Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1894-11-24
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Alabama, died at Culman. Ala, yesterday
Of paralysis Of the heart.
Robert d. Morrison. one OF the best
known lawyers OF the Baltimore par, was
stricken with paralysis at MS nome, ns
Waverly Thursday, and died yesterdhy
morning
The earthquakes and rumblIngs continue
In the district around Milazzo, Sicily,
the panic there has not abated. ana the
houses deserted several days ago remain
unoccupIed.
Every Hour-mill in st. Louis has closed
given by the mllers being that the market
Is glutted with -four. ana suffering from
over-production.
Gold 10 the amount Of $4,000 was with
drawn from the New York Sub-Treasury
yesterday by the Southern National Bank,
OF New York city, leaving the gold re-
serve at s57.7i6010.
Two deser,ers from the United States
cruiser Atlanta, now at Norfolk, We're
arrested in Baltimore yesterday after
noon, while trying to dispose OF their
navy-dress IN a secondhand store.
The steamer Lampasas, OF the Mallory
Line, running between New York and
Galveston, put in at Delaware Breakwater
yesterday afternoon. with fire In the after
hold. She has full cargo. chiefly OF cot
ton.
The proposed new treaty between Japan
and the United States was signed by Sec
retary Gresham and Minister Kurino yes
terday. and will be sent 10 the United
Senate for ratification on its reassembling
December Bird.
Everything Is In readiness at Spring.
field, Mass, for the big football game,
both the Harvard and Yale teams being
in the city. each with a large following.
There Is feeling of confidence generally
that Yale will win.
Mr.. Kerr Craig, Third Assistant Post
master-General. who has charge OF mat
tiers PERTAINING to postage, says that great
ly increased orders for stamps from all
parts OF the country show that business
Is rapidly reviving.
Commander Smith retiredD appeared be-
fore the naval court-martial at Washing
ton Yesterday and pleaded not guilty.
Ills attorney Challenged the specifications.
The challenge was overruled by the court.
and the trial proceeded.
The Post-Ohice Department is satisfied
at last with the character and appearance
turned out by the Bureau OF Printing
and Engraving. the stamp agent or the
department. reporting that the stamps are
properly gummed.
Assocate-Justice ". A. Johnson, of the
Kansas supreme Court reelected NO
vember 9Th for q term OF SIX years, an
nounces that he has returned his passes
and WIFI receive no more from ran
road corporations.
Mrs. w. p. Evans, a dairyman's wife
at Petaluma, Cal, yesterday saturated her
clothing with coal-on set her garments
on fire. and was burned TO d, lth. She
had been previously insane, but mad been
released from the asylum.
A special from Georgetown. sac. says:
The tug w. Is. Congdon picked ep OF the
bar today Captain f. 7 Bsnnington
and twelve men OF the steamship OSama.
Dbffadainbin - Charles
In ballast, and sunk six miles OH cape
Romaine.
The funeral OF Mr.. william T. Walters
will take place from Grace protestant
Episcopal church, Baltimore, at 2 o'clock
to-day The estimated value of his estate
| is 100000. HE art gallery. II Is thought
will either remain in Baltimore or so to
New York.
The usual Friday Cabinet meeting. did
not take place yesterday, having been
postponed because the President was not
quite so we'll the, wet weather aggra-
| waiting the gout and the sprain of foot.
which has kept him indoors at Woodley
| for several days.
II Is reported that General Sheremetief.
Russian Governor Of the Caucasus viii
| succeed Baron Mohrenhelm IN charge OF
the Paris embassy, and that Mohrenheim
| will be elevated to the imperial council.
| the Grand-Duke Vladimir. says the same
report. then succeeding Sheremetief
Governor Frank Brown. of Maryland,
OemocraD, was, up To few days ago,
regarded as a sure aspirant Tor re-elec-
ton, but yesterday he declared himself
party IS In a bad way here in Maryland,
and / do not care to be the Vc:im."
The work of equipping the monitor
! Wyandotte for the use Of the Maryland
naval militia has been practically com
| pieted, and orders have been sent 70 the
1 1t
| to have the monitor towed TO Baltimore
as soon as she can be made ready for the
| trip.
While a drying-out Of dynamite sticks
| was going on at the new reservoir for
| water works just outside OF Charleston.
w. Va, Yesterday. an explosion occurred.
| and Joseph Hosltins was instantly killed
| and Frank Ridley fatally, and Ben.
| Franklin badly injured. All three were
| colored.
George VI. Irwin, who has been wanted
| by Plttsburg investors for ten days or
| more for alleged swindles in conducting
| a grain-speculatlnS business. was ar
rested I'm New York city yesterday. taken
to the jefferson Market Police Court. and
committed TO prison, pending an examina-
ton to-day.
Senator Patrick Walsh and Messrs. j..
H. Estll and T. r. Stockton, OF the
Executive Committee OF the southern As
yesterday upon important business con-
nected with the association ind ated, in
stead OF returning home. as tn :, had ex-
pected 70 do. e
Yesterday morning fire brokeS Sut in the
| Allegheny Traction CompanX barns.
Pittsburg, and before the engiT3 arrived
the entire roof was one NASSAU i!ames
barns. ii1is forty.nine o} which wcfe burned.
Lose Of street-car company estimated at
| $1,000. Insurance not known.
Mr.. Charles Bonaparte. OF Baltimore.
chairman of the Executive Committee
Municipal League. has issued Il call in
| viting cities TO send delegates to the Sc
cond conference for good city government.
| 10 begin at Minneapolis on Saturday. De-
| cember Sth. the first having been held
In Philadelphia last January.
The trial OF ex-Captain II .Tgate is
threatened with serious compl' ,atOns by
| the discovery that vouchers = lgned by
HOwgate and supposed to be fraudulent
are missing from the office OF :he second
Auditor Of the Treasury. wher| they had
| been held for use by the COVE tnment In
prosecuting the case against l!Owgate.
The French Chamber OF DEPUTIES was
crowded yesterday. the occa on being
| the debate on the question Of granting
credit for THE Madagascar expedition.
| most without exception, .fnspicuous
among them being United sAl,es Am
| bassador Eustis. No conclusiOiHof the de-
| bate was reached. 7
The new Car Is displaying 3nexpected
energy 1t Is stated that he placed NJ.
Wahl, chief OF the St. PetersDtrg police,
under arrest for three days r; his own
residence for ordering the Coumess Stro-
ganoffs mourning decorations removed
because they were erected without police
permission: also. for treating the foreign
newspaper reporters badly.
II is announced semi-oiiicially at Rome
| that Brazil has not accepted ltaly's pro-
| posal to submit To arbitration the ques-
| tiOns pending between the countries as
regards the treatment OF Italians NJ
| Brazilian ports, and that II President de
Moraes continues the policy OF delay.
Italy will take decisive steps TO protect
her subjects in the republic.
A special from Landrum. Spartanburg
| county s. c., says that Thursday night
a negro who was charged with having
crlminally assaulted a white girl In Polk
county n. c., three days ago. and who
was on Thursday examined and dis
charged by the North Carolina authorities,
was brought across the State line and
hanged. his murderers being all from
North Carolina.
The London News's correspondent In
81. Petersburg confirms the report that
the Grand Duke Vladimir Will go as Gov
ernor 10 the Caucasus He VIII be sue