Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1893-12-15
Yesterday by Wire.


The Bishop Of Cork was elected Primate
Of Ireland.
Vlcar-General McCabe. of Woonsocket,
r. L. was found dead in bed
There are 10000 cases of influenza In
the province OF Rhine Hesse, Germany.
The London Lancet says the influenza
Is increasing in virulence in Great Bri-
tain.
The German Reichstag. by large ma
iority. adopted the commercial treaty
with Spain.
The expected message from the Presi.
dent upon Hawaiian affairs was not sent
TO Congress.
A dispatch from Buenos Ayres said that
President Peixoto has issued "A decree de-
carng Admiral Da Cana traitor.
The private banking firm OF II. Patrick
&. Son. Pittsburg. Pa, suspended business
on account of inability to realize on as
sets.
NJ Cremieux, the lawyer who under
took the defence Of Auguste valiant. the
Paris bomb-thrower, has given up the
case.
Hav.~''o Minister Thurston took pas.
sage on the steamer Alameda and viii
sail for Honolulu at 2 o'clock this after
noon.
The Rev. Vernon NJ. Olyphant, 33 years
old. committed suicide at No. 100 Madi-
son avenue. New York, by shooting NM
self through the head.
David Waulkerman chief engineer OF
the Allegheny County Light Company.
Pittsburg Pa. was instantly killed by
an electric shock yesterday morning.
President Lyman resigned the .presl-
dency Of the Civil-Seryice Commission.
though not his commissionership. and was
succeeded as president by Commissioners
Proctor.
The Paris authorities are convinced that
Auguste Valiant, the bomb-thrower, had
| m accompliCe. and they have reason TO
fear that fresh explosions Will be at
tempted.
The Farmers Congress at Savannah
! the two officers for Virginia and North
Carolina, being respectively j. ID. Watkins
| and J. s. Cunningham.
BY direction of the President, Secretary
| Carlisle requested the designations OF
| twenty Republican otfice-holders, including
the Collectors of Customs at Petersburg,
| Va, and Newberne. y. G.
The Augusta exposition closed at mid
night. after thirty days Of most success
ful continuance. Many Of the exhibits
| and special attractions will go to the Mid
winter Exposition at San Francisco
Houston Tennant. aged ) years. and his
mother. Mrs. Gilbert G. Tenant, were
| knocked uONIl anu run ONti ny All tltt-
| tric-caT on Broadway, Augusta, Ca, the
| boy being killed outright and the lady Sc
| riously Injured.
Joseph Chamberlain, leader of the Brit
| ish Ldberal-UniOnists, spoke at Braintre1
| saying Home Rule wd5 the sole aim or
| the government British Legislation belng
| merely a counter with Whlch Gladstone
hoped 70 win the game.
The Brazilian minister at Washington
! received advices announcing the arrival
| Of the cruiser NictherOy off the coast OF
Brazil last Tuesday. The American, which
! met with an accident, was obliged to re-
| main in the West Indies for repairs.
Nolan and Meara, who were detained 70
| testify at the secret inquiry into the Dub
| lin dynamite plots, were arrested on the
| charge of having murdered Patrick Reid,
! who was shot dead soon after the expO-
slves were found at the Aldborough bar
| racks.
The block at the corner of Clinton
| and Main streets. Buffalo, n. ", known
az the Arcade. was destroyed by fire, and
| Robinson's Musee Theatre and shea 5
| Concert Hall. the latter building the finest
| between New York and Chicago, are also
| IN ruins Total loss N,NOVO.
Gerhardt Hauptmann's Poor Souls"
was PLAYED at the Park Theatre, Brus-
| saIs and all the parts OF IL tinged with
| Radicalism or Socialism were applauded
| loudly by the galleries, while near the
| end of the play n bundle OF Anarchist
pamphlets was thrown from the gallery
The Paris Police learned that the letter
] sent by Valiant TO Paul Reclus shortly
/ before the explosion in the Chamber OF
| DEPUTIES was the bomb-thrower's last VIII
| and testament. which was To be given 10
| the newspapers in the event OF valiant :
| death. Reclus sent the paper to England
| for safe-keeping.
Gabriel Deville. the Paris Socialist
| writer. who challeng 'd Jonnart, Fre1cn
Minister OF Public Works for accusing
| him OF advising the use of dynamite, has
| written o. vigorous letter to his seconds
| concerning Jonnarts refusal TO fight or
retract. and abuses the minister roundly
as a slanderer and coward.
The steamer Turkish Prince reached
| New York from PernambucO, and re-
ported that on November 22d, when she
| left that port. the place was In a state
OF suppressed excitement, and an out
break was expected at any moment, the
| CITY having been under martial law and
many arrests of Nello sympathizers hav-
| ing been made.
Thomas L. Thompson, United states
Minister to Brazil, announces that What'
ever other nations may do at kio, tne
| United States will protect their com
| merce from all encroachments or the IN
! surgent naval vessels, the action OF tnt
| representatives OF other nations In with,
| drawing the protection formerly anordeh
| 10 the merchantmen by their naval YES
| sells being construed as an attempt CO.
| verify TO aid the insurgents In their efforts
| to restore the monarchy
In the British House OF Commons Her
| bert Knatchbull Hugessen, Independent
| Conservative member for the Northeast
| Division OF Kent. asked the government
| whether the Anarchists expelled from
France would be allowed TO come 10 Eng
| land. and N they could not lawfully be
prevented, whether the government would
bring In a measure TO save the country
! from becoming a refuge for the ayowed
! advocates OF ASSASSINATION, and Herbert
/ Asalith the Home Secretary, replied that
| the existing DAVIS did not provide for the
prevention OF the landing In England OF
| Anarchists. and that the government was
not prepared 10 alter the laws.