The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1892-08-23


Daniel Kiestling aged ninety-two years,
died in Sunbury, Penn. on Saturday OF in
jures sustained by being struck by freight
car
Mrs Frank Leslie Wilde returned 10 this
country Sunday on the French line steamer
la Bretagns. after three months soIourn
abroad.
A cloud burst ut Freedom. Penn, on Fri
day night washed away foundations or
houses and tore out the main street 70
depth of six feet
The steamship La Bretagne arrived Sun
day from Hayre. Among her passengers
WAS the new Spanish Minister Dupuy dc
LONE. with his wife and two children.
AS a further precaution against the intro
duction of cholera into Canada the Do
minion Council has prohibited the lmpor-
tstion Of rags from Germany and Belgium,
The militia of Texas il said to be going 10
pieces. owing to politics and tavoritism.
The split has been begun by the Bryan
Light Infantry disbanding and returning
its commission.
During q recent absence of the sheriff of
Jackson county Ala. seventeen prisoners
in the ScOttsboro jail escaped. Eleven OK
them have been recaptured. Among those
still At large are two murderers.
A telegram from Newark, n. j., says that
the lumber and material men there have or
g8nized for their own protection and nave
affiliated With tie Retail Merchants Com
mercal Agency Of Chicago.
While workmen we've engaged in the
ruins of burned building in New Orleans
on Saturday a portion OF the WAL and root
fell. burying four persons. One, Spanlsrd
named BrezsentO. was killed, aud two
Others were seriously injured.
The Secretary Of State has authorized the
surrender TO the British authorities OF
British subject named Robert Damn. now
under arrest at San Francisco for a murder
Gus assault committed on the high seas.
About ~ 900 worth Of coupon tickets
were recently stolen from the ChebOYgan
Office of the Michigan Central railroad,
neatly stamped by the burglar and sold TO
the public through the seslpeEs OF Chicago
and other points.
Two prospectors are said to have discoY-
cred silver and lead ores about fifteen miles
from Little Rock, Arkansas. The silver ore
assays as high as 1900 ounces TO the ton.
Land has been bought and company
organized for mining purposes.
William Smith and Andrew Konker, aged
respectively fifteen and sixteen years, were
killed Sunday at Auburn. n Y, by wagon
they were driving coming IN contact WITH
an electric car. Their horse became fright
ened by the car and ran directly into Vt.
a telegram from Oswego. Kan, says that
farmers who claimed that back water,
caused by the dam across the Neosho river
there ruins their farms have blown the
Objectionable obstruction up with dyna-
mite. The dam was the finest in the State.
Services we're held Sunday at the First
sr f-ie4eaafaF
Mass. commemorative of its $50 years OF eX-
steGce Rev. Daniel Munroe Wilson, OF
Quincy. delivered an historical address
The church was a target for the British IN
1776. 10 has had sixteen pastors since 1872
The general secretary OK the Knights of
Labor on Saturday made complaint t. the
Department of Justice OF the alleged in
human treatment of United States prisoners
~ BOies City. Idaho, now awaiting trial TOT
completely IN the recent riots IN tho CnW
d'Alene mining district. An investigation
has been ordered
One night IN January last o. X. Rogers,
CITY clerk of Beaver. Oklahoma Territory,
lett his store for his home and was never
heard Of afterwards. Sunday two bows
found in the woods near Beaver the clothes
of Rogers and his skeleton There was
bullet hole in the skull. Rogers had con-
siderable money with him when be disap-
peared.
Andrew Gardner and J. W. Jones. two
members OF the Amalgamated Association
who deserted the strikers 40 the West Su-
perior Wis. Steel Works we're attacked on
Saturday night by fifteen men supposed 70
be Amalgamated Association men. Pistols
and knives were used. and Jones was prob
ably fatally injured. Gardner - missing
and is believed to have been killed.
rf-f.. - 81 hoa rogueafan the
Naval Department 90 send naval vessel 70
Liberia some time during October. Inc
REQUEST has no significance beyond the OBJ
seryanee u the usual custom of this Gov
eminent Of sending an American ship 10
Liberia twice a year for the purpose OF es-
tablishing a precedent for other nations and
az marx Of recognition by the Onlteu
States Of the LbeTian Government.
Woodyille a small village near Jackson,
Mich. on the main line OF the Michigan
Central railroad Is in danger OF sinking
wholly into the earth. Aboutte day ago tho
STANDARD coal mine became flooded and had
TO be abandoned. Since then several se-
rious caye-ins bnye occurred over the de-
serted mine The area covered by the holes
extends over fifty OF sixty rons square; W4he
the undermined section ID probably hat
mile square.
dispatch from Cressona, Penn, saws
that the epidemic of typhoid fever Wuicu
has been prevailing there 20 most alarm
inc extent for the past few weeks is daily
growing worse. and there are few families
Who arc not afflicted. The Philadelphia
and Reading Railroad Company has taken
the matter 10 hand and on Saturday sent
physicians and chemists 90 Cressona TO ana
I'VE the water from which the disease Is
supposed % originate.
The passenger coach Of train on the
Baltimore and Annapolis Short Line was
deraied four miles from Baltimore on
Saturday afternoon A coiored woman
picking coal bg the track was killed and
her husband knocked senseless. Sixteen
Passengers were injured, one o. wnom, Dlrs
Cots. of Baltimore was not expected 20
recover. The disaster was caused By tie
sliding door of fruit car dropping from
It's fastening and striking the passenger
car.
John Sharp Williams Of Yazoo county.
Miss. who was nominated by reclamation
after 3l5 ballots by the Democrats OF the
Fifth congressional district, 20 succeed Be
man. Is a young planter who IS known as
Democrat without "frills or isms.' He made
his canvass in opposition TO the SuD-Irea-
sury and other Ocala demands. Tie was
delegate 20 toe late national convention and
one OF the Mississippi delegates who voted
for Cleyeland's nomination.
The gallant Colonel Kelly Anderson, who