The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1891-08-12
NEWS IN NOTES.


dow as a Presidential boom provoked BY
Blaineites.
Alarming rumors prevail at Berlin as
to the Kaiser's health. They do not seem
to be warranted, however, aud are be-
lieved to be Invented for boerse pur-
poses.
Servia's boz King has been cordially
welcomed to Vienna.
the reported battles at Coquimbo aud
VALPARAISO. There was q flGiIt. however.
b etween the Condell aud Esmerold at
Coldera, but the result was not known.
Dolngs in New York.
Mary Heinecke, an eighteen-year-old
girl. was found unconscious in a boat
afllift on Rockland Lake. She had ap-
pareutly peen drugged and assaulted.
John Amelman. AN old negro criminal.
dragged n woman Into the woods at Great
Neck. L. l.. assaulted her and only spared
her life on being given $50 or 500.
The third wife OF Charles Sidney, archi-
tect, Of New York, has brought suit
against him for divorce. He alleges that
size was never legally bis wife, as at the
time he married her he had not secured a
divorce from his second wife.
Coolie Cinnamon are constantly arriv-
ing in New York under pretence that
they formerly resided there. It is be-
lieved that their pretences are false, and
the matter will be thoroughly investi-
gated.
The New York Democratic State Com
mittee will probably call the State Con-
v~eution TO meet either at Saratoga or
Rochester on September Is or i6. Indica-
lions point to Flower and Sheehan us the
ticket.
Elsewhere.
Sir Hector Laugevin. the Canadian
Minister, denies the recent scandals con-
nected with his name, but has rendered
his resignation In consequence.
1t is said in naval circles that no more
United States vessels are available for
service in Chinese waters.
Topeka, Kan. expects 10 summon every
msu in town before securing a jury to try
Brennan, charged with the murder of
Col Wood. judge Botklu, VINO Is to try
the case, says he knows there is a plot TO
kill him, but he refuses to ave the court
house surrounded with militia as a
measure OF protection.
STATE NOTES.
The seventy-hfth anniversary Of the
Hunterdon County Bible Society will be
held in the Presbyterian Church. Mt Mil
ford, on Tuesday, August 18th. The *
ercises will begin At 1880 a. M, when tn e
annual sermon will be preached by Rev.
S. j. Rowland, of Clinton. Ia the after
noon addresses will be made by Rev. w.
w. MofTet. ID. d., District Secretary for
New Jersey Of the American Bible So
ciety, and by delegates from county So
cieties.
William Gallagher, a Camden saloon
keeper, was fined $50 and costs on Monday,
by Mayor Pratt, for selling liquor on SUI
day. BY advice of his counsel Gallagher
refused to pay the fine. OIL the claim that
Mayor Pratt lac nc jurisdiction in the
case. He was then sentenced to jail for
three months, and hts counsel will try to
get him out on q writ Of habeas corpus.
A parrot pur a party of burglars to
flight in Burlington, Sunday night. They
had broken into the kitchen Of the resi-
dence of DR.. +. A. Gaunrt and had bored
several holes around the lock of the door
leading to where silverware was stored
when the parrots voice alarmed them.
They carried OF the entire stock Of
family provisions, although their flight
was hastv.
Twenty-Five COWS owned by persons
IN the Thirteenth wsrd, Newark. have
been killed by State Inspector Hawk and
his assistants. Nearly 100 cows that have
been grt ziDg in a pasture with a Joy
afflicted with tuberculosis have been con-
aemned by the inspector. The State
pays to the owner from $50 to $35 for eac b
COW killed.
The next State Convention OF the So
ciety of Christian Endeavor will be held
at Newark, and if the First Church can
be secured the date Will be October %, "a
aud 25, beginning on Friday evening and
concluding on Sunday. which is entirely
a new departure.
A valuable pair of gray horses belong
ing to William Adams, OF Edgewater
Park, took fright at q train OF cars on
Saturday, stumbled and fell on the track.
The train passed over them, killing both
Mr.. Adams lost q valuable team OF black
horses II a similar way three weeks ago.
Michael Haplon, Of Paterson, who was
reported TO have been killed on the Erie
Railroad in New York State, has turned
III at home alive and well. He had been
away on his vacation.
Ex-senator Wyatt w. Miller, of Salem,
is talked of for the Gubernatorial nomi-
nation by South Jersey Republicans. He
is a wealthy farmer and is president of
the Salem National Bank
A mule, forty two years old. belonging
to Charles Stella, of S~heppard's Mill.
Cumberland county, died of old age on
Wednesday. The animal worked up to
the day of its death.
Charles Gardner and o. w. johnson,
Jr., OF New Bridge, Bergen county, In
two days recently took from the Hacken-
sack River l26 white perch and seventeen
striped bass, all OF good weight.
Little Mary Doyle of Burlington lost
ali her hair Sunday night by its catching
fire from an alcohol lamp. Her injuries
are serious.
The Rev, Robert Johns of the Asbury
Nj. E. Church at Hackensack declines to
take a vacation. He'belieyes in keeping
the church open every Sunday in the
year.
The Smith family will hold their an
nual picnic IN August &c at Peapack.
Charles n. Lamb. a leading Democrat
of Mount Holly. died On Monday, aged
eighty-six years.
John Vogel of Tenafiy has brought suit
against the Widow Gerhard for breach of
promise, claiming $4,000 damages.
CITY NOTES.
Michael Cullen, a four year old living
at No. $50 Wayne street, fe out of a first
story window yesterday afternoon ON his
head. He was prettY badly injured.
James Henry. of no 164 SUSSEX street,
a driver for Charles Somers, was over
come with the heat Of yesterday a mad