The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1892-08-10
NEWS NOTES or INTEREST.

General Wheaton has been ordered 10
maintain neutrality on the Mexican border.
Cincinnatis pure food show has been
broken up by rivalry between grocers as
sociations.
Indiana has more Germans than any other
State. They constitute 55 per cent. OF the
population.
Senator Allison is likely 10 be chairman
Of the American delegation 10 the None
tary Congress.
The President has declined to attend the
Delaware State League Of Clubs meeting
on August 18th
The excessively hot weather has almost
depopulated Washington. All who could
get away are gone.
Sir Richard Cartwright, of the Dominion
House OF Commons, was nearly drowned
near Kingston. Ont, by the capslzlng OF
sailboat.
Postmaster General Wanamaker,s private
secretary. Marshall Cushing, Is likely TO
succeed 10 First Assistant Postmaster-G en-
eral Whitfelds place.
The State of Tennessee has negotiated in
New York the sale OF 81 500, 600 ffteen-year
per cent bonds at par, and will retire out
standing 6s, SIS and IS.
Inc cruiser 0uIltW uds b5Eu otAb W 500
from Halifax. under sealed orders undoubt-
eddy TO search for reported American fish
poachers IN the Bay of Sundy.
Canada having rescnded discriminating
canal tolls. there will be no more retaliation
on the part Of the President. and our crul-
sers will not steam up the 81. Lawrence.
The smallpox quarantine placed on the
Canadian Pacific, Northern Pacific and
Great Northern railroads at the North
Dakota boundary lines has been removed.
Failure in natural gas in northwestern
Ohio has led 10 plans for pumps at bards-
town. near Fostoria, with a displacement OF
l8. 900 900 cubic feet of air in tWenty-tour
hours.
Washington Gridiron Club has expressed
its adherence Of the 'unmanly and dis
creditable treatment" of James X. Young,
late executive clerk at the hands OF the
Senate.
The claim Of the GAMES estate against the
city of New Orleans was settled by cash
payment Of 1928 .7SS. After the lawyers
were paid off there was still snug little
sum left for the heirs. as they only took
sos 900 of the whole amount.
Joseph l.. Parker has returned to Mantle,
Conn. 10 find his wife dead and bis daugh-
ter lost 20 him. He went 70 California IN
ls49. ceased communicating with his family
after few years and now, having secured
a fortune. desires 20 recover ms daughter.
The reported elopement Of Ferdinand
Ward and a daughter of G. A. Pelton, ot
NiddletoWn. is denied by members of Miss
Pelton's family. All members of Mr. Pei
toms family are at home except the eldest
daughter. who is visiting a lady. friend,
in Massachusetts.
MI
father. daughter and two sons who were
attacked and beaten by three drunken
roughs at Hiawsths. Kan, have entered a
complaint with the Syrian consul, located
at New York, and he in turn has reported
the matter 10 his government II IS likely
that the affair will cost the United States
several thousand dollars.
For some time past the city engineer of
Chicago has sturdily maintained that the
sewage from the city did not extend 10 the
crib. two miles out in the lake, through
which water was taken into the tunnel tor
the supply os the city. Now. however he
recommends that every drop OF drinking
water should be boiled from three-quarters
10 one hour before it is used for drinking
purposes"
There are two possible anchors Of hope
for III. Clay King under sentence Of death
for the murder Of David ii. Posten. but II
ia probable that one Of these has been cut
away. His friends may have recourse 10
the United States Supreme Court, but from
the action of the attorneys and also from
the opinion that application was made to
the Supreme Court for a writ of error be-
fore the steps were taken in the Federal
court ia Nashville.
The Cincinnati Leaf Tobacco Warehouse
| Company, consolidation OF the Globe.
Bodman. Morris. Cincinnati. Miami and
Walker houses. is TO be incorporated within
a week. The capital stock is 10 be S2.5O0. e.
OOO of which sl.709,000 is 20 be common
| TIE warehouses will take all the stock Of
| the trust except Si000 900. The companie;
are all local. and the Globe is by Tar the
largest tobacco warehouse in the world
| The incorporation will be in New Jersey.
The Goodland Rain Company, which was
organized last winter 10 make rain after the
Melbourne plan, commenced operation!
! Monday under a contract with the farmers
| Of Bourbon county TO cause fall OK rain ol
half Nd inch over i've hundred square miles
the compensation being 81 900. At mid
night coplous rain was falling, but skeptl
cal people say the natural conditions woulc
have brought rain any way and that ID,
farmers might have saved their $1,000.