The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1891-07-24
SOUTHERN RAILROAD MATTERS
News Of The Operations Of the Terminal,
N. and ". and B. and 0.
CLEVELAND TO STUMP FOR CAMPBELL.
The Yx-President VIII Accept the INVITATION
An Editor Indicted for PUBLISHING '"o
sing Sing Electrocutions.
NV Yonx BUREAU. RICHMOND TIhKs'
AVE" July %. 1891. !

Nxrs Yonx BUREAU. RICHMOND TINES
AVE-" July %. 1891. J
The Richmond and West Point Terminal
and Warehouse Company's per cent. trust
bond coupons. maturing August !, 1891 Will
be Maid At the Fourth National Bank
Norfolk and Western Railroad Company
100000 additional preferred stock hS'eu
Yesterday az the Stock Exchange, IS the re-
mainder of the 10000 shares created IN OCT
cher 1889 and deposited with the trustee OF
the one hundred year mortgage. The agents
~ the Norfolk and Western have received
n contract from the White Star Steamship
COMPANY 20 coal their steamers here with
Pocahontas coal for one year This Will re.
ouirc about one hundred aud twenty thousand
tons.
n is reported that President Mayer, Of the
Baltimore and Ohio, will soon meet the CON
trolling interests of the Ohio and MISSISSIPPI
in London for the purpose OF arranging
terms for the lease of the ONO ana MiSslS-
sippi to the Baltimore and ONO.
CLEVELAND WILL STUMP FOR CAMPBELL.
It's again asserted this evening. that the
Ohio State Committee has extended t =. '5 Ia
invitation 20 ex-President Cleveland 70 dec
liver not less than six speeches III Dehaii Oh
Governor Campbell during the coming cam
pAign. Assurance has been gwen that MI
CLEVELAND
Governor Hill. General Palmer, Governors
Peck and BOes with Senators voorhees,
Vance Villas and other representative Demo
Gratis. will be asked 70 aid in the campaign.
AN EDITOR INDICTED.
The grand Jury to-day found IN indictment
against Charles O'ConnOr liepnessy, city ed
itor of the New York Daily News, charging
him with misdemeanOT for publishing an ac-
count of the recent electrocuuOns at Ding
Sing 90, A.. .,,,.l,
was fixed for the execution of Tanning and
Mnnaugh. the two men convicted Of murder
and sentenced 10 the fatal chair in tho little
execution-room OF Sing Sing prison. stay
hiss been secured by an appeal to the supreme
Court Of Appeals.
Charles Frank. OF Newton street. Railway,
10 diving of bydrophobia. On Monday, June
dog bit him III the palm Of the left hand. The
wound began 70 tester 80 that MT
Frank was unable 10 work for three
weeks. He resumed work week ago
When he returned home on Monday
night he complained TO bis wife that his hand
panied him terribly. In a few minutes ne
tottered from his chair and fell on tho floor
moaning with pain He was not able 70 be
moved till Tuesday when lie became very
violent and It required three men TO hold
him. lie was dellrous ali Wednesday even
ing, and from that time on he gradually grew
worse. Dr. Oliver, the attending physician,
pronounced the case hydrophobia.
THINKS He WAS KIDNAPPED.
Captain Asa II. Dixon, who is under indict-
ment for burglary IN Richmond county and
an attempt 10 shoot. and whose trial had been
fixed for today, will be brought before JUS
tice Cullen Of the Supreme Court in
Brooklyn this morning on writ
Of habeas corpus which was obtained
yesterday by his lawyer. lie is the
One-legged captain e an oyster sloop.
VII. 1~k1,.
officers started of one night to arrest him,
they found him 10 be very tough customer
70 handle He drew O revolver and held his
pursuers at bay until he jumped from his
sloop and made his escape by swimming of
in the darkness He was subsequently ar
rested at Bridgeport. and was brought back
80 Staten Island for trial.
Dixon's lawyer claims that he WIS kidnap-
ped, and the question which Justice Cullen
will be asked 10 decide this morning is whether
and against his consent in one State and be
brought back b another State 10 stand trial
for a felony.
BARoNDrss CHARGES BAD FAITH.
The second strike in the cloak making firm
Of Oppenheim il Collins at Houston and
Greene streets is more serious than the first.
about 200 people. including the cutters. beng
out The only employees at work yesterday
were the suit-makers and Mr. Oppenkeim
said that If the employees did not return soon
be would til their places with non-union
workers. He was ut a loss. he said, 10 know
what the second strike was for as he had re-
instated all the discharged men and granted
all the demands.
Joseph Barondess the leader Of the Cloak
makers Union, told different story. The
reason the second strike was ordered he
said. was because the firm did not keep faith
with the men. There were twenty Of the dis
charged men who were not taken back. The
whole thing is On attempt TO return 30 the
sweating system"
RICHARD e. YEwCOMDR ILL.
Richard s. Newcombe. the lawyer. is seri
ously Ill at his summer home IN Far Rock
away. At the Office of Don0hue, Newcombe
4 Cardozo IL was said yesterday that Mr. New
combe was triile better. There seems 10 be
some doubt in the minds of the physicians
attending Mr. Newcombe as to the nature
OF his disease. The majority Of them II is
said. attribute his illness to cancer of the
stomach,
Mr. Newcombe has been aihng for year
At first IT was thought that lie had a severe at
tack OF Indigestion His last important case
was the defense Of Simmons, the bank
wrecker About three weeks ago Mr. Now
combe was compelled to take to bis bed
MRS. DAVIDSON BURNED 70 DEATH.
Mrs. Bertha Davidson was fatally burned
yesterday ut her home in Williamsburg II
Is supposed, while preparing dinner at
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five years old, and lived with her
seventeen year-old son David on the sec
ond floor Of 5S1f Taylor street Smoke was
seen issuing from the front window of the
second story shortly after O'Clock in the
afternoon. Observation-Disclosures Of the Lee
avenue station broke in the door and ran up
stairs. He found Mrs Davidson lying on the
carpet, which was on fire. with her clothes
smouldeTing and her face burned beyond rec
oSnition He extingushed the fire with
couple OF pals of water and then summoned
an ambulance, but Mrs. Davidson was be-
yond doctors care
Mrs Davidson had been i'll for several
months and was very weak. The theory is
that she upset some oil while replenishing the
lamp OF her stove. and that spark from the
match ignited IT, The suddenness of the
blaze frightened her and she tainted and WAS
burned to death in her Inconsistencies.
$. W. FULLERTON BADLY KURT.
EK-Judge Stephen w Fullerton. who. with
his wife has for some time been rasiliDr 81