The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1891-08-20
NEWS IN NOTES.


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The Socialists convention at Brussels is
chiefly notable for its lack Of harmony.
Turkish brigands have captured y rail-
road contractor near Salopica, aud will
hold him for ransom. A workman VINO
was with him was killed.
Rye is going up aud wheat down IN
Russia. Tue export duty on the latter
has had a depressing effect on the nome
market.
A scaffold In use on a building that the
North German IioTd Steamship Com
psny is erecting mt V~ertcnheini. Tell yes
ierdny aud ten workmen were Killed aud
forty injured. "A number OF others were
thrown Into tho water and one OF them
wis drowned,
The Rev. William Augustus ST. John
Dearsly. vicar OF Wilmington and Lul-
~llpRtom. In Sussex, England, was yester-
day ordered to pay five shillinns a week
for the support of an illegitimate child
horn to Jane Levett, one Of the reverend
centlemen's nousemaids. The evidence
showed that the case was one OF delioer-
ate betrayal
THE London Ddtlu NcaUs congratulates
the United States on its good luck. Boun-
fiful crops here and short ones in europe.
il says. will enable this country 10 con-
ceal the evil effects of he Mckinley bill
for awhile
The dowager Queen Kapiolaui. OF the
Sandwich Islands, was attacked by a
stroke of paralysis August 4. but at last
accounts no alarming results had been
manifested.
Doings In New York.
Coroner MESSENGER, although in New
York, cannot be found. IL Is said that
Tamnany Hall is drumming him for al
unpaid assessment OF s.. 600
New York has some queer policemen.
Michael Carroll, Of the sanitary squad,
threw vitriol on a cripple, badly burning
him. Carroll say 1t was a ~Joke," but
suit for $1,000 damages has been begun
against him by his victim.
Mrs. Williamson, of Port Jeffer son l.
L., and her married stepdaughter eloped
$ mu .%taneously with Nathan and Charles
Freeman, brothers. Both tn men
deserted wives aud children.
Young Clara May Rawson, whose hus-
band. David II. Jaccard. was arrested at
Hillsdale for abductlng her. on complaint
of her father. Professor H.. Rawson, says
that her stepmother induced her to marry
Jeccard-
Not only Is the coming warm wave.
modified, but n cold wave Is close be-
hind 1t. TIT warm wave will do its best
tomorrow and after that will have to take
a back seat.
The New York police are still looking
for Mrs. Atherton, on whose aeeount
Herbert Charter is still locked up in
Jefferson Market.
IL WAS reported yesterday that a num-
per- of lepers are located in Brooklyn.
Sophia Landgraf, fourteen years old, of
Brooklyn, is said to be a prodigy In the
~swiudling business. Her brother Louis,
aged eleven years. is also an adept in the
art.
Elsewhere.
Chicago spectators are now giving
their attention To corn. 1t is said they
project "A big deal looking to a corner.
The will of James Russell Lowell was
yesterday fled for probate. IL gives his
- x- la.-t+.. a.d H. nhfI-.
dren. Ali his manuscripts 90 70 Charles
Eliot Norton. who is made literary execu-
tor. The tut of the will are George
Putnam and Moorield storey. The
amount Of property lett by Mr.. Lowell is
not large, for he was far from being II
rich mAn.
A terrific hurricane swept over Mar
Unique last night. Avery vessel In the
harbor AT Fort de France was destroyed.
The houses there aud at St. Pierre on the
northwestern sidepof the isiaud were des-
troyed. Many lives are reported to have
been lost.
Chilian supplies having been cut off by
the war, American flour Is now selling at
SIS a barrel.
The knights Of Pythias, who are holl-
ink an. encampment at Amsterdam, N. T.,
had q street parade II contests in Guy
Park yesterday. PoughKeepsie won the
competitive drill, which was witnessed
by three thousand people.
War news from Chill says that the
Junta's transports and war ships were to
have left Caideras on or about August Is
with ten thousand well armed men.
Their object Is TO either effect q landing
in San Antonio Bay and march by La
upon the southern stronghold OF Balma-
ceda or else attempt TO engag the forts
OF Valparaiso.
The Georgia Farmers Alliance sat
heavily on Governor Northern yesterday.
General D.. M. Gregg was nominated
for Auditor General aud Captain j. w.
Morrison for State Treasurer by the
Pennsylvania Republican Convention.
Secretary Blaine was not Endorsed as a
Presidential candidate, although a
strong effort was made to do SO.
The mystery surrounding the disap-
pearance of Marie Reinhart. who is suing
Edward Malley. is still unsolved. Two
men known to be In Malley's employ are
also missing.