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Mexico weekly ledger., 1889-02-14

LEr ~ suppose a railway train to leave
the earth, travelling day and night at the
rate of fifty miles an hour without stop
pages. IN six months IT would reach tie
NOON, IN two hundred wears it would reach
the sun, and in six thousand years it would
reach the plfuet Neptune, the orbit of Yhi. ID
forms tAe extreme known limit of the plsn
esary system.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1889-02-14

Cepy5;glied, 19ss, by The 1. ". Et!foq3 Ns5rspzpsr
C9mplny. AT E5JA's Rsserr'i.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1889-02-14

to you.' L re kets t1as ram With a nefv.
o.s haste that was suggestive of any
thing but satisfactory feelings.
Norris, too, had been startled Ont of his
eQuanimity. In the single moment that
Mr.. Ingot had Ito ped over the tell-tale
glass. he had distinguished "a small, length
ened, triangular scar. showing fiery red
through the stubbled hair-a scar which
that section of scalp under the microscope
might very nearly cover.
1t did not requlrC many minutes thinking
to make 1t clear to Norris Bergman that
robber Nc. Of the Chicago express had
been revealed to his knowledge, but he
also realized that il would require much
more direct evidence than he could offer TO
bring the criian hoGGc 10 Banker Everleiglfs
boollkcepe-.
One thing he could do. however. He
could lay the facts i'll his possession before
Lyman Chi.der. He could warn The latter
Of what -Norris-felt assured. that
Childcr had an enemy i'll his pretended
friend and felloEv-clerk. who had already
robbed him. and very probably had the will
10 do HIM further harm
With this object III view, lie had gained
admission to the Chllder home. TO have all
lbs good intentions swept away By a rose
clad vision that had V:Tcathed Its soft arms
about his neck, and left him bound in fet-
tcr3 stronger than iron. yet which no temp
tatI2n on Garth would have led him 10 break.
CHAPTER V.
ONE MANS HAPPINESS AND A]NoTHER's DE
SPAItk
Brilliant lights. soft music, ''swIsh of silk
and sheen OF pearls flushing jewels and
brighter cyes-a ;3oat unusual scene this to
NbyFIz RsrrrFI-t Eyfn i,eN-n9-t hp2sSS made
his way through il with ti3e case of one not
altogether unused TO such ways, and came
up unpcreeiged by the young hostess Of the
evening. mil his voice caused her to turn
eagerly.
VIII you welcome q ~repentant guest,
Miss Everleigh, in spite of his rcgrcts!'
.lNnrrtst Nf.l hnltsr. me- IL rnrninr To nv
Mexico weekly ledger., 1889-02-14
UNDER A CLOUD:
CLEARING HIMSELF.
The Thrilling and Absorbing Story
of @ Great Crime.
BY JENNIE DAVIS BURTON,

AUTHOR or HrE LIES SECRET" AND
OTHER STORIES.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1889-02-14

A Sultan sat by Danube's tide
And sore distressed aloud he cried;
While like the waters to the sea
Ills tears ran down both fast and free.
y passing stranger said: "My friend.
Why do those tears so fast descend?"
'..Aias," he sobbed, ave lost all hope;
I've lost my cake of IVORY SOAR.
No more in pride through town I'll go,
With garments clean and white as snow;
Mexico weekly ledger., 1889-02-14
THE SULTAN.

But in disgrace must move ABOUT.
By scornful fingers pointed out"
mot So the noble stranger cried, .
81 have a piece AMI vii div*ic;'
And from his coat-tail pocket drew
A cake and broke it fair III two.
Then rose in joy the Sultan gray,
And made that man q Turkish BeY,
With servants kind and Fi2icss sage,
Ard fifty wives to cheer lis asc.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1889-02-14
A WORD OF WARNING.

WORD OF WARNING
There are many white soaps, each represented 10 be Just as good as the Ivovr
they ARE NOT, but like all countefets, lack the peculiar and remarkable qualities o.
the genuine. Ask for ivory Soap and insist upon getting it,
Copyright 1885, by Proctor g. Gamble
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-03-02

9:15 express for Washington. Two Pull
man sleepers and u passenger coach will
be reserved for the corps.
The members of the corps will wear
black Derby hats white gloves, and carry
silk flags, on which will be emblazoned
forty-two stars.
The badge of the association is of blue
silk trimmed with gold, bearing the in
scription, ''Broderick Lafayette Republic
can Association, Jersey City, N. J. 7"
Under the inscription is a picture of Gem
eral Harrison, and beneath the picture an
eagle with the motto Sc Pluribus Unum." :"
The members, who so desire, may leave
Washington for home on the 10 p. m.
limited, Monday evening. Captain Mason,
OF the Fourth Regiment, will command
the corps during its stay in Washington
This morning over three hundred boys,
from the training school ship at Newport,
passed through the city ON their way to
Washington to take part in the inaugural
festivities. 1t required nine cars to trans
port them. The boys arrived in New
York this morning by boat. Conductor
George Drane was in charge Of the train.
Firemen William Talbot of No. 2 Truck,
John Hayes of Engine No. 5, and George
Quinn of Engine No. f. will witness the
inauguration of the President elect and
spend several days in Washington.
Sergeant Wilsheim Of the Sixth Precinct
will join the army of visitors to Wash
ington.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-03-02
NEEDED IN THE POST OFFICE.
Several New Clerks and Light and Hes
ea.- fI,a Anuo1

Several New Clerks and Light and Heat
for the Annex.
Postmaster Kelly expects that several
new clerks will be added to the force in
the Postoffice as soon as the appropriation
for the current year is available. The
present force is inadequate to handle the
large volume of business transacted at the
office, and more help is greatly needed
The contractors upon the new addition
to the post Office building have completed
their work, but the building is not yet
ready for occupancy The building was
to have been ready by February /, but il
was not until March / that it could be
used. Through some oversight no pro
visions were made in the specification for
lighting and heating the addition, and the
large, new room is without single gas
jet or steam pipe Moreover, although
the room is designated for a money-ordel
department, there is not a box or drawer
IN the place for such purposes.
1t will be some time before these defects
can be remedied, and in the meantime the
office must put up with the Inconvenience
of being cramped for room.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-03-02

TBv ca6le q the united Press.1

by Cable to the United Press.l
BERLIN, March 2, 1Ss9.--A syndicate
of German bankers are negotiating
with the Prince of Lichtenstein for a
grant of land at Vaduz on the frontier
of Switzerland for the purpose of es-
tablishing a casino in opposition to
that of Monte Carlo. The rental of
fered is understood to be 100000
fiorins year.
The musical jubilee of Joseph
Joachim, the famous violinist and con.
ductor of the Royal Academy of
music, was held yesterday. A large
number of friends called to congratu-
late him, and kilograms were received
from all parts of the Continent, Eng
land and America. Among the offer
ings was phenomenal display OF
flowers.
The Government win interdict the
Enins Bey expedition under DIR.
Peters.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-03-02
The Adventures of a Lace Veil.

from the Erenf7tg Slt7l.I
The doors of the cold storage houses in
Dakota must have been accidentally left
open yesterday, for the first instalment of
March wind reached this city then. 1t did
an ungallant act which afforded amuse
ment to 200 persons. A young woman,
evidently typewriter, was hurryingg
sacque. Around her head and bonnet was
tied light veil, seemingly as tilmy as a
spiders web. The ungallant March
breeze swept around the corner of Spruce
street and caught up the veil, carrying it
into the air as high as the second story
windows of the surrounding buildings. 1t
lowered around the telegraph wires as If
about to alight, like a swallow, and then
another gust carried the veil 100 feet into
the upper atmosphere. Meanwhile the
ing with eager eyes. BY this time a crowd
began to gather, who, following the gaze
of the young woman, saw the dlmy silk
floating away Two newsboys threw
stones at 1t, but of course the stones didn't
come anywhere nearit. The veil was slowly
floating in current of air about fifty
feet from the ground, nearly block from
where it had started. In the meantime
the crowd swelled in numbers and every
body was trying to keep under the veil as
it sailed along. When opposite the rooms
of the Press Club the veil was sailing
tantalizingly near to the ground. 1t
escaped by i miracle being caught on the
ears of a truck horse, and the driver just
missed it by d hairs breadth. He struck
At the veil with his whip, but the eddy of
air caused by the lash only made 1t whirl
around and CLEAN in the sunlight as it
was swept out Of reach. the sidewalks
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-03-02
WAS THIS ANOTHER JOBe

Rotten Rubber Covered the Padding in
the Lunatic Cell.
When the members of the last Grand
Jury made an investigation of the County
Jail, they were surprised to learn that
several lunatics were there, and that
although violent at times, there was no
padded cell to put them in.
The lunatIcs have always been placed
in an ordinary stone cell, such as all pris-
oners occupy, and have been kept there
whether they should be sent to the Swamp
Hill Asylum or released. Frequently
these unfortunates butted their heads
against the stone walls or the stone floor
in paroxysms and inflicted serious injuries
on themselves. The only way to restrain
them when in this condition was by the
use of leather handouts and occasionally
straight-jacket.
The Grand Jury justly believed that this
state of affairs ought to be remedied, and
the Board of Freeholders was requested to
fit up two padded cells for these poor
creatures.
The Freeholders referred the matter to
the Committee on County Institutions,
and they in turn left it with Freeho1der
Turner to attend to.
Under his supervision and that of the
County superintendent two cells were
built of heavy wood and padded with ex-
celsior, covered with what was supposed
to be rubber. This last article was pur-
chased by requisition from Wiggins &
Abel, of Hoboken, and is as rotten an
article as was ever sold to any one.
The first prisoner to use one of these
cells was Henry Diel, of Bloom and Pater-
son avenues. He was taken to the County
Jail last night suffering from delirium
tremens. In a fit of frenzy he grasped hold
of a white pine batten, light and delicate,
that had been used to Keep the rubber
covering of the padding in its place. A
child could have torn it away, and it took
the crazy man but moment to completely
demolish the padding in the cell.
''He tore at least half of it away, leaving
exposed the bare boards against which he
butted his head. He was only quieted by
being handcuffed.
When the rubber covering was exam
ined this morning it was found to be rot
ten, and it tore in strips as easily as piece
of muslin. In fact it looked like muslin
with very thin coat of rubber ovea it Land
was about as thick as the material used to
make rubber overshoes. 1t was of no
earthly use, and this has all the appear
ance of being one mooe of the many jobs
of this totally reckless Board.
County Superintendent Cannon, Jailor
Birdsall, Director Pairson, and several
other gentlemen, who saw piece of the
rubber, were surprised, and readily adj
mitted that the material-wa not what the
cells called for
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-03-02
STORY OF A SKULL.

Reco1leetions of an Old-Time Sensational
Murder Revived.
Police Sergeant Joseph Carroll has q
theory about the skull which was dug up
in the corner of Chris Meisner's yard on
Washington street, near the corner of
Montgomery, two weeks or so ago.
Some workingmen were making an ex-
excavation in the yard, when they un-
earthed it. 1t was fieshless, hard as flint,
sand had evidently been in its grave for
many years. Enquiry at that time failed
to bring any satisfactory explanation of
the manner in which it had got where it
was found.
1t was taken to the Gregory Street Po-
lice Station, and physicians who have ex-
amined it say that there are breaks in the
bone that indicate that its aforetime
owner had met with violent death
THAT skull, y said Sergeant Carroll, this
morning, "revives recoliections of one Of
the most sensational murders this town
has ever known. Twenty-Five years ago
a dredging machine at work at the York
street dock scooped the body of woman
out of the river mud. Her skull was frac-
tured and q barrel of pitch had been lashed
around her waist to make sure that the
river would never surrender the cret of
her murder.
'"The body was seen by hundreds of
people, and falsely identified by many. All
doubt as to who she was, was ultimately
solved She had been less prudent than
she should have been in her behavior, and
she had, besides, the misfortune of having
two lovers. One found her in the COM
pany of her other lover one night at the
American Hotel, and murdered her.
"Then her body was taken to the
docks, weighed and thrown overheard.
"After the discovery of the body,
the skull was given to DIR. Que
dor, vino was then City Physician. He
laboratory in the building in which Meis-
ner's saloon is located.
81 saw the skull in the doctors office,
and am satisfied that this just found in
| Meisnef s backyard is hers.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-03-02
81 FOR THE PARK HOUS E.
TI,ot's What Madden Claims to Have Pa
For Rxan,s share.

Thot's What Madden Claims to Have Paid
For Ryan's share.
Thomas Ryan, Of the firm of Madden
and Ryan, proprietors of the Park
House, and also of the saloon
on the corner of Eighth and Coles streets,
died recently. He left three children. Mr..
Ryan had an insurance policy on his life
for $1,000, and had also possession of other
property at the time of his death.
Today Lawrence Ryan, Thomas's father,
made application to the Court for an al
lowance for the children, and the Court
granted an order on the estate for $50 a
month
The interest of the deceased in the bust
ness of Madden and Ryan is in dispute
and will probably reach the courts. Mr..
Madden claims that several days before
the death of his partner Lawyer Collins
and Henry Lembeck weres summoned
to the house of Mr.. Ryan and that
for the consideration Of 81 all his interest
in the business was transferred to Mr..
Madden. If so Mr.. Madden became pos
sessed of q very valuable business for a
very low price
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-03-02
Michael Quinlan Shot by
his Young Com
panion-
WAS IF AN ACCIDENT?
No Hope That the Injured Youth
Can Survive His Wound.

Michael Quinlan, age twelve years,
of No. 148 First street, shot Fred
Conlin, his thirteen year
old companion, this morning, infiict-
ing injuries from which the boy will
probably die.
Quinlan's mother is dead and he
lives alone with his father on the Sec
ond floor of No. 14S First street.
while Corlon lived across
the street. The boys frequently
played together, and this morning
were alone in Quinlan's apart
ments. During their play Quin-
Ian took up an old 32-cali-
bre revolver which his father kept
in bureau drawer, and playfully said
he could shoot Conlon.
THE PISTOL WAS LOADED.
Somehow or other the pistol was
lOadeu, ana IL WenG OH.
The bullet entered Conlon's face at
the left nostril and passed through to
behind the right ear.
The blood spurted 6rom young Con-
lan's face, and he fell to the floor.
As soon as Quinlan realized what
ne had done he then became
frightened and ran away. The police
are now looking for him.
TAKEN TO THE HOSPITAL.
A physician was summoned, but
could do nothing for the wounded
child. The injured boy was
removed to st. Francis hos
pital, where it was said that
he could not recover. The parents of
young Conlan were overcome with
sorrow when they learned Of the shoot
ing, and sought his bedside at the hos
pital almost frantic with grief.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-03-02

HEFUBLIJAN NSAUIIATIUNI
Third District, Jersey City, n. ].
Ot-Vapizad JulV 25 1877

How was the banner to be presented to
the club? Several schemes We're thought
upon, and at last it was decided that the
club should march from the club rooms to
the residence OF Commissioner Watt, at
No 376 Sixth street, last evening and re-
ceiye the banner from the hands of one of
the ladies.
Ats.45 the club, headed by the Tabernacle
band, left the headquarters and marched
to the home of Mr.. Watt, followed by not
less than three hundred people. The lady
did not present the banner. 1t was
presented to the club by AL
derman Louis H. Marinus on
behalf of the ladies, and
was received for the club by President
John Cogan. The band struck up mar
tial air, three cheers We're given for the
ladies', three for Mr.. Watt and the same
for the Alderman. Then the order was
given to march and the club and the new
the district and were dismissed at the club
room.
The club will remain in Washington
until Tuesday, when they return home.
For the information of those who would
like to parade within the ranks of the asso-
citation, they wish it stated that the organ
ization can be found at the City Hail.
The ladies' who were instrumental in
securing the funds for the purchase of the
banner are: Mrs John Watt, Mrs. L. r.
Mcdonald, Misses Maggie and Agie
Kenny, Mrs. l.. H. Marinus, Mrs, Il. j.
Barsutte, Mrs. A. f, Smith, Mrs. Peter
McGovern, Misses Maggie and Katie
Cody. Mrs. Charles Turner Mrs. j. K.
Clarke and Mrs. Martin Fincke.
The Broderick Republican Corps, 1876
strong, met at the Lafayette Wigwam
last evening, and completed the arrange
ments for their trip to Washington, The
Corps will form on the corner of Van
Horn street and Communipaw avenue at
7:3O Sunday evening, and march thence to
the Pennsylvania depot in time for the
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-03-02
FRANK J. HANIlEY ARRESTED.
He Denies That He Attempted to Bribe a
Juror,


Frank j. Hanley, the furniture dealer
of No. 203 Newark avenue, was arraigned
before Justice Davis this morning,
charged with attempting to bribe juror.
Mary E. Smith, dressmaker, of No.
$40 Jersey avenue, quareeled with her
husband and left him for time. When
she returned, she found that her husband
had sold her furniture to Mrs. Duffel, a
secondhand dealer. She engaged Lawyer
Charles Carrick to sue Mrs. buffet for
the value of the furniture.
The case was tried before Judge Doug
lass in the First District Court, on
February 8, and the jury disagreed. It
was tried a second time on Thursday and
one man on the jury held out for six cents
damage.
1t is claimed that in the jury room
Hanley threw $25 on the table and said
he didn't care what become of it if the
verdict was not for more than six cents.
G. w. Hall, of No. 103 Grand street, made
an affidavit to this effect and q warrant
for Mr.. Hanley's arrest was issued.
Mr.. Hanley denies the charge.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-03-02
.FEENEY' Y'SL|TTLE JOKE
He Did Not Mean to Call All
the Militia Muslin
Soldiers.
ONLY SOME OF THEN.
The Militia Boys Talk
Very Plainly About the
Member From the
Second.
ONLY SOME OF THEN.

nv,
1Ae unfortunate REMARKS iiaoe ~
Assemblyman Feeney about the New
Jersey Militial were the SUBJ
iect ~ conversation n tbe head
~ Il r,4...-sss.ss
luaf'ers oi one rourei hssssilneiAe
last night. IL was the onlcers
meeting night, and as each man en-
tered the room his attention was called
to the item in yesterdays JERSEY
CITY News. What troubles the boys
most is the lack of any object for s1cil
an attack. Mr.. Feeney's speech hurt
the feelings of the whole regiment and
the members of the G. A. r. did not
like it either.
But MIR. Feeney is explicit in hia
declaration that he had neither desireA
nor design to offend the soldier boys
II wouldn't do that for the world =
he said to me this morning. was
speaking only in q Pickwickian sense,
and was poking sticks at my friends OF
the militia on the Assembly floor.
Il have given the militia too many
earnests of my friendship for them to
be even open to the suspicion Of being
an enemy of them. have voted for
every measure they have had before the
Assembly. l was a warm advocate q
their NV armory bill last year, a11s
to all thesattempts to perfect the sal
of the encampment grounds to tt
State have lent both my voice az
vote.
The boys in the regiment are una:
nous in their Remuneration OF the iFs "a
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-03-02
They Enjoyed Themselves.

Edward Sayers and William Brennan,
employed on the coal ships, were paid off
last evening and Immediately started on a
glorious spree. After being in each
others company for several hours, Sayers
took exception to remark made by
Brennan and playfully threw a seltzer
water bottle at his head. Brennan lodged,
and the bottle went through window of
the saloon in which they We're drinking.
Before Weber, the proprietor, could inter
They we We're both l' arrested BY CAPTAIN New. New
ton and Officer Smith of the Oakland
avenue police station. This morning,
Justice Wanser sentenced them to ten
days Imprisonment in the county jail, each.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-03-02
Chiidren's Carnival.

The children's carnival, given under the
auspices of the Rectory Fund Society of
St. Paurs Church, at Bergen Hall, last
evening, was an artistic and financial snc-
cess. Mrs. Jarley's wax works and the
sprightly operetta, Little Red Riding
Hood.n were the salient features of the
programme The proceeds are for the
benefit of the Guild Room Fund.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-03-02
He WIN Not Get Away, Now.

Charles Henniger of No. s1s15 Fifth
street, was arraigned before Justice
Stilsing this morning on a charge
of abandonment. In November
last Heninger was arrested for keeping @
disorderly house at Railroad avenue and
Grove street. He was III the County jail
for a time and finally gave $500 bail for
trial He then ran away and forfeited his
BAIL
Shortly afterward his wife Ida COM
planned to Overseer of the Poor Hewitt
that he had deserted his family, and q
warrant was issued by Judge Stilslng for
his arrest. Detective Dalton took him
into custody last night. He was COM
mitted for examination in default Of $500
bail
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-03-02
LABEE HAS A BAD RECORD.
He Had Stabbed Man in Holland Before
killing His Wife Here.

He Had Stabbed q Man IN Holland Before
killing His Wife Here.
PATERSON, March 2, 18S9.-Mrs. Labee
who was so brutally hacked by her hus-
band, will be buried this afteraoon. The
murderer, when arrested, had in his pos
session SIG, which he handed the police,
requesting them to use it in defraying the
expenses of his wife's funeral
At the autopsy, which was held by Drs.
Cairnas and Terriberry, it was shown that
two of the stab wounds penetrated to the
stomach. These were the wounds that
caused Mrs. Labee's death. There were
twenty other cuts and gashes on the head
and body.
Late last night Coroner Goodridge was
called upon by a young foreigner named
John Hertog, Who gave history of Labee
in Holland Hertog said that Labee bore
a very bad reputation there, and had
stabbed man in the face, almost killing
him. For this offence he was sentenced
to prison. On his release he came to
America, but returned to Holland within
a month. In Holland he again got into
some kind of trouble, and was sent to
prison for tws5 months
Read Bill Mes funny letter IN the
qle1t SIINDA " Y1fORWING NEWS.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-03-02
Freight Cars or the Track.

While a drill engine was trying at IL
O'Clock last night to back some cars into
the Meadow yard of the Pennsylvania
railroad. two empty box cars were de-
rallied at the junction with the New York,
Susquehanna and Western railroad at
Marion Beyond delaying freight travel
for half an hour, no damage was done.