Morning journal and courier., 1892-11-12
TELKGRAPHIC JOTTINGS.

There is an alarming increase in the number OF
cholera cases in the department of Pas de
Calais.
Mary Gillespie Ewing. wife of Judge P. B. Ew
ing, and first cousin of j. G. Blaine, died at Ian
caster, O., yesterday, aged g.
The sessions of the international monetary
congress will be held in the marble hall of the
Palace des Academic, Brussels.
The Boston board Of fire underwriters issue a
circular announcing an advance in rates of so
per cent on all risks not insured to so per cent.
of their value.
The executive committee of the Irish land own
ers' convention has resolved to advise landlords
to withdraw entirely from the proceedings OF the
evicted tenants commission.
mass meeting Of spinners of New Bedford,
Mass, last night discussed the situation and
finally voted to petition the manufacturers for
an advance OF 10 per cent. on wages
The report sent out yesterday afternoon that
the overdue freight steamer England had been
sighted Off Fire Island proves to be an error.
Nothing has been heard of the missing ship.
Ulrich Gagnon made an unprovoked assault
with knife on Patrick McCamm, q rag picker
of Manchester, n. h, last evening, infietiOs an
1t is asserted that Lord Dunraven has sent no
challenge for the Americas cup; that he neither
has sent nor contemplat-s sending a further
| challenge, and that no yacht club has sent a
| challenge for him.
| The steamer Lizzie Henderson from New York
to Philadelphia reports November II while pass
/ ing Ocean City Second Mate Nicholas Thomas
| fell Off the main house while hauling the fore
sheet aft and was drowned
| The iron foundry of A. Carpenter & Sons in
Providence, r. l., was almost totally destroyed
by relast night The loss will reach sa5, 600 In
| sured for $4,000 heated casting Is supposed
to have been the cause OF the blaze.
A wreck floating on Lake Michigan off Frank
fort is doubtless that Of the schooner Cuba
which left Peterkey for Kenosha with wood anc
| bark November 2. She was commanded by Cap
tain Thorwald Hanson, who is lost with his crew
| of four men.
The New York baseball club has appealed &
its stockholders to make up deficit of So. $50 oil
| the season. The amount asked for is 10 per cent
| of the stock of each holder. The money will b
taken as a loan and wilt be paid back out Of mex
| years profits.
A number of children have been poisoned b.
arsenic at Collegevile, Pa, during the past FEY
days. How the drug was administered is ur
known. The affair has caused a decided senss
| ton, and all attempts at investigation eay
: proved futile.
} The Spanish steamer Ramon da Larragana q
| Liverpool from New Orleans landed Captain Mo-
J ris, his wife, and the crew Of the American brI
sdsiphia, which was abandoned in q sinking col
dition on October 3D.
The democrats had q big demonstration
| Louisville KY, yesterday. The governor Of Ii
. | state and half Of the legislature were preeen
Q Twenty five thousand people gathered in Cou
House square. The principal speech WAS mad
= by Hon. Henry Watterson.
By the collision OF two freight trains nes
Duncan, Miss, on the Yazoo and Mississippi Va
. ley railroad, engineer B. D. Weaver and Firems
= Frank Hiner were killed Eight loaded car wei
burned. The accident was due to the negligen,
& of the engineer OF the southbound train
+ At Brooklyn, Ala, yesterday John Thames,
pepullst, fired into a democratic procession.
l. H. Rose was fatally wounded and died soon a
:. | erward. Robert Duggan was badly wounded. b
. Is expected to recover. Thames had no provoc
3 ton beyond the exultant shouts OF his polite
l. opponents.
10 Private dispatches report the arrival Of I
steam whaler Orca at San Francisco with to'