The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1891-08-31
NEWS IN NOTES.


Forcign.
The friends OF Mrs. F~lorencs May brick.
imprisoned 10 England for numbering her
husband. hope that the Queen will COM
mute her sentence or that a new trial VIII
be ordered by the opening up OF the case
to settle the assurances ou her hnsoanu's
life.
The Empress of Austria is sail to be
Notes to the value Of 81. $4,000, it is said,
have been stolen from the Bank OF Eng
land. A banker of Genoa was offered one
Of the stolen notes aud sent the informa-
ton to the London authorities.
At the National Capital.
II was stated on good authority in
Washington that the reported rejection
By the government OF Venezuela OF the
reciprocity treaty with the United States
was incorrect. The treaty was not re-
jected, bat the government OF Venezuela
sent IL back aud asked nat certain fnodi-
fcations be made
New York.
A brute. who, il is charitable to believe,
is insane, broke into the Convent Of Our
Most Sotrowful Mother In Brooklyn
shortly after midnight. and attempted to
assault several of the Sisters.
The Normandie, which came in last
night, reports a lively hurricane of the
coast on Saturday.
Edward Simon, aged niue years, was a
prisoner in the Jefferson Market Court
yesterday charged with breaking open a
toy bank belonging 70 a man named JONI
Colmant aud stealing Sl02. He was
given 10 the S. p. G. A All the money
was recovered but Sc, which had beeu in
vested in cakes and candy.
Bernta Amerda, a fireman on the
steamship Panama, died In the hreroom
from the heat.
Deodoue Nellie of Williamsburg, who
cut his throat with a razor last Friday
morning because of his hard luck, be-
came insane en- Saturday night and was
taken to the Flatbush Asylum. His wife
aud seven children are expected from
Italy in u few days
Tine financial complications OF John +.
Plummer & Co., the Broadway dry
goods firm which failed in March. 1899.
with liabilities Of nearly sl.0OO.0o and
SIS, 900 actual assets. have been straight
eued out and q settlement effected.
Two ~Itslians fought IN a saloon at
Yonkers with beer glasses yesterday,
but only one Of them got into the hos
pital.
Elsewhere.
Baimaceda has betaken himself to the
mountain, and the Gillian Government
seems to be permanently In the hands OF
the rebels.
A disastrous fire at Eikton, Md, yestsr-
day destroyed five buildings and damaged
two others.
CARDINAL Gibbons, assisted by a Ions
line OF priests and brothers OF the Chris
tian Schools, dedicated New Calvert Hall
" the cause Of Christian education, at
Baltimore yesterdN-
Senator Washburn of Minnesota, who
has Just returned from Earope, thinks
that secretary Blaine will be nominated
iy reclamation for tns Presidency BY the
Republican party n would be undoubt
eddy elected.
Much grain was destroyed in Dakota
yesterday by a fierce prairie fire. which
swept over the country, nearly destroying
u number of villages in its course.
The residence OF DIR. Helmer at Scran-
ton, Pa, was entered by burglars, and an
unsuccessful search instituted for a large
sum of money which was cOncea led in
the house. Mrs. Henry Helmer nd the
entire family were chloroformed.
Mine Inspector Lewis has published
his report of mine fatalities 1T Hazelton,
Pa, for the past year. An increase In
the deaths Is reported, while the non
fatal accidents of the year exceed those
of the previous corresponding period.
The unconscious body of Anthony
Wageck was found near Pine Grove, Pa,
yesterday. An examination disclosed
Inc fact that The man had been assaulted
and terribly injured. He died shortly
afterward. No clue 20 the identity OF his
murderers has been found.
Three American women were attacked
by a mob of Italians In Hazelton, Pa,
yesterday. aud one was fatally injured
The police were unable to capture any
OF the assailants.
Hugh Miller, an American drummer in
Venezuela, became involved in a row
with natives, and, after being arrested
aud thrown into prison, claims to have
been tortured.
The Chilian rebels celebrated their
triumph by a riot at Santiago, in which
President Balmaceda's GUS and much
other properly were destroyed.