The Monmouth inquirer., 1898-04-14
NEWS OF THE WEEK.


members OIL the Brooklyn city MOihS
ing, was sentenced by Judge Hurd to
six months imprisonment and to pay
ine of $500.
An attachment for 1880 was issued
against Mark Hartley. responsible
merchant of New Brighton, n. Y, and
was learned that he had been miss
ng from his home since March 81
Milton Clark of Brooklyn got into
luarrel with the brother of Miss Ferch-
and, the girl to whom he was engaged.
He shot at the brother and in escaping
broke his arm. He and the young wo-
nan boarded street car and later
we're married in Hoboken. N. j., de-
spite parental opposition
Friday, April &.
Great excitement prevails among Ha-
waiian natives from fear of an eruption
,f Mauna Loa.
1t is reported at Shanghai that the
American consul has demanded indem-
aity for an attack on a mission in
chung kingkindu province.
Fire did $4,000 estimated damage in
the stable of the Lion Brewing COM
oany building, One Hundred and Eighth
street and Columbus avenue. New York.
David b. Lands, president of the
yonestoEa National bank at Lancaster.
Pa, was shot and killed by Ralph w.
Wireback, a patent medicine manufac-
turer.
Advices from Hongkong say that the
revolt in the Philippines is assuming
large proportions. the insurgents Te-
Gently having won several important
engagements.
Charles f. Thompson was arrested
charged with stealing a watch owned
by Miss Anna NJ D. Mitchell which
was presented to George Washington
by Lafayette. Miss Mitchell says she
S a great grandniece of Washington.
Saturday, April o.
The ram Katahdin joined the flying
squadron in Hampton roads.
Queen Victoria presented to President
Faure of France an oil portrait of her
self.
The gunboat Princeton has been fin
shed at the Dialogue yard, in Camden,
N. J..
Privy Councillor Bansch, engineer Of
the Emperor William canal died in
Berlin.
Chief Gunner's Mate Johnson of the
gunboat Newport, at Key West. was
drowned while examining the ships
bottom.
An explosion of dynamite with which
a car was loaded caused the wreck of
a train in Montana, and three persons
were killed.
1t was announced in Paris that MEM
bers of the Esterhazy court martial will
sue M. Zola and ask for his expulsion
from the Legion of Honor
ATafkar tho oofracq died
suddenly of an acute attack of Bright's
disease at Charleston, w. Va. She was
stricken while playing in the cave
scene in "Cymbelne" and died soon
after.
Monday, April IL.
The body of the late Frances E. Will
lard was cremated at Chicago.
D. NJ Mclaughlin, captain of Cor
nell's football team, has resigned.
Lizzie Kelly, driven insane by the use
of hair dye, committed suicide in New
York.
The Marquis of Exeter died in Lon
don. His death was caused by bicycle
accident.
Mrs. Jacob Hills of Elkton, Mich, died
at the age of 107. Her husband, aged
109, is dying.
A consignment of $1.5Oo,OOo in gold
started from Sydney by the steamer
Mariposa for San Francisco.
Forty thousand children are estimat
ed to have been made orphans by the
recent massacres in Anatolia.
Clarence E, Quintin of Trenton, di-
vorced at noon Saturday. remarked and
was on his bridal trip in 4S minutes.
New York State Superintendent of
Insurance Payn has written to District
Attorney Gardiner of New York city
asking his cooperation in procuring an
indictment against those officials of the
Lincoln Fire Insurance company who
he says secured a charter by fraud.
Tuesday, April IL.
The Spanish cruisers Cristobal Colon
and Maria Teresa passed Tenerife, go
ing south
The Rev. DR.. Charles A. Briggs, who
recently entered the Episcopal church,
resigned from the New York presby-
terry.
A dispatch from Kingston, Jamaica,
says that a Spanish mob in Santiago
de Cuba insulted the flag over the
United States consulate.
Presents in recognition of their hero
ism were given to Lieufehant Uns~
worth and his boats crew, who went
out to seek aid for La Champagne when
she was disabled in midocean recently.
Nearly all the faculty of the Univer.
sity Medical school in New York will
withdraw at the end of the term as the
result of dissension with the council of
the New York university and say they
will found a new medical school.