The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1891-11-09
/ EWS IN NOTES.


Foreign.
sir John Gorst is to succeed w l..
JACKSON, the new Chief Secretary for
lie land, as Financial Secretary OF the
iieasury.
nc Pope will grant IL second audience
t. Bishop O'Dwyer of Limerick before
The Bishops ret9ra to Ireiaud.
In a duel at Paris with swords between
M. Care, dranaList, aud NJ. Haraucour,
poet, the former received a slight wound
IN the breast.
A money panic is feared in Berlin. and
TO aliay the excitement many Of
banks opened their doors TO pay OF It's
depuSltors all day Sunday.
The miners of Northern France
threaten that unless their demands are
conceded a general strike will bs ordered.
At the National Capital.
The Bureau OF American Republics at
Washington was informed thaL the Legis-
lature OF the State of Espirito SanCo,
Brazil, has passed q bill granting a Sub
SHY of SIC, 600 a year for the establish
nlent of direct steam communication
with the United St.,tes.
President Harrison Is annoyed by the
numerous applicants for appointments to
the vacant juageships and other Offices.
New York.
Those residents of New York who live
near Greenwood Cemetery nave petit
TONED the Brooklyn Board of Health to
stop the exhumlng Oh bodies aud the
burning of collins by the cemetery otiic-
iaIs, Health mas been endangered aud
property ruined. it is alleged, by these
PRACTICES.
H.. S. Adams, of Florida. who was found
u early ~asphyxiated III the Morton House,
New York, had Lurnea on The gas design
eddy. He Is an III Der OF The Florida
Legislature, aud very prominently con
nected.
The activity in the Brooklyn Navy
e Ward onntin1aSr 1'Un hundred nf tha t0O
thousand men employed there were at
work ON the Sabbath. IL is expected that
the Miantonomoh, Chicago. Atlanta, Con-
cord and Bennington will be ready for
sea in a few days.
Major Mckinley is visiting his brother
Harris Pitt was committed to Jail in
New York in default of $500 bail ON the
charge OF arson. Pitt had a store III the
basementsof a fve-story tenement Dullu-
ing, and it was testified that he had been
seen TO set the building ahre. Ills sIock
WAS worth 500 and he had insurance pol
icies for $1,000 on mis- person when ar
rested.
Elsewhere.
Captain Schley and other officers of the
Baltimore are indignant over the baseless
rumor of the sinking of their ship In Val
paraiso harbor.
Dictator Fonseca has prohibited the
d ~ " = pun ~ eAS
and forbidden tine press to comment on
his acts.
BY a frightful explosion of gas in a
mine OF the Susquehanna Coal Company,
at Nanticoke, eight miners were killed
aud a number injured. H19fes accidenr was
caused by the explosion OF a safety lamp,
which ignited the gas.
In u small riot at Morrisdale. near Phil
lipsburg, john Campbell received a slight
scalp wound, and Andrew Campbell was
shot with PROBABLE fatal effect.
Forest fires have ragged two days on the
mountain sides at Beacon Falls. near
Waterbury, Conn. shilling nearly a hun
dred horses. The fires are on young tim
Der lands aud threatened several farm
houses and the buildings at High
Rock Grove.
The Ocmulgee River In Georgia has
been opened for transportation W
the ocean and Macon. The citizens of
Macon are jubjlant. as the effect Will be
to materially lower freight rates.
1t is believed that the Rev. Cleland K.
Nelson, d. D., of South Bethlehem, Pa,
VIII be chosen Protestant Episcopal Bish-
OPP OF Georgia.