The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1891-07-30
NEWS IN NOTES.


AT the Lord Mayors banquet in Lon
don yesterday Lords Salisbury c~onRratu-
lated tfe conservative party On the cona,-
tioh Of sffairs In Great Britain and on the
continent. He also took occasion 10 com
Dlimeut Mr. Balfour.
MARK Twain,r who has beon suffering
from writer's cratnp," has been greatly
benefi ted by the baths at Aix-ies-Balns.
He will return X week TO complete the
cure.
Captain Saunders OF the American
"wbaleback" steamer, the Charles w
Wetmore, Was found dead In his cabin
yesterday. just as the vessel. the first OF
the new line. was on the eve OF saili ng.
Heart disease was the cause, but it was
brought on by heroic exertions put forth
ut noon by Captain annde 10 the rescue
OF a drowning man, so that he may be
said TO have died a hero.
The American dory Mermaid, which Is
racing across the ocean with another
dory. The Sea Serpent, was spoken July
IS in latitude 48 north, longitude 40 west.
The latter cocklesheil was not IN sight.
Another Nihilist plot is reported ut st.
Petersburg. The police have arrested
twenty-eight officers who are charged
with conspiracy TO murder the Car and
force the Czarewitch to establish a con-
stifutional monarchy. The Nihilists were
we'll armed and made a desperate resist
ance. Seven were killed Ia the struggle
and seven effected their escape.
Inc NA(tAlI1 VI VIA AttlA QAQA AlAA 0kA Hull
lent which occurred In Frauce on Sun.
day. were buried at st. Mande yesterday.
Over $4,000 persons were in attend
ance and the scenes were extreme ly
affecting. The Archbishop OF Paris sent
a letter of consolation to the bereayed,
which was read to the multitude by the
Mayor.
The English Court of Appeals yester-
day reversed the verdict obtained by Miss
Valerie lWiedermann against. Captain
Robert Horace Walpole for breach Of
promise. The our thought that the
plaintiffs evidence acked confederation.
At the National Capital
President Harrison yesterday accepted
Colonel Erhardt's resignation as Collector
Of the Port of New York. Senator j.
Sloat Fassett was appointed to the
vacancy. This Is said To be an evidence
OF the political ability Of Mr- Thomas
PIatt.
yesterday reiinquished their respective
positions In the Republican National
Executive Committee. The designations
were accepted with marked enthusiasm.
Mr. James S. Clarkson was elected to I'LL
Mr.. Quay's position while that of Nj :.
Dudley IS yet vacant.
New York Doings.
Ex-Speaker Reed arrived from Europe
yesterday but oDstinately refused to dis
cuss the political situation or the pros
poets for the fall crop.
Captain r. A. Thompson, of the ship
Chapman. was arrested yesterday on u
charge OF brutality at sea preferred by
Eric Eckland, au able eamau BE
swore that he had beeu iriced up to the
spauker boom by the wrists and kept
there for over al hour.
james Gordon Bennett, proprieto r of
the New York Herald. was yesterday in
dictsd by the Grand Jury for publishing
all the news in connection with the re-
cent quadruple e-lectrocutions at Sing
Sing. The New York Legislature passed
a law declaring any such exhibition OF
enterprise TO be a misdemeanor, and now
the District Attorney will endeavor to
find a GRIND Jury that eau be made to
believe that the New York Legislature
knew what it is was doug.
The liquor dealers of the metrop polls
object to the treatment accorded them
by Tammany.
Thomas Channel aud Doud Boucom,
colored. fought with razor at Glen, L. L,
Yesterday. Channel was killed.
The objection to the dissolution OF the
Brooklyn Sugar Refining Company WAS
yesterday overruled by Judge Cullen and
a receiver appointed.