The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1891-12-22
NEWS IN NOTES.


Foreign.
On q contractor at .Ferrara, italy,
ceasing the construction OF some large
works. throwing u number OF people out
of employment, the laborers surrounded
his house and threatened to burn it. The
police were unable to dispense Tnem. but
they melted AVA on the appearance OF
troops, VINO were hurriedly sent for.
The old boundaries of Vienna have
been abolished, with the result that the
city now includes a number of SECTIONS
which were previously cltssed as suburbs.
According to the new zollvereinR. com
mence regulations duties will be collected
on only nine ont OF fifty-two articles
classed as necessaries of life.
Lord Howard de Walden has begun
proceedings in London for a divorce from
his wife. Lady Howard de Walden has
instituted a counter suit against her hus-
band for divorce.
A proposal to confer the freedom OF the
city of Liverpool upon Mr.. Gladstone was
made in the City Council. but fell through
owing to the absence of a quorum.
Advices received from Yokohoma state
that the Russian Minister has recently
received an anonymous threat to burn
down the Legation. The necessary pro-
lection has been promised the Legation
for some time.
The Catholic mission at Brussels has
received Chinese advices that 900 native
Christians were massacred during the
recent disturbances in Northern China.
The Belgians all escaped.
At the National Capital.
Speaker Crisp has practically completed
his committee list and will be ready to
announce it tomorrow. There may oe II
few changes, out enough is already
known of the composition Of many COM
mittees to speak of them with definite
ness. The Ways and Means Committee
will contain four earnest tariff re-
formers.
The reports that American Ministers to
foreign courts are about to resign is not
credited at the State Department. Mr..
Reid. at Paris is now nard at work upon
II reciprocity Treaty with France; Mr..
Phelps. at Berlin is enjoying German
life. and Mr.. Smith, at st. Petersburg,
will be requested to remain at least until
affairs in Eastern Europe are in a more
settled condition.
The superintendent of the Western
Union Telegraph Company in Washing
ton was peculiarly active In securing the
appointment of the telegraph operotor at
the House of Representatives, and al in
v~estigation may follow.
The body OF Senator Plumb was taken
to Emporia, Kas., yesterday attended by
the Senate Sergeant-at-Arms and five
members of each House. The ceremonies
in the Senate chamber were attended by
the President and his Cabinet. the
ulplUtIdtlC UOuy duu tu0 I1OuSe VI pcpfc~
senatives. After Mr.. Peffer's announce
ment of mis- colleagues death the Senate
adjourned until today.
New York Doings.
Secretary Rusk's inspectors discovered
an abattoir on Newton Creek, Long Is
land, where broken down aud diseased
horses were killed, their flesh corned and
SHIPPED abroad for food. A cargo of the
meat has been seized aud destroyed, and
thu n1ppp will ba nrOkan nm .NFr
In un interview in Few York, Mr.. SUIT
ton, the art dealer, stated in regard to
published statements of the painter
Verestchagin at the sale and resale to
France of Millet's Angelus, that the
transaction was perfectly bona fide in
every respect.
Reliable information was received in
New York to the effect that William
Henry Hurlbur1 was in Mexico. His
reason for going to that country was un-
doutteuly the fact that the extradition
treaties between England and Mexico do
rot cover his alleged offense.
The old friends and p%arishioners of the
late Rev. DR.. Ferdinand C. Ever have
been scandalized by the repor that his
seven-year-old granddaughter is to go Oh
the stage as a fancy dancer.
Martin Lyons, father of Robert Lyons.
who was murdered on Thanksgiving eve
in his butcher shop in Cherry street,
died last night in St. Francis Hospital
of pneumonia.
Policeman John J.. Gallagher. who ar
rested "Aunry" Mary Kennedy. the
newswoman ON the Herald steps. n
treated her brutally, was found guilty of
assault in the third degree and remand
ed to the Tombs for sentence.
The Brooklyn New England Society
celebrated Forefathers' Day by a ban
uuet, at which ex-President Grove Cleve-
land, the chief speaker of the evening,
,rva rho rit,fiaa nf A m nrtnuntSfN Nn
Messrs. Graham and Miller seem to be
neck and neck for the PittsburgC Collector
ship. Both are confident of being ap-
pointed. Collector Warmcastle, who
still nominally holds the office, had an in
terview with commissioner Mason, but
departed with less hope han ever.
Miss Louie Lee Bayard, daughter of ex-
Secretary of State. Thomas +. Bavard,
and Or. Frank Angel, of New York,
were quietly married at Delamore Place.
ut Wilmington. the home of Mr.. Bayard.