Elizabeth daily monitor. [volume] (Elizabeth, N.J.) 1868-1880, 1873-09-12
NEWS ITEMS.

The second free excursion of the poor
children of Jersey City will take place
tomorrow. Subscriptions thus far
reach six hundred and thirty dollars.
The party will be taken to Dudley's
grove, on the Hudson, by the barge
William J. Hackett, at eight a. m.
The Jersey City fire commissioners
have refused to grant the petition of the
Erie railway company for permission to
erect frame buildings to replace the
shops burned down some time ago. The
Erie company will probably move their
shops to some town along the line of the
road.
On Tuesday night the model barn
belonging to Tunis V. Schenck, near
Freehold, was set on fire by an un
known person and entirely consumed.
The loss was ten thousand dollars, on
which there was two thousand dollars
insurance.
The Seine Assize Court has just passed
sentence on the band of young malefac-
tors known as the Black Caps, guilty of
robberies with violence Gelinier, the
leader, aged sixteen, is sentenced to
twenty years imprisonment, and two
others to fifteen years imprisonment
each.
The new trial of Stokes will begin ON
the first of October.
A dispatch from Dublin says there is
much excitement in Tralee in conse-
quence OF the approaching election for
for member of Parliament. Mr.. Daniel
O'Donoghue, the Liberal candidate, ar
rived in that city yesterday, and was re-
ceived by large number of his friends
and escorted to his residence. While
the procession was moving it was at
tackled by mob, and several persons
were beaten. During the night armed
policemen patrolled the streets.
An extra issued by the Pleasant hill,
Nebraska, News says the Jail at that
place was burned early ON Tuesday
morning, and all its inmates, four in
number, persisted in the flames. 1t is
supposed the building was fred by one
of the prisoners in order to effect his es.
cape, but the flames spread so rapidly
that he was suffocated.
Yesterday the water was let out of the
race in Paterson for annual repairs, and
the day was kept as holiday by the
employees of the shops and factories.
Fourth of July is nothing to it.
The trial of the Fort Garry prisoners
for kidnapping Lord Gordon will be-
gin on the 18th instant in the Provin.
cial Court of Manitoba An early trial
has been conceded to the prisoners in
lieu of admitting them to bail.
William f. Bowie, letter carrier il
Richmond, Va, has been arrested on 6
charge of embezzling letters from the
United States mail. Bowie had been
suspended for dereliction of duty, and,
upon leaving the Post Office, was ar.
rested with portion of his own route
and other routes secreted about his per-
son. He was admitted to bail in one
thousand dollars.
A young New Yorker, spending {
month with his uncle in New Jersey
wrote thus to his mother: The peacf
trees here are too slippery for me to
climb uncle won't let me sail boats in
the milk pals there's no birds nests
around that can see; Sallie Law spill
molasses on my best pants a smaller
boy than am, who plays with me-
wears gold chain, and, 1 want to &C
home.
Yesterday in the Hudson county
count the indictment against William A.
Bumstead and ex-Commissiorer Benz.
r. Welsh, which charges that DaaieI
T. Shay had been appointed inspector
on certain street improvement, and
had drawn his pay without doing any
work, was taken up. Shay testified
that he had been hired by Bumstead,
but had not seen the street which he
was 70 inspect. He presented bill OF
seventy-six dollars for two weeks work,
which Bumstead and Welsh signed, and
he was paid. The defendants said that
they signed the bill because they
thought that it had been sworn to. H.
II. Newkirk, commissioner of deeds,
whose name was attached to the afH-
davit accompanying the bill, testified
that the bill had not been sworn to.