Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1894-06-16


Sixth race-selling, six furlongs-Emer
+. won. Ellen Douglas second, Idea third.
Time, l:l5a.
TeIegraphic Tersitics.
The health authorities Of Hong Kong
report eighty-four deaths from the plague
yesterday.
a special from Atlanta says the wo-
mans Foreign Mission Convention ad
journed yesterday. after a weeks session
there. to me-, oext year in Knoxville,
Tennessee.
]. s. Coxey 80 Carl Browne, OF the
Commonweal movement were granted
hearing by the Senate Committee on Fdu-
cation and Labor yesterday ia behalf OF
their good roads bill.
The Bank of Blue Hill, Nebraska, has
gone into voluntary liquidation, and j.
o. Burgess, it's cashier. is missing. having
loaned himself $500 of the banks funds
during the absence Of the president.
The miners at Salinevle. Maynard.
Dllonvale, and Bridgeport, Ohio, have de
cided not to accept the 60-cent compromise
scale, and will not return to work until
after the Columbus Convention Tuesday.
A special from Lexington. Ky. says:
Adyices from up the Chesapeake and Ohio
road state that great destitution now
exists among the striking miners, their
families In some cases actually starving
to death.
All last night the Cleveland, Lorraine
and Wheeling road was rushing along
coal-trains northward, the blockade which
has existed for several days on the line
having been raised without an outbreak
al any point
Abdul Aziz has been proclaimed Sultan
of Fec. No militant opposition TO his
succession was manifested there, despite
the previous apprehenslons OF trouble.
Abduls uncle, Muley Ismail, has been ap-
pointed Khalif of Fee.
Senator Sherman yesterday offered an
amendment to the post-office approprla-
ton bill appropriating 100000 for special
facilities for the mail service between
Cincinnati and Cleveland and between
Cincinnati and Atlanta.
At meeting In Wheeling yesterday Of
the coal miners Of the Pan Handle of West
Virginia the Columbus compromise scale
was accepted. and to-day the miners and.
operators will confer as to day-laborers
wages and other details
The British Medical Journal has re-
ceived telegram from Hong Kong
which says the plague there has all the
symptoms of the true bubonic pest when
rsvaged Europe In the Mlddle Ages, anu
which IL described by Defoe.
In the British House of Commons yes
terday Sir Edward Grey stated that The
Powers had decided upon concerted ac-
ton to maintain the status quo In Mo-
rocco. but had not decided to formally
recognize Abdul Aziz as Sultan.
Five distinct explosions of ire-damp oc-
Cured I'm the coal mines of Count La
risch. at Karwin. Austrian Siiesia, during
Thursday night and two hundred miners
were killed and number entombed, while
the mines are now burning fercely.
Telegrams from mining towns in Ohio
indicate that the miners are coming TO
g uaff ft..r
At Nesonville. Sand Run, Yorkville, and
Bellaire they have resolved TO accept the
settlement and go TO work on Monday
The Senate has confirmed the nominal
tions OF Campbell T. Berry, To be Assist
ant United States Treasurer at san Fran
cisco. and Pendeton King. of North Caro-
lima. to be Chief of the Bureau of Indexes
and Archives In the Department Of State.
At 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon the
Miners District Convention at PittsburS
voted unanimously in favor OF resuminB
work June 18th, and with the same vote
ratified the action of the Columbus Con-
vention and endorsed the action OF the
national officers.
At meeting of the directors of the
Manchester, England, ship canal yester-
day IL was resolved to make an applica-
ton to the Council OF the city OF Man
chester for the issue of a per cent. loan
of 100000 to assist in the completion OF
the final work on the canal
The Senate Committee on Education and
Labor yesterday unanimously decided TO
report favorably, and did so report. the
bill providing for an appropriation OF
$4,000 for a government exhibit at the
proposed Cotton States Exposition, to be
held in Atlanta, Ga, next year.
The Illinois Supreme Court yesterday
handed down an opinion in the cases
brought by the Republicans at DanvillS
and the PopuIists at Springfield to set
aside the legislative appor,ionment made
by the Democratic Legislature last year.
virtually affirming the DEGREES Of the
lower court. holding that IL has no juris-
diction.
Mr.. Blackburn reported the post-oifice
appropriation bill 10 the Senate yesterday.
The estimates for the year ending June
-. 1895. aggregated $50. $685. $50, and the
ate makes reduction Of 5000, leaving
the appropriation. as carried in this bill,
So, ,236,5s9. The estimated postal revenues
for 1895 are $s4,7iS.Sl.
C. n. Jordan. Federal Sub-Treasurer at
New York. and w. l.. Trenholm. ex-Comp-
troller OF the Treasury, addressed the
House Committee on Banking and Cur.
rency yesterday In support OF the bill or
Mr.. Coombs. OF New York, authorizing
the appointment OF q commission TO in
auire into the monetary question and re-
port some plan for its solution.
tTdlXlnS army OF WnlCU
reached Washington some time after
Coxey's contingent, and has been nearly
all the time at Hyattsyilfe, has become
weary OF waiting for something to turn
Pacific coast, though IL will attempt To
get a hearing before the Senate Industrial
Depression Committee before starting.
The Southern Business Conference to
be held at the Fifth-Avenue Hotel, New
York. next Thursday gives promise OF
momentous results. since II Is believed
that ways and means will be devised
thereat for an immediate fund Of $4,000
to give publicity throughout the world TO
the supreme advantages OF the South, 10
the end OF bringing into 1t millions OF new
capital, many new industries, and de-
sirable immigration.
The Earl of Dunraven moved In the
British House OF Lords yesterday the Sc
cond reading Of the deceased wife's sister
bill. saying the experience of the United
States and Canada, which did not forbid
mans marrying MS asceasen atsea ~ w'is ths
objections OF the bishops. The bill was
lost by a vote Of l29 to ~. rhe Prince
OF Wales. Lord Rosebery. and most OF
the Liberals support the Dill, while LORD
the other Tories, and some twenty bishops
oppose II.
In the Italian Chamber Of Deputies yes
terday Signor Imbrtani. leader OF the
Radicals, denounced the action OF the
government In decorating the ofticrr who
at santa Catarina. Sicily. and In conclu-
sion tdrned toward General Mocenni.
Minister of War. and cried. After such
a bestowal OF a badge OF merit ! would
face" The widest tumalt followed this
afYront to the Minister. Members rushed
hither and thither, shouting. shrieking,
and cursing. and In several cases per-
sonal collisIons ensued. Ia which blows
were exchanged: