The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1892-07-08
NEWS NOTES OF INTEREST.
The old Liberty Bell will be taken to tn
Chicago Fair.


Chicago Fair
Twenty inches Of water cover the Illinois
Central tracks in louisiana.
The Treasury Department Wednesday pur-
chased $50 900 ounces OF silver.
II is reported that the Grand Army Posts
gave the strikers at Homestead thep mus
kets.
The strike of the Pittsburg iron men will
not interfere with the completion OF tue
Worlds Fair buildings.
The Confederate veterans of Missouri have
agreed to observe the first "Wednesday Of
June as Confederate memorial day.
The Union steamship line, running be-
tween Portland, Ore. and the Orient, Will
be discontinued.
No action will be taken by President Harri-
son in regard to the international Monetary
Conference until after his return from the
Adlrondacks.
The conference held at Pittsburg Wednesday
between the representatives OF the Amalgs-
mated Association and the iron and steel
manufacturers transacted no business.
John W. Hobart. formerly one Of the
weathiest and most successful brokers III
Wall street. died at the Essex county n. j.
Insane Asylum on the night Of July 4th.
The strike of the 500 shopmen of the Cotton
Belt railroad at Pine Bluff, Arkansas, has
man whose discharge preciptated the trou-
ble.
A torpedo. about twenty feet long. was
washed ashore at Bedloe's Island, New York
harbor. Wednesday. The Government Off
Gals are puzzled to know where the missile
came from.
John A. Messick, who enlisted in the Union
army when he was eight years old, died Tues
day in Evansville, Ind. He served three
years as a drummer and was then hOnorably
discharged.
The Maryland peach crop this year will be
very light. According to the growers the
crop Of Kent county will not be more than
10000 baskets of peaches this year. Last year
it was over 1850, 900 baskets.
Baron de Steurs has withdrawn his appear
ance IN his own appeal entered IN the courts
Of South Dakota on the issuance OF decree
in the divorce suit of his wife, who. shortly
after the decree was granted, was married TO
Eliot Zborowski. of New York
A rumor pervades political circles at At
lantic City. where many distinguished Re-
publcans are now sojourning. that ex- nited
States Senator Sewell will take the chairman
ship of the Republican national committee.
IL is said that the place IS being urged persls-
tently on General Sewell.
The third annual meeting Of the Central
Conference of the Association Of American
Rabbis was held Wednesday evening IN the
Temple BETHEL. Fifth avenue and Seventy
sixth street. New York. About two hundred
rabbis were present and Rabbi Isaac NJ. Wise,
of Cincinnati, was chosen permanent chair
man.
II. @. Payne. of Milwaukee. Wis. still re-
fuses TO accept the chairmanshlp OF the
national Republican committee, but Is
anxious 70 have Senator Sawyer elected TO
the place. TO accomplish this he Is willing 10
f.s~ f.f
the Senator.
Had it been possible for him 10 cancel the
arrangements for the Loon Lake trip without
risking serious effect on Mrs Harrison by
informing her of the gravity Of the trouble,
the President would have done So 30 great Is
his anxiety with reference 10 the strike at
Homestead.
Cyrus w. Field was busily engaged all Tues
day night vainly trying IN delirium to relay
the Atlantic cable. Members Of his family
had retired shortly after midnight. but within
an hour they were reused by the loud cries OF
the sick man. Stop the boat Stop the
boat cried he. The works are all wrong
The steamer Otranto. at Boston from Ant
werp. reports that on June 22d. p. NJ. lati-
tude 1890 north. longitude ID. 10 west, she
passed vessel of about $50 tons, bottom up;
She was apparently newly coppered and had
been but q short time in a dereiict condition.
vicinity of the wreck.
The Presidents wife is said to be very sick.
Those who saw her on her passage through
New York for the first time since she WAS
taken i'll were shocked at her pale face and
emaciated figure and her tottering steps as
she walked to the waiting carriage. The
President supported her very carefully. and
Mrs Harrison did her best 10 make brave
show Of returning strength.
Richard Croker has written TO W. j. West
lake. president Of the Portage Cleveland and
Stevenson Club that Tammany Hall will, at
the ensuing election. prove her devotion 10
Democratic principles by the steady support
which she will give TO Cleveland and Ste
venson. and which will be the means or plac-
ING them in the White House March 4th.
next
The PHILADELPHIA citizens Russian relief
committee was advised Wednesday by Messrs
Francis Il. Reeves and Rudolph Blanken-
burg. of New York, that there was likely to
be another famine in Russia next year. IL
was determined 10 place the $4,000 received
from the United Singers as the proceeds OK
their concert in reserve fund 70 meet such
emergencies
The indianapolis express going south at
fftv miles an hour ran into an open switch
mile south OF Hamilton on the Cincinnati
Hamilton and Dayton railway Wednesday
evening and plowed through five empty
freight cars on a siding. The engine was de-
moiished and the passengers were badly
shaken up. The switch had been thrown
open by some person unknown for the pur-
pose of wreckng the train.
The London News. referring TO the cut
break at the Carnegie Iron Works at Home
stead saws that the trouble is due 10 the curse
of protection: that the large iron and steel IN.
dustries i'm America have enjoyed the full
benefit OF the Mckinley tariff. and yet wages
have gone down, and that 1t IS mere Juggle
with words to say that the tariff has nothing
10 do with the matter.
Representative Hemphill. of South Caro-
lima. who has Just returned 10 Washington
from a visit 10 his own State. says: There Is
not the slightest prospect of South Carolina
breaking away from the Democratic column.
and the Third party ticket will cut no figure
fn the coming election as far as the Palmetto
State is concerned.
At the closing session Of the Peoples Party
Convention in Omaha on Tuesday evening
resolutions were adopted urging that every
PEOPLES party club and labor organization in
the country shall meet on July 24th 10 col
lect campaign funds and meet again on Au-
gust 10th for the same purpose. Campaign
funds we're established and the public urged
TO contribute TO them. An appeal was made
TO the women of the country 10 assist IN the
work.
The forty stockmen and hired Texans
,rl, rai1ad Iohnaon county Wyoming IN