Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1892-05-24
Telegraphic Brevities

Moses r. Walter, Bernard Carter, and Joshua
H3rner were yesterday app0ntel ro'rNrts OF
the American Fratenal Circle baltimore.
I'm the Federal House yesterday the river and
harbor appropriation hl. with the senate
amendments. was referred TO the Committee on
Rivers and liarbors.
CONGRESSMAN Watson yesterday succeeded
finally In having adopted Oy he House his reso-
luton requesting the Committee on Ways and
Means 10 report The sub-lreasury bill.
The nine,ioth annual commencement ~ tho
Salon Is. g. Famala Academy began sunday
with the baccalaurcate sermon uy k'V. Df. ".
W. Moore. OF Hamp ien-Sidney college, virginia
The Comptroller Of the Currency has declared
a frat dividend o. - per cent. in iay0r ot ihe
creditors of tn Eir-t National Bank, II VIII
minct1n. y. G., on an claims proved, amounting
10 SJOi, it5.
Adrunkcn row among the hb0rers at the
Atlanta Na.l Nafor-w ras Sunday night re-
e.ltel In the shooting Oi tnreo men. kii sand
ford was Instantly killed. Bob Taylor was fatally
woundoi. and William Taylor He'd ycsteriay 81
his wounds.
DIR. James Randolph. resident Of Ta'lahas-
see Fla. for nearly sixty yeurs, died In the city
named ~ sferday. aged -. he was "a native ol
virginia. wa. for term Of years superintendent
OF tho Florida Asvlum for the insane. and was
well known throughout the state oi his adop-
tl0n.
Dispatches from London yesterday reported
,be arrest at U4vre Of O'Bricn. the New York
bunco--feerer, whom the official oi Aunurn ~
i. prison. IL Il said, practically turned los,
some t,me ago. Inter dispatches reported thai
O Brien had escaped from the trenrn onlcers 10
iaYro.
Twenty-eight ~ the mules Of the Mobile lila.l
Street Railway Company affected with glander-
have been ieoatel and eight killed. All the
mules not known tO be- Affected nave bern re-
moved 20 new stable AMI po@slhly the Cpl
co fa.rIF AZ b. iI fH
progress.
Tho Durham lFnra Miners Federation has is-
sued a manifesto which says That the attempts
TO effect a settlement with the innsters has
failed: that the deadlock has consequently been
acceutuatei, AMI that the whole respons biliiy
for the awful struggle that Is no" lueVthpie
rests upon th2masie's'
Two huge We i'ions we're wheeled into the
British House ~ Commons yesterday afternoon.
They bore the signatures OF lfS.bH1 members
~ the Protestant Alliance, and lOl,4Oo menu
bers or tho Loyal Protestant League and others,
praying for the appointment Of commission to
inquire into the condition ~ the converts ana
in0nasterios In the United Kingdom.
A creyasse occurred Sunday nie, on the Fesler
place three miles below College Point, La. IL n
regarded a. the most serious break that has IA
far occurred in the ieyeos Of the lover Mississippi
this season. The water from It VIII Oyeruo" 2
large part Of -. John Baptist parish, La, ana
greatly damage the Mississippi valley railroad
Ihe cgeyssse wac caused oy crawl-h hole
Tho London branch OF the Imperial Federation
Loarue held "A meeting yesterday. at which scYc-
r 4 protection speeches were made sir Charies
Tupper. ;he Canadian High Commissioner was
one u. the speakers. IT, SAID that ires trade
might hnyo been excellent ,Or England. but as
e. vas urog NJ fatal - Canada policy Of Incl
dental taxat ion had been adopted Dy Canada IN
1878. which p d been strongly conducive % tue
maintalnarce o. her ties with Great Britain.
Baron Faya. the Italian Minister, made a
formal call on President Harrison yesterday
morning in company with Secretary Blaine.
There were no particular iOrm1iities ana no set
speeches. Baron Faya took occasion. however,
to inform the President that his sovereign, the
King " Italy. the Italian Government, and tho
Italian people are greatly pleased and satisfied
with the settlement of the recent difficulty IN a
manner so honorable TO both Italy and the United
States.
The President yesterday appointed Admiral
stephen B. Luce, United states navy lretircd' ',
10 be CommissiOner-GenoraL ana Professor g.
Brown G0ode, Assistant Secretary OF the Smith
sonian Institution. aud Professor James &. Well
iug, President OF tho Columbian University, to
be assistant commissioners 90 represent the
United Sta es az the Columbian Historical Expo
sitiou % g. held IN Madrid IN 1892 incommemo-
ration Of the 4OOth anniversary of the discovery
OF America.
The Chicaec-to-New YORK relay-bicycle race
was finished az the New York City Hall at los
o'clock yesterday morning, tho last relay having
left TarrytOwn at Gal r. 81. H. Campbell bore
the message, accompanied sy \. h. Ricn and j. l..
Quick. All day AZ the Franklin House these men
had boen awaiting tho relay from sing sing. H..
Eyeland, who left Gr0tOns Landing AT b:OB =.
NJ. gave out completely at Sing Sing. and George
smith, OF the Riverside Wheemen, rode TO within
SIX miles 0i IarrytOWn, where l.. D. Munger met
him. Munger took the pac.lot and carried 10
10 larrytOBn. where he delivered II % Camp
bell, ami the race 10 New York city through a
doynpour Of ram began. The message was
twelve hours and twenty-six minutes late AZ
TarrytOwn. The Dicycst reached the City Hall
in New York eleven hours ana eight minutes be-
mind schedule time. This was owing 10 unusu-
ally heavy roads, caused by the rains.