Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1893-04-09

1 WIFI ItItftUCt W lOauS utEOtlhltu OJ tnt
| Central Railroad of Georgia and it's plan
| of reorganization having created an i'm
precision that new or additional loans bad
been effected, It Is proper to state that
| Receiver Corners report shows that no
\ new loans were secured, but that existing
loans were considered aggregating s5,19I.-
269.
A special from Deadwood. 8. D., says:
A terrible wInd-storm has prevailed hero
for the past forty-eight hours. Telegraph
| and telephone are Frustrated. Many
buildings have been blown down and
/ others unroofed. Piedmont Is partially
/ destroyed. All trains are tied up. The
| velocity Of the wind is seventy-five miles
per hour. The damage cannot be esti-
mated.
| A train on the Louisville. New Albany
and Chicago line which left Cincinnati at
/ 9:15 +. NJ, Friday met with an accident
near Frankfort. Ind, yesterday afternoon.
| The engine crashed through bridge 60
| ing down thirty feet. and the engineer
was killed and the fireman hurt, mortally,
it Is supposed. No passengers we're in
jured. as the coaches and sleepers did not
leave the track.
The case of the Central Trust Company,
of New York, in regard to the application
filed by that company for the appoint
North Georgia railroad. naming Elias Sum-
merfield as the person they desired Sc
lected, was taken up by Judge Newman,
of the United States Court. in Atlanta yes
terday. The case. however. was carried
over until next Saturday.
special from Sparta. Tenn, SAYS: This
vicinity has suffered from electrical storms
TO a great extent during the past few days.
Yesterday the dwelling of Alonzo Burgess
was struck by lightning and torn into
splnters. Burgess's wife was struck and
had one eye burned out and toe, torn of.
Her body was terribly burned and she can
not recover. Two other houses were de-
stroyed IN like manner. and several people
were shocked.
At Pittsburg, Pa. the stockholders. di-
rectors, and prOprietors of Sunday news
papers and Monday-mornlng papers that
do any work before midnight Sunday are
to be made defendants in suits involving
the usual charges preferred by the Law
and-Order Society of the city named.
Agent Mcclure, of the society, says there
are about 100 warrants. more or less.
against such people. Friday G. ". Hous-
ton, business manager of an afternoon
daily. was fined S25 each on three counts
charging him with Sabbath dessoration.
At 9 o'clock Friday night r. b. Cable,
IOTIlfIIN EtutIul luhutEtI anu ltlfI TO-
ceiVer of the Jacksonville, Tampa and Key
West Railroad Company. appeared at the
general offices of the company in Jackson
vile. Fla. accompanied by his attorneys
and associates, and made a formal demand
on Receiver Young for possession under an
order from Judge Pardee, OF the United
States Court. Mr. Young declined pro
lorna to surrender the company's pro-
perty, but Immediately thereafter acQui-
-. I,o nr1ar aud fnrpa1
the property under formal protest.
1t was developed yesterday that the
amount of paper forged by William Rom
sheim. of Cincinnati, clothler, will be fully
SIPS. 900. and the indications are that 1t
may go much higher. The creditors will
be called together next week by Assignee
Shoder looking to q probable compromise
of the claims against the assigned firm.
There is little probability of any prosecu-
tons growing out Of the case. 1t is under
stood that the Ronsheims and Aubs, who
are wealthy. propose to submit compro-
mise proposition 10 the holders of Ron
sheim's paper, aud 1t IS probable that
33H per cent. basis of settlement may be
effected.
A petition filed by John Byrne and
Others, of New York. to postpone the sale
of the Chattanooga Southern railroad.
which was to have taken place in Atlanta
the first Monday in May, was denied by
Judge Newman yesterday, but the sale of
the road was postponed nevertheless. 1t
appears that the new law Just passed by
Congress directs that the road shall be
advertised and sold in one of the coun-
ties it traverses. Judge Newman there
fore issued an order postpOning the sale
until it can be readvertised and named
the place of sale as Gadsden, Ala. no date
being named, as that is left with the CON-
missioner.
Yesterday Judge James s. Boynton, Of
Griffin. Ga, sent IN TO Governor Northen
his resignation as Judge of the Superior
Court of the First Circuit. giving no reason
for his resignation, bnt asking that II be
accepted Immediately. Governor Northeu
accepted the resignation, and a. the court
Is now IN session. appointed John Hunt,
of Griffin, TO succeed Judge Boynton. The
resignation. it is understood, was to per-
nit Judge BovntOn 20 accept position as
attorney Of the Central Railroad system,
forming partnership with Judge John |.
Hall, recently appointed Assistant Attor-
ney-General for the Interior Department
ut Washington.
1t is now stated that the Sunday-news-
paper proprietors of Pittsburg, Pa, arc
determined that the blue laws" shall
be one-sided no longer. 1t is the inten-
llOu 10 uuNt lut laws VI litt tuiOINtu "
their fullest extent. and this will create
such a sentiment that the Legislature will
be glad to repeal them. All tractIon-cars,
steam railroads. inclined planes. ferry
boats. etc.. will be stopped by prosecution
of the owners. Some of the gentlemen
who have been the most bitter opponents
of Sunday papers are heavy stockholders
in dozen or more enterprises which Will
be affected by tho move. This action IL
the result Of the prosecution Of the Sun
day-newspaper proprietors last week.
All the mechanics in the employ Of tho
Atchison, Topeka and Sante Fe system,
including its leased lines. struck at l
O'Clock yesterday afternoon on the up
pearauce of n preconcerted signal. Mes
sages to headquarters at Topeka report
the strike general from Chicago TO Cali
fornia and Galveston. II IS said that the
firomen and Others will strike later. The
demands OF the men are that their paw
shall be increased Is cents q day and that
inexperienced men who get less than regu-
lar rates shall not be required to do the
work OF Skilled men. The men also ask
that when the company deems 1t neces-
sary 10 reduce expenses gangs of men be
not discharged or laid of, but that the
hours of work be reduced.
Secretary Hoke Smith has received
ueIdlleu repOT rom lnulan-Agent Bennett
on the preSenO )uoles between the fac
lions of the Choct6ws. In brief it asserts
that Governor Jones and his so-called mi
litia are simply endeayoring to wreak pri-
vate vengeance upon political and per-
sonal enemies under cover OF official posi-
ton; that right and good morals are upon
the side of Locke that there is no likeli-
hood of peaceable settlement of the ex-
lstlng difficulty by themselves. and to
avert a tragedy that will discredlt hui
manlty 1t will be necessary TO place the
Choctaw Nation under martial law. Sec
rotary Smith, acting under the authority
of the treaty of 1865, which provides that
"the United States shall protect the Choc-
taws and Chickasaws from domestic
STRIFE" has requested the Secretary of War
10 at once send a detachment of troops to
the scene of the threatened trouble to
MAINTAIN the peace and protect life and
property.
Judge Emory Speer rendered decision
in the United States Cir cult Court at Ma
con. Ga, yesterday upon the petition
brought by members of I'll e Brotherhood
of Locomotive Engineers, through Hon.
II. W. Patterson. OF the Macon bar, pray
ing the court TO carry out the contract
with the brotherhood which was in force
when the receiver was appointed for the
Georgia Central railroad. The Judge,
among other things. says: 80
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