Passaic City record., 1892-05-14
LATER NEWS.

Castine, at the Bath Mel Iron Works. The
vessel was gaily decorated with bunting, and
made q satisfactory launch. Miss Hichborp,
daughter of the Naval Constructor. broke
the bottle and named the vessel.
JOSEF M. SCHooLEy, the senior of the
four Police Captains of Philadelphia, Penn,
at the City Hall, went to the Captains
room, where he locked the door and shot
himself dead with ball from h. revolver.
No other cause can be assigned for tho sui
eide than melancholia.
A TERRIFIC tornado passed over Golfers
vile, Tenn, wrecking many houses and do
ing great damage.
GEORGE H. GRIswoLD. cashier of the
Fourth National Bank, of Columbus, Ohio.
has disappeared with $4,000.
THE now bridge across the Mississippi was
formally opened at Memphis. Tenn.
The President has approved the bill ap-
propriating $780, to pay the expenses o.
the United States members of the Bering
Sea Board of Arbitration.
THE President nominated J. Stanley
Isaacs to be Assistant Appraiser of Mer-
chandise in the district of New York
PosTMAsTER-GENER WANANAKER has
received an unsigned and undated letter con-
tanning $1,000 In his letter the writer says:
siThis is the balance of interest owe of the
sum took from the Government in 1865.
/ have now paid principal and interest, in
all 81, 500. No man has suffered more for
his crime than have, and / now pray the
Lords forgiveness for my sin.''
GENERAL GHEssER, Perfect of Police in
ST. Petersburg, Russia died from the effects
of quack medicine.
A DISPATCH from London says that Eng
land has accepted the invitation Of the
United States to bi-metallic conference.
In the anti-Hebrew riots at Lodi, In Po-
land, ten Hebrews were killed outright and
100 injured.
A LARGE skating rink in course Of con-
struction at Buenos Ayres, Argentina, coll
lapsed. Thirty persons were killed. The
architect and the builder were arrested.
The pottery of Thomas A. Maddox &
Sons, the largest sanitary ware manufactur-
ers in Trenton, N. J., was totally destroyed
by fire. The buildings destroyed occupied
square and were filed with valuable molds
and green ware. Loss, $175,000.
THE body OF William Astor, who died re-
Gently in Paris, was inferred with simple
ceremonies in Trinity Cemetery, New York
City. His will was made public. Out of
perhaps SIS, O0O, 900, nearly $65, 600, 600 goes
to John Jacob Astor, the residuary legatee.
One very noticeable feature of the docu-
1nent is the fact that Mrs. j. Coleman Dray-
ton, who has been brought so prominently
before the public recently, receives no per-
sonal bequest.
D. A. ScHoFIELD, of Ewing, Mich, shot
and killed his wife and then fatally shot
himself.
TwENTY-sEvEN houses were burned at
Savannah, Ga, in one of the best resi- ience
portions of the city. Loss, about 100000.
MIDLAND, Mich, was shaken by the ex-
plosion of a battery of four boilers that fur
nished steam for operating sawmill. The
boiler house was detached from the mill and
was completed wrecked, and considerable
damage was also done to the sawmill. Three
employees were kille | and eight injured.
THE Territorial Republican Convention Of
Arizona met at Phoenix. Benjamin Honey,
of Tucson, was chosen Chairman, and C. v.
M. Shaver, George Christ, A. Frank and
George E. Brown were elected delegates to
the National Republican Convention at
Minneapolis. They are uninstructed.
WHEN William Coons returned to his
home at Prescott, Iowa, after business
| trip, he found the horribly mangled bodies
Of his wife and daughter. They had been
beaten to death with a club by an unknown
assassin.
THERE was no opposition to the confirma-
ton of T. Jefferson Coolidge, of Massachu-
setts. as Minister to France, when the NOM
ination was called up in the executive session
| of the Senate.
ANARCHISTS made an attempt to blow up
crowded streetcar in BUDAPEST Austro-
Hungary.
The British Government declines to give
its assent to the convention between the
United States and Newfoundland.
QUEEN REGENT CHRISTINA has conferred
upon Mrs. Burd Grubb, the wife of the
United States Minister, the insignia of the
Order OF Maria Louisa. This order was
founded in 1922 by Maria Louisa, wife Of
Charles Nv.
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