Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1894-10-10
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Bar silver IN London yesterday. 293-Sd.
The official trial Of the battlcship Maine
will take place next Monday.
Earl Grey. formerly British Secretary
OF stat Tor the Colonies, il dead.
The Italian government has declined to
spend an additional $25o.er 10 complete
til warships which have long been in
cours- of construction.
\ dispatch to the Pall-Mall Gazette,
London, from Bucnos Ayres. says that
there is no truth in the report that Jdbcz
Balfour has escaped from custody.
\ light frost is reported to have oc-
cured in West Tennessee. North Missis-
sippl and Eastern Arkansas Monday
night. the damage 10 cotton, 1t is believed,
being considerable.
The Tudor Iron-Works ut East st.
Louis were partly destroyed by fire yes
terIay. Loss Oh machinery, &0,o': on
building. $1,000. Noarly 90 men thrown
cut of employment.
New mills were started up at the
American Tin-Plate Factory. Elwoof.
Ind. Monday night. and President Leeds
has informed the men that there will be
no reduction in wages.
Yesterday was the first day for tho
registration OF voters in New York city,
and reports received At the Bureau OF
Elections during tho day indicated that
tn registration WAS heavy.
In order 70 secure n crew for the cruz
ser Minneapolis, Secretary Herbert has de-
cidtl u put the coast-defence monitor
Miantonomah out Of commission, and
utilize tho men NV on that vessel.
During a fog yesterday a freight train
running over a Embarrassing. near
Chartram, Kant. England. dashed into
a wagon full Of hop-pickers. and eight OF
the people were killed and five badly in
jLred.
1t is reported that the reinforcements
Of marines from England for the British
squadron In Chinese waters VIII go TO
their destination BY way Of the Canadian
Pacific railway. as that is considered the
quickest rOut-.
Tho first receipts Of Louisiana sugar.
sixty barrels, from M4sOn's Glenwcod
plantation. Assumption parish. was sold at
the New Orleans Sugar Exchange yester-
day by Murphy * Flrwell t. y. K. Seago &
Co. for $50, the sugar being classed az
yellow clarified.
The hot-ron department Of the More
wood Tin-Plate Mills, Gas city, Ind,
closed down indefinitely yesterday, the
owners saying thoy cannot run the roll
department unless a reduction Of - per
cent. In wages is made, Il the men
refusing TO accept this.
Bids were opened al the Navy Depart
ment. Washington. yesterday for general
supplies for the New York and Norfolk
navy-yards. the supplies called for in
,f..44ar Ts,sI.r ZIn.s hgF I'll NglY - colt
beef. rice. tea. bacon. etc, and the lowest
bidders offered 10 furnish them for 81 SCI.
1t is understood that II the Car decides,
as 1t is expected he will. upon Il form Of
regency during his absence from Russia,
the Czarowitch will not be appointed
Regent: but he VIII be entrusted by a
special declaration OF the Car with the
direction OF state affairs. the title OF
regent being carefully avoided.
After one Of the l~Iveliest times for
many years at a county convention In
New York city. the New York State De-
mOcracy last eYenlnB nominated the choice
OF the committee Of seventy, Colonel
William l.. Strong for Mayor, John w.
Golf for Recorder. and Henry Il. Beck
nan for Jus,ic" Of the Supreme Court.
Secretary Carlisle yesterday received
ANiA +hNAAAAH 80 Nf
opinion. I'm which ne holds that the word
wool as used in the woollen schedule Of
the new tariff act refers TO the hair Of
the sheep only, and that the new and
lower duties on goods made OF the hair
OF other animals went into effect on the
signing of the act.
Tbs Berlin Freislnnige Zeitung says:
1--WE are drifting into a customs war
with America for - Tho rarpoan nam.
rians succeed in getting Chancellor Won
Caprivi on their side and the United
States refuse TO modify the sugar tariff,
reprisals by Germany will mean an in
crease OF the grain-duty from 80 TO 80
marks, and cOunter-reprisals by the
United States will follow, which will dam
age German ten lines more
than did the Russian tariff war"
Governor Tilman declared in an inter-
view yesterday that 'constabIes will go TO
work and search all places where they
have reason TO know that liquors are
kept. and that private residences Will
not be exempt when they are made
depots for the storage OF whiskey." he
says the town people have nothing TO
gain and everything to lose by their OPP
position to the enforcement OF the dis
pensary-law. In case mayors and the
police fal TO cooperate with the con-
stables, such municipalities will receive
no share Of the profits. and the Legisla-
ture VIII likely institute police systems
In them under control OF the State.
The Lexow Police Investigating Com
mlttee. New York. resumed work yester-
day. and among the crowd hat gathered
early in the courtroom were several po-
lice captains. whose faces had not been
seen there. before. and n host of fresh
witnesses, including a man who had
wanted to be a policeman. and was
sWlndled III the attempt: In iron-moulder,
who says he was robbed by a policeman.
warden Ledwith. OF the Police-Court
prisons. who told the committee about
abuses In those institutions which ne was
investigating. and Agent T. Fourget, of
the French Steamship Line. who testified
that his company paid 800 TO the police
for extra services, SO a week to the
policeman on the pier. and $50 To other
police officials.
Or Even Criminals.