The Monmouth inquirer., 1890-04-10
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bill was reported favorably to the house
of representatives to re-examine and pay
Pennsylvanias claims for money spent in
1864 for militia called into service under
the presidents proclamation.
At Brookviile, near Lambertville, N. j.,
a 9-year-old daughter of Robert Lockerly,
who was carrying her 2-year-old sister,
stumbled and fell into the canal and both
were drowned.
Marcus c. Stearns, the old resident of
Chicago who attempted suicide Saturday
morning by shooting himself, is dead.
James H. Lounsberry aged SO years, one
of the Oldest carpet dealers in New York
state, died at Rondout, n Y, April g. He
was for sixteen years in charge OF the carpet
department of Stewards wholesale house in
New York city.
The annual meeting of the Connecticut
Republican league was held at Hartford,
April g. About thirty members were pres
ent. Edward L. Lindsey, of New Haven,
was elected president.
Seigreur Quintal, heretofore highly re-
spected Montreal man, is said to have eloped
with another mans wife, taking with him a
large sum of money which, it is said, did not
belong to him.
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Chicago carpenters strike will be compro-
missed this week, as the loss on account of it
amounts to many thousands of dollars day
to bosses, worlSmen and owners
In the argument before the general term
of the supreme court for a stay of execution
for ex-Sheriff Flack and his son, their coun-
sci assailed the charge Judge Barrett made
to the jury. The case was taken under ad-
visement and may not be decided for a
week.
Hon. James II. Manning was elected mayor
of Albany, N. Y, by majority of 7,245,
his opponent, H. N. Fuller, the Republican
candidate, polling but 6,422 votes. The
Democrats elect seventeen aldermen, the
Republicans two. The Democrats elect six
teen out of seventeen supervisors in the city.
At the election in Lockport, N Y, James
S. Liddle Dem.) was elected mayor by 145
majority. The town elected Republican
supervisors.
The barbarous murder of Helena Mon
tana, a disreputable woman, at Hebersthal,
near Aix-la- Chapelle, has created great ex-
citement. The woman was killed in some
mysterious manner in the open street, under
the eyes of the passersby. The body was
disemboweled and otherwise nutilated in
the fashion of Jack the Ripper.
Antonio de Navarro has announced his
engagement to Miss Mary Anderson.
The Cayuga Woolen company, of Auburn,
N. Y, has failed Liabilities, S120,000;
nominal assets S135, 900, valued at $4,000.
The late Mrs. Mary Rogers, of Ravens
wood, L. L, bequeethed $152, 500 to charity.
The New York conference of the Method
ist Episcopal church unanimously adopted
the following: ''In the present state of the
controversy we hold it to be the duty Of
! Christian citizens of commonwealth Chris
tian in its history and in the character Of its
laws to deny that the Bible is sectarian
book, and claim for it place wherever the
state attempts to educate youth for the du-
ties of citizenship"
The assignee of John F. Plummer & Co.
says he anticipates serious complications
when he progresses in his investigation of
the accounts of the old firm of Partner
Darling. The latter is still missing.
Ebenezer Nicholson, the well known min
strel and variety performer, died of acute
asthma in the New York hospital April z.
Nicholson was known upon the stage as
Little Mac.
A jury after examining Miss Harriet
Coffin, the eccentric admirer of Kyrle Bel
lew, pronounced her insane, and she was
returned to the Amityville insane asylum,
Brooklyn.
The Amateur Athletic union has rejected
the entry of Malcolm w. Ford for the
standing broad jump, and T. Fl. Bailey, of
Providence, for the 900 yard DASH
Rev. John Dougherty Wood, Methodist
minister at Port Allegheny, Pa, has been
arrested upon charge Of bigamy, pre-
ferred by Mrs. Alice Wood, of Phillips burg,
N. j.
Gen. Boulanger has resolved to return to
Paris at once.
John L. Sullivan has offered to fight J. M.
Corbett, of San Francisco four rounds for
$1,000, with the proviso that he will not ac-
cept cent unless he puts Corbett to sleep
in that time.
The Iowa legislature has voted to con-
tinue prohibition in Iowa for two years
more.
The house at Washington has passed the
senate joint resolution for the removal Of
the powder magazine from Ellis island,
NJ Y, and for location of an emigrant
station at that point.
The Olympic football team, of Fall River,
on Saturday defeated the Kearney Rovers,
of Newark, N. j., in game for the Amer
ican championship cup "A to y at Pawtucket.
Count di Montercole was again arrested
at Philadelphia for distributing scurrilous
and incoherent circulars. He was fined
$50 and held in $400 bail.
Murderer Kemmler, now in solitary con-
finement in Auburn prison, claims to be
converted, as the result Of q miraculous
visitation. His manner has greatly changed.
Dom Pedro is seriously LII.
James 81. Kellmeir and Max Schultz were
killed by dynamite explosion at Bay
chester, N. Y.
! Gable dispatches from London and st.
Petersburg indicate the existence Of very
serious trouble in Russia and confirm the
reports of the czar's illness.
LA Passion" a mystic poem in six parts,
by Edmond Haraucourt, was read at the
Cirque d'Hiver in Paris, by Sarah Bern
hardt, Philippe GARNER and M. Bremont.
Bernhardt represented the Virgin Mary and
GARNER and Fremont, Christ and Judas
Iscariot, respectively. The audience cheered
and Missed. the hissers being finally elected
from the theatre.
The police of Gatschina, Russia, have dis
covered explosives on the grounds OF the
imperial palace The czar has in couSe'