The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1891-11-04
NEWS IN NOTES.
Foreign.

A despatch from Yokohama says that
according to an official estimate 10000
persons were killed bv the recent earth
quake. Five thousand were injured and
$4,000 houses were destroyed. No Euro
peans were killed.
Owing to the fact that the employees OF
two firms of bootmakers are striking, all
the London bootmHkers have agrt ed to
declare u lockout. As Il result 5000 bout
makers were locked out today and 10000
will ultimately be treated n the same
manner.
Mr.. Redmond, in a speech at Cork yes
terday. deuoun need the extensive intimi-
dation OF the people by the priests. He
also demanded that Mr.. O,Brien publish
the Boulogne documents In full.
At the National Capital.
The latest information from Chile is
not reassuring OF an amicable settlement
OF the trouble between the two countries.
The administration is following a course
of great secrecy us to our own action in
the matter, giving out only such reports
as come from Egan or Schley as TO the
action of the Chileans.
Senior Dom Pedro Montt, the Chilean
Minister, has gone to New Orleans, to be
absent a week. He declined to say any
thing respecting his visit to the State and
Navy DEPARTMENTS. but expresses the be-
lief that matters were progressing salts
factorily, and again deprecated the pub
llCAblOH VI bcnadtlObdl a4Q blOuDi0-OlOCQ-
ing stories.
New York Doings.
A violent clubbing of..Anatasios Colom-
betty, a Greek. by a New York policeman
yesterday aroused SO much Indignation
among the Grecian colony that ST., 900 was
raised to bring a civil uit for damages.
Mgr. Preston was in uncommonly good
spirits yesterday afternoon and talked
more freely and received more callers
that at any time since his illness, He
took considerable nourishment during
the day.
It is semi-oficlally announced that the
Mayor will tomorrow appoint Mr.. Willis
Holly as his private secretary in place oil
William M. Speer. resigned.
Betting closed last night with the odds
on Flower.
Elsewhere.
The free miners attacked the stockades
at Oliver Springs, Tenn. and released
over two nundre convict miners.
Executors of Ex-Governor Page, of Yer
mont, are suing the Mutual Reserve
Fund Life Association for $4,000, the
amount of two policies on Pages life,
which the association refuse to pay, al
leging Misrepresentation.
The electors of the conservative party
lave issued a notice declaring that Jorge
Montt. the Admiral of the Congressional
fleet, is their unanimous choice for Presi-
0SAt VI SAtlC i u at6O u CAOlOC VI
the Liberals. so that his election will be
unanimous IL he accepts.
Two trains collided OF a bridge over the
Dan River, Virginia, Yesterday. and one
of them went into the river. Strange to
say, no one was killed. though several
persons were injured.
Que of the most disastrous forest fires
ever known in st. Louis county, Mo, has
been raging for the past three days in the
western portion of the county. ThoIs-
ands OF dollars worth of valuable prop
qerty has been destroyed, and unless there
is rain within a few days the loss will
reach enormous figures.
STATE NOTES.
Bridgeton has erected 200 new buildings
during the past year. 1t will also hold
its second annual chrysanthemum show
in a fortnight.
NJ. Z. CARL has been appointed post
master at South Dennis. Cape May
Wilmer Cooper, living near Mickleton,
had his right hand torn of in a corn
nusker on Friday.
W. J.. Mcconnell, the temperance ad-
vocate, got $50 names on a pledge at
Washington, but received little financial
assistance.
The addition to the State Home for
Feeble Minded Women is nearing COM
pletion at Vinelapd. 1t will cost SIC, 900.
Even with the addition there will be u
lack of room.
Frederick G. Myers, of Center square,
Gloucester county, fell down cellar on
Friday and broke his arm. He was sew
enty years of age, and in u few hours
lockjaw set in, causing his death.
Camden will have another handsome
bank building. Inc recently organized
Central Trust Company has purchased a
site at the northeast corner of Fourth and
Federal streets for SIS. QUO.
Th Controller of the Currency has de-
clared a second dividend of twenty per
cent. in favor Of the creditors of the
Gloucester City National Bank of
Gloucester, making in all forty per cent.
on the claims proved, amounting to
$40, $50. 05.
Levi J. Howell s. Son, cider manufac-
turers at Howard. Warren county, are
losers to the extent of several hundred
dollars by the explosion of a vat contain
100 barrels of choice vinegar which had
been sold and was awaiting shipment.
The Morris county Grand Jury has
made a presentment against the town.
ship committee of Jefferson. for using
their w teams for work on the roads.
II was done In ignorance OF the law, bat
the courts consider that every man should
know the law.
Peter Clawson and his wife were ar
rested at New Brunswick charged with
having set fire to the house at PiscaJ-
awaytown occupied by them mi owned
by Luther Boice. The Ciawsons had
been notified to vacate because OF nom
payment of rent.
The Daily Enterprise, of Burlington,
which was Iormerly owned and edited by
James r. Logan, has been leased by
Lewis A. Craft, the former business
manager. who will continue the publica-
tion of the paper. 1t will be conducted
as a Republican journal, as at present.
Hannah Meyer. the burly eolored wife
of Il white man in Hackensack, beat her
eleven-year-oid son into insensibility on
Friuay morning. The boy was tied bv a
rope around HIS neck to a cart wheel.
When the m piled the whip the
boy tried to pull away, the moose slipped
and he fell to the ground almost
strangled. The woman helped him to
his feet only to fog him again, but Tax
Collector Jacob II. Faulk and Frank Van
Hook, who saw the beating. compelled
her to desist. Several of the n%eighbors
also saw The whipping n complained to
Justice Heath about its cruelty. but eX-
press ed a fear that they would suffer
harm If they swore out d warrant for the
woman's arrest.
City Attorney Connolly and Lawyer r.
LindAbury made on Saturday, a severe
at ack in the Union County Court on
Warden Dodd, OF tire County JAN, whom
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