The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1897-08-03
Pith Of the News.


drowned at IIammondsport, y. \" yes
terday while bathing.
Senator Mark Hanna may enter a NAM
moth scheme to develop coal and iron
fields near Foo Chow. China.
Trying TO win a swimming race across
East river. New York. on 81 wager
Dennis Sullivan was drowned.
The Lehigh Valley Railroad Company
has laid on forty carpenters and laborers
in the bridge department.
4 six-month-old child in New York
rolled from bed into a tub OF water Sun
day and drowned.
4 panic I'm the First Methodist church,
near Flatbush, Brooklyn. was caused by
the falling in OF the vestibule ceiling.
President Mckinley has invited Mr. and
Mrs. Whitelaw Reid to visit him at Lake
Champlain.
The Socialist Labor Convention in ses-
Sion at New York, has decided 10 JOIN
the Debs Utopia movement
John Palmer. aged forty-five years. Of
Brooklyn. n. Y. a gateman on the Long
Island railroad was struck and killed by
an engine yesterday.
Dr. Richard s. Curtiss. OF the University
OF Chicago has accepted the position of
Professor Of Chemistry IN Hobart College.
Geneva. y. 7.
Thomas Tolford. Of Kingston, y. y"
who disappeared in London, where he
went TO claim fortune was sandbagged
and is i'm a London hospital
on suspicion OF being implicated in the
murder OF Andrew Alhertina. i'm Carbon
county. Pa. Olcnla Martiana ard Peter
Yara have been placed under arrest.
Information has been received Of the Sc
lection OF NJ. Connolly. of Savannah. Ca.
formerly OF Boston. as secretary to the
NiCaraguan Canal Commission.
]. r.. KIngensmith and his wife were
terribly burned by am explosion of powder
at Jeannetto yesterday. and neither can
recover.
Five thousand people were I'm attendance
yesterday when the new Penn Grove
Pa) camp-mectiug grounds were dedica-
ted by Bishop Kephart. OF Baltimore.
II is stated Miss Alice Barrett, who
was found murdered in Boston office,
speculated on change and was very ezra
tic
The strike at the tannery Of Mooney
& sons Columbia, 5. C.. on FOR about
three weeks. is ended. Most OF the men
were taken back.
Commander Booth-Tucker has submit
ted To- President Mckinley the plan pre-
pared by Salvauonists for the relief or
the poor and unemployed.
Edward Williams. a Brooklyn painter.
has started tor Oregon with few be
longings in baby carriage. His wife ana
two children accompany him.
The Missouri Pacific passenger train
which left Kansas City a lO.30 o'clock
| Sunday night crashed into four freight
cars near Yates Center. Kansas, and two
trainmen We're fatally hurt.
Hawley Hanner. seyenJy-one years old.
committed suicide at his home In Brook
| l,n. y. Y. Yesterday. lie was poor,
| suffering from asthma and was growing
| blind.
The Noidringhaus Granite-Ware Works
| at Granite City. Mo. were closed yester-
| day. because the supply of coal had given
| out and IL was impossible TO purchase
| more AT a price that would leave a mar
! gin Of Droht
James f. Dean. business manager Of the
| Baltimore Md Academy Of Music was
| caught IN the undertow while swimming
at ocean CITY. y. j.. and with Rev Dr.
] Stafford. Of Washington, ID. c., who went
20 his rescue nearly drowned
Mr.. Florian Bindewald. secretary Of
the Augusta Brewing Company. was
drowned at Murray Hill suburb Of Au-
! gusta. Ga, yesterday. He was Dathihs
| i'm the lake and went beyond his depth
not knowing how to swim.
| Charles ID. Locker. an employe Of Nal
| low Neelv a. Co, was yesterday thrown
from his wheel in New Haven conn.,
! ana knocked insensible through the eN-
| plosion and collapse Of the rear tire OF
! his wheel
! Mrs. Margaret LeBong. Of San Fran
/ cisco. enjoys the distinction OF being the
| first woman TO ride wheel from Chi-
| cago 10 the Pacific ocean. Mrs LeLons
| is now resting after her perilous IMP
| which lasted over six weeks.
The tennis tournament between the
| English and American players az Hobo-
| lcn \ Y has been postponed until this
afternoon in order that the contests
mas, have a brief rest after their trying
week at Longwood
The receipts OF grain including -four IN
| its wheat equivalent at Buffalo, n. J.
l@,e aggregated since the opening OF
navigation sS.glS. 1876 bushels, an increase
as compared with last year OF l5,oW'Ve
| bushels.
of cherry uice. Maialovitch, Fletcher &
| Co OF Cincinnati being the owner. recti-
eers and distillers. were sellers by United
states surveyor Of Customs Lemonpiate
late this evening on the charge OF viola
ton of the customs laws.
Tho story sent out from Port Townsend
| that the steamer Portland, en- route "a
| 81 Aiichaels. had been lost IS untrue.
| The rumor that the Portland had beeH
| wrecked caused CONSERVATION, "a there
was on board about four hundred pas
sengers. most OF whom are from Port
land. oregon
Three hundred members Of the Seventh
| Regiment. T. ~ g., OF Springfield, Mass,
had trouble with citizens yesterday about
| some kegs OF beer which the soldiers were
bringing into camp Lincoln. Three sol
| dicrs were Frustrated by the heat ana
| citizen had "A bayonet run into his eyes
| and the ball severely cut
Vincent Bigott, OF No. $50 Elm street
and Ernset Schrumm, Of No. 30 KAY
| street both lads OF Camden. y. j. were
arrested in stockton y j., sat
urdav afternoon by Policeman
Gerckc. charged with holding vi
pohort We'll. Charles Helstein
| William Van Solver. Edward Young ane
John way. all lads Of Philadelphia, IN th'
| Western style.
The Navy Department has decided tc
tu-n the second-rate wooden cruiser
Lancaster over 10 the Brooklyn Nava
Reserve TO be used by them as n dril
shin and as a home for the battalion.
AT noon yesterday In Wilmington, q.
| lanes Harvey who. on July loth, Wa
4 ,o,,,icto1 ~ the murder OF his wife