The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1892-06-24
NEWS NOTES or INTEREST.

Floods In the Missiquoi river broke the
boom at Richford, VT. aud liberated tens OK
thousands of logs.
The Hoke Engraving Plate Company was
awarded Sls3. IL damages at IT. LOUIS
against Carl Schraupstader for infringement
| of patent.
w. ]. Bryan, the distinguished congress-
man from the First Nebraska district. was re-
nominated bv the Democrats Tuesday.
Postmaster Charles f. Doty. Norwalk,
| Conn, has been dismissed for a discrepancy
| in his accounts, and his distributing CLERK,
William Alexander. arrested for opening reg
/ istered letters.
! A wheat stack. on which William Yonbolt.
a farmer, of Seymour. Ind. was NJ Work. was
struck Tuesday by lightning and burned.
Vonholt was instantly killed and his body
| almost cremated-
| II is stated that an umbrella trust. under
| the name of the American Umbrella Com
| pauy, will soon be organized. with a repre-
| scented capital Of $4,000. 900. OF this sum
| %. 600. 900 will be in the form Of bonded
stock.
At the special meeting Of the stockholders
Of the Chicago Great Western Railway Com
pany. the lessee of the Chicago. St. Paul and
| Kansas City road. the proposition 70 increase
the capital stock from $50. 900 COO TO 300 0O0.-
000 was carried.
The steamer Stockholm City, which has
| arrived in New York from London. reports
that at 7:30 A. NJ. on June 3D. in latitude 42.3l
| north and longitude $3.50 west. she passed
| through half mile of muddy water. lndlcat-
ing recent submarine eruption. The en-
gines were stopped and soundngs made at
l05 fathoms. but no bottom was found.
w. S. Humbert. a professional baseball
player who is serving two and a half years
term in the Berks county penn prison for
forgery, ia slowly starving 70 death. Some
wears ago he was struck on the Jaw by base
ball. An operation was performed and an
artificial plate jaw supplied. He is now I'M
able to open his mouth and can take no solid
food. Another operation will shortly be per-
formed
Judge Nelson. of the United States Circuit
Court. has Just rendered his decision in the
case Of the Duluth Forwarding Company
against Frederic Prentice. which allows the
title claimed by the plaintiff 10 some 2.700
lots. worth $4,000, COO in the central residence
district of Duluth Prentice claimed the title
from a treaty supposed 10 have been executed
by the United States in favor of the Chippewa
Indian chief Buffalo in the ffties, but lost his
claim.
Since il became known that the erratic
Carmencita had decided 10 dance no more on
the stage many of the enterprislng managers
of New York have been angling for her for
next season. She signed an agreement Tues
D+fN
year dating from January lst next. agreeing 70
appear at the theatre on TWenty-third street.
or anywhere else that Roster Il Bal may
direct. II is proposed that she shall appear
as one of the ornaments of the Worlds Fair
in Chicago.
The large marble slab which was recently
found in the Potomac near the Long Bridge.
and which was supposed to be the stone sent
by the Pope in 1853 10 be placed in the Wash
ington monument, has been stolen. When
the stone was found and the divers bad
heard of its history thew declared that it
might prove of some value. and accordingly
placed 1t in a shanty In which their materials
were stored. Tuesday morning some one en-
tered the shanty and carried the relic away.
There is no clue TO the thief
A great calamity is overbanging the people
of Pottsyilie Pa. The Pottsyille Water Com
pany's big reservoir located on the mountain
southwest of Frackyille. has started TO leak,
and kilograms and messengers have been dis
patched along the valley between the dam
and Pottsyille TO notify the residents Of New
Castle, st. Clair. Port Carbon and Palo Alto
of the condition OK affairs. and suggesting TO
them 10 be prepared TO take to the hills on an |
instants notice Hundreds of inhabitants Of
these towns have abandoned their homes and |
properties and removed to higher ground.
One Ernest Richards. young mulatto Of !
Belfast Me- has for some time been enam- |
Several young men in the DeighborhOod have |
threatened Richards with punishment If he
continued his visits. On Saturday night
about II o'clock some drunken roughs broke !
INTO the Kelley house. Richards was taken |
out and covered with lukeWarm tar. feath- |
er bed was then opened and he was rolled in
the feathers until covered. He was then
pelted with eggs and vegetables he rushed
to the river, and after getting of some of the
tar, returned for his clothes, and got another
coat.
Some interesting questions of law will prob |
ably grow out OF the injunction recently
granted by Judge LathrOp, OF the Supreme
Court of Massachusetts. restraining G. f. Lib |
bic a Co. from selling letters and documents
signed by George Washington. Lafayette. |
Queen Anne. the Earl of Sunderland. Thomas /
Jefferson. King William III. and other historic |
characters Of Colonial and Revolutionary times. |
The Injunction was granted at the instance OF |
the Secretary of State of Virginia, who claims
that the documents belong 10 that State as
part of its archives. The defcnse Of Mrs |
Losing. the pOssessor of them, 10, among /
others. that they were taken from the State /
while it was in rebellion. and that 1t forfeited |
all rights 10 the property by that act.
It's the general belief in railroad circles at |
Cincinnati that M. +. ingalls,. president OF /
the Big -Four and Chesapeake and Ohio sys- |
TENS. will become president of the New York |
Central road in the event Of Mr.. Depew be- /
coming Secretary Of State. Mr.. ingalls, Is IN /
high favor with the Yanderblts. His absence
from the city gives some color 10 the rumor
of MS promotion, bir. IDgalls LEFT Cincinnati /
on Saturday evening with his family 70 be
present at Harvard on the 24th, when his son
graduates After the commencement he will !
leave for New York TO be present at Big Four
meeting which is called for the 18th. He will
stop at the Brunswick in New York The
matter of the probability Of his succeeding
MIR. Depew came up once before. Mr.. ingalls,
made no denial in regard 70 the present ru-
NOR previous TO his going East on Saturday.
There are those of his railroad associates IN
Cincinnati who say that there is something
more than possibility that ho will be Mr.. De-
pews successor
When Mr.. yanderbilt's steam yacht Con
queror" recently arrived from England. where
Mr.. Vanderbilt purchased her Mr.. Fassett,
then collector of the port of New York. at the
instigation Of a senator who represented some
sbip-building interests that were afraid OF
foreign yacht competition. seized her on the
ground that she was dutiable merchandise.
He assessed her duties at about $4,000. As
Mr. Vanderbilt refused 10 pay the money
Collector Fassett began proceedings 70 con-
fscate the yacht. fachtsmen rose in