The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1891-07-01
NEWS N NOTES.


arrival ia this country.
The weather IN Hamburg was. eX-
tremeiy hot yesterday, causing seven sun
strokes.
The workmeu in the Clyde Iron Snip
Yards will strike today unless tue mas
tcrs cancel the proposed July reduction
II is now said that tie late Mr.. James
McHenry. the well known flnaneier and
old time Erie Railroad litigant. whose
body WAS exhumel soD June 20 by or.fer
OF the British HoIue Secretary Matthew'S,
was insured in England aud the United
States for over S5.OO0.O0O. The insurnnce
companies. II is added, suspect that Mr..
McHeurv committed suicide by poison,
thus rendering void the Insurance policies
on his life :,
Tine strike OF the North German Lloyd
Steamship Company's stokers aud cogiers
has ended. the company partly c0ncedlhR
the strikets' demands.
The official London Gazette
that Sir William Gordon Cummings
name has been struck on the list OF
deputy lieutenants Of Elgin County, Scot
land.
ABOUT one hundred American dele
gates to the International Congregational
Council TO be held in London during the
month of July will be entertained n5 q
public breakfast I'd London on Monday,
July Is.
At the National Capital.
Chairman Calvin 5. Brice OF the Ma
IlQBdl OculOIfdtibt CotutHAttcCs a ISSUE
an address calling attention to the politi-
cal strength OF Republican clubs and
urging that similar organizations among
the Democrats be encouraged.
Professor Mark w. Harrington has
been selected to succeed Geueral Greedy
us chief OF the Weather Bureau, which
will be transferred from the War Depart
meDt to the Department OF Agriculture
New York Doings
His Royal Highness Prince George of
Greece, wno saved the life of the Caro-
wiz ia Japan. arrived in New York from
Chicago. yesterday.
The coach Independence took another
merry party over the splendid roads along
Cape Ann. IL was a great success.
a man by the name of Samuel Myers,
who is employed by the new Adirondack
and st. Lawrence Railroad Company, one
Of whose camps is three miles from the
Saranac Inn, went away from the camp
for a little stroll on last Sunday afternoon
about three O'Clock and has not besn
heard from since.
In a speech before the Bushwick Demo-
cratic Club of Brooklyn, Lieutenant Gov
erRor Joues earnestly decried the personal
ambition in the democratic party OF the
State which threatened to impair the
hances or Democratic success.
president John Hunt, of the Board OF
Education, was Kissed while making a
speech in Hammersteln's Opera House,
on West One Hundred aud Twenty-ffth
street, last night. because he insisted upon
taking up the time of commencement
exercises with a uull puff of the Boards
WORK.
The failure is announced of j. NJ. Hill
the famous theatrical manager.
Elsewhere.
White Caps are again at work In Craw-
ford County, Ind. The brutally beat u
man and young woman of eighteen on
Sunday. The victims are WIN. McGuire
and his stepdaughter.
Detective Reno has re~captured Mr.. f.
J.. Pbillo, the pretty blonde who leaped
from a train on the Chicago and North
western Railroad at Ashton last Thurs
day night while being conveyed TO Denver
by the detective. She was captured at
Aurora yesterday morning by Sheriff
Stainbrooke, of Lee County, III. She Was
badly bruised about the head one arm
was broken.
Four men were instantly killed on the
New Jersey Central Railroad last night,
near Ne~squehoning Junction. Penn, by
the explosion of u locomotive boiler.
John Rausch, a ysoung mill operative
stantly killed his sweetheart, Marie
Burcket, and Immediately Rfterward
took his own life. Rausch, VINO was
twenty-four years old, had been for some
time paying attention TO the young lady
and was insanely jealous Of her. Miss
Burcket was a very pretty girl o~feighteen
The San Rafael (Cal.) Fire Department
was called npon yesterday afternoon 70
fight Il fire which had started on the east
ern slope of Mount Tamalpsis, where
1000 acres of valuable ranch land includ-
ing many summer homes were burning.
STATE NOTES.
f. A. Bastinalli. a New York salesman,
has retained Lawyer Stone to sue Allan
tic City, n. j.. for $4,000 damages FOR
sending his wife aud twO children TO a
pest house His family was boarding IN
Atlantic City in May last, and were
taken away, he claims, In an undertak-
er's wagon to a desoiate house three
miles out of the city, on the ground tnat
hrs son had small pox. The salesman
claims that it was not small pox, and
that his family suffered terribly,
Colonel j. Granville Leach, Appraiser
of the Port of Philadelphia, has declared
his intention to enter suit against the
Va ST Jersey Railway Company because
of being forclbiy elected from the after
noon express at Se4Isle Junction on sat
urday While ON his way 20 cape MAY. ne
offered for passage a ticket dated May
Goth. which had not been used, declaring
That the ticket would allow him 20 visit
Cape May and remain ten days. Con
ductor Vandeyire refused to take the
ticket and put Colonel Leach on the
Tram. ApPtdloOA
when the train started, n went through
TO Cape May.
E eanor Browning. aged about ninety
years, died OIL Saturday at her residence
IN Camden. She was the daughter OF
Abraham and Benlah Browning, who
were among the first settlers of Camden
county, aud who bought the Market
ST eeJ ferry about 1906. She was born In
1901, in Stockton township, removed &c
Camden in 1887, and had since that time
resided in the city of Camden. She was
the eldest of thirteen children, of whom
Maurice Browning, of the firm of Brown
ing Brothers, Philadelphia, is the only
survivor. She Vas a sister OF the late
Abraham Browning. b eminent LAWYER.
II is reported that a Huuterdon count
farmer paid one hundred collars 70 a
-gli0-tongued agent Tor Il single barrel OF
a new Kind OF potatoes, receiving the
assurance that the agent would purchase
the entire crop at ten dollars Il barrel.
The potatoes were planted, Dut few OF
them came up, and the farmer IS begin
ming to realize that he is a victim.
Al Hancock's Bridge, Salem county, on
Monday, Horace Benuett Of Delaware,
twenty one years old, was drowned; lie
was cook Of the tugboat George I. Hudc
son, and seeing a mushrat swimming
near the tugboat, jumped into a small
boat with the purpose of capturing the
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