Morning journal and courier., 1891-11-04
TELEGRAPHIC JoTTINGs.

There is a huge corner in rye in St. Petersburg
 Typhus fever is spreading in the famine strick. en provinces of Russia
 Louis Lucen Bonaparte, nephew of Nspole- on, is dead, aged seventy-eight.
 Dr. McKennal of London has declined the sec retaryship of the Congregational union.
 bank in Damariscotta, Me, has suspended, owing to the failure of the Maverick bank in Bos- Nine passengers were killed by the wrecking of the express train near Jsssy, Roumania, yester- day.
 Admiral Jorge Aontt has been declared the choice of the conservative party in chilli for pres ident.
 The international peace congress opened at Rome yesterday. One hundred delegates are present.
 Slight earthquake shocks continue in Japan The number killed by the recent shock is now placed at 5000.
 Mge. Preston, vicar general of the Roman Catholic diocese of New York, died at New York at o'clock this morning. The football game at Cambridge yesterday be- tween Harvard and Wesleyan resulted in a score of 12i to in favor Of Harvard. The strike of the union moulders of San Fran cisco which began on November 3, 1889, was de- clared of by the union yesterday. dispatch from Rio Janeiro said the Brazilian government proposes to impose surtaI of fifty per cent. on all European products I terday, trotting mile in 2:o9lf, coming within quarter of a second of the world stallion record | held by Allcrton.
 The Itata case came to an end at Los Angeles, l Cal yesterday. Judge Ross of the United States court rendered a decision granting the motion to l dismiss the case against the defeadants- | Secretary Proctor left Washington yesterday | afternoon for New York and Vermont He will | probably return to the war department only for
 the purpose of turning over his office to his sue ceSsor.
 Governor Page of Vermont yesterday issued
 a proclamation formally announcing the ap- | pointment of Hon. Redfield Proctor as United | States senator to succeed Hon. George F. Ed | munds, resigned.
 w. Steele editor and owner Of the Colorado
 Springs Gazette, died suddenly yesterday morn
 ing of rheumatism of the heart. Mir Steele was
 forty years of age, native of Haverhill, Mass.
 and A popular writer. He was unmarried.
 United Ireland prints a letter from the late Mr.
 Parnells mother appealing to Irishmen to vote
 for Parnellite candidates, and adding that their ! rallying cry must be, "Remember Parneu and | his nurderers."
 | The attorney general requests Mir. Allen, dis | trict attorney for Boston, to dema nd that the
 bail of French and Potter be heavy. It is under
 stood that the bail in MT. Potter's case will be | fixed at 800, 900 and MT. French's at Sl5O,OOO.
 Asa P Potter, president of the Maverick bsnk
 of Boston, was arraigned before Commissioner | Hallett yesterday. He pleaded not guilty. IT
 making the charge District Attorney Allen asked
 that the bail be fixed at not less than S2OO,OO. l Arout five thousand persons witnessed thu , Yale-Crescent football game at Brooklyn yester day. The weather was perfect The Crescent' | still showed signs of Saturdays contest. Ther, , were bruised heads and bodies, and several play z CTS, including Beecher, limped badly. The gam | was won by Yale by a score of 70 to o.
 The pope prepared his religious will in Octo ber It is written in Latin. The pope disclaim any personal inclination as to the choice of hi D successor. He dwells upon the nobility of labo 8 | as exemplifisd in the carpenters house il
 | Nazareth. The pope's temporal will is bein
 | drafted by four cardinals. All the pope's proT
 | erty is invested in England.