Passaic City record., 1895-04-20
TIE NEWS EPIToMlzED
Washington Items.

Washington Items.
Attorney General Olney submitted his re.
ply to the application for a rehearsing in the
income tax cases.
The United States Supreme Court refused
to grant a writ of error In the case from New
York City of DR.. Buchanan, the convicted
wife-murderer.
R. n. Mclean, of Washington, has been
selected to command the Hawaiian Army
with the rank and pay of Colonel in the
| United States Army. Mr.. Mclean graduated
| at the Naval Academy in 1872, and spent
| twenty years in the United States Marine
| Corps.
Charles Fl. Mansur. OF Missouri, Deputy
Comptroller of the Treasury, died at Wash
ington after an illness of several weeks. Mr..
Mansur was sixty years old.
| Reports to the Department of Agriculture
show that the Chicago beef combine has low
| cred the price of dressed beef in England.
| Secretary Morton issued an order letting in
| Mexican cattle.
| The children of the District of Columbia
| rolled eggs in the White House grounds, as
! they have done on Easter Monday for many
| years. There was no music, however, as the
Marine Band are blowing their horns in
Texas.
Extensive food adulteration has been dis
i
remedial legislation by Congress is improba-
bic for several years.
A robbery was committed upon the Chilean
Legation by newly hired butler, Chilean
| by birth. He distracted diamond necklace
| valued at $40, 900, and secured $50 in money
| He then disappeared.
Counsel in the income tax cases asked the
| United States Supreme Court to grant re-
| hearing upon the constitutionality OF the
law.
| Secretary Gresham informed England that
the bombardment OF Greytown or the land
ping OF troops on Nicaraguan soil will be con-
sidered unfriendly to the interests of this
country.
Edward o. Atkinson, the Boston econ
mist, gave novel dinner for ten persons at
the residence of Assistant Secretary Hamlin.
Seven courses, all cooked by Mr.. Atkinson.
were served. The entire cost of the dinner
exclusive of the floral decorations, was 81. so.
Federal authorities believe that fully $4,000
in silver counterfeits is in circulation in the
vicinity of Omaha, Neb.
A counterfeit five-dollar bill on the Black
stone Canal National Bank of Providence,
r. l., has been discovered at Washington.
Domestic.
There was slight shock of earthquake felt
in Burlington, vt. The disturbance was of
several seconds duration slight shock of
earthquake was felt also at Northfield, Vt.
Bricks fell from several chimneys.
Notices were posted in the mills at New
Bedford, Mass. of a restoration of the form
er schedule of wages, following the action
of the Fall River manufacturers in that re-
gard.
Governor Werts, of New Jersey, signed the
bill making Lincoln's birthday legal holi-
day.
Robert Center, the well known yachtsman
while riding bicycle, which collided with a
coal cart.
More than four thousand school teachers
held one big meeting and three overflow
meetings in New York City to denounce the
passage. by the Assembly, of the Education
Compromise bill.
Arthur Seelye aged twenty-five. son of
President L. Clark Seelye, of Smith College.
was found dead on the rocks at the foot Of
a steep bluff on the south end of Mt. Tom,
near Northampton, Mass. He was ON pc
destrian tour and lost his footing.
There were two distinct earthquake shocks
at Port Townsend, Wash, lasting ten and
eight seconds respectively. The shocks were
distinctly felt in the entire peninsula.
A cyclone near Cherokee. Kan, caused
death and much damage. The house of
Frank Goodin was the first one struck. The
building was completely destroyed. Both
Goodin and his wife were blown some dis.
lance, Goodin being killed.
Oil reached 1854 on the Pittsburg penn,
exchange.
1t was learned that Robert A. Holladay
Town Treasurer of South Orange, N. J., had
disappeared and that his accounts were short
$4,000.
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ton and wool factories In Lowell, Mass,
closed down, throwing 10000 operatives out
of work. The financial loss, direct and indi-
rect. is estimated at 100000. The total loss
by freshets at Rumford Fall, Me-, was esti-
mated at $500.000.
Wholesale charges of bribery among Ohio
Legislators are to be investigated.
Mayor Strong. OF New York City, appoint
ed Robert j. Wright and John P. Faure
Commissioners of Charities and Correction;
Miss Ellen Collins was made School inspect
or.
The annual election of the Tammany So
ciety in New York City resulted In a COM
plete victory for the Croker element.
In drunken brawl in Cleveland, Ohio,
John Sejhar shot Carl Richter dead and
mortally wounded Albert Richter. a brother.
As soon as he was put in cell he hanged
himself.
Patrick Mcclure and Michael O'Donnell,
two of the convicts who escaped from the
Matteawan Asylum for Insane Criminals,
we're recaptured near Pine Plains. N. Y, by
James Coyle, an asylum keeper, and re-
turned to their cells.
Charles Janda shot Camille Janda, his
sister-in-law, at New York City, and then
committed suicide. The chief cause Of
trouble was debt of $2.48.
James W. Scott, a well known journalist