The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1892-09-17

William II. Kimball. of Canton, n.
" I'm hon anpointed bank examiner for
the city of New YORK.
cov.rnor Brown. of Maryland, has APP
,o;rted Colonel Albert Richie, of Baltl-
r,ore IN the supreme bench. to I'LL the
vacancy caused by the death OF Judge
Stewart.
The State Department is still without
any information concerning the state or
affairs in Venezuela, aud, so tar as
known. the situation is the same as IL
was ten days ago.
Adiutant-G General Greenland says the
troops are being withdrawn from Rome
stead gradually. About one hundred men
from the various companies have return
ed home this week.
Delegates to the National Convention
of Street Railway Employees, in session
in Indianapolis have decided TO organize
Extraordinarily of the American Fedora
ton of Labor and the Knights of Labor.
James Thompson, a negro, who at
tempted to assault Miss Mabel W alsh az
her home in Larned, Kan, on tuesday
morning, WAS taken from the jail by a
mob at night and hanged to a telegraph
pole.
The bark Casket, from Huelva, Spain,
for Wilmington, n. c., loaded with iron
pvrites, was wrecked on Wednesday
night on Frying Pan Shoals. The crew
were safely landed by the Cape rear
life-saVing crew.
The National Board of Steam Naviga-
ton has concluded its annual convention
in New York. Officers for the ensuing
year were elected as follows: f. A.
Churchman, Philadelphia, president; =.
ID. Wood, New York, vice-president; u
ii. Boyer, New York, secretary
John Berger, aged twenty-five years, a
farmer. residing in Pleasant Valley. near
Pine Grove, Penn, committed suicide
Tuesday evening by shooting himself IN
the temple. Berger was laboring under
temporary alteration of the mind, re-
sulting from recent attack OF yphold
fever.
A cabin on the place of ]. II. Schaif,
near Camilla, Ga, was burned on tues
day. Two small children and their crazy
grandmother were in the yard at the time
il caught fire. The old woman carried
the children into the midst of the flames
and left them. They were burned to
death.
The demand for money to move the
cotton crop is beginning to make itself
felt in Washington, and the Treasury
Department has authorized the issue Of
half million dollars in small notes at
New Orleans in return for gold deposits
to that amount in the New York Sub
Treasury.
There has been much excitement among
the locked-out men in Homestead over
rumors that the Carnegie Company de-
sired TO arrange a settlement, and while
this was denied at the Steel Works office
it was credited by a large number OF the
former employees, and they look for I'M
portant developments shortly.
The Master Car and Locomotive Paint
ers' Association of the United States, at
Detroit, has elected the following officers:
President, William o. Quest, Pittsburg;
First VicePresident, w. j. Orr, Roches-
ter, ~ Y; Second Vice-Presdent, W. L.
Leopold. Savannah. Ga. Secretary and
Treasurr, Robert McKeon, Kent, o.
The ten-inch mill of the Elba Iron
Works, at Pittsburg has started up with
nOn-union men, but after making one
heat of tool iron, closed down. A squad
of policemen was on duty at the mill to
protect the men. The strikers have not
made any attempt to interfere with the
men in the mill, and no trouble is appre-
hended.
The conference in Chicago between
Vice-President Robinson, of the Santa
Fe and the grievance committee of the
engineers and fremen terminated III
partial victory for the men. An agree
ment was reached on an increase OF
wages and the reinstatement OF several
discharged employees. Other matters re-
main to be settled.
The National Association of Postal
Clerks, at its final session at st. LOUIS,
has elected these officers: Benjamin Park
hurst, Washington, ID. e.. president;
George A. Plummer. Minneapolis, first
vice-president; Benedict Loevy, st. Louis,
second vice-presdent; 5. f. Fredding,
Fort Smith, Ark, third vice-president; &.
X. Slusser. Denver, secretary, and j. "A.
Lewis, Boston, treasurer.
The Great Council of Red Men of the
United States, at Atlanta, Ga, have
elected the following officers: Great
Prophet, Thomas Donnally, Pennsylya-
MIA; Great Incohonee, Thomas +. Peck
limbaugh. Ohio; Great Senior Sycamore,
Andrew II. Peyton, Massa chusetts; Great
Junior Sycamore, r. T. Daniel, Griffin,
Ga; Great Chief of Records Charles G.
Conley, Philadelphia; Great Keeper of
Wampum, Joseph Pyle, Delaware.
The sixth annual convention of the
county commissioners of Pennsylvania
has been in session in Pittsburg. The fol
lowing officers were chosen ). w. Shaw,
of Westmoreland county, president;
George l.. Mahoney, of Bucks county,
and Thomas ii. Bailey, of Tioga county,
vice-presidents; p w. Sebert, Allegheny;
James NJ. Rogers, Delaware; George 5.
Boone, Lancaster; f. s. McNaul, Clin-
ton, and L. w. Crawford, Lawrence sec
retarles.
The directors of the Western Union
Telegraph Company have passed Il reso-
luton increasing the capital stock $13,-
100000, making the total capital $780,,
100000 This is the first step towards
the division of the surplus, which has
been expected for several years and it
is thought that after the new stock is
formally authorized at the annual meet
ing of stockholders the directors will inn
mediately meet and declare a dividend
The usual quarterly dividend of 1 IA
per cent. was declared.
Orders have been received by the train
masters in charge Of the mining region
branches of the Reading and Lehgh
Railroad Company not to accept any
more empty coal cars from the Pennsyl-
vania Railroad Company at any of the
transfer points. Pennsylvania officials
say they have received no orders from
headquarters, and are offering empty
cars TO the Reading as usual, but they
are not being taken from the transfer
sidings. The Pennsylvania Company, it
is stated, will, by January, 1893, be in
position TO market over double its present
quantity of anthracite coal
In San Francisco Judge Murphy found
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