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The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-12-10
DAsHEs ABOUT TOWN.

Just as the ball of Steuben Lodge
began last night at Kroebel's Hall Mrs
Kroebel became the mother of little
boy, When the news was circulated the
members were unanimous in demanding
that the newcomer shall be named
Steuben, in honor of the lodge.
A very beautiful silk banner will be
presented to Court Bergen A. 0. #. by it's
lady friends on the evening of December
12. The banner cost over 500. 1t is on
exhibition in Marshall, Ball & Co.'s
window.
Prosecutor Charles Fl. Winfield is to
lecture tomorrow evening before the Car
teret Club.
The Lindsey Athletic Club willshold
their annual reception at Oakland Rink
on Christmas Eve. A pleasant time is
promised.
The second annual ball of the Friend
ship Club will be held at Ruth's Turn
Hail next Monday evening.
bazaar under the auspices of the
Guild of the Wayne Street Reformed
Church will open in the lecture room of
the church on Thursday and continue
through Friday evening. Tableaux will
lend variety to the entertainment.
Mr.. Abram o. Voorhees,, late steward
of the Carteret Club, who resigned to
accept a position with. the Pullman
Palace Car Company, is running on the
Limited from Chicago to Portland,
Oregon.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-12-10
THE NEW TERM OPENS.
Judge Knapp's Short Charge to the
Grand Jury.

Pop Cook toddled up to the bench in
the Circuit Court room this morning and
carefully placed flaming bouquet at that
end OF it which Judge Knapp adorns.
It's Pop" Cooks delicate tip to the Judge
that a new term of the County Courts is
to be opened at ten o'clock
THE LAWYERS IN COURT.
Lawyers galore gathered aboutthe bou-
quet and aided the Judge in oiling the
wheels of justice. There were ex-Goy-
ernor Bedle, ex-Judge Garretson, ex-
Mayor Collins, John Linn, Washington
r. Williams, John G. Besson,
Senator Edwards, James B. Vreden-
burgh, Colonel Charles w. Fuller, E. S.
Cowles, John A. McGrath, Corporation
Attorney M1nturn, ex-Judge John Gar
rick, James Benny, Thomas +. Noonan,
Q. Q. Block, Warren Dixon, Judge Day
ton. William Stuhr, w. D. DAILY, George
L. Record, Corporation Attorney Hud-
speth and Stephen b. Ransome.
A BRIEF CHARGE.
When the Grand Jurors, led by Sheriff
Davis and Foreman Joseph Warren at
their head, filed into court to take the
oath, His Honor emphatically indicated
that no time would be lost by his charge,
which is one of the briefest ever given in
the Court House.
If any special matter arises" the
Judge said, 'the Court will call your at
tion to it,. At present none such exists"
That was all, and the Grand Jury de-
scended to their quarters to begin work
SOME CASES ON THE CALENDAR.
Messrs. Collins g. Corbin have the most
causes, 81 on the calendar; Vredenburg
q Garretson make good second, with II
causes, and Randolph, Condit & Black
have on the list.
One of the scandals that will come up
is the notorious Coney against Harvey
for $4,000 damages for alternating his
wife's affections
A railroad case that will interest the
town of Harrison is against the Delaware,
Lackawanna and Western Railroad Com
pany, and the Pennsylvania Railroad
Company. 1t is case of ejectment
against the roads for seizing street
Hoboken will also be glad to know that
there is a prospect of the suit against tn e
bondsmen of eX-Water Register Michael
II. Murphy, Messrs. Martin Stelges,
Theophilus Butts and others being tried.
The Currie award case against th e
Waverly and New York and other rail
road companies will also be tried before
a struck jury.
The old case against John Kings estate
at Weehawken is marked for trial this
term. The action is the same as the
New Jersey Junction brought last term
and one that has been hanging fire for a
couple of years.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-12-10
OTTO REUsS' CONCERT.
A Great Audience Enjoys Good Music at
Henkel's Casino.

A Great Audience Enjoys Good Music at
Henkels Casino.
A fine entertainment of vocal and in
strumental music under direction of Mr.
Otto L. Reuss, a brilliant young musician,
occurred last evening at Henkel's Casino
corner Palisade and Ravine avenues. and
that pretty hall was occupied by large
and appreciative audience.
The programme included oyertures by
Prof Lyman's orchestra, either solo by
Prof. Eberle, tenor solo by Christian
Book and comic songs by j. K. Gilmore,
which received warm applause, as did the
harmonica SOLO with banjo accompani-
ment by Messrs. Maguire and Standlnger,
solos by Miss Lily Hochdorffer and in
strumental trio that closed the first part,
rendered by Prof. Meyer. violin; Miss Ida
Hochdorffer, piano, and Prof. Eberle,
either.
In the second part the Amarantn Quar-
tette, Messrs. w. j. McKigney, John
Keeles, H. N Seyler and A. @. Young,
received an encore for well rendered
selection, and Otto l.. Reusss tumbler-
onicon solo carried the house by storm.
A violin solo by Master Henry Hess, songs
by Miss Hochdorffer and Mr.. w. II. Nc
Kigney, and the Parade March" by
Prof. Eberle's either school completed
the programme.
The entertainment was followed by q
largely attended reception and hop.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-12-10
His NEPHEW.
Weehawken Woman's
Brother Steals Her
Child.

About one o'clock this morning q
woman, pale with excitement, entered
the Weehawken Police Station and told
Sergeant Clifford that her nine-year-old
boy had been stolen and that SO had also
vanished. After the Sergeant had Gained
her she told her story.
My name is May Ann Hallihan," she
said. 81 am married and have three
children. live in Battery A. Iretired
with my children about ten O'Clock last
night. The two youngest sleep with me.
Tommy, the boy who was kidnapped,
sleeps in hall bedroom In that room
there was a bureau which contained $40,
which / had succeeded in saving after
many hard days labor.
DON'T KILL ME, UNCLE"
tAt about half past twelve 1 was awak-
ened by crash of glass and my boy cry
ing ''Oh, please don't kill me. unclep' i
jumped up and saw something that made
my blood run cold. My brother stood
over my child with an axe and the poor
child was covering in the corner; The
door had been smashed and the drawer
where | had kept my money was broken
and the contents gone.
my brother then drew knife, and
taking the child in his arms, told me to
stand aside and let him pass or he would
kill me. He then ran out and came here
to tell you" Then the poor woman COM
menced to cry Historically.
THE KIDNAPRER CAUGHT.
Sergeant Clifford Immediately tele-
pnoned to all of the police stations in adj
jacent cities, and the officers at the differ
ent ferries to New York were instructed
to be on the lookout for the man, whose
name was Daniel Kane.
At four o'clock this morning the efforts
of the police were crowned with success,
Policeman P. M. Breen, of Hobokeh,
while patrolling Washington street, was
attracted by man carrying a boy about;
The child was crying piteouSly and
begged to be let go home to his mother.
The man was trying to coax the child
with some fruit and when he saw the
policeman cycling him he made dart
around the corner of Fourth street. The
policeman was on his heels in an instant
and after short chase captured him.
When brought to the station house he
refused to made any statement, but said
that he loved the child. The boy seemed
to be very hungry, and when some eat
ables were procured ate ravenously. This
morning the prisoner was turned over to
the Weehawken authorities, and will be
held on a charge of housebreaking and
kidnapping
NOT IN THE FIRST CIRCLES.
Mrs. Hallihan's husband is in jail for
stabbiHg John Burns about six months
ago in drunken row. Battery A, where
the kidnapping took place, is row OF
houses, the tenants of which are giving
constant trouble to the police. Romaine' S
place in particular, the officers say, is the
resort of disreputable characters, and
druken orgies are of frequent occurrence
there.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-12-10
ALL SAY HE MUST Mt.
Protests Against Sheriff
Davis Threatened
Resignation.
DUGAN SAYS HE'S NOT THE MAN.
Mayor Cleveland and Other Con-
spicuous Men Express Their
Views About the Matter.

The threatened withdrawal of Sheriff
Davis from the control of the County
Committee continues TO be the upper
most topic of discussion among the poll
ticiaDs and the protest against the with
drawal becomes more and more general.
II do not think the party ought to per-
NIT Sheriff Davis to withdraw from the
active service he has been rendering the
party for several years." said Mayor
Cleveland this morning. "He has been
the most prudent, careful and judicious
leader we have had for long time and
his withdrawal would be a calamity to the
party and the public.
HE'D HAVE MADE BETTER APPOINTM ENTS
''If his advice had been followed in the
distribution of patronage the party and
the public would have been greatly ben
Gifted Appointments have been made
without his knowledge, for which he has
been blamed time and again, and sup
pose he is getting tired of it.
II think the remedy is not in permit
ting him to withdraw, but by giving him
q better support"
Police Commissioner Michael j. Coyle,
of Hoboken, said that his first intimation
of the possible resignation was when he
read the SUNDAY MORNING NEWS.
CoYLE WOULD HAVE HELPED.
''It was complete SURPRISE" he added.
~ have been a member of the County
Committee off and on for sixteen years
and know Mr.. Davis perhaps as well as
anybody. / have served as lieutenant
under him and think that no man has
ever done as much for the party as he
has. He is the best organizer ever met,
and think that he thinks too much of
- or4x ArD ferv1 hn xTor-
hard matter to secure man as well fitted
for the position as he is.
81 understand that he claims he is over
worked. Now, if that be the case, | for
one am willing to share my burden of the
work, and am satisfied that the members
of the committee in this city will do like
wise"
Joseph Wenthal. chairman of the COM
mittee in Hoboken, said he thought that
if Sheriff Davis resigned the Democratic
party would lose the best leader it ever
had in this county, and he hoped that
Mr.. Davis would reconsider his inten-
tion.
A LOSS TO THE PARTY.
Surrogate O'Neil said:-"It would
prove a great loss to the party. for it has
never been better organized than now
under his charge"
'sJailor Birdsall:--''I don't know any
thing about it. except The Sheriff is
hard worker"
Circuit Court Clerk Gritten regretted
the Sheriff contemplated resigning and
hoped he would continue his work.
MR. DUGAN DOESN'T KNOW IT.
l saw Edward A. Dugan. to whom the
World of this morning alludes as being
the person who refused to appoint to
office men recommended to him by
Sheriff Davis
Mr.. Dugan had little to say on the sub
ject. He does not recollect, he states,
ever meeting aspirants for offices sent to
him by the Sheriff and consequently
never refused to appoint them If he is
the person blamed by the Sheriff he does
not know it,
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-12-10
A SURPRISE IN STORE FOR MA"
A Wedding BY the Mayor That VIII BE
News At Home.

Mayor Cleveland yesterday afternoon
performed a marriage ceremony for
Joseph r. LaPoint, thirty eighth year
old barber from Railway, and Miss Julia
Springer, a young lady from the same
city, whose ma evidently knew moth
ing of her escapade.
The young people were well dressed.
The brides robe looked as though it had
been hurriedly donned, but the bride
groom's apparel betokened great care.
The bridegroom gave his address as
No. "a Main street. The bride lives on
Hazelwood avenue. Reporters Wilbur
Chamberlain and William Lackey were
the witnesses.
"Your mother will kill you when you
get back home," said the bridegroom, with
a laugh in which happiness and dread
were peculiarly blended.
"You will be the one to catch it. She'll
give it to you," was the reply.
The couple departed for home on the
3:35 train.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-12-10
THE BAR ASSOCIATION.
1t Meets Today and Elects OHcers fol
the Year.

1t Meets Today and Elects Omcers for
the Year.
This afternoon, as soon as the Circuit
had disposed of its business, the mem bers
of the Hudson County Bar Association
met
The association elected the following
officers:-President, Slmuel A. Bessen;
vice president, John w. Heck; secretary,
William G. Cudliff; treasurer, James A.
Gordon.
The Executive Committee appointed by
the president was James S. Erwin, j. A.
Gordon, Crause, Keller and Wortendyke
Committee on Admissions, Judge
Douglass and Messrs. Griffin, Black,
Bacat and Carrick.
Committee on Law Reform, Messrs.
Heck, Minturn, Mount, Brown and Viii
liams.
Committee on Law Ethics-M Messrs.
Ewald, Russ, Davis, Kelly and Kennedy.
Committee on Legal Biography-Fla
Magee, Gilbert Collins, j. B. Vreden-
burgh, Jacob Weart and Senator Ed
wards.
After adopting a resolution to give
dinner during January, the association
adjourned to meet on the first Thursday
in January at the Vice Chancellor's
chambers
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-12-10
Hoboken Notes.

Prof. Louis Schulz, the lecturer, will
give cosmoramic views at the German
Lutheran Church tonight.
The members of Liberty Hose Com
pany and their many friends danced at
Odd Fellows Hall last night.
Lizzie Frank, better known as Lizzie
Darien, aged twenty-four, was acting
very gayly on Washington street at three
O'Clock this morning. She must have had
good time somewhere for she was glo-
riousiy full and insisted on hugging every
passerby Policeman Harrison did not
like the way she was acting and she was
placed in custody. Lizzie will receive
New Years calls at the Hudson County
Jail
Much comment has been recently in
dulged in by the local newspapers in re-
gard to the contemplated resignation of
the Rev. Father Corrigan of the Church
of Our Lady of Grace. Father Corrigan
will not resign. He may 60 South this
winter for few months.
The Hoboken Dramatic Association
will meet at Coyle's Hall on Thursday
night and complete arrangements for at
tending the inauguration of Governor
Albeit.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-12-10
Another Bayonne school Robbed.

Another Bayonne public school has
been entered-this time the new School
No. 6, on Thirty street. The
robbery was committed on Sunday night,
the thieves entering through the window
AS in the case of Nos. / and 2, the mis-
creants seemed desirious of securing
only such knowledge as is afforded
through 'Webster's Dictionary" and the
STANDARD Gazetteer" for one copy of
each of these was stolen, together with
several small volumes of other works
The police are Investigating the case, but
confess themselves puzzled and unable
TO advance any theory of this persistent
burglarizing of the public schools.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-12-10
Cashier silcntt,s steal.

WASHINGTON, D. c., Dec. 10, 1885,
Treasurer Huston says in regard to the
effort being made to fix npon him por-
ton of the responsibility for the loss of
the funds stolen by Cashier Silcott, that
the statute commands him in the most
emphatic manner to honor the Speakers
certificate when presented.
AS to the criticism that he paid the No
vember salary of members several days
before it was due, he said that this had
been the custom for years, for so long
period indeed that. though there were
clerks in his office who had been there.
for forty years, they did not remember
time when it was not done.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-12-10
Improvement in Building Permits.

Building Inspector Clark has Inaugural
ted bright new scheme in the issuance
of building permits that viii in great
measure obviate the difficulties of the
Tax Commissioners in the matter of ap-
peals from assessed valuations of
property.
Ali blank permits will hereafter have
diagram of the square, bounded by
streets, printed on the back thereof The
number of the lot whereon the building
is located will be marked on the diagram.
The Commissioner will then have only to
consult their maps to ascertain the value
of the lots. then read the amount OF the
cost of the building which the holder
himself has sworn to.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-12-10

The committees will present their reports
and members will be elected and intro
duced. After the business is disposed of
there will be an entertainment and a
social time
The orchestra will soon make its bow.
The ladies will receive on New Years
day. The ladies will have meeting next
week to Nuke arrangements for the New
Years day reception.
The gymnasium class will give an in
formal exhibition on December %.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-12-10
YOUNG NEWS ASSOCIATION.
Their Third Annual Invitation sociable
in BaYnnne.

Their Third Annual Invitation Sociable
in Bayonne.
OF the many social events which have
taken place in Bayonne this season, de-
cidedly none have been more successful
both as regards the attendance and the
conduct of the affair, than that given last
evening under the auspices of the Young
Mems Association 1t was the third an
nual sociable of this popular organiza-
tion, and nearly three hundred invita-
tions had been issued.u
The responses were very general, so
that at nine O'Clock Brady's Hall was
filed with merry party of ladies and
gentlemen, all on pleasure bent, to assist
the Young Men and their lady friends in
rendering the affair a success. The MEM
bers of st. Johns Lyceum of Jersey City,
came down in coach, accompanied by a
number of ladies. and there were also
visitors from Jersey City, New York,
Elizabeth, Staten Island and other places.
The decorations of the hall were fea-
ture, and were on very elaborate scale.
The grand march began at ten o'clock,
led by Floor Master George Bull and Miss
Julia Feeley. At twelve o'clock an ele-
CANT supper was served.
Among the number present were Misses
Mamie and Rosa Brady, Emily Williams,
Kate Reed, Annie Conners, Aunie Bull,
Johanna Maloney, Annie Mullen, Della
Dunkerd, Mamie Bannon, Julia Pun
phrey, Mamie Devlin, Nellie Rodgers,
Ella Crowley, Johanna Sullivan, Julia
Feeley, Loretta Carberry, Mamie Heferen,
Mamie Dooley, Agnes Tierney, Mamie
Shannon, Maggie Shannon. Mamie Sill,
Ella Brady, Mamie Cooney, and Messrs.
Robert Chambers, Robert Lewis, Charles
Smith, John, James and Dennis Ryan,
William Dollard, Richard Flood, Neal
Regan, John Bannon, Mark Robinson,
Nicholas Publ, James Forquer, Dennis
Hennessy, George Bull, John Collins,
James M. Devlin, T. H. O'Brien, L. NJ
O'Brien, William H. Knowles, William
Foley, Patrick Kenney, William Kenney,
Joseph WIN and Michael Brady.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-12-10

WASHINGTON, d. c., December 10, 1889.
The storm which appeared yesterday
morning in Montana has moved south
eastward and is this morning central in
Iowa.
For Eastern New York, Eastern Penn
sylyania and New Jersey-Rain, partly
as snow in northern portions of New
York; slightly warmer; easterly winds.
For Western New York and Western
Pennsylvania-Raln easterly winds and
warmer today, followed Wednesday by
clearing weather, northwesterly winds
and lower temperature.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-12-10
An Order 10 Knirbts of pvtb;as

INDIANAPOLIS. Ind, Dec. 10, 1ss9.-On
account of the death of Colonel Justus
H. Rathbone, founder of the order, the
following general order has been issued
to the Knights of Pythias by Major
General Carnahan.
The officers and Sir Knights of the
Uniform Rank will wear the badge of
mourning for the period of sixty days,
and divisions will drape their warrants
in morning for like period. On parade
flags aud standards will be draped.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-12-10
The. Indapendeat Bowlipg Club. !.

The independents Bowling Club Of
Greenyille, jersey City, Of the Jersey
City Amateur League, held their semi
annual meeting for the election of officers
for the next six months on Saturday even-
ing, December Z. at Metropolitan Hall,
Jersey City. New bylaws were adopted
and the following officers were elected
President, Charles Herig; vice-president,
David Schmidt; secretary, Edward
Bischof; treasurer, William Frantz; cap
tain, A Jackson. Bowling Committee,
A. jackson, A. Auziere.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-12-10

street, was before Justice Stilsing this
morning. She was arrested last night by
Patrolnan Dawson for throwing her
household articles out of the window into
the street during a temporary fit of in
sanity Her husband is at sea. Mrs.
Baxter, the owner of the house, appeared
in the court this morning and asked per-
mission to take the woman TO st. Francis
Hospital. and she was allowed to do so.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-12-10
nIoCiintv snbscrihas.

An appeal was recently made to the po-
lice of the Fourth precinct to assist in
building an orphanage in St. Peters par
ish, TO be under the direction OF the Sis
ters of Peace. The members of the force
there are responding literally, among
the donors, with 81 to his credit, being
Policeman McGinty
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-12-10
The Heirs should ..stake,' This Child.

ST. PAUL, Mimi, Dec. 10, 1882 "A ten
year-old child named Godfrey, while
playing on East Fourth street yesterday.
found under the sidewalk peculiarly
shaped box, the lock of which had been
forced
He took it to Police Headquarters and
it was found to contain a number of val
liable documents, including the will of
Thomas III. Harrison, a millionaire of
Minneapolis, who died recently.
The box had been stolen from the Har-
rison residence by burglars. The will
provides for the disposition of property
valued at upwards of one million dollars
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-12-10
HOBoKEN POLICE BOARD.
With esses Against Policemen Couldn't
Be Found.

With esses Against Policemen Couldn't
Be Found.
At last nights meeting of the Board of
Police Commissioners. of Hoboken, Com
missioner Coyle offered resolution in
creasing the police force by fifteen men in
accordance with an act of the Legislature.
The resolution was referred to the Cor
poration Attorney as to the legal right of
the Board.
Policeman Murphy was charged by Aid
Rathjen with being off post on one
occasion, with being drunk and thirty
minutes late in answering roll call.
Murphy pleaded guilty to all the charges
with the exception of being drunk On
that day he said he only drank one glass
of cider. Chanceman Kardell was ac-
cused of being drunk in uniform at a ball
in Odd Fellows Hail.
In both these cases two officers had
been subp9ned as witnesses, and as they
failed. to put in an appearance last night
the Board took q recess, and man was
detailed TO find the missing witnesses.
They could not be found, however, and
The cases were laid over
Before adjourning Commissioner Daab
offered ain additional resolution providing
for the dismissal from the force of any
policeman who refuses to liquidate his
debts when court of law has pronounced
any claim correct.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-12-10
A BAYONNE RESIDENCE BURNED.

The Family of Mr.. Morfand Has an
Early and Startling Awakening.
The residence of Mr.. Mortand, corner
OF Avenue A and Twenty-sixth street,
Bayonne, was totally destroyed by fire
early this morning, causing loss of
about $1,000 The Fire Department did
effective work in staying the progress of
the flames and confined them to the
one building. The building was owned
by L. G. Brown, of this city.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-12-10

Yesterday afternoon, Joseph Geisler,
aged twenty-one, was trying to draw
heavy load of lumber on Central avenue
His mule was plucky and did its best,
mt was unable to draw the
load. Captain McNulGy ordered the
driver to unhitch The animal and procure
q fresh one from the stable. Geisler took
the poor mule to the stable Of the owner.
Christian Fisher, Of Central avenue but