Morning journal and courier., 1892-11-15
TELEGRAPHIc JoTTINGs.

During the past week twenty-five deaths from
cholera occurred at various places in Holland.
winsted, n. @, suffered $4,000 loss by firs
yesterday. Insurance, two-thirds OF that amount
At Eldorado Springs, No, a fiourishIng town
eleven houses were burned Loss sioo. 600. Par
tally insured
Charles Hawkins Of Dedh.m, Mass, last night
walked three miles backward, the result Of an
election wager.
A four-masted schooner Is reported ashore on
Horse Shoe shosl. Vineyard sound. She has an
under deck cargo.
j. T. Abbott, United States minister to Bogota
arrived 1t New York yesterday on the steamer
Adirondack from Port au Prince.
Mrs. Mary Moody, seventy, widow OF Artemus
Moody, OF Naples. Ne, committed suicide satur.
day afternoon by hanging. Cause dependency.
Darius II. Bliss, manager Of the Panifio Rubber
company of Elizabeth. n. J., committed suicide
yesterday by shooting himself under the right
ear.
A fire in McKeesport, Pa, last evening de.
stroyed EIGHT tenant houses, rendering i5fam-
lilies and nearly 100 persons homeless Loss S25,-
The holoT-ware works OF Dawes 6 Mather
were burned at New Brighton, Pa, last night.
Loss $4,000. Insurance $4,000. The factory
employed 800 men.
The proprietors of the Canada Review, which
has been condemned by Archbishop Fabre, in
tend to take action for damages against the
ecclesiastical authorities.
John Hoey, for many years president OF Adams
Express, who has been lying i'll at Delmonico's,
New York, for several weeks, died at ten minutes
past ten O'Clock last night
Augustus Summerfield Merriuan, chief justice
of North Carolina, died in Raleigh, n C., yester-
day morning. aged sixty-two. He had served q
term in the United States senate.
As the result of an election bet Henry S. Buck
nan, truckman, drew by hand a sulky contain
ing q democrat from Hsdley to Northampton,
Mass. He was preceded by band.
A letter received by Arthur LumIey from Billy
Murphy, the featherweight Of Australia, who is
George Dixon at IFS pounds, or II he wants to
fight at ll6 or lis he will fight him.
Private letters state that Captain Monteil, the
French explorer, will arrive shortly at Tripoli,
after traversing the desert Of Sahara from Sene-
gal by way of Lake Tchad- Captain honteil has
been eighteen months making the trip.
Chairman Harrity, OF the democratic national
committee, yesterday said that in the recent con-
test Pennsylvania democrats had contributed
most largely TO the campaign fund and most of
the money had been collected in very small
amounts.
The Russian prohibition against emigration of
Hebrews that was enforced during the cholera
epidemic has now been withdrawn. A number
of parties of emigrants have started for Ham
burg from various Parts OF the country and
Henry Cooke, ais William Wilson, alias Sir
Edward Cnok, a Successful English swindler, who
was arrested for grand larcency On July &C.
pleaded guilty yesterday 10 the court Of general
session, New York, and was sentenced by Re
corder Smyth to two years and four months i'm
prisonment in the peni 'entary.
The municipal council OF Paris yesterday
voted to pension the widows and children OF the
men killed last Tuesday by the explosion OF
a dynamite bomb in police station in that city
To each widow will be given for life COO francs
annually, while the children will each receive
400 francs until they attain their majority.
Herr yelerci owner of the anarchist paper,
Zuckunft, and Herr FriejIander, editor OF that
paper, have been arrested for advocating in the
columns of the ZucEunft the use OF dynamite
Both men are intimately c'nnscted with
archist societies in Europe and in the United
States.
Prairie fires have done great damage In east
ern Colorado wIthia a few days They are sin
burning lercely. Thousands Of acres OF winter
pasture in Kit Carson, Lincoln and Arapahoe
counties have beeh burnei out and the settlers
have lost all their stacked hay and straw. Many
barns also have been destroyed and much stock
cremated.
The dispute between England and France arts
ing from an English warship boarding in the wa
tiers Of Msdag sscar . slave dhow that was flying
the French flag. has bcen settled. Lord Rose
berry, the foreign minister, has agreed to pay q
sHlAil indemnify 10 the owner OF the ohoW ana 70
instruct the commanders Of Briti.h wArships not
to interfere with dhows within French territorial
waters.
The treasury department has instructed Gus
toms officers that foreign publications. issued at
regular intervals containing parts OF several con
tinued stories. which publications unsuiied
for binding in book form, may be admitted free
of duty as periodicals Heretofore these publ
cations have bcen classified printed matter,
duIiable at the rate Of - per cent sd valorem.
The schooner " hich ran down the Gloucester
schooner. knight Templar Friday, has arrived
at Halifax. She is the Caroline Butler from
Boune Bay with n cargo OF fish. The captain
says he was on the starboR- tack while the
Templar running before the wind coming
shout. hoping to clear her, with the re suit that
they came In contact with each other The Caroline
Butler has some OF he seams open an sustained
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