Passaic City record., 1893-01-14
LATER NEWS.

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NEW YORK CrTy was ice bound, ant
water traffic was entirely suspended for a
short time; the Kill Won Kull, Staten Isl
and Sound and Flushing Bay were frozen
over.
THREE men and horse were killed by the
eastbound Royal Blue B. & o. express be-
tween Somerville, N. j., and Jersey City.
THE caucus of Republican members OF
the Connecticut General Assembly to nom
mate United States Senator was held in
the House of Representatives at Hartford.
and General Joseph R. Hawley was renom-
mated on the sixth ballot.
GOVERNOR Brown commuted the sem
tences of the four colored boys who. with
the four colored men. were to have been
hanged at Chestertown, Nd, for the muir
der Of DIR. Hill, to life Imprisonment.
PAUL ScRuGGs and Henry Allen, who
murdered and robbed Rube Atkinson, his
housekeeper and her little daughter, were
tslsen from jail at Cotton Plant. Ark, by .
mob and hanged.
UNITED STATES TREASURER NEBEKER
has reported to Secretary Foster that the
account of the legal tender notes Of the de-
nomination of $500, series of 1874, shows as
it's stands an excess of $54, 600 redeemed over
the issue. s2s, 400, 900 in all.
THE Speaker laid before the House conn
munication from Secretary Foster OF the
Treasury renewing his recommendation Of
last year for the appropriation Of $4,000
for the redemption of worn and mutilated
paper currency and the issue Of new cur
rency for it. Also an appropriation OF $780,
900 for gun and mortar platforms.
A FEDERAL envoy charged with bringing
an end to the insurrection in the Province
of Corrientes, Argentine Republic, sue
ceeded in stopping the fighting between the
provincial and rebel troops at Santa Lucia.
A body of Federal cavalry attacked the
rebels at Eantotome and dislodgei them
from their position. Fifty of the rebels
were killed or wounded.
M. BURDEAU declined to accept the MINI
istry of Marine in the new French Cabinet;
the post was offered to Admiral Gervais,
who also declined.
THERE were several cases of cholera at
Hamburg, Germany, on the steamship MUIR
ciano, when she arrived from New Orleans;
one death occurred in Amsterdam from the
disease.
THERE is an epidemic of scarlet fever and
diphtheria in Stamford, Conn. It has been
prevalent since last September. There have
been 500 cases of winter cholera in New
buryport, Mass, and the disease seemed to
be spreading. The doctors were at loss to
account for it.
In the New Hampshire Legislature the
following officers were elected in joint con-
vention: Secretary of State. Ezra s. Stearns;
State Treasurer, Solon A. Carter, Public
Printer. Edward N. Pearson; Commissary
General, Stephen S. Gale.
GOVERNOR LEWELLING recognized the
Populist House in the Kansas Legislature.
SUNDAY opening at the Chicago Fair won
in the Illinois Legislature.
AT CASTOR, Meade County, KY, two
colored men, Edward and Richard Moor
man, brothers, were lynched for having
murdered and robbed farmer.
AFTER brief funeral services General But
lers body started on q special train from
Washington for Lowell, Mass.
A SPINNING mill at Osaka, Japan, was
al xr,;fk, 1ovc of liuoc Most of tho
victims were young girls. Two hundred
and seventy houses in the vicinity of the
mill caught fire from sparks ami were de-
stroyed.
The Argentine rebels havelaid down their
arms.
THE French Chamber of Deputies sus-
tanned the Ribot Cabinet by vote of 329 to
206; Vice. Admiral Rieuuier became Minister
of Marine completing the Cabinet.