The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1891-11-10
NEWS IN NOTES.


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tieth anniversary of his birth very quietly
yesterday.
The inhabitants of the Oasis of Touat
have beheaded five agents of the Sultan of
Morocco sent to collect tri butte. France
claims the oasis and has sent troops to
occupy it.
The British convict transport steamer
enterprise has been wrecked by a cyclone
near the Andaman Islands, and n out of
her crew of CO drowned.
In a quarrel over some and near Dun
manway, County Cork. a number of the
members of the Hurley and Lynch fami-
lies were injured, some perhaps fatally.
Both families claimed ownership Of the
land.
The Neva at St. Petersburg is blocked
with ice, aud the cold is intense.
A London music hall singer named
Polly Newberry was shot by her hus-
band, named Westenholm. in a jealous
quarrel. The man then killed himself.
Rome was startled by the announce
ment that some scoundre1s had desc
Grated the tomb of the Countess Mirafiori,
the m%organatic wife OF the late King Vic
tor Emmanuel. The rascals implicated
in outraging the tomb forced it open and
set fire to the cofin, evidently with the
object of consuming the remains.
At the National Capital.
The Court of Claims has rendered a de-
cision dismissing the suits of the States
of Indiana. Ohio and Illinois against the
United States to recover the two per ceut.
fund retained from the proceeds of the
sale of the Cumberland Gap Road, aggre-
eating 81, SOC, 900.
Superintendent Meredith reports to the
Secretary of the Treasury hat the output
by the Bureau of Engraving aud Printing
OF Treasury notes, stamps, etc., was the
largest the past year of n since the de-
partment's organization.
New York.
The report of the New York Presby-
tery's committee IN proposed changes in
the Confession of Faith advises a revis-
ion even more sweeping than that sug-
gested by the General Assembly.
Frederi-. Wood yesterday testified in
court thai the Homestead Bank has been
un]awfully interested in real estate specu-
latlon and described a visit of Conrad
Jordan to a directors meeting and his
warning to the directors.
New York Postofice inspectors yester-
day captured a gang of letter box thieves
who nave been robbing the mails of all
the large cities for more than a year
Ex-Parson George was again on the
stand in his trial for granddaughter at
Catskill. His confession was ad mitted as
evidences and the case for the people
closed.
Great activity in fitting war shi ps for
sea continues at the Navy Yard in Brook
lyn. Washington officials say the work
has no special significance.
During October the Brooklyn bridge
was operated at II loss of $75, 155. The re-
ceipts were s1O6. SOB. and the expenses
$181, 748.
George c.. Valid, a New York lawyer
who resides in Brooklyn, was shot in the
left breast by George S. Thomas, the
father of his Landlord. during a quarrel.
Elsewhere.
Discomfort over Fonseca's assumption
of dictatorial power is general through
out Brazil. The State OF Rio Grande de
Sui has refused to acknowledge his rule
and declared its independence.
A committee of the directors of the
West Virginia State Insane Asylum. at
Weston, mas investigated the charges
made against the management of the
asylum and found no cause for complaint
though murders and suicides have been
committed there.
The Mansion Livery Stables at Denver,
Col, were burned yesterday morning.
Thirty-four horses were burned, n four
and possibly a fifth person were burned
to death, The upper part of the building
was occupied by dodgers. and there We're
numerous narrow escapes.
Steve Lagra cut Michael Ravesch's
throat with q stiletto during q fight at
Waleton Mine, Punsutawny. killing him
Instantly.
-Four more miners injured by the ex-
QlOSlOu LII d COllloTy az 4huUlCOhC Oa oon
day have died, twelve being the number
killed by the accident.
STATE NOTES.
William Peel, foreman of the celebrated
Netherwood stock farm. at Plainfield, has
disappeared under suspicious circum-
stances. He had, 1t is said, been frequent
fact is Thought to be responsible for che
alleged loss of 81, 500 from his employers
accounts during his extended absence
from town. Peel Is said to have fed to
Ireland, deserving his wife and four
young children. Mrs. Peel says that her
husband left her In a similar predicament
in Ireland several years ago and she FOL
lowed him to this country, only to be
again heartlessly deserted.
Judge Hugg, of Camden, refused to
allow a woman to go bail for Michael
Rogan until she gained the consent of her
husband.
Lille Foster, daughter of Thomas
Foster, of Elwood, Atlantic county, has
eloped with Martin Foster, her uncle.
William Allen, an elderly man, of
Bridgeton. attempted suicide by hanging.
His son cut the rope and saved his life.
a been having a boarder of whom he
was Jealous.
Forest fires have been raging in various
sections of South jersey. AT Harmon
t on o large tract has been burned over,
and in the vicinity of Winslow junction
the smoke from the fires was as dense as
a heavy fog. At Cologne, Egg Harbor
and other points much damage has been.
doue to timber. The fires were probably
started to drive the deer and smaller
game out of the woods.
EBTwo young men called Mrs. Eliza Rey-
nolds to the door OF her house on Center
street, Orange, and engaged her in con-
y%ersaLion. Meanwhile a confederate of
theirs climbed into the house through a
lear window and ransacked it. They sue
ceeded in carrying away diamonds and
jewelry valued at 81, ZOO.
The tomb which has been built for the
poet. Walt Whitman. and constructed
under his personal s. pc rvision, is on the
side OF a hill in HarleiRh Cemetery on the
outskirts OF Camden, overshadowed by a
gnarled oak. 1t is designed after the wall
of King Solomon's Temple. the struc-
ture being of massive blocks of Quincy
granite.
The arguments in the application of
Frank Lingo, convicted for the murder OF
Mrs. Miller, were concluded at Trenton,
ex-Prosecutor jenkins occupying the
attention of the Court throughout the
day.
Chosen thieves have been unusually
active recently in P~leasantville aud the
nejghborhood, robberies frequently TAX
ing place in spite of every effort on the
part of the farmers to guard their coops.
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