The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1891-04-24
NEWS In NOTES.
Foreign.

Foreign
a terrific explosion in Rome yesterday
of more than two hundred and fifty tons
of ~gunpowder destroyed many buildings,
public and private, killed seven persons
and injured about TWO hundred.
Sir William Whiteway u the other
Newfoundland delegates appeared before
the House of Lords aud offered the propo-
sition of the islanders for the settlement
of existing questions.
Lord Salisbury IS not satisfied with
P~ortugal's explanations of recent aggres-
sions IN Africa, and haSSent men-of-war
TO the Pungeve River.
The Cnilfan Insurgents have again de-
feated the government troops Tue In
surgents that they will bonn
bard Valparaiso.
Mr.. Goschen, Chancellor of the Elk
%cheqaer, laid MS budget before Parliu-
menE yesterday. The substance Of the
financial statement is that nearly ninety
aud q half millions will be required to
meet this years expenditure, a great in
crease over last year.
In New York State.
Miss Gabrielle Greeley. daughter of the
late Horace Greeley, was married yester-
day morning at Pleasantville, Weschester
county, to the Rev. Frank Montrose
Ciendennin. rector Of st. Peters. West
Chester village.
Deputy Health Ofncer E. C. Skinners,
of New York Harbor ~quarantined the
United States and Brazil mail steamship
Advance because seven OF her crew had
suffered with yellow fever on the voyage.
john Callahan. a iaborer employed by
the Consolidated Gas Company, in exca-
waiting for a main in Twenty-third street.
near Third avenue, in New York, fell
through q manhole at that place and was
rarried into the sewer. His body has not
been recovered.
The New York State Farmers Alliance
~1..-iafa1 ifa ornanfzarfOu nj HoruallC-
vile.
A strike of Italian stone masons in
Morrisania led to riotous demonstrations
yesterday. The mon was dispersed by the
police reserves.
at dinner Frank p. Blair the newly APP
polluted Minister to China in his Fifth
avenue home.
At tho National Capital.
Alarming stories OF the depleted condi-
ton of the National Treasury are reported
this morning. It is said that the deDart-
linent officials are making desperate efforts
to meet the next quarterly pension pay
ments. It Is also said that the gold re.
serve fund will have to be ~encroached
upon.
The Havermeyer Sugar Refinery Com
pany Is to be prosecuted for falling 70
answer census questions.
Three parties Will soon be In the neld
engaged in the work Of q preliminary
survey for the proposed Intercontinental
American Railway
The immigrant inspector at Newport,
Vt, reports that French Canadian immi.
grants are passing there at the rate of
four hundred a day en- route to New Eng
l nd manufacturing towns, many Of them
under implied contracts to labor.
Elsewhere.
Another riot occurred at Uniontown,
Pa. caused by evfctions of the strikers.
Sheriff Mccormick was badly hurt by a
Hungarian woman, and he had to SHOOT
his ASSISTANTS to save his own life.
Many theories are advanced concerning
the death of Tailor Tobin at Franklin
Pa. the general belief being that he was
killed by a member of his own family.
The Rev. J. Nelson Lewis OF the First
Baptist Church, of Maiden. Mass. who
has received a salary OF $500 a year has
been svamped with debts. It Is alleged
that be was a frequenter Of race tracks.
Mrs. James G. Blaine. Jr., has settled
10 Sioux Falls, s. D.. for tine purpose Of
procuring a divorce from her husband
Philip Louis Moeu whose mysterious re-
iation with the notorious Doc" Wilson
has aroused public curiosity for seyera
years died yesterday at his home in Wor-
cester, Mass. His secret died with him.
The President was heartily wsinnnnnd