The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1891-05-09


The claim OF the New York. Sus-
ouehanna and Western Railway for
the spur Of land on the Hackensack,
which John O'Brien also claims to
own. Is very singular and not a little
suspicious. Certainly the railway
win have to make out the clearest
sort OF a 5 before the public will
cease to regard it as a bold land steal.
The company claims to have bought
the land twenty years ago Never
until last year did it attempt to use
the plot or to collect rent for it. or to
perform any other act OF ownership
Meanwhile, O'Brien has kept the land
fenced in and has made constant use
OF it. The company never, until last
year, molested him in any way.
Is it probable, under these circum-
stances. that it has any just title to
the land7
IT looks as If the benefit insurance
sharks would fight Insurance Super
intendent Harvey to the bitter end
The business pays too we'll be be
easily abandoned. All the better for
Colonel Harvey. The bigger the fight
the more honor there will be in
winning it.
THE labor unions seem to have an
idea that they own this State and all
its people. The union printers OF
Elizabeth, who number, perhaps,
fifteen or twenty in all. are raising
no end Of a circus because the monde
script Central Neto Jersey Herald was
not designated to publish the State
laws. This is simply perverting labor
unionism for the encouragement OF
party treachery. The Herald, be-
cause ex-Prosecutor Wilson OF
Union, who is its proprietor, was
not reappointed to Office, aban-
doned the Democratic party and
commenced a series of mali
cious attacks on its leaders.
1t consequently lost all standing as a
party paper and all right under the
law to a designation to publish the
statutes. DO the representatives OF
honest organized labor think they oc-
cupy a position of credit or even de-
cency in making themselves b
champions Of such q sheet2
WE notice in the Erening Journal
Of yesterday a paragraph about a
cruel injury to Mr. Q. II. Benson's
pet dog. 1t is to be hoped that Mr..
Benson will leave no stone unturned
to discover and punish the perpetra-
tor. Acts Of wanton malice OF this
description concern every one, for
any one may be the next victim. To
kind hearted people injuries
to their domestic pets are
particularly distressing, and there are,
unfortunately, many people with no
hearts who delight in pursuing dumb
animals with all sorts OF torture and
abuse. Judging from the facts given
in the Journal the ease of Mr.. Ben
sons pet is a peculiarly brutal n
and it is his duty to his neighbors to
trace it up to the guilty party.
The New York World appearing as
the champion of the Trenton Battle
Monument fund, simultaneously with
the announcement of the treasurer,
that SO, 900 or two-thirds OF the nee
cessary money have been collected,
puts itself in the position OF
the small boy who joins the Sun
day school just before the picnic.
It's efforts at this late day viii have
to be given almost exclusively to the
preparation of its own boast when
the sum shall be completed. As a
matter Of fact. there are uncompleted
funds enough in New York to engage
the Worlds efforts. Let the World
"queern one of those, if it must be in
that business. and not interfere with
matters outside its field
THE New Orleans Grand Jury,
which failed to find any indict-
ment against the rioters, should sit
once more and bring in a true bill
against itself for numbering the
Queens English in its report.
MCPHERSON FOR PRESIDENT.
From the Chicago Herald