Passaic City record., 1890-06-19
LATER NEWS.

u. u. OHORTEh, speaker OIL tne AitudIud
House of Representatives at the last session,
died at Eufaula, Ala, after four weeks ILL
ness of typhoid fever.
ONE of the peaks of Mount Shasta, Cali
fallen into the crater.
THREE boys were drowned at Falmouth,
Ky, while fishing.
Two men were fatally hurt during fight
at picnic near Elmwood, Ohio. A score of
people, including several girls, were cut and
shot.
A WIND and rain storm devastated tract
of land three miles wide and twenty miles
long, in Wilson County, n. C. Joseph Farmer
was killed by lightning.
FREDERICK, the seven-year-old son of
Charles Lang, died at Newburyport Mass,
in terrible agony of hydrophobia. He was
bitten in the face several weeks ago by a
strange black-and-tan dog.
JOHN MCCULLOUGH and Mary Buckley
were walking on the railroad track near
Mahanoy City, Penn. They were struck by
a freight train and killed.
JOHN O'NErLL, ex-Alderman of the "Boo-
die" Board of 1884, was released from Sing
Sing IN. " prison after serving over three
years, and has returned to his home in New
York city.
THE Secretary of the Navy directed the
award of the contract for the S150-ton
armored cruiser to William Cramp & Sons,
of Philadelphia, at their bid of 81, 9S5, 900,
and the contract for the 5500-ton cruiser to
the Union Works, of San Francisco, at their
bid of 81. .796. 900.
THE President sent to the Senate the nom-
ination of Joseph Edward Hayden District
of Columbia, to be Consul at Breslau, Ger
many.
QUARTERMAsTER-GENE HoLABIRD was
placed on the retired list of the army, having
reached the age at which, under the present
law. retirement is made compulsory, and
General Sawtelle one of the Assistant Quar-
termaster Generals, is now in charge of the
office, pending the appointment OF General
Holabird's successor.
BUNKER HILL DAY was celebrated in Bos-
ton and elsewhere in the East.
WILLIAM L. ScoTr was nominated for
Congress by the Democratic Convention at
Erie, Penn.
THE New York Court of Appeals granted
a mandamus compelling Commissioner Gill
roy to issue permit to the Third Avenue
ID ,,f fba or.
AMI change IFS motive powe- 70 cable trac-
tion.
MINE INSPECTOR WILLIAMS, OF the Third
(anthracite) Inspection district of Pennsyl-
vania, has just completed table of the
operations of the coal miners for
the last twenty years. During
that time there were 110, ,352 715 tons of
coal mined. There were 1904 men killed in
the many disasters during the twenty years
The highest number of days worked in any
year was 233, in 1888.
The big strike Of cloakmakers, railors fin
ishers, cutters pressers and operators in New
York city is on. Nearly 10000 men and
women went on strike, and the cloak manu-
featuring trade is practically at stand
still.
THE Arkansas Democrats have NOMINATED
James P. E. Eagle for Governor.
A FIRE which started in house about five
miles south of Merced CAL, spread to the
grain fields and ragged for five hours, when
the flames reached an open space and wers
brought under control. A strip thirteen
miles in length was burned over. Loss shout
$50, 900.
RICHARD GLASS, the wealthest farmer in
Southeastern Nebraska, died in frightful
agony at st. Joseph, Mo-, of rabbies, pro-
duced by cat bite.
GREAT flights of sparrowsfron Louisville,
KY, invade the wheat fields on the Indiana
side every morning and are destroying the
wheat crop within radius Of five or six
miles. In many instances they have already
looted fields TO the amount of oae-third of
the crop
THE Secretary of the Navy awarded to
Samuel I. Moore & Co., of Elizabethport,
N. j., at their bid of $3.50, ,00o, the CONTRACT
for the construction of a steel practice cruiser
of 800 tons displacement. This vessel is to
be complete man-of-war in miniature, AMI
is intended for use at the Annapolis (Md.)
Naval Academy, in the practical education
of cadets.
BARON Won ZEDwIrz, German Minister to
Mexico, and Miss Mary B. CALDWELL an
heiress to many millions, were married in
Washington.
aAT Sheen House, in London, Englani, ths
Duchess of Fifs, daughter of the Prince of
Wales, was del;-ored of stillborn male
child.
COUNT HERBERT voy BISMARCK has been
betrothed in London to the eldest daughter
of the Countess of Dudley.
The subscriptions in London to the Egyp-
tian conversion loan are twenty times in ex-
cess Of the amount of the loan.