Morning journal and courier., 1890-02-26
TELKGRAPHIO JOTTINGs.

Considerable damage has been done to railroad property all over Indiana by heavy rains.
 Belgium has officially accepted Germanys invitation to take part in tho Berlin labor conference.
 Harold M. Sewell of Maine was yesterday nominated by the president to be consul general of the United States at Apia.
 Lord Tennyson makes very slow progress in improvement. He has a persistent and severe cough which so disturbes his sleep as to prevent his getting any satisfactory rest.
 Lovel Greeley, sister of the late Horace Greeley, died last night at Spring Park, Pa., on the farm which her brother gave her twenty-6vs years ago. She was seventy-i five years old.
 The heavy fog yesterday at New York in- ferrybo an d other craft in the harbor and with incoming and outgoing steamers. Many ferryboats stopped running altogether.
 A bill was reported to the house yesterday from the committee on library appropriating $25, 900 for the erection of a monument to William Henry Harrison, the grandfather of President Harrison, at North Bend, Ohio.
 The old First Congregational church at Wsstield, Mass, now occupied by H. A. Parsons for carriage factory, was burned with it's contents last night Tho loss was about $15, ,000 aud there was no insurance. The cause of the fire is unknown.
 The duke of Cambridge and his sons, after lunching on the Chicago with Admiral Walker yesterday at Villa Franca, were es- corted by the admiral on board the Boston to ball given on board that ship by Captain Kane.
 Eearly yesterday morning the county court house and jail at Vancouver, w. T., were destroyed by fire with most of the county records. The building was valued at $55,- 900; insurance $25, ,00O. Cause of fire un- known.
 Baron de Struyve, the Russian minister at Washington, has been instructed to present the views of his government pending the Behring sea negotiations at Washington, par ticularly touching the point of the protection of seals during the breeding season. Sir James Ferguson, parliamentary sscre- tary for the foreign office, announced in the house of commons yesterday that the govern ment had accepted the invitation of Germany to take part in tho labor conference sum- moned by Emperor William to meet in Der. lin.
 In the house yesterday bill was passed authorizing the secretary of state to appoint two suitable persons to represent the United States At the International conference in ref erencs to the protection of industrial proper ] ty, to be held at Madrid, Spain, April 1, J. P. Mullen, Central railroad brake man, fell from . car near Milton, Vt., yes tsrday afternoon, the wheels passing over an arm and leg, injuring him 50 that he died shortly after. He was about twenty eight years old and had bssn on tho road but few days.
 Among the bills reported from committees
 and placed on the calendar in the senate yes
 terday was one to include within the customs
 district ctsateoHartford, Conn.,, thefewns ol
 Longmeadow, Agawam, Springfield and Wea
 Springfield, Mass, in which Springfield shal
 ba a port of delivery. @
 Delegates representing thoss in. favor o
 home rule for Scotland and delegates repre- senting .the liberals of South Wales hold conference In London yestsrdAy The con < | ference agreed to cooperate to obtain hom rule for Scotland and Walss, subject to th i supremacy of the imperial pszliamsnt.
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