The Jersey City news., 1891-10-08
NEWS IN NOTES.


at Queenstown about tle same tihs as
ParuelI.
The Pose has instructed the Papal
Nuncios abroad to present an identical
note to the governments TO which bheY
are accredited on the recent slisOrders IN
Rome on account uf the oneusve aceion :
Of Il French pilgrim at the tomb Of King
Victor Etnuanuel. This note Will hold
thar these disorders ara eviience ot the
insecurity OF the Papal position IN Rome.
The fire at Stanander, spain. has Deeh
eXtInguished. Twenty-three houses were
destroyed and several persons were iu-
jured.
The ynlue Of the cutlery exports from
Sheffield ENGLAND, to tie Unltsd States
during the past quarter WIS 9s9,S7f,
against exports valued at RI4,970 for the
same quarter OF lS9O
An Intense wave of Ill feeling has
arisen in Servia owing to the spreading
mortguged his private estates to a
Russian nK in return for loan OF
100000.
The vessel that was seen on fire on
Tuesday off Newburg, Scotland, and that
was subsequently blown up. by an ex-
plosion, was the schooner Wave, bound
'front.' fron, inverness. Her crew escaped and
landed at Aberdeen.
The Moscow Gazette says that the sum
of 20, 900, 900 rubles have already been ex-
pended by the government in buying
seed corn for the peasants of the famine
stricken districts OF Russia, and that
100000 0o0 rubles will be required to fur
nisn the starving peasantry with bread.
At the National Capital.
The Second Ecumenical Methodist
Council met in the Metropolitan Meth
odist Episcopal Church at Washington
yesterday. The session was opened with
solemn religious exercises, after. which
the sermon, by the Rev. DR.. Arthur; OF
r 49, 1x1s t<xr t,n l,tr llf
Stephenson of London. Bishop Hurst.
of Washington. delivered the address OF
welcome.
1t was stated that Secretary Tracy
will, in his annual report, recommend
the building OF several 1,000-ton gun
boats, which he considers would be
of the greatest service. The unprotected
cruisers are said to be of little value AS
fighting ships, and in addition are very
expensive to maintain.
New York DoIngs.
Ex-Treasurer A. 4. Decker of the Ho-
boken Turtle Club has brought suit for
$25, 600 damages against the governors of
The club for alleged libel in accusing him
of dishonesty.
john Hunter of New South Wales
claims to be cousin of the late A. L.
Stewart, his fathers sister, he asserts,
having been Mr.. Stewards mother.
A verdict OF 81, 600 has been obtained by
the New York State authorities against
the New York, New Haven and Hartford
Railroad Company, as penalties under
the act forbidding the use of stoves in
passenger coaches.
The harbor tugboat McCaldin Bros, of
New York, was sunk yesterday off Fort
Montgomery by the tug Conqueror. Two
persons are known to be lost, the engi-
neer of the McCaldM Bros. and a boy
VINO was the guest Of one of the crew.
One of the features of the big Flower
demonstration to be held in Harlem the
night of October 10 will be parade OF
the Stuyvesant Rangers, five hundred
strong, commanded by Nicholas X;
O'C ,nnor. They will have ''hoat''
lighted by electricity.
Elsewhere.
aria Clegg, twenty two years old, was
shot last night by Harry Entwistle, her
rejected lover, as She was coming from
her work in the Massachusetts corpora
tion. Entwistle fired three shots, one OF
which passed nearly through the body.
There is another bullet in her right lung,
and the girl will probably die.
The bronze statue OF General Grant
was unveiled at Chicago in the presence
of nearly hundred thousand persons.
Mrs. Grant was among the guests.
Lieutenant Schwatka has returned to
Victoria, b. c., from his Alaska trip,
where large unknown country was ex-
plored.
ssExtensive forest fires are burning in
the timber land In Somerset county, Me.
l.uch damage will result If rain does not
fail soon. g
William r.. Brayfogle of New Albany
Ind, has been sued for 100000 by Mrs.
Bartlett A. Wilson for breach Of contract
iu land transaction.
Chief of Police Barry of Rochester, N.
H., has been charged before the Select
men with receiving money for allowing
policy men to do business in that town.
Fire destroyed the plant of the Garth
age Lumber and Woodenware Company
in Carthage, N. Y. The loss was some
thing over $4,000.
The Veteran Cavalrynen of the Army
of Northern Virginia will meet in Rich
moni, Va. October 49, for the purpose Of
inaugurating the movement to erect q
monument to General j. E. b. Stuart
The tenth annual convention of the In
Z, ternatlonal Funeral Directors Associa
tion of the United States and Canada mel
in Richmond, Va, yesterday. and were
welcomed to the city by Mayor Ellison.
A two-story frame building was de
stroyed by fire at WILDER, WASH, Sunday
aud Mrs. Wagner and her two children
who lived in an upper story, were burned
to death. Another child was seriously
burned and Is not expected to live.
Three more of the riotOus cotton pick
ers have been arrested at Manana, Ark.
Their names are John. Fields. Lee An
drews and John Davis. Andrews was
wounded in the fight between the posse
and rioters in the canebrake some days
ago.