Passaic City record., 1891-10-03
LATER NEWS.


from office in the Department of State to
undertake the duties of Professor of Inter-
national Law in Columbia College. New
York. Mr.. Moore has filed the position Of
Third Assistant Secretary since Mr.. Bayard's
accession to the office of Secretary of State.
ACCORDING to q Census Bureau bulletin,
there are 4510 nurseries in the United States,
valued at $41, ,97S, 1885,
THE President has appointed Ex-Governor
Ell. Ormsbee, of Vermont, Land Com
missioner in Samoa, vice Henry G. Ide,
resigned.
THE receipts of the Government since
September 1 amount to s2s, 1856, 600. The
ner cash balance in the Treasury inclusive of
fractional silver and deposits in national
banks, is stated at $40, 900, 900.
BUSINESS is at a standstill in Savannah,
Ga. owing to the spreading of the wharf
laborers' strike
A FREIGHT train on the Erie Railroad
collided with passenger train near Kent,
Ohio. Three were killed They were: W.
ii. Maxwell, road foreman of engineers;
Fireman Glass and Mrs. Dewey, of Rich
land, Mich. Twenty-Five passengers were
slightly injured.
The First National Bank of Clearfield,
Penn, of which William H. Dill is Presi-
dent, closed its doors. President Dill au-
thorizes the following: An unprecedented
run, amounting to nearly $40, 1000, made it
impossible to continue business, and, there
fore. the bank suspends payment.
W. F. GOULD, of Portland, was released
from the Maine State Prison on a pardon by
the President. He had served five years of
ten years sentence for embezzlernent
while acting as cashier of the First National
Bank of Portland.
The Canadian Parliament was prorogued
by Governor General Stanley.
IT is reported that the troops in many
places in Brazil have mutinied.
The Soldiers Monument was unveiled at
Pottsville, Penn, General Horace Porter de-
hvering the Grafton.
DAMAGING frosts were reported in Gen.
trail Massachusetts, and New Hampshire.
BOTH claimants to the Governorship of
Connecticut have agreed to take their con-
troversy into the State Supreme Court for
final settlement.
EDMUND H. ScHERMERHoRN, of New
York, aged seventy-three, died at his cottage
in Newport. R. I. He was one of the wealth
lest and most eccentric of summer residents
For half dozen years he has been q recluse
He had been a summer resident there for
thirty years. Hewas worth about $50, 600,
600.
ARLIE MONROE. the elve-year-old son of
Town Treasurer Monroe, of East Providence,
r. T., fell from the belfry on the new Town
Hall, a distance of seventy-iv feet, and was
instantly killed. The fatality was the re-
suit of an act of bravado.
AGENERAL strike Of railroad coal miners
of the Pittsburg penny district was in
augurated. 1t was estimated that nearly
10000 men quit work. They are firm for the
three and half cent rate
AN epidemic of typhoid fever is raging in
Chicago, ILL.,. caused by germs in the water
from Lake Michigan.
THE Southern Interstate Exposition
opened in Raleigh, N. c. Governor Holt
Mayor Badger. the Rev. DR.. J. j. Hall and
Octavus Cohen made addresses
LELAND STANFORD, JR., UNIVERSITY, at
Palo Alto. CAL, was opened with 473 pupils
already admitted; appropriate exercises were
held.
IT showed in Montana and over a large
part of British America Nevada, CAL, had
its first snow storm of the season.
SrANDIFoRD BROTHERS, bankers, at Chris
man, ILL.,, have failed. The liabilities ore
estimated from $50, 600 to S75, 1000 The fail
! ure is due to speculation.
The monthly public debt statement is
sued by the Treasury Department shows a
reduction in the aggregate of the debt dur
ing the last month amounting to s3,-
535, ,812.
The amount of four and half per cent.
bonds held in trust by the Treasurer Of the
United States for national banks, as security
for their circulation, at the close Of business
September 3d. 1891, is s24S, 300. These bonds
are the property of fourteen banks situated
in ten different States. As they are no
longer available for the purpose stated, they
will have to be replaced with interest-bear-
ing DOnQS
AFTER orty years service, and at his own
request, Captain George H. Perkins has been
placed on the retired list Of the navy.
THE total coinage of the mints during
September was II. 4s7, 246 pieces of all kinds,
valued at So, 702, 671.5O. Gold pieces valued
s., 220, 1862 50 were coined; 10000 standard
silver dollars and 1850, 100 dimes were also
coined, the silver coinage of the month
amounting to 81, $50. 1885,
GOLD payments have been suspended for
two years in the Argentine Republic.
THE dire distress of 25,OO0,OOO Russians
unable to pay their taxes has caused q de-
ficiency of $12. 0OO, 900 in the budget.
AN attempt was made to blow up the train
upon which the Emperor Of Austria was
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