Morning journal and courier., 1892-12-31
SINGULAR EXPLOSION.

five people came near losing their lives,
William A. Willoughby, the plumber, AL
mon Lock, the owner of the house, and
the wife aud two children, aged four and
seven, of Fred G. Morse, who occupied the
tenement. Glass from the kitchen win
dow was thrown thirty-five feet and
every curtain on the first floor was
torn to threads. The sound was
like that of blasting rocks at the ad-
joining house. The youngest child and Locke
are Thought to be seriously burned, but the
attending physicians think all will recover
If they are not burned internally. Locke
and Willoughby were repairing the water
pipes near the kitchen stove. Loss to the
house and furniture about 81 900.
skaters Drowned.
HALIFAX, Dec. 30-Sylvester and James
Ferindet, aged fifteen and thirteen, were
drowned at Bridgewater to day while skat-
ing.
TELEGRAPHIC JOTTINGs.
John White. probably the best known baseball
player in the Canadian provinces, is dead, aged
thirty one.
Cholera continues to spread in the north of
France. In the town of Graveline Calais,
three deaths were reported on Wednesday.
Mr.. s. v. White of New York yesterday mailed
checks paying in full his creditors of the unfort
innate corn deal which caused his suspension in
1891.
Simon Dorfman, a clothing peddler of Port
land, Me, was assaulted and robbed Of O gold
watch and $3.50 in cash between Gilead and West
Bethel by unknown parties.
Pending the result of the commercial negotia-
lions between Germany and Russia, it has been
agreed between the two powers to maintain the
status quo until the first Of May next.
Yesterday afternoon while Mrs. William Bate
man of Newport was shopping in Fall River
store bag containing purse and check for
$500 on a Newport bank was stolen by an
known thief.
The Shawmut Congregational church, Boston,
last night voted to extend call to Rev. W. E.
Barton of wellington O., to become its pastor.
which win probably confirm the vote Of the
church.
The schooner Eleanor Mckay, from George
town, S. c., for Norfolk, sprung aleak. became
waterlogged and was abandoned on December 70
cargo of naval stores and cotton. The captain
set fire to the wreck.
Rev. Samuel A. Eliot, son of President Eliot OF
Harvard university, has accepted q call to the
pulpit of the Unitarian Church of the Saviour in
past crate on Sunday. Mr.. Eliot comes from
Denver, Co.. aud succeeds Rev. a. Price Collier
In the brooklyn churcn.
Two men, George Simox and James O'Brien
were fatally injured and four others hurt yester-
day morning in the yard OF the Edith Furnace
company, Allegheny. The men were unloading
car OF iron when another car pushed by a shift
or ran into it, The injured sustained painful cuts
and bruises, but will recover.
Mrs. Grover Cleveland and daughter and Mrs.
Daniel 8. Lamont arrived in Buffalo yesterday
morning over the Central railroad in President
Dep"w's private car. Mrs. Cleveland is the guest
of her mother, Mrs. ii E. Perrine and Mrs. La
mont is the guest Of Mrs. c. W. Goodyear.
The Irish National league Of Great Britain has
issued a statement strongly denouncing the ex-
plosion In the police detective office at Dublin
a savage dynamite outrage aimed to wreck the
hopes OF Ireland. The league expresses an earn
est hope that the perpetrators will be speedily
detected
Kngore, a small town in Carroll county, Ohio,
has been almost depopulated by malignant diph-
liberia. The disease started about two weeks ago
and increased as the weather grew colder. Fully
fifty persons have died. The victims were not
confin ned to the young, many in m riddle life hav-
ing died. The disease Is beginning to abate.
The Rev SAMUEL Buel, S. T. D., emerituspr
fessor Of systematic divinity and dogmatic the
ology In the General theological seminary of the
Protestant Episcopal church, died in New York
yesterday, aged seventy i've. DR.. Buel w6s born
at Troy, NY, and was graduated from Willisins
college in the class of IS at the head Of his
class
Judge Lacombe in the United States circuit
court yesterday appointed Frederick w. Hind
koper of Washington and Robert Foster OF Balti-
more receivers for the defunct Richmond Ter
minal Railroad company 10 New York state.
They have already been appointed to that capac-
ity by the United States court for the easIern
district OF Virginia.
NJ. Hulin, formerly a Boulangist agent, has
been arrested on suspicion of having caused the
explosion at the prefecture of police Thursday.
He is believed to have been the instrument of the
Boulangist party in the matter and to have pur-
posed the Inauguration of a reign OF terror like
that Of last spring in order that in the confusion
the republic might be wrecked.
About 400 postofices will be designate I jan
uary, 1898, as additional domestic money order
offices, to begin business on receipt Of books and
blanks now in course OF preparation, which will
be furnished them before January Is. The num-
Der of new money order ofnces in Connecticut is
6, in Massachusetts, "a, in New Hampshire 50, in
Rhode Island a and in Vermont 81.