The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1891-05-11
NEWS In NOTES.



It Is reported In Paris that Russia has
decided not TO withdraw her gold deposits
from Paris, London and Berlin.
The temporary suspension OF the decree
for expelling the jews from Russia Is be-
lieved to be the prelude to u permanent
revocation Of the decree.
The census in France shows an Increase
in population Of 10000 yearly. as com-
pared with an increase OF $4,000 yearly 10
Germany.
Peace has been established in Honduras
and the revolutionary movement started
at Amapala by Domingo Visquez is at an
end.
Mr.. Gladstone writes that he is not
prepared to say what steps should be
taken in the matter of the American
Copyright act, but whether in relation TO
the interests OF labor, the dignity OF
authorship OF tine nations interests. he
regards the act as highly unsatisfactory.
There is evidences that poverty will
drive the Belgian miners now on strike
to resume WORK. The governments hopes
to bring about an end to the strike by
effectual measures to prevent intimida-
fion.
At the National Capital.
The papers Of General George Pomutz.
r brave Union soldier and ex-Consul Gen
eral to st. Petersburg, who died ten years
ago, and was buried In Potter's Field.
have been discovered at Washington aud
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A movement Is said to be on foot 10 the
various departments OF the government
located In Washington to establish a pen
sion scheme for the benefit of those clerks
who, through advanced age or physical
disability, incurred by their service for
the government. become unable to attend
to their duties.
1t is believed at Washington that orders
have been sent to Admiral Brown, COM
manding the Pacific station, and to Ad-
miral Mccain, commanding the ships of
the South Pacific station, 70 capture the
ltata, by force, If necessary, and taxi her
10 the first American port.
New York Doings.
The Sunday opening OF the Metropoli-
tan Museum of Art will be ~favorably re-
ported upon by the Board OF Trustees.
Colonel Hain defed the police By run
ming trains on the Sixth avenue road past
the nine story building OF Leggett s. Com
pany, made dangerous by fire. A portion
of the tower of the structure fell on the
!" road. The fire caused 100000 dam
age.
Herman Fuss, found suffering from a
contagious disease in Battery Park, ex-
perienced great difficulty In securing
medical treatment.
An Italian boarded a Fordham horse car
yesterday and rudely jostied an aged
gentleman. When demonstrated with he
pulled out a big revolver and caused a
panic in the car. He was arrested and
locked up together with two companions.
who attempted TO rescue him while on
his way to the police station.
Joseph Travis, a cooper, living at No.
273 North Sixth street, Brooklyn, was
stabbed in the abdomen D dangerously
wounded yesterday afternoon by his
rother-in-l law, James Mcdonald. Mrs.
Mcdonald was quarrelling with her son
and Travis attempted to Interfere. when
Mcdonald objected and stabbed him.
One OF the most extraordinary cases in
medical annals, is that of Miss Tollesen,
q student at q leading institution ia
Memphis, Tenn. The young lady was at
tackled with tonsilitis a few days ago. her
temperature rising to LOG aud then to los,
her death being momentarily expected,
but, to the utter CONSERVATION of the at
tending physicians, her temperature con-
tinued to rise steadily to 15o Fahrenheit.
breaking the record, also several ther-
mometers, which could not record any
higher. Strangest of all is the fact that
the young lady is improving and may re-
cover.
The Presidential party entered the state
of Colorado, Saturday night. spent
Sunday quietly at Glenwood Springs.
The President, Postmaster General Wan
amaker and Mrs. Mckee, attended di-
vine service at the Presbyterian Church.
E Stewart, a coal miner, of Camp Hill,
in Collier Township, Penn, threw a
lighted lamp at his wife, Saturday even
ing, and. the lamp exploding, she was SO
badly burned that she died yesterday.
Stewart is said to nave been on aspree for
eight weeks, off and on.
Passengers on the Lake Shore limited
east bound last night, shortly after leav-
i~nglEikhart, Mo-, were startled by three
sharp reports in rapid succession and w
bullets struck the train, One shattered a
car window, and another imbedded itself
in the frame work above the window.
The occupants of the section where the
shots struck were f. II. Winston, of Chi
cago, and Miss Winston. The glass fell
in pieces in Miss Winston's lap.