Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1899-05-24
TeIeRraphfc briefs.

The London Daily Telegraph announces
the discontnuance Of its Sunday edition.
Fourteen persons were drowned yester-
| day by the capsiZing of a ferry-bOat on
the Danube, near Straubing, Bavaria.
The bubonic plague at Hongkong is in
creasing. The official reports thus far for
| the month of May show 3l3 cases and
| 264 deaths.
At Simbach Bavaria. ten persons were
drowned in the River Inn, one of the
principal afiiuents Of the Danube. by the
CdpsiZing of a boat.
Love Hall (colored) was sentenced by
the Federal District Court at Savannah,
Ga. yesterday 10 three years I'm the peni-
Tertiary for passing counterfeit money.
BENJAMIN Franklin Clark. United States
Consul at PernambucO. died on board the
LampOrt and Holt Line steamer Have
Illus on May 18th, Of Brights disease, and
was buried at sea.
Howard Elliott. 1j-year-old boy, was
sentenced by Judge Mcmahon yesterday
at Whitby. Ont. TO be hanged on Thurs
day, August nth, for the murder of VIII
liam Murray. 50 years old.
The United States ships Potomac and
Piscataqua were placed IN commission
at Portsmouth. n. H.. yesterday. They
will sail for New York on Saturday, and
Will take in tow the floating dry-dock
lOf 1tllSdtUld.
Charles Hutchinson. young man,
was shot by his wife during a family
quarrel az Arcadia. Ind. Yesterday. and
Instantly killed The woman pleads self
defence. She is but 26 years old, and
Hutchinson was her fifth husband.
The Grand Central railway of England,
has placed an order for twenty locomO-
tives with the Baldwin works. Of Phila-
delphia. Another English railway, the
Great Northern. recently ordered a num-
Der of engines from the Baldwin works.
United States Marine officer Hamilton.
of Laredo. Tex. has received retort
from the United States Marine Service
representative at Vera Cruz. Mexico,
which shows that the yellOw-fever pre-
vailing there Is OF a very malignant type.
A terrible explosion occurred at the
military laboratory at Copenhagen. Dem
mark While some workmen were en-
gagged in filing shells some Of the latter
exploded. killed seven men, and severely
injured a non-cOmmissOned officer and
two workmen.
Admiral George c. Remev. United States
navy. has been designated by the Navy
Department TO investigate the grounding
Charleston recently. which investigation:
II is understood Is merely a matter OF
form and will be very brief.
The London Daily Mail publishes the
following dispatch from ,Tien-Tsin, the
port OF Picking Thg pen German b nan C So
If Kiao-Chau. the German port in the
shan-Tung peninsula, which may lead
Germany TO use force TO compel the
pavment OF indemnity
Three colored employees of the kineaid
Manufacturing Company, grimm Ga
were severely fogged by White-Caps
Monday night according to the story or
The victims, 1t is not possible to verify
the story from other sources. Dnt the
Oficers OF the law are trying TO run
down the story and arrest the White
Cas-.
A private viewing stand at the corner
of Washington and Florence streets,
Maiden. Mass. on the route Of the parade
i'm celebration Of the 250th anniversary of
the founding Of the town. and which was
occupied by number OF senators and
REPRESENTATIVES, of the Massachusetts
legislature end their guests. collapsed
Yesterday. and several of the occupants
received serious injury