The Jersey City news., 1891-07-15
NEWS IN NOTES.



Duncan, the American who pounded
his wile's head with a rock iu Wales, was
yesterday acquitted OF murderous assault
on the ground of insanity.
The Standard Oil Company is trying to
get lands In Holland on which TO erect
storage tanks for OIL
The taking OF the Basflle was enthusi-
asticssily celebrated all over France yes
terday. President Carnot decorated three
AnieTicans-Dr. Nachtel Mr.. Van Bergen
and Mr.. Schweit, the latter delegate
from the New York Benevolent Society.
Emperor William yesterday LETT Leith,
Scotland, ON board the imperial yacht
Hohenzollern. setting sail for Norway.
At the National Capital
Opinion Is growing nc Washington that
the next nominee of the Democratic
Parry for President must be chosen from
one OF the Eastern States.
Trials of steel artnor plates at the Navy
proving grounds, near Washington,
showed a wonderful strength Ia low
carbon steel treated by the Harvey pro-
cess.
New York Doings.
The 102d anniversary of the fall of the
Bastile was celebrated by the French
residents Of the metropolis.
Judge Wallace, OF the United States
Supreme Court, rendered a decision In
favor of the Edison Electric Light Com
pany In It's suit against tn. United States
Electric Lighting Company. ordering an
injunction and accounting Tne Edison
Company claims that the decision gives
tia monopoly In the manufacture OF In
candesceDt lamps.
Incendiaries yesterday att empted to
burn the Prague Studio Building. Mt
Broadway and Forty-fourth street. but
the firemen put out the flames before
much damage was done.
One hundred laborers employed at the
Public Stores quit work because twelve
of their companions had been suspended
for refusing to work on trucks arriving
after the usual hour of closing.
Eugene G. L. Koch, y well dressed Ger
man, was arrested In Harlem for forgery.
II is said that he has flooded New York,
Brooklyn, New Jersey and Staten Island
with bogus checks. He had letter from
Cardinal Gibbons and tried 10 victimize
the Astors.
Gustav Blum, wholesale jeweIier,
committed suicide yesterday at the Grand
Union Hotel, where he had been for days
nerving himself to end business worry
with n bullet.
Elsewhere.
Disputes among the delegates TO the
Stote Democratic Convention at Cleve-
land. o., resulted in a street fight be
tween members of the Campbell and Neal
factions. in which pistol shots were ex-
changed aud several people hurt.
An italian heroine has been found in
Hazleton. Pa, where one OF gang OF
railroad constructors whose effeminate
appearance had long aroused ths sus-
picioas of his companions, was finally
recognized by newly-ianded Italian as
the daughter of neighbor in Italy. The
young woman burst into tears and said
she took mp mans work to earn money
bring her father and mother to this coun-
trY. She could not earn enough when
dressed as a woman. She was allowed to
continue her work.
Hailstones ton inches in circumference
fell twelve miles north of Aberdeen, SD.
on Monday night. Damage was done to
the buildings.
Robbers near Joshua, Texas. yesterday
morning demanded money from the wife
of George Newberry.aged sixty.five years,
and on her saying she had none. took her
from her house and cut her throat. She
will die. Her three children were mur-
dered with butcher knife, the robbers
being enraged at their failure to get
money.