The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1891-10-23
NEWS IN NOTES.
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The Italian government Is said to have
. gotten up the Pan heon Incident in ordei
10 di-credit the Pope.
= 81 her destructive storm has visited
q { Britain
\ passenger steamer on the Voiga was
destroyed by fire near RybinsH yesterday
Seven persons perished in the LANES
The L.ohtermen's Union has e'noved
the block 1t placed upon the Cnrron anu
Hermitage wharves, ut WapDfng. Lon
don. and there now seems a lair prospect
of a definite settlement
The French cabinet Yesterday decided
on a twenty franc tariff on sailed meats.
A terrible epidemic of cholera is raging
in China. Hundreds OF persons ARE dying
OF the disease and many English add
American missionaries are dead. The
ignorant rustics, instead OF taking pre-
vrntive measures. have recourse to The
god of sickness and death ,and large sums
OF money have been subscribed TO burn
sacrifices aud to, act theatrical plays to
please the terrible deity.
News was received at Madrid from Gra-
NADIA of fresh and disastrous floods in that
province. Many houses have been wreck
ed aud q great number OF cattle lost.
Rail way travel In the province is at a
~standstfli.
Dispatches from every part of Great
Britain tell of the vastly increasing floods.
1t is feared that the damage consequent
Auuh Tue supLHtFRfu& ol HfOptfty Will AK
greQate an sum. For q distance
of thirty miles the Thames has overflow
ed its banks.
AT the National Capital.
The report of the Bureau of Statistics
of the Treasury Department shows the
fallacy OF nany of the claims of the adj
yacates of the Mckinley Tariff law.
Secretary Foster is attending to his
duties by making speeches for Mckinley.
The Comptroller OF the Currency has
notified eleven national banks that they
are illegally using AZ per cent, bonds as
a basis of circulation. the interest on
them having ceased.
New York Doings.
Sentence in the case of John Nolan, the
sailor from the man of war Boston. who
was charged with ~abducring two littls
girls-Ha1Mh Mcclure and Anpie Keat-
ing-YO suspeuded by Judge Cowling in
the Court of General Sessions yesterday.
Nolan's ship ia to sail for q three years
cruise in a few days. and Commander
Wiltse needs him on board.
IN The case of American Bell Telephone
Company against James y, Calkins for
infringement OF patents, Judge Lacombe
has rendered a decree that the complain
ants receive all the profits made by the
defendant, who d~efaulted.
An absolute divorce was granted by
Judae Andrews yesterday to DR.. John II.
4llkkiuo liOlA nIo Vic SokhCAh0 ~ Liz
gins, the actress, known on the stage as
Helen Russell.
Lille O'Keefe, who poisoned three per-
som In New York, was inspired by a de-
sire to steal without detection.
Old Cobweb Hall. in Duane street,
near Broadway, was sold at auction yes
terday for $50. coo.
Elsewhere.
Two mail pouches containing a number
of registered packages aud several hun
dred letters were stolen from a postal car
OF the Little Rock & Memphis Road. A
few hours later detectives found a man
seated in the woods, near, Little Rock.
Ark, opening the letters. He was ar
rested.
Three men, Messrs. Smith. Stone and
Brokeall. bridge contractors, tell ninety
feet with the y a of a new bridge over
the Potomac at Hancock. Nd, yesterday.
Smith aud Stone were killed and Brokeall
Injured.
Crazy Clarence Woodrow. armed with
a sword. went on the stage of the Opera
House in Wilmington. aud after fright
ening twenty supers rushed at Miss Elsie
Leslie, the actress. She stepped iuto
dressing room and ESCAPED. Woodrow
was captured.
An attempt was made at Paraguay to
overthrow the President. Juan g. Gon-
zaes. The uprising was, however,
promptly suppresseds the reyolutionists
being badly beaten by the government
troops.