The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-10-07
UDGENIXON'SSUCCESS0
EDW4RDE. GREEN OR Ex-DISTBTCT
ATTORNEY KEASBEY9


ATTORNEY KEASBEY9
ANewark Man Makes a Fatal Mistake
stabbed Five Times in East Newark
General News of the State.
Lawyers all over the State are
greatly interested in the appointment
of a successor to Judge Nixon, of the
United States District Court, whose
decease was announced a week ago.
The appointment is for life, and the
salary is 81, 800, with a pension after
the Judge reaches seventy years. 1t
is expected that Congress will increase
the salary to SO, 900 a year at its next
session. The duties require regular
attention and considerable legal
ability, but are not onerous, and the
place is considered n of much dig
nifty and as one of the prizes OF the
profession. The candidates named
are Edward 7. Green, of Trentoni
James E. Howell, of the law firm OF
Coult & Howell, of this city, and a.
O. Keasbey, also of this city. Mr..
Green has for many years been
New Jersey counsel of the Penn
sylvania Railroad Company, and
has been almost exclusively
engaged in the railroad bust
ness. He will have the support OF his
railroad employers and of ex-senator
Sewell, and is confident of receiving
he appointment. Mr.. Keasbey was
t. s. District Att orney for years, and
will have the support of Secretary
Tracy, of the Navy Department, with
whom he has been associated in legal
cases. 1t was supposed that Mr..
Keasbey aimed at the higher position
of United States Circuit Court Judge,
in place Of Judge McKennan, whose
term is about to expire, but it is I'M
derstood that he is willing to com-
promise on the minor position. James
L. Howell is urged by many members
of the bar, who point out that 1T
would be unwise to appoint to such a
position men past the prime OF life,
and that in judicial Office political
pull should not influence the admins
tration, but that the sole test should
be fitness.
Judge Nixon had been ill a long
time and it is desirable that an APP
pointment should be made at once in
order to dispose of the business of the
courts. Should a Newarker be APP
pointed cases affecting parties in this
section of the State could be tried in
this city, an act of Congress having
been passed designating Newark, as
well as Trenton, as o place for the
trial of United States causes
Another East Newark Tragedy.
Word was received at Newark police
headquarters at eleven o'clock last
night that a man had been murdered
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sent to the place and Driver Hague
found a colored man, who gave his
name as George Moore and his age
as twenty-four. The man had been
stabbed in the back five times. He
was taken to the City Hospital, where
it was stated that the wounds, though
serious, were not likely to prove fatal.
Two men were arrested at midnight
on suspicion of being his assailants,
and they were locked up at the Har-
rison police station.
1t was learned later that the affair
occurred at Schlemner's abattoir. A
row started between the colored nan
and O German, and during the row
the colored man received his wounds.
Took b for Wine.
William Will, of III Walnut street,
Newark, a jeweler, has been at the
point of death since Thursday morn
Ing last, and the man has suffered ter
ribly through a mistake OF his own,
which, in nine cases out of ten, would
have caused death.
Nh. Will is in the habit of buying
wine in small, yellow earthen jugs,
such as imported settler is put up in.
On Thursday morning he arose quite
early and went to the closet to get a
drink of wine. He putt the jug to his lips
and took a swallow, supposing that it
contained wine. Immediately his
wife was aroused by a cry of pain,
and going to the kitchen found her
husband writhing in agony, She
knew at a glance what the trouble
was, for she had been using some car
bolic acid as a disinfectant and had
placed it in an empty jug similar to
the one in which the wine is kept.
Mrs. Will dosed her husband with
sweet oil and sent for a physician. All
that was possible was done for the
man, and he is in a fair way to re-
cover, but his mouth and throat are
terribly burned.
Burlington's Tax Delinquents.
The Burlington City Councll is just
now wrestling with the delinquent
tax question. The tax warrant for
1889 shows delinquent taxes amount
ing to So, 800 and about S 5000 remain
ing unpaid for 1888.
The Finance Committee held a
special meeting Friday to devise
means for collecting these taxes. City
Attorney RarrOWS WAS present and
was requested to formulate an or
dinance governing the assessment and
collection of taxes.
1t is stated by those in authority
that unless the amount is collected
promptly the city will be compelled
TO borrow money to meet its current
expenses.
REAL ESTATE TRANSACTIONS.
OhiciaI Record of Last Weeks Transfers
and Mortgages.
TRANSFERS.
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