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Bridgeton pioneer. (Bridgeton, N.J.) 1884-1919, 1889-04-04
NEW LAWS.
They Received the Signature of
the Governor.

Governor Green, Monday, approved
the following bills:
Senate 8, appropriating $4,000 for
the maintenance of the State In
dustrial School for girls.
Senate 5S, an act to enable cities to
borrow money for the support of pub
Tic schools when the State appropri-
alton is unavailable.
Senate 72, supplementalto to charitable
institution act. Provides that the
Eame of an institution may be changed
by two-thirds vote of the direction.
Senate 1853, repeals the act amending
the Orphans Court act approved
March 27, 1878, and April 81, 1887.
House 29S, extends the time in which
to complete certain railroads for two
Years.
Senate III, requires legal voters of
all school districts to vote oy ballot at
all regular elections for trustees or the
appropriation of moneys for school
purposes.
Senate 1876. provides that waters
from tide water meadows shall not be
let out to the tide between October 1
and April l, when the same crosses any
public road or highway
House 147, provides that fugitives
from justice who are arrested in this
State shall not be delivered up to off
GERS from other States, unless upon the
warrant or mandate of the Governor.
Bridgeton pioneer. (Bridgeton, N.J.) 1884-1919, 1889-04-04
THE TUKNERvILLE MURDER.
A Jewish PeddIer Murdered For
his Money,

The body found at Turnerville,
Gloucester county, was a Jewish
peddler, and it has been established
that he was murdered, and the de-
tectives are on the trail OF the murder
er. The post-mortem examination
showed that his nose was broken, with
several bad gashes on the side of his
head, one cash ten and half inches
long, extending clear across the top of
his head, through into the brain, a
cash in the right side of his neck, cut
ting through the bone of the spinal
column. The physicians, judging from
the rope found around the body, are
under the impression that the body
was tied to some heavy article and
sunk in the pond, the body looking as
if it had been in the water for three
months. The investigation is proceed
ing and the inquest will not be held
for week. The murder, so say the
doctors, must have been committed
while the deceased was lying asleep,
as the wounds bear out this theory.
Bridgeton pioneer. (Bridgeton, N.J.) 1884-1919, 1889-04-04
SALARIES INCREASED.

Mr.. Harding then moved that all
salaries of officers Of the city, remain
the same as last year, with the excep-
ton of the salary of the City Recorder
and Water Superintendent Woodruff.
This motion was unanimously carried.
Mr.. Harding again moved that the
salary of the City Recorder be $3.50 in
stead of 800 as heretofore. The gem
tleman stated that the work Of the
Recorder was far more than in the
past when the salary was fixed at $100,
and thought it should be increased.
The motion was carried bya unani-
nous vote.
Mr.. Harding again arose to his feet
and said that as a member of the
Water Committee he had been enabled
to see just how much work had been
done by the Water Superintendent,
and he knew how well it was being
done. The Committee had decided to
recommend that the salary be raised
from $85 to $100 per month, but Mr..
Woodruff was anxious that the salary
of his assistant engineer be raised, and
to do this the committee recommended
the salary of Mr.. Woodruff to be raised
$1,100 per year, an advance of $50
This was SO ordered, and the salary of
Assistant Engineer Charles Baker was
ordered to be made 1924 per year, in
stead of $500.
The purchasing committee was in
structed to purchase one or more yes
sci loads of gutter stone.
Mr.. Terrell stated that Mr.. Chester
j. Buck had asked him to have Coufs
Gil take some action on the opening of
Lake street, as several persons were
anxious to build there. The matter
was referred to Councilmen of the
ward.
This ended the business of the ses-
sion and Council adjourned. &
Bridgeton pioneer. (Bridgeton, N.J.) 1884-1919, 1889-04-04
Judge Leary Dies.

Charles Leary, an aged citizen of
this city, died at his home No. 40 South
Pine street, Monday night at 10 o'clock.
Mr.. Leary was familiarly known as
Judge he being a prominent Demo-
cratic politician and has held several
minor offices, among them being As
sessor of the ward in which he lived.
He was for many years employed by
the Cohansey Glass Works, in a po-
sition which he held until obliged to
reiinquish owing to failing eye sight.
Bridgeton pioneer. (Bridgeton, N.J.) 1884-1919, 1889-04-04
How Did 1t Get There :

Joshua Nickel, son of Samuel Nickel,
of Friesburg, Cumberland County,
about a month ago felt strange sensa-
ton in his shoulder. He thought moth
ing of it, but few days ago a careful
examination revealed something in
the flesh like large pin. He consulted
DR.. Dare and it was decided best that
it.be removed, which was done. 1t was
found to be a large needle, Il inch in
length, and covered with rust. The
point was worn off. 1t had turned
black, and it is believed that it got in
him when he was child. He is now
past 90 wears of age,
Bridgeton pioneer. (Bridgeton, N.J.) 1884-1919, 1889-04-04
Business Change.

Frazeur & Rice, the lime dealers,
have purchased of Garrison & Minch,
their lime business on South Laurel
street, and will assume control on
Monday next. The firm will push
ahead in the business, and in their
new place on South Laurel street, will
burn large quantities of lime, barge
load of shells now being unloaded at
the wharf. The main office of the
firm will be at the Broad street depot.
Garrison q Minch have taken charge of
all the terra Gotta business.
Bridgeton pioneer. (Bridgeton, N.J.) 1884-1919, 1889-04-04
Hopeful ProhIbitionists.

MT. HOLLY, N. j., March 2S-The
Prohibitionists are preparing to avail
themselves of the privileges accorded
them under the Baker amendment to
the Werts liquor bill just as soon as it
takes effect, and say they have no
doubt that they will carry twenty-four
of the twenty-seven townships in the
county, against license. In Borden
town and Burlington, where the Ii
censes are granted by Council, it will
be impossible to do anything unless
they succeed in electing non-license
Councilmen-which is hardly proba-
hlo
Bridgeton pioneer. (Bridgeton, N.J.) 1884-1919, 1889-04-04
SERIOUSLY INJURED.
Ran Over BY a Loaded Wagon,


Charles Snyder, of South Pine St.,
drives a team for Erickson, the brick
manufacturer, and Friday afternoon
at four O'Clock he was coming in
Pearl street with a load of wood.
When at the Central Railroad crossing
he fell from the hounds Of the wagon
upon which he was riding. and under
the wheels, which passed over his
breast. He was unable to make any
outcry, so badly was he injured, but
he attracted the attention of a passer
by, who picked him up and took him
home in a carriage, when he was
placed under the care of DR.. T. &.
Davis. He is suffering greatly
Bridgeton pioneer. (Bridgeton, N.J.) 1884-1919, 1889-04-04
OVERCOME BY GAS.
Three Fishermen Nearly SuffO-
Gated.

The fishermen of Bayside do not
have very easy life at best and their
labor is beset with dangers which few
people have any idea Of. In addition
to this they live in small quarters
which cannot be healthy, and the re-
suit of this muddled existence came
near proving fatal in one instance on
Wednesday night. Frank Cunning
ham, and two other fishermen, live in
a small cabin of a float. Here they
cook, eat and sleep. Wednesday
night they dampered the fire after put
ting some coal on, and went to sleep.
Some time about midnight one of the
men arose with a strange feeling of
suffocation and grouped his way out
of the cabin to the open air. When he
reached the deck, he fell headlong
from the boat to the mud at the bot
tom of the river. This seemed to have
beneficial effect and he again got on
the boat and went back in the cabin,
arousing the other men who were in a
stupor. The cause of the suffocation
was from escaping coal gas from the
stove. 1t was a very narrow escape
for the men.
Bridgeton pioneer. (Bridgeton, N.J.) 1884-1919, 1889-04-04
Open tor Proposals.

The Building Committee of Central
Church, met Monday night, and de-
cided to open the Specifications to con-
tractors and bids will be received I'M
til noon on the Goth of April. The
contractors win be called upon to bid
upon a building of stone with the ex-
ception of the west side, which will be
of brick. At least, score of contrac-
tors are expected to offer bids upon
the str ucture.
Bridgeton pioneer. (Bridgeton, N.J.) 1884-1919, 1889-04-04
Putting in Telephones.

Sam Meyers, of the Telephone Com
pany, has put in five new phones this
month, and more are yet 10 be added.
w. w. Robbins is to have his Com
merce and Laurel street stores connect
ed with the exchange, and phone is
to be placed in the machine shop of J.
LeWden Robson.
Bridgeton pioneer. (Bridgeton, N.J.) 1884-1919, 1889-04-04
Received Contract.

L. E. Chapel, of the Star Route
Mail Company, has contracted with
Benjamin Bonham to carry the mail
between Greenwich and Bridgeton for
$400. This is 800 less than last year.
The contract is for four years.
Bridgeton pioneer. (Bridgeton, N.J.) 1884-1919, 1889-04-04
Grand Opening.

Mr.. A. H. McClintock has leased the
store No. 10 & 81 North Laurel street,
in Robbins Block, for first class fur
niture and house furnishing store. He
will have a grand opening on Saturday
night, April 9th. Flowers, evergreens
and brass band. All invited.
Bridgeton pioneer. (Bridgeton, N.J.) 1884-1919, 1889-04-04
About Canned Goods.

Regarding the talk about poison in
canned goods, State Inspector New
ton, in his annual report just issued,
says-"It has been my custom for the
past few years, to investigate all re-
ports of poisoning supposed to be due
to the eating of canned articles. 1t is
claimed that lead and tin have been
found in large quantities in canned
vegetables. My investigations have
never revealed a single case where
lead was in quantities large enough to
detect. Of all cases of sickness caused
by eating canned goods, the cause has
always been found to have been that
the contents were spoiled when opened,
or the can had been allowed to remain
open for day or more before the con
tents were used"
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-05-09
MAJOR EDWARDS DEAD.

A Well Known Newspaper Man of KansaA
City Dies After Two Days Illness.
KANSAS CITY, Mo-. May 5--Major John
n. Edwards. an editorial writer of the
Kansas City Times, died at ten O'CLOCK
yesterday morning at the Mccarthy
House in Jefferson City. He had been
sick but two days. Major Edwards was
one of the best known newspaper mon in
the West. He was born in Virginia forty.
seven years ago and learned the printers
trade. In 1859 he came to Lexington. in
this State, and worked at his trade until
the civil war broke out. He enlisted in
the Confederate army and served until
the close of the war as Adjutant on Gen.
eral Shelby's staff. He then went te
Mexico and served under Macmillan fol-
a year when he went to St Louis and
worked on newspapers of that city. From
1868 to 1872 he was employed on the Times
of this city, and after that he was con.
nected with the Sedalia Democrat and St
Joseph Gazette. In January, 1881, ha
came to this city, and has since been en-.
gagged in writing editorials for the Times.
He was instrumental in the surrender OF
Frank James after Franks brother Jesse
had been killed by Bob Ford
His remains will be brought to this city.
No arrangements have been made for the
funeral further than that the services will
be held at his late home, 720 Campbell
street Major Edwards left a widow and
three children, two girls and boy.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-05-09
KANSAS FouRTH DISTRICT.

Republicans Meet to Nominate q Congress-
man.
EMPoRIA, Kan, May 4-The Fourth
Congressional district Republican conven.
tion to nominate a candidate for Congress
to succeed Hon. Thomas Ryan, met
yesterday afternoon and organized, elect
ing Hon. w. A. Morgan, of Chase County,
IS chairman, and Hon. N. L Stockton, Of
Cohey County, as secretary. There are
ten candidates and eleven counties in tho
district and the attendance is large.
Resol utions were adopted congratulat-
ing the party on the success in the Nation
and State at the late election. paying
tribute to Hon. Thomas Ryan's ability
and integrity; indorsing the administra-
ton of President Harrison in ''its loyalty
to true American principles which guar
teed to Americans the markets of Amer
ica;" indorsing the appointment of Cor
poral Tanner as Commissioner of PEN.
sions, and renewing grateful devotion to
the survivors of the late war, and favor
ing a service pension to all honorably dis
charged soldiers, their widows, orphans
or dependent parents. A recess was then
taken until evening.
On reassembling after supper the con-
vention Immediately got down to business
and the roll was called by counties to
name candidates without nominating
speeches. Shawnee named d. c. Metsker;
Usage, L. E. Finch; Morris J. ii. Miller;
Lyon, w. w. Scott; Coffee, Harrison Kel-
ley; Woodson, w. H Slavens: Green
wood, William Martindale Of Emporia.
and Marion, e. w. Hoch. Chase county
seconded the nomin alton of Miller of Nor
ris and Butler named ]. z. Cubbison.
The first ballot resulted: Metsker Is,
Finch IL, Nicholson 5, Miller 9. Scott 9.
Kelley 6. Slavens 3, Martindale Z, Hoch I
and Cubbison 9.
Up to the fortieth ballot this vote re-
mained the same with the exception of
Woodson on the third ballot changing to
Kelley, and Wabaunsee on the thirty
fourth ballot changing to Finch.
At the forty sixth ballot, after several
futile attempts, an adjournment was had
to nine O'Clock this morning.
SECOND DAY.
EMPoRIA, Kan, May 2-Balloting & in the
Republican nominating convention for the
Fourth Kansas district continued all day
yesterday. Two hundred ballots had been
cast up to adjournment without result.
THIRD DAY-KELLY NOMINATED.
EMPoRIA. Kan. May 4-After struggle
of three days duration a successor in
Congress to Hon. Thomas Ryan was nom
mated by the Republicans yesterday after
noon on the 21Sth ballot Hon. Harrison
Kelly. of Coffey County, is the choice. Mr..
Kelly is farmer and has been a resident
of this State since 1858. He has been
a member of the State Senate, and also
OF the House, and has held several other
important offices under the State Govern
ment. He is a native of Wood County,
Ohio; is fifty three years of age; has
been married twice, and is the father OF
four children. He served through the late
war in the Fourth Kansas cavalry, enlist
ing as a private and being mustered out
as captain of company B.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-05-09
DEATH TO TRAINMEN.

B ad ColIision ON the Northern Pacific NeaF
Jamestown, Dak.-NarroW Escape OF
Passengers in nWisconsin-Fioods I'm c..-
ada.
ST. PAUL, Mimi, May IA special
from Jamestown, OAK. says the first sec
tion of the Northern Pacific west-bound
limited passenger train collided yesterday
with freight No. 1s thirty-six miles
west The collision occurred ON q bend
and the trains were almost upon each
other before the danger was discov-
cred. The 6remen and en-.
gineers of both trains jumped. En-.
gineer Bass, of the passenger, broke his
back and died almost immediately. Fire.
man Killen, Of the passenger, and Engi.
neer Beal and Frank Kellum of the freight
escaped without serious injuries. The
postal car jumped the track and was .
complete wreck. Both clerks were badly
injured. One had received notification OF
his removal and was on his last run. His
leg was broken, and he died Just after the
jamestown left Windsor. The other clerk,
Lounsbery. q nephew Of Colonel Louns.
berry, the well known newspaper CORES.
pondent had his arm broken in two
places and was badly scalded. Bag
gagemaster Nichols, of St Paul, had
his arm broken in two places. The train
bore the usual number of passengers but
none were injured. Both engines and the
mail and baggage cars left the track and
were badly demolished. A number Of
freight cars were entirely destroyed.
Three cars were loaded with Washington
Territory horses, which were killed out
right or shot to relieve their sufferings.
This Is the first accident of consequences
which has happened on the Dakota divi.
sion for some time. Engineer Bass,
who was killed, lived here. He was
thirty years old, and was engaged to be
married in about ten days to Miss
Miller, who was greatly shocked at the re-
ceipt of the news of his death and is suf-
fering from hemorrhage as the result
Doubts of her recovery are entertained.
When the news of the wreck reached here,
Superintendent McCabs, with three sur
geons and a wrecking car, left for the
of train orders by operators at Steel and
| was the cause of the collision.
COLLISION ON THE WISCONSIN CENTRAL.
ASHLAND, WIS, May GA bad collision
| occurred on the Wisconsin Central road
near Highbridge, eighteen miles south
A passenger train collided with the real
end of a freight train which had backed
off the switch. The engine was demol.
ished. The engineer and fireman, though
| they did not jump, miraculously escaped
| with their lives.
DISAsTR Gus FLOODS IN CANADA.
QUEBEC. May 6-Disastrous floods ar,
| reported in the Sagueney districts. A
number of bridges have been swept away
| and there has been much damage {,
houses and other property. Great distress
| prevails,
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-05-09
PENSION FRAUDS.
An Extended Fraud Practiced on the Gov
ernment.

An EXtehded fraud Pr0ctfced ON tho Gov
ernmeRt.
ST. LOUIS May 5.-Jacob Little. Union
soldier, died in Andersonville prison, and
in 1871 his widow was granted a pension
of $36 a month. She married a man named
Barnes, and died in 1876. Barnes took
his wife's pension papers and went tc
Pettis County, Mo-. where he married q
widow named Rogers He induced her
to impersonate the deceased Mrs.
Little and she drew the pension. Barnes
died in 1871 and the widow took up
with a man named Rite. She wanted to
stop the fraud, but Rite compelled her tc
continue it until they separated about q
year ago. Then she ceased drawing the
money and the Government started an in
vestigation. Mrs. Barnes was arrested
yesterday at Somerset, Ozark County, and
Rite was taken into custody in this city.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-05-09
Champagne Flowed.

MEMPHIS, Tenn. Nay 5.-The receipts Of
cotton at Memphis since September 1 to
date aggregate zoe, ,201 bales. This ex-
ceeds by 1928 bales the entire receipts
for many previous years. The crossing OF
the seven hundred thousandt line was
the occasion OF big jollifcation by MEM
bers of the exchange yesterday forenoon.
The bIackboards were elaborately decked
with blue ribbons and champagne flowed
as free as water
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-05-09
THE EAST.

AT meeting recently of the creditors
of Thomas f. Scanlan, doing business as
the New England Piano Company at Bos-
ton, statement was presented by Mr.
Seaman showing direct liabilities of 1892, =
$40, with assets of $53S, 131.
A GRAND reunion of veterans of the g.
A. r. posts of New York City and vicinity
was held on the last day of the centennial
in honor of Commander in Chief Warner,
of Kansas City.
The first annual dinner of the Spanish
American Commercial Union was held in
. New York on the 1st. Secretary Noble
was one Of the speakers.
CHARLES BAILEY was drowned near
Ithaca, N. Y, recently by bridge giving
way beneath a wagon load Of lumber on
which he was riding.
The great strike in the Pittsburgh (Pa J
building trade was inaugurated on the 1st.
= Five thousand men were affected
The schooner Shiloh with fourteen men
from Gloucester, Mass, for the fishing
banks, has not been heard from since
March % and has been given up for lost,
JAMES'LEGG was accidentally drowned
recently near Paterson, N. ].
MICHAEL HILLIAR jumped from a burr.
ing building in New York recently and
was fatally injured. His brother, Igna.
titus, was burned to death.
The storage building of the Roman
Catholic College in Germantown, Pa, was
destroyed by fire recently and Ignatius
Hemmerie. aged eighty-five, lost his life.
The damage amounted to $4,000.
THREE thousand railroad coal miners OF
Western Pennsylvania are ON a strike
against a reduction of wages.
'THE dynamite factory at Odell, near
Hastings, N. Y, was blown up at noon the
other day, just after the workmen had
left the building. The shock resembled
an earthquake and damaged houses and
= other property for half mile around, but
mo one was injured.
ONE OF the members of the Duuuesne
Bessemer steel works strikers finance
committee stated at PITTSBURGH. Pa. thai
Andrew Carnegie and Captain Jones. OF
the Edgar Thompson steel works. had
placed 81, 500 at the disposal of the strikers
land had intimated that if more aid sbould
be needed it would be forthcoming.
GOVERNOR BEAVER, of Pennsylvania.
has signed the death warrant for Michael
SRzzalio. one OF the murderers of Mcclure
near Wilkesbarre. He will be hanged
June %.
w. D. MATTHEWS & Co.'s large mali
house. Leroy, N. Y, wAs destroyed by fire
the other day. Loss, $500, 900.
A MAN named Belcher was terribl,
'iacerated by powder explosion a
Trenton. N. j., recently. A match in hi
pocket had ignited the powder he wa
carrying home.
GEORGE FRANCIS TRAIN ended his recen
fast by lecture at Union Square Theater
IN winch he argued that abstinence from
8ood was a cure for all the ills of the flesh
THE remainder of the rescued passen
gers ana crew OF the Danmark arrived a
New York on the 5th from the Azores.
A SPECIAL from New York report. th,
Standard Oil men preparing to form
white lead trust
The steamship Viendam, which arrived
at New York on the I'd from Rotterda M
reports that on April % she passed q raft
made of planks and spars nailed topetber
There was no one on the raft and no clav
TO its identity could be ascertained,
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-05-09
Passengers Narrowly Escape.

LIMA. O.. May 5.-A westbound passen-
ger train on the Chicago & Atlantic road,
consisting of ten coaches of emigrants, had
a narrow escape from being wrecked near
here yesterday. A crossing over a culvert
had burned and fallen in, and the engi-
neer did not discover it until within 100
feet of it. He stopped the train with the
cowcatcher Immediately over the ditch,
which was about twenty-five feet deep
and twenty feet wide.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-05-09

ST. PAUL, Minn., May 5-The party
sent out by the Minneapolis Historical
Society to discover the source of the Mis-
sissippi river, returned yesterday. They
report having discovered two lakes 110
feet above the level of Lake Itasca, and
seven miles distant from that lake, tc
which they traced the head Of the river.