The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1891-04-11
NEWS In NOTES.


Foreign
A letter from Cardinal Gibbons has
been Published In Paris IN which the
Cardinal praises the Count de Nun aud
gives his views on the regulation of the
nour of labor
It is now known that It was the Com
mander-in-Ch chief of the Manipurifo force who
was killed in the recent conflict between
Lieutenant Grams force nnd the NUM-
purIs. 1A Manipuris continue TO resist
The British authorities and are erecting
breustwork3.
An aged woman named Mary AnnWalsh
confessed before her death yesterday in
theAshton- under-Lyne p0orhouse that she
murdered her four ysnr-old nephew in
September, 1919, because she hated the
child's mother, her siste.
A dispatch from Oran SAYS that an
enormous reservoir Of water 100 feet be-
low the surface has been discovered ut
Ell Golea, small caravan station in the
Sahara.
John DAILY. one of the Mayo dynamite
conspirators. who many believe Is uu-
justly serving a life sentence In the
Mountjoy Prison, saved I've warden's life
yesterday. A convict felled tho warden
with an iron bar and was ABOUT TO strike
him again when DAILY sprang upon the
assailan; and after a struggle took the
bar from him.. Fo this it Is thought he
will be released.
~ tine 1atibhaA ttplEas
1t is reported from Rome that II the
United States Government does not an
swer the Marquis Imperiale's note by to-
morrow Minister Porter will be ordered
to leave Rome, and Italian interests at
Washington will be placed in the hands
OF the British Minister. President HaF-
rison and Secretary Blaine are not dis
turbed by the rumor as they have heard
nothing of any such intention of the Gov
rnmen at Rome.
There is much interest in political cir
cles just now over the rumor that Secre-
tary Blaine, smarting under the unman-
nerly interference by President Harrison
in his Canadian negotiations. has told
some of his friends that he would consent
to be n candidate for the Presidency next
year.
Tne e neral committee Of the proposed
Pan-Rep ublican Congress to be held at
Washington In 1898 and which is to bring
together delegates from all Republics Of
the world TO consider the interests OF free
institutions and the best means of pro-
noting Republican form of Government
held the second meeting In Washington
yesterday. The delegates, numbering
sixty, called upon the President at his
invita- ton and then held a business ses-
sion
In New York State.
Colonel Weber received specific in
structions from the Treasury Department
TO proceed against yiolators of the new
immigrant law.
Many New York women have been
swindled by bogus messages alleging
that their husbands were in trouble and
needed Of TO pay police fines.
Miss Susan Dickinson denies that she
plotted to secure the Incarceration of her
sister Anna for money getting or other
purposes and contradicts many other
assertions in Annals statement of her
case.
The question of final adjournment is a
bone of contention among tie Republican
legislators at Albany.
Governor fill recommends that the
direct tax money be paid toward liquidat-
ing the States Indebtedness.
The New York Tribune celebrated its
flftieth birthday at the METROPOLITAN
Opera House last night. Speeches were
made by Chauncey Depew. Charles A.
Dana and others.
Elsewhere.
Several children while playing In a lot
at Dubois, Pa. found some wild parsnip
root which they ate. Three are dead and
nine others are In a ~precarious condition.
The women friends of the coke strikers
attempted to drive of the men at the
coke ovens in Whitney yesterday. They
were driven off themselves by the depu-
Ties. Governor Pattison has ordered the
Eighteenth Regiment home. The strikers
are jubilant thereat and more trouble is
feared.
p. T. Barnum was buried I'm Mountain
Grove Cemetery, Bridgeport, Conn, yes
terday. His win was made pcblic. He
leaves his widow Sl00. 600 absolutely and
an annuity of $4,000. Several public
Institutions and many employees OF Mr..
Barnum also received requests.
.Advices from Delaware report the
peach crop to be safe.
The old veterans of Pratt Post @. A. X.
of Auburn, n. Y, propose to resent the
insult to the American flag by Italians
at Lefevre Falls. The Italians hoisted
the flag aud riddled it with bullets.
The people of Viekburg, Miss. have
protested against James Hill, a eolored
master of that city.