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The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-02-03
TO GO TN A ASPHCIAL CAR.
The Disputed Ballot Boxes
Will be Sent to Tren-
ton Tomorrow.

The controversy over the ballot boxes
which City Clerk Scott refuses to sur
render to the Senate Committee on Elec-
The boxes will go to Trenton tomorrow,
but City Clerk Scott and City Marshal
Tim Long will go with them and will see
that they do not go out of their posses
sion
President Nevius and Ssrgeant-at-
Arms Sharp of the Senate came to this
city early this morning and went to the
law library. State Treasurer Toffey
heard that they were here and that the
committee would meet in the library and
he went up to see what they would do.
a CONFERENCE.
Mr.. w. II. Corbin, who represents the
Senate, and w. H. Dougherty, who repre-
sents James Roche in his contest against
Bruggemann for Director at-Large, were
early on hand.
Senator Gardner. chairman of the COM
mittee, arrived from his home In Atlantic
City about noon; Senators Roe and Adrian
were not present. He was soon followed
by City Clerk Scott, Chief of Police Muir
ply, City Marshal Tim Long and Corpor-
alton Counsel Edwards
A consultation followed at which Mr..
Edwards said that whenever the Senate
Committee subp@naed the boxes they
would be Forthcoming, but he did not
think they should be taken to Trenton at
the city's expense.
1t was finally decided that the Senate
Committee should meet in Trenton at
three O'Clock tomorrow afternoon and
issue subpenas for the boxes. The boxes
special car in charge of City Clerk Scott
and Marshal Long. Mr.. Scott will prob
ably return to the city in the evening,
leaving the Marshal in possession of the
boxes
HOBoKEN'S BOXES.
The City Clerks of Hoboken and Bay
onne cities have not been notified to pro-
duce their boxes since Friday, and no
arrangements have been entered into to
convey them to Trenton.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-02-03
ATTACKING THE GRAND ARMY.
The Freeholders Resort to a Subterfug'
to Remove Veteran.

The Freeholders Resort to Subterfuge
to Remove Veteran.
When the members of Zabriskie Post,
G. A. R., learned last Thursday that the
Board of Freeholders intended to remove
a number Of employees they decide to in
tercede in behalf of Beniaman Evans, a
Democrat, who was a machinist at Snake
Hill, and surgeon of the Post in good
standing
A delegation, consisting of Commander
Patterson and Comrades Otto Meyer, Joe
Locke, Jonn G. Fisher, John McGrath
and John Larkins, waited on some county
officials and asked their intercession in
behalf of Evans. The committee, who
were in caucus arranging the resolution
dismissing the employees at the time, sent
word back that the position of inachinist
at Snake Hill would be abolished and that
nothing could be done to save EvanS
The entire delegation when interviewed
on the subject declared that the object of
abolishing the office was to get rid of q
Grand Army man, for that was the--oniy
way he could be removed under the
Veteran act The old veterans said with
Indignation; thst they we're positive that
the Freeholders wanted :to. put a man In
would soon be done by ycreating a new
office, the occupant to do the work Evans
had been doing. 1t could be done by ap-
pointing a man steamfitter, for example
The members of Zabriskie Post, both
Democrats and Republicans, feel very
sore over the act of the Freeholders, and
the last of the matter has. not yet come.
Evans has been advised to contest the act
of the Freeholders in the courts.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-02-03
HORROR TN WASHINGTON.
Secretary Tracy's Family
Burned and Suffocated
to Death.
GEN. TRACY's LIFE In DANGER.
His Wife, Daughter and House,
maid the Victims of An
Early Morning Blaze.

Secretary of the Navy Tracy met with
an awful affiiction this morning in the
horrible death OF his wife and his young
est daughter, Miss Mary f. Tracy.
Fire was discovered at seven O'Clock in
the mansion occupied by the family at
No. 1884 street, Washington, and before
the inmates could be rescued by the fire
department, Mrs. Tracy, Miss Tracy and
her maid, Josephine, were dead.
Just as the firemen were hosting lad
der to rescue Mrs. Tracey, VINO had
dragged her suffocated husband to a win
dow, she, in despair, jumped from there
to the pavement and an hour later died.
The young daughter wos in room on
the third floor and she was SO hemmed in
by the flames that she could not reach the
window and was burned to death.
The maid Josephine shared like fate.
The bodies of Mrs. Tracey and Miss
Attorney General Miller. General
Tracy was rescued, soon after
his wife jumped, in an unconscious
condition. He is at the home of Mr.. Ban
croft Davis and fears are entertained that
he may not recover from the effects of the
sufTocation. At forty-fiye minutes after
eleven o'clock he was yet unconscious
Mrs. Wilmerding. the Secretary's mar
ried daughter, and her child, Alice,
forced their way through the binding
smoke and jumped from the second
story window, front.
Ladders were raised for them, but in
their excitement they failed to see them.
Mrs. Wllmerding broke her left wrist
and was severely bruised
Her daughter was badly injured about
the lower limbs, but broke no bones.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-02-03

Amy Fowler on the Bothnia, day or
two ago, on her way to Molokai, have
aroused public attention TO the subject
as never before"
AND SIN Is SPREADING, TOO.
After giving an account of some OF the
symptoms of tine dreadful disease, Mr..
Crawford proceeded to show how in the
biblical teachings, leprosy is made type
and symbol of sin. Its fatal energy is
spreatling,'g he said, tits loathsome
manifestations make it peculiarly fit
ting illustration of the nature and work.
ings Of sin in mans heart and life What
ever may be said on that bone of conten-
tion between optimists and pessimists,
the question whether the world is actu-
ally growing better or worse, the fact is
that simultaneous with the silent and
steady march of leprosy there is silent
and steady increase Ofevil on the earth.
The modern mania for sport, the violent
progress of the gold fever, the spread of
infidelitY, the raising of the red flag by
anarchy, the bitter growing separation of
the classes and the masses, the walling
cry OF the helpless and hopeless poor, the
hardness and selfishness of the idle and
worldly rich are symptoms in present
social conditions which remind one
strangely and powerfully of the symp-
toms of oriental leprosy"
After quotation from President Pat
ton, of the Princeton University, as to the
spread and prevalence of evil in these
days, the pastor closed his sermon by
pointing out the safeguards against sin
for those who were uncontaminated and
the cure for it for those who have been
infected. While doing this he followed
the analogy suggested by the Mosaic
treatment of leprosy and the Lords
dealing with the lepers.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-02-03
HIS ACTION DEPLORED.
But 1t Does Not Debar Pastor Erich
From Preaching in Hoboken.

But 1t Does Not Debnr Pastor Erich
From Preaching in Hoboken.
Mr.. Klupfel, the secretary of the Board
of Trustees of the German Lutheran
Church of Hoboken, has received an an
swer from the Faculty of the Lutheran
College in Philadelphia, in relation to the
charges made against the Rev. Mr.. Erich,
the pastor of the church.
Mr. Erich is O divorced man and re-
Gently married a divorced woman of
Troy, N Y The trustees claimed that
the action of Mr.. Erich in remarrying
was in direct defiance to the Scriptures,
and the charges were sent to the Lutheran
College for decision IN the matter.
The decision of the Faculty is given in
a lengthy document by DR.. Mann, of
Philadelphia, signed by the members of
the Faculty The decision is founded on
"Augsburg's Confession and Smalcaldic
Articles which are the fundamental
principles of the Church.
The Faculty state in their decision that
the action of the minister was to be de-
plored, but that there was nothing in the
charges to debar him from exercising his
minister functi ions. Thas.- Faculty
quote q great deal of Scripture in their
decision Nss
Alth0ugl II the decisiony toa certain exS
tent, favors the pastor, his position as
pastor Will be a peculiar one. owing to
the strained relations existing between
him and certain members of the congre-
pafinn
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-02-03
LEPROSY AND SIN.
They Are Spreading Together Over the
Ifaca Of tl,a Tcaptb

They Are Spreading Together Over the
Face of the Earth.
Trinity Methodist Church, on York
street, was comfortably filed at the even
ing services last night TO hear the Rev.
Mr.. Crawford preach on leprosy. Mr..
Crawford chose for his text the words
ssBut he was leper."
After an Introductory exposition of the
Old story OF Naeman, the pastor proceeded
to speak of the recent alarm which is
spread through medical circles in England
over the discovery that leprosy is rife In
every quarter Of the globe and is silently
but steadily spreading it's ravages.
SPREAD or LEPROSY.
1T is supposed to have been brought
to Europc,' the preacher said, s'by the
crusaders, and was at one time dreadful
scourge on the continent. By the end of
the sixteenth century it abated for many
years, until recently its contagiousness
was doubted. Sir Morrell Mackenzie.
after special study of it In some of its
present haunts, has brought forward
iEdisputable proof of the fact that
it is insidiously contagious. It turks in
Italy, Spain and Portugal. 1t is in
Greece in the island of Ageau. Sporadic
cases are to be found in Hungarian viii
lagos: y is spreading in Russia. garticn-
larly in the Baltic provinces. Although
it has been pretty effcctuaily stamped out
in Sweden, in the contiguous Norway it
is more prevalent than elsewhere in
Europe II is to be found and is spread
ing in Mexico, in the West Indies and in
Guiana. In the LATTER place its ravages
are spreading with alarming rapidity.
In 1850 it was brought by the Chinese east
to the Sandwich Islands. By them also
it was brought to California. 1t has been
further introduced into the United States
from Italy. Norway and the West Indies.
Modern facilities of travel are particu-
iarly favorable for its spread, and there is
no charm in the great name of modern
civilization to keep it away. 1t is sup
posed that there are 100000 lepers in IEdia
alone and some millions scattered over
the earth. Father Dalnien's hcroism in
Moloxai, the lepcr settlement of the
Sandwich Islands, preceded by the same
species OF hercism on the part OF Protest
ant missionaries in other leper settle
monte. together with the arrival of Miss
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-02-03
DIsPUqING THE MARRIAGE.
why the Grandfather Wants Guardian
for Cecilia Simons.

why the Grandfather Wants Guardian
for Cecilia Simons.
An application was made to Vice Chan
cellor Van Fleet, sitting as Vice Ordinary
this morning, which opens up an interest
ing controversy. 1t was for an order to
appoint a guardian for Cecilia Simons, a
three-months-old infant. The application
was made by Counsellor Cross on behalf
of the grandfather of the infant.
The grandfather, in his application,
says that Morris Simons, the futher of the
infant, married woman named Esther
Cohen in London, England, in 1885; that
he afterward came to this country, and,
although his wife in London was still
living. he married the daughter of the
petltioner The mother of the infant died
not long ago. leaving an estate of about
$1.S00.
LAWYER Kalish opposed the motion on
behalf of Morris Simons, the father of
the child, and asked for delay in order to
enable him to secure proof as to the val
idity of the disputed marriage. The Vice
Ordinary reserved his decision.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-02-03
DRIVE THEM OUT OF THE
COUNTY.

The attention of Judge Knapp and
Prosecutor Winfield is respectfully
called to the following incident de-
scribed by SUNDAY MORNING News
reporter who visited the pool rooms
in Harrison, Hudson County,
'St. Mic wins, " are the words which
strike knell to many hearts. Along
about twenty-fiv years of age. When
the announcement of the winning
horse was made he turned white as q
sheet and tore up his ticket. picked
up the pieces and followed him. The
ticket showed that he had placed $25
on Drumstick to win He went down
stairs and drank four whiskeys in sue
.cession and went away.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-02-03
ARE THEY ALL BAD2
Police Raid Third Street House and
Make Several Arrests.

Make Several Arrests.
Ann Harris, whose house in the rear of
No All Third street has been com planned
of as being notorious resort for lewd
women and disorderly characters, was
raided last night by Patrmen Kanol /,
Kelly, Skiff and Murphy. Frank Jones,
James Mcdonald, Lizzie Brown, Alexan-
Mary Murphy and James Madden ware
arrested and locked up.
Thurlow Walsh, the owner of the pro-
perty, and who lives in front, gave some
damaging testimony concerning the
character of the house in his rear. and
his wife corroborated him. Neither,
however, was able to prove that the
young ladies who visited the rear of his
house were not Missionaries.
Ann claimed in court that her house
was not disorderly, but that the landlord
was down on her, and wanted her to move
out. Some of the women who were ar
rested however, were old offenders, and
the Judge had but little doubt as to the
justice Of the police raid.
Still, some among those who We're ar
rested, claimed that they were merely
boarders, and their respectable appear
ance led the Judge to question them
sharply in order that he might not make
the innocent suffer for the doings Of the
guilty.
Among those who excited the Judges
interest were Frank Jones and his wife
Ann, two very respectable mulattoes.
Both claimed they were lawfully welded
as man and wife and rented rooms from
the notorious Ann.
After questioning the husband as TO the
date of his marriage and failing to trip
him up the Judge turned to the wife and
said
"What did the minister say to you
when you were married."
"About de same he said to you when
you done got married" she replied, half
saucily.
AS the Judge is merry old bachelor
the heartiness of the laugh at his expense
can be readily imagined.
Jones and his wife were discharged.
Two of the girls were sent up to Snake
Hill and the others were paroled. Ann,
against whom the charge was mode OF
Keeping disorderly house, was paroled
on account of her sick baby.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-02-03
THE POLICE WERE BLIND.

They Saw Two Bad Men in = Sunday
Theatre, But Didn't See the Theatre.
Gantzberg's Concert Garden on Wash
ington street, Hoboken, was the scene Of q
free fight just before the curtain rose at
eight O'Clock last night. Ernest Barden-
hauer and Fred Etzald, two we'll known
young men about town entered the Con
cert Gardenn intoxicated. They ordered
several drinks, and proceeded to criticise
the ability of the young women whom
the programme called charming vocal
ists.n
Their criticisms were biased. it ID
claimed, and finally their demonstrations
became so noisy that at signal several
walters approached the noisy spectators
and ordered them to keep quiet. The
walters were told to go toa warm climate
and one of the noisy youths threatened to
annihilate the head waiter.
BY this time the audience had been at
| tracted to the scene of the dispute and
| the majority of the audience took sides
with the two youths. Then Mr.. Gantz-
| berg, the proprietor of the concert gar
| den," with commendable nerve, dis
| patched a messenger to the police station
| to ask the police to quell disturbance in
| disorderly house.
! Roundsman Jacobus, Policemen Goode
and Ryan were dispatched to the scene
| and succeeded in arresting the two noisy
| spectators. The prisoners were followed
| to the station house by large crowd.
They gave their names as Ernest Barden-
hauer. of No. 100 Washington street, and
Fred Etzald, Of No. 391 Washington
street. They protested against their ar
rest and wanted to make a charge against
Gantzberg, but they were too drink 70
make statement.
They were fiued IS each this morning
| by Recorder McDonough. The action OF
| Gantzberg in sending to the police station
| to quell q disturbance in his place on
| Sunday is considered in the nature Of
"break" by the police.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-02-03
GREENYILLE'S NEW CHAPEL.
The Reformed Church People Opened 1t
Yesterday with Ceremonies.

The Reformed Church People Opened 1t
Yesterday With Ceremonies.
Yesterday was a red-letter day in the
history of the Greenville Reformed
Church, the occasion being the opening
of the new chapel on Ocean avenue
There was no jubilee arranged to COM
memorate the occasion, owing to the
much-regretted illness of the Rev. w. p.
Bruce.
Special services of an appropriate nature
were arranged, however, and fine musi-
cal programme was arranged by the choir
under the direction of Mr.. William Out
water The pulpit was banked up with
flowers. The Rev. Mr.. Boyd, of New
York, occupied the pulpit
A Sunday school reunion was held in
the afternoon, after which the Young
Peoples Society of Christian Endeavor
held the most interesting meeting in its
history. Fine singing and interesting
jubilee exercises were feature.
The new chapel is a model of comfort,
and is we'll adapted to the wants of the
congregation. 1t is very commodious,
having seating capacity of over seven
hundred. 1t contains, besides the main
room, library, kitchen and children's
class room.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-02-03
CHRIsTENED IT 81. THERESA.
The New Bell in st. Joseph's Church at
Constable Hook.

Constable Hook.
Through the conservation of the edi-
fees new altar. bell and cross, the pa
Church at Constable Hook, Bayonne,
celebrated yesterday forenoon quite red
letter event in the history of their young
church organization.
The entire colony of foreigners at the
Hook looked upon the occasion as a gala
day.
The conservation services Immediately
followed the celebration of the regular
morning masses, the rector, the Rev,
Samuel Balla, officiating
Leaving the church ne stationed him
self at the entrance, and, in the presence
of several thousand spectators, first
affair over six feet tall. Ip.the ceremony
he was assisted by the officers of the
church, who surrounded him and formed
picturesque group.
After experimenting the work of erect
ing the cross upon the summit of the
church spire, the clergyman blessed the
bell and christened it ''St. Theresa"
President Valentine James Sisson, of the
St. JoseDh's r. G. Association, and his
wife became its sponsors.
Then the bell, which weighs 1880
pounds, and is pleasantly pitched in the
Key Ol "A, was nOlSbeu luJO lL6 SHIr0 duu
spiritedly swung TO and fro.
The altar and life sized statue of st.
Joseph that reposed upon it as the gift of
the St. Joseph's Sick Benefit Association,
of Yonkers, N Y, to the church were
next consecrated.
The ceremonies concluded with the par
ticipating societies marching through the
church in single ale. Each member
kissed cross upheld by the rector, and
as he did so received the clergyman's
blessing.
A sumptuous banquet was served dur
ing the afternoon at No. Is William street
to all the parishioners and their
guests. Among the organizations
that took part in the event were
the Hungarian Slavonic Benefit
Association and the st. John the Baptist
r. G. Society, of New YORK City; the ST.
Joseph's Sick Benefit Association, of
Yonkers, n. Y; the st. AIMS r. G. As
sociation and the ST. Henry's r. G. So
ciety of St. Henry's Germany r. G.
Church, of Bayonne; several societies
from s.. Mary's Star of the Sea
r. G. Church at Bergen Point, and
the Hooper Cooper Benefit Relief
Association, the First Crown Prince
Rudolph Bohemian-Slavonian Mutual
Benevolent Association and the r. A. D.,
+. r. Celayosky CHS, No. 140, G. S. p. s.,
of Bayonne. The church edifice was form
erly the property of the st. Paul. s Lutheran
Church, vino sold it to the Hungarians
for s., 700. and recently erected ana dedi-
Gated larger structure in the CenJreville
district of BaYonne.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-02-03
SHALL HE SELL II2

A City Lighting Contract is Among This
Receivers Assets.
On application of Counsellor William
S Baker, Vice Chancellor Van Fleet to-
day authorized G. L. Leavy, receiver of
the Perth Amboy Electric Light Company
the company's plant. 1t appeared dur
ing the argument that the company
has contract for lighting the city, and
counsel asked whether the receiver
should sell the contract with the other
effects of the company. The Court laid
down the rather novel rule that if the
contract was advantageous to the city he
should sell; if not he should let it alone,
but he should exercise his Judgment.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-02-03
Frank Cotton's Little Bears.

Frank Cotton, whose trained donkeys
have given him a reputation, has had
pair of Canadian bears shipped to him,
and he has commenced the task of train
ing the savage young beasts at his little
stable on Washburn street. 1t is to be
hoped that the bears will not make meal
of either Frank OF his donkeys
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-02-03
A Bad Man with a Jimmy.

Soon after midnight of Saturday Police
man Lowry went for a trio of susplciously
acting men on Pavonia avenue. He sue
ceeded in capturing one of them, Kyran
Heffron, aged %, printer, of Washington
street, Hoboken. In an inside pocket
Heffron had a first-class jimmy. He
claimed to be unacquainted with the two
who escaped and SAID they gave him the
jimmy Heffron's reputation is bad, and
the police say he was arrested once for
threatening to stab his mother and on
another occasion for larceny. He was
locked up as disorderly person.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-02-03
Drunkenness was Prevalent,

There was an unusual number of ar
rests for drunkenness and disorderly con-
duct in lower Jersey City Saturday night
and yesterday. The prison van had to
make three trips this morning in convey
ing prisoners from the Second Precinct
Station TO Justice Stilsing $ court room,
and the crowd that daily wait to see the
procession of "bums :" had an abundance
of fun at their expense.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-02-03
Polly WIN be a Witness.

Polly Sexton, the pretty seventeen-year-
old girl who was remanded Saturday by
Justice Stilsing on charge of malicious
mischief. was held this morning to ap-
pear as a States witness against Albert
James, the proprietor of the disorderly
house at Fourteenth and Grove streets.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-02-03
s,rae, noara,s short Meeting.

short session this morning, during which
sealed proposals for the construction of
the Ninth street sewer, from Monmouth
to Brunswick street, were read as fol-
lows:-
ID. H. Hilchen, s., $685. Michael Mullery,
81, $50; Patrick Connolly. s., 3,463; Thomas
Kelly, $2,570. Michael Mullery's was
lowest.
The final assessment map for the Jack
son avenue improvements was confirmed.
The Board received invitations to at
tend the John II. Brown Associations
ball at Pohlmann's tonight.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-02-03
postnoned che Lecture.

Thomas G.. Sherman's lecture before
the Hudson County Democratic Society
has been postponed till February II in
consequence Of an engagement on the
part OF the lecturer to participate in the
centennial celebration of the founding OF
the Supreme Court.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-02-03

Some time ago Maria L. Seaman of
Rutherford, who has brought suit for
divorce against her husband Charles, OBJ
tanned from the Chancellor an order for
alimony and possession of the house In
which the parties lived. This morning
Counsellor Ely showed the Chancellor
that Mr. Seaman had turned over the
house to his wife and that she had rented
it instead OF occupying it.
The Chancellor severely cond the
woman's course and told her counsel that
she must either occupy the house or tpxH
it over to her husband.