Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1895-04-27

ordered to Mobile. TX Is reported, 10 iooA
out for filibusters.
The trial Of Oscar Wilde and Alfred
Taylor for unnatural crimes began In the
Central Criminal Court. Old Bailey Lon
don, yesterday. both the prisoners plead
Ing not guilty.
county-Treasurer c. w. Rowe, OF Mon
tezi,ma, Ia, has disappeared and with
him $4,000 Of the funds OF Powesheik
county He left a wife and two children
without dollar.
Two white men and eight colored men
are reported TO have been drowned In
the Rappahannock river. near Barhams
Wharf, MiddleseS county. during
storm last Monday
In consequence OF the coal war. orders
have been issued to operate all collerie
OF the I.ehigh and Wilkesbarre coal COM
panies on full time. and 5000 men are
affected by the order.
An explosion Of fre-damp took place In
a collery at Denny. near Stirring. scot
land, yesterday afternoon, while Ia men
were working in the pit. ana thirteen
were Killed and several hurt.
Mrs. l.. S. Grant, accompanied oy Nrs.
Sartorls and her daughter. arrived In
Chicago yesterday, and tonight VIII at
tend the Press Clubs celebration OF
General Grants birthday at the Audi
torium.
The special committee appointed at the
meeting OF representative monometaiiis's
on April 5th. in London. Eng. met yester-
day afternoon and resolved to form
society entitled the Association in De-
fence of the Gold Standard.
Another break took place In the Della
ware senatorial contest yesterday. when
the Massey men. who recently went &c
PennewilI returned TO their old cani'
date. The Higgins and Addicks followers,
however, remain as firm as ever.
Hon. Charles Estes. treasurer OF the
Aiken GA Manufacturing Company. mas
contracted for machinery for the new
cotton-mill at Bath, $. C.. now I'm course
of construction, and which will start with
l5.OOo spindles and make fine grade OF
goods.
The London Standards Paris corre-
spondent says Of the joint protest made In
Toxic by Russia, Germany, ana France:
.There are significant indications that IL
anything beyond platonic protests are
meditated. France will back out OF the
alliance. The feeling against coercinS
Japan grows"
Judge Barnes. OF the Circuit Court of
Florida. at Pensacola. sentenced John
Croswell convicted OF the murder or his
father, but recommended to mercy, TO
life Imprisonment at hard labor. and du-
ring the delivery of the sentence the
prisoner smiled and after receiving sem
tence thanked the Judge.
Captain William III. Beanham. agent at
New Orleans for the Mill-Creek Distilling
Company and member for the past
six years of the New Orleans Board OF
Police Commissioners. committed suicide
yesterday at Long Beach, "a summer re-
sort on Lake Ponchartrain. while suffer-
ing from nervous prostitution.
A blocl. Of store-rooms and tenement
houses, known as the Encel block. Frank
fort. Ky. was destroyed by fire Thurs
day night. and James Yeager. an old
man, and his two children aged and ,.
were burned to death, and half n dozen
other families barely escaped from the
Inflated group of buildings.
Regarding the recent statement Of
Chef-Justlce Fuller touching the rchear-
ing of the income-tax case, Mr.. Joseph
II. Choate, of New York, said yesterday:
II understand that II Justice Jackson Is
well enough 10 sit, all matters not de-
ciled in the case are 10 be argued. Cer'
tainly the entire case will not be re-
opened, for parts of IL are already de-
cded."
Confederate MemorIal-Day was ohserv'
ed In Augusta, Ga, yesterday with APP
proprate ceremonies, the Sixth Georgia
Regiment. consisting of two battalions.
under Colonel Jones, and the Confederate
Veteran Association parading. and the
orator of the day being ex-senator NJ {.
| Butler, of South Carolina, whose theme
was THE Evacuation OF Yorktown" ana
who made stirring address 10 fully
1900 people.
In the United States Court at Charles
ton, S. c., yesterday Bryan & Bryan.
attorneys for John Donald In the case
of Donald against NJ. 7. Holley ct al.
filed bill for injunction and relief. the
defendants. state constables. being re-
quired 10 make a return in Charleston
May LIST. and say why the relief prayed
for shall not be granted and they be re-
strained from making liquor seizures
under the dispensary law.
A dispatch from Picking to the Lon
don Times says that Hon. John w. Fos-
ter and Li-Hung-Chang's secretary ar
rived I'm that city Thursday, and visited
the Foreign Office. the authorities or
which held a consultation with the for
eign legations later II Is thought I'M
likely that Li-Hung-Chang will go TO
Picking, but. instead. will 20 to Che
90 10 iathhNh''Ho ~ W.
treaty OF peace. If the treaty is ratified.
The depositors in the First National
Bank Of Willimantic. Conn. seem to be
doomed to lose nearly every cent which
they put into the bank, the amount OF
the late Cashier Risleys defalcation not
being known exactly, but more than $So,-
900 deficit having SO far been discovered.
whereas the capital stock OF the bank
was but $4,000, and its surplus fund
$3.50 so that this and probably more
than 100000 in addition has been COM
pletely wiped out.
A number OF Democratic silver leaders
held a meeting in Chicago yesterday.
with respect To the forthcoming none
tary convention of Illinois Democrats. to
be held at Springfield. and II was de-
cided TO allow about fifty weil-known anti
free-cOinage Democrats to form part or
the Cook-county delegation, the avowed
object being to show the single-standard
advocates the strength Of the silver move
ment, and convince them that they have
not been read out OF the party by their
opposition 10 the Democratic platforms.
Thursday night about Q o'clock DR.. J.
+. Simmons. the family physician, callea
To see a sick child at the residence OF
Mrs. Robert Owen. Houston, Tex, and
he had written n prescription and was
giving directions as to medicine when
owen entered. and. without saying
word out a pistol to Simmonss breast
and pulled the trigger. DIR. Simmons
staggered back and pulled his pistol. but
fell dead before he could use IT. owen
then shot his wife. and going TO his
hotel blew out his own brains. He and
his wife were separated a week ago.
Mrs. owen will recover.
Lord Salisbury has addressed a letter
TO Il. II. Hulse member of Parliament
for Salisbury. In which the sx-Premier
declares that vast mass OF the Conser-
vatiye voters, and certainly the leaders
OF the party. are DESTROYS that the al
lance between the Conservative and LII
berai-unionist parties shall be confirmed
and strengthened. Mr.. Balfour, the Goa
servativc leader In the House OF Com
mons, spoke In similar strain at the
annual assembly OF the Primrose League
yesterday afternoon, adding that the cor
diality OF the friendship existing be-.
tween himself and Dir. Chamberlain was
unlmpaired
The beautiful farm Rio Vista, at one