Morning journal and courier., 1892-12-30
Friday, December 80, 1892.
TELEeRAPHIc JorrINGs.

Two deaths from cholera hsy. -
| toons, suburb OF Hamburg.
The eastern and western coal sales agents, al
their meeting yesterday, decided to make nc
/ changes In prices for January.
The general sales agents Of the anthracite coal
companies yesterday fixed the output fol Janu.-
/ ~ at 9. 900 tons. For January, 1922, il was
| $500, geo tons.
Hrs. 5arres Bufford of Springfield, o., dropped
dead yesterday morning from the shock OF dis
| covering in a room the dead body OF a relative
who had died suddenly during the night.
Abbis Hhlinan OF Northampton, Mass was
| indicted for manslaughter by the grand jury
yesterday. She confessed to throwing her six
months nlegitimate child into the river.
Five cases of a disease supposed to be cholera
have broken out among the troops stationed at
Hamburg Soldiers belonging to neighboring
garrisons have beer forbidden to visit Hamburg.
David d. Blanchard of Boston has decided to
give $4,000 purse, divided $780, So 500 81 $50
and 81 900 open to all trotting stations of the ale
next
Hamilton Wood, who escaped from the wor-
cester LuIatic hospital Monday night, Is with
friends in New York city, where he will remain
If he exhibits no violent insanity, SO Or. Quimby
has been notified.
The Moniteur says that recent reports In regard
States are overdrawn and promises to give pub
lie light shortly on the subject. The Moniteur is
the Vatican organ.
The chief officers of the Conductors Switch
men, Trainmen, Firemen and TeIegraphers' 1850
citation have been holding secret conference in
Grand Rapids, Ia, with federation as the chief
topic OF discussion.
twenty-five democrats from all parts Of New
Jersey met 10 Jersey City yesterday to discuss
the selection of United States senator. A reso-
. luton was adopted declaring the opposition Of
bett.
A syndicate of eastern stockholders of the G.
B. and O. has purch ssed the street car lines of
Alton Ill. The object Is to use the roads as feed
ers for the G. B. and Q. road In St. Louis Alton
traffic. The system will be changed into cleo
tries.
John Mcmillan, aged thirty, unmarried, OF
Beverly, Mass, started to skate from the town
end of Wenham lake, where he was at work, to
the upper end where he lived, last Tuesday.
Since Then nothing has been heard from him 1t
is supposed he sksied into air hole and was
drowned.
Funeral services we're held yesterday in the Old
John street Methodist church. New York, over
the remains of George Franklin Jones. Mr.Jones
was great-grandson of John Hancock, one OF the
sisners of the Declaration OF Independence. He
was chief telegraph operator in the New York
stock exchange.
Charles Francis Adams, %, said yesterday
that there was no chsncs for Boston syndicate
to build an Americas cup defender. Mr.. Adams
word on this subject should be accepted as the
f1nal decision of Boston yachtsmen, for he is not
the man to make so positive statement unless
he has suficiG Mt information.
There seems little doubt that Mr.. David w.
Tucker of Milton, Mass, who was reported to
have jumped from the deck of ths Portland
steamer in Portland harbor December 10 actually
committed suicide, and a death no ice inserted
in yeSteTda naDers Indicates that his friends
are convin ed that such is q fact
The United States Whip company was organ
lied in Portland, Me-, yesterday with a capital of
SA2o1010 and with L. R. Norton, James Noble,
jr., Ira Miller E. l.. Sanford aud W. C. Coggswell
as its Ulcers. Clarence Hale is counsel for the
company. 1t is understood that this company is
to be formed by n consolidation of all the whip
companies in the United States.
By the accidental discharge OF dynamite in a
cellar on Dell avenue, Hyde Park, Mass. yester.
day afternoon, James Rooney Of Gordon avenue
was Instantly killed. There had been several
blasts, and as one cartridge failed the hole was
being cleaned out for a second trial The iron
tool held by Rooney was driven into his breast
and ! is hands were torn TO pieces. BE leaves q
widow and several children.
The second national conference on university
extension was continued in Philadelphia yester-
day morning with addresses and discussion on
the general organization of university extension.
The University." Melville Dewey So tks Upon
the movement from the standpoint Of the state
department. He suggested o division Of the
higher educational work iGto four major ami
four minor divisions.
Ecuador is in q condi ion Of unrest and there Is
reason to apprehend a revolution. The situation
is very like that OF Chill before the uprising there
against the dictatorship of Balnnceda. The pres
ident has assumed almost despotic powers over
riding alike the constitution and the laws He
has used the veto poser in the most drastic man
ner annulling the financial and customs laws
passed by congress and leaving the executive
work without a ssmblauce OF legality.
F. A. Wharton, agent OF the American Nation
al Express company at Ithica, n. Y, has disap-
peared, and is believed to be on his way to Can
ada warrant il out for his arrest He received
and IL Is known he had $50 her money in the
safe. Detectives thus far have been unable to
open the safe. Wharton has been agent for six
years, and has a wife and three children.
The Colombian congress has given authority
| to DR.. Nunez, president Of Colombia, to do what
is necessary to protect the best interests OF ali
| concerned in the Isthmus transit. The general
opinion is that owing to the antagonistic attitude
4 of the railroad to American steamship interests
| the Panama Canal company cannot obtain fur
4 Their extension Of their concessions. Important
officials from the state of Panama go to the seat
/ Of government at Bogots TO strengthen this view
i OF the situation.