Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1894-11-17

Ex-United States senator KoDsrt
Winthrop died az ll:30 o'clock last highl
at his residence In Boston.
'rhe arrest OF President Crandall. Of the
johnson City CTenn) National Bank, was
made by direction OF Comptroller-oi-the-
Currency Eckels.
The New Orleans Cotton Exchange has
started a subscription towards establishlns
n plant In New Orleans for the prepara-
tiOn of the new diphtheria remedy.
A special from Perry, Fla. says Pink
Williams was accidentally Killed near
there yesterday while on a camp hunt by
Wilmer Robinson, another member or the
party.
William ]. Myers, the Atlanta boy, still
In his teens who was charged with the
murder Of Forrest l.. Crowley, was found
guilty yesterday afternoon, with no recon-
mendation to mercy.
|, The London Standards correspondent In
Varna describes the recent massacre or
Armenian Christians as of equal impor-
tance with the Bulgarian butcherieS which
led to tho Russo-Turkish war.
Samps Morrison and j. w. Redd were
convicted In the Federal Court, Atlanta.
yesterday OF having conspired TO murder
william Roper, who had informed on
Illicit dlstillers in the Cohutta mountains.
The Porte has issued an account of the
last Armenian troubles In the Sassum dlS-
upon Kurdish brigands. who murdered
Musaulman and committed many other
excesses.
The Indian Once Is doing nothing in the
matter Of the kilograms received from the
Indian agent at Muscogee. Indian Ter
ritory regarding the Cook gang OF
desperadoes. The agent has been In
formed. however that the troops he IS
demanding cannot, under the law, De
sent into the Indian Territory.
| The United States cruiser Cincinnati,
which left the Brooklyn navy-yard at $3.50
| o'clock yesterday morning, returned tnere
yesterday afternoon, having struck
don, which broke come of her plates for
ward amldships on the port side, near
| the boiler. letting the water pour into
| the air-chamber.
| At the closing session In Chattanooga
Yesterday of the eleventh annual meeting
| of the Southern homeopathic Association
the following officers were elected: Presi-
dent w. c. Richardson of st. Louis;
| First Vice-Presi1ent. W. w French. Of
Chattanooga; Second Vice-Presldent' sarah
| Recording Secretary c. r. Mayer, of
New Orleans. Corresponding Secretary.
| Lizzie Gray Guthers. OF ST. Louis; Treasu-
rer. \. W. Dufiield, Of Huntsville, Ala;
| Neorologist, DR.. II. r Orme OF Atlanta.
| The next annual meeting will be held in
| November, 1895. at ST. Louis.
George X. Whitworth. Clerk and Mas
| ter Of the Chancery Court at Nashville,
Tenn, who shot and Killed Chancellor
| Allison on Wednesday last. is still alive,
but cannot recover. He has made an ante
! mortem statement to the effect that be-
fore Judge AllisOn's first election as
| chancellor he told Whitworth he would
not appoint him unless he CWhtworth)
| would agree To- divide the fees OF the
| Office This. WhitwOrth says, he agreed
| to do, and. I'm addition, the sums ne
loaned Allison at different times. amount
ed 10 1850. He says he endeaVored -
| get Judge Allison TO secure this amount
| to secure himself and protect his bonds
| men, and when he learned that Judge
Allison would not agree to settlement,
he determined 10 Kill him.
Charley Foster, a negro. was arrested
| in birmingham, Ala, on Thursday. ON
| suspicion Of being the man who assaulted
| Mrs Tom Payne, near Bessemer. Tues
day night. and afterwards attempted 70
take her life. and was taken 10 the scene
OF the crime and identified instantly by
the woman and her young brother-ln-ia%
a mob which had gathered at once caught
the negro from the officers and attempted
TO lynch him. but the officers, by dint OF
| persuasion. prevailed on the men to lei
| the law take its course. Mrs. Payne then
| seized a shotgun and attempted TO shoot
| her assailant, but was prevented by the
| Sheriff. The husband and the father OF
| the woman also attempted 10 shoot him.
| but were prevented By hard work and
| cool bravery the negro was taken back e
Birmingham and placed in Jail.