Morning journal and courier., 1891-12-15
TELKGRAPHIO JOTTINss,

Senator Galinger of New Hampshire yesterday
 introduced bill for the better protection of the public service.
 The Southern Pacific railway has supplied the 1 and the strike is ended
 The decree issued by ex-President da Fonseca
 of Brazil ordering the lease of the Central rail way by the government has been annuled. | Dr. Won Betticher, secretary of the German imperial office, announces that press reports of the presence Of trichin@ in American pork are | unfounded.
 The minister Of war has summoned all the
 chiefs of the general staff to a council which will be held for the purpose of making a new disposi- tion of the Russian forces.
 decree has been issued stating that from January next Lutheran clergy will be deprived or the right to appoint or discharge the masters of Lutheran schools iu Russia. At yesterdays consistory the pope pronounced allocation on the recent pilgrmsges to Rome and the present position of the church. The docu- ment is moderate and concilatory in tone. Justices Brown and Lamar of the supreme court of the United States are confined to their homes with attacks Of the grip, which has also affected other members of the court in a mider form.
 An Oakes, N. D., special says the business DOT tion of that town was destroyed by fire early yesterday morning, and Dr. Schmidt Nelson, in whose drug store the flames started. was burned to death.
 By the collapse of an oyer-weighted brewery at Pinneburg, Germany yesterday, twenty-eight men were buried beneath mass of debris and fifteen of them died before the rescuers could reach them.
 Oliver P. Sarle of Warwick, R. I, ,wss yesterday fined $50 and costs amounting to sls5 50. in the United States district court for refusing to an swer certain questiors propounded by the census collector last June.
 William German Wells, the well-known dra- matist, died at Guys hospital, London, yesterday He was born in 1898 in Kilkenney county, Ire land. Mir, Wells was also @ successful portrait painter and novelist.
 A Rome dispatch says the Italian government will shortly open negotiations with France for a commercial convention. The vatican has ex- pressy forbidden Catholic journals to attack the French government.
 The grand jury yesterday returned true bills in the Quay libel suits against the Post Publish ing ing company opp , of Pittsbnrg and Albert J. Bard and James Mills proprietor and editor respec- lively. The suits will probably come up in a few days.
 It is reported that her majesty ship Anson the flagship of the Channel squadron, while cruising in the vicinity of Gibraltar encountered terrific gale, during which the vessel was swept by huge waves, and several of her men were washed over board and drowned.
 The annual report of the directors of the At chison, Topeka and Santa Fe railroad shows the gross earnings from the Atchison system on an average operated mileage for the year of 7,1I1 miles were S33, ,66S, ZIG, increase of S2659 359
 
 The situation in the bituminous coal regions of Indiana in which 20, 900 miners arc on strike, is gloomy one for the strikers. Many of the men and their families are already the verge of starvation subsisting on one meal a day and have been doin: so for two weeks.
 There is revolutionary movement in the | province of Sac Paulo, Brazil, the object of | which is to depose the governor of the province Thus far the insurgents have only succeeded in | busting mum CT of local offcials The govern or is still offering stout resistance to the mal- contents.
 Senator Proctor yesterday introduced in the | senate bill to amend the act to promote the ad- ministration os justice in the army as to pro- vide that commanding officers shall be author zed to approve the sentences of summary courts | the same.
 Senor Montt, the Chilian minister, had a confer ence with Mir. Blaine yesterday in regard to the | Valparaiso incident, but nothing efinite can be | learned as to what took place. It is said at the | Chilian legation that no news had been received | from Chili. similar staten ent made at | state department.
 Edward Nj. Field, of the failed banking firm of | Field, Lindley, Weichers & Co.,, was arrested yes terday by three detectives at the Manchester Mansion, private asylum near Tuckaboe, N. | Y. He is now locked up in police headquarters | in New York. The arrest was made on a war | rant issued by Judge Maritime, and the charge is | 1n-, srA AH.,@