Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1894-02-17
Brief EIectricaIities,

Robert n. Gourdn. of Charleston, s. c.,
died yesterday; aged 81.
The Paris tribunal OF commerce has
declared the Compton q Escompte bank
rupt.
The Great Falls Manufacturing Com
pany. Somersworth, n. H., has stopped
100 looms.
The Senate has confirmed the nomlna-
tlon Of j. w. Cant to be Postmaster at
Knoxville, Tenn.
A boiler on the iron-clad Brandenburg,
lying at KEEL Germany. exploded yester-
day, killing many persons.
Advices from Rio say De Gama's sailors
have captured the stores of guns and am
munitions at Fort Armacao.
The Lynr shoe business is picking up
manufacturers daily reporting the arrival
of fresh orders from all points OF the COM
pass.
The Nor antum Worsted Company. New
ton. Mass, closed its mills last night, and
IL Is not known when ii Will again resume
work.
James Il. Stone was hanged at Jefferson
Ville Ind, yesterday for the murder or
the Wratten family. which consisted Of
six persons.
Owing to the fact that threatening let
ters have been received by the Roth
cially guarded.
the yellow-fever continues To spread in
that city. an average OF forty cases OF the
disease being reported daily.
A fatal accident has occurred on rail-
way In Eastern Russia. Two trains col
lIded near Jelan, and thirteen persons
were killed and several badly injured.
The slde-wheel iron steamer Ida was
burned to the waters edge last right
at Baltimore, and the hull filed with
water and sank. Loss, about SoOOU; IN
surance. 10000
The General Electric Company. OF Lynn,
Mass, viii start up ite factories next
Monday on full time. This means a fifty-
six-hour schedule. and the employment OF
some 1900 hands.
The trial of Engeman and his assistant
book-makers In the Ivy-City face-track.
Washington, case under the new indict-
ments brought against them VIII be held
during the latter part OF next week.
A dispatch from Bulugayo confirms the
report that Lobenguela. King OF the Mata-
beles. had died in the bush, presumably
from the effects OF gout and the expo
sure to which he was subjected while
fleeing from the British forces.
William Leonard. an Engllshman. who
shot and killed Jesse Anderson in Septem-
her last, was hanged in the jail-yard at
Frederick. Md, yesterday morning, after
confessing that he had murdered his third
wife and her newly-born twins.
Frank Chambers. Assistant Chief Clerk
OF the Tennessee Senate, Is supposed TO
have committed suicide al Memphis,
having written note 10 friend stating
that he intended drowning himself in the
Mississippi and then disappeared.
Admiral da Cana, 1t is said, decided
not to surrender to Rear-Admiral Ben
ham merely because he dared not desert
those who were providing the insurgents
with money. these men now holding
Brazil by the throat In order that they
may save the money that they have In
vested there"
The Anarchists OF a certain group. upon
hearing Of the arrest Of Henry. the bomb
thrOwer of the Hotel Terminus Paris,
raided his lodgings at Belleville, burned
all his papers. and departed, taking with
them, II Is believed, one or more bombs
which Henry Is supposed TO have had
I'm his lodgings.
Barracks are being built. 1t Is reported,
at three race-tracks outside of Rio Ja-
neiro, and the poor people OF the city viii
be housed In them during the tremendous
conflict which Is expected to rage when
President Peixoto's 1900 men shall be
ready TO turn their hilltop batteries on
Admiral da Gama's force OF sV
Admiral de MelIo Is said TO be sulking
at Paranagua. and General Gomercindo
Saraiya Is reported to be returning south
through Parana. having abandoned his
intention OF marching on the Brazilian
capital because General oscur: with $500
government troops Is proceeding north
ward from Rio Grande do Sui
The employees Of the East Chicago Iron
and Steel Company on Thursday night
refused q reduction OF ts IL per cent. IN
wages. The plant is therefore closed.
and Superintendent Ross has informed tho
rat!ons next Monday with non-union men,
II necessary. Trouble b expected