Morning journal and courier., 1889-12-02
TELEGRAPHIo JOTTiNGs.

| The proprl6tOrB or tne Atlanta (7a COHs
 stitution have voluntarily raised the wages
 ot their competitors five per cent. The office is run outside of the union and the in- | crease is made by the proprietora because of
 the greatly improved business of the paper.
 A Glasgow dispatch says: The home sec-
 retary has commuted the death sentence i'm
 posed on John W. Laurie, who was eonvict-
 ed of the murder of e tourist, Edward Rose,
 on the Island of Arran, and who WAS re- spited few days ago to penal servitude for | life.
 | Oil and gas prospsotors near Wadsworth, | Ohio, at about 2,500 feet have struck bed of pure rock salt, which the drill has pene- | trated over one hundred feet. If gas or oil is not obtained, salt works will be built. There are no salt manufactures i'll northern Ohio.
 A China dispatch says: The Governor of the Hoo provinces. He is the prime mover of the railway project. It is expected that the construction of railways will no longer be delayed, but that the work will be done by Chinese company with foreign capital.
 The man who made parachute ascent at Honolulu on November 16, fell into the ocean and was devoured by sharks, was not Professor Van Tessel, as has been reported, but one Joseph Lawrence. Lawrence was travelling under the name of Van Tassel and represented himself as the professors broth- CT.
 Fire broke out at the Commercial Hotel, Chicago, Saturday forenoon. It was traced to an unused straw mattress and was plainly tnaa AL porter. He confessed that John G. Tomp. kins, ths proprietor, had given him $2O0 to burn the building. Tompkins was then ar- rested. Ths building was insured.
 Fire broke out in the Delavsn gas house on Montgomery street, near Colambia street, in Albany, at 2 o'clock Saturday morning, and tho flames communicated to the paper ware- house of Jacob Leonard & Son, Nos 6O5 to 600 Broadway, and the Albany Casket Co.,, Nos; SO1 and sos Broadway. Both were total loss. Several other buildings were alse damaged.
 The department of State at Washington is informed by the United States minister in Persia of the increase of cholera in that country, and of the proposed establishment by the Russian authorities at Bskon and Julia of a general quarantine against arrivals from Persia. The disease has now reached Ker- mansha, but has not yet made its appearance at Teherau.
 At meeting on Saturday in Frankfort, Germany, of merchants, engineers, fnsn- ciers and scientists, c committee was ap- pointed to mako arrangements for an inter. national slectro-technical exhibition, to be held from June to October next year. Dr. Sismens. Mir. Edison and Sir William Thom- son were nominated honorary members of the committee.
 Thomas B. Reed, of Maine, will be the speaker of the Fifty-Arst Congress. He was nominated Saturday by the Republican mera- bsrs in the tamsst caucus that has ever been held at the opening of a new Congress for many years past. A few days ago it locked as though there would be lively igtt be- tween Reed, Mckinley, and @ few ambitious men from other States.
 Tho Old Colony steamboat train for Ston- ington was in collision with 2 switch engine at Branch avenue bridge, Providence, Satur. day night. The two engines were smashed. George B.rnhan, aged fOrty. y.avs. of Boston, unmarried, the engineer of the Old Colony train, was decspitatsd. Three other engine men were injured and taken to the hospital. No passengers were hurt.
 A Boston dispatch says: The steam barge G. H. Prior of the Metropolitan Steamship company, loaded with cotton from the steamer Neptune, parted her moorings dur ing the heavy wind Saturday night and ca- resnsd, throwing $50 bales of cotton over- board. About 250 bales have been recover cd, and tugboat is trying to save the re- mainder.
 E. s. Bates, a young man, who was in Cincinnati as law student from Water tertown, Mass., was found dead in his bed at tho Geneva hotel in Cincinnati Saturday night. He unsorewed the gas burner, attach ed paper tube to 1t, and applying the tube to his mouth as he lay in bed. had breathed the gas until he was unconscious. He had been dead several hours when found. He was much given to drink and dissipation.