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


Twenty thousand Frencl, workmen
Will make pilgrimage TO Rome in DC
tober TO thank Pope Leo for mis- intervsn-
tion in he matter OF labur and the con-
dition OF working mer.
Denmark will hereafter admit Amer
lean pork.
The City of New York made the ran to
Queeustown In five days, twsnty-two W,
hours, fifty minutes, which equals the
best eastern trip ever made. though IL
doesn't bre Tx the record.
Adyices have been received III London
of the wrecking of Griinsby smack in
Iceland and the drowning OF twelve or
her crew
1t is reported that Natalie, ex-Queeu Of
Seryia, went secretly 10 Paris to see her
son, King Alexander, VINO is there with
his fauner.
The Agricultural Congress at the
Hugiie yesterday adopted a resolution IN
favor of international cooperation To sup
press adulteration OF food.
The Rev. Charles II. Sturgeon is recov-
erug. Yesterday he spent half an hour
In the garden of his residence and bore
the fatigue very we'll indeed.
The Russian Government has accepted
the Invitation of the United States to send
representative to a conference to be
held shortly, when the formation of an
international bureau for the exchange of
Intelligence as to mercantile failures will
be discussed.
Theswelling OF mountain stream run.
ming through the Weizklamm gorge, near
Passal, Austria, has caused considerable
loss OF life and property. All the neigh
boring roads have been torn up, many
factories have been destroyed, and sever
al persons have been drowned.
At the National Capital
Secretary Proctor has decided to accept
the appointment of Senator from Ver-
mont to succeed Senator Edmuuds.
1t is reported here that the government
suit against the Chilean insurgents in re-
lation to the Itata has been abandoned.
Ancable relations will probably be es-
tablished in every way.
Doings in New York.
By the burning Of chemical depot at
No. ga South street, New York, last night,
five firemen were seriously injured and
S250000 worth of property destroyed.
Lieutenant Governor Jones has sent
an open letter to ex-President Cleveland
warning him not to permit his friends TO
interfere in New York politics, but more
particularly not TO interfere in favor of
Mr.. Flower.
The Republican convention. which
meets at Rochester to-day, is said to be
very likely to nominate Collector Fassett
for Governor.
Count Eugene Dogotheth, a genuine
nobleman, and a member OF one of the
most distinguished families of Hungary,
some time ago visited the Brooklyn
Theatre. He stood in the lobby while
Il friend who was with him bought the
tickets. For some reason not known he
was elected from the lobby, and because
he resisted he was locked up. He has
brought suit against Colonel Sinnott for
5000 damages.
Elsewhere.
A hurricane at Halifax yesterday des-
troyed the Inter-Cotonial bridge across
the harbor, wrecked several vessels and
destroyed altogether nearly 8 million dol
lars worth of property. At Picton the
great coal docks were destroyed. No
lives We're lost.
Nine persons were poisoned at the
house OF George Gregg, of Belleville, La,
by the Sunday dinner, and none OF them
will recover. As the servant who pre-
pared the dinner is dying with the Others
the affair is presumed To be accidental
unless the food was poisoned before it
reached the house. The physicians have
not yet ascerGained the nature of the
poison.
Dennis Mccarthy, LOUISVILLE street
car driver, being discharged. went to st.
Louis to look for work. While there
some one sent him word that his wife
was unfaithtnl. He wrote to her that he
was coming back to kill her. Yesterday
he returned and shot her four times. He
now feigns insanity.
Mary Coleman, Il crazy woman living
near Vaughn, Mass, yesterday blew out
her husbands brains with a shotgun,
and then drowned herself and their two
year old boy il. u creek.