The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1892-09-22
NEWS NOTES OF INTEREST.

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| Whitney.
The Fifteenth regiment has broken
! cainp at Homestead. after seventy-one
! days' service This leaves only the SIX
| teenth regiment on duty.
William Dunphy, the pioneer cattle
| king of California, and one OF the rich
est men Of the State, died in San Fran
cisco on Sunday; aged sixty-four years.
Two sections Of an excursion train on
the Baltimore and Ohio railroad col
lded at Kent, O., and several passen-
gers in the rear sleeping cur were injured.
The Round House, Schooner House and
Morgan House, at South Beach, Staten
Island. have been burned. The loss was
$4,000. The houses had closed for the
season.
Ex-Mayor Edward i. Spence, chair
man Of the California delegation or the
National Republican Convention, died OK
| heart failure at Los Angeles. He was
| ffty-nine years old.
The Harris Light Cavalry, OF New
York. has dedicated q handsome granite
monument on the avenue back of Meades
| headquarters, Gettysburg. Captain NJ. +.
Hatch, Of Peekskill. presided.
The Sovereign Grand Lodge of Odd
Fellows has opened its sixty eighth an
nual session in Portland, Ore. Cover
nor Pennoyer welcomed the delegates,
and there was u grand parade.
The Secretary of State has been ad-
vsed by our Minister TO Norway and
| Sweden that Sweden's quarantine against
J passengers from the United States had
been reduced from five to two days.
General Joseph Terrence has rendered
to the city of Chicago, and the city has
accepted, twenty acres Of land, upon
/ L. 4 4. tf,1.. Oh
for cholera, smallpox, diphtheria and
scarlet fever.
A dispatch from the City Of Mexico
says: The reports which have emana-
ted from El Paso to the effect that "A
revolution had broken out in Chihuahua
and Sonora are untrue.
A body. identified as that of Samuel
| Carr, a New York coachman, has been
washed ashore on Staten Island. Both
hands Of the drowned man were tied be-
hind his back, and it is thought that he
was murdered.
II. c. Frick, chairman of the Carnegie
Steel Company, has advanced $4,000 20
the State board of health for use In pre-
venting an epidemic of cholera. The
money is to be repaid by the next Legis-
lature.
Charles Steinfurth on Sunday night
shot and killed Theodore Anderson In
San Francisco saloon and then blew his
own brains out Both men were sailors,
and the tragedy was the result OF an old
feud.
A lockout of furniture workers has
began in Circnnati. The men resolved
not to work more than nine hours day
| at present ten-hOur wages, and, The
| employers having resolved not 10 pay
ten hours wPges for nine hours work,
fully 1,5OO wcrkmen are idle.
The committee of arraugements of the
New York Stock Exchange has received
petition from the leading commission
stock houses requesting them 70 take
steps to prevent the continuation Of arbi-
trage business by telephone with the BOs-
ton and Philadelphia exchanges.
Rose Fis her who disappeared from
the house OF her mothcrin-law in South
Orange, New Jersey. on September 9th,
has been found drowned in . pond on
the estate Of john Pctutt. OF Aioutrose,
IL is thought thar She committed suicide,
as she had threatened to end her life.
Chairman Gillespie. Of the State ex-
ecutiye committee OF thC "LlYwhitc'
faction Of Che Texns Republican, party.
has issued long circular. rcpudiaung
the action of the recent Fort Worth Con-
yentiOn in indorsing Clark. one of the
calling upon all true Republicans To
support the LilyWhite candidate, Mr..
| Houston.
After conference between the pro-
| vincah board Of health and the Ontario
| Government. it has been decided 10 fight
cholera in Ontario by inspection, dsin-
foctiOn and isolation and not by attempt
ed quarantine. Inspectors will be ap-
pointed at Fort Erie. Kingston, Suspen-
sion Bridge and Niagara, and at the lat
ter station a disinfecting apparatus will
be erected similar to that in use at Gross
Isle
A great fire is raging in the mountain
| timber near New Castle, Western Colo
RADIO, and it was thought that the flames
would sweep through the great reserya-
| tiOn set apart as national park. 1t IS
covered with tall timber, and is con-
sidered the most stately and magnificent
of the national parks in the State. There
are many hunting parties camping on the
mountains, and fears are telt Tor their
safety.
The New York, New Haven and Hart
ford railroad has secured possession of
! the HousGtoric reilroad, the New
! Haven and Derby railroad, the Danbury
and Norwalk railroad, the Providence
| 0hd Worcester railroad and the New
York. Providence and Boston railroad.
| The proposition to lease these roads Will
be submitted to the stockholders OF the
| New York, New Haven and Hartford
railroad on October 18th.
The steamer Carroll, from Halifax, re-
ported overdue at Boston with sixty
cabin passengers. has been towed ia
Boothbsy harbor, Maine, with her ma
! chinery disabled The fishing schooner
| Maggie T. Mckenzie, Captain Andrew
! Mckenzie, fell in with the disabled
steamer on Saturday, at 6 T. M,seventy
miles southeast of Seguin, and laid by
her all night. Sunday morning the sea
moderated, and the big schooner took the
disabled steamer in tow.
Suit has been entered against Edward
! = Searles. who married the widow OF
! Mark Hopkins, to recover deDt OF
S2.657 claimed by L. NJ. Maxham, OF
! Boston, for services rendered In keeping
man named George Williams away
! from Massachusetts during tie progress
of the will contest Maxham says he
took Williams on long trips about the
| country, expending large sums OK
money. Counsel for the contestants
were unable TO find Williams during the
! trial.