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The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-12-23
MIKE MONOHAN DEAD.
The Well-KnoWn Car Driver Sue
eumbed to Pneumonia

eumbed to Pneumonia.
Big Michael Monohan, who for years had
been driver on the Grove street line of the
North Hudson Railway Company, succumbed
to an attack of pneumonia, last night. He
died at his home, in Willow ave-
nue., Hoboken. His rotund form and
jolly round face were familiar to all
Grove street residents and the regular
pedestrians of that thoroughfare, and es-
pecially the 'kids' who make a practice of
annoying conductors and drivers. Some
of the latter have felt the lash
Of his whip, but there isn't one
among them who wouldn't vote him
the jolliest driver that ever drew reins on
pair of street car horses. In sunshine he was
always picture of good nature, in storm
the look of contentment that mantled his
face, partially covered though it might be
with the collar of his great coat, made
him absolutely picturesque. He was one
of the most careful drivers in the
employ of the company. Mike was the only
support of his aged mother. Some years
aga he saved the life OF child ON Grove
street by hanging over the dashboard and
grabbing the child as it was about to roll
under the wheels. He received injuries then
which kept him in bed for some DAYS
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-12-23
DIED.
DIED.
GALLERYaIn this city, on Dec 90 1898 on her forty

GALLERY-In this city, on Dec 90 1sss on her forty
ninth birthday, Julia, beloved wife of Frank
Gallery
Relatives and friends of the family also Teutonia
Lodge, No. q F. & A. Nj Ladies and Gentlemen's
Pioneer Verein Arion Singing Society, and Bergen
and Ladies' Friendship, Bowling Clubs, are respect
fully invited to attend the funeral from her late
RESIDENCE No, 81 Magnolia avenue, on Sunday, Dec
"a at half-past one P. NJ.
PERER.-on Friday, December %, 1898, Laurent A.
Perez aged 81 years.
Relatives and friends of the family are respect
fully invited to attend the funeral on Sunday De-
cember 24a P, NJ from the residence of his daugh
ter, No. 3I5 Grove street.
TANNER-At Hoboken, on Thursday. Dec 81 1S9S
Andrew Tanner. in his 64th year.
Relatives and friends also the members OF Raglan
Lodge, No 90 Sons of st. George and sister lodges
are respectfully invited to attend the funeral
vices, on Sunday, Dec. "a at two r NJ. from Cranes
HALL, NO. lS2 Washington street. Hoboken
HlLIlARD-In this city, on Dec. 23 1898, George E..
eldest son of George and the late Elizabeth Hill
lard. aged forty lone years
Relatives and friends of the family respectfully
invited to attend the funeral services from the resi-
dence or his father No 327k Fourth street. on Tues
day. Dec. 26, at twoP. N.
MONAHAN-At Hoboken, on Dec o. 1895 Michael
Monahan. In the thirty ninth year of his age
Funeral on Monday, Dec. 25 at two p. NJ, from his
late residence. No. 2l5 Willow avenue.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-12-23
GLADsTONE's oRAToRY.
Thel Grand old Mans Eloquence on
Whatever Subject He Talks.

For one good speech Mr. Chamberlain or
Mr.. Balfour may make, Mr. Gladstone makes
twenty. He is versed in every sacrifice of
oratory; he is practised in every mood and
method of debate. He has the temperament
and the equipment of great orator, though
Mr.. Hayward made good point when he
ton" Yet, before admitting Mr. Hayward's
qualification, l would prefix the adjective
poetic" to the nouu imagination" !" for Mr..
Gladstone7s imagination is most active
As man of business he is inspired Let
his theme be great trade or industry; let
the subject of his volunipous discourse be
railway rates, bimetallism, the opium traf-
fc; let him unfold his mind and unroll his
memory before the audience-do but hearken
to his illustrations and follow his discussions,
and when to your sorrow he sits down you
will observe with amazement the fingers of
the CLOCK. Bi1TeLL, N. r, in Scaibller's
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-12-23
SOl,OoO UNEMPLOYED.
1,956,OOO PeysOns are Dependent on
These Idle Persons,

New YORK, Dec. Especial kilograms
to Bradstreet's received yesterday from
regular correspondents and others at
119 cities throughout the country show that
there are wage earners in enforced idlenes
at the present time numbering more than
sol 900, and that there are dependent for
support upon these idle employees of indus
trial and other establishments more than
1856, COO persons.
At twenty-four central western cities
cities in Ohio, Indiana. Michigan, Illinois
and Kentucky-the total number of
wage-earners out of work from all causes
is reported at 227, $40, and the total
number dependent on them for support
at 443,310 At fifteen of the more important
cities in New York and New jersey ito
which are added totals from Whining
ton, Del, there are reported 222, $50 idle EN-
ployes of industrial and other estab-
563, $50 persons. Twenty-one cities and
towns in the New England States give to-
tai of 66, 200 wage earners in enforced idle
ness and 154 400 other persons directly af-
fected. At fourteen of The more important
cities in Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa, Ne
braska and Missouri, the total num-
Der of wage earners now idle is given at
", 900, and the aggregate of those dependent
upon them at IT'S, 800. At eleven cities in
Montana, Utah, Colorado, California,
Oregon and Washington there are
reported 25,S00 employees now
out of work, on whom are
dependent 1000 persons, while at nineteen
cities in the Southern States, it appears
theee are Al, ,263 employees in various lines
now idle, and 122, $50 persons dependent on
them.
A feature of the report is found in the
fact that Augusta, Me-, and Augusta, Ca,
report that no wage-earners are idle and
that all commercial and industrial establish
ments are running with full forces, while at
Mobile and Houston similar reports are
made
Notwithstanding numerous assumptions of
work by number of establishments in the
past fortnight, the total number of those
shutting down, those which are running on
reduced time and which are enforcing
q lower rate of wages, together with
increasing want and suffering in many of
the larger cities East and West, give little
reason for believing an early improvements
IN the early business situation probable
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-12-23
LIVERPOOL JACK CAUGHT.
He Has Been Committing BurgIaries
Town the Past Month.

In Town the Past Month.
John McDermott alias Mcdonald, better
known as Liverpool Jack, is in the tolls in
this city. For the past five weeks Super
intendent Smith has received complaints
from residents of the Heights, and particu-
larly the Greenville section of the city, of
robberies of stables. The robberies have
been committed successfully, and the
thieves evaded arrest until Wednes-
day, when Policeman Beatty nabbed
the notorious Liverpool Jack" and his boy
accomplice, who describes himself as Harry
Williams, fifteen years old The boy was
arrested a. while laying watch 10 for
the stable of Frank Cobank, at No. SO Ken
sington avenue. The prisoners were ar
raigned before Justice Kimmerly this
morning and were held for further
examination. Samuel L. Leonard,
of No. Az Madison avenue, also appeared
as a complainant against the prisoners. Two
by the Church street, New York, police
early in the morning as sus-
picious character, He had in his
possession a number of ropes When ar
raigned in court the keeper of ''fence" in
Baxter street testified that he had given the
discharged, and at once began
further plundering in this city.
1t is believed that he has gotten away with
about 81, 600 worth of robes and harness.
The peculiar part of the arrest is that ''Liver-
pool Jack" has not been out of State Prison
more than month. In 1888 he was
arrested by Van Driver Van Winkle for
burglary and sentenced to five years in State
Prison at hard labor He is "a no
torious and dangerous criminal. His
picture adorns the rogues' gallery, and is
number 5S7
He has been living at No. 224 York street
since he has been operating in this city. A
half dozen stolen blankets were found in the
house this morning by Captain Nugent
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-12-23
JOSE CODINA'S CRIMES
He Tells of the Plot Against
General Martinez de
Campos.
BIZ Gable to the United Press.

BARCELONA, Dec. %, 1S93.-Jose Codina
the Anarchist who has already confessed
that he threw the bomb that caused upwards
of thirty deaths in the Lyceum Theatre, has
made further confession giving details of
his crimes. He says that he was selected by
an Anarchist group to assassinate General
Martinez de Cannpos in September last.
He, in company with two or three
comrades, including Pallas, went to view
the march past of the troops it being his in
tention to then assassinate General de
Campos, who was the reviewing officer. He
took a position from which it would have
been an easy task to have carried out his
project, but when the troops arrived his
courage failed.
AFRAID TO KILL PEOPLE.
The reason for this, he says, was that he
realized that if he threw bomb amid the
vast crowd that surrounded General de
Campos he would have killed or wounded
hundreds of persons. He had the bomb ready
to throw, but the thought of the many
innocent persons that would suffer re-
strained him from throwing it. Pallas as
the time set for the assassination drew near,
urged Codina to throw the bomb. Seeing
that Codina hesitated Pallas angrily snatched
the bomb from him, saying:-'Youre no
good" Pallas' nerves were evidently un-
strung by the wrangle and for time he
hesitated to throw the bomb he had seized.
Had he thrown it as he originally intended,
he would have killed General Campos, but
the delay, which allowed the crowd surging
about the reviewing stand to grow thicker,
saved the life of the General
PALLAs' RETICENCE,
Pallas when arrested and until his execu-
ton, insisted that he alone was responsible
for the attempted assassination, and, despite
the close questioning of the authorities,
he never by a word betrayed that
Codina or anyone else had anything to
do with the crime. It was this
fact that made him hero in the eyes of the
Anarchists who knew all the facts. His
stoicism and willingness to accept
death rather than betray his comrade
led Codina to determine that he would
give effect to Pallas' threat that his
execution would be avenged. Shortly after
Pallas was shot at Mont Juich, Codina be-
gan his preparations to avenge his comrades
death, and the explosion at the Lyceum
Theatre followed
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-12-23
FIRE lin MEHL'S FACTORY
Men and Women Cropped
Their Way Through
Smoke to the Street
The Loss.

A fire that did some damage and created
considerable excitement broke out in the
basement of John Mehl, Jr., & Co.'S pocket
book factory at Webster avenue and Hutton
street about half past ten o'clock this morn
ing. The building is four story
and basement square building, the larg
est factory building in the northern
section of the Heights. Between three and
four hundred men, women and children are
employed therein. The first intimation the
employees had that the factory was on fire
was the rapid filling up of the rooms with
smoke. Though the cry of fire created no
general panic, men, women and children,
many of them without stopping to get their
cloakS and hats, rushed for the various exits.
Some of them were obliged to grope their
way through binding smoke down the stair
ways, which fortunately were broad enough
to prevent jam of the fleeing operatives.
CAUSE OF THE FIRE
The fire was caused by a leak in big gas
meter in the leather pairing room in the base
ment of the building. The flames rapidly
consumed some woodwork in the near vicin-
ity, and it was the smoke from this that
found its way up the air shafts, elevators and
stairways. A fire alarm box located in the
factory was pulled and No. 8 Truck Com
pany, which was only block away,
factory hose was already playing stream on
the burning woodwork. Commandant Dunn
of No. Truck and his men did valiant SER
vice. No, IL Chemical Engine arrived few
seconds later and soon began playing a
chemical stream upon the flames, which
were roaring and cracking along the wood
work adjacent to the burning gas meter.
The flames were quickly subdued, but not
before considerable damage had been DONE
The smoke also ruined some of the fine leather
and trimmings in the departments above.
THE LOSS.
Mr.. Henry Mehl, one of the members of
firm, said he could not estimate the damage
until after more careful investigation He
believed it would foot up somewhere between
$500 and $1,000. Work in most of the ce-
na1t1nantS was SllSDnOded for tbe dav
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-12-23
ThermOmeter.
MATTERS OF FACT.

Save money by purchasing II full
weight Seidlitz Powders for 25 cents; put up
in neat tin box by Ewing & Company.
New Defiancecanned Tomatoes now in
ask your grocer for them. Packed only for
DE. Cleary Grove and l1th streets
New Year Cards written by J. Foeller,
Jr, No. 81 Newark avenue. Each dozen
ordered entities you to cash prize
8 Holiday Feasting brings pain to the
stomach and heart. Ritter's Digestive
Lozenges brings relief. Try them; Is, %,
5oc. All live druggists keep them.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-12-23

TENS most advantageous to the city, they
could have rejected both bids and have re-
advertised for the work under the same on
clearer of more detailed specifications or if
there We're two classes of streets requiring
different kind of work thereupon, they could
have divided the work and asked bids on the
different streets
The prosecutor is taxpayer of Jersey
of this action of the Board of Street and
Water Commissioners. This case is not dis
tinguishable in this respect from Publishing
Company VS. Jersey City, 25 Vroom 439.
The action of the bord i'll dividing the
work among the two bidders is illegal and
void
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-12-23
COUGHS CASE POSTPONED.

The appeal case of William Cough from
the award made by the commissioners who
condemned his land for the site of the new
day.. Counsellors Flemrning and Anderson,
on behalf of Cough asked for delay
claiming that they could not safely
go to trial without further preparation The
Court named Friday next as the time when
the appeal would be tried. The Commission
ers Of Condemnation awarded $22, $50 to
Cough, and he wanted 0,OOO.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-12-23
MRS. GALLERY'S TRUE CHARITY.
Pastor BTeury's Tribute to the Dead
Woman.

The funeral of Mrs. Julia Gallery, wife of
Frank Gallery, will take place from her late
home, No. 81 Magnolia avenue, tomorrow
afternoon at two o'clock. Rev. E. A Meury
of the Second Reformed Church of Jersey
City, will officiate. During the services, a
double quartette from the Arion Singing
Society will render an appropriate chorus.
Rev. Mr.. Meury said last evening"
Mrs. Gallery was one of the most charit-
ably inclined women 1 ever saw | have
never known her to hesitate, rain or shine,
to go down into the hut of poverty to lend
assistance to the needy poor. She never was
guided by heresay, but went and investi-
gated herself the cases of poverty that came
TO her notice.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-12-23
GIFT TO SURROGATE oNEIL.

The clerks in the Office of Surrogate
O'Neil today followed their customary prac-
tice of presenting the Surrogate with
Christmas gift. The present this year was
an elegant silver tray. A card lying on it
was incribed GA Merry Christmas: Jim,
Johnnie, Nick, Phil and Billy indicating
that each of the clerks had contributed to
the gift. They also presented the popular
Surrogate with a silk muffler.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-12-23
FERRYBOAT IN A COLLISION.

New YORK, Dec 2S, s93.-Ferryboat
Weehawken, which plies between Ninetieth
street, New York, and College Point, LII,
collided during thick fog at half-past seven
this morning with mud digger which was
anchored Oft Sunken Meadow Reef, near
He'll Gate
The ferryboat had her bow stove in, rail
smashed and broken rudder chain; she pro-
ceeded on her trip to College Point. The
mud digger sank.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-12-23
TURKISH TROOPS TO ASIA MINOR.
BIZ Gable to the United Press

VIENNA, Dec. %, Intelligence has
been received here from Constantinople that
the Porte has dispatched troops to Yoozgat,
in the Pashalic of Seevas, Asia Minor, owing
to the troubles there caused by the Arme-
mans.
newspapers have received copies of an impe-
rial trade directing them henceforth to no.
tify the Porte of the source of any news
they NAV receive
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-12-23
TORPEDO BOAT FOR ENGLAND.
BIZ Gable to the United Pres.

LoDNoN, Dec. %, 1895.-The Admiralty
has instructed Yarrow & Co., the noted boat
builders, at Poplar, London, to build a first
class torpedo boat. The dimensions of the
craft are to be:-Length, 140 feet, and beam,
AZ feet. Her engines are to. be of 1,400
horse power. and her speed % knots She
will have quadruple expansion engines, and
will be the only torpedo boat in the British
or any other navy fitted with this style of
engines. Her boilers will be of the water
tube type
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-12-23
The Executioner Scared.
BIZ Gable to the United Press.

PARIS, Dec. 23, 1893.-Deibler, the public
executioner, otherwise known as monsieur
de Paris" has received many letters stat
ing that if he executes Valiant, the man
who threw the bomb in the Chamber of Dep
uties, he will be blown up. Deibler evidently
fears that these threats will be put into exc
cution if he guillotines Valiant, and he has
asked to be allowed to give up his position.
The police are still searching for Paul
Reclus, the man who is supposed to have
had some sort of connection with Valiant in
his scheme to blow up the Chamber of Depu-
ties. 1t is reported that he is now en- route
to Turkey
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-12-23
MRS. DE BONNEVILLE NOT GUILTY.

Mrs. Fred De Bonneville of No. Oxford
avenue was arraigned for trial on the charge
of arson before Justice of the Peace Charles
A. Roe yesterday, The charge was preferred
by Mrs. O'Connor, III whose honse the De
Bonnevilles have until recently been living.
On November 6 small fire occurred in
the house. Circumstances connected with
the fire led Mrs. O'Connor to suspect her
tenant. The evidence produced before the
Justice was not sufficient to hold her. Fire
Chief Conway Investigated the fire, and the
result of his Investigations exonorated her
from all blame.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-12-23
OPPOSED TO THE BUFFER STATE
Bu Cable to the United Press.

PARIS, Dec. %, 1s93.-M. Deloncle, lead
ingmember of the Chamber of Deputies, has
sent letter to the Gaulois, in which he de-
clares that Ne will oppose sthe creation of a
buffer State between the French and British
possessions in Asia. 1t would be better, he
says, for France to evacuate Siam than to
allow the founding of such State.
The Echo, in an article on the subject,
says:-'sWe made mistake in admitting the
principle Of buffer State. The Chamber of
Deputies must reject any concessions that
viii take from us the smallest portion of the
left bank of the Mekong River. We must
not give up at any price anything that we
have won"
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-12-23
MILVANEY STILL MISSING.

Financial Secretary James Milvaney of
the Summit Assembly of the Royal Society
of Good Fellows did not put in an appear
ance at last nights meeting of the Assembly.
A special meeting of the Assembly win Be
held at the Avenue House tomorrow after
noon. Premier Spooner win be present at
this meeting.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-12-23
CAPTAIN OSHEA IN COURT.
By Gable to the United Press.

LONDON, Dec. 2S, 1S9S.-Captain O'Shea,
formerly the husband of the now widow of
Charles Stewart Parnell, made application
today for the resembling of the receiving or
der issued against him by the Bankruptcy
Court. He stated in his application that he
was able. to pay all his Indebtedness in full.
The Registrar refused to grant the applica-
tion and, therefore, unless Captain O'Shea
appeals, he will be gazetted as a bankrupt
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-12-23
TASTED FIFTY-FIVE DAYS,

BANGOR, Me-, Dec. %, 1s93.-Mrs. Fanny
Landers died yesterday at the Brewer Aims
house from starvation. She refused to take
she drank only little water. Her husband
died just before she began her fast and des-
pondency probably caused her action She
was thirty wears old.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-12-23
GOVERNMENT BAKE SHOPS,
BIZ Gable to he II1lfted prsss.

MADRID, Dec. %, 1s93.-A strike by the
journeymen bakers of this city is impending.
The Governor has applied to the military
authorities to erect temporary bakeries out
side the city and to detail military bakers
to make bread for the use of the population.
The governors of the adjoining provinces
have been requested to hold supplies of
view of these precautions it is the general
opinion that if a strike occurs it will cause
little Inconvenience to the people of the
CITY
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-12-23
NOT BEEN ORDERED SHOT.
Bu Cable to the limited Press.

LONDON, Dec %, 1898. The correspondent
at Manchester of the Westminster Gazette
says that he is authorized to deny the story
that Abraham q Solomon Benchimol,
steamship owners of Rio Janeiro, had been
ordered shot by President Peixoto for allow
ing insurgents to travel on their ships. A
Manchester firm representing the Benchi-
mols stated last evening that up to last
Saturday they had received reassuring news
from the. Benchimols, and that there was no
cause for anxiety regarding them.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-12-23
SHIP PICKED UP ADRIFT,
Ru cable to the limited presa.

" l0Y CttDto % tltb CGItt1 T TtSSs
LONDON, Dec. 90, 1S93.-The German ship
Carl Friedrich, Capt. Frolich, from New
York June IL for Hong Kong, before re-
ported aground on Luconia Reef, Borneo,
has been picked up adrift and taken into
Victoria, capital of the Island of Labuan,
six miles off the northwest coast of Borneo.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-12-23
Several Vessels Wrecked.
Bu Gable to the United Press.

LONDON, Dec. %, 1S93.-A severe storm is
prevailing in the Bay Of Biscay. Several
vessels have been wrecked and others dam
aged at the port of Borneo, fourteen miles
from Bilbao. Nine members of the crews of
these vessels were drowned
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-12-23
SHE WON'T TAKE THE CHAIR,

Miss Julia Minihan of School No. 6. who
was awarded the pretty chair voted for at
the recent Teachers Fair has refused to take
the prize. She says she cannot accept the
chair, under any circumstances while any
one questions the fairness of the vote.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-12-23
WEATHER INDICATIONS.

NEW YORK, Dec %, 1sss.-Forecast for So hours,
New York, including Long Island; also for Con
necticut and Northern New Jersey:-Fatr today
and Sunday; slightly warmer; southwesterly winds
KFarfnattSS atar
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-12-23
FIFTY YRS. OF DIGGING STILL TO DO

Some one who has figured on the work
done at Pompeii since June, 1872, says that it
ruins with eighty-ave men working every
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-12-23
STEP UP AND BE MATCHED.
A Poisoned Dog Keeps Clue for tin,
Police.

A. Brewster of Schuetzen Park, Green
vile, had an English setter poisoned
last night by some unknown person.
The dog was suffering so much this morning
that he had to be shot. 1t is supposed that
burglars did the deed as piece of mans
trousers was found in the house. The police
have been notified and are looking for the
man that owns the trousers that this piece of
cloth will match
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-12-23

healthful by taking Hoods Sarsaparilla.
II braces up the nerves and gives renewed
strength.