The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1891-08-28
NEWS IN NOTES.



Ei1ei denies that he has been engaged
to buiid a tower for the Chicago Affair.
England sends word that nm American
fleet would be we'll received.
Mitchell IS willing 10 hght Corbe for q
purse Of $4,000
Baron paul Dc Sede, a French noble
man. Is crossing the AtIanti in the
steamship Noordland as 3 common sailor.
&c gain nautical knowledge and win Is
wager.
Tie dory Sea Serpent arrived at Ant
werp ~yesterday-on the deck OF the British
course OF her trip
Captain Apdrew says that he became
exhausted shortly after he was last
spoken. and. in consequence, when the
opportunity offered abandoned his dory.
The lnternational Congress now IN
session at ChTlstiana. Sweden, advocates
filming criminals according to their posit-
ion andwcnlth.
The Italinn national debt is now about
S5,0O0,0 coo, 200.
Mr.. Gladstone publicly denounces gam
bling a. a national evil.
A thunder storm swept over the
Trieste district Of Austria on Wednesday,
causing several fatalities. Lightning
struck a church at Tualis, on the Italian
frontier. while the building was crowded
with women. A scene OF panic followed.
The priest. when he had succeeded in re-
storing order, found that three women
who were supposed to rave tainted from
freight hnd been killed by the lightning.
AT Plan a hunting party was struck by
lightning. One of the party was killed
on the spot. and four others were par
alyzed by the electric shock.
"A gang of 800 native pirates are Great
ing havoc in the Wendrow district OF
China. Villages have been purned right
aud left by them when refused hospital
Try, and the inhabItants-men, women
aud hv tho mis-
creants. The objecq, of tho pirates seems
to be to capture influential people and
hold them Tor ransom
Doings In New York.
james ID. Hallam. a New York lawyer,
who was arrested for stealing $3.50 of
jnrors fees is further charged with
Henfy Miller of Great Neck, L. l., and
his wife ana mother IN law, whom he
shot before trying to kill himself, are all
alive and will probably recover.
Want Of ventilation provoked a small
riot at the Stock Exchange yesterday.
but the boys raised the windows instead
OF smashing them, as might have been
expected.
Warden Durstou of Auburn prison,
who attempted to run the Democratic
< primaries was badly beaten last night.
lie carried only n ward out of ten
Elsewhere.
There has been no further fighting at
Valparaiso. Both sides claim the vic
tory.
United States Senator William NJ.
Stewart, OF Nevada, has been sued in the
Supreme Court by James e. Lyon for
SI.O0o.0 600 damages growing out of the
famous Emma mine and the Monitor and
81. Louis lode sale.
i. W. Vanderbilts yacht Conqueror
has been seized by federal officers for
heavy custom duties.
Daniel Hayes, fourteen years old. Of
New York. put ties across the railroad
track at P~lainfield, Conn, but the
promptness of the engineer saved the
lives Of the passengers on the Providence
express train.
At least twenty persons were killed and
Twenty-Five injured In "a railroad wreck
pear Statesviile, N. c., yesterday.
Two residents OF Georgetown. Ky. were
Killed yesterday on the street, the result
OF a battle growing out OF a family feud.
William Nannort has been nominated
for Governor of Maryland by the Repub-
llcans.
Senator Sherman yesterday delivered a
speech in opposition TO the free coinage
OF silver ut Padding, o.
Mrs. II. NJ. Hotcnkiss has presented
s2s5,00O TO the Yale Preparatory School,
Nhleli she founded. Ia addition to this
aiit Mrs. Hotchkiss has given the school
seyenty-flve acres Of land.
Proceedings were yesterday instituted
against the Louisiana State Lottery Com
pnny by the issuance Of warrants against
the president aud directors tor violation
of the anti-lottery law in sending lottery
circnlirs through the mails.
Ella O'Connor. clever years of age, of
No%rristown. Pa, has been sneezlng con-
tiuually for the last ninety-six hours.
She has ON two previous occasions had
similar attacks, one of which lasted ten
days. The physicians are unable. to stop
the sneezing, and the girl is becoming ex
hausted.
Thomas Cundry was arrested in Pitts
burg. Pa. yesterday, charged with being
n participant in the murder of Mrs. Mary
Rudert, OF Tarentun, which occurred in
December. 1889. The prisoner claims to
be able to prove an abb.