Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1895-04-04
TeIpp,rnDhfc briefs.

TeIegrnphic Briefs.
Maceo's band Of insurgents has landed
| In Cuba.
Mrs. Paran Stevens. of New York, died
Yesterday afternoon OF pneumonia
| brought on by an attack of the grip.
The Jury in the case of August W.
| Lindholm, eA-Assistant Secretary OF state
Michigan, charged with etnoezzleihent'
rendered verdict of not guilty last eve
ming.
The Ohio miners yesterday. afternoon
authorized the sending of a dispatch TO
| the striking miners at Pittsburg, urging
| them 20 stand for the mand made ana
promising ana.
The Springfield dll) ost,oiilce was
robbed Of about 500 yestsrddy' tne 3 yUo
being the neatest and most mysterious
one ever put up in the city named, ana
there being little clue to the perpetrators
John Murphy was convicted Tuesday at
Daphne, Baldwin county. Ala. OF the
| murder OF Ia. Cameron. ana ms PUNISH
ment fixed at life Imprisonment, haVln7
/ shot Cameron in May, ISL at lumber
| camp.
Another ballot was taken yesterday by
! the Delaware Legislature for United
| States Senator. and the vote stood: His-
| gins. .; AGdicks. .: MASSEY, 8; kllgiey
| tDemocraO. 10; Tunnel DemocraO. /. Ao-
, sent >.
Tuscany has been shaken by earth.
| ouakes several times this week. and At
! Montepulciano. I'm Central ltaly, roofs
were shaken down, three buildings wer2
| wrecked. and two persons were killed anu
| ten or twelve injured.
| Late last night II was reported In
| I.vnchbure that j. W. Martin, a proml-
nent contractor OF that city. had been
! drowned near Big Island. va. while tish-
/ ing yesterday afternoon, hut me report
had not a. last accounts been confirmed.
Rev. George W. Carter, Of Portsmouth,
| lawyer. soldier and journalist aSed sky
| odd years. and Miss Virginia Statham, OF
! Lvnchburg aged 20, were married last
! night I'm Washington city at the home OF
| Dr ". p Carr, son-in-law OF the
| groom's.
Governor Stone yesterday issued n call
! for an extra session OF the Missouri
! LEGISLATURE April 23d, to consider % me
! fellow-serylnt bill. ~ pure-election bill.
! and CD anti-lObby legislation. the feature
! OF the message being scathnS arraign-
ment of lobbying.
TIL. trial Of the action Of Oscar Wilde
| against the Marquis az Queensberry Tor
! lib was begun at the Ola Bailey, Lonc9n'
! Yesterday. Mr. Wilde testifying, ana de-
/ nying generally and specifically all the
! charges Of immortality brought against
| him by the Marquis.
The Pittsburg and Cincinnati Packet
| Companys steamer Iron Queen was
burnad yesterday al Racine, O.. on the
Ohio river. and the eham1hermaid, ~ h rs.
frightened. jumped off the rail into the
water, and was drowned
Tn, fight last night 1T Coney Island.
| y. Y, between Joe Wolcott. the Boston
negro, and Nick Dunn, Of Australia was
won 10y Wolcott. VINO had Dunn All bur
| the police stopped the fight. and the r.
| fierce declared Wolcott the winner.
| A cyclone at Jacksonville, Ga, Tues
day afternoon wrecked a negro Baptist
| church. i'm which a school was in pro-
| Children were buried in the debris, but all
| were taken out alive. though eighteen OF
| the children were seriously injured.
John Emlson. at one time a deacon in
| a Brooklyn church, who pleaded guilty to
| grand larceny IN the first degree, was
| Sentenced to Sing Sing for four years
| Yesterday at New York. having stolen
| $4,000 from the Irish-linen house OF Fen
| ton. Conner & Co.. or Beifast' anu ioS'
| it all
In the upper, house Of the Pruss is y
| moved to refer to a special committee
| Count Won Merbachs proposal TO ac-
! celerate the settlement Of the currency
| situation by means OF an internauonal
| agreement. and the motion was carried
| HlAibul NtbdNN.
| Captain Robert Andrews. Of the
schooner sydney $. Jones; WaynInI,gS,t ,s
| (coloredD all OF Baltimore. were drown q
| in the Magothy river TUESDAY night, nav
! ing lust completed the discharge OF the
| schOOners cargo into an old scow, When
| the latter sorang a leak and sank.
| A large and enthusiastic meeting was
| held as Knoxville, Tenn, yesterday In
| the interest of a railroad from the East
| Tennessee coal-helds TO the South Atlantic
| Seab0ard at either Charleston or Port
Royal. representatives being present from
| Kentucky, Tennessee, North Carolina,
| South Carolina, and Georgia.
The Massachusetts, mill-men who are
| travelling i'm the South are being as
| tonlshed by the manifestations or good
| will being made 10 them by southern
| people. and are finding advantages greater
| than they expected. They left Charlotte,
| y. C., last night via me So9the1rn rail-
way for mill points In South Carolina.
Mr.. A. J. Bal'our. Member Of Parlia-
ment, in an address before me Bimets tic
| England. yesterday. said that the time
! was not far distant when men or all
parties would agree to introduce INTO IN.
| ternatiOnal transactions some medium OF
| exchange less hurtful 70 Industry tnan
the present absurd system.
| The mystery OF the murdered negro
! woman. whose body was found on Sixth
| avenue New York. Sunday. IS entirely
cleared up The woman's name was Mary
| Martin. and the murderer IS william
Caesar She had abandoned her husband
and had been living with Caesar for seve
| raj months In a quarrel on Friday nlSu'
he killed her by choking.
The British steamship Ethelred. from
| Bostor has arrived at Port Antonio
Jamaica. and Captain Hopkins who com.
mands her says that wnen she was OIL
| cane Maysi Spanish gunooat bore dowr
upon her. He hoisted the British nag
and the gunboat fred a shot across ths
Ethelreds bows. She hove 10, ana th'
ginboaf steamed around without ex,
chanTing signals She then steamed
away. and the Ethelred proceeded on hei
voyage.
Greater CONSERVATION could not have
been created among the fepuoilcai
leaders OF Newark. y. j., than wa
caused by the discovery on Tuesday ira
the Voorheesl supplement to the electloi
laws had ALREADY gone into erect alls
would affect the spring election. IL haVlnl
| generally been supposed that the &c
| would not be operative until July. laklni
| effect now. IL wipes OUT the County Boai.
~ Registry and Elections, and posssps
| the district election officers; taxes a"nas
from the Court OF Common iieas "
newer OF revising the registry lists iot w
annroaching election; possibly makes nu'
and void the registration OF luesaass nav,