The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1891-10-26
NEWS IN NOTES.


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Socialist republic.
The new frcuch tariff act will apply q
minimum tariff 10 Belgium, Holland,
Switzerland, Spain, Portugal, Sweden,
Great Britain, Russia, Mexico and TurT
Key. The United Stntes, Italy and Rou-
mnnia are made subject 70 4
tariff.
Adyices from Damascus state that
there were thirty cases Of cholera and nj
teen deaths from the disease In that city
Cn the 10Th lust.
The railway congress In session in Paris
has resolved that Il generul strike is pos
sible only on ii vote Of two-ihirds OF those
members specially Summoned TO the
Congress.
Excessive foods are ravaging certain
Departments IN France ana causing AZ
great deal of damage. AT one point Il
land slide occurred which caused great
CONSERVATION along the country side.
AT the National Capital.
President Harrison is hopefui Of secur-
inr International action Oh the free coin
q OF silver. If Congress goes slow in the
matter at the coming session.
1t was authoratlvely announced in
Washington that DR.. Won Hollehen, Ger
man Minister to japan. had been APP
pointed Minister to the United States 10
succeed the late Count Alco-Valley.
Senator Blackburn, i'll an interview in
Washington, gave his attitude toward
Mr.. Cleveland and the Democratic noIn-
nation for the Presidency. He thought
that neither the ex- President nor Cover
nor Hill could carry New York State, and
that 1t might be good policy to nominate
a Western man.
New York DoinEs.
Detectives yesterday arrested Frank
Brooks aud Terence Murphy, LEADERS of
gangs of New York green goods men. and
secured quantities of evidence against
them.
Mrs. Adeline Hoyel. who was landed at
the Barge Office from the steamship
Vera yesterday with Der daughter
Caroline, nine years old, admitted that
she ran away from her husband and their
two sons in Schieswig, Germany. She
was detained.
As soon as a crew can be got for the
armor-clad monitor Miantonomoh, she
will be put in commission-probably this
week.
Elsewhere.
job Briody, an old farmer, was found
on the Naugatuck turnpike badly beaten
Il dying. Before he died he said he
had been attacked by a well dressed
stranger who had ridden with him along
the turnpike.
Chile will be given unreasonable time to
comply with our demand for reparation
on account of the outrage ut Valparaiso
on the sailors from the Baltimore,
Robert d. Morton, Il railroad engineer,
died 10 terrible agony at Columbia. S. c.,
He was bitten by u mad dog on August q,
and was Immediately sent 10 the Pasteur
Institute in New York. where he was un-
der treatment for fifteen days. being then
discharged as cured. Since that time ne
has continued to attend to his duties un-
til attacked with the malady on Friday
last.
Severe storms ragged in the vicinity of
Moncton. N. b.. doing considerable dam
age to property. Nearly a foot Of snow
fell along the 1ine of the Inter-Colon NAL
Railway. The bark Mystad went ashore
at Grand Metis.
STATE NOTES.
The reflection in the sky from the cleo
tric lights in Philadelphia can be plainly
Seen in Lambertvjlle.
George A. Rea OF Pennington exhibits
an apple measuring fifteen inches in cir
conference and weighing a pound and a
half.
In William Parry's Pomona nursery
there is an orchard of one thousand
Kelffer pear trees, which have produced
ten Thousand baskets of fruit this sea-
son.
Richard Waddington, a retired farmer
who resides IN Salem, says he has never
used a peck of coal in his house in his
life. He has always burned wood.
There is excitement in Atlantic county
over u report that five deer have been
killed there recently. The lawful season
for shooting deer does not arrive until
November 1.
A lively little alligator. about twelve
inchesslong. is OH exhibition at Railway.
It was taken from the Railway River by
William Wilson, and the people are Won
dering how the reptile got into the river.
James r. Smltn, Supervisor Division
B, Pennsylvania Railroad, wit head
quarters at New Brunswick, has been
awarded the first prize for the best line
aud surface between Jersey City and
Pittsburg. This is the tenth time chat
the prize has been won by flames r."
The insurance on the Speer warehouse,
at Passaic City. which was burned on
Tuesday morning, will only amount to
about SEC, 600.
A plush manufacturing firm in Ger
many has offered to remove its machin-
cry to Hackettstown and engage in bust
ness there If the citizens will put up a
building costing $4,000, n give them
six years to pay it in, the people TO retain
a mortgage on the property until 1t is
paid. OF the amount needed $1,000 has
been pledged.
Martin Obernauer, a well digger of
Carlstadt, is lying seriously injured be-
cause he went to the bottom of a well he
was digging, blew sparks out of a dull
fuse and then waited until the blast went
off aud nearly killed him. The sight of
one eye was Q6SLrOyeu, nlS lace was MADE
mass of bruises, and his right arm wa
fractured. He was also injured inter-
nally, but may recover
A rumor is current at Mays Landing
that the Reading Railroad intends build
ing a branch railroad from their main
Philadeiphia INF Atlantic City line to
Mays Landing.
The grocers of Somerville have organ
izeai a mutual protection against bad
debtors. Seyenty-two of the local dealers
ore III it The Bound Brook grocers have
also organized.
At the golden wedding of Mr.. and Mrs.
Jacob C.. Carkhuff, which was celebrated
at their residence near Flemington, the
male guests smoked homemade cigars a
quarter of a century old.
CITY NOTES.
Flames did SIS damage last night In the
apartments OF Eleanor Miller, No. 81
Belmont avenue. The cause was an over
heated range.
Patrick Meehnn, sixty years old, of No.
162 Twelfth street, was admitted to the
City Hospital Saturday night suffering
from injuries inflicted by Frank Meehan,
of No. 205 Fourteenth street. At mid
night Meehan was sent to the hospital
also suffering from alcoholism.
The Independent Republican Club will
hold its first meeting at Grand and Hen
derson streets tonight.
The second anniversary OF the John
Knox Mission, on Grand street, was APP
~propriately celebrated last evening. Pas
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