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The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-07-24
MINKAKWAs BOOMING.
Talk of Erecting a Club House-Out.
Ing Thursday Night.

The attendance at the meeting of the
Minkakwa Climb last evening was the largest
that the club has seen since the spring cleo
the club were SO crowded that when the
question of erecting a large and commodious
club house was brought up, the members
unanimously decided TO push the mat
ter to a successful issue. The club
has been promised financial support
necessary to erect the new home
and in another year at least the members ex-
pect to see their hopes realized. The fellow
ing committees was appointed last night to
devise plans and perfect the preliminary
work necessary for such al undertaking.
Michael Schultz. Jr., Peter Boos, j. j.
Detwiller, Theodore Wegman IL Adam
Reid. After these matters had been dis
posed of the member thought it would be
advisable to create a social membership SO
that when the new home is completed the
organization will have social as we'll as
political attractions. Messrs. Ramhurst,
McGaun and Dunn were appointed a com
mittee to revise the constitution and bylaws
SO that social members can be admitted.
the arrangements for the outing to Buff
falo Bills Wild West on Thursday evening
were completed and the chairman of the en-
tertainment committee reported that about
SIXTY of the of the members would witness
the show. The racket will not be a stag
and the wives and lady friends OF the MEM
bers will enjoy it. Chairman Smith OF the
entertainments committeefyill be at the club
rooms. on Wednesday evening to distribute
tickets to those desiring to go. The mem
beers will assemble on Thursday evening at
six o'clock at the Whitehall street ferry,
New York.
Theodore Smith, w. G. Dunn and Mr..
Rainhurst were appointed to serve one year.
as the Entertainment Committee After the
meeting the members played games in the
euchre and pinochle tournament for the
prizes to be awarded by the Club. In the
enchre Games Theodore Smith and Joseph
FIioramo defeated Charles Merker and
Frank HawIey. and the pinochle games, T.
sBoos and Mr.. Williams defeated Henry Con
sor and Theodore Weginan. In euchre,
Smith and Floramo lead with four victories,
and in pinochle, Boos and Williams also lead
with four victories.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-07-24
BROKEN SEWER IN LAFAYETTE
Cellars Filled with Sewage and Many
Lives Endangered.

For many weeks sewage matter has been
flowing into the cellars of houses on Ash
street, between Pacific avenue and Wilton
have been made to the Street and Water
Board, but the commissioner have failed
to remedy the evil, which is caused
by a broken sewer. Many of
the cellars are flooded to a
depth of over two feet, andsthe stencil that
arises is so strong that the tenants of the
houses spend as much time as possible away
from home. The street is saturated with
tie filth, and especially on warm days the
stencil is sickening. Mr.. Bernard Hen
bricks, who owns and occupies the three
story flame dwelling No. 3 Ash street.
noticed two weeks ago that his cellar was
beginning to fill with water. He at first
thought chat one of the water pipes had burst
and he secured Plumber Zumbush, who
made a thorough examination of the pipes
and found them all in perfect condition.
Hendricks then noticed that the water was
foul and illsmefling, and after digging up
the street found that the sewage was coming
from the sewer. He fastened to the Street
and Water Board, and the Commissioners
promised him that they would attend to it
Immediately. They failed to keep their
promise, and on Friday night Hendricks
visited them again. As before, they prom
ised to give it Immediate attention, but up
to last night the promise had not been kept.
sIt's an outrage said Mr.. Hendricks to a
reporter of THE JERSEY Cry News last
evening, shat this matter should be ne
elected, and our health endangered. 1 made
several visits to the Street and Water Board,
but the sewer is still in the same condition.
The sewer has not been cleaned twelve years.
| nave lived here twenty years, and know
whereof | speak. In former years aebranch
of Mill Greek ran through this street. When
the sewer was built in Pacific avenue it
branched off into this street and emptied into
the creek. A few years afterward the
sewer became inadequate, as the section had
grown and a larger sewer was built IN
Wilton street. The creek was then filed in,
box sewer. This was thirteen years age
and since the wooden box connection has
caved in. As a result the sewer is choked.
and the sewage of all the houses on Pacific
avenue is now flowing into our cellars.
The box drain which connects
the Wilton street sewer with Mill
Creek is also broken so that it also is choked.
Repairs to either of the box drains would be
useless. The Street and Water Board should
buila a connecting main from the Ash and
Wilton street sewer to the Pine street
sewer The latter is three feet in diameter
and is brick from the source to the outlet in
Mill Creek There will be no cave-iEs there
and the connecting link between the three
sewers need not exceed 300 feet in length the
the cost would be trivial
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-07-24
OLD TIME TELEGRAPHERs TO MEET

BALTIMORE, July 24-The Association of
Old Time T~elegraphers and the Society of
Military Telegraphers will hold their annual
reunion in this city on September IL. The
date was decided On last night by the execu-
tive committee, and at the same time COM
mittees were appointed by President Charles
Selden. 1t is intended to make the event
especially interesting and elaborate to com
memorate the s-emi-centennial of the tele-
graph in the city where its inventor lived
and where the instr was first success
fully operated.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-07-24
BoYooTFER MUST STAND TRIAL

NEW HAVEN, Conn, July "a, 1s94.-The
local bakers union a month ago declared a
boycott on a Dixwell avenue baker, who had
discharged a foreman n had employed in
his stead a New York man who was not ac-
ceptable to the union. Meantime the boy
colt has been pressed by means of circulars
and verbally. Yesterday the police cap
tured one Charles B~ruenhoefer, a baker, in
the act of distributing the boycotting circu-
lars, and he will have to stand trial. The
case, it is said, will be pressed on the same
grounds as the celebrated case of the jour
nal and Courier boycott of eight or nine
years ago, when a number of the members
of New Haven Typographical Union were
oap uietad
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-07-24
AMERICAN LABOR UNION.
To Gather In All Unions Under One


CHICAGO, July "A, 1S94.-A new labor
union was organized here yesterday which,
it's leaders say, will gather under one ban
ner the whole army of the toiling masses.
W. G.. Walsh presided yesterday at the
meeting of the Board of Directors of the
new American Labor Union, which was
held in secret, directors only being present.
The board adopted a declarations and de-
cided to admit militiamen as members of the
new organization, which the directors claim
will take the place of the Knights of labor.
The officers of the new organization say
ately and the union extended throughout
the country.
Resolutions were adopted pledging finan-
cial support to E. V. Debs and pledging CO.
operation to the American Railway Union.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-07-24
NO U. s. CONSUL AT NJ

WASHINGTON, July "a. 1sa4.-There is
practically a vacancy in the United States
Consul Generalship at Samoa. James H.
Mulligan of Kentucky, who was appointed
to the position March 10 having failed to
take charge of the Office at Apia, although
the thirty days allowed him for receiv-
ing his Instructions and departing for his
elapsed several months ago. 1t is said that
the administration does not care whether
Mr.. Mulligan ever goes out to Samoa or not,
that his pay stopped after the first thirty
days succeeding his appointment, and that
the government is saving $4,000 a year as
long as the position remains untitled.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-07-24
EARLY CLOSING MEETING

The Early Closing Association will hold q
special meeting this evening in Humboldt
Hall at half-past eight r. MA large and
representative attendance is ANTICIPATED, as
several new members are to be initiated and
1t is understood that the association IS TO
take some final action towards the matters,
clothiers and gents furnishing stores VINO
keep open on Sunday morning.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-07-24
IMPORTANT CABINET MEETING

WASHINGTON, July "a. 1S94.-Important
dispatches have been received by the Secre-
tary of the Navy at Bluefields. They have
been taken over to the Cabinet meeting by
Secretary Herbert, and their contents may
perhaps be made public after the Cabinet
has decided what action should be taken in
the matter.
This Bluefields incident, the question of
the recognition of the Republic of Hawaii
and the tariff situation in the Senat will
probably make the deliberations of today's
Cabinet meeting both long aud important.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-07-24
WON'T GIVE UP TO UNCLE SAM.

SAN FRANCISCO, July 81, 1s94.-Mrs.
Leland Stanford and her attorneys have
notified the Government that its claim for
SIS, 600, 1000 against the estate of Senator
Stanford has beeif rejected. This means
that the demand of the Government will be
paid only at the end Of long litigation.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-07-24
]. M. JONES CARRIAGE DAMAGED

A horse and carriage belonging to Finance
Commissioner John M. Jones was standing
in front of No. 504 Grand street yesterday
afternoon, when a runaway team of horses
attached to a heavy truck belonging to f..
Ruhlmann 81 Co. of $50 Avenue d, Bayonne,
smashed into the carriage and damaged 1t to
tbe amount of $40. The driver o. the truck,
William Zillmann of Nos. 10 and II West
twentieth street, Bayonne, agreed to pay
for the damage and gave Mr.. Jones his
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-07-24
MOoREs BID HIGHEST.

Receiver John V. Bacot of the insolvent
Newark Brass Company Of Grove street.
this city, at 1901 today opened the rival
bids for the tangible assets Of the company.
The bidders were Mr.. Andrew Moore, repre-
sentine Mr., Clark OF Newark aud Messrs.
Keveney and Clark of Brooklyn. Mooreas
hid was s3. 800 and Keveney's So, OPS, The
former therefore takes the p property.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-07-24
DRUNKEN MANS DIVE TO DEATH

Boston, July "a, 1S94.-Charles johnson,
q Swede and member of the crew of the
steamer Stockholm City Of the Furness
Line, now lying at Hoosac Tunnel Dock,
went to Crescent Beach, Revere, yesterday
afternoon. with two companions, and went
in swimming. johnson, who was under the
influence of liquor, climbed upon a water to-
boggan slide and dived into about two feet
of water, from a height nearly - feet He
struck on his head on some piling, fraetaring
his skull and died soon after.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-07-24
ITALIANS, STRIKE ENDED.

MOUNT VERNON, N. ", July "a, 1884,
The Italian railroad laborers' strike here is
ended and the strikers have returned to
work on a compromise scale of wages. The
affray between a striker and a non-striker
occurred late last night and the striker got
the worst of the fight. Both men were ar
rested. rN
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-07-24
RECEIVED INToTER ROMAN CHURCH

MONTREAL, Quebec, July "a. 1s94,-The
Rev. Mr.. Strickland and the Rev. Mr..
johnson, who severed their connection with
the Church Of England at Fredericton, N.
B a few weeks ago, were last evening re-
ceived into the Roman Catholic Church by
Archbishop Fabre.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-07-24
WHEN CHECKS GAME IN.

The check cannot be proved to have exist
ed in the commercial transactions of Europe
outside Of Italy, until late IN the Seventeenth
or early in the Eighteenth Century. In
England they were not used until about
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-07-24
BABYLoNIAN TABLETS.

Babylonian tablets which have just reached
the British Museum prove that faith in one
God existed in chat par5 Of the world 5000
years before Christ.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-07-24
TUESDAY. JULY "a. 1894.

This paper is Democratic an principles
and is Independent in its uie,us on all local
questions.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-07-24
Sure Check.

az don't believe that horrld Miss Bolton would
stop az auyfhfug.. Bob-.Dfd you ever try her with
i SOFA fountain" -caicaso Inter Ocean.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-07-24

The Provident Institution for Saw
ingS, in Jersey City.
JERSEY Cry, n. j., July, 1s. 1894.

JERSEY CRY, n. j, July 16, 1894
The Board of Managers have this day declared thu
IOIst SFlFE-ANNUAL DIVIDEND.
payable on and after Monday. July Esd inst, at the
following rate
On sums of $500 and over, and not exceeding
$1,000, at the rate of 4 per cent. pepannum; on tbs
excess above $1,000 and not exceeding $500, at the
rate of S per cent. per annum. anu on the excess
above 5000. at the rate of 2 per cent. per! annum
Dividends not drawn are added to principal and
take interest from July l. 1894.
/. \. SMITH, President
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-07-24
MONEY TO LOAN ON HOUSEHOLD
FURNITURE, PIANOS

NOTICE IS Hereby GIVEN THArfTHE ANNUAL
Driver Publishing Company will be held at the of1ce
of the company, in the Daily News Building, No. 81
Washington street. Jersey City, on Thursday, the
18th day Of July. 1924. at 4 o'clock in the afternoon OF
that day, for the election of q Board of Directors.
and for all other business that may properly come
before the meeting
The transfer books will be closed fer this purpose
at the close of business on the 5th iust- and will b0
opened on the morning of the 9th inst.
Dated July 9Th, 1884,
SAMUEL ALT TAYLOR. JR.
Secretary and treasurer.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-07-24
E. ". KIyesLANp. vreasnrer,
NoTIcE TO

Estate of FELIX S. Brown, deceased, Clara e
Brown. administratriX of Felix s. Brown. deceased,
by order of the Surrogate of HUDSON County, dated
June Is. 1884. hereby gives notice, to the creditors of
said decedent to bring in their debts, demands aud
claims against the estate of said decedent. under
oath or affirmation within nine month from the
date of said order, or they will be forever barred OF
any action therefor against said admins tratrix.
CLARA e. BROWN
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-07-24

Sarah r. walham TO Carl L. Lade on lots /, 2 and
8. block %. north side of First street, IS feet east of
Monroe street, and also in yartS of lots Is, 81, 81, SO
and 81, north side OF First street, Hoboken. for
S1,5C0.
ing and Loan Association on land and premises
southeast side of Vetterlein place. lot ~. Tor $1,000.
premises northeast side of Railroad avenue, $50 feet
northeast of West Twenty-seeond street, Bayonne
for c6m
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-07-24

r losT-IN HAMILTON PARK, Or NEAR THERE. A
II small black and tan dog; answers to name OF
Ponto. Had on a leather collar with tag numbered
De literally rewarded.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1894-04-04
1T WAS TOO TRUE.
Fredericks' Scheme to
Make His Escape.
Indignation at Police Headquarters
Prison Officials Try to Ridi-
cuIe the Story.

There was considers able indignation at police
headquarters yesterday morning when the
story OF the foolhardy attempt OF the murderer,
William Frederlcks, to make his escape from
the City Prison was read In THE CALL.
1t was not anticipated that the matter would
leak out, as the utmost secrecy had been en-
joined upon the prison officials to prevent It's
being made public.
Now the prison. eeper, Captain Stone. tries
to ridicuIe the story by saying that ''if Freder-
icks had kicked the entire wooden partition
down he would be no nearer freedom than be-
fore, as he would be confronted by steel bars"
True, but the captain Overlooks the fact that
the two boys In the adjoining cell were to pre-
Ter some request a the opportune time SO that
the door OF their cell would be opened, and In
stead OF Fredericks being confronted by steel
bars he would have been confronted by an open
celldo0r
What made the captain institute such a close
search OF Fredericks' cell after Eva Evans had
tasen her departure and what dld he nnd De-
sides the holes In the partition. which satlsned
him that the murderer had planned to attempt
his escape?
If he did not believe that Fredericks had so
planned. why did he make a report TO his SUI
perior officer to that effect which was promptly
followed d by Frederieks removal TO the steei
were TO be Issued to any one TO see FredericKs,
with the single exception Of his attorney ana
to show that this order is being strictly obeyed
when DIR. Pischl, the oculist. who had been en-
gagged by DIR. SOmers of the Receiving Hospital
to attend to fredericks' injured eye. called at
the City Prison yesterday aft rnoon he was re-
fused permission TO see Fredericks and the
refusal WAS repeated at police headquarters.
The fact OF the matter is that the story Is too
true, aud nobody knows 1t better than the
pris0n-keeper.
When similar attempt on the part of a gang
OF burglars was disc0vr red In time In Noyem-
Der last shortly after the removal OF police
headquarters to The new City Hall, and IL was
published in the papers. the same desire to cast
rldlcule upon the story was evlnceo by the
prison officials. Buflit was true, and immed-
ately thereafter a heavy wooden door with
sliding hole In the center was placed In the
small open space leading from the corridor TO
the prison proper. And every night since then
this door has been locked at midnight the pris-
oners In their cells being on one side and the
desk sergeant and dnorkeeper on The other.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1894-04-04
NEWTON'S METHODS.
His Crooked Work Coming to
Light.

The police do not know exactly whether
they have a SIN Doth confidence man in their
custody or "hobo." as The expression goes,
in the person Of John Newton. alias D. Casper
He represented himself as a man OF wealth
from Elko, New, in his recent operations, VIC
timizing clerks and business men.
One victim was l.. Ellwood. a young drug
gist In the employ of G. c. Higgins, whose
place of business Is on Montgomery street, near
Clay.
Newton feigned sickness. and asked Mr..
Higgins TO give him something to relieve him.
He thus got acquainted, and hired L. ElwoOd,
the druggists clerk, to go 10 Nevada trying TO
borrow $40 in coin from him and inducing him
TO purchase about $50 worth OF clothing TO no
purpose.
Max Laude Is another sufferer and the one
He is clerk for Charles Levy OF ZIG Kearny
street. Max was employed to go TO Newton's
cattle range on the strength of which he bor-
rowed $50 10 pay the fare of his new employe.
On the second day the dry-goods clerk became
suspicious ana reported the matter to the
police, which resulted in the arrest OF the Elko
man.
1t was thereupon learned that he had ordered
large bills of goods from Lacbman g. jacob, the
wine men, Tillman & Bendel and several others,
TO be sent TO ID. Casper, who is In reality Dusi-
ness man OF Elko ia good standing.
Already no less than seven young men, who
were working for small wages, were Induced to
part with 500 each on the promise OF better
situations. His last act seems to have been The
passing of forged check on q Second-strcet
grocer to the amount of $50
Newton has been living at 613 Folsom street
with woman whom he claims ID his wife. and
is said to be a shOefitter.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1894-04-04
EFFORTS AT CONCEALMENT
Influential Relatives in the Conn
pany Interfere.
A BRIDEGROOM OF FOUR WEEKS
The Agent at Palo Alto Mixed Up
With Forged Signature and
the Missing Money.

The Southern Pacific Company has beer
remarkably fortunate for some time pas
in escaping the plunderngs of dishones
employees to which all great corporation,
are more or less subjected. The case O.
the two young men who manipulated
tickets. which came to light a few day,
ago, was the first in quite while. but nov
another Instance of money going astray
has come to the surface. althoug the in
vestgaton is proceeding In remarkably
guarded manner.
George b. Robinson. the agent in Pal(
Alto. is one of the parties implicated in the
affair, and Messenger Trevs. with the
Wells-Fargo Company, is the other.
In order that the matter may be thor.
oughly understood short explanation is
here necessary of the methods pursued in
handling the receipts of the railroad com.
pany.
Each agent of the Southern Pacific is
pro vlded with book in which he enters
the amount of money forwarded 10 the
company each day, and the agent signs the
book opposite the statement of the amount,
the consignee and consignor, this book
being held by the agent as a receipt.
A week ago yesterday Mr.. Robinson
had S370 Of the company's money in his
possession. He says, it is claimed, that he
gave the money to Messenger Trevis to
bring to this city, and exhibits the receipt
book with the name of that gentleman OPP
posite the amount stated. That is as far
as Mr.. Robinson's story goes.
On the other hand Mr.. Trevis says, so Ii
is reported, that he not only never received
the money but that the signature is the
rankest kind of q forgery, and that be
proposes to prosecute the man who perpe-
trated it to the full extent of the law.
When the officials of the railroad and
express companies discovered the loss an
investigation was at once set on foot, but
what the results OF it were can only be
surmlsed from subsequent developments.
Last Saturday and Monday Mr.. Trevis
was not on his accustomed runs" while
Mr.. Robinson still continued to attend to
the duties of agent at Palo Alto. Yester-
day, however, matters had assumed q
different phase, and Mr.. Trevis was once
more back on the road. while Mr.. Robin
sons duties were being performed by an
other party.
A painful feature about the case is that
Robinson married a young lady of Bel
mont about four weeks ago who was among
that towns brightest social ornaments.
He is also possessed of powerful friends,
who will doubtless do all that can be done
to hush the matter up. Three of them, al
least. are holding prominent positions In
the Southern Pacific Company. and to that
fact may probably be attributed the secrecy
with which the case is surrounded.
Robinson is said 10 have hitherto borne
an unblemished reputation. and it may be
that he will be able to satisfactorily ex-
plain away the features Of the case which,
it is said, at present reflect severely upon
hi