The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1891-05-25
NEWS AND NOTES.


Reports from government sources in
Chill to the Gillian Legation in Paris
claim the defeat of the insurgents at lqui-
que and TaltaL.
Lord Romiily was smothered in his
house in London BY a fire caused by a
lamp.
4 french Army officer has been arrested
in Paris for high treason, having revealed
the secret Of making melinite TO an Eng
lish firm.
To celebrate the visit OF the Czarewitch
to siberia an imperial degree has been is
sued authorizing the Siberian Governors
to remit two-thirds of the sentences and
otherwise 10 amsliorate the condition of
worthy convict%
The negotiations OF France for a treaty
of with Spain ave been sus-
pended pending an explanation OF the
convention granting the United States a
monopoly Of trade with the Spanish
Antilles.
Trenor Park of New York owner, which
has been cruising in the Mediterranean,
has arrived at Gibraltar.
The trial at Pari, Italy, of ITO members
Of the Mala Vita Society has ended.
Fourteen members are acquitted, while
pr~isoninent varying from six months to
fifteen years.
Al the National Capital.
The United States Government is In ne
gotiation with San Domingo for the
lease Of Santa Barbara as a coaling place.
A careful analysis of the late billion
dollar Congress shows that nearly S5.O00,-
COO was appropriated by that body in
creating new Offices. 1t is a record uupar-
alleled 9th in the number of Offices and
the sums appropriated. At the last SEES
sion 597 new specific offices were created,
fer which ~salaries aggregdtlng $90S,S6 "a
year were provided. Besides this there
was appropriated 81, 495. S51 for other new
offices, the number OF offices and the
amount Of each salary not being speci-
ned.
Reports continue to be published that
the condition of Secretary Blaine's health
is Worrying his friends. They do not
seem to fear any immediate danger to his
life, but they have apparently settled
down to the conviction that Mr.. Blaine's
days of activity are over.
New York Doings.
DIR. Heber Newton formulated his doc
trinal opinions DIR. Talmage delivered
the sermon at the installation of DR.. Bur
rell. DIR. Parkhurst denounced DIR.
Briggs accusers aud DR.. Bridgman was
received into the Episcopal Church by
Bishop Potter.
Fair sized crowds went to Coney Island,
but they found the weather too chilly for
enjoyment
Ellen conway. thirteen years old, who
has been arrested in New York, confesses
that she is the leader of a band OF little
girl thieves who operated in apartment
houses.
A New York gentleman. under the
nom de plume of "Prima Facie," writes
a letter duplicating DR.. Robinson in the
Tobin case.
The east side Hebrew butchers of New
York, have been ~endeavoriug for several
weeks past to organize a trust which
they believe will make a millionaire OF
every man who becomes a member
of it.
Elsewhere.
Word has been received from Central
America to the effect that on Wednesday
last a coasiing schooner sighted a vessel
resembling the Itata. Tine schooner tried
to get near her, but the other vessel,
which was running south. sheered oil her
course. This was thirty miles of shore.
President Marsh, of the wrecked Key
stone Bank, of Philadelphia, is believed
TO nave sailed for Rio Janeiro on the
steamer Advance.
Senator PETER, of Kansas, ak of
the new peoples party. He predicts big
things in 1892, and thinks the new move
ment will defeat Mckinley In Ohio.
A duel with many features Of romance
was fought at Chicago between a nephew
Of Count Kalnoky and a Southern gentle
man. The representative of nobility was
seriously wounded By a thrust in the
neck.
Dir. Briggs chances before the Presby-
terrain Assembly seem to be growing
worse.
James Jarrett. one of the most promi-
nent farmers of North Easf, Ga, was poi
soned by his pretty 16-year-old daughter
Rosa yesterday because he whipped her
for stealing away to a neighboring
meadow and going TO walk with Robert
McRae, a suitor. whom her father OPP
posed. She put rat poison in his soup.