The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1891-07-27
NEWS IN NOTES.


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A terrible railway accident occurred las,
evening at St. Mamie, four niles from
Paris. Thirty people are known to have
been Killed and one hundred wounded
The accident was due 10 n collision be
tween a freiuht aud au excursion train.
The injury 10 Henry M. Stanley's leg
was not rs serious rs ~ 6fst supposed
The insuFgent troops are massing at
Huasco. Chiia, and IL 70 expected that
within three days they and the insurgent
fleet will make a combined attack upon
Balmaceda's stronghold in the north. c.
quimbo.
A big meeting was held In Queens
PARK, Toronto. yesterday afternoon, up
ward OF thirty thousand people be ing
present. A controversy arose between
some Oraugemen and Catholics ana n
fight broke out A scene of the widest
confusion prevailed, and several persons
were injured before the police stopped
the disturbances.
Nine. Adellna Patti expects to open
her private theatre nt Castle Craig y-Nos
on August 10. and she also expects the
Prince of Wales, Prince and Princess
Battenberg to be present at the
The Rev. Father James ]. McDermott
OF Springfield, Mss. has died 10 Paris
At the National Capital.
Pension Commissions Raum has issu-
ed a pension TO 4 Kentucky man who
served for years In The Confederate army.
IL Is sud that the man WIS a desefter
from the Confederate army.
Much interest IL felt iu Washington
over the announcement from London that
in an interview there. Chauncey NJ.
Depew named Harrison for President In
1892.
New York Doings.
Richard S. Newcombe, the lawyer, died
at his residence, No. sos Madison avenue,
after an operation performed to relieve
him OF cancer in the stomach.
The naval reserves aboard the Stoning-
ton aud all the vessels OF the White
Squadron. except the Newark are anchor
ed on Fishers Island. The reserves will
handle the big guns on the cruisers to-
day, but the government will not let
them have powder aud ball until tomor-
row.
Charles Curtis, a well known thief.
snatched a pocketbook from Miss Bessie
Mead, of No. 10 East Thirty-second
street, while she was walking on Madt-
son avenue, near Fifty first street. Cur
It's was captured after something of a
chase.
The State political campaign has
opened In Erie aud Washington counties
The Cleveland democrats are making
strenuous efforts to defeat the Hill con-
tingent.
Mis-. Katherine Kock. Of No. 500 East
~ obACtbf NEW IOtAs tOIAl luAutu
to Acting Superintendent Byrnss that
while she was q prisoner in the East
Eignty-eighth street Station HOUSE she
was assaulted by two policemen.
Elsewhere.
A negro murderer escaped from Jail at
Lexington, KY, killed a man and muir
uerously as saulted several other persons
with a scythe. He WAS shot lead after
saying he bad killed seven persons and
would kill seven more.
Is. Melborue, OF Canton, Ohio. the man
who has been making rain, was exnltaui.
yesterday over the success OF bis ex-
periments. He set out for his eighth ex-
pertinent. and IL was a wet aud unqual-
lied success.
City Attorney Hugh Daley. Clarence
Bebe and Rufus Shepard. three OF The
most prominent citizens of New Haven, |
are supposed to have been drowned in
Long Island Sound of Brahford Beacon
yesterday afternoon. The accidents that
caused these deaths was the wrecking In
the heavy seas Of the yacht
Typhon.
The first of the Iceland fishing feet, the
schooner senator Salisbury. arrived at
at Gloucester yesterday. This Is the
earliest arrival gu record Sne brings a
large fare of fetched halibu5. 200, 900
pounds.
There were three people killed outright
in the wreck of the excursion train on
the Cincinnati. Hamilton and Dayton
at MIddletown Sunday night. In
five were seriously hurt, one or
two OF whom may die. and many Others
recsived more or less serious injuries.
Eeg-J.C c. Scuissr vas delivering a ser
mon yesterday morning in the United
Presbyterian Church OF Greenville, Pa,
L storm arose and a tnunderDolt
shattered the steeple. The congregation
numbered three hundred people,, and a
panic ensued, but 10 one was seriously
nurt.