The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1898-02-01
AFTERMATH.

For interfering with the freshmen's
banquet twenty-three students Of Iowa
state University have been indefinitely
suspended by the faculty. -Four of the
Offenders are young women. The spe-
cihc charge against the culprits rs as
sault and kidnapping. and IL Is said the
girls are as deep in the mud as the boys
are in the mire.
Rev Or. John Han having decided 10
withdraw Lis resignation as pastor Of the
Fifth Avenue Presbyterian church, New
York, it is now believed that at least
three members of the session will retire
from the church The session desired
that Dr. Hall should step aside for a
Younger man. but the congregation rose
en- masse and demanded that DIR. Han
should remain. The Doctor made no re-
ference TO these differences at the SER
vices Sunday.
General W. II. Gentry. who lives near
Lexington Ky. has been a large breeder
Of trotting stock. The horses have fail
ed to sell for satisfactory prices, ana he
has contracted with a breeder of jack
rabbits IN Kansas to send him thirty
head of jack rabbits for five head OF
trOtting-bred mares. The jack rabbits
will be here in a few days and then they
will be inclosed IN a iive-acre pasture. IN
which he hopes 10 breed the rabbits The
rabbits he desires for the entertainment
Of his friends and himself.
It IS said that an English syndicate
with n capital Of 100000 viii buy up
the glass works Of South New Jersey.
Captain William f. Rogers, born az
Norfolk, Va. in 1871. died in Galveston,
Tex. on Friday last. Of heart failure and
general debility. His family We're dis
tinguished I'm the carly naval history OF
the country. His father, William
Rogers served under Commodore Prible
in the Mediterranean and was one or
seventy volunteers under Decatur that
entered the harbor Of Tripoh at night re-
captured the United States frigate Phil
adelphia. and burned her TO the water
edge. William +. Rogers began his ma
rine life at the age of seventeen and at
the outbreak of the civil war was IN
command of the revenue cutter Dodge,
stationed i'm Galveston. After her cap
ture by the Confederates he resigned his
commission and entered the Confederte
his home i'm Galveston
W. J. Langston. a farmer living near
Rome, Ga. has an historical rams horn.
The animal whose proud ornament II once
was was slaughtered 20 furnish food Tor
Lord CORVALLIS IN South Carolina in 1li
or 100. The relic IS authentic, and has
never been in the possession OF but two
men. Mr.. Langst0n secured the horn
from Henry Haynes. an aged negro.
Henrys father was n servant or Lord
CORVALLIS and killed and dressed the
ram, one of the horns from whose head
he saved. The other is said % be in the
possession Of man living near Coving-
ton.
Wilmington y. c.. has a tempest In
teapot over an ordinance providing for
compulsory education. IL seems that
there was an attempt TO put the ordi-
nance Tito effect, with the result that
some OF the city physicians after having
been mcnaced with scalding water,
pistols. axes and clubs have resigned.
Mass meetings have been called to de-
wise some means of handling the situa-
ton.
The New Hork's Charity Ball VIII this
year be held at the Waldorf-Astoria. The
date fixed is February 18th. The ball
will be opened BY Commodore Elbridge
II. Gerry and Mrs. Levi p. Morton. Il.
L. Satterlee is chairman or the Floor
Committee.
Several prominent men died on Sunday
last. In Paris, Jules Emile Pean. the
eminent surgeon; in London. General Sir
Daniel Lysons. constable Of the Tower Of
London; in London also. Lord Sdckville,
Arthur Cecil, half brother OF the Marquis
Of Salisbury; in New York Rear-Admlral
Daniel Lawrence Brain.
Thomas +. Watson. despite his protest,
viii probably be made the Populist noml-
nee for Governor of Georgia. a postal
card ballot taken by friends OF the seye-
raj POpulist leaders in the state closed
Saturday and the vote is almost unani-
nous for him.