The Monmouth inquirer., 1889-03-28
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People.
BELvIDERE, N. j., March 25.-The notice
of contest served on Congressman Fowler, of
the Fourth district, by his competitor, Ma
thaniel Voorhees,, has been withdrawn The
latter asserted that Fowler was elected by
the corrupt use of money, but was unable to
secure proof.
The Legislature.
TRENTON, March 25
Tuesdays session of the senate was dull and
uninteresting.
Il the house, Tuesday, the Wertz local
c'ton repeater was passed by vote of 32 to
-. The bill preventing the removal of veter-
ans from office without according them a
hearing was passed.
The governor signed the Werts local option
repeater Wednesday.
The senate Wednesday passed bills modify
ing the present libel law; appropriating $685.
700 for the founding of state institution for
the blind, and forbidding the employment of
Pinkerton detectives in the state during
strikes. Governor Green renominated and
the senate confirmed Judges Alfred Reed and
Jonathan Dixon as judges of the supreme
court for full terms of seven years
In the house Wednesday committee was
appointed to ascertain whether money had
been used to improperly influence any of the
members on the bill repeating the act incor-
porating the West Jersey Game Protective
association. The bill was killed by a vote of
70, fc cid Jorxy 1aid
on the table pending the investiga ton.
The senate Monday night passed the Jersey
City charter bill, the bill requiring the erec-
tion of fire escapes on factories and work.
shops, and the resolution requesting congress
to pass law granting pension to every
honorably discharged soldier who was con-
fined in rebel prisons, and the payment OF S2
per day for each day of confinement
In the house Monday night Mr.. Price, of
Essex, submitted a report from the Soldiers
and Sailors Veteran League of Newark, to
The effect that committee representing the
league had investigated the rumors alleging
Encouragement of the Soldiers Home and
found they were without foundation in fact.
They add that the institution is well man.
aged, is in good order and all its inmates re-
ceive the best of attention. Governor Green
sent in veto of house bill 1l9, which pro-
vides for the pensioning OF all colored troops
credited to New Jersey whoserve in the late
war, on the ground that defects in the draft
ing of the bill make it unconstitutional He
says the bill was written in an unknown Ian
guage The veto was laid over under the
rules House bill 1914, providing that tele-
graph messages must be delivered in cities
without extra charge except between the
hours of 10 p. m. and 4 a. m, was killed, 20
to "a, and motion to reconsider was laid on
the table,
A Defaulting Deputy Postmaster.
NEW BRUNSWICK N. j., March 20.-Ed-
ward Deshler, deputy postmaster, is said to
have fed the city, leaving large shortage in
his accounts Postmaster Price admits that
Deshler suddenly disappeared on Saturday,
but claims that the rules Of the postoffice de-
partment prevent him from divulging the
..ature and extent of the trouble that caused
his deputy to go. Deshler was in charge of
the money order department, through which
thousands of dollars pass every week. He
also kept the books of the entire cash de-
partment, and was apparently under no
safe bonds. 1t is believed by some that
Deshlers alleged defalcation will range
all the way from $1,000 to $4,000. He
has had peculiar career in New Bruins
wick. He was a bookkeeper for County
Collector Hartmoor, who served term in
state prison for embezzlement. Directly
thereafter he served in the same capacity for
Collector Letson, who was found guilty of
embezzling the county's funds and was
sentenced to state prison. He was
bookkeeper for Collector Levi D. Jerrard,
who stole $4,000 skipped to Canada, and
was returned by requisirion in 1888, and SEN
fenced to state prison for ten years. 1t was
Deshler's evidence that convicted Jerrard,
and it is believed by some to this day that be
committed the forgeries through which Jer-
rard was extradited. He has been Jonah
to every official with whom he has been con-
nected. Many of his transgresslons have
been covered up for the sake of his family,
who hold high position in the social scale in
New Brunswick.
Did the Women Vote Illegally?
CAMDEN, N. j., March &c. AN interesting
question i, raised in a contest begun over the
election OF school trustees in the borough Of
Chiselhurst, Camden county, last Tuesday
night. The election was held under the new
school law allowing women to vote in New
Jersey. OF the fifty-four votes cast, fourteen
were deposited by women, and the election
officers allowed six of the women, who were
foreign born, to vote ON their husbands nat
uranZauOn papers. -. y. ddycOcK, preSl-
dent of the borough commissioners, was one
of the defeated candidates., and he has begun
contest on the ground that six foreign born
women voted Illegally He claims that a
woman, if foreign born, must have been nat
sl.alized to be able to vote. The question is
said to be a new one.
A Farm Hands Crime.
NEWARK, N. j., March 22.-Mrs. Julianna
Mutter, the wife of a dairy farmer and milk
man, near Irvington, suburb of Newark,
was decoyed out of the house and into the
Iarn by the cries of her 5-year-old boy. The
lad was bound and hid in the hay by Swiss
laborer named Joseph Sultzmann, whom her
husband hired at Castle Garden four months
ago. As soon as she reached the barn Sultz-
mann seized her and threw her on the floor,
where he tried to assault her.
The woman resisted, end, taking ham
mer from his pocket, he fractured her skull
in two places Then he assaulted her and
left her to roJ the house. She recovered con-
sciousnses and crawled toward the house.
He caughe her half way, and, dragging her
l,.ol~ Nv tha hair ho bit har thraa or fo,1r