Morning journal and courier., 1890-10-15
TELEGRAPHIC JOTTINGS.

Fire destroyed several blocks at Fair port, O., Monday night. Justin S. Morrill, has been reelected Q United States senator from Vermont King Christian gave dinner at the pal ace Monday to the officers of the United l States cruiser Baltimore. Robert Sellers, aged nearly 100 years, | and the oldest freemason in Canada, died | yesterday. He was made a mason in 1919. The government troops in Sonora, Mex ico, have again defeated Yaquis, and the Indian war is now thought to be nearing | an end.
 The census of the City of Mexico has been completed and it is officially an nounced that the population numbers | 324, ,000.
 The recently taken census gives North Carolina 1, ,617 $40 inhabitants, gain of PIT, ,590, and Kansas 1, ,423, ,4S5, gain of 427, ,3S9.
 Twenty employees of the Stuartevant blower works in Jamaica Plains, Mass ,are reported ill with typhoid fever, and one has died.
 The police census completed gives the city of New York population of 1,710,- 715, an increase of 197, ,214 over MT. Por- ter's figures.
 Osman Digma is preparing to attack Suakim. Arrangements are being made at Cairo to send endorsements to the Suakim garrison.
 Another of the persons who was injured at the fire in Rowley & Brooks establish ment in London, Monday, has died. This makes the eighth victim of the fire. l Colonel Herbert A. Hascall, U. S. A., retired, died at Chicago yesterday after a long illness, aged fifty-six years. He was at one time professor of mathematics at West Point.
 1 Rev. A. B. Chrichet, Presbyterian clergyman of Montreal, has confessed that he has been leading double life with a woman in one of the French Canadian sub urbs and is in disgrace.
 General Ruben H. Davis of Aberdeen, Miss, died suddenly of apoplexy at Hunts vile yesterday. He was second cousin of Jefferson Davis and served as 8 member of the Thirty-fifth congress.
 Ten of Captain S. s. Browns horses were auctioned off at Morris park yester- day, bringing the following prices: De Muth S11 ,000, Buddhist $500, Reporter $4, 100, Long Run s4 1000, Defaulter 8, 800.
 The war department in a general order bearing on the death of General Belknap, ex-secretary of war, directs that the war department be draped in mourning for the period of thirty days, and that all business be suspended tberein on the day of the 1 funeral
 The Austrian tailor who travelled from Vienna to Paris inside of luggage trunk has performed the same feat by travelling ill trunk from Paris to London. When he arrived he was taken from the trunk in | an exhausted condition.
 Grosvenor Hood Garene, a young Eng lishman who, during the Birchall trial, was mentioned by the Toronto Globe as possi- bly implicated in Benwelrs murder, has sued that paper for S50,000 damages. He is the son of one baronet and brother of another, but drives delivery wagon.
 The Ohio legislature convened in extra session yesterday. The governors mes sage sets forth that the session was called because of the deplorable condition of the public service at Cincinnati and for the purpose of securing the necessary legisla- ton to give the people an opportunity to select the members of certain boards at the November election.
 | A Narrow Escape.
 Miss Clara Root, an Ansonia young lady who is in Florida at present, had a narrow escape from death last week. She was ou,