The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1891-05-09
NEWS IN NOTES.



A cable despatch from London an
nounce tue death OF Nine. BIavatsky. the
prominent Th~eosophist
The State bonded warehouse at Rotter-
dam. and the main portion of its contents
were DESTROYED by fire early this morning.
Tie damage lone Is estimated ut 81, $780,
90.
The memorial recently presented to the
Pope in the name of all the United States
emigration committees. who recently
held congress ~ Lucerne, Degs the pro
lection 0f the Holy Father for the tour
hundred thousand to the Eve hundred
thousand Catholics who annually emf
IT tie.
IL was discovered yesterday that the
British government has underestimnted
the wheat import for the eight months
ending April 80, the actual supply exceed
ing the official return by more than 500.-
CO quarters.
Tue German Reichstag Budget Com
nittee has approved of the grant OF
81, 90 to defray the cost of the steps to
be taken in order to enable Germany TO
make a suitable p~articiDation In the
Chicago Worlds Fair.
At tho National Capital.
Some doubt exists ia the state Depart
ment as TO the right OF this Government
TO capture the Itata. which sailed away
from san Diego aud - supposed to DO u
CHILEAN Insurgent vessel
Lord Salisbury has intimated to Score
tary Blaine a willingness to accept a pro-
posal for a closed season In Behring Sea
There Is a mad nava officer at tile Nor
folk Naval Yard. Commodore Weaver,
the commandant OF the yard, Is the indiv-
iuual and the cause of his anger Is an at
tempt on Acting Rear Admiral Walkers
part to ignore the customary navy yard
red tape methods in order to secure the
prompt repairs to the vessels of his squad
ron now In dock at Norfolk.
Before closing its hnul session today
the American Medical Association took
the initiatory steps for its incorporation
under a national law, and also appointed
d committee to memoriaiize Congress for
the creation OF n Cabinet officer to be
called the Medical Secretary OF Public
Health.
New York Doing
Miriam A. Osborn,s will was offered for
probate in New York City. BY its terms
her son Howell is debsrrsd from marry
ing an actress
The Lumber Dealers Association have
decided to lock out tn cir employee and to
deliver no lumber to buildings In New
York until the boycott on Charles L..
Buck e. Co. has been removed by the
building trades unions.
Thomas Magee, a professional nurse,
alleges that he has discovered a plot to
Twenty-second street, New York, and
coerce him into making Il will IN favor of
his daughter.
Trustees Of the Metropolitan Museum
OF Art favor the Sunday opening II the
money is forthcoming, to secure which a
popular subscription Is proposed
Minnie Hauck-E nochian sues the widow
Rubsam to recover her own daughter,
whom she sold TO brewer Joseph Rub
sam, the child's father. for 1900.
Governor David b.. HUI appears Fall
broke up" by Jones' threat to write him
=. f&nr . hA 1Aou r4f ur.ArfIn u4l1f-
organ attacks Jones.
Elsewhere.
The Spring Garden National Bank and
the Penn Safe Deposit and Trust Com
pany OF Pennsylvania have closed their
doors.
Drs. Feeny and Bryan c~ontradicted DR..
Robinson's assertions before the Franklin
(Pa.) authorities. and Staten Island resi-
dents were indignant at his aspersions
upon the character of Mary Tobin.
A large meteor was seen last night by
persons at different points all along the
railway line from Rosenberg to Collad,
Texas, a distance of about one hundred
northeast, and as it reached Victoria it
exploded. 1t was like a great thunder
clap; People imagined that it was an
earthquake.
Brieadier General Greedy, Chief Signal
Officer, arrived at FL Paso, Texas, yester-
day en- route to Puget Sound, via San
Francisco. The Generai is going TO Puget
Sound to select the location for a sub
marine cable that is to be laid across the
Sound out TO Cape FIattery, where there
is a signal observer and a life saving sta
ton.
Five plates of armor metal, made by
Carnegie, PhipDs & Co., of Pittsburgh,
Pa, have been under three days test at
the Navy producing grounds, Annapolis.
The plates were eight feet long by six
wide, with n thickness of three inches.
Two were Of steel, one of nickel steel and
two of a composition called Harvey
nickel