The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1891-11-24
NEWS IN NOTES.
Foreign.


A telegram from OAK, in the Depart
ment of Landes, says that the Mayor OF
OAK and The Project of the Department
fought a duel. The Mayor was wounded
In the arm.
The Right Hon. William L. Jackson.
the newly appointed Secretary for Ireland.
was reelected as member of Parliament
for North Leeds. without opposition. MIR.
Jackson's appointments as the Right Hon.
A. J. Baifour's successor necessitated9his
reelection to the seat he represents.
There is now no doubt that he strike OF
the coal miners In the department OF Pas
de Calais, France. is a general one. or
the 40, 600 or more miners in the coal fields
of that department there are only ABOUT
100 at work. Meetings were dispersed by
the troops, but no conflict occurred.
At the National Capital.
A tremendous wind and rain storm
amounting almost to a hurricane, passed
over Washington, doing a great deal OF
damage. The worst occurrence was the
blowing down of the walls OF inc new
MetzerotU Music Hall, in course OF con-
struction on Twelfth street, N. W., just
below + street. Two girls were taken
out of the ruins alive, and the dead bodies
OF two men were recovered. A portion OF
the stone ballustrade of the White House
was blown down., partially demoiishinS
the porticos over the main entrances. A
gas tank was struck by lightning and ex-
ploded.
New York Doings.
Mrs. Emma Chapman, wife OF Howley
Chapman, who had been known as
Godfrey Howley, an actor, was fatally
shot in her home in Brooklyn while re-
sisting an assault of Herbert Searvant,
the nurse of her insane husband.
Action in ejectment has been begun
against the Brooklyn Jockey Club. to dis
possess it of tue thirty-five acres OF ground
az Gravesend, used as a race track, by the
hers of one Sam johnson, who ailege
that Johpson's grandson sold the property
without having legal right so to DO.
Day Inspector Kelly formerly of the
New York Board of Elucasion, has evil
dence that the construction of Grammar
School No. 80. erected at a cost OF Sl56, O0O,
is faulty from the foundation walls.
New York's outlook for water is
brighter. Croton Lake is gradually rs
ing.
BROOKLYN suffered greatly because of an
almost total stoppage of its water supply.
Most of its manufactures shut down. Two
lines of elevated railroads suspended
operations, householders were in distress
and the city was without protection from
fire until late in the evening, when the
break in the conduit was repaired.
Brooklyn Bridge cables could not be
used Yesterday. Locomotives drew trains
of two cars. Thousands walked across
the bridge.
Elsewhere.
Thomas Cooch, a widower, aged eighty
seven years, one of the best known
pioneers of the Schuylklll county coal
region. was shot by his brother Richard,
aged eighty, because, as Richard says.
Thomas had alienated his forty year old
wife from him and induced her to JJln in
Systematically maltreating him. Mrs.
Richard Cooch was wounded. but her
husband says he did not intend to hurt
he rs be blamed only his brother.
Frank Shield, a prominent young man
of Huntington, DEL, was killed By Amos
Y. Burnett, IL distant relative. whom he
was watching because the latter was in
sane. The fathers of both Shield and
and Burnett met violent deaths.
Reports from Yokohama say that there
have been additional terrible earthquakes
in the in erior, by which 4.0OO people were
killed. as many more injured aud 42,0OO
houses DESTROYED.
Governor Alvan p. Hovey, of Indiana,
died at his home in I~ndianapolis.
Yesterdays storm visited Baltimore
and did much damage. Many other
towns felt the force of the gale, and the
damage will be considerable.
The storm did great damage In Penn
sylvauia. Grahauf's school house., near
Carlisle, was demolished. and the teacher,
Miss Bertha Rudy. had a leg broken. A
number of scholars were injured. The
Sunnyside school house near Carlisle was
also wrecked and n doZeu scholars We're
hurt. The new Methodist Church in the
course of construction at Reading was
damaged to the extent Of 81 900. At Har-
risburg Arthur Crook. a workman, was
blown from the trestie at Lochiel fur
mace. His wrists were dislocated. How
ard d. Carbavgh was killed at Hanover.
At York the roof of St. Paul's Church
was damaged and a number of small
buildings were unroofed. In Lancaster
county the Baptist Church at Monterey
was completely wrecked.
u ctator Fonseca of Brazil resigned his
office. declaring he did not want to shed
BRAZILIAN blood. Vice President Floriana
Peixotto then assumed the Presidency.
He guaranteed to preserve order through
out the Republic. The news was hailed
with emit husiasm in Rio Jaueiro.