Morning journal and courier., 1891-12-14
TELEGRAPHIC JOTTINGS.

Up to yesterday morning it looked as though the one league twelve club scheme would be a certainty.
 Rev. P. H. Dewey, pastor of the South Congre- gational church, at Concord, N. H. has received a call to Chicago.
 despatch from Madrid says it is open secret there that Spain will ultimately adhere to the zouvercin-
 By the fall of building in Newport, England, yesterday, two adjacent cottages were crushed, ten persons being severely injured.
 Mrs. Lucy Parsons invited arrest at meeting of anarchists in Chicago yesterday. She scored the mayor, hte police and the press.
 The steamers Dial and Yankee Boy and schoon- CT Angelina were burned yesterday morning at the wharf at Logtown, Miss. Loss and insur- ance unknown.
 Rio Janeiro is more quiet and the confidence of financiers is returning. The latest reports about the Campos affair say that six persons were killed and twenty wounded.
 William Merriman, aged flfty-fve, who was wellknown at all race courses, was found dead in his room in New York yesterday. He is be- lieyed to have died of starvation.
 Tommy Ryan won a 14round fight with Frank Howson of Sheffield, Eng, near Chicago yesterday morning. From a professional and scientific standpoint the contest was 0 beauty.
 The steamer McGarel, from New York, has lowed into Queenstown the steamer Wotherby, from Newport News, before reported passed with machinery broken down. She had lost her shaft.
 Mrs. Della Parnell, mother of Charles Stewart Parnell, and ;her son, John Parnell, arrived at Liverpool yesterday on the Aurania, received visit from a few ParnelliteS, and started for Dublin last evening.
 Fire destroyed the house and barn of James Hunter in Rutland, Mass, yesterday afternoon Loss &, 800. No insurance Several acres of land were also burned over before the fire was placed under control.
 Aterrifc gale prevailed all day yesterday in the | English channel. The boat that plies between Folkestone aud Boulogne did not venture out. All persons for the continent proceeded by the Dover boat to Calais.
 John Miller, aged sixty eight yesterday fatally shot his wife and then killed himself at Mount Olive, H. Miller few days ago made his will | and settled up his business affairs. He was in- | toxicated at the time.
 The steamer City of Chicago which arrived in
 New York yesterday, brought thirty-seven pas | sengers of the British steamship Kansas, which
 sailed from Liverpool for Boston on the 2oth ult. | The Kansas was disabled.
 At s:30 yesterday morning a lively fire was
 discovered under the wagon shed at the Salem.
 and South Danvers oil works at Salem, Mass The fire was probably incendiary and three large | tank wagons were ruined.
 | The Magdeburg, Germany, police have ar. l rested man and his wife who have been in the | habit of advertising for female travelling com. psnions and then numbering and robbing the ap- l
 Word has just been received that an extensive
 wood fire started yesterday afternoon in tht | woods near Banfeld roads, about two miles out l of Portsmouth N. H. The fire is raging fercely
 and bids fair to destroy property valued at from
 SC, GOO to SS1, 900.
 Schent have rec ived news confirming the repor
 that 300 native Christians were massacred in tht
 Patou district in China and that all the Euro peans there escaped.
 Inspector Byrnes declined to express ar
 opinion, yesterday, as to whether the bomb
 thrower, who tried to kill Russell Sage, Wal
 Henry l.. Norcross of Boston. The inspecto | sad he had no communication with the Bostol
 authorities on the subject.
 The police officials claim to have unearthed formidable conspiracy to force the granting of ] national constitution in Russia. Within the pas l few days many persons have been arrested il ! St. Petersburg and Moscow on the charge o , being implicated in the plot.
 l Influenza has assumed alarming forms at St
 Petersburg. Some patients become mad an | rush wildly through the streets in violent par
 oxysms then have high fever and utter prostra l tion, often followed by death. In other case , there are typhoid developments. } Miss Julia A. Ames, superintendent of tn press department of the National W. c. T. U r and associate editor of the Union Signal C l Chicago died in Boston and funeral service f were held yesterday morning at the home c Dr. Caroline E. Hastings on Huntington avenue , Rev. Charles Dewitt Brldgeman, iafe pastor l the Madison avenue Baptist church, New Yorl | was ordained a deacon of the Protestant Episc, ) | pal church, at the Church of the Incarnation O l. Madison avenue in the presence of a large COT , gregation. Bishop Potter officated at the cer, ? | mony.
 Buenos Ayres advices report that the recer '. | purchase by Baron Hirsch' of three thousan t and one square leagues of land in the mortimer . part of the Argentine Republic for s36o, O makes him the possessor of territory larg, l. | than is owned by any other man, and which e @ ceeds in area the kingdom of Montenegro.