Morning journal and courier., 1889-11-01
TELEGRAPHIC JOTTINGs.

M. Tschernischewiski has died at Sara
toff.
The certificate of incorporation of the
Knickerbooker bank of New York was fled
yesterday. It has capital of 500. 200, with
permission to increase 1t to 100000.
While the steamer Puritan, on the trip
from New York Wednesday night, was
rounding Point Judith, Andrew Sinclair, who
was intoxicated, fell from his berth and
broke his neck.
Hon. Amos. J. Cummings, of the Sun, on
the eve Of his reelection to congress to take
the scat made vacant by the death of "Sun-
set" Cox was entertained at dinner last night
by the New York Press club.
Charles McIvor, late of Fredericton, N. B.,
committed suicide yesterday morning at
Bangor, Me. He put his face into wash
bowl of water while alone in his room and
held it there until he lost consciousness.
The representative Of Belgium at the anti
slavery conference will submit proposal to
levy duty of per cent. on all merchandise
imported into the Congo State, the proceeds
to be devoted to procuring the extinction of
slavery.
Commodore Francis M. Ramsay, who has
been in command of the navy yard at Brook
lyn, left yesterday to take Commodore Walk
er's place at the head of the bureau of navi-
cation. A saluteef eleven guns was fred in
his honor.
E. Sinclair, an old soldier, aged 65, a
passenger on the steamer Puritan, en- route
to the Soldiers home at Togue, Maine, fell
out of his bunk just after the boat left New
port yesterday morning, broke his neck and
died Immediately.
A sensation has been caused in politioa]
circles in Ottawa, Ont, over the.announce-
late Senator Ross paid SO, 900 each to secure
their seats in the Senate. Senator Clemow
ranks among Canada's wealthy politicians
as did Senator Ross at the time of his death.
Rear Admiral Walker will leave Washing.
ton for New York this afternoon, and will &c
al once to his quarters on the Chicago, The
fagship of the new squadron Of evolution.
He expects to sail for Europe from New
York about the 10th of November, going te
Europe by way of Boston, where the new
ships will be exhibited in the harbor.
The soldiers monument at WATERFOWL
Mass, was dedicated yesterday. The publ.
buildings were decorated, business was sus
pended and schools closed. At 1890 pro.
cessfon passed through the principal streets
to the monument, where E. F. Porter, chair
of tho selsotmen, presented the monunen
for dedication to Post 81, a. A. R., Conrad
| Forrest responding. The post conducted it,
usual ritual service of dedication, the star
and stripes were unfurled amid cheers and
salute Of forty-two guns was fred. TIL
procession then marched to the Unitarian
church, where Rev. L. T. Townsend, D. D.
of Boston university delivered an Grafton.
President Adams of Cornell, in his repor
yesterday to the trustees of the university
makes this radical suggestion: That the pre-
liminary medical studies In anatomy, physi
oloRy, botany, chemistry and histicolog.
should be amply provided for at the univer
sity, and that as there is no medical schoo
in the United States which provides for
course for students, thus prepared, nev
school for tho purpose be established in Ney
York or Brooklyn. President Adams, speak
ing Of Cornell's prosperity, says It has bee
shown not only by the large increase in til
size of the GLASSES, but also by the exeellen
spirit shown alike by professors and stu
dents. The attendance last year was ], 22s
and of these only e87 paid tuition. Will
New York furnished $50 students, the rel
came from 81 States and territories and frol
10 foreign States and territories.