Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1892-10-13

SOFA Tho explosion wss without apparent cause.
| Tue diecsters wore vaiued A. 100000 and wevs.
rsssn ss over 1900 ooo "a 4 over lao persons are
| deprived Of employment BY The disaster
| The names Of the negroes believed to have
| bssn the mufdcfora OF Richard l.. johnson and
| hts daughter Johnetin, at Dagiss Ferry, MON
ros county, Ala, Friday nignt, are Noses John.
1 con. aged IL, and james Packer, aged ~ Ihoy
| we're held under guard SATURDAY uight at Beiis
| Landing, and sunday an impromptu court was
held aud they aud others accused wore ex-
amined. The result vas that Moses Johnson
| and Packer were taken Monday morning to jail
| at Monroevillc.
Tho general feeling at Fan River has changed
! inregard % the Borden murder case, aud the
defendants Council Ia receiving encouraging
4 kilograms from ali sections condeinning the al
I legged disclosures In the case, aud encouraging
him 10 continue bis wJrk for Lizzie Bordea. Tho
/ three local papers express editorial opinions OF
/ n similar character. and call upon the state 10
1 get rid OF its hired detectives. Directions TO
bring libel suits have been given 10 Ir. Jea-
nings OF counsel for the defence.
A dispatch from Boulogne. sur-Mer, France,
says that the captain OF slcop which has just
arrived there reports that between l and
O'Clock on Sunday morning the sloOp, being thon
about two mile8 on ~. Valery-sur-somne, and
driving through furious ssorrn, passed lnrgs
number OF human bodies floating in the sea
surrounded by q quantity OF Wreckage. Tho
captain says h6 counted forty corpses. and from
tutir fppthfhDce judged tneut 10 20 TUG Douits
OF tae sailors and passengers OF some steamer.
The Boston Globe publishes thlrteen-colurnn
| story from Fall River giving nov and startling
evidence in the noted Borden murder case.
1wonty-fiye new Witnesses. it says, Will testiIy
for the prosecution, and these VIII cay they saw
Lizzie Borden In her step-mother's room about
tue time the murder must have been Committed,
concealed In q long r0bbsr hood and cape, and
that they hoard groan. 10 VIII also DO tosu-
fied that Lizzie ana her father had had quar-
val l...p trf fUsln IN aaU
her trouble.
Tho statisllcian OF the Federal Department
Of Agriculture reports O reduction OF 3Ie points
IN the general percentage OF condition OF coLton
from 76,s ia September 70 73;3 In OCTOBER. Ihe
deterioration is heaviest in North Carolina ana
least In Texas Of all the States OF considerable
production. Georgia has maintained Its condition
better than any other Atlantic state. Inc per-
centages are: virginia, az; North Veronne' oS;
South Carolina. 30; Georgia, 20; Florida, 63;
Texas, n; Arkansas, "a; Tennessee. 40.
A serious cutting ARRAY took place near Rome,
Ca, Tuesday afternoon. NJ. +. BOYD. tax-re-
ceiyer OF thc county there, found Wal
in Rome, in his room with his Doyd'p
wife Boyd cut Mitchell with knife
several times on the head and severed arteries
in the left arm. Mitchell was taken 70 his homo
In a dylne condition. Boyd went TO Rome and
gavo himself up % tho sheriff. bat was released
on bond. Boyds wife WIS placed Ia jail The
affair has created a sensation, owing 70 the
prominence OF DOtn parties.
Thirty-two OF the steel-workers who started
from Knoxville, Tenn, for the Homestead steel-
works reached their destination Tuesday.
They were all white and claim 10 be thorough
workmen. One OF the party stated that they
had gone South when the iron boom occurred In
Alabama and Tennessee and had worked at
Sheffield, Birmingham, and Knoxville; that
there il now n depression In tho iron trade
there, and that a. \ result they had been out OF
work FOR several months. lie said that there ~
general desire among tho steel-Workers who
went south TO got back 20 the northern mills II
possible
Key West special OF Tuesday says:
"Great excitement was caused here tonight by
reports OF tho arrest Of one OF the Cara band
IN this city. The man proved TO be Encarnacion
Cara, the brother, only conndant ana aide-de-
camp Of Catarino +. Cara. the fugitive Next
can insurrectiOnist. The arrest was made about
10 o'clock by Captain Joe Shelly. an old Texas
ranger and special detective, who arrived here
yesterday from san Antonio, Tex. Ii was made
~ quietly that the occurrence was not generally
known until late this afternoon. Cara Is now
ia Jail where he will be held until the arrival OF
the Mallory steamer bound for Galveston. He
has been here for long time incognito."
The Chicago Neps-RscoTf publishes what pur-
ports to be the details OF an attempt OF tae
local Democratic Executive Committee to pur-
chase last Friday the nomination papers OF the
Peoples party IN this State. IL Is said that
certain member OF the Executive Committee OF
the Peoples party had made arrangements TO
dispose Of the papers for $4,000. lie was disap-
pointed In his expectation OF being chosen "a
the messenger 20 carry the papers 20 Spring
field, and when he endeayored to bride the mos
senger the latter knocked him down. The De-
mocratic gubernatOral candidate, Judge Alt
geld, denies all knowledge OF the matter, and
equal number OF Republicans and Democrats,
IN wine ont the ticket would not nf1ect the result.