The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1891-05-12

Senate on the Newfoundland question.
BY the explosion OF an oil steamer yes
terday at Newport, Engiand, five men
were killed and thirteen Injured.
In the House OF Lords yesterday
Lord Knufsford's c0ercive bill relating to
Newfoundland passed its third reading.
Cipher kilograms received at Madrid
from Lisbon contain the Information
at present throughout Portugal
An American. in an anonymous COM
munica.ion, has donated 5000 to repair
the damage done to the Vatican by the
recent explosion Mt POzzO Pantaieo.
At the National Capital.
Under the treaty which has been ne
rotiated with Spain the American trade
with Cuba will De largely increased. The
treaty will go into effect july l.
The United States Supreme Court has
affirmed the sentences of murderers
Jugiro, Wood. Smiler and Slocum to be
electrocuted.
Peru has set the pace for the United
States government 10 follow in the mat
ter Of preserving the ~sanctitv Of the neu-
trality laws. According 10 advices re-
ceive1 at the Navy Department, another
naval has taken place between
the Gillian and insurgeut naval forces.
The Balmacedan vessel seems to nav
gotten the worse Of IL, as sne put into
Cailao for repairs.
New York Doinrs.
Ex- President Cleveland met a warm
reception from his old friends in Buffalo
on his first visit to that city since 1885.
Governor Hills friends regard the visit
of Ex-President Cleveland to Buffalo as
an effort to regain his hold on the Demo-
cratic party In Western New York, and
the Hill organ threatens a revolt.
Plans prepared by the Manhattan Ele-
waited Railway Company for rapid transit
include additional az roads throa1h
West street, over Broadway and the
Boulevard. an extension of the Sixth ave
nue. line, and some crosstown connec-
ions.
The movement to open the Metropoli-
tau Museum on Sundays meets with
large financial support.
"Frenchv No. II had an interview with
Jenalli in the Tombs, and the accused's
case was postponed by the Coroner under
protest from Ben AIf's lawyers
The New York Presbytery met q
took up the case of DIR. Briggs, accused
of heresy. An apparently test vote
showed a majority of the Presbytery to
Trains on the Manhattan Railway
Company are still run beneath the
Leggatt fire ruins in New York In opposi-
ton to Chief Bonner's orders.
There have been three apparently in
cendiary fires in a tenement house on
Myrtle avenue. Brooklyn, within a
month.
Elsewhere
George Lewis, II coiored soldier, a MILL
tary prisoner at Lansing, Kau., by one of
the cleverest series Of forgery on record,
nearly secured his release on a bogus
order from the Secretary Of War and the
possession at the same time of $4,000 on
a raised draft. 1t was pure accident which
frustrated his design
Forest fires are raging in many parts of
the country. In Michigan five villages
were entirely wiped out. In Potter conn
fy, Pa, Superintendent Badger and six
men OF Il party of seventy-fye were sur
rounded by fire and burned to death.
The United States cruiser Charleston is
pursuing the Itata in the Pacific Ocean.
The loading of the steamer Montserrat
for Chill at San Francisco will be sur
rounded with the greatest possible
amount Of vigilance The Gillian gov
has employed detectives, and
custom officers viii closely watch her.
Reports from Wheeling, w. Va, say
that a riot occurred this morning between
Italian workmen employed by Alexander
Graham. a contractor, along the line OF
the Ohio Valley Railroad. One a
was stabbed to death. two others
are dying. and a dozen more were
wounded. About fifty men were engaged
in a row. which started by one Of the
worknen striking a foreman with acrow-
bur.
STATE NOTES.
The City Council Of Atlantic City, last
nizht, by a vote of Q to s, sustained the
high license ordinance of $500, which
practically puts IN end to all agitation OF
grading licenses this year. Before going
Into session an exciting canvass was held
in the Mayors office, where the fate of
the graded ordinance was determined.
One of Mount Holly's curiosities is a
man who never lent a cent In his life,
never smoked a cigar nor used tobacco,
never drank a drop of liquor, and never
used a cuss work His name Is withheld
by request.
Ia a free fight that followed a dispute
over a baseball game at Railway on
Saturday evening, Michael Ste a was
struck on the head with a brick and his
skull fractured. He may die. William
Aiexanders, colored, was struck on the
head with a bat and badly hurt. War
rants have been issued for the arrest OF
ali who were concerned in the row.
Thirty Methodists of Plainfeld enjoyed
a bicycle run one day last week. headed
by their pastor, Rev. G. b. Mitchell.
Over half of the ministers in town are
cvciers, n the Rev. DIR. Lewis, of the
Seventh Day Baptists, recently received a
fine machine as u present from his con-
gregation.
a farm near New Egypt, belonging to
d. G. Wall, is in three different counties
and as many townships. Mr.. Wall lives
in Piumstead township, Ocean county,
aud the remainder of his farm is in New
Hanover township, Burlington county,
and Upper Freehold township, Mon
mouth county. He pays tax to Ocean
county.
Dominica Coco, the Italian who stab
bed his sister-in-law to death at Cedar
Brook, was indicted for murder today by
the Camden Grand Jury.
Freebooter George w. Bevis. well
known throughout salem county, is dead
at the g of sixty-five. He was promi-
nen in all matters of interest and enter
prise IN his county, and was popular as
an Office holder in his township.
1t is now understood that prominent
Princeton aud New York parties have
purchased a portion of the Morvan prop
erty on the westerly sid of Princeton.
and are organizing a stock compauy with
the view of establishing a large and
costly hotel. more accurately described as
a spacious country inn or club house,
where old graduates and the numerous
friends and visitors, and their families,
may find suitable entertainment and en-
lar9ed accommodations at commence
ment and other like occasions Throughout
the year when it would become the social
centre of social festivities.
Ia the b%urlesque "P~ocahontas" pre-
scented at Trenton by Princeton students
last evening. the biggest nit was made by
Sdmerby '92, as Carmencita. He was
dressed in close imitation of tine cele-
hrafad vriUplar and HIS dancing WAS "A