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The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-09-14
PURELY AMERICAN.
Congressman Wilson Talks Tarih
In "a London Hotel.
Tlil Gnble to the ITnited Prog.

LONDON, Sept. IA, 94-Congressman
w. L. Wilson, of West Virginia, was in-
teryiewed by a representative of the
United Press at the Hotel Savoy this
morning Mr.. Wilson said he was per-
fectly well, his health having improved
greatly on the voyage over. He was here,
he said, merely on pleasure trip and
would sail from Southampton for New
York on September 20.
In regard to the tariff bill, ne said he
considered the bill which the House OF
Representatives passed far better meas
ure than the bill passed by the Senate,
though even with this he believed that
Americans would be able to hold their
own with the trading world better than
they were formerly able to do.
Mr.. Wilson did not give direct an
swer to the question as to how the bill
would affect British trade. He said the
bill was purely American and was fram-
ed for Americans. The Democrats, he
said. were a low tariff party. He would
not venture to say whether they were
progressing towards free trade, nor
would he say whether the party intended
to make any further move in that di-
rection
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-09-14
STEVENS WAKING UP.
Preparations for the Coming Year at
the Institute.

Stevens Institute opens for the fall
term next Monday, when examinations
for conditional students will begin. A
week from that day the regular course
of instruction commences Hoboken is
receiving students who have come back
to town to hunt up old friends and board
ing houses. The society chapter houses
in the upper part of the city are being
opened one after another, and the jollity
and the students runs rampant. Next
Mondays examination will be in en-
gineering; Tuesday, physics and chemes-
try; Wednesday, mechanical drawing;
Thursday, mathematics; Friday, languaS
es and Saturday, belles-lettres.
This years Junior class contains more
men than any upper class ever before
had Captain Campbell's '95, of the foot
! ball team, announces that regular prac-
tice will begin Monday at T. NJ. on
ST. George Cricket Grounds. Candidates
for positions the team must report
on that day for training. Four of last
years team have left, but Captain
Campbell expects to find good material
to fiji their places. One of the Captain 5
ambitions is to defeat Lafayette and
retrive the reputation Stevens LOST last
year, when beaten ignominiously ny that
college. Their first game will be played
on the 18th On the Orange Oval with the
Orange Athletic Club.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-09-14
Missionaries fin a Panic.
BIZ Cable to the United Press.

LONDON, Sept. A. 1894.-A despatch
from Shanghai to the Central News"
says that the foreign missionaries in
the Shrinking Province are fleeing to
Newt -Chwang, fearing violence at the
hands of Chinese soldiers, who, it is re-
ported, are burning the Christian chapels.
Two Japanese who were arrested on
suspicion of being spies have been sent
to Nanl.in. where they will probably be
tortured and beheaded
from Seoul says that on September a
force of Japanese troops met and defeat
ed a troop of Chinese cavalry near
Whang-Chu. and also attacked and cap
tured the Chinese fortresses near that
place. The Chinese escaped toward
Ping-Yang, where the Japanese army is
now centering by several routes.
The Japanese Emperor left Toxic to-
day for the general headquarters of
the Japanese at Hisoshima.
Two thousand fresh troops have ar
rived at Fusan to protect the Japanese
settlement against an uprising of the
natives.
The War Office has ordered Captain du
Rnulay. who is now at Gosport, to pro-
ceed without delay to the japanese head
quarters in Corea to act as military
attaehe in the interest of the British
Government
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-09-14
RAILROAD MEN GRUMBLING.
There May BE Strike on the North
Hudson.

The conductors and motormen of the
North Hudson County Railway Company
are all complaining of the new time
table that went into effect last Monday
Previous to that the longest turns of
duty the men had were twelve hours,
but now. they say, they have to work
from fourteen to sixteen hours, without
a chance to get a bite to eat. while
before they had swing of half hour
for meals.
The men say that they have to go to
West Hoboken for their cars and trans
fer tickets, which takes at least an hour.
When through. they have to return the
cars to the same place, which takes
three-quarters of an hour The reason it
takes quarter of an hour more to
get out the cars is that they have to
wait FOR the transfer tickets.
1t Is rumored that the men will strike
if the officials of the road do not alter
things.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-09-14
GALLAGHER HELD.
Miss Butler Svears He Deliberately
Shot Her.


James Gallagher, the man who shot
Annie Butler Wednesday afternoon at
No. SO 1-2 Lienau place, was arratgned
before Judge Macs in the Second DIG
trict Criminal Court this morning. Annie
Butler was also present, looking none
the worse for her recent experience.
The bullet only struck her in the shoul
der, and it was easily extracted. and she
had not lncergone much pain. Gal!
1agher looked the worst used up of any,
his wrist where he pricked
himself with pin, Y9n at
tempt to commit suircide, was bound
up, and he was very pale from the loss
of blood.
When Judge Macs asked him what he
had to say, he said
'I didn't mean ter shoot her. Jedge,
yer see de gun went off accidental when
I was tryin to frighten her, OATS all.
Ell, if I wanted ter shoot her, I'd of
given it to her in de neck, seer
do you love her. as you say you do?"
the judge then asked him.
'.Ob course 1 does, but she's untrue
yer honor"
,At this there was a grunt from Annie
and her large shapely nose was turned
up and she gave a scornful look at Gal
lagher, who then refused to say anything
more.
When Annie took the stand she tes-
titled that she had quarrel with Gal
lagher, and that he deliberately shot
her, and that it was no accident at
all.
Judge Macs held him in default of
81 900 bail for trial
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-09-14
LEGAL FIGHT OVER FIRE BRICK.

The Secaucus Iron Company brought
before Justice Lippincott and jury this
morning a peculiar suit for damages
against Berry & Company, fire brick
manufacturers of Woodbridge, N. ]. The
facts alleged are these:
In 1891 the plaintiffs ordered large
ouantity of fire brick with which to line
their psiir' big blast furnace The bricks were
furnished, and in three days, say the
plaintiffs, they burnt out, which neces-
Stated a reclining. This operation kept
the blast idle for three months, entail
ing a loss of $4,000, which amount the Sc
caucus Iron Company seeks to recover:
that the bricks were of the best kind, and
the burning out was not the cause of the
bad quality of the brick. They claim
that the accident was due to other causes
and enter a general denial to the allega-
tions in the plaintiffs suit. Ex-senator
John w. Griggs appeared for the PLAIN
tiffs. and Counsellor Emery, of Newark,
for fhe defendants.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-09-14
As to Chinese Coinage.
BIZ Gable to the United Press.

WASHINGTON, Sept. IA, 1884, The
State Department has received the fol-
lowing report from it's consular repre-
sentative at Hong Kong, China:-
The Chinese system of currency is bas-
ed upon a certain weight of silver and
not upon the number Of certain coin.
Although the currency consists of Chop
ped'' Mexican dollars, that is the Mex
lean dollars are defaced by striking
with dull edged instruments, yet s10C0
Hong kcng currency does not consist
of 1000 of these defaced dollars, but of
TT taels weight of them. If the coins
are new, Zoo by count weight w5nld be
about 720 IL taelS and III taelS would
consist of only about 995 pieces. The ta-
els is equal to 1854 English graine., Any
one presenting check or notes for
$4,000 at bank and wishing 10 receive
coin would have weighed out to him
Ito taels weight of chopped dollars
consisting of $3.50 pieces more or less.
This system is said to be not so in
convenient as at first appears. Bank
ing, both Chinese and European, is we'll
developed in Hong Kong. Payments
are nearly always made by checks or
notes of the chartered or Hong Kong
circulation of these notes being about
$1,000, 000 and there is plentiful sup
ply of subsidiary coinage, of so, 20, 10
and cent pieces. which passes by count.
Consequently Europeans in their small
private transactions by notes, checks
together the weight sysKem, In fact,
many do not realize that it exists, but
in large business transactions such as
balances between banks or shipments of
coin to other places to pay for produce
the coin is always weighed out in the
standard PROPORTIONS.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-09-14
HOW's THIS JUSTICE MAES2
Man Held for Assaulting Thief
WHO Was RObbin@ Him.

Andrew Tolson, q years old, of No.
ITS Hanover street, Brooklyn, and Will
lam Gray, 35 years old, of Winchester,
Virginia, two men employed on the bark
Andy Boyle of New York, now in the
Hackensack River, at the foot of st.
Paurs avenue, were prisoners in the
Second District Police Court this morn
ing. Gray was charged with assault and
battery and Tolson with petty larceny.
Last night Tolson entered Gray's bunk
and stole 81 in money and pair of
overalls. AS he was coming out Gray
discovered him and picking up amarlin
spike. struck him on the head. Tolsen
was knocked unconscious, and later he
was suffering from fractured skull.
He was taken to the city liospltaI
as a prisoner and Gray was locked up
in the Third precinct station.
Acting Judge Macs this morning heid
Gray to await the result OF sIolsons 5
if,il
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-09-14
CEMETERY sUPERIETENDENTs.

Superintendent Torrey of the Airing
ton Cemetery has just returned from
Philadelphia where he attended the
eighth annual convention OF the assoc
iation of Cemetery Superintendents.
The object of that organization is to
help its members to a constant improve
ment of plans and methods of ceme-
terry work. Superintendents were pres
ent from Maine and Texas, from North
Carolina and Nebraska. A full hundred
and fifty of the active workers who have
made the modern cemeteries of America
the most beautiful in the world Papers
were read by men whose names are ia
miliar wherever the landscape gardeners
art is best appreciated.
The discussions were participated in
by the most successful cemetery work.
ers in the land. The members were evil
IDENTIFY there to learn from each others
experience what would be most helpful
in their future work.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-09-14
THE Lis OF CHINA.
One of Them Fails to Ship
Troops to Corea Ru-
mored Jap Defeat.
MISSIONARIES FLEE IN ALARM
Koko at Work on Spies -Shun
King Conflagration A British
Warning.

SHANGHAI, Sept. IA, 1S94.-The City
of Shun- King, in the Province of So
Chuen, has been visited by confiagra-
ton which destroyed 1900 buildings.
Over hundred persons lost their lives
in various ways as the result of the fire.
Among the dead is the wife of the Gov
ernor of Shun-King, who died from
fright. The Governors house was burned
and several temples were destroyed.
The loss is estimated at ten million taels.
Advices from Corea say that the Cor
can troops attacked the Japanese ad-
vance guard, 1000 strong, who were on
the march from Fusan to Seoul, and
SO completely dispersed and destroyed
the column that only eight hundred of
them succeeded in getting back to Fu-
san.
General Li-Yung-Fu of the Chinese
army attempted with a chartered steam
er to convey five hundred troops from
Swatow to Formosa. The owners of the
vessel, however, rescinded the contract
upon hearing that the Japanese squadron
was in the vicinity. Subsequently three
Japanese cruisers boarded the trans
port and examined her papers.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-09-14
JUDGE PAXT0N's VISITORS.
Two Crazy Women Call Upon Him
on Varie@ated Esrrands.

Judge Paxton of the Hoboken District
Court had reception day Of crazy peo-
pie yesterday. The woman described In
these columns last Tuesday who claimed
to be a niece Of Queen Victoria, and who
introduced herself as Lady Purceville, I"
waltzed rp to His Honor as he sat in
the court room. She glanced wickedly at
Clerk Rathjen and exclaimed contempt
uously THAT man said he was Chief
Clerk of this mill. To be honest, Judge,
he lied to me. shall be avenged" Lady
Purceville carried a sun shade of vari-
gated colors and slung that around the
Judges head. He lodged sufficiently
to escape a collision
THAT man shall be doomed. He should
look out for my body guard, Now, Judge.
think you must be a gentleman" she
said, in an undertone, with one eye
focused on Rathjen.
81 am," meekly agreed the judge.
THAT other fellow isn't. Judge, he is
a disgrace. Mark my words. he isn't
clerk here; he's only a dead loss. Now,
Judge, want you to help me. l didn't
really know whether to come to you or
the Governor"
go to the Governor" suggested the
Judge, shifting In his chair.
"Insulted again" she calculated. 7
am insulted everywhere. My body guard
shall extermnate this place. The clerk clerk
here, and you. Judge"-and here she
aimed her umbrella at his eyes and
jabbed the air-.you shall see me again. :"
Then she foated out of the room.
Judge Paxton sat pulling contentment
from a cigar when his door bell rang
at 7:30 last night. A well dressed wom-
an, apparently forty years old. was
ushered into his parlor. She tugged at a
carpet bag and from q dress pocket
beer bottle. Judge Paxton greeted the
woman pleasantly and she replied with
a low salaam.
''Will you give 1T to me now ?" she ask
ed, staring fixedly into his eyes,
Give you what?" asked the Judge.
'Oh, how foolish of me to forget, but
you must remember my dog died since
you saw me and / am so depressed;
Here she paused to sigh and feel bad
ly. and the Judge took advantage of the
stop and said
You must excuse me, madam. but 1T
isn't here whatever you're looking for.''
Not here? Have you spent it,"
Spent what?''
THAT hundred thousand of mine. You
know you got it in a suit for me. I'll
take it in this bag
woman The man next door has IT..
tHe has, has he? That settles it. ]
have no more faith in human nature
That man is a sharper. You have de-
ceived me and you shall have this bot
tle" Thereupon she extracted the
empty bottle, presented it to His Honor,
looked sorry and was gone.
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vERnoUwENs.- Hopolen. on wednesday. SEPT


vERBoUwENS.-At Hoboken, ON Wednesday, Sept
ember II. 1894. Emile Verbouwens.
Relatives friends and members of Fraternity
Lodge No. 112. 1. o. o. f.; Hudson County Council
GA r. A. respectfully invited to attend the
funeral on Saturday, Sentember 10. at two p. NJ.
from his late residence, No. 1,IA Garden street. Ho-
buken.
PAIRSaN-0n Wednesday evening. September 70 at
his late residence, No, 50 PavQnia avenue George
W. eldest son of Mar saret and the late Alexan-
der Pairson aged tn rty three years, SIX months
and twenty one days.
Relatives AID friends and members OF Excelsior
Council No. 206. Royal Arcanum. are respectfully in
viied TO attend the .uneral from S Mary's Epis-
copal Church. Hoboken avenue, near Oakland, on
Sunday, September 16, at one O'Clock.
wANDs. -on wednesday. september u. 1894 Willie,
youngest son of Frederick and Maiy Wands,
Relatives and friends of the family are invited to
attend the funeral at the residence of his parents,
NO. Pacific avenue, Saturday, September is. at
two p. Nj.
LOpNEY-At his residence Daniel, infant son Of
Lizzie and the late Daniel Looney.
Funeral Saturday two P. NJ, No. l5S Railroad ave
nue.
MITCHELL Suddenly on September g. 1884, Robert
Nit, b Ill, No 36 Magnolia avenue.
Relatives and friends, also members OF Excelsior
Council 206 R. A. are respectfully invited to attend
services Friday September IA at eight O'Clock.
Ittefmcnt private.
ROBIN S N N-On Thursday, September 49, 1894. Ellen
J. Robinson. beloved wife Of John Robinson.
Relatives and friends OF the family are respect
fully invited 10 attend the funeral from her late resi-
dence No. IS egman street, Greenviile, on Sunday,
September l6. at three r IL,
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-09-14
ADJUSTMENTS.
Enamet at Ho obokcn Theatre.

J. X Emmet. in that popular play,
Fritz in a Mad House." opened the
Hoboken Theatre last night with a
crowded house. The patrons of the
pretty theatre were delighted with the
cha.oes made in the house during the
Do-t gave an excellent Interpretation
of the piece. ]. K. Emmett in the char
acter of Fritz was heartily received. He
has added several new songs to his
repertoire all of which pleased the
audience.
Principal in his support are Mrs. Marie
Rogers as Matters. Miss Florence Fos-
ter as Mrs. Parker, Hudson Lyston as
Uncle Joe Parker, Harry Coffin as Rich
ard Parker. and last-and least in mat
ter of inches-Little Baby Sinnott. a
very little tot, who dances cleverly,
and is prominent in little part of her
aws. in the piece. Altogether, the pro-
duction is a very good one, and the
house should be packed every night.
TIE engagement closes Saturday night,
with Saturday matinee.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-09-14
DEAD IN SUICIDE PARK.

NEW YORK, Sept. IA, 1S94.-Park Po-
liceman O'Brien this morning found the
body of a man who had committed sui
eide lying in the bushes in Central Park,
near Sixtieth street, between Sixth and
Seventh avenues. The man had shot
himself through the right temple with
a 32-calibre revolver. He was about
sixty years old. five feet eight inches
high, and gray hair, moustache andgoatee
and wore black diagonal suit, black
soft hat, and boots
In the suicides pockets were found
naturalizational papers made out in the
name of Bernhardt Vogel and card of
a burial plot in Lutheran Cemetery.
The body was taken to the Morgue.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-09-14
CRADLE OF ENGLISH ART.
Dem oIishfng the Entrance to ST. Mar
tins Lane Academy.

St Martins Lane has been designated
''the cradle of English art" and an i'm
oortant monument in this connection is
in course of demolition as these lines are
being written: this is the facade and
entrance to the St. Martins Lane Acade
my in Peters Court The large room in
which the students met which had serv
ed its turn as an auction room, dane
ing saloon. and the studio of Roubiliac,
the sculptor, and of which you may see
a painting by Hogarth IN the Diploma
Gallery at Burlington House. has been
demolished years ago. but the ancient
front and the curious entrance thereto
has up to recently remained unaltered.
# ST Martins Lane is the cradle of
E--@lish art, there is no doubt whatever
that Peters Court is the cradle of the
Royal Academy, for hence was issued,
more than one hundred and forty years
ago. the circular convening a meeting
at the Turks Head. Gerard street, Soho,
which eventually led to the organization
of the society now established at Burl-
ington House With the demolition
of the buildings in Peters Court passes
away well-nigh all the antiquity of the
west side of st. Martins Lane.-London
Graphic.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-09-14
EOUALLED HER OWN RECORD.
Bu Cable to the United Press.

QUEENSTOWN. Sept. IA. 1s94-The Cum
ard line steamer Lucania passed Daunt's
Rock at BAT o'clock this morning. hay
ing made the passage from Sandy Hook
Lightship in five days. eight hours and
thirty-eight minutes. being the exact
time of the westward record, whiclEshe
holds, and eclipsing all previous records
for an eastward voyage by over two
hours Her daily runs were 447, 512, 4s4,
5l4, 5O6 and to Queenstown, S37. She ex-
perienced fine weather and moderate
winds throughout.
On September Il, she sighted the Nor
wegian bark Hakon Jarl, waterlogged
and abandoned.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-09-14
A STRANGE SEA MONSTER.

A strange sea monster was recently
met with by the good park Loongana
as she was drifting about in the vicinity
of the Santa Cruz group. 1t was a
gruesome beast, very like a whale at
its neither end. Its body was thirty feet
long and eleven feet wide. dark in color
and spotted with white, with a head
containg a head large enough to take
in twelve men, Alarmed at the advances
of the beast, the crew had recourse to
a Winchester rifle. But the monster was
invulnerable in the body. Its weak spot
was the head. After two wasted shots
third was skillfully planted in the
skull, and with one sweep of the tail the
monster turned and disappeared.--Phila
delphia Press.
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ther say that at no time, or place, or un-
der any circumstances. did ever, IN
company with a woman represented to
be my wife. ask to be received at any
hotel in the City of Louisville or else
where; that at no time or place, and un-
der no circumstances whatever have
been refused admission to any hotel IN
Louisville or elsewhere on account of any
actual or seemed relation to any woman,
or turned out of any hotel in Louisville
or elsewhere, on account of any actual,
or assumed relation to any woman
Without qualification. l pronounce the
whole story as base and baseless fab
rieation, made with the intention to de-
ceive the Democrats in the Ashland
district supporting me, and who are de-
termined that the district shall not be
TliShOnoFed -
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-09-14
CARPENTERS WINNING.

NEW YORK. Sept. IA, 1s94.-The four
organizations of carpenters who have
been on strike for the last two weeks
against the dumping system in this
city. held a meeting last night in Prog
ress Hail. Several requests were re-
ceived from owners and contractors ask
ing to be allowed to re-employ their men
and stating that they were willing to
pay the union rates, and also 70 take
heir work out of the hands of the
Jumpers and finish their jobs by days
work. The Strike Committee delegates
have settled number of strikes with
contractors on the above terms this
morning
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SHOT his GRANDMA's LOVER.

HOPKINSvILLE, KY, Sept. IA, 1884,
Beverly Adams, colored, was hanged at
$40 this morning, at this place. for the
murder of OFT Campbell, also colored.
negro, 2S years cid. On the night of
May s Adams went to the house of his
grandmother, who, it is supposed, was
bell to the door deliberately shot him
and instantly killed the old negro.
Adams claimed he had the pistol,
small derringer, in his hand to guard
to the door and asked him for whiskey
which he did not have, whereupen Camp
bell beganaesearching him and in the
seuffie the pistol was accidentally dis
charged. The trial toek place June q
In which Adams grandmother testified
that he called Campbell 10 the door Ii
his nightclothes and shot him down.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-09-14
SCOTCH STRIKE STILL ON.
BIZ Cable to the United Press.

EDINBURGH. Sept. IA. 1S9f-Leading
delegates to the Scotch Miners Confer
ence deny the statement made yesterday
shet the strike is over. $1,000 votes hav-
ing been cast in favor of resuming work
at the old rate of wages. These dele
gates. assert that the majority voted
against acceptance of the offer of the
masters. and decided to take no further
action until the conference of the Miners
Federation. which will take place on
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-09-14
TAPPING POOL ROOM WIRES.

WASHINGTON. Sept. IA. 1s94.-Two
men in a sailboat on the Potomac River
were detected yesterday tapping the
Western Union wires crossing the long
bridge and connected with the pool rooms
on the Virginia shore. The police and
the chief operator of the Western Union
gave chase both on shore and in an
other sailboat on the river, but the men
succeeded in effeeting a landing AT the
foot of one of the bluffs up the river an /
made good their escape. They had evil
dently confederatess in the pool rooms,
c-.sd were studying the New York send
e='z methods so as the more readily to
impose their bogus dispatches on the
operators at the Virginia race tracks.