Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1895-01-16
razeweiI's Low Thermometer.
Telegraphic Briefs.

The pooling bill Will be reported 20 the
Senate today.
There are no fresh developments In the
Dover tN. H. National Bank sensation.
The Stadt Theatre. mt Milwaukee was
damaged by FIRE yesterday 10 the extent
Of sl-DOcp.
l.. b. Toomer (colored) was arrested in
Savannah last night. charged with iorg-
ing pension checks.
The cruiser Atlanta arrived at Truxlllo.
Honduras, Monday, and Will remain there
until further orders.
The Senate yesterday confirmed the
nomination Of Robert 5. Link to be post
master at Abbeyille. ). {.
The strike at l.. NJ Reynolds's shce-
factory, Brockton, Mass. was settled at
noon yesterday In manner satisfactory
10 all parties.
The London Anti-Gambllng League has
obtained a summons against the British
jockey club for permitting betting on
Newmarket Heath.
G. y. Scompers committed suicide yes
tcrday at Midwife, Ga. by blowing out
hs brains with a shotgun. Financial
trouble the cause.
The Dover q h Five-Csnt Savings
Bank. Of which the late defau.ting cashier
Isaac Abbott, was treasurer, has gone
into the hands Of a receiver.
Robert Ely, Attorney General OF Geor-
gia under Governor Colquitt, died yes
teriay in the county almshOuse at AT
lanta. Drink and morphine wrecked
him.
\ dispatch from Shanghai says the de-
parture of the Chinese peace ENJOYS for
Japan has been further delayed owing To
the nee ssity OF their awaiting orders
from Peklng.
The Paris police have arrested a we'll
known Anarchist who was absent from
his home on Saturday night, and 1t is be-
lieved that he Is the man who caused
the bomb explosion in the Rue Monceau
that night.
\ special committee appointed by the
Young Mems Business League. OF Charles
ton, ). c., has issued an address 10 the
people OF South Carolina. calling upon
them 10 contribute 10 the relief of the
Nebraska sufferers.
a dispatch from Madrid says the Span
ish Government will refuse 10 increase
the tariff upon foreign cereals. but Will
offer other compensation to home pro-
ducers and protectionists, who are less
aggressive than they were formerly
General Baratieri has telegraphs1 u
the Italian War Office from MassOwah
that the necessity for immediate reinforce
ment of the Italian troops in Africa is
most urgent, and 1t has been decided az
Rome 10 dispatch several battalons OF
troops 70 Africa without delay.
y Gl~pdtcn from tne + 90, uNlfE Oite OF
January 18th. says IL Is rumOred that the
japanese have landed in Shan-Tung.
twenty-five miles south Of Wei-Hai-We
and that the British feet is cruising in
the waters in that vicinity watching the
movements OF the invading force.
Judge Butler in the United States Dis
trict Court at Philadelphia, yesterday, sen-
fenced John H. Durland, president OF the
Provident Bond and Inves ,ment Company.
VINO was convicted December .th Of using
the mails in carrying on scheme 10 de-
fraud. 10 ten months Imprisonment IN
Moyamensing prison, and 10 pay hne
OF 500.
A tran-load OF provisions lett Atlanta
last night for the Nebraska sufferers
There were twenty-One cars. Tney were
loaded with corn. -four meat sugar ant
coal and the train was decorated with
bunting and bore on each side banner
announcing that the ears were Georgia
contribution TO the needs or the west
erners.
Secretary Herbert has rendered de-
cision the case OF Nayal-Cadst bennett.
OF Maine, which has attracted SO mucn
attention saying Il review cf the case
generates q. doubt in his nina as 20
whether bennett Is not innoe Mt, ana
he therefore orders the case against hlm
10 be dismissed, and that he be released
permanently from arrest.
The German court-martial. before whom
were tried the nearly 3O non-cOminiS-
stoned officers from the Berlin Artillery
school who were arrested some time ago
and confined In the Madg burg Fortress,
Yesterday sentenced thirty-one OF the
Condemned men to nine months imprison-
ment. and a number OF. the rest OF theh'
| TO imprisonment for sixsweeks.
General Baratleri has telegraphed to
the Italian War-Ofiice that on SATURDAY
last he made an attack upon the Abyss!n-
ians, and that after severe nshtins the
Italian troops were victorious; that q
large number. OF Abyssinians were kilied
anil many taken prisoners. and that the
prisoners attribute the victory OF the
Italians to their use OF the explosive
ealystite.