The Jersey City news., 1889-10-23
JACKSON THEIR CHOICE.
THE REPUBLICAN, COUNTY CON-
YENTION AT NEWARK TODAY

YENTION At NEWARK TO-DAY
The Democrats Held Their Primaries
Last Night-Drowned at Cape May
Kane Nominated by the Republicans
Other State News.
The Essex County Republicans are
holding their County Convention for
the nomination of a candidate for
Surrogate and for Director at Large,
at Newark, this afternoon, The
friends of Joseph L. Mum and Schuy-
Ter b. jackson fought out the battle
for the Republican nomination for
Surrogate at the primaries, Monday
night, and jackson won the victory.
Delegates were elected everywhere
except in the Fourteenth and Flf-
teenth wards. Mr. Mum did not
succeed so well in the townships and
Orange as it had been expected that he
would. His lines were badly broken
there. Anyhow, Orange with its six
teen votes is almost solid for Jackson.
In the Fourth ward Jackson's ticket
won by a majority of nineteen votes
Samuel A. Smith, took off his coat
for Mum in the Sixth, and the result
is that in that ward most of the dele
gates are for the East Orange can
didate Mr. Mum has his own town
; ship solid and a good sprinkling OF
votes in the Thirteenth ward districts,
but in most of the other wards of the
city he was beaten. Both the Four
teenth and Fifteenth wards last night
elected solid jackson delegations.
In the convention this afternoon
jackson will have 10 out of the 260
votes He is a brother of Superin-
tendent +. Wolcott jackson of the
Pennsylvania Railroad, and was one
Speaker of the House of Assembly.
The only known candidate for the
nomination of Freeholder-at-L Large is
- Wesley Van Gieson, of Montclair
Rhe Democrats held their county
karies last night. The indications
hat Warren N. Trusdell will be
hominee for Surrogate.
Drowned at Cape May.
yarles M. Reeves, aged twenty-one
es, son of John N. Reeves, post
lister of Cape May Point and VIM.
DCorson also of Cape May Point, were
out in a boat endeavoring to set their
net yesterday morning, when the boat
drifted into the rips" They endeav-
ored to turn the boat around, when q
large wave rolled over and filled it,
causing it to sink. Corson got on the
bottom of the boat, but Reeves at
tempted to reach shore by swimming,
and being weighted with neavy boots
and coat sank and was drowned.
He "Coincides" with Crowned Heads.
The Camden County Court OF Com
mon pleas yesterday granted seven
teen liquor licenses for the county.
Among those granted was one to J.
Snyder at the Merchantville Driving
Park. A relnonstrance signed by 276
persons was presented against Mr..
Snyder's petition. Judge Gaunt said
he coincided with the views of jurists
and crowned heads of Europe that the
indiscriminate sale of liquor is the best
preventive of intemperance. He did
not look on the saloon as menace to
good government. The Judge lives
at Gloucester.
Mr.. Kane, of Ballot Reform Fame.
ID. M. Kane, author of the Kane
Ballot Reform bill, which was de-
feated last winter in the Legislature,
and who was nominated last week as
an Independent candidate for Assem-
bly, in the Third district of Middlesex,
was nominated yesterday by the Re-
publicans. Mr.. Kane was defeated in
The DauocratiC Convention