Passaic City record., 1893-05-13
LLTER NEWS.

The body Of Roehl, the cor dez1nej mar-
derer who recently escaped from Sing Sing
On. Y.) Prison. was found floating in the
Hudson River near Sing Sing. A bullet hole
in his head and fracture of the s-un from
blow led to the belief tina. his companion,
Pallister, killed him.
CAPTAIN ALFRED r. MAHAH, late President
of the Naval War College. relieved Captain
John F. McGIensev as Commander OF Ad-
miral Walkers flagship, the Chicago, now in
New York Harbor.
JOSEPH FRANCIS, the life saving boat in
ventor, died few days since in Coopers-
town, N Y. He was born on March u, 1901,
in Boston, Mass. In 1887 both houses of
the National Legislature passed resolutions
thanking him for his ssifelong services to
humanity and to his country
THE National League of Republican Clubs
and the National Republican Committee both
held meetings in Louisville, KY. Thomas H.
Carter was elected Chairman and Joseph h.
Manley Secretary.
A BARGE loaded with fireworks exploded
on the river at Thunderbolt, Ga, during an
illumination. Ferguson, Phila delphia en-
ploye, Of Pain Son, and one colored man
on board were killed. Neither of the bodies
was recovered.
THE President has appointed james H.
Blount, of Georgia, Envoy Extraordinary
and Minister Plenipotentiary to the Hawaiian
Islands, succeeding John L. Stevens, re-
signed. Mr. Blount's commission will be
sent him by the next mail for Honolulu.
ARGUMENTS were made in the United
States Court in the cases of the three China
men arrested to test the constitutionality Of
the Geary Exclusion law.
THE President appointed Frank H. Jones,
of Springfield, Ill, First Assistant Postnas-
ter-General, vice FL. Clay Evans, resigned.
BY an order issued by the Navy Depart
ment Surgeon-General Browne was relieved
from duty as chief of the Bureau of Medi-
cine and Surgery and placed on the retired
list. He was appointed from New Hamp-
shire, and has served more than forty years
the navy. He was retired on account of
age.
THE Greek Ministry, headed by NJ. Tri-
coupis, has resigned, owing to the failure to
negotiate loan for the relief of the present
embarrassed condition OF Greek finances.
ADMIRAL GOMEZ Y LoSo, who commanded
the Spanish vessels OF war in the recent
naval review in New York Harbor, and who
was prevented by i'll health from reviewing
the land parade, and went to Havana, Cuba,
later in his flagship, the Infanta Isabel. is
dead
HERR DELEzUK, actor. committed suicide
on the stage at Lemberg, Galicia, by blowing
out his brains. Al actress with whom he
was in love 1irted with another man.
QUEEN VICTORIA, of England, opened the
Imperial Institute in London, and was en-
Enthusiastically received by enormous crowds.
1t was announced that it was her last public
appearance.
In the Herald regatta for American sailors
in New York Harbor the first race was won
by the Newark's cutter, Bancroft second.
won by crew No. 2 of the Vesuvius, Baltl-
more second, vesuvius No. 1 third. Dele
cations from the crews of all the foreign
men-of-war in the harbor attended recep-
tion on the Baltimore.
CHARLES and Eli Havener. brothers, aged
twenty Eight and thirty, respectively, wers
drowned by the capsizing of a sailboat neal
Round Pond. Ne.
WARREN G. BUrTERwoKTH, aged seventy
of Warren, Mass, committed suicide by
shooting himself through the head with ;
rifle. His daughter Emma, aged twenty
three, who was trying to prevent her fathel
from killing himself, received the bullet il
her brain after had passed through he
fathers head, and she died also.
THE Columbia National Bank, of Chicago
H.. and the Capital National, OF Indiana
polls, Ind, have suspended.
WV. TRACY, of Illinois, was chosen Presi
dent of the Republican National League o.
Clubs by the Louisville (Ky.) Convention
the convention adjourned after selecting Den
yer, Col, as the next place OF meeting.
AN Ohio River train near Parkersburg, W.
v, fell thirty-five feet and burned ferceiy
Two trainmen were killed.
Two HUNDRED feet of the Lakeport leve'
broke. and Arkansas City, Ark, was in DANCE
of being flooded.
GENERAL EDWARD D. TOWNSEND, for I
| number of years Adjutant- General of tn
Army, died at his residence in Washington
| He was born in Boston in 1877, and wa
| graduated at West Point in 1887.
THE President appointed J. Hampton Hoge
of Virginia, to be United States Consul a
! Annoy. China, vice Edward Bedloe, of Phils
| delphia
THE drought OF the last eight weeks ha
| caused great loss of farm and market gar
den products in the south of England. Cat
erpillars are destroying the leaves. blossom
| and small fruit in the orchards
RAMPANT Carlists were met in Madrid
| Spain, by clubs and bayonets. They intend
! ed to storm the CorteS but the scheme mis-