Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1895-04-18

The Newfoundland deltStlcs ltlt plttNd
for home yesterday. and will sail Tor
Halifax tonight
There was light shock Of earthquake
at Burlington. VT, about 100 O'Clock
Yesterday. the disturbanc. being Of seve-
ril seconds duration.
Refugees from Cuba are arriving at
Kingston. Jamaica daily, and the latest
arrivals report that the town OF Las Pal
mas has been burned by the insurgent
leader CebrecOes.
DISPATCHES from the front Of the chi
trail expedition say that Colonel Kelly
has routed 1900 tribesmen at Misagal.
tie British losing six killed and fifteen
wounded, and the natives about fifty
killed.
NJ. Dupuy de Lone. the Spanish Minis
ter 10 the United states has started for
Havana from Santiago de cuba aite'
gathering what information there was 10
be had in Santiago regarding the ALI
anca affair.
Robert Center. clubman. man OF lei
sure. and one of the best-known sports
men in America was knocked OF his
bicycle and crushed TO death under the
wheels of a coal-wagon while riding on
the western boulevard near Seyenty-se-
cond street New York city shortly be
fore o'clock last evening.
\ dsagreeable odor from the debris OF
a barn that was burned on the farm or
William I.ebold. near Delaware. o., last
fall. led to an investigation yesterday,
resulting in the discovery Of the charred
remains of four human beings, supposed
to have been tramps who were sleeping
in the barn.
The suit Of ex-Mayor William b. Smith,
Of Philadelphia. against the Philadelphia
Times for libel reached a climax yester-
day, when Colonel A. X. Mcclure, the
editor Of the Times. instructed his coun-
SEP. +. Rothermel and James Ii.
Shakespearl,-to withdraw from the case
The jury, after being out half an hour,
returned a verdict in favor Of the piaintin
for $4,000
The New York Senate committee last
night decided TO report favorably Sena.
tor LeXow's Greater New YORK Dill,
which was prepared by the Greater New
York Commission. amending II, however,
by providing that the territory 10 De IN
cmded i'm the Greater New York "shali
be" consolidated instead Of is hereby
/, was rumored In Albany
last night that the bill might be amend
ed 50 as 10 provide for the immediate
carrying out of the Greater New YORK
plan. with view 10 restricting Mayo'
term of office.
The United States is to be represented
AZ tn Kiel celebration on June 18th by
The finest American fleet that has visited
European waters since the civil war
headed by the armored cruiser New York
IS flagship and the triple-screw nyer
Columbia. which will be detached for this
purpose from Admiral Msade's fleet, when
[ arrives nj Key West next month, with
he addition Of the San Francisco and the
Narbl .head. now I'm the l.evant for the
protection Of American interests, and Ad-
niral Kirkland. now in charge OF the
european station. will command.
The New York Senate judiciary Com |
nlttee will to-day favorably report the |
tray racing oil. without amendm Mt, and |
he wild bill, which makes operative the |
ections Of the Constitution prohibiting |
and as n supplemental bill 10 |
he Gray racing bill. imposes per cent. |
ak on the gross receipts inst Tld OF the |
ross earnings Of the tracks. The commit |
ee VIII also report the New York police |
Magistrates bill. which abolshes the New |
-ork city police justices with the section |
elatiye 10 the commitment OF children |
trlcken out, that section to be recon-
lItted.