Morning journal and courier., 1889-12-18
TRLF0RAPHIO JOTTINGs,

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 The whereabouts of the missing Philadel
 phia banker, Joseph G. Ditmap, still remains
 . mystery.
 The Knights of Labor of woburn, Mass.
 and the leather manufacturers will submit
 their respective sides to board of arbitra tion.
 Carl Carlson and John Sullivan, miners,
 and Andrew Adamski, . drill boy, were
 blown to atoms in the Osceola mines near Calumet, Mioh., Monday night, by e
 premature blast.
 It is reported that four robbers have been lynchsd in Maumells township, near Little Rock, Ark, by . vigilance committee, for fatally beating and robbing Henry Wright, a farmer.
 sixteen year old son of Henry Potts, re-
 siding near Woodstock, Md, while handling
 breeeh-loading shotgun yesterday morning
 accidentally discharged the piece, killing his
 young sister standing near by and seriously
 wounding his mother.
 While MT. Cross, e merchant of Friendship, Howard county, Md, was buying things in
 Baltimore, his wife, Mary O., eloped with Harry Q. Hobbs, e wealthy young farmer. It 10 not known where they are gone. Hobbs leaves wife and two children. His com- panion leaves no children.
 Daniel Montague, e lineman in the employ of the United States Illuminating company, New York, fell from a pole at Chambers street and Broadway yesterday morning and was fatally injured. This Is the first serious accident attending the raid of the city au- thorities upon the electric wires.
 The loss to property near San Diego, Cal., caused by the recent storm, will be between $io0, 900 and $900,000. Six bridges on the California Southern railway were washed out near the Solidad Canyon and the road suf- fered heavily otherwise from the storm. There fs no prospect of trains moving before tonight. The company will probably lose from $25,0o to $se, 1000.
 While . postman was delivering mall on Hatton garden, London, England, yesterday morning he was attacked by three men. He resisted stubbornly, but have finally over- powered, not, however, lntil he had been badly wounded. The robbers dragged him into room and locked him in. They then seized the mail and dscamped. It is stated that the mail comprised . registered package The post oface authorities deny this, how- ever, and assert that the package of diamonds from the Cape was delivered yesterday.
 A New York dispatch says the Sugar trust has made preparations to transfer It's assets to new corporation if the Court of Appeals upholds the decision of the lower court in the case of the North River Refining company that trusts are illegal. A charter was secured from the Connecticut legislature last spring which permits the organization of company increased. A. Foster Higgins, an insurance broker at No. 50 Wall street who lives In Connecticut and is an ex-member of the legislature of this State, obtained the charter and is one of the directors of the corporation.
 The fun indulged in few nights ago by 2 couple of students at Dickinson seminary has since brought the two into disgrace and caused their suspension from Williamsport's Institution of learning. In the darkness of night the students, armed with can of yel- low ochre, went to the seminary stable and to change the color of the school cart horse from dark bay to bright yellow. The result was the hostler, the ensuing morn- Ing, when he had recovered from his aston lshment, reported the matter to President Gray of the seminary, and an investigation, leading to the discovery of the guilty ones, followed. Though the hostler has been at work ever since trying to bring the horse back to Its natural color, he has not met with any great success.
 The right of wife to sue third person for enticing her husband away from her, thereby depriving her of his company and | support, has just been established by the | courts. The case in point is that of an notion brought by Alvira J. Bennett against | her father-in-law, Oliver Bennett. a wsll-to- | 10 farmer of the town of Fenton, Broom | county, for the recovery of $6, ,OOO damages | 'or depriving her of the love and company | ,f her husband. The plaintiff alleged that | he defendant had opposed his son's marriage Q her during the courtship, and that after marriage he carried his resentment against Ter to the point of inducing his son to aban- Ion her and return to the parental roof. A ury gave her $500 damages. The case has ,een twice appealed, but each time the de. endant was beaten.
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