The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1891-11-19
NEWS IN Totes.


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Further disclosures have been made
public with regard ITO tue manner in
which p. w. Nally. tue dead Nationalist,
was treated while in prisou. He appears
to have been visited by a Times emissary,
who offered him tempting brides il he
would betray his friends.
The tin plate industry Is in a very de-
pressed condition in Wales. Several
works have shut down, throwing about
5000 men out OF employment anu causing
much suffering.
Great excitement was caused on the
steamer Magnoliau by the act of a stew W.
ardess. who shot three times at the pur-
ser with a revolver, hitting him twice.
Some mystery attaches to the affair. as on
the vessels arrival at Liverpool the stew
ardess was permitted 10 leave the vessel
uninolested.
Che manufacture of u large number OF
portable tents which would be necessary
for use of troops ip the event of war with
Russia.
Owing to the severe weather in Russia
work on the Siberian Railroad has been
suspended. The Government is consider
lug the ACCESSIBILITY of employing thou
sands of the starving p%easantry on the
road when the weather m0derates.
The strike of French miners still con-
~tinues, 36,0 00 men being now out of en-
ployment. The price of coal has adj
Vauceu, anu Tue SltudIlon ~ eSdrueu as
being very serious.
The Gear that he will pro-
hibit the expectation of wheat from
Russia early III December.
At the National Capital.
The discussion of Socialism occ upied
most OF the time of the Episcopal Chur CHI
Congress in Washington, D G..
Postmaster General Wauamaker is
busy preparing his annual report. III it
Ia mill 1rro bo .6ottfnt, NJ III. AZ ND for
penny postage. postal savings banks, and
u postal telegraph system.
New York Doings.
Congressman McMillan's friends claim
that Tammany's support of Crisp will re-
suit in the defeat of both Mills and Crisp,
and that Mcmillan Is in the lead in the
race for the Sbeakership of the next
National House Of Representatives.
Chairman Clarkson, Acting Chairman
of the Republican National Committee,
when interviewed in New York, decli ned
to express his opinion as to the location
OF lie next Presidential convention. He
said, however, that the Republicans, with
any good candidate, ought to with in 1892
1t Is understood that Tammany Hail
will not make a fight to secure the
Speakership of the Assembly.
George G. Adams. accused of beating
kathie Johnson, whom he was said to
have abducted from Philadelphia with
the aid OLA bogus mother. was acquitted
in the New York Special Sessions yester-
day.
Elsewhere.
John Wesley Edmonds, q decamped
Bridgeport, ct. scamp, is ound to have
deluded many young girls, whom he adj
vertised for to I'LL positions or become his
wife.
A sensation was caused at Dallas Tex. /.
by the arrest of Thomas j.. Wood, Jr., a
L.-t 49, \ r. :. n- -
of Terrell. 1t is alleged that they fraud
ulently filed an application for Il $4,000
insurance policy on the life of a man who
WAS at that time dying with consumption.
Frank G.. Almy, in the Plymouth.
N. H., court room told o he killed his
sweetheart. Christie Warden. A love
letter from her 10 him was read. Impul-
sive insanity is the defence.
A grain blockade of increasing magni-
tude is existing in South Dakota. Hun
dreds Of thousands of bushels of wheat
are lying in the open fields in sacks or
heaps. All the grain warehouses are
already overstocked and the number of
cars TO move the grain is total INSULT
cient, although the movement is not yet
III full force.
John Browns fort, at Har2er's Ferry,
has been torn down and Will be recon
structed on the Chicago Exposition
grounds. 1t is said that the price paid
was so much per brick.
A letter from Chile dated October z was
received at a Francisco, Which stated
mat the Chileans thought the United
States had injured their country by it's
actions.
CARA. the Mexican revolutionist, and
the regular troops came into contact and
several were killed and a humble injured
on both sides. Both sides claimed the
victory.
A wagon containing two men and two
boys was struck by a train at Beirer's
crossing, Pa, Yesterday. Three were
killed outright nj the fourth fatally in
jured.