The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1891-04-04
NEWS IN NOTES.


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The leading London weeklies critlcise
Rudini's policy toward America. aud de-
clare that Italy is in a "cul de sac" she
cannot sit still; she cannot hxht aud she
cannot obtain q redress OF her grievances
without fighting.n No European power
or combination OF powers can ccdquer
General Booth, the leader OF the Saliva
ton Army, 10 seriously i'll his condition
is reported this morning as being critical.
Five persons were killed outright aud
several injured at a coal mine explosion
in Stagordshire, ENGLAND.
A discussion On the ACCESSIBILITY OF q
general strike at the International Labor
Congress now in session at Paris was
brought to a close amid scenes OF great
disorder.
The National CAPITAL.
At the Cabinet meeting yesterday Sec
rotary Blaine read the letter OF Premier
di Rudini on the New Orleans question.
The reply produced a feeling of relief.
Secretary of WA Proctor says that In
his opinion the torpedo service could pro-
tect New York from the heavy guns of
the Italian ironclads.
The International American Monetary
Conference, which organized at Washing
ton last January, closed its session yester-
day. The conference was unablet to agree
upon q uniform monetary system among
American nations.
News has been received at the War De
partment that tue Indians will not enlist
in the infantry under any circumstances
as they abhor walking. Nor Will they
enter the cavalry service except as scouts
and they object to binding themselves for
five years.
In New York state.
Colonel John B. Weber. Federal Emf
grafton Commissioner. yesterday prohfb-
lied the landing of nineteen Italian emil
grants under the new emigration law.
Cassie Brooks, vino claimed to De the
widow of Loring A. Robertson, has con-
fessed her part In the conspiracy and be-
TRAPPED her fellow plotters ami conspira-
tors in order to save herself.
Alphonse j.. Stephani, who shot and
killed ex.Judge Reyolds in May, 1890. was
convicted Of murder in the second degree
yesterday. which viii send aim to prison
for life.
DR.. Nagle of the New York City Health
Board reports that the grip is losing IFS
grin.
Catherine Roche, an aged woman, who
has been known for forty years as the
miser of James street, New York, was
found starving yesterday amid misery
and squalor in her dirty apartment at No.
to. the police found $500 in the room
in bills and coin, sewed up in old rags
and scattered about the floor under her
led. She also had two bank books calling
for balances amounting to 81. 762.
The Democratic majority Of the Assem-
OlI - 49,
Apportionment nav reported a bill for
rearranging the Observation-Disclosures OF
the state. 1t Is strongly opposed by the
Republicans.
East River bridge and ferry interests
continue 10 clash, and 1t Is now proposed
to put the matter of bridging the river
under control of a State commission.
Elsewhere.
Two regiments of Pennsylvania militia
are now ut the coke regions Over 200 OF
tine soldiers have been sent to Scottdale,
where the dead rioters will be buried TO-
day. and where it Is feared there Will be
trouble.
1t is said that Italians in Pennsylvania
u West Virginia are organizing aud
drilling secretly with a view Of ayenging
their c~ouutrymen who were killed atNew
Orleans anu Pittsburg.
Dominick O'Malley, them missing detec-
tive sn the Hennessy case, surrendered
himself to the Criminal Court in New
Orleans to answer to three indictments
AGAINST him. He has been secreted In
New Orleans He was at the head of a
private detective agency, and had charge
or the case for the Italians. He is accused
Of bribing the jurors.
Miss Anna Dickinson, who has been an
inmate Of me Pennsylvania State Asylum
for the insane is now a patient at DIR. +.
". Stewards Private Sanitarium at
Goshen, n. Y.
The tank of the St. Mary's reservoir in
Augiuize and Miner counties, Ohio. has
been washed away, u the region for
miles around is flooded
A number Of Young ladies and girls,
leaders in New Haven society, presented
Sopode's Greek tragedy Antigone at the
Hyperion Theatre last evening. The af-
fair is reported to have been q success.
Ernest Forbes, q colored lad of twenty
years, was hanged at Annapolis yester-
day for an assault committed upon Miss
Bertha B. Phipps in Ann Arundel county,
Md, last November. Since the trial Miss
Pnipps has become Mrs. Grlfiiths.