Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1895-10-08
TeIcgrnphic Briefs.


| tress. died
London.-Admiral Sir James Robert
| Drummond Roberts. Of her Majesty
/ navy, retired, died. aged SO years
/ New York.-Georee l. Tyson, the presi-
/ dent OF the American News Company
died at his country home In Riverside
/ Conn
Berlin.-M. De Witte. Russian Minister
| of Foreign Affairs, who has been vlsitinp
! Germany for some time past, started ioi
/ ST. Petersburg.
Rockford. Ill.-The Graham Cotton-Mills
| Company has confessed judgment In the
| Circuit Court in favor OF the Second Ma
tional Bank for $3.50
port Townsend, Wash.-The American
schooner Crona arrived from Honolulu
The captain reports the cholera on the
decrease and the scare rapidly dying out.
Washington, ID. C.-The Post-OfIice De
partment was advised OF wholesale and
systematic robberies of mail matter AZ
Nashville, Tenn, by two drivers of mail
wagons.
Hammond Ind.-An alarming spread OF
diphtheria In this city has compelled the
authorities To take measures TO close all
the schools, in order TO check the raw
ages of the disease.
Green Bay. Wis.-Fire destroyed the
docks of the Murphy Lumber Company
together with millions of feet OF logs and
lumber, and a number Of buildings. Loss,
Sl00000 insurance, SbLOU.
Birmingham. Ala.-A small lamp ex-
plOded at the home Of Mr.. w. II. Evatt
at Woodlawn. suburb Of Birmingham,
resulting in the death OF two sisters
Dora and Adde Evatt-aged Is and TO-,
respectively.
claim of the United States to the harbor
of the city Of Washington in the Potomac
river and Eastern Branch was maintain
ed by the Supreme Court OF the District
OF Columbia over those OF all other claim
ants.
Springfield Ill-The sangamon county
grand Jury made its final report on the
legislative Doodle investigation and was
discharged, and an Indictment was return
ed against Representative Miiroy II
Gibson of Chicago. for bribery In connec-
gsrding building and loan associations.
Topeka. Kan.-Opposition to the Repuh-
ncan marty in Franklin county resulted
Saturday in a fusion. which has attracted
much attention and comment among po-
Utical leaders. The Democrats, Populists
and Prohibitionists Joined in the nomi
nation of a county ticket. giving each
party an equal number of candidates.
Colon.-The German and British Min
listers at Bogota. Mr.. Jenner and DR..
I.uhrsen, have demanded the protection
of the authorities against pOpuldT Nlo-
lence and their respective legations are
being guarded by the police The trouble
eminent toward German and English
contractors.
Habana, Cuba-Further details have
been received of the loss Of life and dam
age caused by the heavy rains Of septem
hsr s0to Several localities In the Vuelto
Abaio. the great tobacco-growing district.
were Inundated. Ii Is known that fifty-six
nersons were drowned, and II is feared
that the number may be increased when
the remote hamlets are heard from.
Washington, ID. C.-Attorney- General
Harmon reiterated his statement. made
last week. that the bett-F'itzsimmons
aobt will not come OF on any ground over
.hich the United States has Jurisdiction.
The talk that the Six Nations. or other
- their reservations or country, and
by adopting the pI ,h. ,ssr as mem,
,n.a na,e OF Federal jurisdiction. Is re-
sarded in Federal legal circles as simply
nonsense. without basis OF fact;