The Jersey City news., 1891-09-12
NEWS IN NOTES.


CApe COsOQna yesterday, uhu hhc "a ecA
sank. Nearly all the crew and over one
hundred passengers were drowned. The
captain of the Taormina stood on tne
bridge issuing orders to the last, ana
went down with his ship.
The steAmer Albatross ran down
steam launch in Lough Foyle Yesterday
anu fifteen persons were drowned.
Russia has 10000 troops ready to land
in Turkey on both sides OF the boundary
between Asia and Europe.
Mgr. Agliardi, Pnpal Nuncio at Mu-
rich, has informed Chancellor Won Ca
privi that the Vatican would remain
neutral TO all groupings of European Pow
ers.
Ii is announced that 374 estates belong
ing to the nobility of Odessn will be sold
by auction in October under foreclosure
by the State Bank. The estates are To-
Gated all over European Russia, and the
sale indicates the desperate straits To
which the landed nobility are reduced.
At the National Capital.
1t is rurnored that Attorney General
Miller will be given judgeship, and that
Secretary Noble will be made Attorney
General. General J. S. Clarkson Is
spoken of as The succeeding Secretary of
the Interior, and General Lew Wallace as
Secretary of War.
Doings In New York.
Lieutenant Governor Jones paid visit
to New York yesterday aud had a quiet
conference at the Imperial Hotel with
anti-Tammany leader Charles Steckler.
The plotters. assert it was simply busi-
ness.
More incidents of the notorious "The''
Aliens career were brought out at the
trial of his assailant, John Carrara yes
terday.
Both Collector Fassett and Marshal
Jacobus have seized the steam yacht Con-
queror, belonging to Frederick w. Van
derbilt, and Judge Benedict will have
some knotty questions of law to decide as
to VINO shall get her.
John DAILY, the king of nil the New
York gamblers, has lost q sum OF money
estimated at from $50 600 to 100000. His
manager, William S. HolIingswcrth,
church member and supposedly respect
able citizen, is reported to have taken It
from Daly's safe and lost it in Wall
street.
by the relatives Of the victims Of the acci-
dent to the barge Republic, at Cold Spring
Harbor, l.. l. Thirteen lives were lost
and many persons injured, aud the dam
ages claimed will aggregate $3.50, coo;
Mrs. Henry Mannheim, of No. 153 East
Seventy first street, New York, when she
answered ring ut her door bell last
night, found two little baby girls wrapped
in u shawl and lying on the floor directly
opposite the door. The twins were about
two months old. They were very pretty,
but Mrs. Mannheim presented them to the
police.
The wife of Frank A. Blood, of Amster-
dam, has brought suit tor divorce. The
notable fact is that she has only been
married four months, and alleges that
Mr. Blood choked her while they were on
their wedding trip.
Elsewhere.
Details of the earthquake at San Saliva
dor show that forty persons were killed
in that city alone. 1t is now believed that
throughout the country the victims will
be counted by the hundreds.
The new Chilean government has de-
cided 10 recognize the paper money now
i'll circulation issued by order of Balma-
ceya.
Barrand, alias "The Man from Peru"
ex.inmate of many jails aud insane asy-
]ums, who has Il mania for causing eX-
blossoms. confesses that it was he who
tried, Just for fun" to wreck the Lee
high Valley train near Easton on Thurs
day.
The fishing schooner Georgiana of Var
mouth was upset in making Halifax Har-
bor and her caDtain and crew of fifteen
men were drowned.
Miss Ava, the reputedly rich English
missionary who mysteriously disappeared
from Chicago on Wednesday, has not
been found. The police now think she is
none other than the Diss Debar, the ia
nous ''spook" priestess.
The Bowdoin College scientific expedi-
tion to Labrador has visited the falls upon
the Grand River and found the perdicular
descent of water to be two hundred feet.
STATE NOTES.
Misses Law and Homer. teachers in the
Paterson public schools, were requested
by the Board of Education to resign, but
refuse TO do so. Miss Law, when the
schools reopened, took charge OF her old
class and refused to give it up. Miss
Homer found another teacher in her place
and withdrew under protest, but will de-
maud her salary. Both are acting under
legal advice.
Between forty and fifty women en-
'ployed in Rothschild's shirt factory. at
Freehold, quit work last week because
their demand for an advance in wages of
ten cents dozen was refused. The
strikers are all skilled workmen, who say
they cannot earn enough to support Them
selves at the present rate. The hrm say
they pay higher wages than competing
firms III this section.
Warren Woolley, aged thirty years,
son of Edwin Woolley, an influential
farmer of Poplar, near Asbury Park, died
suddenly on Tuesday night from concus-
sion of the brain. The deceased was
handling scythe, when he cut his finger
severely. When approaching the house
with the intention of having it dressed
he tainted aud in falling his head struck
stone step. producing the injuries that
resulted in his death.
Bridgeton will pay tax rnte of Sl.70,
while Salem's rate is but ST. .25
John H.. Cook, of Spring Lake, has
saved six lives in the surf this summer.
A carriage factory at Farmingdale mas
just received an order from New York
for one hundred buggy wagons.
The Spring Lake Fire Department real
lied 81 ,318. 3S at the recent fair. They pro-
pose to erect new building.
The convention of the w. G. L. U. OF
Monmouth county will be held in the NJ.
E. Church at Bradley Beach on Friday,
September is.
GaTwo boys at Yorktown, Salem county,
got into fight and colored son OF
Emory Thomas bit the little son of Henry
Van Meter so seriously that blood poison
ing has set in and lockjaw is feared.
Landis Dalrymple OF Union township
sold peaches at the Hunterdon County
Fruit Exchange at Jutland few days
for 81 OIL per basket. There were OF the
yellow variety.
One of Tho largest snakes ever seen in
Monmouth county was killed few days
ago OH the farm of John Osborn by
lady visitor. The snake was opened and
found TO contain, besides a number of
toads, four of Mr.. Osborn's Young wild
turkeys, which had disappeared very
nlysterionsly the day before.
A special meeting of the Burlington
County Board OF Assessors has been