The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1891-10-17
NEWS IN NOTES.


There is q question in France of increas-
ing the duties on American pork and
-four.
France expresses her intention of fight
Ing Morocco should the Sultan occupy
Touat Oasis, which menaces a route Of
vast Importance to the French colony in
Algeria.
Arthur e. Smithers, managing director
OF the English Bank of Riv-r Plate, has
been arrested for stealing $S5. COO,
Pope Leo says thot he or the Italian
Government must yacate Rome.
William Balkweli, of Plainfield. New
Jersey, WAS charged yesterday at Oxford,
England, with obtaining los. (about 50 50
by false pretences from the Warden OF
Merton College, Oxford University.
Balk well represented himself to the
Warden TO be "Phiiip Brooks" a novel
Bishop Phillips Brooks. The prisoner
was remanded in order to enable the
police authorities to make further in
quiries respecting MI. Balk well, of Plain
field. N. Y.
An investigation made into the finding
of a dynamite bomb on the Reichenberg
Railroad bridge in Bohemia resulted in
discoveries which show that the stuff was
merely concealed there TO prevent inspec
tors from seizing it.
In a tenement house fire in the Dock
District, London. known rs Mi1lwall. an
Die woman Of seventy, a young woman,
and three children were burned to
death.
At the National Capital.
The sessions of the E~cunenicai Confer
ence at Washington were taken up DUR
ing the morning and afternoon with a
discussion Of the relations OF the Church
TO capital and labor and5Lhe best way to
improve the condition Of the working
man. In the evening the subject of mis-
QiDpQ Wne I'm " on mn "a md a ma ~ 1pr af nd
dresses were made showing tile advance
IL the Methodist Church III that field.
The commission appointed by the Sec
rotary of the Interior to negotiate with
the Sh0sh0ne aud Araphpe Indians OF
Wyoming for a cession of part of the
Wind River Reservation. has effected an
arrangement by which the Government
Will get !, 100, QUO acres at a cost of $500. 600.
Secretary Noble has. ordered that
double rations be issued to Indians VINO
enlist rs soldiers.
Miss Bausch. of New York, hae sued
her aged admirer, Charles D.. Ingersoll.
of Boston. for $4,000, because of breach
of promise of MARI ge. His amatory
letters are curiosities Of literature.
The steamship Finance, from Brazilian
ports, rescued the crew OF the American
schooner B. r. Woodside and lowed the
leaking vessel into this port yesterday.
Sylvester Franklin Wilson, the female
baseball manager. wa convicted in New
York of abducting the sixreen-year-old
girl, Libbie Sunderland, after a trial oc.
cupying the last seven days. The jury
was out three minutes.
Elsewhere.
The limited express and a freight train
on the Pan Handle Railroad came
together head foremost at Mingo
Junction, heal Steubenvilie, O., and
two men were killed and four injured.
Three or four sailors from the United
States cruiser Baltimore were Killed by
Chileans in a fight in Valparaiso.
Irving A. Evans. "a well-known Boston
broker and banker, killed himself at
Allentown. N. H., yesterday. Financial
troubles are supposed to have caused the
act.
Two men wers killed and five I'M ured
at Port Townsend, WASH. by a noiler
explosion on the steamer Evangel. which
was originally built for a missionary
boat by subscriptions from Eastern Sun
day school children.
4. p. Brewer shot and instantly killed
DR.. Seymour Bullock at a surnmer resort
near MOBILE, Ala. Both were prominent
in the G. A. R. and the Gray and Blue
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