Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1891-03-29
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Tho winter wheat crop in the south Of Russia
IL very unpromising. Small farmers there are
In hopeless condition In consequence.
Alderman Collery, the anti-Parnelte candi-
date Ia North Sligo, AYERS that the Parnellites
are distributing Go notes among the rowdies Of
Sligo.
A disastrous wreck occurred Friday on the
Philadelphia and Reading railroad, two miles
from Ashland, by which three men were Killed
and as many injured.
The Prince OF Wales will probably be made
chairman and the Marquis OF Lorne vice-presi-
dent OF the Royal Commission having In charge
Englands interests at the Chicago Fair.
A fire Friday nigh. In the six-story building IS
and 1877 Chambers street ana 2sS n ana ~
age TO Hines & Mansfield, produce-dealers
Fully insured.
Tho Hispano- American treaty negotiations
show a good prospect OF success. The only
trouble met with Is Americas insisting upon the
maintenance Of the Mckinley tarin In the mat
ter of superior Havana tobaccos-
A 81. Augustine special OF Friday says:
The Cleveland Mutual League team defeated
the Ponce de Leon club (colored hoicl-valters).
at baseball this afternoon by score OF OF 10 70
1. The Clevelands outbatted them, although the
walters played good ball.
An attempt 10 wreck train was made nj two
places Friday night between Buryille and VIM
sted, Conn. Railroad ties were on the track.
There was great excitement among the pas
sengors. IT was pronounced probably the work
Of scoundrels bent on revenge.
William Camp, a carpenter employed on the
new Catholic church building at Birmingham,
Ala, fell sixty feet from tho roof Friday
morning, hitting the slate roof Of piazza as lac
came down. Strange 10 say no bones were
broken, but he is injured internally.
| Berlin correspondent says that Minister Won
Boetticher has been granted long furlough, os-
| tensbly for the benefit OF his health, but that
| eventually he will resign on account OF the
| Guelph Fund scandal. The Emperor would not
| accept the Minister'S recent ofer to retro DO
cause he desired TO show his esteem for him.
The Canadian Government has passed an or
der in council reducing TO two cents ton the
tolls on wheat and other cereals passing through
the Welland and st. Lawrence canals 10 Mon
treal or ports east. The order covers the coming
season Of navigation only, and the concession
| applies 10 United States as wei as to Canadian
| bottoms.
Nv. Carter on Friday shot and fatally wound
cd Marion Tomlan near Sellersville, Tenn. Tom
LAM IL Is said circulated scandalous reports con-
corning Miss Lille Clapp, living In the family
OF Carter, and accused the family OF separating
him from the young lady. Tomlan called at the
| Carter home and invited Carter outside. IL Ii
| not known what passed between the men, but In
| a short time shot was heard and Tomlan was
| found lying on the ground with a fatal wound In
his head. Carter has been arrested.
riotous demonstration in connection with
the temperance crusade at tho village OF Bloom
| vile, Ohio, occurred Friday night, when mob Of
| supposed temperance advocates attacked tht
saloon Of William Miller and literally demolished
IL: Windows and doors were smasaed, the stocs
OF liquors and cigars destroyed, and pool and BIB
| liard-tables broke up and general chaos estab
lished. Both men and women were engaged II
| the fray, and their work from the standpoint o
the raiders was done with symmetrical complete
ness.
About one-half OF the force OF non-union com
| positors employed by the Philadelphia fres'
walked out OF the ofce Friday night after their do
mand that the foreman Of the composing-roon
be discharged had peremptorily been refused
| Although trouble had been anticipated for seye
raj days past to-night's strike was complete
surprise 70 the managers OF the paper, and they
| were in measure unprepared for IL. In shor
! time, however, they had engaged a number Of
men 10 take the places OF the strikers and Tho
| paper appeared as usual yesterday morning.
The Union railroad Of Chattanooga, known al
the Belt road, embracing fifty miles OF railroad
used in connecting the ten trunk-lines termt
mating In the city and connecting the suburbs
changed hands Friday by the purchase o.
Z. 4. James's interest In the road by
| Mr.. Jere Baxter, representing syndicate o.
Boston capitalists The road Is % be extended
| In connection with the Lookout-Mountain broad
| gauge road TO the coal-helds on Lookout Noun
tain, where a superior coking-coal has beer
recently discovered.
Friday afternoon the locked-out clothing
workers Of Rochester, n. Y, resolved, on the
recommendation Of their National Executive
/ Board, "that all locked-out members OF the
Knights OF Labor apply for their former posi-
| tons 70 their former employers" The manu-,
| facturers have already declared that they vii
not employ Knights Of Labor and formal boy.
| colt OF the Rochester clothiers was promulgated
| by the knight OF Labor yesterday. The Rochester
Clothiers Exchange was In session Friday even
| ing up 10 midnight. The result OF Its delibera-
| lions was that the manufacturers agreed TO take
backonly those Of their former employees who
had applied for work prior to the mass-meetine
| Friday afternoon.