The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-09-20

LIVELY LICENSE FIGHT.
All About the Saloon Opposite Bay
Onne's New City Hall
Cholera Arrests.

Cn0lera arrests.
The license issued by the Bayonne
Council and acting Mayor to Charles
Macdonald, which Mayor Farr declines
to recognize. was the subject of q lively
legal bout yesterday afternoon before
Recorder Besher. All Bayonne is inter-
ested, and a nice legal question is in.
volved. About two hundred residents OF
the Second ward above East Twenty fifth
street are waging the warfare, under the
leadership of Thomas j. Kennedy, the
Prohibition nominee for Governor.
Last May John S. Mcdonald applied
for a liquor license and leased a store near
the new City Hall at Avenue Z. and East
Thirtieth street. A petition signed by
more than two hundred persons protesting
against any saloon there WAS filed. Ar
Cuments against it were made before the
Council. Nearly three hundred citizens
petitioned in favor of the license. which
the Council passed, 1t was taken to the
supreme Court u annulled.
Then Charles Macdonald applied for a
license, and the Council passed it. The
Mayor vetoed it and his action was over
d While he was out Of tine city on
August 20 the license was signed by Pres
ident of the Council, John w. Goddard.
Mayor Farr then ordered the police to
arrest Macdonald if he opened. This was
done last week.
Yesterday afternoon City Attorney
James z. Northrop and Counsellor Ken
nedy prosecuted on the ground that The
Mayors signatureswas necessary 10 le-
galize a license. The liquor ordinance
was their authority. Counsellor Ed
ward a. S. Man defended Macdonald and
secured his discharge. The Court said
n WntIdif ~ h lTuA
for a higher court to determine. The de-
tense was a charter provision that, in the
absence of the Mayor, the President of
the Council can act in his place. Since
the license was signed, the applicant OBJ
tanned it from Collector R. Cadmus
Coombes and paid for it. Then a writ of
certiorari was obtained by the opponents
OF any saloon in that section, aud this Is
pending. There is no objection to the
owner personally, the fight being to keep
every saloon out in that part of the city.
The saloon is now open.
Cholera Arrests.
At the instance of DIR. Robert G. Nolan,
City Health Physician, twenty arrests
were made by the Bayonne police yester-
day forenoon for violations of the sani-
tary code. The cuiprits were John Suth-
erland, WestFifty-fourth street: Hugh
Flanagan, West Sixteenth street: William
barnes, West Eighth street; Joel M.
Johnson, Avenue D and West Nineteenth
street; John Sweeney, Evergreen
street,; Edward j. Koch, No. 90
East Fifty-tirst street; John McPhail,
West Centre aud West F~orty-ninth
streets; Mrs. Donovan, Evergreen streets;
John w. Kester. No. % West Forty-sixth
street; Mrs. Hitchell. Evergreen street;
Herman Schieferstein. No. 10 East Fifty
first street; Joseph A. Cadmus. No. A
Eiaat HnrtH-fIffh otrnof. Eradorialr c
Callius, No. II East Fifty-first street;
James Paul, No. 26 West Forty-slxth
street; Mrs. Hague. West Centre
and West Forty-ninth street; Adolph
Schieferstein, No. 10 East Flfty-frst
street; John f.. Weigel, Avenue G aud
West ~Eorty-ninth street; Herman Wyen-
lex, No. "a West Forty-sixth street:
Romano Cadmus, Avenue G and West
F%orty-nfth street. and John Sears. No. 81
East Fffty-third street.
During the morning and afternoon the
prisoners were arraigned in the police
court before Recorder Besher. The ma
Jority pleaded ignorance OF any intention
to violate the code. Others asserted that
they were unable to obtain the services
OF the city scavengers owing to the pres
sure OF work. Upon promising to bav0
abated the nuisances which caused their
arrest, they were all discharged.
This evening the Board of Councilmen
will hold a regular business meeting.
Ex-Postmaster Charles II. Mum re-
turned home last evening from Buffalo,
N. Y, where he was in attendance at the
annpal convention of the National Re-
publican League as one of the two dele
gates from the new Eighth Congressional
District of New Jersey.
Mrs. Horace briggs of West First
street is s%ojourning with friends ut
Rochester, N. Y, after a trip to Niagara
Falls accompanied by her little daughter
Edna.
William P. Levers, of East Fourteenth
street. complained to the police yesterday
forenoon that he was garrotted and
robbed at Avenue d and East Sixteenth
street late Saturday NIGHT by James.
alias "Nobby." Burns. John alias Bow"
Hunter. and the latter's brother. Thomas,
q trio Of young Jail birds. Levers says
that the hIghwaymen rifled his pockets of
" In change. q silver watch and chain.
his coat, vest, hat and shoes. The police
ascerta1ned during the afternoon that the
trio had Gecamped from town.
Francis Fitzgerald, one of the laborers
employed an the County Boulevard by
the, Hudson County Constructing Com
panY. was seriously injured while at
work yesterday afternoon. He was re-
moved to the Bayonne Hospital and Dis
penSary.
The annual autumnaI reunion of Bay
onne Council No. 6s5. Royal Arcanum.
was held in Arcanum Hall last evening.
During the business session j. P. Rey.
nolds was initiated, his acquisition
making the members humber
BAL. During the long table social session
refreshments were served, and under the
caption of Vacation Experiences" tales
were stold.. Orator William B. Dubois
narrated o q winter walk from New
York to Poughkeepsie; the Rev. William
W. Knox spoke of his tour OF the White
Mountains. Principal George A.. At
water, of School No. 8. told of excursions
through Europe and trips through the
Catacombs of Rome and Professor Cook
recited and sang.
The members of Court Pamrapo, No.
8.025, A. o. F. of A., celebrated in Smiths
Hal! last evening the first anniversary
OF the organizations institution with a
reception and supper.
The O'Neills' Outing.
The full list OF officers for the O'NeilI
Associations narade nayt Thursdov 10 n,