The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1892-07-24
,rws NOTES or ISrEREsT.

shone county, luhnO, tho poon" ,.1 ri
Tklene mining troubles, was remo'eu IL
= a. bv the military authorities.
IT. steamship Miranda, with food and
-,lt.hjr9 Tor the suiferers ut 81. Johns, New
Sspao"ndjand who were left destitute by tho
f,s sailed from BROOKLYN FRIDAY.
En-, uorkmsn were asphyxiated Ia vat
=. 7 oris Huck IL Sons tannery. In Cnicago,
az tTbursday, and three died. The recovery
- .he fourth il said to be doubtful.
A meeting of freight agents at ST.
r a.';a on THURSDAY il was agreed that all
Ill frsioht rates TO the East should be cut
ia ,ar meet tbs tariff from Chicago by way OF
rail and lake.
A., orcan,zed effort Is being made in New
O,laans 10 enforce the Sunday closing law.
THE sunday Rest League and the American
Federation Of Labor have united 10 accom-
plish this object
The cases of smallpox at Block Island
have caused that popular resort 20 be almost
entirely deserted. Tho cases Oh the disease
were not serious, and all the pauentS na'e
been carefully isolated.
The Clerks Association Of East st. LOUIS
has agreed to boycott all merchants Keep
;ng their places Of business open on Sun
Law They are assisted by the Knights OF
Labor and all other labor organizations.
The Pennsylvsnia Company have made
o,t In passenger rates between Louisville
Cbicaeo. and the Louisville and Nashville
has announced reduction IN the rate lot
ronnd trip tickets between Louisville and
New York.
General Weaver says there is absolutely no
truth in the report that he has in his posses
sion letter from General Adlai stevenson
which. if given 10 the public. would prove
very embarrassing TO the Democratic Vice
Presidential candidate.
Two prisoners, one a white man and the
other a negro. escaped from BiackwePs
island, New York, Friday. They jumped
into the East river, intending TO swim to
the Long Island City side. The negro was
drowned, but the white man reached the
shore safely.
A conference of the Wrought Iron. Pipe
and Boiler Tube Manufacturers Of the
United States was held in New York Thurs
day 10 consider a crisis In the business.
This is said 10 be due to oyerprOduction and
a falling of in the demand, owing 10 the
failure of the natural gas supply.
James Hupsinser. a desperate moonshiner,
was captured in the wilds of Sullivan
county, Pa. on Thursday night, with oil his
stills and worms and 400 gallons OF illicitly
distilled whisky. The man was fortified in
his home and was captured with three load
Oh guns, which he was firing into tie dark
moss.
A ST. Louis dispatch says an agent Of Car
negie, Phipps n 90. is in that city hunting
for men 10 work nj Homestead, and that the
wages offered were from 10 to 30 per cent.
per day higher than the strikers were re-
oeiying at the time of the lockout IL Is
reported In a dispatch from Boston that
similar efforts are being made there.
1t is thought at ST. louis that the 5000
members of the Amalgamated Association
employed in the mills in and around that
city, who have been out on a strike since
July lot on account Of the failure or refusal
OF the mill owners 20 sign the scale. will re-
turn 10 work within the next week or two
Ii is believed the companies will sign the
scale.
A prominent Canadian official says that
sooner or later IL will be seen that the Ameri-
can policy Is much broader than the mere
question Of canal tolls comprehending O. the
ultimate object the right Of navigation, not
only through the Melland canal but the
entire ST. Lawrence system. equality with
British subjects. and under an unlimited
guarantee.
The famous Mvra Clark Gaines case
against the city Of Now Orleans will be def
nitely settled in cash IN full by the city and
the Gaines estate wound up. The case,
which was before the courts for forty years,
ended in judgment more than year ago,
the amount being reduced from <5,O00,090
10 about 900 900. The Gaines heirs will be
paid $500, 600 in cash on August lst.
Twelve persons were poisoned Wednes-
dav at the Cable House, trading hotel at
Salisbury Beach, Massachusetts. Mrs. Davis
Webster, sged seventy three years. and Mrs.
William b. Ssnborn, aged fOrty-siX, proml-
nent women from Haverhill. are dead, while
the ten others, including John Montgomery,
the landlord OF the hotel. are seriously Ill,
With little hope of their recovery.
Indiana is undoubtedly being colonized
By the Republicans With negroes from Ohio
and Kentucky. For twenty days squads OF
negroes, numbering from fifteen to twenty
five each, have been going over the Ohio
and Mississippi railway 20 Bedford and other
points In that State under pretense that they
are going to work on new RAILROAD. They
are esperate-lookiDg set. and each squad
il under the control of q skilled laborer.
The Dominion Government has replied
ia the affirmative 10 An inquiry from the
United States as 10 whether II WAS under
stood by the Canadian authorities that un-
der the terms OF the bill passed by the
House Of Commons at the last session the
principle OF reciprocity IL wrechng and
towing OF vessels II either natlOnalalitios IN
waters Of the other extended to the canal
system.
Upon au attempt by sheriff officers to at
tacb a circus az PhmniX, OsweRo county,
n. Y. on Thursday night, on suit for dam
ages 90 q canal boat, the circus men opened
fire on the officers and a riot followed, IN
which an officer named Gaher and one Of
the circus men were dangerously wounded.
The officers were driven of. but the affair
attracted large number Of villagers, who
oyerpoWered the circus men and dragged
twelve OF them to the village lookup.
Sitting Bull. Jr., Of the Cheyenne tribe in
Northern Dakota. who came among the
Indians Of the Indian Territory year ago
M the prophet Of the coming Messiah. has
left the Comanohe tribe TO return 70 his
Northern home The Comanches gave a
tribe dance in his honor before he left.
Young Bull has found the prophet business
very profitable He was presented with 100
| horses. 600 head of cattle and nearly car
| load Of blankets and costly trinkets. lie
married two of tho Comanche girls, although
already having four wives in Dakota.
When Dir. Cleveland and Mr.. Sbeehan
/ met az the Fifth Avenue about noon Thurs
| day the former pressed the young leader TO
come and see him again. So far as could be
| asoertained the two did not come together a
second time before the Bufalonian departed
| for his home. II is reported that ex-Assen-
| blyman James Oliver made this prediction;
The State committee meets August 3th. IL
viii name d campaign caInmlttee. Murphy
and Sheehan will DO at the helm aud SEN
ator Hill will be on the stump for the ticket
| before September II not earlier
jaw Gould. DR.. Mum, his physician, and
| Misses Helen aud Anna Gould walked TO
| the HALEY Hot Springs, near Boise. Idaho,
| Friday, and took a bath and lunch, after