The Jersey City news., 1891-09-22
NEWS IN NOTES.


Foreign.
A hurricane added to the damage done
by the recent foods In the sorely stricken
town of Consuegra, Spain. Many OF the
houses previously undermined or weak
ened by the foods. went down henea;
the force of the wind. The announce
has broken out 1T Badajos, capital OF the
province of that name, adds to the gene
raj feeling of gloom. Already there are
more than 1900 severe cases in that CITY.
The spectators at bull nght In Mar
settles, becoming displeased at the man
usr In which the performance WAS con-
ducted. broke into the arena, chased the
toreadors aud bulls out OF IL, tore down
the seats, piled them in heaps and set IRE
TO Tie piled furniture. A strong force OF
gendarmes cleared the circus building CT
the crowd and made way for the dremen
to ouench the flames.
The International Labor Congress for
the consideration OF Questions of acoi-
dents to workmen, liability therefor, and
the best methods or preventing them,
opened In Berpe, Swii zerlaud. OF the 100
delegates gpresent four are Americans
The Swiss Minister of Foreign Affairs
addressed the convention and welc0 med
the delegates.
robbed u few days ago of several pack
ages Of bills amounting to about mil
lion dollars. The money came from
branch banks aud was duly received. but
was carelessly left IN an apartment open
to the street while the manager went
into an adjoining apartment to verify an
account sneak thieves did the rest.
A terrible storm passed over England
yesterday. Much damage was dOne in
the vicinity of the Tweed and number
of vessels were wrecked. Only one life
was lost.
AT the National Capital.
IL is cIairned that the suicide of ex-
President Balmaceda, of Chile. ut Santi-
ago, is confirmed by despatch said to
have been received from Minister Egan,
in New York. but the State Department.
is still uuinformej as to the truth Of the
cablegram.
The Treasury Department has prepared
a statement which shows that the Gus
toms receipts ut the port of New York,
for the first twenty days OF September,
1901. have fallen off nearly 900 as
compared with the corresponding days of
New York for the period of September,
1891, named aggregate S6,S3l.751.
New York.
The 23oth anniversary of the purchase
of the town site OF MamaronecK, West
chester county, from the Indians, was
celebrated yesterday by firenen's pa
rade, speeches and free dinner.
Samuel w. Thornton and his sister-tn-
law, supposed to have been drowned at
Coney Island a month ago, are safe in
jacksonville, Fla. They say they were
carried out by the tide. hoated on a log
and were picked up by Spanish bark.
The Republican State Committee of
headquarters at the Fifth Avenue Hetel,
aud everything is now ready for busi-
hess
County Democracy delegates to the
New York State Convention met in the
Cooper Union yesterday and denounced
the methods employed bv Tammany to
secure the nomination of Roswell p,
The marriage of Clinton ]. Edgerly. the
divorced husband of Rose Coghlan, to
Miss Barker, was opposed by her father,
George w. Barker, but approved by his
wife. AS result OF this disagreement
Mr. aud Mrs. Barker have separated.
Five persons, three meu, u woman and
a caild, were drowned ny che capsziDg of
a row boat on the Hudson, near Low
Point.
A wicked Staten Island politician was
arraixnel before Justice Connell at Cliff
Ton Yesterday for larceny When the
Justice held him in $500 bail, the pris-
ouer, who was once the leader OF Rich
lnond county, sprang to his feet and
known this. you never would b ave sat in
this case"
Elsewhere.
General Ruiz Sandoval Is leading an
army OF revoluJionists through the nor
thern part of Mexico and has caused
great excitement IN the Mexican States.
1t is rumored that Caterina Garza, the
revolutionist who Is attempting to In
wade Mexico, has been captured and
killed.
James Horan and ten Polanders, who
were at work in the Cayuga Mine, near
fall of rocks and earth, caused by an
explosion.
The opening of the Sac ana Fox Indian
lands to settlement has attracted great
crowd of boomers, VINO are prepared to
rush In at noon today. The gamblers.
cowboys and whisky men are reapinR u
harvest at Guthrie, where great excite
ment prevails and trouble ts feared.
especially with the negroes, who desire
to colonize.
Mrs Dell Rothburn. the wealthy widow
of G.. H. Rothburp, of Buffalo, N. Y, and
friend of ex-Preaident Cleveland, has
n,ysterlously disappeared from the house
of DR. William H. Buck. Ia Chicago.
Alien laborers who live in Canada and
have been working on the New York
Central Railroad have been discharged bs
the company.
Advises from British Columbia place
the total catch OF seal taken in Bering
Sea this season by Canadian vessels aJ
1900, against $4,000 sking last year. Sir
Julian Pauncefote has brought himself
into ridicule here In protesting to the
State Department at Washington against