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The national leader., 1889-09-14
ATLANTIC CITY.
Great Destruction of Property by the
Furious Gale.

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Furious Gale.
The loss caused by the storm at Atlantic
City has been enormous, the velocity of the
wind being at the rate of sixty miles an hour,
and the waves dashed on the beach twenty
feet high The summer bath houses. only
remodelled last spring, were totally
wrecked, and the Windsor Hotel suffered
greatly While standing on the pavilion
outside of the board walk and a
short distance below Howard Pier q woman
holding child in her arms was lifted up by
wind and thrown into the water. For a
few minutes great excitement prevailed. Mr.
Walter Field, photographer, realizing the
situation, Jumped into the water and
rescued the couple. Thirty thousand dollars
will not repair the loss from Griffith's carou-
sci to the Chelsea pavilion. Two large board
ing houses, the Gladstone and Cincinnati,
each containing twenty rooms, were raised
from their foundation and crushed like kind
ling wood. These houses are worth at least
$1,000 each. st. Monica's Roman Catholic
Church at Chelsea, although greatly ex-
posed, remained standing.
The first morning train to Longport started
in the morning, but was compelled to re-
turn, the tracks having been washed away.
No trains for Philadelphia were able to start
out upon either road. All day residents of
the city were rowing out to the unfortunate
tenants of houses beyond Baltic avenue and
the Thoroughfare. They had to be taken from
the second story windows. These people We're
principally colored and quite poor. Several
houses were thrown from foundations and
are now unsafe to live in. The tin roof
of the United States Fire Company blew off.
A portion of it struck the feed wire of the
electric road and threw it on the fire
alarm wires, causing an electric fire for
several blocks. The current had to be cut off.
The most careful inquiry established the
certainty that there was no lives lost, al
though there were many instances of BRAY
cry and daring in cases of rescue. The
schooners R. R. Leeds and Rebecca NJ.
were lost. The masts of two large yachts
which were caught on the drawbridge of the
Pennsylvania Railroad had to be cut away
in order to allow a construction train to
pass One of the Knickerbocker Ice Com
pany's schooners broke her fastenings and
dashed against the same bridge, making a
partial wreck of it.
The national leader., 1889-09-14
THE WHITECHAPEL FIEND.
Another Feminine Victim of "Jack
the Ripper" in London.

the Ripper" in London.
At $50 the other morning a policeman
found the body of woman lying in corner
of a railway arch spanning Gable street in
Whitechapel, London. Examination of the
body showed that the head and limbs had
been cut off and carried away and the stom-
ach ripped open, leaving the bowels lying upon
the ground. The police authorities immedi-
ately placed a Gordon of officers around the
spot, but no arrests were made police
man passed the place where the body was
found every fifteen minutes throughout the
night, and saw nothing to arouse his suspi-
cions.
Physicians who examined the body believe
that the murder occupied nearly an hour,
and it is surmised that the murderer carried
the head and limbs away in a bag. The
murder is the most horrible of the whole
Whitechapel series. The dissection of the
body showed that the perpetrator possessed
considerable surgical skill.
The murdered woman was about thirty
years of age and was evidently addicted to
successive use of spirituous liquors. Her
clothing was shabby. AS yet she has not
been identified The murder created tre-
mendous excitement, and large crowd of
agitated humanity surrounded the morgue,
whittier the body was taken
Further examination revealed the fact that
there was no blood on the ground where the
body was found nor was there any indica-
tion of a struggle. This confirms the general
belief that the woman was murdered in q
house and her body taken to the spot where
it was discovered. Experts are of the
opinion that the woman was killed two days
previous to the discovery Of the body.
Three Sailors subsequent to the finding of
the corpse were found sleeping in the adj
joining arch They were arrested, but con-
WINGED the police that they had neither seen
nor heard anything of the murder or the
body lying near them and were discharged
The generally accepted list of the White
chapel fiend's victims up to date is as follows:
l. Unknown woman, past middle age,
Whitechapel outcast, found dead in October,
1887, with body horribly mutilated. Little
attention paid to the case.
g. Martha Turner, found August 7, 1883,
stabbed in thirty places, probably with
hayonet.
g. Polly Nicholas, found August 81, head
nearly severed from body.
f. Annie Chapman, found September 8,
horribly carved.
s. Young woman, near Newcastle-upon-
Tyne. found September %, slashed as were
6. Elizabeth Stride, found September 30,
body warm when found, but mutilated like
the others
z. Catherine Eddowes, found the same
morning. body and face horribly disfgured
g. Unidentified woman, found October q
with head and arms severed and the usual
mutlations of body.
g. Mrs. Mary Jane Lawrence found No.
velzber 9, head nearly severed, face lacerated
almost beyond recognition; body literally
hacked to pieces,
10. Elizabeth jackson, body found in sec
tions between May 81 and June 25, 1SS9
IL. Alice Mackenzie, alias Kelly, found in
Castle Alley dead, but with body still warm,
July II, 1889. Mutilations not completed;
knife evidently dull.
10 The present case
The national leader., 1889-09-14
TEN MINERS KILLED.
Water Floods the White Ash and
Smothers the Men Working in 1t.

One of the most serious mining accidents
ever known in Colorado has occurred in the
White Ash coal mine, near Golden. An old
abandoned mine runs alongside the White
Ash, and has for months been full of water,
which, without a moments warning, burst
through into the White Ash mine, filling il
full of mud and water. Ten miners are known
to have been at work in the White Ash mine
at the time of the accident, and not one OF
them could have lived five minutes after the
surging mass broke in upon them. 1t viii
take between two and three weeks before
their bodies can be reached.
Work will be commenced at once by hun
dreds of willing hands in order to pump the
mine out but old miners who have been
through the mine say it will be impossible tG
clear the mine and reach the bodies under two
and perhaps three weeks. Part of the men
leave families who were dependent upon
them, while the rest were single, and al
highly spoken of.
The national leader., 1889-09-14

DEcREPIr old men all over the
country are making a rush on the doc
tors and demanding injections of Dr.
Brown-Sequard's elixir of life. It is
rapidly becoming craze. Inasmuch
as the growth of this practice depends
on the plentiful crop of young lambs,
it will pay lot of enterprising people
to go into the sheep-raising business.
The national leader., 1889-09-14
|REv. DR.. ilkGE.
HE BROOKLYN DIVINE,s SUN.
DAY SERMON.
Subject: 1.-THE Sunrise

TEXT: The day is at hand Romans
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The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-07-09
THE LYDDY CONTEST.
The Brothers of the Deceased Produce
Evidence from the hanks.

The Brothers of the Deceased Produce
Evidence from the hanks.
Testimony is being taken in the Court
of Chancery today by Edward S. Atwater,
of Elizabeth, Master Examiner in Chan
Gerry, by order of Chancellor McGill, in
the Lyddy VS.. Lyddy will case.
The case is an action to establish a
claim to large tract of land at Elberon,
Long Branch, upon which are situated a
large number of cottages, rented and
owned by people of wealth.
William p. Wilson, with Ex-Governor
Albeit, appeared for the complainant, and
Babbitt 6 Lawrence appeared as counsel
for the defendant.
The complainant, James NJ. Lyddy,
claims that he and his deceased brother,
Daniel r. Lyddy, purchased and
paid for the property with their joint
money, which they kept in a joint bank
account in the Bank of the Metropolis in
New York City
The defendant, who is q widow of the
deceased, claims that she, through her de-
ceased husband contributed the largest
part of the money, and consequently she
was entitled to the property.
The books of the Bank of the Metropo-
lis containing the bank accounts We're
submitted in court to show that the ac-
count was opened in 1878 and closed in
1885, and was kept under the name of the
Lyddy Brothers.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-07-09
COACHMEN WANT A REST.

They Think Undertakers Should Give
Their Drivers Two Sundays a Month.
There are to be no more funerals no
matter how many subjects the hot
weather and the Passaic water produces.
That is to say, unless the naughty, solemn
and melancholy funeral directory" per-
init the Knights of Labor and the Coach
Drivers Association to do as they please,
at least that is what the undertakers fear.
1t is the opinion of the Coach
Drivers Association that its members
ought not to work more than two Sum
days each month, and the drivers now in
sist on having this time. A meeting of
the undertakers was held yesterday at
Roche's Hall to discuss this matter, and
it was then said that the drivers were
being backed up by the Knights of Labor.
A number of undertakers who fear any
trouble have signed an agreement to con-
cede what the drivers want, but the sew
eral firms in the city decline to do this.
The Drivers Association, it is said,
threatens to boycott the undertakers If
they refuse to accept the proposition made,
and declare, SO the undertakers were in
formed. that they will publish the names
OF all undertakers in sympathy with them,
and in the struggle of boycott they will be
supported by the Knights of Labor.
President Downs, of the Coach Drivers
Association, says that it is true that the
men think of demanding two holidays a
month, and he appeals to the public as to
whether demand of two Sundays in
q month for rest and the enjoyment of
the society of their families is an un-
reasonable or arbitrary request from men
who work night and day and in all sorts
of weather
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-07-09
EVERYBODY WANTED TO KNOW.

Even Dominies and Women Were Inter-
ested In the Great Prize Fight.
Everybody who knew where a ticker
was to be found in the town located him
self there yesterday and stuck as closely
to it as he could. They were all looking
for news of the fight, and every ten word
bulletin that it ticked into existence was
read with avidity and then discussed and
disputed and denied. 1t was funny to see
the fellows read the news and then go off
to say that it was all humbug. Some
even refused to believe that the men had
got into the ring at all, and no one be-
Iieved that Kilrain had stood up for
seventy-fve rounds against the big man
from Boston.
The first bulletin on the news boards
announced the defeat of Kilrain in eight
rounds. When this was corrected in blue
pencil in accordance with the later des-
patches, an iucredulous crowd gathered
about it,
''RatsW exclaimed one street gamin.
''ThatS the man who was going to
knock Kilrain out in ten rounds or con-
fess himself beaten" shouted another, who
had evidently planted money on kilrain.
Then the universality of the interest
concerning it was something remarkable.
Hello! Hellop came through the tele-
phone in a pleasant female voice at about
one o'clock Whats the latest about the
fight?"
When the pretty operator was told-her
voice indicated that she must be pretty
she shut off the phone in disgust. She
had evidently put up on Kilrain.
The Rev. Mr.. Snodgrass, of Hedding
Methodist Church, was observed listening
friend who accompanied him had learned
of the fl ht
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-07-09
NEWS OF NORTH HUDSON.

| A Row Over Clerk Pro Tenn. COnroy's
Pay in Weehawken's Council.
The heat may melt the collar of Simon
Kelly, of Weehawken, but it can never
wilt his dignified composure. He pre-
sided at the Council meeting last evening
with all his accustomed grace.
The Councilmen were all present, and
SO was Clerk Hasbrouck The clerk has
absconded with the towns funds and
taken up his residence in Canada; he has
eloped, died and done half dozen other
different things, so rumOr says, in the
last two weeks, but last evening he was
as gay as a cricket and looked his own
happy self again,
for drawing maps of the townships sewer,
and it was ordered paid. Then came a
row. During the illness of Clerk Has
brouck Stephen Conroy was appointed
clerk pro tenn.
He acted as such for one meeting, and
his idea of the services he had rendered
was so exalted that he charged the Coun-
Gil s25 for them. AS the regular clerk is
allowed only So a meeting Mr. Conroys
claim was considered slightly exorbitant.
Councilman Harmon moved that $40 be
allowed, but no one would second his
motion. Then Councilman Basse sug-
gested So, and the Board, with the excep-
lion Ol NIL I1ttnAO1s fOtCb
Mr.. Conroy then said unpleasant things
about the members of the Board, Mayor
Kelly, in rather plain English told Con-
roy that if he did not behave himself he
would be elected at once.
Then they reconsi6ered the original mo-
tion and laid the matter over until cooler
weather.
The Hoboken Land and Improment
Company owns a lot south of Nineteenth
street. which is nothing more than swamp
land.
In warm weather odors not of "Araby
the Blest" arise from it, and the Town
Clerk has repeatedly notified the COM
pany to abate the nuisance.
He will now do so again, so the Board
ordered.
John Robt, John Turk, H. O'Donnell,
Frank Dillon and Stephen Conroy worked
an hour in the rain, one afternoon last
week. and ask the modest sum of 81 cash
for it. They may get it, but they have not
as vet
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-07-09

had "blanket party" this evening, ut
which several victims were persuaded to
soar skyward.
When Colonel Wanser and his staff were
about to mount for dress parade this even
ing, one of the stable boys brought to DR..
Morris tent contaminated bone yard,
Which excited the doctors Indignation.
He has heretofore been one of the best
mounted officers on the field, and rode a
beautiful black charger. The stable boy
was sent back post haste, but quickly re-
turned with the same animal, declaring
that that was the only one there. The
question which agitates the officers now is
who stole Assistant Surgeon Morris
horse?
The Fourth is one of the largest regi-
ments here and has 450 men in camp.
Colonel brakes Zouayes, from Eliza
beth, arrived on the field this afternoon
and took up its position at the extreme
left of the line. They brought two pieces
of artillery with them, and on dress pa
rade were much applauded for their ex-
cellent drill and the Centaur-like riding
OF their commandant.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-07-09
The Rev. Mr.. Stoddard and
the Rev. Mr.. Herr Be-
long Very Much to
the Church Mil
itant.
SCENE AT A FUNERAL.
A Question of Precedence Between
the Presbyterian Dominic and
the Episcopalian Rector Leads
to Some Unpleasant 0bserva-
tions.

Rumors of lively personal war be-
tween the Rev. E. L. Stoddard, of st.
Johns Episcopal Church on Summit ave-
nue., and the Rev. Charles Herr, the young
pastor of the Bergen Presbyterian Church,
have been rite for several days. The two
churches represent a large proportion of
the wealth and culture of the Hill, and it
has been intimated that rivalry between
them forrecognition as the "tony" church
congregation has not been without its in
tuence in bringing about the rupture
that has now occurred between the two
pastors.
AN UNEXPECTED MEETING
Not very many days ago one of the most
popular and respected of Bergen residents
died suddenly while away from his home.
His bier was removed to his handsome
residence in the South Bergen section.
The gentleman's wife attended the Pres
byterian Church, and in Difference to her
wishes in the matter, the Rev Mr.. Herr
was asked to officiate at the funeral.
Her daughters attend St. Johns Episco-
palian Church, and with the consent of
the widow they invited the Rev. Mr.
Stoddard to assist at the services It is
said that during the two or three days in
tervening the funeral, the Rev. Mr.. Herr
did not present himself at the house of
mourning.
The Rev. Mr.. Stoddard's attentions
We're therefore all the more welcome,
and, upon his expressing willingness to
attend to it, he was requested to provide
the music for the service.
The day for the funeral finally arrived.
The Rev. Mr.. Stoddard was on hand for
some time before the appointed hour.
The Rev Mr.. Herr arrived just in time TO
read the service.
When he had finished he delivered an
eulogium. When the Episcopal Church
singers broke into dirge he looked up
with surprise and indignation. He eyi-
IDENTIFY had not known anything of that
part of the arrangements
At the close of the Rev. Mr. Herr's ad-
dress Rector Stoddard arose and made a
few remarks as neighbor and friend.
SOME HARSH WORDS.
The funeral cortege was finally ready
to move. The Rev. Mr.. Stoddard stood
with the family. The Rev. Mr.. Herr ap-
preached him.
'By what authority are you here?n he
asked of the Episcopalian clergyman.
why have you interfered with this
funeral, sir?"
The Rev. Mr. Stoddard was taken aback,
but he explained the circumstances
briefly,
well, SIR" returned the Rev. Mr.. Herr,
aster listening impatiently, II wish never
to meet you again on an occasion like this,
or on any other occasion"
To say that the Rev. Mr.. Stoddard was
taken aback by this exclamation is to put
it mildly.
He did not go to the cemetery with the
family
Friends have tried to patch up the diff
ference, but without marked success.
Rumors prevail that the Rev. Mr.. Herr
had been nursing grudge against the
Rev. Mr. StOddard for some time DaSt.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-07-09
THE CITY BUYS A PUMP.
1t VIII Cost 32.5OO-A Promise Of
Cleaner Streets.

1t Will Cost @32, ,5OO-A Promise Of
Cleaner Streets.
The Board of Street and Water Com
to Henry r. Worthington & Co., of New
York, the contract for erecting water
pump at high service, the capacity Of
which shall be 100000 gallons in twenty
four hours. Worthington 81 Co.'s bid
was S32, 500, with a guarantee to complete
the structure according to specifications
in five months from date of contract. The
only other bid was that of H w. Tilhng-
hast q Co., of the same city, whose fig
ures were $4,000 and a guarantee to erect
the pump within eight months or date or
contract.
The contract for furnishing 10000 tons
of coal for Belleville and High Service
was awarded to James H. Coyle at the
rate of S449 per ton. Resolutions were
adopted deciding to advertise for bids for
repaving portion of Grand street, in the
vicinity of Fairmount avenue, with Bel
gian blocks; also for repaving Montgom-
cry street, from Jersey avenue to Colgate
street.
The Commissioners fairly sat upon those
contractors who are in the habit of dump
ing material along the streets even before
a contract is signed, and hereafter all
QeDrlS must De removed as Soon as kne Jop
is finished. The Superintendent of Streets
must see that all work is properly done
before certifying to a bill for expenses,
and he must also report to the Board all
streets, or portions of streets, that have
been swept.
The Finance Board will be asked to ap-
propriate $1,000 for necessary improve
ments to School No. ~.
The sum of 81 300 from the account of
salaries was transferred from the Board
of Works of 1889, to the account of the
Engineers Bureau of the same year.
After extending an invitation to the rep
resentatives of the Jersey City news
papers to accompany the Board to Bell
vile this morning the meeting adjourned.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-07-09
SAY THEIR CLERK ROBBED THEM.
Keuffel & Esser Find Queer Showing
Their Books.

Keuffel & Esser Find Queer Showing in
Their Books.
This morning, before Recorder Nc
Donough, of Hoboken, William Keuffel,
of the firm of Keuffel & Esser, who own
the large factory on the corner of Third
and Grand streets, Hoboken, for making
delicate mathematical instruments, COM
planned that his cashier, William Lander,
who lived at No. 204 River street, lad de-
faulted with some of the firms money
The books were in terrible condition,
and could not be Strengthened out without
the aid of an expert accountant.
He left work on Saturday and has not
been seen since, and upon enquiry being
made at his home, it was learned that he
had gone to the country.
His absence created suspicion and upon
an investigation of his books being made
it was found that they were all manipu-
lated to cover up evident frauds Lander
entered the employ of the firm about three
years ago.
Mr. Keuffel said that the cashier was a
trusted man. and that his peculations, as
far as discovered, amounted to several
hundred dollars.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-07-09
"Pulled, for Having No Licenses.

The following saloon keepers were
pulled" by the Third Precinct police
yesterday for selling liquor without
license:-Patrick Jones, No. no Summit
avenue; John J. Lillis, No. 20 Hoboken
avenue; Thomas Masterson, No. 664 Sum-
init avenue; Jacob Goose, No. 6S Dutfield
avenue; Emil Brommer, No. 143 Palisade
avenue.
All the offenders were paroled till nine
o'clock tomorrow morning by Justice
Martin, who occupies the bench in the
absence of Justice Wanser. Some of them
claim they We're unable to procure their
licenses Saturday afternoon, as the City
Clerks office was closed, and even offered
to put up the collateral at the station
house.
1t is announced at the City Clerks
office that there was no possible excuse
for the offenders failing to secure their
licenses by July /. Those, however, who
do not show up In good form by nine
o'clock tomorrow will be obliged to take
the consequences.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-07-09
FREBHOLDERS' ECONOMY
Have They Saved a Hun
dred Thousand or
Sixteen Thousand
Dollars?
A TRIBUTE TO Mr.. HENNESSEY.
The Finance Committees Report
Meets with Practical Concur
renee.

It was Freeholders' day around and
about the Court House yesterday. There
were three events:-First, the final meet
ing of the Finance Committee; second,
the presentation of a beautiful gold
watch, chain and diamond studded locket
to Freeholder Hennessey, and. third, the
session of the Board
The appropriations definitely decided
on for the ensuing fiscal year were, with
slight changes, the same as published in
THE JERSEY CITY NEWS Saturday last.
At that time it was stated that the COM
mittee did not seem inclined to make any
appropriation for building the foundation
for new asylum, although $4,000 was
appropriated for the present year for that
purpose. The Finance Committee were
inclined to believe that it would be better
for the Freeholders-to build an entirely
new edifice under one contract than to
divide it up into quantities of work to be
done yearly until completed, and for that
reason the committee refused to make any
appropriation for new building.
The Finance Committee was expected
to meet at nine a. m. 1t was two p. m.
before a quorum was obtained, and this
result would probably not have been
reached if the meeting had not been a
compulsory one by law.
FORTUNATE FREEHoLDER HENNEssEY.
1t was nearly five O'Clock when the com
mittees work was finished, and then
Freeholder Hennessey was surprised. Ex-
Assemblyman Tumulty, who was pres
ent, was, on motion, given the privilege
of the floor, and, to the great joy of all
and the unfeigned amazement of Free
holder Hennessey, he made glowing
speech setting forth the Freeholder's
good qualities, clearly proving he had no
bad ones; and then he presented him with
an elegant hunting-cas gold watch, chain
and charm, on which was inscribed
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