Morning journal and courier., 1891-12-09

of twenty five francs on refined petroleum.
 At the football meeting at Williams college last night, Abram Garfield, son of ex-Presideut Gar field, was elected manager of the football team.
 Six of the leading stables of Austria and Hun gary have been disposed of in consequence of q re-action in feeling caused by the recent turf scan dals.
 The men at Mare island navy yard are work ing overtime to get the cruiser San Francisco ready for sea Friday. Nothing further is
 The Dominion Mineral company of Sudbury, Ottawa, has sold its Blizzard and Warrington nickel mines to an English syndicate for tive mil lion dollars.
 A number of Spanish conservatives have joined the liberals with the object of agitating for the establishment of a commercial treaty with Germany.
 During November last % e5s pensions were al lowed, upon which the first payments aggregated Ss s6s sss Of these claims 15. .oeo were under the act of June 2, 1890.
 In the superior court at Fall River, Mass, yes- terday the trial of Dog Woodward, of Taun- ton for conspiracy to murder Judge Fox of the same city was commenced.
 At Eleanor, Nottingham, England, a man whose occupation was that of @ fiddler, stran- gled his wife and then committed suicide by drowning himself in a cistern-
 A dispatch from vladivostock says that thieves have robbed the government treasury there of S25O,OOO. The thieves entered and escaped from the treasury by means of an underground pas sage.
 dinner was given in New York last night to Lord Aberdeen, under the auspices of the Ma tional Irish federation The Gordon plaid was worn by all the guests in honor of Lord Aber- deen.
 The British commissioners from the West Indies were in conference with Secretary Blaine for several hours yesterday with a view to es- tablishing reciprocal trade relations with the United States.
 Frederick A. Faulkner, republican, was elected mayor of Keene. N. H., yesterday by a vote of 627 to s2O for Wright, democrat Three of the five aldermen and twelve of the fifty councilman are republicans.
 A number of prominent colored people have organized an association to buy a piece of land in Richmond, Va, for a park within which it is proposed to erect monument to the memory of Abraham Lincoln.
 A dispatch from Nifka, in Russian Poland, states that the first report of the coIliery acci- dent there was greatly exaggerated and that the loss of life instead of being le0 as at first stated. is not more than four.
 Advices from Yokohama say the Foreigners Relief committee has issued an appeal to the people of the United States on behalf of the sui ferers by the earthquake which occurred in Cen tral Japan October 2S.
 M. Eliot, the French ambassador, had a con- ference with the Marquis de Rudini, the prime munster, ana initiated negotiations IOOklnB 70 the establishment of a commercial modus VI vendi between France and Italy.
 William Copperthies, a prisoner in the Balti' more jail, yesterday ascended the iron stairway to the top tier. and then jumped down fifty feet was fearfully injured and soon died.
 George Roth, who shot at Rev Dr. Han on Sun- day week, has been indicted by the grand jury for assault in the first degree. Roth is now in the insane asylum on Wards Island. He will be brought to court to answer to the indictment.
 The British steamer Ulunda, from Halifax, N. S., which passed the Scilly Islands yesterday, sgnalled that she passed the British steamer Wetherby, from Newport News, in a disabled condition in latitude 49 north longitude l9 west.
 Colonel William W. Clapp, for more than twenty five years editor of the Boston Journal, and who retired from that position the first of dome, his winter residence. Colonel Clapp was born in 1S26.
 Representative Williams of Massachusetts, when asked why he did not vote for Mr. Crisp, said q did net vote on the roll call for speaker for the sole reason that Mir Crisp did not express himself in favor of the suppression of free coin age legislation in this congress.
 After three unsuccessful attempts against E. S. Bradford in the mayoralty contest Lawson Sibley. dem., has been elected mayor of Spring cfats have prSbabiy gained three aldermen and two councilmen. License probably prevails
 Considerable excitement was caused in San Antonio yesterday by the arrest of the grand jury A fine of $50 hangs over each member, i'm. posed by Judge King of the forty fifth district, who held they were in contempt in serving an attachment on him while he was on the bench The inquest yesterday into the fatal collision on the Philadelphia S Reading railroad, near Pennington Thursday last, resulted in the arrest of Conductor Filey and Engineer Lewis E. Leon ard of the train who obstructed the course or the New York express. The men are charged with manslaughter.
 The stockholders of the Produce National Bank of Philadelphia yesterday decided to liouidate the buisness of the institution. The bank has a capital stock of $500, 900 but business has not been as good as expected. It is able to pay all liabilities
 The government has delegated the sheriff oi wazp, Moor, who has been naturalized ir France, to obtain the sanction Of the sultan o | Morocco for the construction of a railway ant \ of telegraph lines to connect Algiers witt | Senegal, West Africa.
 The wedding of Princess Victoria Mary of Tecl | and the Duke of Clarence and Avondale is being | arranged for March 10, the twenty eighth ami versary of the wedding of the Prince and Princes | of Wales. The ceremony will take place in St | Georges chapel, Windsor. l Many peasants in the famine stricken district. | of Russia refuse to accept employment on gov ernment relief works. Nihilist agents are work | ing actively to persuade the peasants that tn, | czar can and ought to supply them with food The large factories at Lodsi are stopping worl | for want of orders, leaving the operatives dest | ute.
 Judge Lawrence in the New York suprem court yesterday upset the attempt of Jos | Sevilla, the Peruvian millionaire, to establisl Il the Sevilla Home for Female Children. H | holds that the clause providing for the home | void because of the statute against perpetuitiss | Sevilla died in Lima, Peru, in 1886, leavin | S5, 100000