The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-08-16
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THE PROHIBITION EXECUTIVE
COMMITTEES MEETING.

THE PROHIBITION EXECUTIVE
COMMITTEES MEETING.
Lay Judges Moving to Secure Their
Rights-New Brunswick's Bad Water
Death at a Ripe Old Age-General State
News.
The New Jersey State Prohibition
Executive Committee held a meeting
yesterday in the basement OF the
Union Library at Trenton, and discussed
some of their plans for the coming cam
paign in this State. The conference was
of a private character. T. w. Burger,
who is chairman of the committee, pre-
sided. The committee are very sangu1ne
of success this year, n while they DO
not expect to elect a Governor, they do ex-
pect to increase the Prohibition vote in
the State.
They are arranging for a very active
campaign, to be conducted very quietly
They are now disposed to deprecate pub
lie meetings, and claim that they are eX..
pensive and unsatisfactory. instead Oh
sending speakers throughout the state,
they are going to print lots of campaign
documents, and distribute cold water
literature by the ton.
They intend to inaugurate a school dis
trict canvass and make it q thorough one.
What little speaking will be done IS TO De
left to small township meetings and local
speakers. A particular search is to De
made for doubtful and hopeful voters.
They still contend that they can not
afford this year to give any moral support
to the old party candidates, for they eX..
pect at this election to make a test OF
their strength.
Chairman Burger says:-"We discover
no weakening of the backbone OF the
New Jersey Prohibitionists We have no
compromises to make. While some were
disappointed at the results of the last
election, none were discouraged. We Will
accept nothing but unconditional surren-
der, and accord it but one privilege, that
is the right to die-the sooner the better"
The committee remained in session
until four O'Clock, and then they fastened
home, to meet again on Tuesday in Jersey
City, when several subcommittee will
make their report.
In an address Just issued to the Pro-
hibitionists Chairman I. w. Burger says
of the Republican parity
Even the party which falsely claims to
hold all the moral and temperance senti-
ment of the State was during its last
legislative control too much in fear OF the
rum power to even Express its own con-
v~ictions, and so, forsooth, to shield itself
from an impending storm OF indignation
and the detection of its members, reluct-
antly ~relegated the question to the coun-
ties: not, however, for settlement, but to
compromise, to wit, to exchange the
saloon and hotel bar for the jug shop; to
outlaw the retailer and continue the
wholesaler, the brewer and the distiller--
in other words. to quarantine malar1al
fever while giving a clean bill of health to
cholera and small pox."
Lay Judges Want More Salary.
The Lay Judges of New Jersey are go
ng to come before the next Legislature
with several important measures. One
in particular will be to secure a better
salary for the office, so that it will no
longer be an empty honor. Yesterday
about eighteen of them went to Trenton
and held a secret meeting for the purpose
of agreeing on some line of action n to
create several committees and assign
to them work to do between this and the
next Legislative session. The drift of
their comment on the situation was that
Leon Albeit will be nominated and
elected. Those who were present:-W. S.
Low, of Ocean,: John Gauntt, Camden;
Richard J.. Byrnes and Enoch Cordery,
Atlantic; Benjamin p. Wells, Joshua
Forsyth and Stacy Scott, Burlington;
Charles G.. Hampton and Nathaniel STRAIT
ton, Cumberland; William A. Wood,
Salem; @. M. Jameson II A. 5. Seagle,
Somerset; Enoch Jones, Ocean; w. F.
Hayhurst, Lambertville; L. S. Hyer, Rah-
way, and w. L. Wright, Trenton.
Died, Aged 1o4 Years.
Mrs. Rebecca Sidnor died at the resi-
dence of her s~on-in-law, Richard Sutton,
in Deckertown, yesterday, at the age of
104 years. She was born on January 3,
1875, in Wiretown, Warren county, N. j.,
and was the mother of thirteen children,
five Of whom survive her. Her death was
caused by a fall received last Sunday.
She was a remarkably active woman for
her years. She could not see to thread q
needle, but she did a great deal of sewing
up to a short time before her death. Since
the death of her husband, about forty
years ago, she smoked a pipe, sometimes
as often as six or eight times a day.
Newark Republicans Elect Omcers.
Last evening the Republican Executive
Committee of Essex county met at head
quarters on Halsey street for the election
of Officers for the coming year. The fol-
lowing officers were Observation-Disclosures,
w. +. Otis; secretary, George r. johnson,
and corresponding secretary, Morris d.
Macknet. The committee decided to hold
future meetings the first Wednesday of
each month.
Next Thursday night the Republican
League will meet at headquarters and
standing committees will be announced
by President William e. Bowel.
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New B~runswick's Bad Water.
There has been a great deal of COM
plant about New Brunswick city water,
the smell and taste being extremely bad,
and rumors of noxious germs being in it
were SO persistent that the Board of
Health ordered an investigation. DIR.
Austin, of Rutgers College, has rendered
a report. He states that the water is
strongly impregnated with vegetable mat
ter and also a sediment which cannot
easily be filtered. He advises care in it's
use, though he states that at present there
are no disease germs in it.
Church Struck by Lightning.
During Wednesday nights storm light
ming struck the new Methodist church at
Pennington, the barns of John Case, at
Neshanic, and of George w. Lunger, at
Sunnyside. Both barns were burned.
The house of John w. Case, at Clover
Hill, was badly shattered. Houses and
barns were unroofed on the "Hlll." Bad
washouts are reported on the Lehigh
Valley Railroad, and the Clinton Branch
has been washed out, the second time
this season Haavt damana hoe haau