The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1891-06-27
NEWS IN NOTES.


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caDlc despatchss from London intimate
that Mr. Parneifs marriage IL expccteu
20 rehahiAt t. him, in0rnlly, ppiitictlly
and svcinlly. aud fhat Sir William GOr-
don Canning & 70 be rushet into rar-
lismcut.
Elaborate arrangements are being per
fected fer the anticipated visit OF the
Emperor aud Etnpress Of Germany TO
England, Windsor Castle being Allied mp
f0r their occupancy.
The commercial treaty between Spain
and America was signed Yesterday. IL
viii be published on August and will 20
into operation on Settember 4.
Captain Naess Of the Norwegian ship
Arizona, from Pensacola, which arrived
at LIVERPOOL on the 10Th Inst,
suicide ov shooting himself with q re-
volver in the cabin or his vessel.
A cable dispatch from London states
that the Rev. Charles Spurgeon, whose
illness is causing his friends some alarm,
passed. a restless night Thursday. aud
yesterday morning seemed to be In a
worse condition than he was the day be-
fore Mt the same time.
At the National Capital.
The President aud Cabinet decided yes-
terday to suspend for the present the
coinage Of standard silver dollars.
An Important omission In the speciica-
tions for Cruiser No. IS has recently come
to light. No provision. IL appears, has
been made for an electric light plant-a
most necessary equipment for the modern
man-of-war. How the omission ccurred
is something that each OF those concerned
Is now trying to explain.
Tn Ordnance Department OF the army
has made a contract for the construction
in this country of the Eastern and Ander-
son spring return carriages for the IL.
inch breech loading rified mortars in
tended for harbor defence.
New York Doinzs.
DR.. John L Northrop, the young scien-
it's and instructor in geology at Column
nia College, who was severely burned on
Thursday during the fire in the cellar OF
the college, caused by the explosion OF
alcohol. died yesterday. His body lies 10
the dead house OF the Presbyterian
Hospital on Seventieth street. Am
bia College, who took the Doctor to the
Presbyterian Hospital Immediately after
the accident, states hat the officers of
that institution compelled the injured
man to remain Mt their doors In the m
buiance while they considered whether
Manhattan College held It's thirty
eighth commencement exercises at the
Metropolitan Opera House. Chauncey M.
Depew made the address.
Frank Atwood, who identified the body
OF the Croton Landing suicide as that OF
~ EAANf &c LASAL1A q ~ va SA0a
His wife Is alive in this city. He Is un-
der arrest as a suspicious character. He
turns out to lie George Victor Herdling,
son of the proprietor Of the United States
Hotel, New York. and q monumental
liar.
Elsewhere.
A sensation was created at the com
mencement of the Pawtucket, r l., High
School when the chairman called Mrs.
J. William Andrews name ia awarding
diplomas. Mrs. Andrews was known TO
everyone rs Blanche Remington, and j.
William Andrews was one of tine boy
graduates. He is twenty and she Is nine
teen. They had been secretly married a
day or two before, and took this novel
way of making their marriage known.
At least six men we're killed at Natalie.
n small. town near Mount Carmel, Pa,
Yesterday, by the blowing down OF the
Patterson Coal C~ompany's breaker by q
cyclone.
During a severe electrical storm which
passed over Galveston, Texas, yesterday,
lightning struck aud exploded the pow
der house OF the American Powder Con
pany. containing two Thousand Tags OF
powder. The conclusion caused ths
Hoard 81 Dupont ana the Latin & RAND
powder houses aud the fireworks maya
zine of Victor Cortinas to explode.
Facts have come 10 light which how
thai Robert Morris, one of the signers oil
the Declaration of Independence, did no
die in q dehtor's prison, and that othel
Important events In American history
have been falsely recorded BY all chron-
f~clers.