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The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-12-28
The Finance Board Surprise Party

The Finance Board Surprise Party.
The change in the city's legal advis-
ers, last night, is a surprise only be-
cause people had become so accus-
toned to the nold-over state of things
that they had forgotten it was only a
temporary arrangement. In reality
the turnover is a matter of no essential
Importance whatever. Ex-senator
Brinkerhoff is very good lawyer and
Mr.. Erwin, also, is capable of perform
ing the functions of Corporation At
torney. They will doubtless perform
their duties to the satisfaction of the
Board of Finance.
The only real import Of the change
attaches to the manner of it. This
mornings revelations show that it
was conceived and executed, not only
without Mayor Wanser's knowledge,
but also in a spirit Of hostility to lin.
He is very naturally angry at the
studied insult with which his personal
friend and appointee. Mr.. Spencer
Weart, has been treated. There is
something very like a declaration of
wal against the Mayor in the act as a
sum total, and this will become very
d%isquieting to the better element in
the community who have come to rely
on him to bring about a better future
for the city.
Another regretable deduction that
follows irresistibly from the facts is
that some of the same old influences
dominate this Board of Finance as
did those of the Cleveland regime.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-12-28
sUTT0N-TEALL.

The marriage of Miss Beatrice Teall to
Mr.. Robert E. Sutton was celebrated on
Christmas day at the residence of the brides
parents, No, 1863 Glenwood avenue. The
ceremony was performed by Rev. DR.. Brett,
of the Bergen Reformed Church. Mr.. F.
Depenbrook was best man, and Miss Jennie
"A. Madden the bridesmaid. After the cere-
mony there was a reception and supper.
The bride received numerous presents. The
young couple will reside at No. 40 Nunda
avenue. Among those present were Mr..
and Mrs. Teal, Mr., and Mrs. Bel, and Miss
Todeyo of New York, the Misses A. Madden,
j. Madden, K. Madden, G. Milham, G.. De-
penbrook and D. Berth, and Messrs. F,
Smith, L. DeForge, L Dubois, T. Dubois,
F. Wallace, G. Naylor, Jr., H. Rogers, E.
Rogers, ]. Beilby; E. Allen, and many
others.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-12-28
LOCAL BOARD OF HEALTH.
Persons Turning Up Earth Liable to
Arrest.

Persons Turning UP Earth Liable to
Arrest.
The Police Commissioners, acting as the
Board of Health, yesterday afternoon
amended the constitution SO that now a
person turning up a quantity of earth and
laying people in the neighborhood liable to
an epidemic, is punishable by the imposition
of a fine of $50. The following reports of
the first months work were submitted:
City Physician Wolfson attended 81 cases
and made As visits; DR.. Hoffman, 50 cases
and As visits; DR.. Henry, "a cases and AZ
visits; DR.. Brinckerhoff, IL cases and Al
visits; DR.. Everitt, ID cases and A visits.
Health Inspector Benjamin reported IS
nuisances complained of, 156 abated, 553
notices sent out, 767 nuisances complained of
and abated, 81 permits granted, and 231
premises inspected.
During the month there have been "a
cases of diphtheria, II of scarlet fever, 10 of
typhoid, 12S of measles, 5 of smallpox and l
of Group.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-12-28

THE Philadelphia Times lets in the
light or another piece of, Tariff dis
honesty. There has been a desperate
Mckinley yell the last week Oh two be-
cause the Dobson blanket and cloth
mills shut down on the 10Th for an
indefinite period. OF course the cry
was that the Wilson bill did it. Here
is the truth of the matter from the
Times
The Messrs. Dobson feel enough certainty in
tho tariff TO enger now into contracts in Eng
land for large quantities Of wooden waste, to b.
imported as soon as the the new Tariff shall go
into operation admitting this important ma
tsrial free OF taxation.
In other words. the mills are closed not in fear
of the Wilson tariff, but to wait for its greater
advantages. And yet the worSinsa are told
that it is because Congress is threatening their
Industries and that they must expect a reduc-
tion of wages.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-12-28
HINT FOR CAPTAIN NUGENT.

A gang of young toughs that should re-
ceiye the attention of the Fifth precinct
police congregates almost every evening at
Linden avenue and Old Bergen Road. The
average age of the toughs is about eighteen,
and many come from respected families.
Their chief amusement is to insult passing
pedestrians, and no one can pass their stamp
ing ground without being insulted. When
not occupied in this line the young rowdies
smoke cigarettes and sing boisterously. The
residents in that neighborhood hope that
Captain Nugent will break up the gang.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-12-28
EMORY PRAYING BAND.

The Emory Praying Band who conduct
the Bergen Mission held a meeting last night
at the home of Mr.. Van Hule. No. 1857
Wilton street, at which they elected officers.
The Christian Endeavor Society held a pri-
yate meeting in the hall. On Friday after
poon at three O'Clock the Ladies' Home Mis-
sionary Circle will meet and each member
will present a report of the work she has
done for the poor since Thanksgiving Day.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-12-28
OUTRAGEOUS INTIMIDATION,

AMBLER, Pa, Dec. IS, 1S9S.-The Keasbey
and Mattison Company, manufacturers of
chemicals and pipe coverings, yesterday
posted, in their works at this place, a notice
to the effect that the introduction of the
Wilson bill in Congress was causing this
company to lose a large amount of business,
and requesting the employees in sympathy
with the measure to resign. DR.. Mattison,
the President of the company, says that in
the future preference win be given to re-
publicans in employing men.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-12-28
r S BANK.
DIVIDENDS.
HAD ROBBED HIS FRIEND.

Thomas Cullen and John Barry shared a
two young men We're chums and seemed to
be devoted to each other until December 10,
when Cullen suddenly disappeared and with
search Barry found the false friend on
Tenth avenue, New York, and succeeded in
forcing Cullen to disgorge s34 of the amount
he had stolen, Cullen was arrested and
brought to this city, and yesterday was
tried and convicted in the Court of Sessions.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-12-28
FROM

The Willow Indepen dent Democratic Associa-
ton Of Hoboken, held an important meeting
Willow avenue. The society decided to a fdliate
with Pagan, Smith. U5z IL CO., and to follow In
their leadership TnH Willows are organized
about two years. Tue members have doue good
WORK in the political fIsid. The meetings are
held the first and third Tuesday evenings OF
each month
Tit members Of the Frank Paper Association
will nave rousing reception AZ their rooms on
Saturday evening.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-12-28
PENNsY's FINANCIAL CONDITION.

PHILADELPHIA, Dec. %, 1S93.-It is Off
cially announced that the Pennsylvania Rail
road Company has fully discharged the tenn
porary loan of $3.50, 600 secured by it in Lon
don in July last, and that, owing to its ex-
cellent credit, the net cost Of the loan to the
company was but 80 per cent. The company
viii go out of the year 1893 without any
floating debt, and with nothing but the or
binary obligations growing GU of its traffic
and current relations with other companies.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-12-28
NEW ooRDAGE COMPANY OFFICERS.

Yesterday afternoon at the office in New
York of the United States Cordage Company,
the new Board of Directors organized by
the election of Rudolph Keppler, President;
William H. Corbin, Vice President and
Treasurer, and Appleton Sturgis, Secretary.
Messrs. Keppler and Corbin were elected as
permanent officers. except that Mr.. Corbin
will not be expected to act as Treasurer. A
permanent Secretary will be elected in a
few days and the new company viii be in
operation for commercial purposes, if plans
go right, with the opening of the year.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-12-28
The Devil In Propria Persona.

Inc DeplI III FfOpfla PERSONA
"a bad day coming for you, my
fair young mistress; a bad day COM
ing for YOU"
1t is a bad day for anyone when he
or she undertakes to reverse the plans
of Providence and to learn that which
it is not permitted to mankind to
know. 1t is a particularly bad day
for foolish young women when they
get dabbling in magic mock or real
for the purpose of feasting their NOR :
bid romantic dreams.
The queer story told in The News
OF yesterday sounds more as if it came
from a chronicle of the Middle Ages
than it does like a current rumor of
the present day; and yet it is not one
bit o absurd or impossible than
things which are believed and told by
otherwise sane and even clever people
every day in the week. There is GER
tainly nothing more inconsistent with
reason in the appearance of the Devil
for the destruction of a young woman
who had summoned him, than there
is in the accounts of ma~terializing
seances. liberation of the astral
body journeys IN the astral plane
and the thousand and one other wild
and weird things that are taught as
grave truth by fifty thousand spirit
ualistie believers in England and
America.
To a man like Editor Stead, we
shoeld suppose, the story of the un-
happy Bessie Hennessey would APP
pear a perfectly rational and probable
narrative, In one of his books, he
distinctly warns inexperienced peo-
pIe-especially women-against the
evil spirits who constantly wander
up and down the astral plane''
seeking whom they may devour.
Presumably be would say that the
young woman had natural medi-
umistie power and that she suec seded
in bringing n of these evil ghosts
al LAI4HOf HtbA 1Al0 lIAlAhl NOIIu,
not by the silly incantation she par
formed. but by her WI earnestness
and faith.
Mind you, we are not attempting to
bolster up this strange narrative in
any way. We give it in THE News
as a story which has been current in
all parts Of the city, in Roman Catholic
circles, for a month past. 1t seems
hardly credible but that there is
some superficial ground for it,
even supposing it has grown In
the telling; 1t Is too universally prev
alent and the agreement as to the
facts is too strong to think it is made
out of whole cloth. If it is a mere in
vention of some jester, there have
been some remarkable corroborations
obtained. To take a common sense
view OF it, IL may be that the origin is
in some case Of hysterical delusion,
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-12-28
THE KAIsERs RECEPTION.

The Leonard j. Kaiser Association held its
regular monthly meeting last evening at the
Lafayette House on johnson avenue, and
besides the election of several new members
transacted considerable routine business.
The committee which has charge of the ar
engagements for the annual ball ON February
2 at Woods Hall reported that a large mum
Der of tickets would soon be issued and that
no effort would be spared to make the affair
a success. The Kaisers' ball is always an
important event in Lafayette, and that it
will be well attended is certain.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-12-28
NOTED OUTLAW CAPTURED.

NEWMAN, ILL.,, Dec. 2s, 1S9S.-John Gill
Myers, the Ambraw outlaw, who recently
escaped from an armed force of men seeking
to lynch him, was Tuesday captured at his
home in the Brushy Fork neighborhood. The
crime for which Myers was wanted was the
hanging of his fourteen-year-old step
daughter up by the thumbs. Myers was cap
tured by Deputy Sheriff Bangley, and is
now in Jail at Tuscola.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-12-28
Highest Of all in Leavening Power-Latest |. S. Govt Report
@tA|!!;!! a. Rs'aj2g
ABSOLUTELY PURE
ABSOLUTELY PURE
him out of the public offices he dis

him out of the public offices he dis
graced.
So long as he is not committing
public offences, we should desire to
pass O'Mara over, with silence.
Especially is it painful to have to
speak with severity when he is sick,
perhaps dying; but the good of the
community requires that the truth
should sternly be held up in oppo-
sition to all indecent and immoral
gush of the sort printed in the Jour
nal. The attitude of that paper in
its brief article yesterday is as de-
PRAYED as the instinct which lavishes
flowers and tears on a negro cut
throat the day before his hanging.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-12-28
FOLLOWED HER SISTERS EXAMPLE

ST. PAUL, MINI, Dec. %, 1893.-Miss Ella
o'Rourke, a pretty girl of twenty, who re-
sided at Council Bluffs, Iowa, committed
suicide here at four o'clock yesterday after
noon by taking two ounces of carbolic acid.
Her sister, Mrs. Maggie Nunnemaker, com
mitted the same act by the same means on
husband of the latter is a gambler.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-12-28
FIREMENs RELIEF ASSOCIATION,

The Board of Representatives of the Ho-
boken Firemen's Relief Association met
Tuesday evening and elected these officers
President, Chief Apologize; Vice President,
William Kreimer; Treasurer, Henry Errion:
Secretary and Collector, Hermann Brach-
mann.
The Board of Trustees met and elected for
permanent Chairman, Michael Maher; Sec
rotary, Joseph Godfrey.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-12-28

WE are very anxious to see if the
Race Track laws will be repealed this
winter. 1t is generally understood
that William ]. Thompson eontri-
buted largely to the Republican cam
paign fund for use in Hudson County.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-12-28
THURSDAY. DECEMBER Is. 1898.

This paper is Democratic in principles
and is Independent il its rieics on all local
nneStions.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-12-28
TEACHER DRAGGED TO DEATH

DANvILLE, ILL.,, Dec. IS, 1s93.-Yesterday
afternoon Miss Katie Milmore, a w~el-known
school teacher of the county was thrown
from her horse while returning from school.
dragged to death by the frightened horse.
She was twenty years old.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-12-28

IT is said that Major Lentz's substi-
tute for the Werrs election law re-
quires all polling places to be distant
at least 100 feet from any liquor sa-
loon. 1t will be pretty hard to conf
ply with this provision in some sec
tions of Jersey City and Newark.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-12-28

WHAT has become of all that long
series OF committees? 1t does not
seem to be doing much.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-12-28
ROBBED THE ROOM OF A LoDaER.

Henry Rosenzwig hired a furnished room
from Mrs. Amelia Markart at No. 22S River
street, Hoboken, on August %. An hour
later he was caught in the act of robbing the
room of another ledger and he was arrested.
Rosenzwig was tried and convicted yester-
day in the Court Of Sessions.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-12-28

WHEN We used the name of ssMiKen
O'Mara in these columns. yesterday,
in a jesting way, we were moi aware OF
the fact that the man was sick and in
a hospital. We should certainly be
sorry to Jest at misfortune. even when
richly deserved. At the same time we
desire to protest mostearnestly against
the maudlin sympathy which the
Journal exhibits towards O'Mara.
That paper with its natural instinct
towards association with crime allows
0Mara, in an interview, to represent
himself as a martyr to political devo-
ton and to rail at the honest condem-
nation which has closed the gambling
houses where he 1ourished and drove
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-12-28

THESE be brave words. MI. Rogers,
of Camden. Let us see if the votes
will correspond.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-12-28
THE ideal Street and Water
JOHN NJ. JONES,
R. G.
JOSEPH A. DEAR,
HENRY LEMBECK,
JOHN P. FEENEY.

Queer Reform Blast from Hob0ken.
Mayor Pagan of Hoboken, the good
Mayor Pagan, the reform Mayor Pagan,
is the owner of the Observer of that
city-indeed, he is the Observer, and
whatever he observes, goes--in the
Obse7ve9's columns.
We have been astonished to find in
the columns of that bright and enter
prising sheet-Tuesday's editions
savage attack on Superintendent
Christopher P. Smith of this city for
closing the liquor saloons on Sunday.
We have been astonished. you see,
because Mayor Fagen, the Observer.
is such a reformer himself and he as
sured Sheriff S~tanton's last Grand
Jury-so DR.. McGill says-that the
saloons were always shut in Hoboken
upon the Sabbath. We reprint the
onslaught in another column, SO that
our readers may share the entertain
ment and amazement which it created
in ourselves. Perhaps we shall open
a guessing contest in a day or two
and offer a reward for the best ex-
PLANTATION of the intellectual and
moral operations which inspired so
bitter an attack by me great reformer
upon another.
Here is particularly in~explieable
passage:-
Fortunately for all concerned, the reign of
this unpFincipled and INSCRIPTIONS political
demagogue is nearly over 3 = > =
1t is safe TO presume that the saloons in Jer-
sey City will be as Theoretically scaled every
Sunday until he has retired, as they vera last
Sabbath.
Why that fortunately" If his
staying in will keep the saloons closed,
why should Hoboken's great reformer
desire him to be ousted from office?
HERE is another hole knocked in the
fabric of Mckinley protection. The
very moment the robber tariff passed,
the worklmen in the Trenton potteri es
had their wages cut about cne
twenty-five per cent. A strike fol-
lowed. There was much suffering
and much bitter feeling. The matter
was finally settled on a basis of v
per cent reduction in the wages of the
men.
Then came the trust suit and it's
revelations, and it was shown that
the cut in wages was made at a time
when the capital invested in the pot
teries was paying 29a per cent profit
yearly.
Yet the State Gazette is indignant
because the Herald intimates that the
present close down of the potteries is
a fake and bluff to deceive the work
ing men into opposing the Wilson
bill. Among other things, the Gazette
expects us to swallow this monstrous
lie:-
The publication Of the Wilson bill was fol
lowed by the speedy arrival on our shores of a
small army Of fereign pottery drummsrs. and
the ~crockery trade is dead.
The im%pudence Of this is really sub
lime. The Wilson bill was presented
to Congress on December 10; repubv
leans still claim it viii never pass;
and yet foreign drummers have all
ready used up the market. Oh
pshawl
WHEN we used the name of mike"
O'Mara in these columns. yesterday,
In a jesting way, we were not aware OF
the fact that the man was sick and In
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-12-28
BOARD WANTED.

BOARD n ROOM WANTED BY A YOUNG
- Irishman in a respectable Irish family; state
full particulars. Address this Office or No. 100 York
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-12-28
AMUSEM ENTS.
Academy of Music.

Hallen and Hart are doing great business
at the Academy this week. 'oThe Idea" is
an excellent vehicle for these clever com
medians, and, needless to say they make the
most of the opportunity. The attraction
next week will he sThe Operator.
The opera House.
~Another Mans Wife, will be the attrac-
ton at the Opera House next week. 1t is a
society play from the pen of Fitzgerald
Murphy, the young author of the !Irish
Statesman" which made such a success here
last wear.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-12-28
MEETING.


NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT THE FIRST
~ meeting of The Electric News and Money Trans
fer Company, Tor the purpose of electing directors
and officers, and taking such other action as may be
necessary to properly organize, the said company,
will be held at Room Il, No. l Montgomery street,
Jersey City, on the 18th day of January, 1894, at three
O'Clock in the afternoon.
Dated Jersey City, December 27th, 1893,
ALLEN G,
JOHN P. KEANE,
LBERT H. IL
THOMAS A..
OFFICE PEOPLES GAS LIGHT COMPANY,
Cor. GRAND AND GREENE STREETS.
JERSEY CRY, Dec. 81, 1898.
THE ANNUAL MEETING OF THE STOCkHOLDERS
L OF this Company for the election OF nine 80
Directors, will be held at the above office on
MONDAY, JANUARY Sth, 1894,
between the hours of one ~ and two C0 o'clock
p. NJ. EDWIN r. CASE, Secretary.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-12-28
Ross. Hoboken Theatre.

Colonel Robert G.. Ingerson will lecture to-
night at Ross Hoboken Theatre on 'The
Liberty of Man, Woman and Child" The
advance sale of tickets indicates a large
house. The ~laughable farce, "The Hustler"
will be the attraction Friday and Saturday
with matinee Saturday.
Grand Opera House, New York.
HThe Hustler claimed to be neither a
play nor a variety entertainment" will be
presented at the Grand Opera House, New
Years week by funny John Kernel.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-12-28

seriously erected my voice. One hottie Of
Ely's Cream BALM did the work. MY voice
IS fuliy restored.-R, r. Liepsner, A. NJ,
Pastorofthe OItvat Baptist Church, Phiia-
delphia, Pa.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-12-28

:, F,U',W VOIIhIIIs OdslItF OF IHe uDOFe nameI
bank, do solemnly swear that the above statement
Is true to the best of my knowledge and belief.
G. W.
Cashier.
December, 1898.
TH0S. F. BEDLF.
Notary Public OF New Jersey.
. .- F. I. YOUNG,
I'D. BEDLE,
GEO. T. SMITH,
Directors.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-12-28
BANK STATEMENTS.

REPORT OF THE CONDITION OF THE FIHsr
National Bank of Jersey City, in the State OF
New Jersey, at the close Of business, December fe
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-12-28
HELP WANTED.


MALES.
A GENTS MAX $500 A DAY. CREATES KITCHEN
utensil ever invented, Retail, sc. ? to s sold in
every house. Samples, postage paid, I'VE cents.
FORSHEE s. Cincinnati. o.
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WORK WANTED.


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80 embossed paper, hanging included. All
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faintings atlowest prices. I.FUTORANSKY, SUM
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90 M AND UP WILL PAPER YOUR ROOM WITH
- Gold Paper. Border hanging included,
Paintlng and ~kalsomining done cheap. BoOKMAN
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The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-12-28

REPORT OF THE CONDITION OF THE THIRD
National Bank. at Jersey City, in the State Of
New Jersey, at the close of business, December Is,