Morning journal and courier., 1889-12-16
TELR0RAPHIO JOTTINGs.

The Ducneeo or 1ock, oousAu VI sho 4usou of England, is seriously i'll.
 The subscriptions to the Irish Tsnants' Defence Fund in Great Britain have reached the sum of s10.000.
 Cardinal Celestin Ganglbauer, Archbishop of Vienna, who has been critically i'll for some time, died Saturday. I
 Three thousand miners employed ia the collisriss of Oldbury, England, have given notice that they will strike unless they re. ceive an increase of ten per cent. in their wages.
 The jury in the suit, at Buffalo, of Agnes Bokert against the Western Now York and Pennsylvania railroad company for $1e,OO0 for disagreement by an accident has awarded the plaintiff $1,000.
 Miles Holt of Laurel, Del, who drank concentrated lye, mistaking it for wine yes- terday, has been advised by physicians to abstain from food a. least enc week. He is improving, but suffering much.
 The Mexican Chamber of Deputies has ap- proved the concession to Gen. Trevine for million dollar hotel. The railroad to Oaxuca is being pushed energetically. This road will open up one of the richest sections of the republic.
 M. Camille Dreyfus and M. Laguerre, both members of the French Chamber of Deputies, had a understanding Saturday. Friendly relations between them are discontinued, hostile messages have been exchanged and the duel was fixed for yesterday.
 Jose Maria Belmonte was fatally stabbed in duel at Fan Antonio, Texas, Saturday by Juan Rscendes. The stabbing occurred on the Gower ranch. The men were in love with the same lady, and agreed to fight it out with knives. Recendes escaped.
 During the progress of an anti-semitic meeting at Vienna Saturday night riot oc- cured between the Radical German Nation alists and the Austrian Conservatives. Five of the participants, including Herr PAttal. 8 member of the Reichstag, were injured.
 The rivers at i'll fatsd Johnstown, Pa, have reached an alarming height. The tsle- graph office is now entirely surrounded by water. All bridges are gone. A rise of @ foot more would take 200 or 800 of the tenn porary houses. The people arc taking to tho hills.
 Ava Van Emonright of 98 West Houston street, New York, put on her husbands clothes and went to fancy goods store at Thompson and Houston street to see another woman. Policeman McQuade arrested her. h the Jefferson Market court Saturday che explained that it was only joke, and Justice Ford let her go.
 A passenger train on the Missouri Pacific railroad oollided with freight train near Pleasant Hill, Mo-, at 10:30 o'clock Saturday night, and two tramps stealing ride be- tween the tender and the mail car were crushed to death. All the passengers on the train were shaken up, but none was injured.
 Saturday was the twenty-eighth anniver- sary of the death of the Prince Oonsort | England's Queen, accompanied by the Prince and Princess of Wales and other members | of the royal family, visited the saroophagus at Frogmore in which lies the body of the | prince. The queen spent long time in prayer at the,mAusoleum. She was deeply affected and wept most of the time she re- Hsined there.
 The annual return of the Boston board of | assessors to the State tax commissioner | shows the total tax levy for State, county, | and city purposes for the year 1889 to have been $l0, ,O7s. .8o9. The city of Boston. assets are, in the aggregate, $7l, ,S07,s The cons solidated total debt of the oity Qncluding | Suffolk county, for which tho city of Boston l is iiable) is $49, ,o20, ,475, an increase of $926- e72 over 1sss The value of churches, char itable institutions, &o., exempt by law from taxation is $27, ,752 ,000, In addition to which there is personal property to the value of @, ,762, 500. Massachusetts corporations to the value of $49S, ,o00 and United States bonds to the value s191 800 are also exempt from taxation.
 James Brennan, 0 leper, created scene in the Circuit at St. Louis Saturday morning. Brennan's friends had petitionsd . writ of habeas corpus, in which 1t was alleged that Brennan was restrained Iof his liberty by George F. Dudley, health commissioner. in Quarantine hospital, St. Louis county, and condemned ss a lepsr, as being afflicted with . loathsome, malignant and contagious dis ease. Mir. Slsvin denied that Mr. Brennan was afflicted with leprosy or with any mslig- nant or contagious disease. He brought Brennan into court. The court room was crowded. It was found that Brennan was a lepsr. White and blue patches were out- lined on his face and neck and hands. When the ease was called Brennan was brought forward and Judge Valiant took one glance at him. Mir. Slsvin read his petition, and Counsellor Bell, for Mr. Dudley, read the TO. ply and asserted that Brennan was lepsr beyond doubt, and that to be At large would | be placing the lives of the public in jsep- | ardy. They had no sooner finished their pe- titisn than Jadge Valiant remanded Bren- | nan. Tho court was hastily adjourned and