The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-08-31
MASHED HER IN CHURCH.
" coEoRED DAMSELs SURPRISE
A CAMDEN CONGREGATION.


A Broken-Necked Man Living in Cam
den-Mrs. Ross, of Newark, Collars a
Burglar-A Fatal Plunge at Atlantic
City-General News of the State.
There was a very lively time Thursday
night in the Zion NJ. E. Colored Church,
Eighth and Ferry avenue, Camden, after
the close of the services. While the mem.
bers of the congregation were shaking
hands in farewell they were startled at
hearing boisterous language in one of the
corners, and the remark, II have been
waitin' to mash you and now / am going
to do it."
The speaker was Annie Butler. and the
person addressed Mary Hinson. Those
who had tarried to speak a kind word to
the pastor were surprised to see hats and
other female apparel flying across the
benches and to hear the appeals of q
woman for mercy. The belligerent woman
was Annie Butler, and the unfortunate
one, who was receiving a severe chast1se-
ment was Mary Hinson. The trustees in
terfered and separated the sisters, and
Mary, accompanied by some friends,
started for her home.
When she reached the sidewalk she was
met by Charles Butler, brother to Annie,
who began to finish the affair, where his
relative had been forced to stop. He said
he had waited a long time for the oppor-
tunity and was not going to let it slip.
After giving two or three blows he was
overpowered, and the much battered girl
was taken home. Yesterday Justice
Chester held Annie and her brother for
court.
Newark Republicans Club House.
The Republican Club of Newark met
last evening, for the first time since it
was decided to purchase the Terah Bene-
dict property for a club house, with q
goodly number of it's three hundred and
ten members present, Notwithstanding
that but few of the usual summer lab
sentees have as yet returned to their
homes. In the absence of the president,
Mr.. Gilmore w. Sanderson was elected
president pro TEN. County Clerk Smith,
chairman of the committee to select and
purchase a club house, reported that the
committee had an option on the property
belonging to the estate of the late Terah
Benedict, at No. 48 Park place, which has
q frontage of forty feet and runs back
$50 feet, and that in the course OF a day
or two the necessary papers would be exc
cuted and the transfer made. The price
to be paid was $4,000 and 1900 was to be
paid when the necessary papers are exc
cuted. Plans were h submitted of the
alterations it is proposed to make in the
building, which were closely examined by
the members present. The plans contem-
plate a parlor, library, dining room, stew
ards office n kitchen on the first floor,
large billiard room 22x24, q card room,
a music room, office and committee rooms
on the second floor, and bedrooms On the
third floor. 1t is expected that it will be
ready for occupancy by the 18th of Octo-
Der. The estimated cost of the alterations
is $1,000.
Alive with a Broken Neck.
A singular case is being watched with
great interest by the surgeons at the
Cooper Hospital, Camden. They have a
patient there named Caleb b. Tozer,
whose neck is probably broken, and yet
he is living. Tozer is a clothing manu-
f%acturer, t~hirty-f1ve years old, and has been
boarding at No. 518 South Fifth street.
EARLY. this morning he slipped at the
head OF the stairway at his boarding
house, and fell down the entire flight of
eighteen steps. When picked up he was
unconscious, and his forearm fell Imply
on his breast. A near by physician found
that Tozer was still alive, and as he did
not regain Consciousness ne was taken to
the Cooper Hospital just before noon.
An exhaustive examination could not
be made owing to the mans condition,
but the surgeons say there is either q frac-
ture OF the spinal column or of the verte-
bra of the neck. While they will not
positively affirm that the mans neck is
broken, they think such is the case. His
condition is critical, although there is
some little chance for his recovery. His
case is considered remarkable.
A Fatal Dive Into the Surf.
There was a death in the surf at Atlantic
City yesterday, but it was not caused by
the angry waves swallowing up the vic
tim, but by a miscalculation on the part
of the man who lies dead in a casket
which is even now being speeded to sor-
rowing friends of the deceased in Phila-
delphia. Joseph Armstrong, the foreman
of the Knickerbocker Ice Company at the
Catharine street wharf, an expert swim
mer, went in bathing this morning. He
was fond of diving and mounted a pavilion