Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1893-05-03

Tho German army bill viii be brought up ana
do0ated IN plenary sitting OF the Kcichstag to-
day.
Chicf-Enginecr Henry Stewart. United states
Navy, died yesieuday at his home, in Fhiladel-
pLia; aged 90 years.
The Project OF MarseiIles has suspended for
one month four deputy-mayors. who, while wear
ing their inalgnia ot Office, participated III May
Day demonstrations.
Kcar-Admiral Belknap and the Naval Board
Of Inspection aud Survey yesterday, AZ Phila-
dolphin. made their mai inspection Of the bot
tom of the cruiser New York before the vessel
government tual trip.
John Henderson, an Atlanta grocer, COM
mittcd suicide last night by hanging himself 20
a dOOr-kuub IN ms room. He TOOK iOur-sack,
tied 10 alout his neck and To the dOOr-knOb
threw his body forward and was stranglcd TO
death.
Yesterday, some fourteen miles west Of Van
dalia, H., Mrs. Elizabeth Harper, the wife OF
wealthy farmer. cut the throat OF her daughter
Alice, aged l6, with a razor, and thcn cut her
own throat with the same weapon. She was
insane.
George {. BENEFITS pOU-rOOm, across the
river from Memphis, was raiied yesterday by
officers OF Critjenden county. ARK. The pro-
prietors were arrested. gave bond, and VIII be
iried saturday. The case viii he contested at
length.
Great excitement prevails at Lithia Springs,
Ga, over the finding OF the dead body Of W. IA.
AriNNer. a prominent flAiAfH HNlhE utol tutits
with nullet-hole through the head. The man
r. believed 20 nave been murdered for the pur-
pose OF robbery.
The Simpsons Undergrad at HUI, Eng, was
burnei yesterday, and there is little doubt that
the IRE was lncondiary ihc simpsons refused
recently % contribute 70 a fund OF the unlonist
q r-krrs and were warned by letter that they
,,oull Do made to sufer Tor their refusal
The Atlanta and Florida railroad was sold at
public auction yesterday In Atlanta on Deti-
ton Of tho npuOller-General for taxes due
tho state. IL whs bid IN by Judge IL. H. 1Ompkins,
rcpreseutiug the Central Trust Company. for
the bondhcldcrs, who Will reOrganize the road at
once.
The Kansas Supreme Court handed down lis
decision Yesterday In the case OF the state IS.
". VI. Mitchell and George Il. Anthony. Mbea
the now POpulst administration went III inc
Executive Council removed Mitchell and An
thony a. railroad commissioners. Ihcy refused
TO surrender their onices on the ground that
they were elected for three years. suit was IN
stitutcd TO Tcmoyc them, and judgment OF
custer was rendered.
The French Ministry received q rebuff IN the
Chamber oi Deputies yesterday. Nj. Yves
Guyot, Deputy Tor tue seine, moved urgency for
n motion In favor - tho abolition OF ,hc OctrOi
duty collected on articles % food etc, brought
into towns. and notwithstanding the fact that VI.
DIpuy. tho Premier, opposed inc motion ioI
urgency on tie ground that the proposal hhd
not been mat4rcly considered, the motion Was
carried by a yotO of - 10 H4O. Before tnc Dc
putes assembled 10 was known that the govern
inent would DO interpcllated "a 70 the ar esi oil
Deputy Eugene Bauldin NJ the Place de la Re-
pubilque. rho galleries were crowded. Inc
debate which followed tho Interpolation
was exceptionally animated. PreWier Dupuy
raid that the government accepted full RESPONSE
ldlity for the arrest and that the Ministers were
determined 20 maintain order ana PUNISH IN
citcrs OF disOrder. whoever they might De. hc
demanded the orde- Of tho day, which was car
ned by n vote OF $40 20 loo. Among the specia-
TORS IN the galleries Was Hon. James Il. Eustls,
United states Ambassador 70 Frauce.