The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1891-10-15
NEWS IN NOTES.
Toraien.

HOfeiEus
One OF the Roman cardinals states that
che Italian Government instigated the
recent ant:-pilgrim riots.
Henry Labouchere, i'll a newspaper
article, said hat in recent years Parnell
suspected O'Shea of being the cause of all
his troubles, and believed that he aud not
Pigott was the author of the celebrated
forgeries.
Herr Emil Boas was appointed general
manager of the Hamburg-American
Steamship Line in the United States by
the directors in Hamburg. Herr Boas
will leave for New York on the steamer
Columbia, which sails on October IL.
At the National Capital.
The Methodist Ecumenical Conference
at Washington discussed the subject of
education at it's sessions. In
the morning the primary or
early Draining given to children was
schools r~eceived-the attention, and IL the
evening university work was dilated up
on. The English delegates complaiued of
the s~ectarlan influence in their schools.
1t is said at the State Department that
the report from Shanghai that the foreign
Ministers have closed negotiations with
the Chinese Government cannot be true.
SO far us the representative of this Gov
eminent is concerned, for the reason that
no Instructions of that character have
been issued by the President.
Secretary Rusk informed a committee
of the New York Stock Exchange. who
called on him at Washington, hat pork
products which were stamped at arblt-
tors in the West could be opened aud re-
examined at the port of shipment.
New York Doings.
Henry Sanford assumed charge in New
York yesterday as President OF Adams
Express Company, in place OF John Hoey,
who was removed.
The Anchor line steamer City of Rome
was reported to have foundered off New
foundl md. 1t is now Thought she Is the
cattle steamer Durham City.
Kings county Democrats ratified with
great enthusiasm the State and local can
didates at a big mass meeting in the
Brooklyn Rink. Ex-President Grover
Cleveland presided.
Michael Carroll, whose livery stable was
burned last November. was placed on
trial in the Court of General Sessions for
surance company.
Elsewhere.
A Baltimore and Ohio fast express
train jumped the track near Hicksville.
Ohio, two persons being killed and sew
eral others severely injured.
Mrs. Fannie NJ. Fadaen, an aged white
woman, formerly a resident Of Chestnut
Hill, was murdered in her bed at Cape
Charles, Va, by a Polish Jew named
Duer. The murderer confessed.
The mystery that surrounded the fate OF
Robert Ray Hamilton, who was reported
to have been drowned in Snake River,
Wyoming, has been cleared up. The
body of the drowned man was disinterred
and positively identified as that OF
Robert Ray Hamilton, and a Coroner's
jury heard the testimony and rendered a
verdict in accordance with the facts.
Eleven persons were injured, three
probably fatally, at St. Paul. by the ex'
plosion of an old engine which they were
testing after effectlng some repairs.
Fred HENSON, an escaped negro convlc
from the Columbia, S. c., Penitentiarv,
met in the woods the woman whom he
was charged with assaulting aud gave
her the choice of having her throat cut or
having her ears cut off. She preferred
the latter and Kenpson promptly per-
formed the operation.
Sixty-eight of the crew OF the Despatch
have arrived in Philadelphia. Lieutenant
Cowles and foul of his officers and men
are still on Assateague Island. The Yam
tic has arrived at Norfolk andthe Atlanta
at Delaware Break water.
County Auditor of Washington county,
Ind, was arrested, with two ccnfederates,
on the charge of setting fire to the Court
House, which was burned last week in
order to destroy the records. The two
men have acknowledged their guilt and
incriminated the Auditor, whose books
are now being examined by experts.
The Pennsylvania Senate devoted yes
terday to the arrangement of the prelim-
inaries of its proposed investigation OF
the frauds of Slate officers.