The evening times., 1896-09-15
Briefs byWire

After shutdown OF nine days g. 900 men
resumed werk at the Cambria Iron Works.
at JotiDstown, Pa. yesterday.
According to a Seattle dispatch the Bri-
| tish Columbia banks now refuse TO receive
UDird States silver or paper currency.
l.. Ii. X. Green, chairman of the hepub-
| licaD Committee in Texas, telegraphs to
| New YORK that Mckinley will carry Texas.
Abolition. John S. wise's eVgagementsfor
| speaking in Virginia have been cancelled
as be will be engaged in the canvas in other
| States.
Rev. DR.. John A. Preston, of Charlotte.
y. c., and stepson OF Mrs. Margaret
j. Preston, the po oetess, died in Lexington
| Of typhoid fever.
John Z. Frazier, colored, was sentenced
| To ten years in the penitentiary by Judge
McSherry for attempted assault of a little
girlin FredeHck, Md.
William Clark! aged about twenty-five
years, MAS SHOT aud killed al Cumberland,
| Nd, yesterday by Louis Essenauer, who
says he fired IN Self defense.
The Norfolk and Western Railroad is TO
be sold at receivers sale at Norfolk to-
| day. The Shenandoah Valley Division is
Ia I've sold at Roanoke tomorrow.
BalllDgton Booth, commander OF the
American Volunteers, was ordained by
Bishop Fallows, OF the Reformed Episco-
pal Church, in Chicago yesterday.
EruLVA beNer t,oA b.aues from his
bicycle rear is,s home, in Norristown, Pa,
ana fractured his skull, one arm, nose and
jaw. HIS oEaLces for recovery are slight.
The johnson Field Company, manufactur-
ers OF iaining mills, farm machinery and
Wholesale ana retail dealers in blcyces, at
Racine. Wis, made Ii assignment yesterday.
Tomorrow at 10 O'Clock, from the Cook
county courthouse steps, the Chicago South
Side Rapid Transit Company, or ALLEY
L. Will be sold. The road is unatle TO
meet intere st on bonds.
The London Times publishes a leader
cordially iDdorsing the report made by Mr..
James Ii. Mullieap, the American consul
general at Apia Samoa. and dehouncing the
system OF government in samoa
Charles L. ChapiD, one OF the oldest
telegraph operators in the United States,
and who aided In introducing the tele-
graph system in Europe, died. in Pbila-
dclphia, yesterday. 10 his sixty ninth year.
The Union Compress of Little Rock Ark.
was destroyed by fire at late tour last
night. The plant, together with 5000
bales OF cotton, is complete loss. TIE
building and machinery were valued at
$IO0 900. Estimated Insurance. S75,-
900. The loss on the cotton is S2OO ,UO0.
believed TO lie insured for Sl5O COO.
Company on Saturday paid off 24o em-
piUyes III silver dollars. The silver was
carried from the banks to the mill in grain
sacks. Some OF the men were indignant
at Being loaded DOWN with the wcishty
metal, but two of the number, who were
pronounced silver men, said they were
glad Ia get their favCTite money.
Walter Leach, who is accused of the
mbeZZlcmentofS2,i 4 90 from George Brown
ing Wlber, stock and bond broker, OF BoS-
ton, by whom he was employed as cook
keeper previous to last Mary, is in custody
in Denver, Col. He was arrested for the
thcft of watch in u jewelry store, and
has confessed "a large number OF robbcries
which lac has committed since leaving Bos-
ton.
The W. Devices Wood Iron Mills. at Nc
Kcesport, Pa. resumed operation yester
day, after a six weeks shut down, Civ
ing employment 10 over 800 men. Tie
common iron mills and mills No. s and
and four hammer houses were also put
in operation. Four departments OF the
National Tube Works resumed work yester-
day, giving work to more than LOCO men.
The new gaivanzns mill Will lie ready for
work by October L.