Morning journal and courier., 1880-02-10
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Destructive inundations have occurred in Sardinia and Sicily.
 The Czar has ordered reduction of the marines from 29, 900 to 17,Ooo. A slight shock of earthquake was expe- rienced at Ottawa, Ont, Sunday. dispatch from Vienna says that Rus sian intrigues in Roumania are attracting at. tention.
 There is a fearful famine in the Russian trans Caucasus districts and serious food riots have occurred at Shaturoalagez. The Russian authorities are buying food in Persia
 William Welch, conductor of a freight train on the Boston and Providence railroad, slipped and fell under the wheels at Claren- don Hill, yesterday, and was killed.
 John s. Verts, assistant superintendent of the Philadelphia and Atlantic City railway, who has been on trial for manslaughter In connection with a fatal accident last sum- mer on that road, was acquitted yesterday afternoon.
 England has formally relieved Persia from the treaty engagement of 1857 by which Per sia undertook not to take possession of Herat The London Times considers this tantamount to inviting Persia to occupy Herat.
 Aaron McKenny, of Saco, Me-, aged 1O2 years, month and 16 days, died on Friday last, retaining his full faculties to the last He was never in steamboat or railroad car, nor even made use of the telegraph.
 Benjamin Apthorp Gould, director of the National Observatory at Cordova, in the Ar genuine Republic, has telegraphed Professor Peters of Kiel, editor of the Astronomiche Nachriehten, that great comet is passing the sun in a northward direction.
 Ashley Brown, deputy collector of inter- nal revenue, and for many years in charge of the Dayton, O., office, Is short in his accounts $5, ,0O0, and has absconded. Brown was prominent local politician and enjoyed the respect of the business community. His dedication and disappearance occasion great surprise.
 The boiler in the Hawley Malt Companys house in Detroit exploded with terrific force to day. wrecking the engine house and doing $2O, 900 damage Two men in the engine room were saved by almost miraculous cir cumstances. They were dug out of the debris but slightly hurt.
 The Supreme Court at Philadelphia yester. day affirmed the decroe of the criminal court of Lebanon county, Pa., in the case of Israel Brandt and Josiah Hummel, convicted in Au- gust last of the murder of Joseph Raber. This disposes of the matter, and nothing can save the necks of the doomed men but pardon.
 The match race between the soullers Will liam Elliott of Blyth and Robert W. Boyd of Middlesborough, for f2oo pounds side, came of yesterday over the Tyne championship course and was won easily by the latter four lengths ahead of Elliott. The betting before the race was five to four on Boyd.
 Three burglars entered the Knoxville (Ill.) bank Friday night, bound and gagged the president, E. O. Kunkle, who sleeps in the building, and beat him and burned his feet in a shocking manner to make him give up the safe combination. A time lock prevented them from completing the robbery, however, and they lett with $3, 200 which had not been looked up, leaving no clew to their identity.
 Yesterday, at Moberly, Mo-, James Hayden Brown was sentenced to be hung March 26th for the murder of his brother-in-law, which occurred about six months ago. Brown is the criminal who, about two months ago, attempt ed suicide, stating when he recovered that he would never die on the gallows. As he left the court room yesterday after being sen tenced, he was seized with paroxysm which lasted several hours, and may yet have the eff fao of cbeatinO the oa1lOwg