The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1893-01-11
NEWS NOTES or INTEREST.
ne case of cholera is reported in Ham

| NEW NOTES OF INTEREST.
One case Of cholera is reported In Ham
burg.
Ben Tillett, the labor leader. is on trial
at Bristol, England, for rioting.
Mr. Gladstone. who looked IN good
health, left Biarrltz for London Monday.
Thousands of crows, starving near Har-
rodsburg. KY. are killing sheep and hogs.
Monday was noted in Italy as the four
teenth anniversary OF the death OF Victor
Emanuel.
The international Bricklayers' and Ma
sous Union Is in session at Baltimore,
its birthplace.
Despondent for lack OF work, j. K.
Johnson. OF Shapleigh, Me-, shot himself
at Savannah Ga.
Miss Frances Willard was received pub
licly at Exeter Hall, in London. Monday.
Lady Henry Somerset presided.
Mexican gold prospectors think they
have discovered the lost Aztec mines in
| Sonora, and 1900 men are there.
Michael Rauch ex-supervisor Of West
chester county, New York, who was de-
feated for reelection, has been found
| short Sill.
Because he could not get Mrs. Robert
Hitler. a skirt dancer. to leave her hus-
band, c. II. Gregory, OF Chicago, ILL.,,
shot himself before her.
Disappointed In stage aspirations and
deserted by his lady love, Frank Kimball,
twenty years old, of Lockport, n. Y,
took morphine. but will live.
c. r. Carter. who was convicted at
Mount Vernon, Mo-, six years ago, OF
the murder of Robert Crockett and es-
capped Jail, has just been caught at Port
land, Ore.
Or. Edward L Clark, pastor Of the
Church of the Puritans. 10 west one
Hundred-and-Thirtie street, New YORK,
has withdrawn from the church, because
he desires larger liberty of belief.
Said Abdoui-Akhad, Emir of Bokhara,
in Central Asia is a guest of the Grand
Duke Sergius at Moscow. The Emir has
made costly presents to Sergius and is
being treated with great ceremony and
lodged in the Kremiin.
The absconding cashier OF the Brussels
branch Of the New York Life Insurance
Company was arrested Monday on the
complaint of the manager, who accused
him OF Incorporating money belonging
TO the concern. The cashier confessed.
Simpson Woolsey, CT Highland, Ulster
county, n. Y, while swinging a hammer
in his pocket. The dynamite exploded,
tearing away the flesh on Woolseys leg
and abdomen. He died soon afterward.
The steamship City of Washington ar
rived at New York Monday from Havana
and brought the ship-wrecked crew OF
the George DumOis. consisting Of twenty
men. The Dumois went ashore Deem
Der 18th near Moro Castle. at the en-
trance to the harbor of Havana. and the
crew were taken off with difficulty.
The first big bet on the probable result
Of the Hall Fitzsimmons fight was made
here to-day. Thomas + Harmon. of New
York, bet 81, 900 TO loo that Hail would
beat his cOuntryman. There is any guam
here at the same odds, and IT is expected
that even greater odds Will be offered
when the books open on the Gsht
In no part Of the world are so many
mushrooms raised for the market as in
the vicinity Of Paris, it is said. where
they are cultivated in the long, subter-
ranean quarries which produce the stone
OF which the better houses in Paris are
built, and probably nowhere else is so
much skill and intelligence shown in
the management OF the mushroom beds.
Joseph Wright went to a seance con-
Quoted by Mrs. Elsie Reynolds Monday
night and asked to see his mother. When
a white-robed figure appeared and offered
TO shake hands he jerked it into the
middle OF the room. 1t proved to be
Elsie. She screamed and tainted. Sey-
eral men rushed to her rescue, and in the
melee some one fired a shot. Wright's |
friends rallied around him. and he got |
out of the house with a whole skin.
The present idea that the Oldest univer- |
sty is i'm Europe Is incorrect. The Charles |
ton News and Courier says that in the |
tenth and eleventh centuries the uniyer- |
sty at Fee. Africa, was almost the only |
seat Of Arabic and Christian learning in |
the world. Before universities existed in
Paris. oxford. Cambridge. Padua or
Bologna students focked to Fee from [
Andalusia, France, and even England,
and Fee is to-day the principal Western
seat Of Mohammedan theology.
An English resident i'm New York an
aounces his intention 20 write a pamphlet |
1n Fifth avenue. says the New York
sun. After a study of great cities in all
PARTS of the world, he says that Fifth
avenue is the only street on Garth that
5 representative Of ali y great citys !
'aried interests. Some streets in foreign
titles have handsome private dwellings,
'eautful club houses and snowy retail
hCp but none has all these. together
With churches. great hotels. large retail
Houses and splendid parks. No other that
an show half of these things is one-third
s lOrg as Fifth avenue. The English
mans only sorrow is that his fayOrte
horoughfare has no theatre, but ne looks
or that to come in time.
Bernard Tegethof. the owner Of five
roceries in different parts Of st. Louis,
as lost heavily during the last year by
urglars. He set an immense trap OF
lis own invention a few days ago near
he mOney-drawer in each CT his stores.
| board in the floor was made to give |
'ay with slight pressure and heavy jaws,
He'd with long iron teeth. were TO close
n the victims leg when 1t went through
he floor. The drop was 10 discharge a
pring gun pointed towards the trap
lbert Williams cut his way into the
'Fallon street store about o'clock Mon
ay morning and fell into the trap. The
un missed fire, but two policemen were
nable to take Williams out of the trap
ntil they went for Tegethoff. The teeth
ntered Williams leg TO the bone