Morning journal and courier., 1892-10-07
TELEGRAPHIC JOTTINGs.

A hurricane prevailed in valence and Mines,
France. Serious floods are reported at both
places
The rumored tunnel disaster on the Louisville
and Nashville was much exaggerated. Only one
man was hurt
The United States steamship Bennington, with
the caravels Nina and Pinta in tow arrived in
Cadiz yesterday.
The budget committee, France, reports that
the customs revenue for September is 6,7ss. 900
francs under the estimate.
Congressman William Bourke Cochran ad-
dressed q big democratic ratification meeting at
fremont temple, Boston, last evening
Mr.. B. B. Jones OF Haverhill, Mass was yester-
day appointed receiver of the Order OF tbs Help
ing Hand, a fveyeaI endowment concern.
The steamer Panama, before reported ashore
on the Florida coast, got Off and has arrived at
Havana. She sustained no apparent damage.
1t Is expected that the steamship State of
Georgia beached in the river below Montreal will
be total loss. Her cargo was worth $4,000.
The Venezuelan consul in New York has
ceived a dispatch saying that the government
forces under General Public have defeated the
insurgents.
Justice Cute of Albany yesterday postponed
decision in the Peck case, in which the commits
sioner is charged with having destroyed public
documents, until October ls.
General Granville NJ. Dodge has resigned the
presidency of the Union Pacific, Denver and Gulf
d.
Clark, president of the Union Pacific.
telegram from Sagua says that the British
| bark NJ. ]. Foley, Captain Rodenheisser, which
| sailed from Philadelphia September IS for Ssgua,
has been totally wrecked at Jutia Key.
The second day of the great triennial Protest
| ant Episcopal convention opened in Baltimore
yesterday with services in Emmanuel church;
| celebrated by Bishop Alexander Burgess of
Quincy, Ills.
| The fishing schooner Shenandoah, which ar
| rived yesterday morning at Gloucester, Mass,
| from La Have banks, reports the loss by the
swamping of q dory of Allied Anderson and
John Lawson. Both were unmarried and resided
/ in Gloucester.
William NJ. Runk, Of the extensive dry goods
firm of Darlington, Runk & Co., committed sui
eide by shooting himself yesterday morning. Il
| his country home at St Davids, near Phila
| mental depression
Herbert Wilson, farmer living In Cambridge
Junction, VT, was killed yesterday by being
struck by a passenger train. His child, eigh
years old, who was riding with him was thrown
| distance Of thirty feet down an embankment
sustaining but slight injuries.
Wilson Jones, the present governor Of tn,
| Choctaw nation, has been declared elected il
| joint session OF the Choctaw. council at Tusca
homa as governor for the two ensuing years, b,
| having received q majority of seventy five Of al
| votes cast. Everything is quiet
| The efforts OF the type founders to form
combination have at last proved successful Tn
new trust will be known as the Type Founders
| company. 1t has been incorporated under NeJ
Jersey laws with q capital OF S9,0o0,0o Rober
Allison is president Of the new company.
, A dispatch from Cork to the Exchange Tele
graph company, London, says that q man en-
ployed by the Cork Steam Packet company wa
seized with cholera in that city and died a fe,
. | hours after he was taken to q hospital. An e1
animation showed that he had true Asiatic chic
. era.
a Forty men, including the chiefs in eight CON
munes in the province Of Rome, have been a
rested The authorities allege that they hav
8 evidence showing that all the arrestees are men
. | beers of a criminal society 1t is said that TIL
society is In many respects similar to the Mall
| vita.
: The certificate Of Incorporation of John Goo
+ Cordage and Machinery company WAS filed wi,
A New Jerseys secretary Of state to-day. tt
company will have q capital of 81, 600, goo. Goo
J. | recently withdrew from the cordsge trust Wink
!, paid him S2oo 900 annually to keep his works sh
a down.
d A rumor was current on the bcurse, PAR
e yesterday to the effect that the French forces
Il Dahomey had captured Abomey, the capital
/. | the country, and that King Behanzn, the natl
= ruler, had been m .de prisoner. The rum
| caused considerable comment but 1t has not y
., | been confirmed.
3. A very violent storm prevailed througho
re Wednesday night In the vicinity Of San ri
D. d'Arens, IN the province Of Genoa. Extsnsi