Morning journal and courier., 1890-03-26

received by President Diaz at the City of Mexico yesterday, and in the evening Minis | ter Ryan held Q reception in their honor. The resignation of Count Herbert Bis marck has been accepted and Herr von Alvensleben has been appointed to succeed him as imperial secretary for foreign afairs. The president yesterday sent to the senate the name of Paydirsctor Thomas Fl. Locker to be chief of the bureau of provisions and clothing and paymaster- general, with rank | of commodore.
 Senator Morrill, yesterday introduced bill to establish an educational fund by setting apart the net proceeds of sales of public lands, and portion of the receipts from land grant railroads.
 Vessels arriving at New Orleans yesterday from Spanish Honduras report that severe storm passed over the Bay islands on the 18th inst, destroying many banana plants and quantities of bananas. Bismarck's orders and decorations are val- ued at $1O0,O0o. Bismarck told an inter- viewer that he would never wear any other decoration than the Iron Gross, and said: "You will never see me in Berlin again." Thomas M. Cooley, chairman of the inter-
 
 pelled to return to Florida on account of the severe cold he contracted in attending tho Frieze memorial exercises at Ann Harbor. A Philadelphia syndicate has purchased 1,2O0 acres of land and three miles of water front immediately south of the navy yard at | Norfolk, Va, on the Portsmouth side of the river, for $200, 900, on which to build town. The second reading of the land purchase bill is fixed for April IF. The liberals and Parnellites will oppose the bill at every stage, 1 mainly on the ground of the absence of the representative principle in the administra- tion.
 | The Politische Nachrichten denies that Herr Boettieher will retire from the Prussian min. istry. It is reported that the Prussian and l imperial ministers of the interior will bt amalgamated under Herr Aarschall, 6 Baden l minister.
 l A wagon in which were John Brown snd three small children, while attempting tc cross railroad track at West Berkeley, Cal. yesterday morning, was struck by train
 Brown and two of the children were killed
 and the other child was seriously injured.
 The house committee on invalid pensions
 yesterday authorized favorable report or the bill introduced in the house last week bJ Representative Lorrill of Kansas. This bill
 provides for disability pensions and servic'
 pension to all soldiers who have reached tn,
 age of si1ty-two years.
 The schooner Chase, Captain Pratt, of ant
 from Rockland, Me-, for New York with {
 cargo of lime. lies in the inner harbor 8
 Newport, R. l., with cargo on fire. The cap tain and crew removed their effects ant sealed up the vessel as soon as the fire wa discovered, and hope to smother it. At the session of the Central Pennsylvs
 mia Methodist Episcopal conference yester , , day the special committee on coast defens l, submitted a report, which was adopted, rec
 ommending that coast defenses be not en : larged or navies extended except for self
 protection, and that all national dif6cultie l be settled by arbitration.
 A lamentable mistake occurred at Ney Harmony last evening which resulted in tn l death of Professor Richard Owen, well know I as . soldier and scientist, and the dsngerou
 poisoning of A. H. Fretagot, g prominen
 merchant. They drank embalming fluid b
 mistake instead of mineral water. Professo
 Owen lived only about five hours and MI
 Fretagot is not expected to live.