Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1891-04-18
Teierraphie Briefs.

Lieutenant n. Trc7nain, Of the navy, has been
ordered 20 appear before the Retiring i'oerst
The United States steamer Enterprise has
arrived at Key West, fla, rom Havana.
Colonel j. It. Murfee, Of Alabama, has been
appointed member Of the Board Of Visitors 10
the Naval Academy.
OF the 6s8,O00 ounces Of silver offered for sale
TO the Treasury Department to-day 100000
ounces were purchased at914Sa97.6O.
Rldder. Peabody 4 Co. Of New York, have or
dered 100000 gold coin for export 70 Europe
Total ordered this week, S2,1OO,OOO.
Louis Buling, who had been sentenced TO hang
at Savannah, Mo-, yesterday escaped from
priigon last week and has not Jet been captured
The weekly review Of trade from New York
says. Tho failures OF the week number 2i1.
For the corresponding week Of last year the
igure were 1S1.
william Green (colored) was executed yestcr-
day afternoon in the yard OF the parish jail NJ
Gretna, In. lie killed Joseph Prosper, another
colcred man, January 8, 1890.
Thursday nights nre In the ancient Greenwich
village u Now York proved 70 be most disas-
trOus one. IL IA estimated that the loss Will
amount to half a million OF dollars.
The directors OF the Whiskey Trust at Peoria,
H., have elected Joseph p. Greenhut, president (;
Adolph wOolner, yice-president; William Iio-
bart, 81 Cincinnati, treasurer; 7. j. Hennessey,
Chicago, secretary.
Governor Pattson's order 70 General Wiley Tor
the withdrawal OF the military from the coke
region OF Pennsylvania left Il 70 the discretion Of
General Wiley when all or only part Of the
troops should be recalled.
William Blauey, convicted Of the murder Of
his grandmother and aunt In Mny last In Bdlti-
more, and whose execution was fixed yesterday
by Governor jackson for June 18th next,
escaped last night from the citg iau.
A postpOnement win also be asked, owing TO
the Illness Of the Attorney-GeneraI In the cases
Of the propnetors Of the New Orleans states
and Mobile Register, test suits involving tho va
lidity Of the recent an,i-lottery act.
The oclal report of the trial trip Of the gunboat
Bennington, received at tho Navy Department
to-day, shows that the horsepower Of the main
engines was J,322.S, which wish the auxiliaries
made the total horsepower 3,430.O9.
Tho Reichstag. at Berlin. yesterday rejected
the first part Of the Socialist bill, which provided
that tho maximum work-day be Immediately
fixed at ten hours; that tho maximum be re-
duced to nine hours In 1894, and TO eight hours
in 1898.
The condition Of Attorney General Miller con-
tinues 20 improve, but owing 70 his Illness the
Sayward Bering-Sea sealerios case, which wac
70 have been argued In the United States Su-
preme Court next Monday, will be further post
poned one week.
The excitement In Benares, India, originating
from the demolition Of the temple in order q
provide a site for the the new wnter-works In
creases every hour. All the shops are closed. A
serious riot has already occurred between the
disturbed natives and the local authorities.
Tho Navy Department yesterday authorized
the twelfth payment 90 be made on cruisers 8
and 10, building at the Columbian lr0n-Works
Baltimore. The payment on each vessel amount,
70 s27,5 and "a made upon reports that twelve
ftao ~ ha Cnr n
Tho draft OF the now commercial treaty be
tween Spain ana the United States, looking to
ward q partial reciprocity with Cuba, was con
cuded yesterday. IL Ia understood that tbs
treaty fixes very low duties on 1our and othei
articles imported from the United states Int
Antilles
The latest returns from Ghcestemunde are
Prince Bismarck, 1857; Schmallold (socialisD
1928, Plate (Guelphl, 3,343; AdlOf (Freisin
nigel, 2,jlg. Another ballot viii be necessar!
between Bismarck and Schnalfeld, az a majority
Of votes is necessary In order to ontitle the can
dldate 20 an election.
Thursday evening the boiler Of the engine o
Stewart Brothers paning-mil At Lebanon, Ind.
burst killing David W. Campbell, foreman, out
right and horribly burning and managing WI
liam Stewart, one OF the proprietors, 30 that II i
thought that he cannot recover. The cause o
tho explosion IL unknown. The mill was com
pletely wrecked.
A Chicago morning paper says the oatmea
miIers Of the country have formed a oombina
tOn 20 take the placed the oatmeal trust whicl
went % pieces about year ago. One OF th
members IL given as authority for the statemen
that there Is no intention Of advancing she price
the only object being TO limit the output and pre-
vent prices from going lower.
As q result OF tho report Of Lieutenant Wake
censuring Captain Drinkwater, the keeper 9
the Seatack le-saving station, Virginia, for fail
ing TO use all the means az his command fo
saving life az the time Of the wreck OF the bari
Dictator, In which seven lives were lost, the Urea
sury Department Is considering the question o
either suspending or dsmiEsing him, but in IN
mean tlmo the Captain win be allowed 10 yist
Washington and mako a statement OF HE side o
the case.
The MessdgerO, Of Rome, says that Blalne's re
ply to Rudinis last noto evinces the great desir
" Mr.. Blaine 10 eude the demands OF the Italian
Government-to escape from indemnIfying tn
families OF the men lynched at New Orleans an'
10 refrain from acceding 70 the italian Govern
ment's right 10 intervene In the New Orleans
affair. The POp0io Romano says that In view 0
the tenor OF MIR. Blaines answer 20 Rudini, 1t Y
difficult TO form any idea as 70 when or wher'
the matter will end.