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The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-09-01
HEALTH OFFICERS IN CONFERENCE.
AT TIE MOTT ST. HEADQUARTERS.
The Timely Warning of the News
Extra More Than vindicated.

The hopes held out by THE JERSEY CITY
NEWS this morning that there might be
no cholera In Jersey City are destined to
disappointment. DR.. Doty completed
his examination this .norning of the
stomach of Martin Grove and found that
he died of genuine Asiatjc cholera.
thus vindicating the course of The
JERSEY CITY NEWS in publishing the
extra it did this morning, warning the
people to be prepared for the worst
should It appear that the dread plague
was upon us.
It was evident last even ing that the
New York authorities. who were called
over mere in consultation on th case by
Johr P. Feeney. President of the
Health, Board, loo ked upon the situa-
tion as grave one a nd were
filled with gloomy apprehensions when
they left this city at an early hour this
morning.
CONVENED EARLY.
The Health Board of New York war
summoned for an early M estin2 and
DR.. A. Clark Hunt of the
New Jersey State Board Of
Health and Inspector Beuja min OF this
city were present during the meeting.
Dr. jenkins. the Quarantine Co minis.
sioner at New York harbor. was also
present. and for soma time the company
discussed the matter with closed doors.
DR.. DoTY's REPORT.
DR.. Doty, who is one Of DR.. Cyrus
Edson's assistants, laid his repo re before
the conferences. He said that the second
examination of the parts Of Grove which
were given to him had bee1 done in
a thoroughly scientific manner and had
been most complete. Tue result left no
doubt that Groves Illness was genuine
Asiatic cholera. He said that the case
OF Mrs. Black was still under considera
tion. 1t was resolved that the
matter should be made public and
DR.. Hunt and Inspector Benjamin
were requested to prepare q statement
Or publication. Th is they will do and
usus some time this afternoon.
A SERIOUS MATTER.
Each person who was present at the
conference wore grave faces this after
noon when they came out OF the room in
which they mat
The New York men fell TO discuss ing
the situation among themselves. Dr..
Hunt and Inspector Benjamin Inn
mediately sent word to President
Feeney of the Health Board, and
when he arrives Mt the Mulberry
street building the statement will be
drawn up ana given to the ne wspapers
for publication.
No IMMEDIATE PROSPECT OF EPIDEMIC.
Dr.. Hunt told reporter for The JER
sEY CITY News who who was " as pres
ent at the New York Board OF Health
while the cofersnce was ii progress, that
while the situation was grave
there was no cause for alarm.
There was no Immediate prospect
of an epidemic. as both the city and State
authorities were in a position 10 cope
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-09-01
A Horribls Record.

A Horrible Record.
BIZ Gable to the United Press.
ST. PETERSBURG, Sept. /. 1898. The
official cholera record by provinces for
the last week is as follows:
Padolia. 965 fresh cases and 285 deaths.
Kursk. 493 fresh cases and 1S1 deaths;
Kasan, $40 fresh cases and ia deaths:
Vladimir, 337 fresh cases and 116 deaths;
Tula. 1853 fresh cases and 100 deaths,
Lomiu. LOG fresh cases and "a deaths;
Volhynia, 124 fresh cases and 20 deaths:
Kharkof, 1872 fre4h cases and 81 deaths;
Khersou. 1S5 fresh cases aud 103 deaths;
Don, III fresh cases and 90 de this;
EkaterInoslav, 70 fresh cases and 72
deaths.
In St. Petersburg City 40 fresh cases
aud Is deaths have been reported; In
Moscow City. 102 fresh cases and IS
deaths.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-09-01
MATT ERs OF FACT.

Physicians Prescriptions and Family
Receipts carefully compounded at very low
rates, and only Pure Drugs used, by Ewing
& Company.
For soft bones and poor teeth In chill
dren use Hartnett's Emulsion Of Cod Liver
Oil
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-09-01
weather Indloations.

New YoRK. Sept, /, 1893 --Forecast for thir-
ty-six hours, ending 8 p NJ. Saturday, Sep
tembsr Z. 1893 For Easter New York, Eastern
Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware Mary
land and VirRinia-Showers today and tonight,
clearing Saturday afternoon; easterIy winds.
Hartnett's Thermometer Report
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-09-01
Arlington oemeterr.

lots and graves cared for by Cemetery Asso-
citation. No assessments, moderate prices, per-
feet title -Four and half miles from Court
House; IA minutes by rail from Erie Depot.
Offics over Proyident Savings Bank a39 Wash
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-09-01
THE MOST POPULAR
IS BOUND TO WIN.

Miss J. Mailly, G. P. Friends ....... 30l5
A. White, McBride's tea store. .... 1928
Jas. Nugent, Doane's hat store. 80. 24S4
j. W. Van Tine, Popular Shoe Store 1884
List of minor competitors held over tllgto-
morrow, for lack of space
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-09-01

Hundreds Of people write ssIt is tmpossi-
Bile to describe the good Hoods Sarsapariiia
has done me.D II will be OF equal help TO
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-09-01

II the BABY is Cutting Teeth
Be sure and use that old ana we1l-tried REM
edy, MRS. WISsLoW's SOOTHING SYRUP for
children teetiiing. It soothes the child,
softens the gums, alluys ali pain, cures
wind collie and is tho best remedy for
aiarrhRa-
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-09-01
An English Port Injected.
Bn Cuhle fo the fJn,ted prpev


By Cable to the United Press.
LONDON, September l. 1898. The Berlin
correspondent of the Times say:-"Ths
official report of the Moablt cholera hos
pital in Berlin shows that two cases of
cholera Were admitted on Thursday. four
patients We're dismissed, and ten re-
NAMED under treatment The State
Commissioner for the Vistula district
announces that the epidemic Is subsiding
in Russian Poland"
The Vienna correspondent OF the Tim es
teleRraphs:-A telegram from Delagyu,
IN Austrian Gslicia. says that twenty
eight deaths from cholera have occurred
there and the epidemic is spreading
rapidly in the neignborhoad. The custom
house has been closed, several officials
having been attacked. The law courts
also have been closed Business is a5
standsrill and the wealther residents ars
fleeing from the town.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-09-01
More Cases in Gal icia.

Bu Cd6te to the United Press.
VIENNA. Sept. 1. 1893.-Slxtesn fresh
cases Of cholera and seu deaths were re-
| ported In GalicIa yesrer lay.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-09-01
CHOLERA In EUROPE.
Two French Cases in Genoa.
BIZ Gable to the United Press.

Rome, Sept. 1. 1S93.-Two fresh cases
of cholera aud two deaths weie reparted
in Genoa on Tuesday. Seven fr esh cases
were found IN the City OF Alessandria
yesterday. In Palermo the number of
fresh cases average thirty daily. Ssverai
cases OF cholera have been found in this
city. Messi~ a and Gatania.
An English Port Injected.
BIZ Cable to the Un.ted Press
LONDON. Sept. /. 1893. The port of
Grimsby, 10 Liucolnshire, has bean de-
clared to be infected with cholera, ana
traffic between it and other British
ports has been prohibited During Au-
gust there were eighty deathsin Grimsby
from what was called at first diarrhmi,
aud later choleratc disease. The
general belief now Is that many Of these
peath were due TO cholera.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1893-05-18
HARRIS LAST ROMANCE.

The Wife Poisoner Became Engaged
To Mysterious Young Woman.
New York, May 11.-Carlyle w. Har-
ris was the hero of a romance while he
was awaiting death in the Tombs
prison. A girl met him by chance one
day in the gloomy corridors, fell in
love with him, visited him daily and
fondly awaited the moment of his re-
lease, when she expected he would
marry her. Her devotion was as great
as his mothers, and she is believed to
be the young woman dressed in deep
mourning who accompanied Carlyle
Harris cousin from New Yory to AL
bany and attended the funeral OF the
executed criminal. At the Tombs the
girl called herself Carrie jones' but
that was not her real name. She de-
liberately broke an engagement of mar
riage with worthy and estimable
young man in order to become the af-
famed bride of the man who had been
indicted for stealthily administering
poison to his school girl wife. Her only
excuse was that in him she found her
affinity.
The grewsome love affair began some
time early in December, 1891. Carrie
Jones visited the prison with band of
young men and women to cheer the
inmates by singing hymns. Miss Jones
was apparently fascinated by the hand
some, plausible, soft-voiced young
prisoner. She returned to the TOmbs
on the following Sunday. Somehow she
managed to enjoy ten minutes CONVEX
sation with Harris alone. Shrewd and
clever as she was, it did not take him
long to discover that she was infatu
ated with him. On the next day she
called alone. She no longer wore the
diamond ring that marked her as the
affianced bride of another man. She
had told her promised husband very
plainly that she could never marry him
because she loved another. From that
time she called every day. Whether
she proposed marriage to Harris or
whether he, with unbOunded faith in
his good fortune, asked her to be his
wife, is a secret But. it is certain that
the pair became engaged.
Those who have seen the girl scores
of times describe her as of more than
medium height, slender form, medium
complexion and raven black hair, slight
~ but prematurely tnged with gray.
Her age was somewhere between
twenty-three and twenty-seven. She
was intellectual without priggishness
and her manners were refined and
charming. Up to the last moment she
never lost hope that Harris life would
be saved. She was one of the hardest
workers in bringing forward new eVl-
dence to help him to a new trial.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1893-05-18
AFFAIRS IN SAMOA.
Rebels and Loyalists Hostile in Tutui
-StevensOn's Health Bad.

Rebels and Loyalists Hostile in Tutuils
-stevenson's Health Bad.
APIA, Samoa, April 26. The condi-
ton Of affairs between King Malietoa
and the rebel Matoafa remains I'M
changed and the possibilities of hostil-
tiles breaking out seems remote.
There is, however, considerable
amount of trouble on the island of Tu-
tuila between the adherents of Mali
eota and Matoafa. The Kings party
is the weaker so far as mum bers are
concerned, but its position is
so strongly fortified as to
be practically unapproachable
by the enemy. A reconno tering party
from rebels recently approached too
near the encampment of loyalists and
were fred upon, three of them being
slightly wounded. The Government
will take care that it's supporters are
fully supplied with the munitions of
war.
The latest news from Tutuila is to
the effect that rebel chiefs have called
a meeting to decide whether or not a
final attack shall be made.
The suspense as to the intention Of
the three powers is still unrelieved
and persons here feel that Samoan
affairs are being neglected.
Novelist Robert Louis Stevenson has
returned to his Samoan home after a
visit to sydney. though he enjoyed
good health during his trip the benefit
has not been permanent. He is at
present in very poor health and unable
to leave his house.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1893-05-18
HAS PASSED THE DIVIDEND.
Pillsbury-W ashburn Flour Mill Company
Is Paving Nothing.

PilIsbury-W Flour Mill Company
Is Paying Nothing.
, ST. PAUL, Mimi. May 13.-There
was deal of disappointment in mill
ing circles when it vas learned that
the Pillsbury- Was hburn Flour Mill
Company of Minneapolis, the majority
of the sto k in which is held by Lon
don capitalists, had passed its annual
dividend. The letter to the stock
holders says briefly:
In view of the continued decline in
the value of wheat, together with the
very unsettled state Of the wheat and
-four markets, the directors have de-
cided not to pay any interim dividend
on the preference and ordinary shares
this half year, but they have every
reason to hope that at the end of the
financial year they will be able to pay
a dividend of per cent on the prefer
ence shares The managing director
reports that the volume of business has
been fully maintained and that the
mills and other properties of the COM
pany have been kept in their usual
high state of efficiency. The deben-
ture interest due May l will be paid in
due course"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1893-05-18
Appointments by the President.

WASHINGTON, May 13.-The Presi-
dent has made the following appoint
ments:
Samuel F. Webb of Arizona, to be
Collector of Customs for the District OF
Arizona.
Frank F. Church OF Idaho, to be AS
sayer of the United States Assay Office
at Boise City, Idaho.
Frederick c. Penfeld of Connecticut,
to be Agent and Consul General of the
United States at Cairo.
Irving B. Richman of Iowa, to be
Consul General of the United States at
st. Gall.
To be General Consuls OF the United
Slater Edgar L. Givins of Arkansas,
at Winnipeg; Alfred c. Johnson OF
Pennsylvania, at Stuttgart; Charles
c. Whitley, Jr., of Delaware, at st.
Etienue: Wendell G. Warner of New
York, Tunstall; Anthony Howell OF
Ohio, at Cardiff: John 2. Beecher OF
New York, at Cognac; Peter Lieber OF
Indiana, at Dusseldorf; Theodore
Huston of Illinois at Paso del Notre.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1893-05-18
NEWS IN BRIEF.

The State convention of Ohio Pro-
hibitionists meets at Cleveland June
81 and IS.
Judson D. Lewis, prominent mem
Der of the Stark County (Ohio) bar
was adjudged insane at Alliance, Ohio.
The military has been sent to keep
Frank C. Boss from building railroad
across the Puvallup Indian Reserva-
ton in Washington.
The consolidation of the Cleveland
City Cable Company and the Woodland
Avenue and West Side Street Railway
Company has been agreed to.
John Hurst, groceryman at Lex
ington, Ky, was shot five times in his
store by DR.. ]. E. Reider, who has
been arrested. Hurst cannot recover.
One colore1 woman cut off the ears
of another olored woman in South
Carolina over the possession of negro
who was claimed as husband by both
women.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1893-05-18

Berlin, May 13.-The first week of the
electoral struggle ends without any of
the parties knowing where they stand
and without any of them having any
thing like reliable data from which to
forecast the result of the contest for
members of the reichStag.
The members of the social democracy
alone seem TO retain thorough grip
upon their organization. They can rea-
SOnably hope to secure fifty-fiye seats,
a gain of nineteen. 1t is thought that
over a hundred ballots will be neces-
sary to decide the election, and there
fore it is highly probable that the end
of the summer will have been reached
before the house is finally constituted.
1t is most likely that it will then meet
only to hear the emperor's speech open
ing the session and then adjourn until
October.
In the meantime it is evident that the
parties will be reconstructed on plat
forms in which the army bill will have
almost secondary place.
Each party seems determined to eX,
pend every available resource in con-
testing districts where it has the re-
hottest chance of success; indeed in
some constituencies each of the eight
reorganized parties has a candidate in
the field.
The contest is further complicated
by class interests which are demanding
attention. The government organs
carefully reproduce the reports in the
French papers as to how France re-
joiced at the rejection of the army bill,
adding sinister rumOrS regarding the de
signs of the French government. The
alarm which these organs profess to
feel has not spread among the people.
Every one knows the rejection has
neither diminished the defensive
strength of the triple alliance nor added
/, to Frances power Of offensive.
Berlin, May 13.-Arendt, Schroeder
VOnderheyden and other free cOnserva-
tive leaders are trying to form a great
imperial middle party.
Today they waited upon Prince Bis
ma1ck and asked him to patrOnize the
new combination by accepting the can
didacy for the reichstag. 1t is under
stood that Prince Bismarck declined
the invitation.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1893-05-18
RURAL WHITE HOUSE.
The CleyeIands Soon to Move Into
Their Summer Home.

Washington, May lit is the inten-
ton of the President and Mrs. Cleye-
land to take possession Of their summer
home near Red Top during the present
week Mrs. Cleveland has exercised
exclusive jurisdiction in furnishing and
fitting up the house, and it is said that
she has arranged everything with a
view to giving her husband a delightful
surprise. He has not been permitted
to enter the house since the property
was secured and turned over to Mrs.
Cleveland. At her request the presi-
dent has RETAINED from making any
suggestions about it, and she has been
permitted to exercise her own sweet
viii in selecting the interior decOra-
tons. She has made frequent visits
to the house, and when accompanied
by her husband he has usually remained
in the carriage while she entered to
give such directions as were needed.
Those who have been permitted to
get a glimpse of the interior Of the
presidents suburban home say Mrs.
Cleveland has displayed exquisite taste
in all the arrangements, and the new
place is even more attractive than the
cottage at Red Top which the Cleve-
lands occupied four years ago. 1t is
possible the present cool weather may
delay the presidents family in leaving
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1893-05-18
THE vExED WORLDS FAIR CUES.
TION IS SETTLED.
AND THE ADMISSION PRICE WILL
BE BUT 25 CENTS.
Decided Upon by the Local Directors
of the Fair-Buildings However, VIII
Be Closed-Midway Plaisance Will
Run Full Blast-Cyclists' Day Will
Be May 81.

Chicago, May 1.-THE worlds fair
gates Will be opened to the public on
Sunday and the vexed question is set
tied.
Today at the regular monthly meet
Ing of the local directors of the world S
fair it was decided to open the gates
of Jackson Park to the public for half
the sum OF admittance to the fair dur
ing the week, viz. % cents.
This action has nothing to do with
the opening Of the buildings. The lat
ter will remain closed as required IN
der the laws passed by congress and
as agreed to when the sum of $780,
600 was accepted from the fifty-second
congress.
The action of the board will go into
effect the Dist Of this month. The vote
by which the resolution was passed
was 81 to T.
Under the resolution midway plais-
ance is also thrown open. E>. win
Walker, attorney for the board, submit
ted his opinion on the question and OH
the strength of this opinion the board
acted. Briefly, Walker decided that
the exposition is one thing and the eX-
position grounds another distinct and
separate thing. Unless the national
commission acts vigorously to prevent
1t, Jackson Park will be opened Sun
days, and the exposition buildings re-
main closed the entire session.
The national commission spent today
in Wrangling over the report of the
Theodore Thomas investigating commit
tee. The friends of the musician have
been maneuvering to defeat the object
of the committee which was the adop-
ton of a report practically ordering
the director general to discharge
Thomas
When the commission met, Chairman
LanDan moved the adoption of this re-
port. President Palmer called for yeas
and nays, but st. Clair objected to the
vote proceeding, stating it was wrong
morally and legally for the commission
to take such action. By the time he
had finished speaking a quorum had
disappeared and Chairman Lannan
seeing it would be useless to attempt
to have the report adopted, moved
that the report be laid on the table un-
til a quorum had been secured, which
was carried without a dissenting vote.
A resolution was adopted which, un.
less reconsidered tomorrow, will make
the commission take a recess till May
81.
The propriety of having a wheel
mans day. at the worlds fair during
which mounted cyclists will be admitted
to the grounds and allowed to parade
during the morning and have torch
light procession in the evening was
brought to the attention of the com
mittee on ceremonies by Addison @
Thomas. The committee recognized the
merit Of the suggestion and assigned
May 81 for the day.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1893-05-18
Secretary Lamont's Vigorous Action

WASHINGTON, May 13.-When Secre-
tary Lamont began to scrutinize the
list of army officers on detached SER
vice some days ago, the name of Lieut..
Lemly was among the first to strike
his eye, and an order was made direct
ing the Lieutenant to return to his regi-
ment. The blow was the more uneX-
pected because the young officer had
just arrived from Colum bia, en- route to
Chicago in charge of the exhibit of
that country. Secretary Lamont, it is
said, did not fully understand the
situution and will reconsider his action
largely as compliment to the Colon
bian Government. But the Secretary
is in deep earnest in his determination
to weed out the leave and detached
service lists.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1893-05-18
BITSON'S BRAIN.
Doctors Seem to Think That 1t Is All
Right.

GAINESVILLE, May IL 1t will not be
all one way-the testimony as to Mat
thew Bitson's insanity. DR.. j. b. Whit
ing has examined the prisoner and it
is rGmored sees no ground for quest
Joining his sanity. DR.. L. \. Lyman
OF the Mendoza asylum came down
from Madison and spent two hours
with the murderer. He went away sat
lsfed. he declared, that BitSon'S mind
was perfectly sound.
Miss Angie King, Janesville's well
known lady attorney, entered her Office
on the 10Th of January and saw man
and woman sitting there. She address
ed them. A moment later another lady
entered The first couple We're Mr..
and Mrs. Matthew Bitson and the last
conner was Mis-. Arthur Hern.
Mrs. B1tSon was there to secure a
divorce from her husband and he had
accompanied her. Mrs. Hern came in
to assist MIS-. Bitson. When Miss King
got ready to draw up the papers she
requested Mr.. BitSOn to leave the room
so that she and her client could talk
more freely on the subject. The tale
which Mrs. Bitson poured into the at
tOrney'S ear was something frighful.
When Miss King had hurriediy drawn
up the papers, which she did at a great
disadvantage, BitSOn in the meantime
having returned, they We're signed by
Mrs. Bitson. She was able TO write
but she was so nervous that she could
N11I, hn,.
with the assistance of Miss King Be
sides the statements made by Mrs
BitSOn others were made which We're
not inserted in the complaint. Prior
to the earliest date Of cruelty in the
complaint BitSOn took Que OF his boys
and shut him up in the barn and left
him there, subjected to the most bit
ter cold, until his feet were frozen and
his toe nails sloughed off. At another
time he set the children on stools and
compelled Mrs. Bitson to cook Il meal
for himself and would allow neither
herself nor the children to touch a NOR
sci Of food all day. These fact We're
told in Bitson's presence, and when
I Miss King asked him if he was never Il
tone Of voice: Yes but l never got
anything but kicks and cuffs
! After the papers were drawn up
Miss King read them over to Bitson
! and he said: Il will acknowledge
service" Miss Kings sister touched
her On the shoulder and said that the
man was d murderer Miss King then
said she would not allow him to accept
service in that matter. 1t was com
pounding felony, as SHE knew that
the charges by Mrs. BitsOn were suff
Gent to send him to prison. 1t appears
that Mrs. Hem had been to see Miss
King prior to the application of Mrs.
Bitson for a divorce. Mrs. Hern want
{ ed a warrant sworn out for the arrest
of Bitson, as he had purchased a re-
vOlver and had sworn to will both his
wife and Mrs. Hern. Mrs. BitSOn has
been pictured as very rough woman
but Miss King says she was exceed
mgly mild and almost foolish.