Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1893-12-14
Telegraphlc Brevillcs.


Washington yesterday, aged a.
Judge Alexander White died yesterday
morning at Dallas, Tex. aged is years
The Presbytery Of Baltimore adjourned
last night without disposlng Of the Greigg
case
Thomas De Wolf died at his residence.
in Columbus, Ga, last night aged 81
years.
Charles Thorne. the veteran actor and
theatrical manager, died In San Fran
cisco yesterday.
Vice-President Stevenson and party left
Augusta yesterday for Washington after
a visit OF two days.
There Is no truth. It appears now. I'm
the report that four negroes . ere lynched
near Selma, Ala, last Saturday night
The India Council offered for sale in
London yesterday bills TO the amount Of
30 lacs of rupees, but none was allotted.
The British House of Commons yester-
day passed on it's second reading the bill
providing for an Indian loan of 100000
The German bark Ellis crossed Charles
ton bar yesterday drawing 20 feet, and
found that she could have done so draw
ing - feet.
has resolved to build cotton palace on
an elaborate scale in Waco, 10 be opened
October l6 1894.
Cholera has broken out In the city Of
Namur. the capital of the Belgian pro-
vince Of the satIe name Two deaths oc-
CURED on Monday.
A bill to establish a METROPOLITAN police
system for the city of Charleston was
reported unfavorably in the South Caro-
lima Legislature yesterday.
The store Of the Rhodes Furniture Com
was entered Tuesday night by burglars,
who blew open and rified the safe, getting
over 800
The British government gunpowder fac
tory at Waltham Abbey. thirteen miles
northeast OF London, blew up yesterday,
and one man was killed and eight men
were seriously injured.
Harry b. Stembler. one of the most
popular young letter-carriers on the Bal
timore force, was arrested yesterday on
the charge Of robbing the mails. and
is said to have confessed his guilt.
The House Committee on Coinage.
Weights. and Measures yesterday voted
10 begin consideration OF the Bland bill
re-enactlng the free-Silver coinage-laW OF
1891 on the second Wednesday in January.
All Of the train robbers who held up a
train on the International road IN Texas
Monday morning are now in jan. They
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Shelton. and Bill Brunson, all residents
OF Austin
The delegates to the National Farmers
Congress at Savannah, Ga. were TAX n
down the river there yesterday on TN ,
steamship City OF Macon. and on the re-
turn trip a collation., rendered by the clt-
zens Of Savannah. was given on board
the steamer.
The immense dry-goods house Of VIII
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to be on fire in the upper portion OF the
structure about o'clock last evening,
and the stock OF dry goods therein was
almost ruined by smoke and water. Loss
about $4,000; insurance, S2690o.
The quo warranto proceedings In the
Florida Supreme Court against the jack
,onvile City Council terminated yester-
day In a victory for the present municipal
officers of Jacksonville, the court deciding
that the Australian ballot-law. under
which they were elected, was constitu-
tional.
Colonel George J. Rice, late contracting
agent OF the Cincinnati Southern railroad
In Chattanooga, and formerly president
OF a railroad terminating at Elmlra, y.
Y, was arrested In Chattanooga yester-
day on charges OF forgery. His friends
claim that his mind has been unbalanced
for some time.
per article which VI. JOnnard quoted in
the French Chamber of Deputies Tuesday
TO prove that the Socialists advocate the
use of dynamite, came out yesterday with
a hot denial Of the charge, and sent sec
onds TO JOnnard 10 demand retraction
in the Chamber or satisfaction ON the
outside.
Colonel j. H. Morrow, of Washington,
who is under sentence to the South Caro-
lima penitentiary for causing the death
of Collie Fowler at Columbia, and whose
appeal was dismissed by the Palmetto
State Supreme Court. voluntarily returned
to Columbia yesterday. and II he does
not secure a pardon will serve out his
sentence.
Yesterday afternoon the Navy De-
partment at Washington received the
following cable message from Captain
Picking: Rio de Janeiro. December j. -
Cohas Island and Enchada, in the pos
session of Admiral D1 Cana dne irsurr,
gent commander). Ihe former is well
fortified and Is continually firing upon
the custom-house and naval arsenal with
small arms. Ii Is dangerous 10 land"
A shooting ARRAY which created much
excitemep' took place in Martinsburg.
w. Va, yesterday between Mr.. John Il.
Wilson. cashier of the Citizens National
Bank and president Of the Edison Illu-
Company, and Marcus Ruthen-
Western Electric Company, OF Chicago,
in which neither Of the principals was
hurt. but several bystanders were slightly
injured.
The Georgia Senate yesterday, by a
unanimous vote, passed the House reso-
luton demanding the coinage OF both gold
and silver as standard money metals,
and calling upon Congress 10 take such
action as win restore the currency OF
the country TO a bimetalllc standard. The
resolutions also endorse tax on incomes
without discrimination against individual
incomes. and declare for a readjustment
OF the tariff TO a revenue basis.
The Result of Trial.
rANNIVT TON mt hava uoa1 Cfr,