Elizabeth daily monitor. [volume] (Elizabeth, N.J.) 1868-1880, 1873-09-13
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Three children in one family, in Jer-
sey City, have died from diptheria
within the week, and the disease still
prevails in the neighborhood. 1t is said
by physicians to be caused by noxious
gases arising from the filling-in of the
bay.
Hugh O'Grady, aged ten, was killed
ed by an ice cart in Jersey City yester-
day. The driver was arrested.
The Cunard steamer Alpha sailed
from Halifax last evening for New York
with the passengers of the disabled
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between the Boston and Baltimore
clubs resulted in draw on the eighth
inning on account of the darkness. The
score standing nine to nine.
DR.. Henry White, one of the oldest
apothecaries and physicians in the
Highland district, fell down the cellar
stairway of his shop on Thursday eve
ming, and died two hours afterward.
William Fl. Day, driver of an express
wagon, cut his throat at his boarding
house in East Boston yesterday. He
left note stating that he was "going
away on a long journey" and begging
that his child might be cared for His
wife had deserted him.
The evacuation of Verdun by the
German forces will be completed to-day.
There will be great public rejoicing and
a general illumination of the town in
the evening.
In Trenton, yesterday, Joseph Camp
bell, a Philadelphia book peddler,
pleaded guilty to burning Haggerty s
barn in that city and was sentenced to
the State Prison for six years. The
Court said that the frequency of such
fires called for the utmost severity.
The Spanish government is putting
$50, 900 fresh troops into the field.
The northern provinces of Spain are
poverty stricken by the war.
Six passengers, including one gene
raj, were killed by the wreck of train
from Vittoria to Madrid, yesterday.
The rates on the leading Wisconsin
railroads will be advanced on the 18th,
equivalent to six dollars car load for
corn.
Nebraska fruits received the first pre-
MUM at the Boston Pathological exhi-
bition.
Organ-grinders are set at street-clean-
ing in Quincy, Ill.
Cholera is killing the inhabitants of
Bangkok, Siam, at the rate of two han
bred day.
Massachusetts couldn't stomach B. F.
B., Notwithstanding his Worcester
sauce.
Travel across Rhode Island was i'm
peded for two days last week by the
booths of the state fair.
The daily increasing number of APP
plicants for municipal Office in Spring
field, Mass, is accounted for by the cir
cumstance that the City hall cellars is
overfowingly stocked with wines and
liquors confscated under the prohibi-
tory law.
An Ottawa Indian recently emulated
paleface civilization in committing par
ricide; but the young maidens of his
tribe are too untored to manifest pro.
per admiration of his noble and gener-
GUS action, and his uncouth made col
leagues are barbarous enough to wish to
hang him.
Those benighted japanese, with all
their initiative efforts, will never reach
the height of Congressional civilization.
They insist that lying and cheating are
evidences of lack of polite culture.
which is tantamouut to saying that many
of our most eminent Republican states
men are no gentlemen.
Ninety-six thousand persons have
visited the Cincinnati exposition.
An accident on the railroad between
Vittoria and Madrid yesterday resulted
in the death of six persons and the
wounding of thirty-two.
The evacuation of Verdun by the
German forces win be completed to-day.
The vine disease is making great
havoc among the grape crops in Por-
tugal.