Morning journal and courier., 1891-11-21
EIGHTY PEOPLE DROWNED
A Tidal Wave Causes Great Loss
 Life fin fIaa Sonrl. DacIdc
TELEGRAPHIC JOTTINGs.


 Football-University of Virginia 6, La fayette college 2.
 The report that Dr. Graves has commit ted suicide is untrue.
 By an explosion yesterday at the Madrid gas works two persons were fatally and seven severely injured. Rev. Thomas Hill, ex-president of Har- yard college, is in very low condition of health at the residence of friend in Wal tham, Mass.
 The alliance yesterday adopted resolu- tion demanding 8 constitutional amend ment disfranchising federal office holders during their terms of office.
 g. Yesterday afternoon Major E. A. Mon tooth, representing Senator Quay, entered suit against the Pittsburg Post for S100, ,00O damages on the charge of libel.
 There are now under charter about fifty steamships to load at Baltimore during December and January. The aggregate amount of cargo is 5000, 900 bushels.
 The startling fact has just come to light that the embankment wall at the outlet of the improved sewerage system of Boston is slowly but surely settling in the mud.
 The Caulois says negotiations have been almost concluded by which the Bank of France will provide the Russian govern ment with silver bullion to the amount of 50,000,000 roubles.
 It is rumored that Lord Stanley will re- sign next month. It is understood that he and Lady Stanley find their position at irty a,l 1al &1 leave.
 Brsdstreet's says business failures in the United States this week number 303, against 245 this week last year. The total, January to date, is 10, 0,692, againat S,947 last year.
 The pope has appointed the bishop of Chicontimi, Province of Quebec, Can, to be coadjutor of the archbishop of Quebec, with the right of succession to the arch bishopric.
 Nine buildings were destroyed by fire at Menongahela City, Pa., and fifty acres of timberland the property of the Brown Coal company, were burned over yesterday, in volving loss of s30,000. The origin of the fire is unknown.
 A dispatch from Goderich, Ont, says that 8 schooner supposed to be the George, which has been flying signals of distress off that port for forty-eight hours, foun- dered last night and all hands were lost
 Twenty buildings, including 0. W. Fletcher & Co.'s lumber establishment and the Lamb block, which contained the opera house, were burned at Correction vile, Iowa, yesterday morning. Loss, SS0,00O
 The smallpox epidemic at Harris Neck, Ga., is under the control of the United States Marine hospital authorities and is being rapidly stamped out. The disease is in an isolated section of the coast country, which is spsrsely populated.
 Henry P. Hutchinson, Cansdian, was arrested at McCoy's hotel in Chicago yes- terday on a charge of smuggling opium into the United States. Hutchinson's E trunk was seized. Securely packed in the bottom of the trunk were 110 half pound packages of smoking opium.
 Large contributions for the benefit of the famine sufferers continue to be re- ceived from many different parts of the empire. The central famine committee under the presidency of the czsrewitch will receive an imperial loan of 50, GOO, 900 roubles, without interest to be applied to the purpose of relief in stricken districts. Never was there more exciting football | contest at Amherst than that between Am | herst and Williams on Pratt's field yester- day afternoon. The game resulted in | neither team scoring. Nearly two hun | dred Williams men accompanied their team and the cheering for both colleges was tremendous throughout the game. Robert Taylor Sherman, prominent resident of East Orange, N. J., died in Elizabeth Thursday. Mir. Sherman was g | grandson of Roger Sherman, one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence | His father was Judge Charles s. Sherman of Suffield, Conn.,, at which place deceased | was born in 1885. He was 8 member oi the firm of Sherman, Cecil & Co. of New York.
 At the Episcopal church congress ir Washington yesterday Rev. H. P. Nichols of New Haven said: For the sake of th' cities he urged his hearers never to give ul the country parishes, for he characterized | the wickedness of the country vastly
 worse than the wickedness of the city. |
 the flood that pours into the cities, sait
 he, is to be foul one, then the result vii
 indeed be sad one.