Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1895-01-03

Scnate, to succeed Lieu,enant-d -dovernos
6axton.
The express companies have d.,.ns
mined TO increase the rates for carrylna
money packages.
The Mobile Board OF Health yesterday
issued a certificate for the burial OF Sophia
Piunkett tcolored), aged iS years"
Twenty-seven Anarchists who were I'm.
prisoned nj Barcelona drring the dyna-
mite campaign have been released, and T.
have left the city.
Naval ordnance officers had trial Of
the Fletcher 3-inch rapld-firng fieid.x,Iu
at Indian Head yesterday, and the hst3
were not conclusive.
George Wightman. is-year old boy.
and Reuben Johnson, a young man. wers
drowned while skating on James river
near Lyncbburg yesterday.
The london Morning Post hear. from
Vienna that Tahcin pasba. Governor OF
Bitlis has been essasslnated by an Ar
menian. who committed suicide before he
could be arrested.
A riot between Magyars and Slavonian,
took place al Sheppton. PA. Tlesdly
night, In which one man was fatally in
Jured, dozen others dangerously injured.
and two women stabbed.
Samuel c. scely. the defauliing book.
keeper OF the National Shoe ana leather
the Ludlow-Street jall 90 the Kings
county penitentiary yesterday afternoon.
There Is a great scarcity q weaycrs in
the New Bedford mills; two of the estsb-
lishmentS have advanced wages 10 try
TO Induce weavers TO go 10 New Bedford,
and IL Is reported that other mills wills
follow the example thus set.
Governor Flshbacl. ot Arkansas. offer,
reward OF s2D0 each Tor the capture
and conviction Of the six men who at
tempted TO rob the passenger train on
the Cotton-Belt road at Buena Vista
Monday night, and the railroad company
has offered ike reward.
The Republicans, in legislative caucus
at Lansing. Mich, yesterday afternoon,
placed In nomination Senator James Mo-
MILAN for the long term as United States
| Senator, which nomination meals elec-
| tion as there Is only one Democrat in tha
| Legislature.
A fine has been imposed upon Captain
Gavin, OF the British steamship la,ire-
| stina: for taking phenacetine illegally into
| the port Of Philadelphia. the fne amount.
| ing TO the value OF the seized drug. which
| will be determined by government ap-
| praiser, while the seized drug will also
| be forfeited.
| The London News correspondent In Ber.
| lin reports under reserve that the Enr.
peror spoke TO the generals Tue csday %
| flling up the half battaiions. and ths
| Tagleblatt. in Berlin. says the Emperor
! alluded also to the Dreyfus scandal in
Paris, and the hostile attitude ot thu
| French press.
| Dispatches from Apia. Samoa. say that
| serious disturbances have occurred IN the
| district round the town. No attempt has
| been made to collect the years taxes.
| One native has been shot and others have
been imprisoned for killing three OF their
| fellow-tribesmen. whose bodies. when
they were arrested. they were making
ready to eat.
The packers and shippers OF cattle ami
| dressed beef for export In Chicago were
much alarmed yesterday 20 read of IN.
| latest embargo action Of the European
| authorl,ies--the closing OF Antwerp 10
| American beef-and all the livestock
exchanges in the West will take concert
ed action for the purpose of prevailing
on Congress TO bring about by legislation
removal Of the embargo.
The dividends on the stocks OF the Rens-
selaer and Saratoga AMI the Albany AMI
Susquehanna railroads were paid yester-
day less per cent. deducted for the In
come-tax, but all the banks paying diyi-
dends In New York yesterday did not
deduct this tax, since generally they viii
await the effort to test the constitution
ality Of the law before deciding what ac-
tion shall be taken on dividends.
The London Chronicles Moscow corr
respondent says that when the names oc
officers nominated for promotion by ths
Minister OF War and Marine were sub
mitted TO the czar. with the hitherto Gus
tomary details concerning the nominees.
His Majesty struck hts pen through IN,
column headed religion, remarking that
this I'm no way concerned him. and there
il good reason 10 believe, II is continued,
that the same spirit az tolerance vii,
oyerspread Russia when the Car fuHy
assumes the reins OF power.
David Holmes, president OF the Annals
nation OF WAIVERS OF England. AZ
dressed large audience IN Fan River,
Mass, last night. and said. among o,heE
| things that in Loncanshire II 10 gene
rally agreed that trades unions have
been the best instrument at bani WIZ
which the worklng1nen might pfotef,
their interests and combat demands Il
the masters: and that II might be sci
down as n general principle. as the r.
suit of English experience, hat wherever
J trades uniOrr eAist thera VIII ne foun'
| the best conditions OF lahor' ana tbet'
the best wages PAID.
The Olcott- Earle Committee, which has
unsuccessfully endeavOrei 20 reorganze
the Reading railroad. yesterday applied ~
| the Pennsylvania Company Tor insurance
| on Lives and Granting Annulues, as tIh-
tees OF the general and preference mort
cages to institute foreclosure proceeding. /.
and the matter WAS referred 20 John g.
johnson. counsel for the trustees; but II
is believed In financial circles that w
committees threat OF foreclosure - not
seriously Intended, and that the proceed
ings VIII eventually be abandonfi
whether a new reorganization plan, which
will be formulated. shall be adopted OF
not.
The two men who robbed the oxpr'sr'
| car of an Alabama Great Southern rt3-
senger train at Lauderdale.. Miss, Mon
day night. boarded north-bound MOO,
and Ohio passenger train At Nafk,et
| o.
| o,i,cer Scott al Macon. In company VIII
a deputy United States marshal. attempt,
| ea 10 arrest them. but tho larger ol
the two robbers Jumped on the deputy
ordered Ofiieer Scott 10 drop his gun
and release his partner. which was done
when the desperadses cooliy took pos
session OF both officers pistols and snoi
guns, bade them good morning, ana if''
for a swamp near by: