The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1892-06-21
NEWS NOTES OF INHERENT.

Pacific Steamboat Line between dacoms.
Washington. and China arrived ~ Tacoma
Friday last with q cargo OF ten anu SIX
DIR. Charles Cullis. whose name mas long
hoon famous "a the lender of the faith cure
movement in Boston and as founder OF the
Consumptives' Home, il dead OF heart disease.
The international Typographical Union.
sitting AZ Philadelphia. has repealed tho nifty
nine hour law By a majority OF one IN forty
eioht votes. il being found impossible TO en-
force its provisions uniformly.
The Over Glass Works and the Hemingway
Glass Works. two very large manufactures 81
Muncie. Ind. have been DESTROYED py pre-
The loss on both works Is 500 w ana Is COW
cred by insurance to The extent OF 100000.
The new levee on the bayou PROTECTING
Rayou Sara. La. has given away. and the
to,rn ia totally submerged TO a depth ranging
from four TO eleven feet. The loss OF pro
merry. both public and personal, amounts 10
thousands of dollars.
Tho Great Northern Athletic Club is the
mama of new club that has Just been incor,
porated Ia West Superior, Wis. Inc caPital
stock is $4,000. The building mas seatlns
capacity Of 5000. The CLUB VIII ehdesVof "
have the best contests IN the country
At the London County Grounds, Herne
Hill, o twenty five mile race on saleIy oicyele'
has been won by K. l.. Eide, the English rider.
Arthur Zimmerman. the American, was
oTnong the starters. He fell during the race
and retired. though he sustained no INJURY.
The city of Guthrie. Okla. was covered
Sunday with large circulars warning all Wnlso
citizens from employing colored labor or help
of any kind under penalty OF ooycott;
Judge Perkins, the negro whom the cro"u
threatened to tar aud feather, was not mo-
Tested.
AT Moorewood Friday last fourteen OF the
foreigners succumbed 10 the heat and It iS
believed that three of them will die; many
more exhausted by the heat have been
unable 10 resume work. At Hecla. Mon
mouth and at the works in the vicinity OK
Latrobe the coke-drawers suffered terribly.
Mrs. Arthur Beverly, wife of one of Wal
tham's Mass most prominent citizens, was
found Saturday burned almost 70 a clnder.
She had saturated her garments WIN ksi %
sene. crawled into furnace and set hre 10
herself. She was insane at the time III conse-
Quence Of relapse OF the grip
The Mearshon & Co. bank failure at Yer
mont. H.. is much heavier than was at hrst
supposed il is said that the Liabilities VIII
probably reach s150,000, with assets aggre-
eating something over half that sum- III mas
now assumed the form OF an assignment
with Edward Hamer and j. p. Marshall as as
signees.
General Manager Tucker of the Maine
Central railroad says the necessary amount
of money for placing the proposed powerful
electric search-light on the top OF Mount
Washington has been subscribed. The light
will be the highest and strongest in the world,
and will be seen from Maihe, Massachusetts.
New Hampshire. Vermont and Canada.
The Tribune. of Rome. Italy. commenting
upon the story from Seattle, that four Italian
railroad labOrers were lynched IN that State
for killing their foreman, urges the Govern
Ia the
matter. and If it is proved to be another wan
ton attack on Italians to make the strongest
protest TO the Government OF the United
States.
Barber. the Peoples party candidate for
| Congress in Corsicana Texas district carried
the home countyof Colonel Mills, and also MI
| lam county, the home Of Judge Anthony, the
Democratic nominee. This county alone gave
Roger Q. Mills 1000 majority III the previous
congressional election. and the district gave
| him 16 900. The Democrats claim the dis
trict by 1000 majority. but the Peoples party
men only concede 1000.
The oldest woman in America who is q
preacher. it is thought. is Rev. Lydia Sexton.
| of Seattle. now ninety nine years OF age. she
| has been in service about half century.
For eight or ten years she was an e1horter
| before receiving license TO preach IN 1851.
| Ohio. Indiana and Illinois were her heid
| prior to 1870, when. with her husband, she
| removed to Kansas. Seattle was adopted as
| her home three years ago. She has since
| then conducted many revival and other meet
| ings, but falling eyesight threatens to termi-
| mats her activity ere long. She hopes 10 1--we
| to be one hundred years old.
| Indictments against the Maverick Bank di-
rectors were quashed by Judge Nelson IN the
| United States District Court in Boston satur-
| day. The Court said the indictments are ex-
| pressed in terms so confused, involved and
| contradictory. and so stuffed with verblage
repetitions and surplusage, that il Is next 70
impossible t. conjecture upon what grounds
| it is expected to convict the defendants. 10
| indictments drawn as these are the defend
ants ought not to be required TO plead.
Two spans of the Northern Pacific bridge
over Clark's Fork river, at Clark's Fork. Id.
have been destroyed by fire. This Is The
largest bridge on the Northern Pacific con
sisting of five spans, each one hundred fee
long. IL is thought the fire caught from
| passing locomotive. Bridgemen have beeI
| ordered from Tacoma. Spokane and othe
| points and it is expected repairs will be made
| within ten days. Meanwhile trains will ruI
west from here via the Coeur d'Alene cut-ot
to VALE. The washout has been repaired.
The traffic contract between the Reading
and the New England roads will probably q
into effect within short time. There ha
been some delay in the execution Of the con
tract, owing TO complications over the but
chess county extension. which connects tn
New England road with the Poughksepsi
bridge system IL is expected, however. tina
the complications will soon be removed. ant
that the Reading and the New England vii
then enter into the traffic contract. con
siderable amount of traffic will be sent owe
the Poughkeepse bridge as soon as it g0e
into effect The Reading intends to ship hal
coal TO Central New England points over tn
Poughkeepsie bridge system.
The race between the White Star steame
Alaska and the Cunarder. Aurania, acros
the ocean to westward. was won by TIA
former off Sandy Hook Sunday afternoon. i
seven days FIVE hours and forty minutes
but with only about twenty minutes 10 be
credit. The Alaska passed Roche Point Q
1912 =. NJ. and the Aurania at 1874 Z. NJ. o
Sunday last. aud. with a slight exception
kept in sight of each other all the way reach
ing the Hook ut 1888 and 1:54 u. NJ. TO-DAY
respectively. The Alaska was DELAYED
broken machinery few hours on Tuesda
last. during which time the Aurania passe
her and went out OF sight but the Alask
} overhauled and forged ahead Of her compel
, tor on completion OF repairs.
Alexander White (coOred). a delegate frol
the First Texas district 10 the recent Repul
: lican Convention at Minneapolis. was fshe
| out of the river AZ Chicago Saturday mornin
By policeman. When White was taken
the station and dried out he declared that
T had been chased into the river by his alte
, | pata a oolcra1 man narnad Tall -, ha