Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1892-10-13
TeIegranhic RreYltIes.

Richard II. Clarke, OF Mobile, was renom-
mated Monday for Congress from the First
(Alabama) District.
A special from Springfield, Kansas, says the
State Bank at Arkanon suspended payment
Saturday, and that the assets are reported 10 be
only nominal
The Navy Department has received cable
gram from Admiral Walker at La Guayra say
ing that General Crespo has proclaimed himself
Provisional President OF Venezuela.
Alta cake-walk az Minnelulu Lake, near An
niston, Ala, Monday night, free fight resulted
tr the death OF Henry Adamson and John Brooks,
ard the serious injury OF half dozen others.
The stables connected with Thomas W. Riley's
stevedore establishment on street, southwest,
near the Potomac river, Washington, were de-
strOyed by fire Monday night. Loss about S15,-
600. Between forty and 1fty horses persisted in
the flames.
At the Galloway (Ala.) mines Tuesday a man
named Dunn and his wife we're quarrellng when
the mothor-in-aw, Mrs. Dali, stepped In be-
tween them. She received full load Of buck
shot in her head, putting out her eyes and tear
ing away parts OF her face. Dunn escaped.
Later intelligence about the nre at Crave
places the loss at $685. and the insurance at
100000. principally IN the Virginia Fire aud
Marine and Virginia State Insurance Com
panies OF Richmond, and tho Petersburg
Savings and Insurance Company, OF Petersburg
The United States Supreme Court began its
October term Monday by Inducing the new
Justice, George Shiras OF Pennsylya MIA,
into ONCE in the presence OF a numbr OF
members OF the bar, friends Of Justice Shiras,
aud others. The court then called on the Presi.
dent.
Steel Works, on Forty-eighth street and tho Al
legheny-Valley railroad, Pittsburg, Announcing
reduction OF 10 per cent. in the wages OF the
employees. 10 take effect on and after October
The
and makes all the finer grades of steel
Tho Charleston Is. CO. Cotton Exchange adopt
cd resolutions Tuesday pledging itself 10 aid In
defeating the anticipation bill II the New York
Cotton Exchange will alter Its contracts for
future delivery so that nothing below low mid
ding can be rendered, thus assimilating tho
standard with the grades OF Liverpool and
Bremen.
The yardmen employed by the Big-Four road
at Columbus, o.. numbering about ninety-fiye
mon, struck Monday night for an advance In
wages. They demand the Cincinnati ten-hour
scale. The yards are blocked. Only passenger
trains are moving. The strikers appointed a
committee TO patrol the yards and protect the
property.
The Democrats OF Michigan have gone into n
combination with the Populists on legislative
candidates, the object being to control the
choice OF United states Senator by the next
Legislature. There has been no endorsement of
each others nominations in twenty-six cases so
far, the legislative nominations having not all
been made yet.
Colonel Clarence Peters, Of Baltimore, is dead.
lie commanded the Sixth Regiment OF Infantry,
Maryland National Guard, which fired on the
mob in Baltimore in July, 1877, aud quelled tina
riot. He was also police Justice during the
terms Of Governors Groome and Carroll. He
was imprisoned during the war for giving aid 10
the COnfederacy.
Tho cornerstone OF the new $4,000 court.
1nT.fna nf "a naaa a
propriate Masonic ceremonies in the presence
OF 10000 people. Speeches were delivered NV
several distinguished guests, and there was n
military and civic parade fully one mile long.
far surprising anything OF the kind ever before
seen in Reme There were nearly 1000 Masons
III the procession.
The Hanover Ger, Courier says II has learnes
from what It deems a good source that the dr.
ference Of opinion that has arisen between
Chancellor Won Caprivl and the Prussian Minis
ters-especialy Count Eulenberg-ln regard 10
the military bill Is 10 acute that both the Chan.
cellor and Count Gutenberg have resigned their
Offices The statement has not. however, been
confirmed, and 1t Is believed that the facts have
been exaggerated.
The Republican electoral ticket Of Georgia
will not DO fused with that OF the Peoples party
This has been decided at selected meetin 2 on the
Repu olican candidates. Thequestion was put 20
them whether half their number would not give
way 70 the same number of Peoples-party
uOiuihccss anu tuot fclurhi was emphatiC Thus
there viii be four electoral tickets voted for Ia
Georgia--Republican, Democratic, Peoples-par-
~, aud Prohibition.
On the Charleston, Sumter and Northern rail-.
way a. Bennettsyiile, 5. o., Monday night as
freight train was rounding q curve one OF the
cars Jumped the track. carrying another with il,
and wrecking both. Boyd Farley, John MitoheIl'
and Charlie Owens were killed and w. ID. Polk.
yard master. Andrew White, and Ia. Powell
we're wounded. NO blame Is attached to the
engineer by the company.
Two large dieestsrs In the Bangor Pulp ana
Paper Companys min ut oroao, Ne, exploited
Tuesday morning. causing the loss Of two lives
and tho injury more or less serious 0 SIX per.