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The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-10-24
WE WILL SHOOT WASHINGTON.
The big military Watch to Come or
Saturday.

WASHINGTON, Oct. "a, 1S94.-The de-
tails of the Forthcoming shooting match
between the New Jersey and District of
Columbia teams which will occur on
Saturday of this week, are being rapid
ly completed. Additional interest will
be given to the event by the presence
of score of State officials, who will
accompany the New Jersey riflemen to
washington. These will include Governor
Werts, ,Adjutant General Stryker and
Quartermaster General Donnelly of the
Governors staff; Ex-Governor Green, ex-
Senator sewell, General E. P. Meany,
Gen. W. c. Heppenheimer. State
Comptroller Hancock, State Treas
surer Swaine and others.
The visitors will arrive at 1875 this
evening" They will be met at the sta
ton by committee of three gentle-
men, Major George H. Harries, Major
E. Fl. Neumeyer and Captain H. S. Par
m2nter representing the District Militia,
from whose ranks the members of the
local team will be drawn.
The tournament will be held at Mar
shall Hail. a favorite summer resort
fifteen miles down the Potomac River.
Each team will include ten persons.
The shooting will begin a little before
noon on Saturday and the tournament
will close at five o'clock in the after
noon Mr.. 3. w. Spencer of Passaic
will have charge of the New Jersey
team
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-10-24
SULPHUR IN GOALS.

A method whereby the sulphur in
Goals may be estimated and their suit
ability for gas-making determined before
purchase has been introduced by Herr
w. Hempel, an autharity on coal gas in
Germany. The coal is powdered and
pressed in little platinum wire cylinder
and then burned. The combustion is eff
fected in an ordinary glass bottle, which
is fitted with trebly perforated India
rubber stopper. Through this passes
a tube with q glass stopcock and which
widens out into a cylinder; also'two glass
tubes, to the lower ends of which two
thick platinum wires are fused. One of
these wires carries the platinum basket.
A little mercury is poured into the tube
so as to establish sure contact with the
wires which lead the electricity When lsA
ket becomes white hot, the combustion
Of eoal is effected. and the gaseous
bounds are led off through the stopeock
.ead examined chemical. eadoip4.ist
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-10-24
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RLED.

MEANS-After a short illness, Sarah Jane,
wife of John Means
Relatives and friends are respectfully in
vited to attend the funeral services at her
late residence. No. Il Henry street. Friday
evening, Oct. &c, at o'clock.
mterment at 10 o'clock Saturday MORN
ing at Greenwood
Please omit flowers.
M'KIM-On Tuesday, Oct. %. 1894, Mary Ellen.
Wife of James McKim aged 81 years.
Relatives and friends are invited to attend
the funeral on Thursday, Oct. %, at o'clock,
from ner late residence. No 776 Garfield ave-
nue..
BoMAN-on Tuesday, Oct %, 1894. Elsie Jane.
beloved wife of Theodore Boman.
Funeral services will be held at her late rests
dence No. 616 Highpoint avenue West Hobos
KEN Thursday evening" Oct 25. at eight o'clock.
HIGGINBoTHAN-In this city, Monday,
Oct 90 1894, John Henry, of Marcus
and Elizabeth A. Higginbothan aged Il
Interment private.
JoHNsoN-In this city, Oct. a. 1891, Gertrude.
widow of the late Harrison Johnson, aged
rs years.
Relatives and friends are invited to attend
the funeral services at the residence Of her
daughter, Mrs. VIM, Pumyea, No. 80 Wiley
street, on Thursday evening at 9:10 o'clock.
Interment at Cranberry, N. j.
I.AWRENCE-In this city, Oct. "a, 1894, Alica
May daughter of Alice and the late Georga
G. Lawrence, aged IS years.
Relatives and friends are invited to attend
the funeral services at the residence Of her
mother No 404 Grand street, Thursday
evening at o'clock.
I.EvINs-on Thursday. Oct. %, 1894, Patrics
Levins, husband of the late Jane Levins.
Funeral from his late residence. No. "a
Emory street, at o'clock Friday, Oct. &c.
thence to St. Patrick's Church, where
solemn high mass of requiem will be of
fered for the repose of his SOUL
MEANs-After a short illness. Sarah Jane.
TNINr
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-10-24
MR. CUB MET MR. GANDER.
There Was Brief Battle and MIR.
Cub Took to Flight.

An Alameda saloon-keeper has black
bear cub about foot and a half high
when he stands on his hind legs and
reaches for a strangers coat-tails. He is
full of mischief. or fight, as occasion
may require, but withal very discreet.
He knows that he is not big enough to
whip the grocer's dog, but he doesn't
hesitate to intimidate the candy mans
cat
Yesterday big gander marched grave
ly up the street The bear sized him up,
and said to himself
Hes my meat"
He advanced on the gander, who
marched slowly and steadily on till the
growing cub barred his way. Then he
extended his wings, stretched out his
neck and tried to make the cub ashamed
of himself. The bear made two or three
vicious but Intellectual cuffs at the gan
der, and then stopped to see what he had
accomplished.
Just at this juncture the gander took a
firm hold on the cubs ear and COM
menced pounding him over the head with
his wings. The cub was quitter and
started to beat a precipitous retreat but
the gander wouldn't let go. He just hung
on and thumped away.
When the aust and feathers settled the
gander was trying to find the tender por-
ton of what appeared to be a piece of
the bears ear.-San Francisco Post
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-10-24
NO COMFORT FOR MAOAULAY.

One of the first clever speeches set
down to the credit of Lord Macaulay
belongs to his very early days, and must
have been entirely spontaneous. When he
was in Trinity College he attended a
Cambridge election, where the mob, with
the freedom peculiar to British voters
were hustling the successful candidate.
Missiles of all sorts were flying about
and Macaulay's ardor for public life may
have been somewhat cooled by the dead
cat which he received full in the face.
The man Who had thrown it apologized
nrofuseIy, and assured him that he had
only mistaken his AIM
ssfhe cat was meant for Mr. Adeane, I"
Then said Macauiay, ruefully,
wish you had meant it for me and hit
Mr.. Adeane!"
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-10-24
DISCOVERIES TN CRETE.

Mr.. A. J. Evans, who recently explor-
ed Crete, believes that he has found in
the figures on many stones and gems
the hieroglyphic writing of the age of
Mycenae, and on some he finds even
alphabetic symbols. ''The Cretan SYM
bols, both pictorial and alphabetic, be-
long in the main to the second millen-
mum B. c., and to the days of the Ny
caenean civilization" OF the latter class
of engraved gems he was able thanks to
the Cretan superstition. to collect great
number. The women call them milk
stones" and wear them round their necks
as potent charms. Mr.. Evans obtained
some from the older women exchanged
some stones of small archaeological value
for better specimens, and procured inn
pressions where the owners would not
give up the talisman.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-10-24
SCIENTIFIC CURIOSITY IN BOSTON

The grandest attribute of the Boston
public is it's profound regard for the
sacredness of selfhood, for individuality
as formative power, and, as conse-
quence, character concentrates to TO-
Gus. AS might be expected where sci
entihc curiosity is a factor SO potent, it
often plants its standard on unscientific
territory, and interest in theories proven
or beyond proof becomes craze. Ex-
otics are especially welcome. The Grand
Lama of Tibet, turning off yard upon
yard of mysticism on brass prayer
wheel-if only he would be careful to
observe the decencies of New England
life through the week-would draw a
large and attentive audience at Music
Hall on Sunday, and make an earnest
band of converts to the wonder-story
of his reincarnations. He would leave
his most cordial blessing behind him.
and take away good subscription for
the mysterious lamaseries in his native
Iand-October Forum"
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-10-24
PEOPLES SOCIAL HOUR.
A large Throng Enjoys ITSELF at she
PSsNcc.

The Peoples Palace buildings last even
ing were we'll filled with young people
The young men of the Palace invited
their friends, and the ladies felt at
home Immediately. In fact, the People
Palace seems very much like big fam
lily, with all the members at home en-
joying an evening together in harmless
amusements. BY a quarter past eight
o'clock the guests were in and the ac-
tivity commenced. The new teacher OF
the gynnastic department, Prof. John
Bender. has entered upon his work with
zest, and the young athletes have raj
lied around him. and. together with the
new classes, the physical department
bids fair to excel all other years. Every
two weeks he viii have some special
attraction for young men. The attrac-
tive feature last evening was the tug
of-war contest between two new teams.
The first consisted of C. Petrie, weight
l45 pounds; j. German, 1872; A. Martin,
l27; j. W. Gardner, 170; A. Hill, 125; total,
500 pounds. The second team was COM
posed of C. Fowler, 157 pounds; c. f.
Kuntz, 13l: c. H. Peckham, 13O; 3.
Varona, AS; Geo. Knowls, 1l8; total,
5S5 pounds. The contest was an excit-
ing one, and the first. however, came
off victorious. Nearly all the vacant
space was occupied with chairs, which
the ladies and gentlemen occupied.
Other exercises under Prof. Bender were
given by the members In the amuse-
ment hall the crowd was very large.
Cap, the janitor, had arranged a long
row of chairs by the alleys, so that
coed view could be had of the overthrow
of. ten pins.
The music gallery was crowded with
eager eyes watching the progress of the
games. The muscles of the young
men never did better work, as they
made strike after strike In the parlors
the young men arranged for musical
programme, and college songs were
among the lively ones They brought
different instruments and made them
ring with all kinds of sounds. George
Coffin and Charles Peckharn presided at
the piano. Al Mead had a piccolo. Ed.
Ward and A. Martin We're experts on
the harmonica- Charles Waters and
Benjamin Varona touched up the music
with muffled drums. These song nights
will be an attractive feature every Tues
day evening. Several new members
joined the Peoples Palace before Cap
sounded the gong for the hour of clos
ing
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-10-24
BBHNHZER BERRY DEAD
Pneumonia Carries Off the Re-
publican Retiring As
Semblyman.

Ebenezer Berry. Jr., the retiring Re-
publican Assemblyman of the First dis
trict died this morning at his home in
Bayonne after brief Illness
A week ago he attended the outing of
a fire engine company and contracted
cold. 1t developed into pneumonia which
ended fatally at dawn this morning.
Mr.. Berry was thirty-seven years old
He was born in Jersey City, May 30, 1858.
His father. the late Ebenezer Berry,
was the first Chief Engineer of the Bay
onne Volunteer Fire Department and a
wealthy master mason and contractor
of that city. To this business Assembly
man Berry succeeded.
AN ARDENT FIREMAN.
Like his father, he was an ardent
fireman. After serving as foreman Of
Hook and Ladder Co. No. 3, he was
chosen Second Assistant Chief Engineer
of the city's department in 1890. He was
elected Chief Egineer the following year
without opposition, and was reelected
in 1881 In 1892 he was accorded the Re-
publican nomination for Assemblyman
from the Bayonne and Greenville dis
trict and he defeated for reelection,
Assemblyman Thomas Magner of Bay
onne. Last November he was reelected.
In the recent State Legislature he
was Chairman of the State Militia Com
mittee. Last spring he was made Street
Commissioner. He had represented the
Third ward as a Supervisor of Taxes
and Commissioner of Appeals. He was
a member of Bayonne Lodge No. 80. F.
and A. NJ, and Bayonne Council No. 395,
Royal Arcanum, Bayonne Rowing and
Athletic Association, the Third Ward
Republican Club and New Jersey Ath-
letic Club.
Mr.. Berry leaves a widow and several
small chiId~aY1s
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-10-24
FOR A NEW ORGAN.

The first sociable of the season was
given in the Second Presbyterian Church
by the Ladies' Society last evening.
The oarlors were prettily decorated
with palms and cut flowers.
After a solo by Mrs. M. Johnson, re-
freshments were served by members of
the Y. P. S. c. E.. after which an ad-
journment was made to the body of the
church, where the Pastor. Rev. H. c.
Cronin, after few preliminary remarks,
sprung upon the congregation plan
for a new organ for the church. This
has long been a necessity, and last even
ing the matter took definite shape.
According to Pastor Cronin's plan
every member of the church and congre-
CATION will be able to contribute with
out in any way hampering the other
work of the church. After pledges
amounting to 81, 400 had been secured,
Prof E. L. Cranmer, Mr.. Edw'd Blanch-
ard and Mrs. A. Francis rendered vocal
selections, and q pleasant social time
was enjoyed:
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-10-24
PRAISE FOR SECURITY COUNCIL
Interesting Meeting of Tho G. II. L..
Fraternity.

The meeting of Security Council No.
119, c. B. L., Monday evening, was a
gala event in the history of that pro-
gressive council. The attendance was
unusually large, and every seat in the
spacious and handsome council chamber
was occupied. A gratifying interest to
the occasion was the presence of a score
of visiting comrades from Father Dalton
Council, Newark, headed by the Rev.
Father Hammer. State Chaplain, and
Comrade James A. Rowe. State Presi-
dent.
At the close of the regular order of
business, President Fitzgerald, in a
happy address. extended to the visiting
comrades a warm and hearty welcome,
particularly eulogizing the Rev. State
Chaplain. He then presented Father
Hammer, who was received with ap-
plause and favored the council with an
excellent address.
He said when he was a boy he was
very fond of taffy, but owing to the pru-
dence of his good mother, he was never
able to get as much as he wanted. To-
night however, he had an abundance,
but it was weet to be remembered by
comrades of the C. B. L. He dilated
upon the good work of the legion, the
advantages of membership and said
there were already five or six hundred
priests among it's comrades.
State President James A. Rowe was
close second to Father Hammer in his
expressions of admiration for Security
Council. What most pleased him was
the method of carrying out the manual,
together with the decorum and good
order observed at the meeting. Another
feature was the custom of singing the
initiation ode and cordial handshaking
on the reception of a new comrade-
something he had not seen in any other
council. s~
After many other COED things had been
said of @Security. the 'bon tom" and
Dalton the banner, council of the State,
the feeling of good will was intensified by
the presentat from Dalton Council to
Comrade John A. Lane Of Security, of q
set of resolutions handsomely engrossed
and framed, commemorative of his re-
cent election to the high office of Vice
mental and vocal musicbgk rdl mfwy
President of the State Council.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-10-24

move encroachments on city property
to regulate, clean and keep in repair
streets and highways; to open streets'
grade, pave or otherwise improve the
same; to prevent horse racing; to resu-
late the speed of running locomotives,
railroad cars, motor electric or other
cars through said city. 1t abolishes the
existing Lamp Inspecting Department
empowering the Aldermen to provide
lamps, gas fixtures and other means
of illuminating the streets. 1t abollshes
the Board of Health, now a branch OF
the Police Board and authorizes the Al
dermen to establish d new Health bureau
and gives them the sole right to make
contracts for all necessary supplies to
establish, regulate and control i day
and night police, and to fix and de-
termine their compensation.
FIRE BOARD TO GO.
It abolishes the Fire Board and gives
the Aldermen the right to regulate and
define the manner of appointment and
removal of officers of the department.
1t abolishes the present building bureau
and creates a new one An important
section is the one which gives the Al
it's inhabitants with water and to regu-
late the laying of water mains, thus
totally abolisning the present Street and
Water Board. 1t abolishes the City Hall
Commission and places the control OF
all public buildings in the hands of the
Aldermen. It gives the Mayor justice OF
the peace powers. 1t places in the hands
of the Aldermen the right to levy the
tax assessment, now done by the Board
of Finance 1t empowers the Aldermen,
when deemed necessary, to purchase or
condemn the plant, property ana fran
chises of any person or corporation used
for the purpose Of supplying the city
or its Inhabitants with gas, electric or
other light. 1t creates sinking funo
commission, of which the Mayor, Comp
troller and City Solicitor ex-officio are
members II takes from the Mayor the
right of appointing Police Justices and
vests it in the Aldermen.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-10-24
BIG GAMBLING RAID.
Hoboken Police Clean Out Washing
ton and Hudson Streets.

Detective Quinn and Deputy Sheriff
Rihl of Police Headquarters, Hoboken
this morning made raid upon the sa-
looms along Hudson and Washington
streets and carried off twenty-one gamb-
ling machines. They were of all var
ietfes, including music boxes, cigar light
ers. minerature race tracks, card ma
chimes and wheels of fortune. The raid
was made upon orders issued by Chief
Donovan yesterday to clear Hoboken of
all gambling implements. No trouble
was experienced In getting the machines
but later in the Gay number of the
owners visited Headquarters and de-
Inanded them back. Chief Donovan told
them they would have to see the Police
Commissioners, as he was going to lay
the case before them.
This afternoon Detectives Nelson and
Quinn went out with the patrol wagon
and brought in another load.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-10-24
WATERPROOF CLOTH.

textile fabric of cloth of close tex
tnre is subjected to the action of sui
phuric acid of about 115 degrees F.,
SO as to partly parchmentize the fibres
and more or less completely close the
interstices without destroying the tex
ture of the cloth. The excess of acid
is removed by washing, with or with
out previous treatment with alkali, and
the washed material is subjected to
pressure between calendering rolls,
Whereby a finished appearance is i'm
parted, and the closing of the inter-
stices completed. The material may be
s,,ifa hlv dVed
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-10-24
SAFE PLACE TO BUY FURNITURE

1.-THE hard times have cut into the
prices of furniture. carpets, and bed
ding, This is the simple announcement
made by Messrs. Taylor & Manahan OF
No. 422 Grove street, a firm of reputable
merchants who, for years, have con-
Quoted a successful business in Jersey
City. Their statements can safely be
relied on. that when they say "a
inch carpet bed lounge can be bought
for $5.75, or a folding bed at the same
price you can believe them and feel as
sured that you are getting the worth
of your money, or better still, that you
are getting bargain In fact no matter
what you require in the housefurnish-
ing line there is no safer place to pur-
chase than at Taylor & Manahan's.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-10-24
THE MAoHIAs GONE TO SEA.

QUARANTINE, S. l.. Oct. "a, 1884,
The T. s. gunboat Machias, Commander
Edwin S. Houston, Commanding, passed
out through the Narrows shortly before
noon today This is the vessels first
run under steam since completion of re-
pairs connected with the increased
length by putting in a new section amid
ships at the Brooklyn Navy Yard.
The Machias is under way that the
Board of Inspection and Survey, Thomas
o. Selfridge, President, may pass on the
the ship fit for her trip to the Asiattc
station via Gibraltar and the Suez Canal.
The trial will probably last all day.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-10-24
LANGER-MAsTERsoN.

The Rev. Father J. Schandel, Pastor
of ST. Pauls Catholic Church married
Mr. Adolph A. LANCER and Miss Jennie
B. Masterson of Greenville at the par
sonage last evening. The bride wore
grey cloth trimmed with silk and Ouch
esse lace; her ornaments were pearls.
The bridesmaid, Miss Lizzie Masterson,
wore a gown of old rose silk trimmed
with Irish Point lace. The best man
was Mr. j. Francis Byrne
The wedding was extremely quiet,
no one but the bridal party being pres
ant. Mr.. and Mrs. LANCER left last
evening for a short tour.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-10-24
THREW BEER IN HER FACE.
Mrs. white Sues for Divorce on th'
Ground of CFueity.

Sheriff Toffey this morning served
papers on E. White, employed in ship
chambers store near Davis dock, foot
of Warren, in suit of divorce brought
by his wife ClarInda.
She charges him with cruelty.
Her petition alleges that her husband
repeatedly came home drunk and beat
her. On one occasion he threw a glass
of beer in her face and struck her over
the head. He has Been, she says, re-
peatedly arrested for his cruelty.
The case is set down for hearing be-
fore the Chancellor on November 20.
White will oppose the suit, claiming
that his wifes charges are false. He
swears that he has been model hus-
band, and that "she is no better than
she ought to be-
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-10-24
THINKS GOOD MEN ARE SCARCE

Mr.. William c. whitney takes re-
rnarkably good care of his health, and is,
perhaps, the most notable Illustration
of the value of persistent exercise in
New York society. Most men of Mr.
Nhitney's years, who have lived amid
the easy surroundings which millions of
money can buy are stout and unwieldly
or practically invalids. Anyone who has
nttended gathering where millionaires
ere to be seen to- ether must have been
struck by the general look of WEAKNESS
iafd the low physical condition which
ssbaracterizes the men. The ex-Secretary
icf the Navy is abstemious in almost
everything except exercise. He practi-
ally lives in the open air.-Philadelphia
Press
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-10-24
ROBBED HIS HOST.
A Hoboken Mans Experience with
His Fathers Friend.

Carl Taylor Of No 667 Garden street
Hoboken, reported at Police Headqar-
ters this morning that a couple of days
ago an old man named Henry vetters,
friend of his fathers, visited him.
After sitting up until one o'clock, play
ing cards, the visitor was shown to his
room. In the morning he was miss
ing, and so was an overcoat, two silver
Watches a lady's ring set with rubies,
a gold chain and silver handled UNI
brella-
The old man is understood. limps a
little and has a smooth face. The po-
lice were ordered to keep loog out for
him
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-10-24
DISCOVERIES IN PALESTINE.

Recent discoveries in Palestine have
made more clear the secular use of the
terms deacon" and bishop" before
the establishment of Christianity. Texts
and Inscriptions have been found with
mention of diaeonoi as being certain sub
ordinate civil officers. Episcopoi or over
seers were functionaries of a higher
grade under the Roman regime. and
several lists of these have been found.
From the first, the terms were used by
the church to meet the needs of her
own organization. being borrowed from
the civil organization of the times
FhiIadelphia Press.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-10-24
MANUFACTURE OF CHARCOAL IRON

A company has been formed to at
tempt to reconstruct the manufacture
Of charcoal iron in the province of Con-
naught, Ireland. where some of the
richest ores are located Hitherto the
prohibitive price of peat charcoal has
precluded the profitable manufacture of
removed by the Rose resorts which
produce an excellent charcoal at a low
cost, while the by-products (sulphate of
ammonia, etc., can be saved and also
change.