The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1903-02-08
foreign Politics.

OF accident or death to employees OF all
commercial and Industrial enterprises re.
celving n maximum wage Of $3.50 annual
". Tho indemnity Is fixed at so per
cent. OF loss OF wage earning capacity
which amount goes to the victims heirs
annually In case Of death.
GERMAN DUELIsT IMPRISONED.
Lieutenant Won Grawert, Of Germany,
who killed DR.. Aye, OF Flensburg, In n
duel Jan. 10th, has been sentenced to
two years Imprisonment In q fortress.
The duel was In pursuance to the find
lngs OF n military court OF honor.
BRUSSELS CONVENTION RATIFIED.
After a stormy scene and a suspension
OF sitting caused by the lobbying OF SUI
gar rcflners, the Austrian Reichstag
ratified the Brussels Sugar Convention
and passed the third reading OF the Su.
gar Taxation bill.
RUSSIA RAISES DUTIES.
Russia has replied to the new German
TARIFF by a revision OF tariff, imposing
higher duties on Germanys chief ex-
ports. Tho duty on iron Is raised one
and one-half times. with supplement
tary duty OF 20 per cent when imported
by land. This Is said to be differen.
tlation In favor Of English seaborne
goods
AMERICAN '"TREK" BY BOERs.
It is reported from London that with.
in two months 0DO families OF Beers arc.
coming to New Mexico where their
agents have purchased 100000 acres or
land. which is to be paid With an Issue
of $50,000,000 of bonds to DO secured by
the land, stock and buildings They are.
to engage In cattle-rals ing, ostrich.
farming and vineyards.
CHILD LABOR IN GERMANY.
On January 31st the German Reichstns
| passed the second reading OF the BILL
prohibiting child labor in shops and fac
tories. Twelve years in some branches
Of industry and thirteen in others were
the limits set. Movements by. the So
cialists to extend the law to agriculture
and household work were voted down.
AMERICAN AMBASSADORS UNI
FORM.
After some inslstence on the part OF
the Russian Court officials. the new Unit
ed States Ambassador, McCormic, has
consented to adopt the black cloth gold
trimmed uniform worn by his predeces-
sor, Mr.. Tower.
YANKEE BAND CHARMS KING.
At the recent concert given by sousa
and his band In Windsor Castle King Ed
ward asked for encores Of several
American pieces. He said the next time
he wanted all American music on the
programme. The whole court stood while
the Star spangled Banner and God Save
the King were rendered.
WAR IN HONDURAS.
News came from Honduras Tuesday O
a civil war outbreak which threatens to
involve the whole OF Central America.
1t Is known that the Presidents Of SAL
yador, Nicaragua and Honduras favor a
union Of the Central American States.
The present trouble arose from tho re-
'fusal Of President Sierra, of Honduras,
to concede the election OF Senior Bonilla.
who was recently oh osen to succeed him,
but who IS charged oy Sierra with fraud.
| American interests asked for protec-
ton and in response the Navy Depart
ment Il ordered Admiral Casey at San
Francisco to proceed to Amapala Hon
duras where the leader Of the revol u
ton IS gathering troops The New York.
Boston, Marblehead and Ranger are
the ships now under Casey's command.
AMERICAN RAILROAD FOR CHINA.
The conc essions for a line Of railway
from Chin Tu to Hankow where con-
nection will be made with the Hankow-
/ soh me- pCSll SeCuCeOb Oy Cnln.
csc officials for American capitalists
The line will parallel THE Yangtze river
In q general way and the natives do not
like the Idea, as such q line will divert
a large part Of the traffic now dependent
on the great river.
REFORMS IN FRENCH gARA1Y.
Several reforms are planned in the
French Army by General Andre, the Min
lister Of War. One is to make it possible
for an officer who has been dismissed to
Te-enter the army by permission OF the
Cabinet Council. Another Is to establish
the army mess, officers having hitherto
boarded at hotels or elsewhere at their
pleasure.
PRINCE TO RENOUNCE THRONE,
It Is reported that the Crown Prince
OF saxony will renounce all rights Of sue
cesslon to the throne because of the elope-
| ment of the Crown Princess with her chill
dren's music teacher. He will renounce
in favor Of his 10-year-old son. George.
BLOOD FLOWS IN MOROCCO.
Thursdays advices from Tangiers told
| Of another battle between the armies of
| the pretender and the Sultan near the
gates Of Fee In which more than $500
combatants fell Again the pretender's
successful bribery CT certain tribes.
| SAN DOMINGO TO ARBITRATE
Representatives OF the United States and
San Domingo signed protocol January
3lst providing that the disputed claims
| OF the Santo Domingo Improvement Com
| pany OF New York be referred to inter-
national arbitration and that the Domin-
lean Government pay the company $780,
600 for its rights and franchises. The
claims have been In dispute several years.
TAFT ILL FROM EXPOSURE.
| Governor Taft was reported Ill from a
recurrence Of his intestinal trouble, due
to exposure to the sun and to bad drink
ing water,
Manila has been declared a clean por,
and the quarantine has been removed
Cholera is stu epidemic In interior towns.