The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1892-08-09
NEWS NOTES OF INTEREST.

O0D.
Senator Hill bathed in the surf at Watch
Hill Saturday and then steamed away on hia
yacht.
Israel Wood. farmer near Rock Rift. n.
y, was bitten by rattlesnake and died in
forty-eaht hours.
Chauncey Depew is likely TO succeed Con-
gresham W. 9. 7. Breckenridge as the
Worlds Fair orator.
A strike of the bookbinders in tho employ
of Iyison, Brakeman & Co.. New York.
threatens to make a scarcity OF text books,
Three hundred prisoners were released
at Baltimore. Md, yesterday, because they
were illegally convicted for getting drunk.
Kansas has four cities in which the vote
of the women is larger than that Of the
men. One entire set of councilmen is
women.
All the mines OF the Wisconsin Central
Railroad Company on the Gogebo Range
have shut down on account of the Home
stead strike.
According to the New York Press there
are only three vacant chaplanciss in the
| United States army and 400 applicants for
the positions.
DR.. Vincent Cole gave bis guest, Super
lntendent @. s. Ingraham. OF the Chicago
/ Horse Show, carbolic acid TO drink instead
! of whisky and he is dead
Chicago managers Of the Worlds Fair.
who employed a big body of lobbyists IN
| Washington. paid off the voracious gang
Saturday and it took q neat sum of money.
General John Tillson, who was colonel of
| the Tenth Illinois regiment, and commander
! OF a brigade in sherman g march 70 the sea
and later editor of the Quincy (li) Wing,
is dead.
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Frances f. Willard, of tho National
Woman's Christian Temperance Union,
died in Evanston, suburb of Chicago.
Sunday. She was lightweight years Of
age.
General z. Burd Grub. eI.Minister to
Spain. and Elijah Halford private secretary
10 President Harrison were the speak at
the national service at Asbury Park Sat
urday. General Grub advocated woman
suffrage.
The mystery Of the death of Mr.. and Mrs.
Andrew J. Borden of Fall River Mass.
who were found murdered ia their home last
Thursday. mas not been cleared up. and
there Is apparently no tangible clue TO the
murderers.
The heaviest hailstorm ever seen ut New
port, n. H., occurred Saturday afternoon.
Stones fell as large as robins eggs and
whitened the ground. Tender garden truck
was cut down and considerable glass broken.
The rain fell in torrents during the storm.
The strike Of the telegraph operators in
the employ Of tho Union Pacific. scheduled
for o'clock Saturday evening, was declared
of by Grand Chief Ramsey, of the Order
of Railway Photographers, the company
agreeing 10 give the increase in wages de-
manded by the telegraphers.
Near Buena Vista, KY. q family named
frrra ar Ia al 20 f.f, g..
ner. and were soon taken with pains. which
caused the death of four Of the family and
the cook in few hours. In looking for the
cause of the sudden deaths il was found
that snake, of tho spreading viper species
had been cooked in the pot with tho cab
bage. How the reptile got there no one
knows.
The shooting Of Judge Henry Long from
ambush few nights ago at Kepnersyille
La. Just above New Orleans. mas aroused
great bitterness there. The whole trouble
Is attributed to political enmity, and has re-
suited IN race feud. The population Of
the town Is almost exclusively cOlored.
Officers have been working up the case
against the Rssassius and have made a num-
Der Of arrests. There is talk of lynching the
prisoners.
A race war between negroes and Italians
broke out at Orange. N. j.. Saturday and
others injured with clubs brickbats and
stones. The trouble arose by a dispute be- |
tween negro and an Italian. The men |
began in Frank Mattas' saloon and, on being t
put out continued the fight on the street /
The negro was beaten and his friends came /
20 his rescue and the Italians started ia TO /
help their cOuntrYman.
The international Convention of Iron /
Moulders. in session 90 St. Paul. Mimi. |
Saturday morning adopted lengthy resolu- |
tons denOuncing the entire PInkertou 8ys- /
TEN, condemning the Carnegie Steel Com
pany and fully sympathizing with the /
Homestead strikers. The Government is 1
called on 10 see that justice is done. The
militia is denounced as always arraved on
the side OF capital against labor, and mould
ers are directed not to connect themselves
with any military organization.
Angered by long serles of insults from
his fellow workmep. Herbert Gault. Ia
6orer in the rolling mill at Wyandotte,
Michigan. on Saturday afternoon sought re-
venge on John Langston, the chief Of his
prosecutors, by pouring dipper OF boiling
hot metal over his limbs burning them
frighttully and causing undoubted fatal in
turies. Gault is man OF powerful ply
sique, but has a deformIty of the left Lex
that causes him 10 walk with limp. His
fellow-workmen have lately made BIN the
butt Of their jokes owing to this deformity.
Gault has been Locked uD.
MIR. Dinwiddie. of the National Bureau Of
Ethnology and Archaeology, has been Oh the
Eastern Shore OF Maryland for several dGys
seeking information of the long extinct
tribe of Indians known as the hanticOkes.
With several local assistants be has ira
versed the entire length Of the Kanticoke
river visiting tho mounds and grayeyards
of the tribe. At Hiyerton considerable
pottery was found. and one human skele ton
was unearthed, which. II is claimed. was
that of q long -departed brave. The skele-
ton of large dog was also discovered.
whose huge frame and savage teeth indi-
Gated that be knew savage existence. The
Nanticokes are supposed 10 have departed !
from their native hunting grounds about /
the year 1850 and moved westward.
Springfield, H.. is much excited over
riot which occurred between members OF
the Fourth infantry. now IN camp there.
aud crowd Of negroes. The miltiamen
claim they have been greatly annoyed by
colorsd ioafers and they tossed one Of them
in blanket. Later a number OF soldiers !
we're attacked al q merry-go- round aud were |
badly used up. About midnight last Fri
lay night a crowd OF soldiers forced the
guard line and went into tho city deter
mined 10 punish the negroes for the attack
With success in their undertaking when the
police took q hand 10 the row, arresting
our soldiers, who we're fined by Justice
The military authorities are holding their
men within the camp lines aud the police
IRE watching the negroes 10 prevent further
rouble.
The single tax mon OF Pennsylvania met
"A annual convention az Reading Saturday
.fternOon. A. III. Stevenson. of Pniladel-