The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1891-10-01
NEWS IN NOTES.


ST.
A Russian semi-ofseial newspaper
warns England to iteGp out or Painir.
The court in Madrid has ordered the
Northern Railroad Company to deposit
$400. 900 MS security for damages 10 those
who suffered by the recent terrible acc'-
dent at Burgos.
The London Standard, discussing a
recent proposal with regard to CANADA
and Imperial Federation, thinks 1t oil I'M
mediate Importance, and that the Dohtn-
ion would obtain all the benents 10 pe
derived from union with the United
States.
A Chinese Governor has been dismissed
because of the anLi-foreign riots IN ms
province.
Signor Corte, who was Italian Consul
at New Orleaus, has been transferred.
,The Duxbur estate. near Shorley, Lam
cashiye. England, the home OF Miles Stall
dish was che scene of a remarkable con-
fiict for, the possession of The estate.
William Hall, the claimant, with a band
Of men, entered the sa hShse a e againsT saI
Corners. The steward of the estate. with
the aid of a force Of laborers, evicted the
intruders after a severe fight.
r. WAS reported in Paris yesterday that
there has been a revolutionary agitation
in several provinces of Brazil, and that
great uneasiness has been caused there
BY. The troops are said to have mutinied
in many plHcss, and severe measures will
be necessary to preserve order.
1t is rumored in Vienna that the Arch
Duke Charles has resigned his right OF
succession to the throne OF Austria-Hu n-
gary in favor OF his son. the Arch Duke
Franz Ferdinand.
The annual meeting of the National
Liberal Federation will open officially at
New Castle. England, today. People OF
all shades of political feeling are looking
forward with great interest TO he speech
which Mr.. Gladstone is expected to make
at the meeting, and in which it IL popu-
larry supposed he will make an onslaught
upon the Conservative policy.
BY the collapse of an unfinished tunnel
at Ovada, neal Genoa, Yesterday. twenty
one workmen were buried under a mass
Of debris. Seventeen were extricated and
it is feared the others are dead.
At the National Capital.
The time for the continuation of four
and ope-half Der cent. bonds at two per
cent. closed yesterday. There have been
redeemed SIS, 009, 600, out of a total out
standing of $50 s69. 200.
Secretary Tracy has ordered the cruiser
San Francisco to return at once to Val
paraiso, on account of the trouble De-
tween soldiers of the Junt and Ameri-
can citizens.
Pension Commissioners Raum has dis
charged tins three clerks who made the
charges against his son, in which 1t was
claimed that the latter used his fathers
Influence for q financial consideration.
Commissioner Raum has made a state
Iient OF the case to the PRESIDENT. in
which no claims that a systematic effort
has been made to Dust him from his
Office.
New York Doings.
It Is charged that Agent Becker, of Mr..
Gerry's New York Society, suppressed
evidence In an atrociOus assault case be-
cause private counsel had been engaged
to prosecute.
A social sensation was caused In Buffalo
yesterday by an action brought agains.
Mrs. Bennett, one of the 400" by her
daughter-in-law for the recovery of
damages for alienation of her husbands
affections. Mrs. Bennett had thought
her son had married beneath his station
and persuaded him to leave his wife.
The jury gave a verdict for 50, 700.
Mamie Anderson. who mvsteriously
disappeared from q Brooklyn convent.
has been found acting as a nurse within
four blocks of her home.
Stocks were less active In Wall street
yesterday and in the early trade unset
tied, but closed on IL smart fractional nd
vance, despite 4 sharp drop in "the Little
Wizard's'' Missouri Pacific, the dividend
on which was formally passed.
Robert Howe and Nettie Hamburg were
yesterday convicted of grand larceny in
the first degree Ia the New York Court OF
General Sessions Tor robbing Carl Wer-
nicke OF S., 1000 worth Of diamonds.
The mysterious monster in the water
supply reservoir of Lebanon, Pa, and
which has caused much excitement,
turns out to be a swapping turtle. which
was captured by two boys.
The urgent need of a leDrosy hospital
was discussed by n New Orleans Board
Of Health, and the Legislature will be
asked to provide such an establishment.
A man died of the disease on Monday and
about twenty cases OF leprosy are known
to exist in the city.
The recent fall in the price of rice in
!. New Orleans. owing to foreign importa-
tions, has seriously affected the rice trade
there. The mill owners are already over
stocked, and the demand is poor. One
lnill has shut down, and unless the price
improves shortly others will follow suit.
The Canadian Parliament has been pro-
rogued.