Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1893-01-06
r.lacrams Roiled Down.

Telegrams Boiled Down.
Both Senator Kenna and Mr.. Blaine were
reported better yesterday.
The United States ship Essex has COM
pleted her three years cruise in South
American waters and has been ordered
home.
The President Yesterday nominated
Captain William L. Sampson, United
States Navy, to be Chief of the Bureau
of Ordnance.
II is learned that within the next few
days the President will issue an order ex-
tending the civil-service law and rules TO
the letter-carriers at oil f:ee-delivery post
Offices.
Horacio Guzman the Nicaraguan Minis
ter to the United States, emphatlcally con-
| tradlcts the statement called from Pana-
ma that there is danger of an outbreak OF
| hOstiities between Costa Rica and Nlcara-
qua on the boundary question.
The President has approved bills provid-
| ing for the removal of the remains of the
| late Ensign ID. +. Terrell, United States
! Navy, from Sltka. Alaska, to his homo. in
Nississppi, and for the relief of the Old
! Dominion Steamship Company.
The Nebraska House of Representatives
| is ready TO canvass the vote on state OIL
| GERS, and can do nothing until that order
| OF business is finished. The Senate re-
mains in a deadlock. and ii is impossible
; to tell when the vote can be canvassed
! The Carnegie mills Mt Homestead, Pa,
| are again at work and running full IN every
/ department. The halls of the main Office
| of the establishment were crowded all day
Yesterday with men in search of employ
ment, aud most of them got what they de-
! sired.
The Colorado Senate is in deadlock
over permanent officers. No effort was
made in the House by the Fusonists yes
! terday to break tho Republican ranks.
| Upon all questions the vote stood 80 to 81,
and in that order the business WAS trans
acted.
The striking telegraphers on the Rock
| Island road have thrown no their hands
and admitted that they are thoroughly
| beaten. The strike was officially declared
| of by Psst-Grand-Chie Thurston. OF tho
Order OF Railway Telegraphers. at 10 o'clock
! yesterday morning.
! The trial trip of the new ooast-defender
| Monterey at San Francisco Yesterday was
very successful. Hasty estimates make
| the horsepower developed 54.52 and the
/ speed over AZ knots. The maximum
revolutions were l6S per minute, and the
average 1862. The machinery worked splen-
! didly.
The Secretary of the Treasury at Wash
| ington Yesterday sent to the House COM
munication from Secretary Tracy recon-
/ mendiug an appropriation OF 100000 20
pay the expenses of the proposed naval
rendezvous and review in connection with
the opening of the Worlds Fair.
!. b. White. one of the leading mer-
chants of Georgia, purchased yesterday
about hundred feet front on Broad
street, Augusta, and there be Will bIild
the most elaborate and improved theatre
in the South, following the best features
of the Globe Theatre of Boston and tho
Royal Theatre Of London.
Congressman Culberson, of Texas,
chairman of the Judiciary Committee of
the House, has prepared a silver bill IN tho
| nature of q compromise which he will In
| troduce 1t requires the coinage and uso
! As an asset of the accumulated silver bull
lion now in the Treasury. The present
law is repealed, and the Bland law re-en-
acted.
The rumors that a recent trial in the Pa
cfc of the United States ship Ranger to
| test her seaworthlness was unsatisfactory
are partly verified at the Navy Depart
ment in Washington. 10 Is said that the
vessels engines jumped, ratified, and
thumped on the trip to such an extent
that il was decided TO abandon steam and
return TO port under sail.
Elections of county off GERS were held
throughout Georgia yesterday. and In
some cases party feeling between Demo-
Gratis and 1hird-party people ran high.
| Several small fights are reported, with moro
| or less sensational details, but the most
serious trouble was at Miners Store, near
fayetteville. At that place Webster Cox
(Populist) was killed by W. S, Miner.
Both men bore good regulations.
Archbishop Ireland, OF st. Paul, Mimi.
| in an interview yesterday declared en-
phatically that the alleged encycllcal letter
! going the rounds of the country ~ spurious
and false in every particular. IL repre-
| sents the Pope as calling upon the priests
and laymen of the United States TO use
| their political influence as citizens OF
| America in securing for the Pope CON-
plete coutrol over temporalities in this
country.
The case of the Johnson county (Wyo.)
cattlemen came up Yesterday at Cheyenne.
The Judge instructed the Clerk to enter an
order that all the prisoners appear IL court
without firearms, and that the order
should apply 10 witnesses and spectators.
The Sheriff was directed to see that tho
order was strictly enforced. The entire
iury panel of twenty-four was exhausted
before IL O'Clock. and only six men were
accepted for further examination. A Uenre
Of fifty iurymen was ordered for attend
ance.
Congressman Wise evidently is not salts
fed with the law for the punishment Of
robbery upon or wrecking OF trans en-
gagged in interstate commerce. for yester-
day he introduced in the House bill pro-
yiding punishment for these offences by
fines ranging from $1,000 to $4,000, i'm
prisonment, and in case of the killing OF a
traveller by the death penalty. The bill
was referred 70 the Committee on Inter
state and Foreign Commerce, of which Mr.
Wise is chairman. and Will doubtless DO
considered at an early day.
The Republicans will organize the lowe r
Kansas House week hence, when the
! Legislature meets. That was practic ally
settled Yesterday, when the State Supreme
Court decided the Haskell-cOunty election
case in their favor. The Coifey-cOunty
case. IN which the board decided q
tie by lot. will doubtless be dis
missed. The case is still under ndvisemeut.
This decision will leave the House
divided as follows: Repu blicans, 63 4;
Populists, So; Democrats, 8; giving the
Republicans majority or over alI; Inc
Senate stands Republicans, IL; Popu-
lists, 70: Democrats, 2. 10 joint session
the parties will therefore be divided
thus: Republicans, IA. Popullsts, II /;
Democrats, s; giving o clear majority OF
against the Republicans.
Condensed Cabiegrams.
Lieutenant Commander William s.
COwIea the newly -apDointed naval dHdchs