Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1895-10-17
Tctenrnuhtc IBripfs.

DR. William T. sylvester. president or
the city Council o: jacksonville Fla,
died yesterday morning.
The liabilities Of i. Mosher & Son. lum-
ber-dealers, Of Bay City Mich, who failed
last week. 1t Is now believed, will reach
$4,000
President Cleveland and his family will
20 t. Woodley. their country home. near
Washington. in about ten days. and re-
main there until cold weather sets in.
\ speclaI from Griffin. Ga. says that
Captain John Mcintosh Kell is suffering
at his home from an apoplectic stroke.
/ lie is Adjutant-General OF the state OF
Georgia.
The total number OF cases Of cholera
at Damietta, Egypt. up TO the evening
Of October 18th WAS sixteen, ana She
number Of deaths up To the same time
was four
Tn. Thomas Iron Company. Of Allen
town. Pa. mas gLlddened rs 80 employees
bv voluntarily Increasing wages 10 per
cent. the advance being the second one
within few months.
John Thiemou, n Frenchman. met Joe
Bates last night on dark street corner,
in Chattanooga. ard stabbed him in three
places with a long -bladed knife, two or
the cuts piercing 10 the lungs.
The steamer Woodhall. now at New
Orleans, Is the object Of Sus picion by the
Spanish Minister in this country, and ne
IL in constant commune lrlOU WIN lat
state Department about the matter.
Mayor Strong. OF New York is going to
atlanta to visit the exposition November
18th. or Manhattan-Day. which is Evacua-
ZION Day in New York and the Old Guard
IS going with him as a guard Of honor.
Governor Brown. Of Maryland. last
night filled the vacancies in the boagd
Of Election Supervisors by the appoint
ment Of Charles !. Bonaparte and Thomas
j. Lanahan, the latter succeeding Dr.
Carnes.
Mrs. Miner living near Magnolia, Ark,
locked two children. aged 6 and years,
in a room while she went to a ncighbors
home While gone the house caught rre
and the children We're crematci The
mother it is thought. will lose her mind.
John johnson. late OF the steam dredge
Alabama At work on the government i'm
prOVement IN the savannah river. met
a horrible death yesterday. His head was
caught between Two heavy timDtrs, ana
was crushed 10 pup.
James r. Barnett. who. with John u.
Fard-n. robbed. the Adams Express Com
pany at Terre Hsute Ind. of $4,000. was
arrested in New Ct! ans Tuesday night
and $40 Of the money was found on his
person. lie denies any completely IN the
robbery, however.
The battleShip Indiana was given q pre-
liminary run over the official trial-cCurse
Yesterday. AMI was 50 successful that
when she reached the upper end Of the
course Mr. Edwin =. Cramp decided tndt
IL was unnecessary 10 speed her back
again. Her average speed was 1881.
The state Department has received from
T. B Seat. United states Consular Agent
at Biuefeds Nicaragua. "A report relative
T. the withdrawal Of the MOrgan-Line
steamships from that port which shows
that the Morgan Company was not salts
fed with its treatment by the Nicara-
guam Government.
PlacarGs have been posted about the
city OF Prague annuling the state Of
ago because OF the political troubles
caused by :he opposition Of the young
Czcchs 20 the government and the demon
STATIONS they made.
a dispatch from Habana to the Madrid
imparcial SAYS mat a government column
Under colonel Sramor left BaraO on the
9TH instant. ana on the 9th had an en-
counter with GO insurgents and defeated
them the insurgents losing a men killed
and many injur-l, and the gov rnment one
man killed and twelve men wounded.
The colored national convention, which
was 10 have met IN baltimore. October
9Th. convened in Washington city yester-
day. james W. Poe. Of North Carolina.
was elected president, and j. W Coles
of Virginia secretary. .rhe election of
Poe is regarded as an indication that the
Mckinley people VIII dominate the con-
ventlon
JEFF Ellis the negro who committed an
assault on Miss Prater near Braden,
Ienn., was lynched near the scene OF his
crime at midnight Tuesday by a mob Of
citizens. who formed a procession and
escorted him TO the scene OF his crime
10 be formally Identified by his victim
before being put To death. His ears and
fingers were cut of, and he was other
wise mutilated, and then hanged to
telegraph-pole.