The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1891-11-25
NEWS IN NOTES.
Fhrelgn.


At the great Conservative Conference
in Birmingham yesterday the labor
Question in England was practically
ehelved.
G. B. Taylor, a Liverpool merchant,
committed suicide by shooting. himself;
The election for member OF the Reichs-
tag, at Halle, Germany. has resulted IA a
victory for Herr Hartman, Che Socialist,
who defeated u prominent or the
National Liberal party.
The Archbishop of AK was yesterday
convicted OF insulting NJ. Fallieries anu
sentenced to pay a fine of 5000 francs.
The tin plate manufacturers ia wales
resolved to shut down their works for a
fortnight in December and n fortnight IN
January in order to counteract the con-
tinued tendency toward lower prices.
arising from the accumulation in STOCKS
in the United States.
John Mccormack, charged by the Met
ropolitan Lite Insurance Company OF New
York, with forgery, was brought up ut
Bow Street Station, London Counsei
Gill appeared in his behalf and applied
for a remand on the ground that the ex-
tradition papers failed to prove forgery.
The Right Honorable Edward Robert
Bulwer Lytton, first Earl Lyrton and Wis
count knebworth, &. 9. b., T. =: 81,
the British Ambassador at Paris. and
known to the literary world as owen
Meredith. died yesterday afternoon at
four O'Clock.
At the National Capital.
The Republican National Committee
finished its work at Washington n
issued a formal call for the convention OF
June Z, 1892.
It is said the National Democratic
Committee will meet in Washington. on
January 8, to select a place for holding
the party's National Convention.
New York Doings. :
Water runs ~abundantly in Brooklyn
mans, but economy in its use is earnestly
recommended. Two more bodies have
been dug out Of the debris near the brok-
en- onaui
The Brooklyn city railroad companies
with a single exception, favor the substi-
tuition of the overhead electric wire sys-
TEN for horses as a motive power.
The steamer Bellaura,. from Santos,
Brazil. reported that yellow fever was
raging at that port AND carrying OF a
great many sailors.
Mrs. Hawley Chapman, who was per-
haps fatally shot by Herbert Searvant,' the
nurse Of her insane husband, ex-Actor
Godfrey Hawley Chapman, was at one
time q ward of Colonel Robert G. Inger-
soil.
at O meeting of the directors of the
Standard Gaslight Company cx-President
Wallace @. Andrews, who Is charged
with illegally issuing and capturing
IS, OCO, 900 of common stock, offered to set.
tie On the basis of returning $1.2OO,0OO.
No settlement was reached
Governor Hill's friends declare that he
has arranged to keep control OF the next
Legislature.
Elsewhere.
Ex-Dictator Fonseca, of Brazil, Is said
to be critically i'll. Captain Yama and
ex-Minister of Wa Wandenkolk voiced
the demands for his abdication. Rio
Grande do Sui insurgents are disband-
ing.
francisco G. Concho, one of Bal
maceda's Ministers of Justice, was shot
while trying to escape through the
Cordilleras Pass, Chile. The Junta's
army and navy expenses amounte to
SIS. O00, 900.
The selection OF Minneapolis as the
place Of holding the Republican National
Convention is regarded as a victory Tor
the Blaine people.
Representative McMillin, it is said,
will withdraw from the Speakership con-
test In favor of Mr.. Mills. Of Texas, and
that Mr.. Crisp and MIR. Springer had
formed a combination.
Thomas Cooeh, Of Pootsville, will re-
cover from the wound Inflicted on Mon-
day by his brother Richard.
BY explosion of powder in a trunk yes
terday, the baggage car OF a train on the
Pennsylvania Railroad was set on fire
near Irwin. The trainmen succeeded ip
extinguishing the flames, and Michael
Cody, a Hungarian miner, the owner or
the trunk, was arrested and held to bail
in Pittsburg.
Latest dispatches from Chile indicate
that there is q considerable change In the
sentiment of the people to the United
States. The Government has passed an
appropriation of $500. 900 to pay the ex-
peuses of Chile's representation at the
Chicago Fair.