The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1897-08-01
Pith Of the News

men arrested for alleged bigamy. WI
liam Kerr blew out his brains, at Manila.
la.
Han destroyed the crops IN n section
flve miles wide ana thirty miles long near
Lucerne. MINI.
dam forty feet wide broke at Middle
town. Conn. Yesterday badly damaging
William Wilcox's lock factory.
+. l.. Eaton, nominated for Governor by
Iowa Prohibitionists. is ineligible as not
having lived there two years
James Goragh Pugilist Corhetts form
er partner, was killed by Willis Day over
game OF cards at Chickasaw. ]. 4.
Fred. Schroeder attempted to assault
Lena Welder, a hfteen-yesr-old girl. at
Cleveland, o., and had TO be rescued from
would-be lynchers by police.
The citizens OF Omaha. Neb.. were ter
rorized Thursday morning by an elephant
and several other wild beasts. that es-
capped from circus showing there.
While Rev. r. Dewitt Talmage was de-
livering a lecture at Mlddletown. o., FRI
day the platform collapsed. The speaker
fell four feet but was unhurt.
After selling a trunkfm Of gold bricks
to a New orleans man for $70dJ. the
swindler was seized with heart disease
and expired.
While being taken TO the New York
State Insane Asylum, Miss NJ. r. Parker.
aged sixty-one, dropped $4,000 in gold
bonds from her skirt.
Rev. c. o. Brown, against whom
charges were made by young woman OF
his San Francisco, cal, segregation.
wants the case reODened.
Application was made in the United
states Court at Atlanta yesterday for a
receiver for the Yorkvile Mining Com
pany, organized I'm 1895, 10 develop gold
bearing properties In Paulng county, Ala.
Troopers Bertrand and jacobson. OF y.
Troop. Second United States Cavalry
were drowned near Colorado Springs
while urging their horses 10 swim a
stream.
Special dispatches from ST. Petersburg
sayl that the Novosti estimates that at
least one hundred and fifty persons have
pcrished In the recent floods at Kertch
IN the Crimea.
Twelve mill operatives, while crossing
n bridge at Thiemendorf, near Chemnitz.
Germany, we're swept of the bridge by n
sudden rise Of the river. Al were drown
ed.
Marshal II. J. Walker OF Durand. Wis.
shot and fatally wounded James Crone
who was burgarlzing store. Crone
said he was miners from Scranton. Pa,
driven TO crime through hunger
4 fire started in the coal bunkers OF the
United states gunboat Wilmington I'm the
aft starboard locker several days ago. AZ
ter the vessel had left savannah Ca,
due to the boilers proximity.
John r RYAN and Leon Graves who
lured Lawyer Burt s. Clark, 10 q New
York fiat, robbed him and tried 10 force
acid down his throat. were sentenced 10
eighteen years Imprisonment.
SO many ofice-seekers visited the White
House just before President Mckinley's
departure for his vacation toat the fioor
over the East Room sagged four inches
1t Is marvellous that there was not Q
great catastrophe.
Edward II. Ten Eyck. champion amateur
oarsman OF the world and the winner OF
the diamond SOULS at the recent Henley
regatta. arrived on the American liner
81. Paul yesterday. They were given an
enthusiastic reception.
Edward Flanagan. who has been on trial
all this week az Decatur, Ala, Tor the
murder OF Mrs. Nancy Allen and MISS
Ruth Slack, was yesterday morning found
guilty by the jury and Immediately SEN
fenced TO be hanged August 18th.
Colonel Albert scheffer. president OF the
failed Allemannia Bank OF 81. Paul
MINI, whose trial on indictment charging
him with embeZziement because OF an
alleged overdraft in his accounts with tne
bank has been on for several days was
to-day acquitted.