Pa Deceased was
finuous service Of thirty-Iye years, of which
twelve years were spent at sea.
Rev. MIR. Shirey. Of Denver. who has been
on trial at Red Cloud Neb.. for the last ten
dawson the charge Of embez1lng $4,000 be-
longing 10 the Nebraska aud Kansas Farm
Loan Company during his term OF office as
treasuror. has been discharged by the exam
ining magistrate.
Heretofore the Southern Pacific statements
If earnings and operating expenses have been
given regularly 20 the press, but an order Just
ieslied by &. Z. Huntington iorbids this in
the future. week ago an article published
In the San Francisco Call stated that the sur
plns for tho year would be about sto00.0Oo.
the largcs. known IN the history Of the COM
pany.
Senator Quay spent tho day Mt tho Duquesne
Hotel plt'sburg Pa. yesterday. during DIS
stav in the city he entertained number OF
uolitical leaders The Senator was asked II
il was true that his second choice for the
presidential nominee IL General Alger. and
he replied: 81 am for Secretary Blaine. lie
Is my choice
4 novel Christmas suicide IS reported from
ines station Ala. A negro tied a jug of
whisky about his neck and deliberately drove
his me team Of horses of a bln1 one hundred
feet ugh into the Tombigbee river. The
negro had been q prosperous farmer, but
had crops ruined him. aud rather than give
mn his mortgaged horses lie SAID he would
Kin both himself and them.
A ", o., Pa Especial sa's he U eerfe d
Hotel l,.ly stable was blown up by dynamite
at . o'clgcn yesterday morning. The debris
took fire and spreading 20 adl dining property.
DESTROYED five other buildings. Eight horses
we're also consumed. The Greatest excite
ment prevails. as il is feared by the people
HAT an organized enort 20 destroy the town
is being made
Father Holland who has been attending
the small pox patients no the pest house OF
Newark. n. j.. SAYS that the deaths that have
occurred are due 10 the condition Of the
house thew are kept in. The place ia an old
tumbled-down barn. the priest SAYS. and that
Manning. one OF the first patients 10 die.
gave up the ghost while a stream Of water
ran on him from hole in the roof.
United States Marshal Wiswell Of Milwau-
kee. has lett Tor the Stockbridge Indian res
eryation in response 10 telegram stating
that the Indians there we're rlotlng. No iur-
ther particulars were contained IN the dis
patch 10 the marshal. The Stockbridges are
located on the east shore OF Lake Wnacbago
and number 800. They have abandoned their
tribal relations
The Minister OF Customs al Ottawa. Ont.
has inflicted hne OF $50 upon Il Chineinan
at Victoria y. c., for endeayoring 70 defraul
the department by personating another in-
diyiduai with u view 20 obtaining permit 10
return 80 Canada The SUM charged for a
permit is one dollar and tho practice Of the
'Chinee' is 10 send them 10 friends In China
who may be coming 10 Canada and by thls
means avoid paying the poll tax OF s50.