Birmingham age-herald., 1895-05-07


 | further bulletins in regard to his condt- l ton will be issued.
 At it's meeting at 1:SO o'clock yesterday l the new police board of New York ] elected Theodore Roosevelt president and Avery Andrews treasurer. The comptroller of the currency has l declared dividends as follows: First div dend 20 per cent, City National bank of Quanah, Tex; first dividend, 15 per cent, First National bank of Johnson City, l Tenn. The Riverside mill weavers who re- | mained at work after the strike in that concern last week have voted to go out. There are about sixty of these weavers. | including some of the best two-loom weavers in Olneyville.
 1 Strauss & Sons tannery, postal sta l ton "A, two private dwellings, P. s. Groben's coal yard, with barnes, horses
 and several freight cars. were destroyed | by fire at East Buffalo early yesterday l morning The loss may reach $250,090, with about $125,00o insurance. MT. Gladstone has written a letter to | the Anglo-Armenian association in l which he says Apart from the local facts, of which I will not speak, the con | duct of the sultan and porte in connec-
 
 mind, worse than their conduct in re- l gard to Bulgaria in 1S76."
 l Commissioner Miller yesterday des- l ignated Samuel l.. Rogers, chief deputy, l to take charge of the office of the Fifth l North Carolina Internal Revenue dis 1 trict at Asheville, N. C.. and to act as l collector until a successor to Collector l Melvin E. Carter. who died Sunday, l shall have been appointed by the presi- 1 dent.
 Rumors, which have been for some l time In circulation, that Col. William G. l Rice of Albany will succeed MT. Roose- l welt as civil service commissioner if he l so desires, are confirmed. The president l has offered the vacant commissonership l to Colonel Rice, and it IS und ,rstood he l will accept. MT Lyman's successor has
 not yet been fully determined upon. l The 1S2nd ballot of the contest for cleo l tion of United States senator was taken l at noon at Dover, Del, and resulted as l follows; Higgins, republican, 6; Addicks, l republican, 6; Massey republican, 6; | Pennewill republican, l. Ridgely, dem-
 ocrat, g.; Tunnel, democrat, 1. Massey | has written a letterto the men who have | been voting for him, declining the fur
 ther use of his name The legislature I will adjourn Thursday unless the vote | on adjournment should be reconsidered | @S | for.
 Water spouts caused much damage in | southern Ohio, southeastern Indiana and | northwestern Kentucky Sunday night | At McGonigeS station crops suffered l greatly. Much damage was done around | New Boston. About two miles from liar | rodsburg, Ky, water spout inundated
 the country. The water was 3 feet deep
 in the fields, carrying logs and fences int l, T. | down. a lot of outhouses carried away | and crops damaged. There was terrific | cloudburst Sunday between Larrent and | Fincastle, Ky, causing a big landslide. | The north fork of the Kentucky river | rose feet in one hour.
 Five persons were drowned at Cars | rude lake, Fort Collins, Col, Sunday.
 The dead are: Ray Badger. Denver, aged | 19; Robert Craig, Fort Collins, aged 20; | - Carsrude, son of Fl. C. ,Carsrude
 - Carsrude, daughter of H. c. Cars | rude; - Carsrude, daughter of H. c. | Carsrude The party went out fishing
 in a lealy old craft. Badger, becoming | frightened, tried to paddle to the shore | and in some way upset the boat, which | rude grasped his eldest daughter and | struggled through the weeds to the
 shore. The other five sank before aid | could be summoned. The Carsrudes are | wealthy dHu elHlOliS luS llIol pSOpic Ol | Colorado,a as also are the parents of Craig | and Badger.
 In the case of David B. Sayre, the
 naval paymaster's clerk sentenced by | court-martial to two years mprison-
 ment for embezzlement of the paymas-
 ters funds, the supreme court of the
 United States yesterday, in an opinion
 rendered by Justice Gray, said that
 members of the regular army and
 n mill 1ax
 at all times and the militia while
 in the service of the United
 States. Judgments of courts martial
 were not subject to review by civil
 courts on writs of habeas corpus, and
 the judgment of Judge Hughes, in the
 Eastern district of Virginia, discharging
 Sayre, was reversed, with instructions to
 remand him to the custody of the mil
 itary officials.
 The cruiser Marblehead joined the flag
 ship San Francisco at Naples yesterday tmorning, after a. two weeks cruise along T the eastern end of the Mediterranean, ,I under orders from Washington to visit II Syrian ports and notify local authori- ties that American missionaries would be forcibly protected in case of any up- Fl rising. This action was due to reports II received by the state department ex- l pressing fear of similar occurrences to d those in Armenia The visit of the two American vessels, in the opinion of the I consular officers and missionaries, has < had most salutary effect, not only re- ,I sulting in the dissipation of all plots I against Christians, but making an inn 7 pression that it is thought will last for | some time.
 pj Jabez Spencer Balfour, the abscondinl
 ex-member of parliament, who was re x sponsble for the collapse of the Libera , tor Building association and other com
 panies, whereby thousands of investor.