Morning journal and courier., 1891-12-12

rumor was unfounded.
 William D. Southworth, the alleged 60 complice of the bomb-thrower in Russell Sage's office, has been pronounced sane b, l the examining physicians. The car shortage in the west Is increas ing, owing to the blockades of the eastern gateways. The roads out of Kansas Cit, are limiting their shipments. A dispatch from Pekin states that the recent victories of the imperial troops sent against the rebels in Mongolia have brought the insurrection to an end.
 The official correspondence setting forth the details of the reciprocity arrangement entered into between the United States and Germany was made public yesterday.
 The negotiations for an American and German copyright convention proceed smoothly, and bill dealing with the sub ject will soon be submitted in the reich stag.
 Dispatches from Tyler, Tex, announce that the supreme court has decided the alein land law unconstitutional. The news was received in Texas with the greatest satisfaction.
 James Johnson, colored was hanged at Elizabethtown, N. O., yesterday in the presence of 5000 people. Johnson as- saulted and murdered Florence Sutton, colored, aged 10.
 The net gold holdings of the treasury are $131, 125, ,S57, an increase of about two mil lion dollars since the first of the month and an increase of nearly fourteen million dollars since June last.
 A collision occurred near Murphysboro, H., last night on the Mobile and Ohio road. Engineer G. S. Flippen and two laborers, Simon Oleson and James Miller, were killed. Nine men were injured.
 Alfred c. Rutgers, a passenger on steam CT Noordland, was arrested at Hoboken, yesterday, charged with smuggling. His trunks were crammed with costly silks and faces, worth between $50, ,000 and s100, 900.
 The receipts from customs at the DOT, of New York during the fi-st ten days of this month were g, 924, 1875, being nearly one million dollars le. s than the receipts during the corresponding period of last year.
 No action will be taken by the demo. cratic caucus committee toward filling the vacancies in the minority representation on the senate committees until the re- publicans have outlined their program of assignment.
 Speaker Crisp will probably leave Wash ington for few days and go to some quiet place, where he can secure a little rest which he needs, and where he can also work undisturbed on the arrangements of the committees.
 Bradstreets reports 3s0 failures in the United States this week, against S41 in the like week last year. The total number January 1 to date is II ,620, compared with 9, S42 in a like portion of 1890. Canadian failures this week, 45 against 40 in the like week last year.
 Diphtheria is raging in the village of Firthtown, N. J., to an alarming extent. Business is suspended and the schools are closed. Every effort is making to check the spread of the disease. There have been a number of deaths.
 Richard G. Dove, clerk in the mail division of the treasury department, died yesterday. He had been employed in that department for sixty-two years, having been appointed a messenger during Presi- dent Jackson's administration.
 Information is received of the death, while switching cars at Missoula, Mont. of George P. Talbot, son of Rev. N. J. Talbot, D. D., of Providence, R. l. Mir Talbot was in the employ of the Northern Pacific road and was thirty years old.
 Twenty-one delegations in the worlds fair state convention voted yesterday for a resolution asking congress to appropri- ate $5,000,000 for the exposition. Five other delegations put themselves on record individually in favor of the resolu- tion.
 Ii Hung Chang has ordered the punish ment of all who were engaged in the mas sacre of native Christians at Tientsin, and seyersl rioters have been captured and killed, the Pekin government having granted leave for immediate beheading in all such cases.
 A proclamation was issued yesterday by the president of Hayti announcing a gen. eral amnesty to political offenders This carries with it the liberation of all politi- cal prisoners not in custody. The pro- clamation has been received with great favor. Perfect tranquility prevails.
 In the German reichstag yesterday Herr Kardoff censured the government for making too many concessions to the United States, which country, he said, recipro- cated by sending pork infested with trichinosis. Chancellor von Csprivi re. piled that Germany had no right to ques- tion the word or faith of the United States.
 The resolution of Senator Plumb to re move the body of General Grant to Wash. ington has caused Mrs. Grant great sorrow She says: 'T wish very much that my hus bands remains may stay where they now are. l am growing old and cannot change my residence very readily. My children are near me and I feel that mus be near my husbands grave"