Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1894-05-12
Telegraphic Breyltles.

j. VI. howe, 1eWeller, NaShNllle, lenn,
assigned yesterday. Liabilities $4,000.
The Louisiana Sugar Convention met
in New Orleans yesterday and organized.
The strike of the miners OF the Georges
Creek region. Maryland, Is assuming Sc
riOus proportions.
Tip. the big elephant In the Central
Park menagerie. New York. was. killed
by means of poison yesterday, having be-
come dangerous.
In the brotherhood OF Locomotive En-
gineers' Convention at 81. Paul yesterday
a fight over the rules resulted In some
changes. but none of great Importance.
The Senate yesterday confirmed tho
nomination Of +. VI. simmons to be Col
lector of Internal Revenue for the Fourth
District of North Carolina.
The Vatican has issued instructions 10
the Catholic bishops OF France directing
them to accept the French law In regard
to church buildings without opposition.
Marion Spence. a prominent provision
broker. Of Atlanta, has been missing from
his home for n week. His family fear
foul play or that he has been the victim
OF some accident.
Captain Bonnet. of New Jersey. ex-
CHIEF OF the Revenue Marine Service,
Treasury Department. il making an ac-
tive canvass for the position of Chief OF
the Life-Saving Service.
Between 1900 and 5000 workmen In the
various departments OF the Pullman
Works. at Pullman, ILL.,, went on strike
yesterday morning. their action taking
Pullman and his executive manager by
surprise.
The lower house of the Austrian Par
Lament has passed a resolution providing
for the withdrawal Of 2OO.o00,rO horins I'm
silver notes and the deposit in the Austro-
Hungarian Bank Of 100000 forms IN
gold TO be purchased by the state
Secretary Carlisle has compromised the
case against Postmaster Gannaway, of
Slaughter Nelson county, Va. for VIOLA
ton Of the intcrnal-revenue law. by ac-
ceptng as penalty S915, and fine OF ~
cents a gallon on 2,ll1 gallons Of brandy.
Acting Secretary Wike, of the Federal
Treasury Department. has RENTED the
fine of $500 imposed some time ago on the
British steamer buckingham for permit
ting three stowaways, who were debarred
from landing, TO escape. and subsequently
70 land In this country.
The Louisiana Sugar Convention last
night resolved that the present sugar
schedule Of the Senate Finance Commit
| tee, fixing the duties on raw sugar i'm
ported into this country at 10 per cent
| ad valorem, is an insufficient and made
quate protection TO home producers.
Grunau, the printer OF an Anarchis
| Journal in Berlin. was sentenced yester
| day to eighteen m1nths' imprisonment fol
| having incited the people TO violence
while Editor Neft was sentenced 70 a tern
OF eight months. and Editor Reinhard
| to one Of nine months on the same charge
The women of Lexington, Ky. intenC
| To demonstrate their protest against th'
denomination Of Colonel Breckinridge bN
arranging for 4 big reception In honol
of william c. owens, the ColOneIS prin
cipal opponent. when he goes to LeXlnS
IN nIlpgSS the electors some u1A
next week.
Bradstreet's says: "The prolonged warm
weather has stimulated farm work as
well as sales in seasOnable lines OF mer-
chandse. but the renewed tariff uncer'
| tanty tends to prolong the period durina
| which merchants will continue to buy fol
actual needs only, evidences OF which fact
| have appeared
The Brooklyn Tabernacle was agar
| crowded t. it's utmost capacity last eve
| ming at the continuance Of the celebration
| of the Rev. II. Dewitt Talmage's jubilee
| i'm honor of the completion or the twenty
firth year of his pastorate. Mr.. Gladstone
Sent his best wishes, and among othel
| messages received was one from Governor
| OFerrall.
The following notice, posted in tht
Barnaby Gngham-Mills Fall River
Mass, yesterday, Is the subject OF much
| comment among the operatives; TO oui
employees, S,-OWlnS u tnr iliD''Hr .i'''
| tion taken by the present admnistra'
| ton at Washington. and the idotic legs
| lation now going on in Congress, the re-
suit of which you are perfectly familiar
with. these works will shut down on May
r. 1891 (Signed) ). Il. Ashley" Mr.. an
| ley. the treasurer Of the corporation, Is
member Of the Republican state Central
Committee.
r. O. Dun e. Co. say: 'The strikes be
gin to have serious, though II Is as
sumcd. only a temporary effect
Some railroads at the West are embar
rasseL and textile works Of some impor
tance will close soon unless the strike
ceases. The movement Of so-called armle,
| of unemployed on Washington has caused
little excitement and is less important
or significant than the outward movement
OF specie. which shows shrinking foreign
demand for products and further with
drawal of foreign capital. but neither
strikes nor foreign distrust can long re.
tard the progress OF this country"