The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1893-01-14


amendment or repeal.
The Sibux City Qa.) Stove Works Locked
ont seventy-fiye union moulders, and VIII
make IL a non-union shop.
Cotton receipts for 1892 In Arkansas
and indian Territory show 60 per cent.
decrease from 1878 figures.
The importation Of kangaroos for West
orn prairies Is the aim of Henry >.
Adams, of Sydney, Australia, now In
Karsas.
Hot coffee and a loaf Of bread will be
given each tramp when he reaches Nauga-
tuck Comm lookup. and the same when
he leaves.
Full of whisky Rock Manney and Felix
Essarey Of Lexington, Tenn, nearly
stamped to death Mrs. A. b. Bishops
four-ye ar-old girl.
Commissioner OF Navigation O'Brien
thinks a merchant marine and naval re-
serve on the British principle would revive
our decaying commerce.
Claiming It an act of courtesy, General
Rocock asks investigation of scandalous
charges that he took a young woman to
the Worlds Fair dedication.
Mayor Patrick j. Gleason of Long
Island City. n. Y. can keep the official
books from his competitor, Horatio ).
Sanford, owing TO a statutes flaw.
The contract for the erection and COM
pletion of the Indian Industrial School
at the Worlds Fair was Thursday
awarded to John Walne. Of Chicago. at
$1,000.
Hired 10 burn Michael b. Sullivan's
house at East Chester. n. Y, to secure
insurance, Thomas McKenna has con-
fessed. and Sullivan and his wife are
Jailed.
Robert II. Nelson, OF Bridgeport, Conn,
a member Of the junior class Of Yale Uni
versity, while preparing for the Yale
Harvard debate, died of brain fever, from
over-study.
Claiming that Charles j. Young, one
Of the thirty-three alleged Brooklyn hood
lers. gave testimony against himself, his
lawyer wants the indictment quashed,
which would quash all.
J. S. Balfour VI. p. for Burnley. promi-
nentiy connected with several building
and investment societies which have re-
Gently suspended. has fled from England
and is now in South America.
Senior Marco Avellaneda, the confidential
agent sent by the Argentine Government
10 Corrientes, succeeded in inducing the
rebels to lay down their arms, and the
attempted revolution is now at an end.
Miss Hattie Smith. Of Chattanooga,
Tenn. and II. w. Jones were married at
Concord, Tenn, last week. The wedding
was romantic one, as the parties ha9
never seen each other before. but had
wooed by letter following an advertise
ment in a paper.
In n lone spot by the mountains, about
five miles from Lewisburg. the home and
contents OF Daniel Heiser and wife, two
mutes, were destroyed by fire at midnight.
The two unfortunatCs, clad in their night
dresses alone, fled one mile through snow
and ice to the nearest farmhouse carry
ing a newly-born baby.
The State of oregon has thirty-siX nur-
series covering 1,516 acres and contain
ing 1900. 900 young trees. and orchardists
have upwards of 100000 acres of grow
ing trees 0ne-half Of this acreage is in
prunes, one-fourth in apples. one-tenth
i'm crab apples. and the remainder in vari-
Gus kinds of fruits.
Austria. which for a lorg time was not
inclined TO make an exhibit a Chicago
is now surprising every one by the extent
of the preparations which she is making
The imperial eagle Of Austria-H Hungary
will be displayed over eight departments
of the great Exposition, viz; Agricul-
ture, gardening and landscape gardening
mining, mechanics, textile and other lp-
dustrial products, art and womens work
Several years ago work was begun upon
n railroad TO run from Montreal to Hud-
son Bay; but one of the most prominent
railroad men Of Canada now says that
the road will never be completed. 1t was
built 100 miles into an unsettled wilder
ness. and the original idea was to con-
meet the road with a line OF steamers
from Fort York to go through Hudson
Strait to the sea, and thence TO Liver
pool The scheme is now declared TO be
chimerical.
At 3 o'clock Thursday morning flames
entirely destroyed the beautiful and ms
toric St. Luke's Methodist Episcopal
church Of Long Branch. \. j. How the
fire originated is still a mystery. Some
people claim that 1t was caused by an
overheated lue in one of the big furnaces
IN the basement or Sunday-scbool room,
while there are others who hold 10 the
belief tlat it is of incendiary origin, ana
cite the fact of several suspicious people
being seen by reputable citizens lettering
around the neighborhood.
The proposal to sheath ships with cop
per coated with mercury is attracting at
tention. saws the New York Tribune. me
idea is that such an arrangement would
effectually prevent barnacles from adj
herring 10 the DbtlOui VI NtDoNi's ~ 49,
TO keep the mercury on and prevent oXi-
dation the copper would be constantly
charged with electricity. This would bring
about another interesting possibility Any
gold or silver that might be in the water
would be precipitated on the bottom OF
the vessel. and it could then be scraped
off when the vessel arrived in port.
Great preparations are being made for
the wedding of the Princess Margaret,
which will take place in the new white
salon Of the Imperial Palace, Berlin,
on the 18th of January. The embroider-
ers are now putting the finishing touches
of their maryellously fine handwork upon
norton of the brides rousseau, and the
leading gold and silversmiths OF he capt.
tai are all busy upon orders from mem
bers OF the imperial family and others.
The bridegroom, the Crown Prince Of Rou-
mania, is said to have ordered costly and
exquisite presents from Constantinople
and Paris.
Made desperate by hunger, three rough
looking negroes walked up to the wagon
of William Statemeyer, a Cincinnati
baker, and proceeded 10 help themselves.
Statemeyer ran out and the fellows
jumped from the wagon. Two got away,
but the third was grabbed by the baker
and a struggle began. Statemeyer was
getting the best Of 1t, when the negro
whipped out a knife and slashed State
meyer in the abdomen. inflictlng severe
wounds. All three negroes then escaped,
and an hour or so later held up another
bakery wagon, securing an armload OF
bread. 1t is supposed that they had been
driven to desperation by the coal famine.
The Laguna Madre, or Mother Lake,
Mt the foot OF the Sierra Madre Mountains.
in the State of Sinaloa. Mexico dropped
out of sight q few DAYS ago during an