Morning journal and courier., 1890-05-23
TELKGRAPHIo JOTTINGs.

The deaths resulting from the rioting at Pilsen in Austria now number sixteen.
 Mir. Lincoln, the American minister at London, has resumed the duties of his office.
 The emperor of Germany has subscribed twenty thousand marks to the Evangelical missions for hospital at Zanzibar.
 Trixie won the 2:33 trotting race at Point Breeze yesterday, and Aline the 2:23. Best time, respectively, 22714 and 2:22L.
 The comptroller of currency hss issued call to the national banks for report of their condition at the close of business May IT.
 The bank of Middle Tennessee, located in Lebanon, has made at assignment. Liabili- ties about 800, 900; assets $65,00O. This was a state bank.
 The steamer Wieland, which has arrived at Hamburg frem New York, passed twenty four icebergs on May 12 in latitude 47.47, longitude 4S.44.
 Ellis Allen, confidential clerk of the Aus tin Investment company, with headquarters in Kansas City, Mo-, has disappeared with $20,0 900 of the company's money.
 Charles Geer, who left Willimantic Satur- uhJ TUT huOuu 45lduu1 was hllACu Uy eaO cars at Wickford yesterday. The body was brought to Willimantic yesterday.
 Hon. Solon A. Carter, state treasurer of New Hampshire, reports the state debt at the close of the fiscal year $2, ,4S1, ,453, net re- duction during the last twelve months Of $150, ,86a
 Instructions similar to those sent to the captain of the Bear were sent yesterday to the commander of the Rush at San Francisco to proceed to Alaskan waters and protect the seal fisheries there.
 The schooner Belle Higgins of Bath, Me. |, which was run down and badly damaged by the steamer La Champagne on February 25, has sued the steamship company for $35, ,000 damages. The trial began yesterday. Augustus Crocker, who was born at Taun- ton, Mass, In 1s41, his father being prom inent manufacturer, died yesterday at St. Luke's hospital in New York of Bright's dis ease. He has brother living in Boston. Harry W. Bickford, employed as a clerk by Benjamin R. Bryant & Co.,, grocers at Bos- | ton, was arrested at his home in Cambridge yesterday charged with the embezzlement of l $1, 1,345 from that firm during the past six | months.
 The governor of Massachusetts has nomi. l mated as worlds fair commissioners Francis | W. Breed of Lynn and Thomas E. Proctor oi Boston, with George P. Ladd of Spencer and 1 Albert o. Houghton of North Adams as al ternates.
 The Nefoundland schooner Margaret be- came total wreck yesterday near Little Lo rain, 0. B. She was from St. Johns fo, Sydney. When the disaster occurred it wal l very foggy, with a heavy sea, and a strong breeze was blowing.
 The Chicago, Burlington and Quincy rail- road yesterday morning continued the wal in passenger rates by reducing it's rate from Omaha to Chicago to $5. This does not af- feet the rate from Chicago to Omaha, whicl is maintained at $S.
 Governor Ladd of Rhode Island has ap pointed the following gentlemen commission CTS of the worlds fair from Rhode Island Lyman B. Golf of Pawtucket, republican, ,ant Gardiner o. Sims of Providence, democrat Alternates, Jeffrey Hazard of Providence republican, and Lorrilard Spencer of New port, democrat.
 Representative Dingsley, from the commit tee on merchant marine and fisheries, favor ably reported to the house yesterday the bill to place seamen, shipped on American yes sells, engaged in trade with Mexico, Yves Indies and Newfoundland under the same re strictions as those shipped in American yes sells engaged in the foreign trade. MT. Gladstone, in letter on the licensin
 question. says that the mere introduction ii
 parliament of the license bill which provide
 for the compensation of loss of licenses ha
 already increased the value of publicanl property by probably e50, ,0O0,000 Tn
 measure, he says, is the heaviest blow eve
 struck at the cause of temperance.