Virginia gazette. [volume] (Williamsburg, Va.) 1893-192?, 1898-02-05

Frederick Cock. -. confessed 70 sct-
Ting FIRE 20 tho Tontlne Hotel IN New
Haven. Conn. was sentenced 10 seven
years imprisonment.
DR.. McvicSar. of Philadelphia. was con
secrated BishOp Coadiut0r of Rhode Island
In the Church of the Holy Trinity in Phil
adelphia. over which he has had charge
for twenty years.
Suits We're begun against alleged part
ncrs OF ". c. Rodgers. banker. OF Jordan.
\. Y. whose death was followed by the
failure 81 his bank. with practically the
loss ot all deposits. Rodgers having gam
bled all away in grain speculation.
Kentuckv's lower house adopted a reso-
tuition calling on United states Senator
William Lindsay 10 resign IL ke cannot sup
port the Chicago platform.
Abraham Tebbltts. formerly a leather
dealer. Of Boston. Mass. has disappeared
after having obtained from bankers about
s2O 900 IN cash on bills OF lading for leather
valued at $50. 600
Frank Carey. a twelve-year-old boy. was
struck and killed by q train on a trestle
near 81. Louis. Mo. Mrs. King who was
With him. jumped and sustained injuries
that were expected 20 prove fatal.
on account OF the largo amount OF un-
employed money now on hand. the Fourth
National Bank. New York City. gave notice
that It will pay only ~ per cent. interest
on deposit balances. Other banks are cx-
pected TO follow this example.
Mrs. Lucinda NJ. HUI. who claimed 70
have caught pneumonia in "a Roxbury
| (Mass.) Hotel owing 10 the failure OF the
awarded $1,000 damages.
E. NJ. Anderson. sixty years old. had a
aerce fight with highwaymen In Brooklyn.
| They finally threw him into the river and
would not let him get out OF the water till
| he had given them his money.
Nearly 1900 persons sailed from Seattle.
Wash, Tor the Klondike within two recent
| days.
New England mills will share losses
caused New Bedford mills by the strike.
| Any mill yielding 70 the strikers within
thirty days Is TO pay 5000 penalty.
Lieutenant-Governo Jones, OF Ohio. ap-
| pointed Senators Valentine, Cohen, Sulli-
van, Sheppard and Wightman the commit
| tee asked for bv Acknowledgement Z. :.
honnett to investigate trusts.
! The sarcophagus intended for the widow
OF General Grant has been placed ia the
! Riverside tomb. New York City.
William Earl Cook. OF Portsmouth. r. .
| has passed his I0lst birthday. Arrange
| ments had been made 20 have a number OF
his descendants celebrate the event, but
this had 10 be abandoned Mr. Cook Is one
Of the oldest Free Masons.
At the first meeting OF the Board OF I,o-
cal Improvement for the Borough OF the
| Bronx, New York City. IL was announced
that the Heine monument had been given
to the Borough.
It was declared at the Cuban Junta. New
| York City, that the filibuster steamer
Tfllie, which went down on Barnegat o.
Sunday evening was scuttied by treacher
GUS men or board.
| In Cleveland, Ohio, suit for divorce OF
the ground OF cruelty was brought by hts
wife against Daniel Il. Hanna, only sob o
Senator Hanna.
| The ice crop from the Hudson River fields
| promises to be exceptionally short this sea
son. Tho season for harvesting icei abou
\ at an end along the Hudson River, and thl
lee harvested there so far has fallen shor
OF the usual amount.