Passaic City record., 1891-01-08
LATER NEWS.

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injured.
Hon. DANIEL CLARKE, Judge of th'
United States Court for the District of New
Hampshire, died suddenly at Manchester.
THE towboat Anna Roberts, of Pittsburg,
exploded cylinder head. at Portsmouth.
Ohio, instantly killing five men and terribly
wounding many more.
GENERAL MILES is throwing a circle OF
| troops around the hostiles in the Bad Lands
of South Dakota, hoping to starve them into
subsection without further bloodshed.
! THE Ohio River and its tributaries are
| greatly swollen by rains and the thaw.
THE Avenue Hotel, a wooden structure, took
fire at Corsicana, Texas and woman two
men and boy were burned to death.
THE reduction in the public debt during
December, as shown by the monthly state
was 81, ,005, ,397. The total debt, less cash in
the Treasury is 1862, 430, 541.
THE Secretary of the Treasury has ap-
pointed A. L.. Drummond, of New York, to
be Chief of the Secret Service Division OF
the Treasury.
THE Commissioner of Indian Affairs has,
in compliance with a request from the Sec
retary of the Interior submitted amended
estimates of amounts required for subsist-
ence and civilization Of the Sioux Indians
for the fiscal year 1892.
SEcRETATY BLAINE's note rejecting Eng
lands latest proposals in regard to Bahring
Sea was delivered to Sir Julian Pauneefoote
few days ago. He intimated to Mr.. Blaine
that any seizure of British vessel outside
the three mile limit would be met by imme-
diate and forcible resistance.
THERE was ia terrific explosion of coal damp
in the Heinrich Gustav coal shaft at Bochum,
Germany. Sixteen dead and ten wounded
have been taken out of the debris
THE Queen Regent of Spain presented the
Pope with Malaeca cane as a New Years
present. and when the recipient touched the
stick the top opened, emitting small shower
of gold pieces.
THOMAS KELLY and James Hanratty, who
were convicted with eight others at the Bel-
fast Qreland) Assizes in 1883 for connection
with an Irish patriotic brotherhood at Cross
magher, have been released from prison.
Dr.. BoRs, of Kaschau, Hungary, has dis
covered remarkable cure for diphtheria.
He has been using it in his private practice
ior some time, and reports that only two and
a half per cent of the cases treated prove
fatal.
A FAMILY of five persons without home
who have been tramping through England,
were found by roadside near Cambridge all
frozen to death.
c. Fl. WILLIS Treasurer of the Stock
bridge IN. H. Savings Bank, is defaultei
to the amount of from So, 900 to S25. 900.
THE funeral of ex-Treasurer Spinner took
place at Mohawk, N. Y.
TROOPS Of the New Jersey National Guard
were held under arms to quell riot among
100 unpaid Italian laborers at Barnegat
Park.
EDWARD SPIRES, nineteen, Henry Spires,
fifteen, and Henry Slower, twenty. lost their
lives while skating at Keyport, N. j.
DEPUTY MARSHAL Tosr LILY had dss.
perate battle with three whisky psldlers in
the Chickasaw nation, Indian Territory,
while trying to arrest them. Fifty shots
were fired, and two of the peddlers wers
killed and third fatally wounded. Lily was
dangerously wounded.
I. 0. LUCAS, q young Methodist minister,
was killed near Brownsville, Texas, by fall
ing into an old well. His horsc, which iAo
was leading fell in OH top of him.
RANDOLPH CoYLE Assistant United States
District-Attorney for the District of Colum-
bia, died recently in Washington at the age
Of forty-seven years.
A STATEMENT prepared at the Treasury
Department shows that there was net in
crease of $2l 19o $40 in circulation on Janu-
ary as compared With tho circulation De-
cember /.
SECRETARY TRACY has established new
system of inspecting vessels, which is to IA
cilitato repairs.
ASSOCIATE JUSTICE BRowN, of the United
States Supreme Court, called on tho Presi.
dent and thanked him personally for his ap-
pOluUueIti III DGlis95 uiiclr IliSO Lleotl1p SiHCe
his nomination was sent to the Senate. lie
was accompanied by Chief Justice Fuller and
Associate Justice Brewer.
PROFESSOR Koch has asked permission Of
the German Government to reveal the secret
Of his lymph for consumption.
THERE has been an almost total failure of
the coffee crop in Java, which is estimated
at only about sixteen per cent. of former an
nual averages.
THE Pope has consented to act as mediator
between Belgium and Portugal in connec-
ton with the disputes as to the frontier in
Africa between the Congo Free State and
Angola.
A TERRIBLE explosion of fire damp took
place in the Trinity pit near the Polish town
Of Ostrau. Fifteen bodies have been re-
covered and twenty-four miners are miss
ing. The $50 other men in the mine escaped
by open shafts.