Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1892-03-25
IN SOUTH JERSEY.
Te egraphic Breyities.

Twenty ex-conyicts from Italy were detained
az New York yesterday. They admitted that
| they were liberated felOns, and will bo promptly
returned.
The suit against the Central Railroad and
Banking Company Of Georgia entered by Mrs.
R0wena Clarke, Of tho minority stockholders,
was opened yesterday In the United states
Court at Macon.
The committee OF tho German Reichsiag to
| which WAS refe red the bill making extra
Grant Of 2.5OO,OOO marks for the German ex-
| hibt At the Chicago Columbian Exhibition has
unanimously approved tho credit asked for.
The farewell banquet given by the American
colony in Paris 10 Ar. Reid, tho retiring United
states Minister, took place last evening. Three
hundred guests, including the most prominent
members Of tho American colony and many
| famous Frenchmen, assembled 10 honor Mr..
| Reid.
A. F. Quarterman, merchant in Coffee coun-
| ty. Ga, has been missing since Sunday. That
| day his store Was robbed. and traces OF blood
we're found. Opinion Is divided as TO Thethor
| he was murdered or abducted. Rewards aggre-
eating $1,000 have been offered for the arrest
q the criminals.
President Harrison yesterday sent to the Sem
ate the following nominations: StantonJ j. Peelle
| of Indiana, 70 be Judge Of the Court Of Claims,
utce Glonni W. scoheld, retired. United States
District Court Judges-William X. Townsend,
FOR the District Of Connecticut; John b. Rector,
Northern District Of Texas John H. Baker, Dis
trict OF Indians.
The dead bodies OF twonty-three miners who
lost their lives in the Mine-Hill mine, Dunbar,
Pa when that mine took fire June 10, 1890,
we're Yesterday found by the searchcrs. Five
men are still missing. The men had been suf1O-
Gated or drowned They were all probably dead
in an hour. The mine-owners have spent $780,
600 Ia efforts TO reach these bodies.
The solicitors Of Mrs. Florence haybrick, who
is serving a lfe-eentence in Woking prison,
England, for poisoning her husband, Mr.. James
Maybrck, u well-known Liverpool merchant,
have submitted a statement looking 10 her re-
| lease from prisoner, at least the procurement
of a new trial on legal poin.s-to the Joint CON
sideration Of counsel The American friends OF
Mrs. Maybrick will pay the costs.
James A. Farmer, the Georgian who gave
| himself up 10 the Now York police, saying that
he was wanted in Jefferson county, Ga, on a
await the arrival Of sherin Collier, Of jackson
county, Ga. Telegrams have been received
| from Georgia stating that Farmer Is wanted for
| the murder OF Ira Drake in November last.
Farmer claims TO be innocent, Is anxious 20 re-
turn, and says he wishes he had neyor lett home.
A dispatch from Victoria, b. c., says 1t Is re-
| ported there that hear-Admiral botham. COM
| mander IN chief Of tho British Pacific station,
! sent dispatch 10 Esquimault that tho waF-ship1
| Molpomope, Champion, ana Warsprite nave
| started for Fsquimault and that they viii reach
there May 1st, two months earlier than the time
previously arranged Tor their arrival: luis
change in the disposition OF the SHIPS IS tAken
| IN London 10 indicate q serious phase In the
Bering-Sea matter.
The Republican State Convention Of South Da-
kota was held yesterday for the purpose OF
nominating delegates to the national conven-
tion al Minneapolis. After considerable wrang-
ling the Committee on Resolutions was To-
strncted 10 bring in report endorsing the ad-
mnsiration and ipstructing the delegates 10
the national convention to vote for Harrison.
Senator Pettigrew and ex-senator Moody led an
anti-Harrson faction, but tho general sentiment
proved too much for them.
The Berlin Re,ehsdnzei1sr, tho Official organ OF
the German Government, says: Chancellor Won
Capriyi has been relieved OF the functions OF the
presidency OF the Prussian Ministry. but he will
retain the position Of Prussian Minister OF For
eign Affairs. Count Won Bulenburg, grand mar
ter of the court, will succeed General Won Ca
priyi as President Of the Ministry. DR.. 4. Bo5se
has been appointed Minister OF Ecclesiastical
Affairs, Public Instruction, and Medicinal AnAirs
while resigning that ofIice retai-s his rank as
Prussian Minister.
In the New York Senate yesterday Mr.. Cantor
offered preamble and resolutions regarding
the action OF the Court Of Appeals, Judge May
nard I'm connection with the contested senate
rial cases as follows: 4" Resolved, that the sub
iect matter contained In the foregoing docn-
ments be referred 10 the Committee on Judicia-
ry; and be 1t further resolved, II the Assembly
concur that the Judiciary Committee OF the
Senate and Assembly be, and they are hereby,
authorized and directed 10 make immediate IN
yestigatiOn OF the statement aud allegations con-
tanned therein, with power 10 send Tor persons
and papers, and report their conclusions thereon
with all convenient speed Inc preainoio anu
resolutions were adopted. Republican resolu-
tions OF investigation were tabled by party