The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1893-07-04
OVER THE WIRES.
THE NEWS OF THE World As TOLD
BY TELEGRAPH.
Important Happenings of tho Past Week
i'll the United States AS Well as in For
eign Countries, Etc.

Nice, June PA Spaniard who arrived
in Monte Carlo from New York last week,
was killed yesterday after having lost
10000 pounds in gambling.
Death fro.i. Cholera.
London June 27-A sailor belonging to
the crew of Il steamer which arrived i'll the
lyme yesterday from Nabtcs, capital of the
department of Loi{e Inferieure, France, has
died from cholera.
\ spanish Duel.
Madrid, June GA dispatch from Cordova
repeats Il report that Count Santa Coloml
was wounded yesterday in duel near that
city with Mcndosa, son of Count Fontanar.
The latter was wounded slightly
Sir Charles " i'll itc,urn.
London, June 27-Sir Charles Russell
has been summoned suddenly to return to
Paris to attend the sittngs of the tribunal
of arbitration.
Teas and Silks.
Tacoma, Wash, June. 23.-The Northern
Pacific steamship Mogul arrived from the
orient this evening, bringing 300 tons of
new tea and silks. Seventy chinese ana JapS
were on board.
Death Of Blnnkenship, the Artist.
New York, July 1.-James Alexander Blank
enship, the sculptor, died this morning from
the result of an operation performed on Fri
day for appendicitis. He born in George
county Virginia. in 1859. Mr.. Rlankenshp
last engaged upon a design for an eques
tran statue OF General ". Il. stuart, which
is to be erected.
fio stopped the sIniIs.
Omaha, Ncb July I'm the federal dis
trict court today Charles Mcclure, the leader
Missouri Pacific express at West Side, a
suburb of Omaha, plead guilty to conspiracy
to obStrrct ana rStard the passage OF the
fifteen years in the Sioux Falls penitentiary
by Judge Gundy.
A New Railroad.
Denver Col, July This morning the
Denver, Salt Lake and San Francisco Railway
Company was incorporated under the laws of
Colorado. 1t is capitalized I'd $10mo.oo and
has for its prime and promoter cX-
Governor John Evans, president of the first
railway built into Denver. Most of the di-
rectors of the company will enter we'll into
the venture and it is safe to say they are
worth $4,000, 900 of money
Cowboy Berry Won.
Chicago June 27.--The first of the cow
boy racers, John Berry. reached the worlds
fair entrance at $50 O'Clock a. III. today.
Berry was covered with dust and with the
perspration rolling down his bronzed face
and dripping on the neck of the faded, mul-
despatched horse. Berry was hardly able
to hold his head up. He had covered 1,O4O
miles.
Charged with Train Wrecking.
Topeka, Kans.. June 27.-rhe two Webb
brothers. farmers, living near Barclay, Hans.
where an eastbound express train OH the
AtchiSon road was wrecked September Dist
last, have been arrested, charged with having
caused the wreck, in which the engineer. fire
man and two other persons lost their lives and
Il score of passengers injured The
prime object of the train wrrckers was rob
berry, the express car containing treasure to
the amount OF Sl,,00,000.
She was Itidin. Pass.
New York. June 27-F'ifty thousand dol
lars, the largest sum ever paid by an Amer
lean railway company for in uries to Il
single person, will be paid by the New
York Central to Mrs. Homer Baldwin,
OF Workers, within few days in settle
ment for the injuries received in the dis
aster at Hastings on Christmas eve, 1881.
Mrs. Baldwin was crushed by heavy
timbers and scalded by steam from the
engine. Her scalp came off, her eyclds
Were burned away and her eyeballs were
so injured that they were removed. Both
ears were gone and the right arm, and near
" all of the left had to he amputatcd.
Mrs. Baldwin brought suit for S2JO,00O
damages. The company's defense was that
Mrs Baldwin was riding ON Il pass The
case was TO be tried last Tuesday, but
shortly before it was called, \. Il. Car
rington and Joseph Choatc, attorneys for
Mrs: Baldwin, accepted Il settlement for
$4,000.