The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1891-11-18

The miners troubles in the Department
OF Pas-de-Calais, France, continue to
spread. AT Lieviu the strikers and gend-
arnes came III collision, two of the latter
being badly hurt.
Ex-King Milan has signed a %renuncia-
ton of HI his legal and constitutional
rights in Servia.
the river Parrett burst it banks in
Somersetshire, England, causing great
damage.
In u speech at Rotherhithe, a London
suburb, Sir Edward Clarke, the Solicitor
General, yesterday that Par
lament would be dissolved next fall. and
stated that the Government was confident
OF success at the polls.
The British bark Kate Sanction was
abandoned in the North Sea during the
recent storm. The crew took to the
boats, nine of them dying from exposure
before their rescue by a passing vessel.
Reports from the famine-stricken dis
tricts of Russia continue to show the de-
spair and suffering entailed upon the
poorer classes by the scarcity OF food. The
Government will appoint Il central COM
mi.tee. of which the C~Zaro witch will be
the head. to supervise The machinery for
the relief of the sufferers.
At the National Capital.
The fourteenth annual congress of the
Protestant Episcopal Church opened in
VdSulu&lOu- 3 6lStOp 4 HliiipS olOohS
made the communion address, and Sen-
ator Edmunds, the presiding officer,
spoke in favor Of keeping the church
separated from the State.
New York Doings.
Mrs. Ferdinand Hayman, wife of a
weli-to-do business nan of New York,
was arrested yesterday charged with be-
ing Il receiver of stolen goods, a female
Pagan. in fact.
The five men who were put ashore at
Moriches, L. l., from a steamer were not
coming to this country, but were on their
way to Italy. They bought cheap coun-
%terfeit passage tickets from a country
M in this city. and We're stored away
on the steamer.
Joseph Niblo and his pretty wife Sarah
were arraigned in a New York police
court charged with working the badger
game Cd William Friel.
The United States gunboat Concord
sailed from New York for st. Thomas.
West Indies.
The Allen Line Steamship State of Call
lfornia Went aground in Buttermilk
Chanel yesterday, and her 204 passengers
were transferred to the shore III small
boats.
The one hundred and twenty-third
annual dinner of the New York Chamber
of Commerce, which was held at Del
monico's last night, was the most sue
EfSSIUl anu moTo ldfxeiy dtbenueu lHdH
any yet given by that body. Covers were
laid for 232 guests.
An order was issued in New York yes
terday prohibiting the use of water for
baths and washing cars, &c. Commits
sioner Gilroy stated that there is Suffic-
lent water in the reservoirs to last that
city two weeks. Much trouble has been
caused in the poorer tenement districts.
Representative Crisp's friends believe
he has made q combination under which
he will gain the support of Tammany
Hall in his fight for the Speakership.
Elsewhere.
Three incendiary fires occurred on
Monday night in Chattanooga, Tenn, ali
of them supposed to be caused by con-
victs recently released by the iners
4 The Wonians' Christian Temperance
Union, In session in Boston. has reelected
Miss Francis Willard president.
Frank Almy, the murderer of Christie
Warden. was placed on trial for his life
at Plymouth, N. H., yesterday. Mrs.
Warden, the murdered girls mother;
Fannie Warden, ner sister. and others
told the story of the crime. Physicians
testified regarding the wounds inflicted.
News from Brazil shows that Fonseca
has stopped all press dispatches not
favorable to his course, and that the
postal system of the country has been
overthrown. 1t was reported that Para
would join the revolt and hat troops
from Rio Grande do Sui were marching
10 meet Fonseca's forces.
A 81, 900. 600 dollar fire in St. Louis yes
terday destroyed almost the entire BUSH
mes centre OF the city.
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