Morning journal and courier., 1890-12-12
rELKGRAPHIC JOTTINGs.

Hon. Jonn LaurenS Manning ifDy mas been elected United States senator from South Carolina.
 Senator Edmund de Dafayette, grand son of the Marquis de Lafayette, died in Paris Wednesday.
 Henry Seibert, tobacco commission. merchant, No. 76 and 7S Broad street, New York, has suspended.
 The national council of the presidents of all the state farmers alliances will be held in Washington, D. O., February 6.
 Professor Bielroth of Vienna declares that the use. of the Koch lymph has pro- duced a marked effect in cases of leprosy.
 MT. Parnell has ordered that all persons shall be treated fairly in the columns Of United Ireland and that abuse shall be ab- stained from.
 Mary F. Smidt and his wife Caroline of Chester, Penn, were arrested yesterday charged with murdering Emma Pfitzen- meyer, Mrs. Smidt's sister,.
 Horace Kelley, who died in Cleveland week ago leaving an estate of s750.000, willed $500, 1000 for a national gallery of arts to be established in that city. Three tramps who on Tuesday night entered a barn at Brimfield, Ind, for shelter, and smoked before going to sleep, set the barn on fire and were burned to | death.
 Ex-Senator Frank S. Arnold of Unadil- la, N. Y, shot himself through the head yesterday morning. Dependency caused | by his defeat at the late election was the cause.
 In reply to dispatch from Mir. Me Carthy, Mir. Egan has telegrapded as fol- lows: ''No funds in Paris in my control If there were | should accede to your | wishes"
 1 Benjamin F. Shaw, creator of- the idea of the seamless stocking and the inventor of the loom to make it, died at Lowell, Mass, yesterday. He was at one time a journalist.
 P. G. Stoddard was arrested at Chicago last night charged with embezzing bonds of the Chicago and Arkansas Construction company to the amount of $200, ,000 with an actual value of SlO0,O
 The Brazilian war vessels, Aquidaban and Guanabara sailed yesterday and were escorted from the New York harbor by
 the man-of-war Yorktown, parting courte-
 sies being exchanged.
 After long and sensational trial the
 Pittsburg Presbyterian presbytery yester-
 day suspended five young ministers of that
 denomination for heresy by vote of 25
 to 4. They have appealed to the synod.
 It is officially admitted that President
 Bostwick of the New York and New Eng
 land railroad will, in. all probability, re
 sign before he sails for Europe. It is said
 w. T. Hatch will not become his successor George W. Venable and Moses J. Hey ; mon, composing the firm of Venable & Heyman, wholesale liquor dealers at Nos g and 26 Reade street, New York, mad, an assignment yesterday, giving prefer : ances of s31, ,170.
 The Big Four elevator at Sandusky, O. vas burned yesterday afternoon; loss $40, r 900, insurance S30, ,O00 The fire extended to the lumber of the Sandusky Box com t pany, destroying three million feet, valued ) at $50, 600 to s6O,O00. Fully insured. 8 The house committee on merchant ma rine and fisheries has virtually agreed upol I bill to be reported to the house b, a Chairman Faaquahar as a substitute fo a the senate tonnage and subsidy shippinl i. bill.
 @ Advices from Bermuda report that tn t people of those islands are greatly exel @ cised over the recent refusal of the impel 2 ial government, in defiance of colonis e laws, to allow aliens, even when naturalizet
 to own real estate on the islands.
 Senator Hawley was yesterday instruc ed by the committee on military affairs { report favorably his bill introduced yests "a day for the advancement of the eficiens r, of the army and to increase the artillel of corps by the addition of two regiments. s. Judge Woods, in the United States di sso trict court at Indianapolis, has decided VI the case of Hure, Brown & Co. vs. t
 Sanford Fork and tool company of Ter
 Haute that an insolvent corporation ca in not prefer its directors or officers as ere o itors.