Morning journal and courier., 1891-12-11
TELEGRAPHIC JOTTINGS.

There are 25,000 cases of influenza in Odessa.
 A smallpox epidemic is raging in Riazan. The mortality is 25 per cent.
 Speaker Crisp yesterday appointed John T. Waterman his private secretary.
 The illness from which King George is suffering is now pronounced smallpox.
 It is believed that twelve persons have been lost by the wreck of the bark Leo nora, before reported.
 Famine prices for cereals prevail in the districts of Arcot, Chingleput and Cudda- pah and in the town of Anatopoor, in the Bellary district.
 The comptroller of the currency has called for report of the condition of ma tional banks at the close of business We'd nesday, December 9.
 Senator Stewards bill for the free coin age of gold and silver is 6 copy of bill in- troduced by Mir. Plumb in the last congress with certain amendments.
 Owing to the drought the crops have been lost over large areas in the Madras Presidency, which are devoted to the cul- tivation of various kinds of grain.
 Oliver Wilson Doud, the well-known actor, died yesterday at Mount Hope. re- treat, at Baltimore, of psresis. MT. Doud was nearly eighty-seven years old.
 The Russian government will advance money for fodder to peasants who prove that they possess animals, the object being to prevent a wholesale slaughter of ani- mals
 Speaker Crisp says nothing has been definitely decided upon as to the commit tees. He was unable to say whether he would be able to announce them before the holidays.
 At the village of Alt-Kanitza, Hungary, yesterday, blacksmith, in despair at his and three children. He then set fire to the house and stabbed and killed himself. The gale has swept many districts in Ireland, causing much damage to property l and flooding 8 number of rivers. The gale continues. The Norwegian mail steamer Frithjof has been wrecked of Haugeund, Norway.
 | The grand jury of San Antonio, Tex, after spending twenty-eight hours in jail for contempt of court, have been released on bond, the condition being that they abide by the decision of the court of ap- peals, where the case has beed taken. l The Journal des Debates states that it has learned on good authority that lead CTS of the anti-foreign movement in | China are in communication with leading | Tonquines, especially members of the for, mer reigning family of Annam, which was deposed by the French.
 | Warden Goliath handed to murderer Sawtelle yesterday afternoon the official document from the supreme court inform, ing him that his petition for a new trial had been denied. Sawtelle read the letter and then said: 'T hardly expected this Did you, warden" Warden Goliath re piled: 'I did not"
 The epidemic of influenza in St. Louis is becoming very pronounced and physicians report hundreds of cases under treatment Many city and government officials and business men are prostrated. Nineteen employees of 8 wholesale house had to gc home, because they were suffering from ls grippe. and ten professors in St. Louii university are i'll.
 In the Hungarian diet yesterday tn. minister of commerce announced that tn. one thousandth anniversary of the estab lishment of the kingdom would be cele brated with national exhibition in 1895 Francis Joseph, emperor of Austria anc king of Hungary, will invite all foreigr sovereigns to visit the exhibition.