Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1894-08-02
Telerrapliic Briefs.

TIE Socialist leader Appel and four
other Socialists. were arrested by the
Hamburg police yesterday.
Governor Waite. of Colorado, has issued
an order recalling the militia from .rlpp,e
Crock He SAYS he thinks the trouble
there is ended.
NJ Volders. the leader Of the Belgian
Socialist labor party. has become a hope
less lunatic from overwork ana excite
m nj. and has been confined In an asylum.
Judge Joseph Holt, who was Judge
Advocate-General of the Army, ana al
one time acted as Secretary Of War. died
at his residence in Washington yesterday.
An engagement Of sl,2j0OO0 in gold at
the New York Sub-Treasury yesterday
for European export reduces the sOli
reserve in the Federal treasury 10 *'5'o-0'-
Oy
Jabaz Spencer Balfour, the abscOnding
promoter OF the Liberal Building and
Loan Association. OF London. has been
surrendered at Buenos Ayres to the BRUSH
authorities.
The Florida State Democratic COnven-
tion adjourned at I o'clock last evening
after nominating by acclamaton Hon
benjamin S. Liddon. of Mariana. jack
son county, for Justice Of the Supreme
Court.
An immense warehouse on the Crosse
Reichen strasse. Hamburg. Germany
containing stores of cotton. wine. piece
goods. furs, and feathers. has been de-
stroyed by fire. The loss will largely
exceed million marks.
DR.. S. w. Johnson. OF Tatnall county,
Ga. was nominated for Congress by the
Populsts OF the Eleventh District at
Waycross yesterday TO oppose Judge Tur-
ner, and G.. w. White was nominated by
the Populists at Americus, to run against
Speaker Crisp. The Democrats will carry
both districts overwhelmingly.
The Secretary of the Navy has been
rotificd that Constructors Horatio G. Gill
mer and Henry q. Smith. who have been
studying shp-architecture at the Royal
Naval College, Greenwich, England, have
graduated. ranking respectively first and
third In their class. No such high honors
have been taken by graduates from An
napolis in any class at the Royal Naval
College for several years.
A crazy stonecutter from Boston named
Thomas CadOgan. who has frequently
visited the White House during the past
few days, asking for work at his trade.
and always carrying his tools with him,
insisted on seeing the President yesterday
morning. and claimed that he would
starve II he did not get work. When he
was told that the President could not see
him at once he became violent, and was
taken away in patrol-wagon.
The notice OF the Federal clerks OF
courts to the various companies In In
diana TO appear and pay the costs OF the
several injunctions issued at their demand
against the strikers develops the fact
that the roads intend to resist the pay
ment OF costs. They were charged for
copies OF the restraining orders, but say
Chat these were part OF a proceeding for
the benefit and protection Of the United
States. and that no part Of the expense
can be lawfully charged 10 them.
The Democratic Convention OF the Fifth
Georgia Congressional District met In
Atlanta yesterday, and unanimously re-
nominated l.. +. Livingston. The platform
pledges allegiance TO the State and ma
tional platforms, and demands the restora-
ton by this government. independently
OF any foreign power. OF the free and un-
limited coinage OF silver at the ratio OF
i6 To l, such silver to be legal tender,
equally with gold, this having been the
case prior to the iniquitous act OF 1873.
which demonetized silver when II was
actually at premium" I'VE demand"
Il adds. that the restrictive and dis
criminatlng legislation then thrown
il is unjust, unfair. and unreasonable TO
attack the silver dollar as q dishonest
dollar until 1t Is allowed TO assert its
full potency by the repeal OF iniquitous
legislation adopted for the sole purpose OF
depriying IL OF its constitutional func-
ton" The resolutions further demand
the repeal OF the prohibitory 10 per cent.
tax on State banks. a tariff for revenue
only, and an income-tax. and concludes
by pledging assistance, ''as loyal ana
true Democrats, to every effort by which
the Democracy seeks to redeem the
pledges Of Its party"