The Jersey City news., 1891-09-21
NEWS IN NOTES.


Foreign.
The suffering in Russia is so great Tint
a woman at Tanlbotf tried to Kill her
children'as the only means of relief.
The greatest misery from the Spanish
floods was caused at CAulunas snd Villa
franca The crops have been lost. aud It
is feared riots will result il relief Is
delayed. AT Consuegra there is demand
for more disinfectants Many inurauuers
have been Imprisoned there. .At Atinerll
the bodies of l, ISL victims OF the noods
have been buried. Many houses under
mined by the floods continue to fail.
Agop Pasha formerly Turkish Minister
of Finance, was thrown from horse at
Constantinople yesterday aud killed
Mr.. Parnell, speaking ut Cabineely.
said that one of the dangers of the future
was a diminished Irish representation IN
Parliament. No English party, he said,
could be trusted. The adoption of the
ssone man, one vote" principle would
mean grievous reduction of lreland's
electoral strength.
The Paris Temps criticising the recent
French army manoeuvers, ,says:-"Every-
thing was not perfect. The cavalry was
not utilized as ii might have been. Yet it
was shown that the French army is Ii
Vegetable army with clever chiefs"
New York.
The Rev. Thomas Dixon, Jr., of the
IWeQtJ-b0lru 0tFe6b l>HpblSb ~ OuuTCu,
vigorously denounced Iammany yester-
day for the fil.h of New York streets.
which, he said. meant filth in politics.
Policeman Charles Schneider. of the
Union Market Station. New York. is
charged with brutally assaulting three
women.
A big crowd gathered in front of the
Lithuanian Church in Williamsburg to
see Father Yodyszus rotten egged. The
performance failed 10 come off. the
priest made a pathetic appeal for justice.
Miss Babetta. only daughter of Charles
Fleischmann, the millionaire baker and
compressed yeast man, Is engaged to ner
fencing master. who is alleged to be an
( Austrian Count
Because of the detention of unconvicted
persons in the overcrowded Tombs during
the hottest months of the year, Recorder
Smyth and the other General Sessions
Judges will propose an amendmenJ OF
the statute so that more trials may be
held in vacation months.
Elsewhere.
Thirty thousand boomers are congre-
galed at the border of the Oklahoma
lands to be opened to settlement tomor-
row.
Balmaceda is reported to have COM
mitted suicide at Santiago on Saturday.
He found that escape from the county
was impossible, and the only other course
open was to give himself up to the victor
ious Congressionalists. This is probably
as true as the other stories
Charles Howard has confessed at Crown
Point, Ind, that he planned to wreck the
fast express OIL the Pittsburg, Fort Wayne
and Chicago Railroad on Monday night
last. He piled lot of ties on the track
about two miles east of Whiting, Ind..
and but for the promptness of the EN-
gineer the train with its passengers would
have been hurled from the track and
many lives lost.
Congressman w. l.. Scott OF Penn
sylvuna died suddenly before midnight
Saturday, at Newport, r. ]. DR.. William
Pepper of Philadelphia, who accomoanied
him. stated that Mr.. Scott's death was
very sudden and unexpected, aud was
due to repeated heart failures, his gastric
trouble being improved, and there being
no organic disease of the stomach, bowels
or kidneys Tine family left with the re
mains for their home in Erie, Pa, this
morning.
AT the National Capital.
Secretary Noble has issued instructions
for the registers and receivers OF the Land
Offices in Oklahoma, regarding the open
ing of the Sac and Fox Indian Lands, iu
which he declares that the words white
settlements" do not preclude the settle.
nient of negroes.
The political leaders in Washington are
much interested in the campaigns in
Ohio and New York, especially as the
prospects for Republican success are sc
excellent
The next Congress, it is said, will be {
''picayune" Congress, as the Democrats
have determined to appropriate jus
enough to barely run the department. AS
the extravagances of the last Congress
must be adjusted. no other course seems
open.
A diplomatic controversy has ariser
between the United States and great
Bgltain as to the proper construction tc
be placed upon the Chinese exclusion, as
it affects Cinnamon who reside in Canada
aud who enter the United States.