The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1892-07-10
VIEWS NOTES or INTEREST.
Tsunejiro Miyaok is the new Japanese 500
retarv of legation.


| rotary OF legation.
Archbshop Ireland has returned to this
| country. after six months absence In Europe.
The strike of the New York PAYERS was
| ended by the men submitting TO the terms OF
the contractors.
Judge Hutchinson, of the District Court of
Chelsea Mass. who is financially involved
has disappeared.
General Henry W. Slocum lies at his home
in BROOKLYN suffering from severe injuries re-
ceived in a runaway accident.
The Treasury Department has decided that
so-called patna rice shall be classified as un-
cleaned rice. dutiable at IA cents pound.
The hearing as to freight rates on wheat
and -four In the Northwest has been contin-
ued by the Interstate Commerce Commission.
The Secretary Of the Navy has made the
twenty-ffth payment OF S99.500 TO Cramp ~
Co.. of Philadelphia. on account Of the con-
struction of the cruiser New York.
Ii is reported from San Francisco that jay
Gould and G. p. Huntington made bid Of
$4,000 600 for the Tehuantepec Government
railroad in Mexico, which WAS declined.
Henry T. Downing, ex-consul to st. Paul
de Loands, in Africa was elected from res
taurant IN Brooklyn Friday on account OF
his color. and will sue for $4,000 damages.
The State Convention of the Peoples party
of Georgia will be held in Atlanta July 10th
Colonel Peek and ex-senator Ellington are the
most prominent candidates for Governor.
Suit has been filed at West Point. Miss.
against the Richmond and Danyille railroad,
lessees of the Georgia Pacific. tor s,3,O00
State and county taxes for the years 1886 10
1892 inclusive.
The Vanderbilt furnaces at Birmingham,
Ala. have been shut down owing 10 the IN
a.
gency of the money market. 10 throws one
hundred men out of employment.
The acting Attorney General has trans
mitted to the United States Senate list Of
judgments sggregatlng s479O67, rendered IN
the court of claims on Indian depreciation
cases since June l. 1892.
The Carpenters Council and the Painters
Council, of Chicago, have passed resolutions
extending sympathy to the Homestead work
men and denOuncng Andrew Carnegie for
employing Pinkerton men.
Last month was the wettest June Buffalo,
n. Y, has seen in twenty-five years. The
total rainfall was 9.52 inches. 500 inches IN
excess OF the average. The heaviest fall IN
twenty-four hours was 2.67 inches on June
gth. when Buffalo was flooded
In consequence of suggestions by Surgeon
General Wyman. of the Marine Hospital
Service. the United States Treasury Depart
ment has taken steps for the thorough dis
infection of the baggage of immigrants arriy-
ing in New York from the cholera districts Of
Europe.
The pure mountain air has already proved
beneficial 10 Mrs Harrison. The ride from
Washington, although made at slow rate OF
speed, was very trying 20 her. and Mrs. Har-
rison plainly showed the effects Of it. but a
nights rest in the Adriondacks has improved
her very much.
Governor Fifer and the Republican State
committee met in Chicago Friday. A deega-
ton Of steel workers from Joliet had pro-
tracted audience with them, in which they
urged the Republican managers of Illinois to
offer TO arrange an honorable settlement of
the difficulties at Homestead. Pa.
Robert Lincoln O'Brien. Of the reporters
staff OF the Boston Transcript has been ap-
pointed as private secretary TO ex-President
Cleveland, and will at once enter upon the
performance of his duties at Gray Gables.
Buzzard's Bay. He was graduated from Har-
ward University in 1891 with high honors
Ex-Secretary Blaine has sent letter of
congratulaton TO Secretary of State Foster. in
which be says - ought sooner to have writ
ten you word of congratulation on your APP
pointment as Secretary of State which [
most heartily do now. / am very glad You
are appointed. You will be able TO do better
ment."
For fancied insult to the niece of Pres-
dent Charles f. Mayer. of the Baltimore and
Ohio railroad. at Bar Harbor. Graham John
son. who lives at Boston and who Is supposed
20 be insane. on Friday threatened Sydney G.
Cary, "a well-knoWn club man Of Baltimore.
Johnson called at Mr.. Carys home IN that
city while he was at breakfast. and it was
with difficulty that MIR. Cary escaped death at
his hands.
The Democrats propose TO make the official !
notification of Grover Cleveland and Adlai r.. |
Stevenson on July 10th. the occasion fora r0us- |
ing demonstration. The Manhattan Club has |
rendered the use of its house for the purpose, |
but it is understood that Mr.. Cleveland pre- |
fers some hall. A committee of one hundred |
will be appointed 10 have charge Of the ar
engagements and entertainment OF the visitors.
The Press Association Of London says that |
Lord Salisbury has instructed the British |
Charge d Affairs at Washington 70 request the !
United States Government Tor an explanation |
in regard 10 the recent seizure N Port Etches |
harbOr, Alaska, of the British steamer Co |
quitlan by tho nited States revenue cruiser. |
CorWin. The incident, the Press Association /
says. will not delay the Behring sea arbltra-
lions.
Louis Napoleon Auzat, formerly member |
of the Stock Exchange IN Paris and now an |
Chicago Friday by United States Marshal |
Frank Hitchcock Auzat was arrested on /
warrant of extraditiOn charging HIM with |
forgery committed on IA wealthy Parsian |
named Roux q Escombrers. The amount al /
legged TO have been secured by Auzat 10 !
$4,000
Mr.. Carnegie. it is asserted. is determined /
absolutely TO maintain the stand his company /
has taken Mr. Frick has received Mr.. Car |
neges ultimatum that the company Will hold |
out on its present lines 20 the end. no matter |
what the end may be- that Dir. Carnegie will |
not sanction the re-employment OF any Of the J
discharged workers. and that ne declares that /
he viii hold out until the grass Oyergrows /
the millsn ruther than give IN 10 the Assocla-
ton.
United States Consul to Hayti. Tranbant
Ronzier with his wife and son. reached New
York from Hayti Friday morning on the
steamship Prince William, and will sail nj
once for France. He intends 10 put his son.
who is thirteen years old, in French college.
There were thirty-sx other passengers on the
Prince William, among them being number
OF Italians who went to Haytl thinking to
better their condition there. but who have
returned Disguised.
Contracts were signed Friday by which
probably the largest certainty ever paid TO a
theatrical star will be given next season TO
Richard Mansfield for an eight weeks tour If
the south. John 7. Slocum, Mr.. Mansheids |
manager. was one of the parties Of the con-
tract. while Henry Greenwall. the Southern
was the other. The tour will begin
at Richmond. Va. on Monday. January %,
and end at Louisville. KY, February 18th.
For this MIR Mansfield will be paid $1,000
night or Sis 900 for the tour.
All of the wounded Pinkertons at West
Penn Hospital. Pittsburg. are in a fair condi-