The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1892-07-02
VIEWS NOTES or INTEREST.

Mr. Stevenson will 10 TO New forA 70 10
formally notified of bis nomination.
rha endowment fund of Yale College has
been increased by t2.0O0.0OO IN the past year
Representatives Of Norway are endeayoring
10 arrange direct shipments from th1s couh-
try.
Isvarett Leonard, the Peoples party nomi,,
-. - Iovaruor of Missouri. has resigned
the nreaidency of the State Farmers Alliance
w : CuIbertson, Kentucky millionaire.
diainberited his two sons IN his Will (whlcE
viii be contested because they were fond OF
horse-racing.
Government exploring party TO measure
the movement Of MuIr's glacier and 70 eX-
anime the surrounding country lett Tacoma
Thursday for Alaska.
A mortgage for 525000000 has been made
by the New York and New England 6alIroad
Company 20 the Farmers Loan ana 1Iu'9
Company Of New YORK.
John Read. formerly managing editor OF
the New York Times, has been placed IN
charge OF the literary bureau OF the hatlonal
Republican Committee.
Senator Hill is reported as saying that the
tariff plank of the platform adopted al Chlca-
90 has made every workshop and factory IN
the United States u Republican campaign
headquarters.
The effects Of the protective tariff are shown
in Michigan by cut of II, per cent IA WAGES
for all mine employees. The new schedule
went into effect yesterday. Five tnOusaDu
men are affected in lshpeming alone.
A committee of Tammany Hall. headed by
BOurke Cochran. has written letter 10
Grover Cleveland asking him % address the
meeting TO be held in tho hall on the tonrth
Of July. Senator Hill has also been invited.
The Daily company gave a pastoral perform
ance of AS You Like IL, on the lawn De
meath the spreading trees Of ex-senator Ear-
wells homo IN Lake Forest Thursday. Ihe
performance was given for the benefit of the
Children's Department o. the Worlds AR.
The indictment which was found few days
ago by the grand jury against Rev lhomas
Dixon. Jr. has been dismissed by Judge MAI
tine on motion of the district attorney. III
will be remembered that Mr. Dixon was
charged with criminal libel OF Excise Com
missioner Koch.
John Stevens a wire drawer in the rolling
mill Of the John A. ROebhngs Sons Com
pany, became entangled IN a coil of bot WIRE
that was passing from the roll 90 the reel
Thursday night, and was so burned about
the breast and the lower part OF his body
that be died ia a few minutes. He was about
forty years old.
In an interview at Chicago Friday Congress
man Springer said that tho Peoples party
may cut a considerable figure IN the No
of the States of the West the new party
will have 80 strong a following that the
electoral. ticket may be lost 20 both the
Republicans ard Democrats.
Miss Lillian Everett eldest daughter of Mr..
III. Sidney Everett. of Boston, was married
Thursday at st. Saviours church, Isle OF
Wight 70 Mr. Charles Harry Fenwlck. OF the
Kings Royal Rifles. stationed at Winchester
Mr.. FenWlck is the second son Of the late DIT.
Charles Fenwick, OF High Fus. Herttortshue
and Hunstanton Lodge, Norfolk.
Informal IN was received Thursday morn
ing that the conference 20 be held the same
day between the iron manufacturers OF Ma
honing alley and the Amalgamated Asso-
citation regarding the scale question has been
postponed until to-day. All the rolling mills
through tue valley ceased operations with
the close of the night turn Thursday.
Notwithstanding the defeat of the govern
ment 40 Cincinnati and New Ork, the nlted
States authorities at Chicago Will push the
cases against the Whisky Trust officers.
Judge Gresham will return 20 the city next
week and arrangements may be made
whereby he will hear the arguments on the
indictments found in Boston against Gibson,
Morris and Hennessy.
The proposition of the Carnegios 10 their
employees In brief is that wages shall DO gov
erned by the selling price of steel blllets'
that when steel billets sold for 922 per ton or
less the minimum rate shall De paid. and
that this agreement shall expire on Decem-
Der 3lst Under the scale which expired
Thursday the minimum rate OF wages was
paid when steel biiiets sold for s25 PER ton OF
less.
A person claiming o. be a cowboy in Cody's
Wild West Show applied 20 a magistrate
Thursday in London for assistance 90 return
e. America. The cowboy complained that
Buffalo Bill had dismissed him on q trivial
pretext. and had also dismissed other genuine
American cowboys. because he could hire
English cowboys or Englshmen % pass Tor
cowboys. a good deal cheaper IN London.
The magistrate said no would institute an ~
quiry into the complaint and told the appl-
cant % come again.
In Hamilton avenue. Brooklyn, in a one
story frame building situated inside OF two
fences eacb ten feet high. Internal Revenue
Collector Nathan and seven assistants found
Thursday an illicit dlstlllery. and captured
the entire outfit. The men who made the
moonshiue whisky. however escaped. IN
their flight they loft behind a part OF their
clothing and "a big revolver. Inc oncei2
found four big watts and three barrels OF
whisky. IL is believed the men escaped
through a subteranean canal
Tie Poughkeepsie bridge was sold Thurs
dav al " O'clock by Hon. ID. ". Guernsey,
referee. under foreclosure of mortgage. There
we're present: John W. Brock and Charles
r Morgan. Jr.. of Philadelphia. representing
the reconciliation committee of the bond
holders. and William Green of Alexander az
Green attorneys for the Mercantile Trust
Company, trustee Of the mortgage, upon
whose application the sale was made. There
WAS but one bid, of s2.5OO,0J0. by Dir. Brock,
for the committee. and the bridge was sold 90
TINT figure. II will now be turned over 60
the control of the Philadelphia aud Reading
Railroad Company.
IL IS probable that the old-time liberty pole
will play an important part ID the coming
presidential campaign in Pennsylvania. In
the campaigns Of fifty and sixty years agO the
Democrats and Wings erected scores OF liberty
noles ia Berks county. but since the war H.
terest in them began 20 grow less. and OF late
wears they have almost totally disappeared,
and many 81 the young voters know nothing
oft their history or significance. ln many
rural communities. however there is de-
maud for something new 10 make the cam
paign lively, and ia several townships prepa-
rations are already being made 20 put up
liberty poles made out ot the largest trees that
can be found with the belief that the custom
vii. again be popular
Gratifying evidence Of tho Improvement
in business is found in Bradstreet reports OF
failures during the SIX months ending July J..
The number Of failures was 5.35I, which Is
Csc less than in the corresponding period last
year, and less than iu the corresponding pc
Rod IN 1890 aud 1889, and over 800 less than