Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1895-04-25
TELEGRAPHIC TICKS.
Latest from tie Wires That Entifcle
the Globe.
noDcE-roDcn or HAPPENINGS.
Dotngs and sunerinss of n Day In
Bricf-Thc Lesser News BoileA
Down to the Lowest Point
Possible.
Possible.

Lieutenant c. A. Foster has been placed
on the retired list OF the navy, to date
from April ed.
O'Donovan RosGa's Iccturing tour abroad
has been very unsuccessful. and ne IL
about 10 return to this country.
Proust and Devines. leaders Of the
Paris omnibus strikers, have been arrest
ed for melting the men TO violence
The body supposed TO he that OF Gene
raj Antonio Maceo. the Cuban insuTgent
leader, has been finally identified as that
OF his brother, Jose.
The pIaning-mIl OF the RelnohII Lumber
Company. Lebanon. Pa. and $4,000 worth
Of lumber were burned yesterday. Loss,
10000; insurance. $1,000
The London Daily News announces pos
itively that England will not act In con-
cert with the Continental Powers regard
ing the Shimonoseki treaty.
The Democratic Executive Committee
OF Mississippi yesterday. by vote OF
II TO II. decided to call q state primary
for the nomination of all State officers.
The London Daily News says: We un-
dcrstand that the governme mt viii not
| to interfere with the results OF japanese
| victories"
The parliamentary election In the Mid
| die Division OF Norfolk tuesday resulted
| In the return Of Mr.. Guerdon uiberaD.
| by a vote OF 4.ll2 to S,9Oi for Wilson
| OnionisD.
The London Standard publishes a rumor
| from an untrustworthy source to the
| effect that Li-Hung-Chang has had re-
lapse, and Is suffering from occasional
| fits Of fever.
| Near Union, Ala. Tuesday ]. Marshali
| Chambers killed Harvey a. Mize IN a
public road b. shooting him WIN pis'ol
| five times, a feud having existed between
| them for some time.
| Captain Wrkie. of the steamship Bow
| den. Of Baltimore, from Port Antony
| Ja reports a large steamer, apparently
| Of about $50 tons. ashore at cape RAISE
| south of Cape Henry.
! The jury in the case Of the Countess
| Russell against her husband, Earl Kus-
| sci. for the restoration OF her con)ugai
| rights. yesterday returned verdict IN
| favor of the husband.
| A battle was fought on Sunday at
| Ramon Jaguas. Cuba, but little Is known
Of the details beyond the fact that the
insurgents were repulsed. and Captain
| Julian Miranda was killed.
| A special from Edgetleld c., says
| that yesterday In the store OF Hammond
\ & Co. there e. l.. Jones shot ana kllied
| John &. SwearinGen. VINO Is prothel-
| in-law Of Senator Tillmans.
| Lieutenant benjamin Gsllego. who was
| sentenced b. court-mariial in CUBA 10
| be shot. was saved by a cablegram from
| tn Queen Regent. committing MS SEN
| ,ence to life-imprisonment.
| The London Times correspondent In
| Hong Kong says: THE soldiery are rot
! ing in North Formosa. Twenty-eight
| have been killed. including two officers,
| and fifty have been wounded
The Naval Board Of Bureau Chiefs has
| failed 10 agree on designs for the SIX
| Ight-draught gunboats authorized by the
last Congress. and will report their disa-
! greement 10 Secretary Herbert
| Comptroller Eckels said yesterday that
| the shortage in the Merchants and Farm
| era National Bank. OF Charlotte. y. e.
| would not affect the solvency OF the oa"h'
| SO far as he had been advised.
| The Democratic members OF the Mas
| sachusetts Legislature met at noon YES
/
] mously nominated James f. Grinneli' OF
| Springfield for State Treasurer
Cedar Keys. Fla. reports that the story
sent out from Birmingham. Ala, ohy
/ or so ago TO the effect that 800 filibus-
terers had sailed from Cedar Keys Tor
| Cuba Is the taldest sort of a rake.
| The Dnieper river has overlooked the
| district of Kief and the Chernigon, 4o
i 1.r-
| sons have been drowned. and an enormous
| amount Of property has been damaged.
The warships New York, Columbia. ana
| Cincinnati arrived at Key West yester
| dav and the New York and Columbia
| sailed for New York in the afternoon.
the Cincinnati remaining In the harbor
Governor Brown, of Maryland. has
fixed Friday, June DIST. as the date OF
execution in the case oil Horace 'oo3v,
| (colored). sentenced 10 death In Cecil
county for the murder Of Maggie Pitts.
The Supreme Court OF Wisconsin hand
| ed down a decision establishing the va
| lidltv of the law which provides that life
,mnr,sonment operates as a decree Of
absolute divorce without further lega'
| proceedings.
| Admiral Meade has Informed the Navy
L
NJ the Minneapolis was successful, but
the department will not finally accept
the vessel until the official record Is re-
| ceived by mail.
| II II. KohIsaat. the new owner of the
| Chicago Times Herald. offered Mr. Eck'
els. the Comptroller OF the Treasury, a
large salary, said to be nearly $1,000 a
| wear. TO 20 TO Chicago and become imam
cial editor of that paper.
The 12Oth ballot for United States sena
tor at Dover. Del, yesterday. resulted
Higgins Republican). s: Addicks Repub
lican). 6; Pennewill Republican), 4; Mas
sey Republican,. 3; Ridgley DemocraU
IS: Tunnel OemocraD, ].
| Dispatches from Madagascar say that
on April 81 the Hova camp at MiadaAa
was captured by the French. the native
loss being 100 killed and many more
wounded, while no Frenchmen were
killed and only three were wounded.
In the British House of Commons yes
terday Mr.. r. W. Russelrs bill providing
for the punctuation of the existing tenn
norarv regulation closing the drinking
saloons in ireland on Sunday passet
jts second reading by a vote OF l6S to Co..
| A systematic effort will be made b,
the Honest Money League" recently or
| eanized in Illinois, TO capture the Cook
| county delegates to the State convention
which is 10 define the position of tn
State Democracy on the monetary ques
ticn.
| A special from Newcastle. Pa, says
The furnace operators have just held ;
meeting here and decided to shove tn
old stock and make the shutdown com
| he