The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1892-07-14
NEWS NOTES or INTEREST.
A tornado swept over Manitoba on Sunday
:. a daatrnuad much property.

The international Granu Draho1 " III
Emerald Beneficial Association oi Noisn
America began its session IN hHr'i'ou'
Tuesday.
=, !. proposed to notify Cleveland and
Stevenson OF their nomination at the Madl-
son Souars Garden and make it the occasion
Tor A great Democratic demonstration.
call has been issued by Chairman Camp
hell OF the Republican national committee,
Tor meeting OF the executive committee to
he held in New York on next Saturday morn
ing.
Itis now undisputed that the cannon used
nv the Homestead strikers 20 fire on the
Pinkerton force that attempted TO land there
belonged TO the Grand Army Post OF tina:
place.
Forty persons at Chicago, on Monday night,
fell through rotten sidewalk into base
ment, and many of them were seriously in
jured. Ida Smith. Is years OF age, may die OF
her injuries.
John ]. Derr proprietor of extensive quar-
ries at NorrlstOwn. Pa, will hereafter employ
only American labor. A petition has been
circulated asking that only Americans be en-
ployed on street improvements in Norristown.
The warehouse OF the Taylor Manufactur-
ing Company at Reynolds, Ga, wss destroyed
by fire Monday. The contents were 245 bales
Of cotton and 465 bales of yarn. The esti-
mated loss was $50 900. which was insured for
$4,000.
After n conference with their workmen the
officials of the Eureka Iron and Steel Mills at
Wyandotte. Mich. have refused TO sign the
Amalgamated scale. The 400 employees stop
ped work. The company will employ non
union men.
The Treasury Department is informed of
the arrest Of two Cinnamon who were snug
clad ipfc fbfu N from Canada faW DAVIS
ago. A man named Wsdsworth, who brought
them across the Niagara river 70 Suspension
Bridge, made his escape.
Christ. Evans. Secretary of the American
Federation Of Labor arrived IN Pittsburg
from New York Tuesday to give the situation
of affairs at Homestead very careful lnspec-
ton. in his official capacity as an executive
officer Of the Federation.
miners cabin. near the Buckeye Mine. in
the vicinity of Townsend. Mon. was struck
by lightning on Monday and terrific explo-
sion followed. The three occupants OF the
cabin. David j. Burnet, =. Mcdonald and
Daniel &. Wallace, were literally blown 10
pieces.
The members Of the Merchants Exchange
Of st. Louis have decided, by a more than
two-thirds vote. to purchase from the Con
necticut Mutual Life Insurance Company the
building IL now occupies IN that city Tor
$500, 900. The property originally cost
81 $780, OO
The beautiful cathedral at st. Johns de-
signed by Gilbert Scott, and recently COM
pleted ut ii total cost Of $3.50 600. is now q
ruin Ii was historic landmark of that city,
and was one Of the first ediices in the New
World in which the English religious service
was celebrated.
decision has been entered in the United
States Circuit Court at San Francisco dis
missing the application Of Lizzie +. Ralston
for an accounting by Frederick W. Sharon
and Francis e. Newlands concerning property
amounting TO S5000.000 claimed 70 belong TO
Ralstons estate.
Fx-Seoretary William G. Whitney is again
being urged to become chairman or the DEM
ocratic national committee. Mr.. Cleveland
is said to have pressed the point perslstenty
when Mr. Whitney visited him few days
ago at Gray Gables. and the Tammany lead
ers are understood also TO have begged him
to accept.
The Treasury Department has been advised
of the seizure, at Astoria. Oregon, OF the
steamship Wilmington. plying between Vic
toria and British Columbia. and Portland,
Oregon. The seizure was for smuggling, and
902 cans of opium were found. Her captain
and crew were arrested and VIII be tired Tor
smuggling.
Surrogate RANSOM. OF Now 10TH CITY ms
Amounted Della +. Parnell and LAWYER Alfred
h. Byrd co-admInistrators of the estate of the
Irish leader. Charles Stewart Parnell. They
will administer only on the $4,000 in securi-
ties which Parnel left in this country. His
widow, Katharine, IS administrator OF his
property abroad
recent example Of the baneful effects Of
the Mckinley law is that Of the Elm City
Brewing Company. in New Haven, Conn.
- L 80 1o1 v,f~- tfpI uzoR in rho
production of the best malt, and because OF
the provisions of the law this sort Of barley
has gone up from eight 10 ten cents bushel
in excess OF it's former price.
Rey.J b. Ksler, a Holiness preacher at
Toccoa CITY, Ga. was arrested Monday morn
inc as a leader Of q band of robbers who Ope-
rated extensively at Seneca City. ;. 9. Two
years ago Kisler was successful Young
preacher. and lived with bis wife and children
in North Georgia. For some unknown cause
he drifted away and became criminal.
An Ottawa dispatch says ii is claimed in
official circles there that the United States
revenue cutter COrwin. which seized the Brit
ish sealers' supply steamer C0Qulllan for Ylo-
lation of the United States customs regua-
tions, had no authority 10 compel compliance
with those regulations in the case or foreign
vessel which was outside the three-nhe hult'
telegram from FL Paso. Texas says that
jay Gould's agents have consumma!ed deal
al the CITY of Mexico with the Mexican Gov
eminent whereby he has secured the conces-
sion of a railroad from Ciudad Juarez (Paso
del Korte) on the Mexican side opposite III
Paso through the States or Chshuahua. So
nora and Sinaloa 20 Mazatlan, the best port
OF the Mexican Pacific Coast, and thence TO
the City of Mexico.
The Republicans Of the Eleventh congress-
sional district of Pennsylvania. IN convention
AZ Scranton Tuesday. nominated Joseph A.
Scranton for Congress. Among the resolu-
,ions adopted was one iBstrnctlng the repre-
sentatiyes from that section 10 favor law
nrohibiting corporations from employing
armed men through any other agency than
that of the sheriff Of the county.
press representative called upon j. W
Malay Jr az Paris Tuesday relative % the
action brought against him by Captain Ran
dolph Stewart, who charged Mr.. Mackay IN a
London police court with having sent him
mepacipe letter Mr.. Mackay declared that
ha had little % say about the matter, but, "
he added. the facts are that Captain Stewart
smoke in disrespectful terms of my mother.
and / simply wrote him that II he did not
cease would thrash him.
The United States Government has at
LENGTH taken a hand in the matter OF the
seizure of the American steamship Joseph
Oteri. Jr. by the insurgents OF Spanish Hon
durAs Instead of asserting its power 10 col
lect damages for the vessel, however, II Is
proceeding against 1t for violation OF the neu-
trality laws. Upon demand or the Hondurian
Consul at New York Secretary Of the Treas
ury Foster Tuesday directed Collector Of Gus
toms Warmoth, at New Orleans to collect
$500 as a fine from the vessel for delivering
twenty cases of rifles and twenty-five cases
Of ammunition TO the insurgents. and for car
rying troops of the latter from CeIba 10 Irux-