Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1893-01-21
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General News Notes.
PrTrsBuRG, PA, January 20.-The jury in
the Dempsey case found the defendant
guilty, as indicted.
WASHINGTON, January 2i.-At 2 o'clock
this morning there - no change to De
noted in or about the Blaine mansion.
H,RRIspURG. Pa, January 2O.-The cost
OF the Homestead riot to the State was
S434. SIG. of which S3i7. 053 was the indi-
vidual pay of the troops.
BIRMINGHAM. ALA. January 20.-John II.
Thrasher. aged 10. O well-to-do and re-
snected citizen of Florence. Ala, shielded
to-day, hanging himself IN his stable. No
cause.
BosTox. January 2O.-The steamer City
OF Macon. from Boston TO Savannah. which
went ashore this forenoon on the east end
of Squash Meadow. later came of all
right and proceeded.
PENSACOLA. Fla, January 20.-The Fish
ermen's Protective Association of this
city, ia order TO get better remuneration
for their labor. have struck for higher
prices from the shippers OF fish from this
place.
NEw ORLEANS, January pa special
from Aberdeen, Miss. says the government
Thermometer there this morning registered
% degrees below zero. the coolest wea-
Their experienced here in many years. The
ground Is covered with ten inches of snow.
CLEVELAND. o., January 20.-President-
elect Cleveland passed through this CITY NJ
1880 O'clock this morning en- route for Ere
mont. HIS tram wes an hour and a hall
late. and there was no demonstration MT
the station, few persons beside the train
men being present.
New YoBs, January 20.-'Ths sub-Trea-
sury being closed to-day. gold will not DC
Withdrawn until tomorrow. The follow
ing is a list OF the expected shipments;
Lazard Freres. Sl,500,000; Heldelback.
Ichelheimer Il Co, 81 100000; l.. Van Holt
man d Co, $500. 900, and Ladenburg. Thai
man & Co., SJOJ,OOJ. Total, S3,OOO,OO0.
OR1L1IA. Oy7., January 2O.-Jake Can
daur has issued challenge to any man in
the world to row for the championship OF
America anv distance from quarter OF
mile 10 three miles. lie will row for o
stake Of 81 600 to $500 side, and unless
his challenge Is accepted he will claim and
be prepared TO defend the title OF Cham
pion Of America.
New York, January 20.-It is learned
that the New York stockholders OF the
Central Railway and Banking Company OF
Georgia will appoint q committee for tho
purpose Of defeating the proposed plan OF
REORGANIZATION of that company. Ii II
said also that foreign holders OF the bonds
of the Georgia company will direct their
trustees, the Central Trust Company, 10
oppose the scheme.
SAN FR4vCisCo, January 20.-Mrs. Phoebe
Hurst. widow Of the California senator
and millionaire, denied last evening that
ehe was engaged to marry Senator Faulk-
ner. or, In tact, any one. she added that
she did not know the West Virginia states
man. She did not understand how the re-
port could have originated and added that
similar stories made her wish sometimes
that she were a man long enough to punish
their authors.
BALrIuoRs. January 20.-Rey. Henry
Sargent, of the Protestant Episcopal Or
der of the Holy Cross. who ministered to
the four colored men who we're hanged at
Chestertown ON Friday last for the murder
OF DIR. Hill, at Milington, writes to say
that he did not reveal any part of the
general confession which thev made to
him III preparing for death. He also OPP
poses the publicity of hangings, as at
Chestertown.
CHARLESTON. s. c., January 2O.-Charles.
ton Is completely cut OF to-day from all
Geographic communication North ana
West. The only connections possible are
with Savannah and Jacksonville. The
Western Union wires are down from Flo
renee to Charleston, lOs miles, and TOR
miles along the South Carolina road. Re-
ports from the State show that South
Carolina has not had such severe weather
for forty years.
COLUMBIA. $. c., January 20.-Governor
Tillman has entered into an agreement
with the Baltimore Trust and Guarantee
Company to purchase S200O.000 worth of
AZ per cent. South Carolina State bonds ut
par, the uducement offered being $4,000,
the amount Of interest on the bonds from
January /. 1593 to July l. 1898. The State
Supreme Court yesterday decided that the
Governor had a right 10 pay six months
interest as bonus.
WASHINGTON, January 2O.-TLe condition
Of the Potomac river at the national capl-
tai occasions considerable alarm. Nayi-
cation is entirely suspended; the Norfolk
steamers. the last to force a passage
through the ice. tied up few days ago.
Ice has formed TO an unprecedented thick
ness, and az the bluffs of the upper Poto-
mac are heavily coated with snow 1t is
feared that sudden thaw will bank up
the driit-ice against tho Long bridge-that
long-tolerated obstructloD-and flood the
gress to-day appropriated $4,000 to break
up the ice and prevent gorge.
CHICAGO, Ill. January 20-Attorney W.
s. Forrest at 1915 this morning received
from Ottawa the official order Of the Su-
preme Court reversing the decision Of the
lower court in the COughln case. He will
go into Judge McConnell's court with the
order and secure from the court an order
formally redocketing the case in the
Criminal Court of Cook county. This will
be done as a matter of course. and nit
timus will be issued TO the sheriff for pos
session of Daniel Coughlin. The sheriff
will then send deputy TO Joliet. probably
this afternoon or evening, and Coughlin
will be brought to Chicago and given his
old quarters in the county Jail until his
case is retired.
BALTIMORE, January 20.-A special COM
missioner of the Baltimore Sun has made
the trip over the ice from Franklin City,
Va, TO Chincoteague Island, about seven
and one half miles from the former place.
and separated from the mainland by Chin
colleague Bay. The island is cut of from
the outside world. Ii has population of
1000. The main industry Is the cultiva-
ton of oysters. The cold weather has
closed up the water, the men are idle and
the harbor is lined with vessels covered
with snow, while their decks are
piled high with ice. forced on board
by the shifting winds and strong current.
The coal supply IS exhausted. The store
keepers have agreed TO sell only fifteen
pounds of -four to each customer q day.
but at this allowance it is impossible for
the supply 10 hold out longer than Mon
day. Those who have cattle or hogs have
already begun to slaughter them. Be-
sides the trials caused by the cold weather