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The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-06-12
MR.. STBRLING'S REVENGE
Has Brought a Suit Of SANDER
Against a Trustee of
Trinity Church.

The un-pleasantness existing between Mr..
Samuel Sterling and the Board of Trustees
of Trinity Methodist Church, which resulted
in Mr.. Sterling leaving the church, in which
he has been for so many years a prominent
member, has at last eliminated in a suit for
SANDER brought by him against the presi-
dent of the Board of Trustees, Mr.. VIM. N.
Hall.
Mr.. Sterling charges Mr.. Hal with ma
liciously saying untrue things about him,
and proposes to make that gentleman dis
gorge S., 900 to heal up his injured reputa-
ton. A summons to that effect is lying in
the Sheriff's office, and the case will be set
down before the Circuit Court at IN early
date.
The immediate cause for the suit arose out
of certain remarks made at the last meeting
OF the Board of Trustees, when Mr.. Sterling's
successor as lay representative to the Gen
eral Conference was chosen.
On that occasion Mr.. Hall, so Mr.. Sterling
alleges, said that Mr.. Sterling, who has acted
for twenty-three years as one of the stewards
of the Methodist Conference, was unfit to
hold such a position. 1t is also charged that
the criticisms levelled at Mr.. Sterling as a
lay official of the church seriously refeet on
his character.
AS Sir Peter Teazle puts it, 'some damned
coed natured FRIEND told Mr.. Sterling what
Mr.. Hall had said about him, and the latter
at once set about bringing Mr.. Hall to time:
Mr.. Hall has a large number OF members OF
Trinity who for one reason and another en-
terrain a dislike to Mr.. Sterling. and these
he proposes to drag into the trial,
and their evidence, it is said, will
develop some interesting skeletons locked
up in a cupboard in Trinity Church. On
the other hand Mr.. Sterling. conscious that
his official and private life can stand any
scrutiny. means to punish his viifiers as
vigorously as the law will permit. 1t means
guerra oil cuchilLo.
When a NEWS reporter spoke to Mr..
Sterling's counsel, Mr.. Jarvis Norris Atkin-
son, about the impending suit, that gentle
man would neither deny nor confirm the re-
port, but there is the summons in the Sher-
iff's Office which establishes the foregoing
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The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-06-12
ROBBED AND MURDERED.
LifeIess Body of a Man Found in
New York To-day.

New York To-day.
New YORK, June IL, 1s94.-Michael An
gelo Maniere died on the sidewalk in front of
the Verona flats, No. 1851 Lexington avenue,
at two o'clock this morning. There was
every evidence that the man had been
robbed. His silver watch was missing and
his pockets had been taken inside out. The
only article left on him was a postal card
addressed to ''Michael Angelo Maniere." and
this served to identify him,
1t was learned by the police that Manlere
was led to the place where he died by W.
men, who braced him against the lowest step
of the Verona flats and were then seen to
rifle his pockets by a woman who watched
them from a house on the opposite side OF
the street. The police of the East One Hun
dred and Fourth street station are now
searching for these men.
The robbery of Maniere is much more ap-
parent than is the cause of his death. There
were no marks of violence discovered on his
body 1t is possible that Maniere was given
an overdose of some sort of knockout"
drink, but the police are not inclined to this
opinion. They regard the mans death as
nothing out of the commo
An investigation shows that Maniere
worked for Rocco Verrille, a saloonkeeper
and banker, at No. 1913 Hester street. He
was a bachelor, honest, sober and thrifty,
and had been in this country eleven years.
He left the store at twoso'clock, yesterday.
After that nothing is as yet known Of his
movements.
The men who left him almost dead on the
stoop were evidently English. The police
are searching for them.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-06-12
JERSEY GIRLS SHOULD OBJECT.
Trouble A New Marriage Law Will
Cause Them If Signed.

The bill introduced in the Legislature by
William J. Thompson. and known as ''As-
sembly No. 1854, " is attracting considerable
attention among the clergy. 1t passed both
houses and is in Governor Werts' hands, but
has not yet been signed by him, and many
clergy are anxious that he should not do so.
The act says:-.That from n after the
passage of this act no marriage shall be
solemnized or contracted between persons,
either one or both of whom are non-residents
of this State, until a license shall lave been
obtained from the County Clerk of the
county where the marriage is performed"
It is contended by some that this will pre-
vent foreign lovers from popping the CUES
ton to New Jersey sw~eethearts. II asking
and consenting to a marriage by a young
couple is. they assert, the only marriage con-
tract known to New Jersey law. This view,
it il said, is endorsed by good lawyers, and
will be urged upon the Governor, with the
result, perhaps. that it will be vetoed.
1t might be rather a hardship for an ar
dent swain, under this view of the law, to
have to pay 81 for a license before he could
pop the momentous question and run the
risk of a refusal.
The law also provides that in case any of
the persons intending to marry by virtue of
such license shall be under twenty-one years
of age, the consent of their parents or
guardians shall be personally given before
said clerk, or certified under the hand of
such parent or guardian.
This is another stroke at Jersey girls inter
marrying with outsiders. A Jersey girl can
| marry whom she pleases at the age OF
eighteen years, either with or without par
ents' or guardians consent, provided she
unites with a Jerseyman; but to marry a
man from another State she must wait until
she is twenty-one or secure the consent OF
parents and guardians as quoted.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-06-12
MOSQUITO s?INGS.
Interesting Correspondence as
to the PPoteetofate at
Bluefelds.

WASHINGTON, June IL, 1894.-Diplomatlc
correspondence, made public today, throws
a new light ON the Mosquito dispute, and
Shows very clearly that England does not
consent to the Monroe doctrine. 1t appears
that Nicaragua increased the port charges
at Bluefields nearly a year ago, in pursuance
of a policy adopted early in 1889, when the
N~iearaguan Government notified Great
Britain that it intended to assert sovereign
rights in the Mosquito territory. expecting
the vigorous and powerful support OF the
United States, which it had on former occa-
sionse 4
The Ni-caraguans, in notifying Great
Britain that the English protectorate over
the Mosquito Indians could no longer be
recognized and that Nicaraguas long con-
ceded sovereignty must be given a practical
meaning, presented the contention that the
I MOSQUITO territory was filing up with I'M
desirable immigrants, who were unable to
look to proper authorities for protection,
and that In the interests of aw and order
Nicaragua must assert her rights.
ment, with great firmness, notified
Nicaragua that the English protectorate
would be maintained. that Nicaraguan inter
ference would not be permitted, and the
Mosquito government would enact Its own
laws and enforce them without reference to
nicaragua unCil, rs Stiputhbou " shO -
tration following the Clayton-Bulwer treaty,
MOSQUITO consented to complete incorpora-
ton into the republic of Nicaragua.
In February of last year President harrl-
sons administration notified Great Britain
that for the settlement of international qnes-
lions affecting the port of Nicaragua IRE
ferring to Bluefeldsl the government OF the
United States must. look to Nicaragua alone.
In this despatch to Minister Lincoln on
the subject, Secretary Foster very
positively asserted the full sover-
eighty of Nicaragua, claiming that the
| rights accorded the Mosquito Indians by the
arbitral award of the Austrian Emperor re-
lated simply to tribal customs and not to the
alien settlement at Bluefields. which was
self-administered, internationally lrrespon-
sible. Withdrawn from the tribal regiment
Of the Indians opposed to Niearaguan CON
troll and prone to invoke British lnterven-
ton, which would not be permitted.
AT this point, which Immediately preceded
the Nicaraguan occupancy of Bluefields, the
correspondence ends. ~
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-06-12
EXCELLENT ENTERTAINMENT

Given at St. Matthew's on Sussex
STREET.-THE be Repeated Tonight.
An excellent musical and dramatic enter
tainment was given last evening at ST.
Matthew's Sunday School room, Sussex
street. The performers were members OF
st. Pauls Sunday School Of Trinity parish,
New York. The attendance was large, n
the several numbers were enthusiastically
~applauded. The performance began with
the tragic ~cantata THE G~rasshoppers," Gne
principal characters being portrayed by Miss
Sophie D~elonquilleon, Miss Emma NllilanS
and Mr.. Walter Grafton, assisted by the
Misses Adams, Allen, Ashmore, Becker,
Bischoff, Close, Critchiey, Horton. Kronke,
Mielken, Nevada, Pladwell, Pool, Richmond,
White and Wilson. A fan drill was cleyerly
executed by the Misses Mabel Allen, Lime
Close, Hilda Colbert, Ella Henry, Mamie
Kellett, Maud Pierson, Nellie Pierson, Emma
Peters, Cessna Rodenburg, Lizzie Stulken,
Sadie Weir and Annie Weir. The news.
boys chorus was one OF the h1ts OF
the evening. 1t was sung by Mas
tiers Edwin Bender, Carl Carlson, John
Cudmore, Henry Close, Henry FTleze,
Charles Hartung, Charles Hopper, William
Mergenthaler. Harry Motzen, George Ne
vada, Nicholas Niehmeyer, Philip Ochse-
meter, Chester Pladwell, Fred Strauss, Fred
Thompson and James Tully. The entertain
ment was brought to a close with the inter
esting .cantata, "Babes in the Wood" This
was most excellently rendered, and reflected
great credit on all the participants, who
were Messrs3 Walter Grafton, Joseph PLAID
| well, Henry Brunjes, Charles Richmond,
William Lawton, George Noethling, George
Hartung, Arthur Kemp, Owen Obrien,
William Raiman, Henry Brunjes. Charles
Lamake, Robert Morrow, Joseph PladWell,
William Richmond and William Schweiser.
The entertainment will be repeated tonight.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-06-12
GOSSIP.

E|- II
The second annual picnic of the Greenville Elm,
tracht, one of TIT most prominent German social
ORGANIZATIONS of the Celery district, was held, yes
terday afternoon and evening. at gantner's Passaic
Garden, on McAdoo avenue. The park waScf0wded
and the affair was q marked success. The feature
of the evening was D prize waltz contest. which was
won by Miss Emily Seeburger Of McAdoos avenue.
Her partner was Mr.. Abraham, Collins. Miss See
burger will Che allowed to select any hat In any
millinery store in GreenviIle as "a prize. Mr.. George
Deeg was Floor Manager. He was assisted by Viii
liam Merz and Anton Miller and the following COM
mittee:-Anton Zeeb, Louis Geislef. George Gantner.
Louis Mang and Jacob Birneti. The Reception
Committee consisted Of Konfad Giaun. Chairman.
Leonard Deeg aud Anton Weller.
The regular meeting of the Minkakwa Club was
held, last evening. but little business was trans
acted. The members, nud the weather too wsrm 70
experiencing with the new rival. the Greenyihe
League Republican Club of the West Side. A letter
was received from Mayor Wanser. in which the
Mayor thanked the club FOR the resolutions endefs-
Ing his Appointments to the Street and Water
Board. which were passed at the last meeting After
tho meeting tho doors and windows were Thrown
wide open to allow the hot air to escape and the
eucirc7 fends7 played q number 81 games. NJ:
Charles ltsrker and Major Armstrong deseated
Joseph Fiioraino and The" Sraith.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-06-12
WOMEN o%ANNoTbVoTE
Decision Given, Yesterday, by
Chief Justice EseasIeY.
Special to the Jersey city Ne,cs.

Special to the JERSEY CGtB NetCS.
TRENTON, June u, 1894.-Chief Justice
Beasley gave an opinion, yesterday, in
which he declares it the sense of the Su-
preme Court of New Jersey hat women can
general one and while it applies to all at
tempts of women exercising rights Of fran
,chise under statutory provisions, it is a de-
ton of Road Commissioner in Bergen
county. 1t Is a cause celebre, and several
prominent attorneys figure in the case. The
suit was brought in the nature of a quo Wdf-
ranto by Owen Allison, the ~relator, against
Blake, who is the Road Commissioner, and
whose title to that Office is contested. He
was elected in the First district of Engle-
wood under an act passed in 1893, providing
for the building and supervision of roads in
townships The contest is made because at
the general town meeting the chairman OF
the assembly ruled that under the statute all
persons of full age, whether men or women,
who reside and own property IN the town.
ship in said district hould be permitted to
vote and all other persons be excluded from
voting, and because women did vote and by
these votes of the fair sex Commissioner
Blake was placed into power.
The Chief Justice says the question hinges
on whether the Legislature has the power to
raise in a special class OF persons the right
to fill offices with which the majority is con-
cerned.
The State Constitution provides shat
every male citizen of the United States of
the age of twenty-one, who has been a resi-
dent of this State one year, and of the
county in which be claims his vote five
months, next before election, shall be en-
titled to vote for all officers that may here
after be elected by the people"
The Chief Justice holds that there IS
no going back of that language and that
all persons who are within the class
designated by this clause of the Constitution
are entitled to vote for all officers elected by
the people, whether the offices to be filled are
created by the Constitution or by the Legis-
lature. Such class of voters cannot be
diminished or enlarged by the Legislature,
or any statutory act. Consequently no
statute can confine the right to vote for
Road Commissioners to the Freeholders of
the district, nor extend it TO females or to
non-residents of the district.
Ia Under this Interpretation of the c~onsttu-
tional right of men and the non-constitu
tional right of women to vote, the elections
for school trustees and in other municipal
matters, which nave been held from time to
time in various parts of New Jersey, are UNI
constitutional, and the net value of this
ruling of the Chief Justice is, that women
cannot vote for anything in New Jersey,
whether it appertains to local or State gov
eminent, q and the Legislature, under the
present Constitution, cannot enact any laws
Of any kind that will give women the right
of suffrage.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-06-12
The Budget and the Tax Rate.

In our news columns will be found
today an article casting the financial
horoscope of Jersey City for the next
succeeding fiscal year. The showing
is one to make every citizen and tax
payer feel the warnest satisfaction.
This is the time of the year when
the tax payer begins guessing. He
wonders what Providence and the
municipal authorities have in store for
him. The Board of Finance is
already considering the budget. and
Tax Commissioners are on their pere-
CARNATIONS about the city sizipg up
lots and estimating buildings and
angling in the deep waters of Lethe
for unassessed personally. The other
boards and departments are all max
ing up their estimates. and the grand
puzzle is how to make iailthe elements
combine into a ~perrcsntage not higher
than that of last year, at the worst.
At such a time, any light that can be
thrown upon the prospect will be well
come to the citizens, who in the long
rnn have to foot the bill.
Well, the information that the re-
uorters of THE NEWS have collected
is of a very satisfactory sort. In the
first place, we have an absolute
guarantee that the tax rate will not
be higher than that OF last year.
There is good reason to hope that it
will be lower. II it is not lower, IL
will only be because a great NUM-
cipal improvement is contemplated.
This city has for years needed a fully
organized Fire Department. The
present ssbuffalo" system is a relic OF
a bygone age. Only the embarrassed
state OF our treasury has justified the
postponement of the Improvement
for so many years. Now. the situa-
ton is tliis:-If the Board Of Finance
a make the necessary appropriation
of $50. 900 without increasing the tax
rate. the uniformed force Will De
established. otherwise it will have
to go over for another year, and there
may be q small reduction in the rate.
In their work this year, II a
Commissioners are hampered by the
heavy Withdrawals of real estate from
the local lovy. The railroads year
after year encroach still more on the
territory of Jersey City and make the
burden of the taxpayers heavier. Fol
the continuance Of this state OF things,
we have the Republican party to
blame. The Democratic platform
called for legislation TO remedy this
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The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-06-12
REV. DIR. A AHEAD.

BosToN, June 12s ls94.-The5 trouble be-
tween the Rev. DIR. Brady, who1 came here
recently from NswiJersey, and the trustees
OF the Peoples Church, seems in q fair way
of settlement. ,Atlast evenings mesting of
the trustees, it is understood that three of
the five trustees handed their designations to
the Secretary, to be presented to the quar-
terly conference. which will meet Thursday.
The treasurer, who is one of the remaining
two trustees. also handed in his resignation.
This was not all, for the ~janitor, whose com
resigned, thus leaving DR.. Brady master Of
the situation. According to the latter's
statement:-s.The Peoples Church hence
forth will be q church Of the people. Hence
forth it will be administered in tie interest
OF the people of Boston"
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-06-12
oo-RNELL-DAUNPLEss RACE.

ITHACA, N. Y, June IL, 1s94.-It has been
definitely decided that the Cornell Freshman
crew shall row the Dauntless crew of New
York City, June 10, on Lake Cayuga, Ithaca.
Cornell has a very fine Freshman crew, in
fact has really claim to the intercollegiate
Freshman crew championship in 1856, having
defeated the Yale crew at New London.
Since then Yale has refused to row, and
Cornell has had to be content to row against
Columbia, defeating them easily each time.
This year Columbia joins Yale and Harvard
in refusing to row the Cornell Freshman
crew. This practically freezes Cornell out
of a race with any college Freshman crew,
and made it necessary to secure q race with
some amateur crew. The Dauntless people
kindly consented to come to Ithaca, other
wise the crew would have to have been dis
banded. Hysp ar
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-06-12
The Hawaiian Situation.

As all cool heads not led away by
jingoism foresaw, history is very
speedily indicating President Cleve-
lands position upon the Hawaiian
question. The extraordinary capers
of the so-called republican govern
ment of the Islands are the best proof
of his wisdom, while they overwhelm
with ridicule the blatant, spreadeagle
humbugs of the Boutelle stripe.
As a phenomenon of republicanisIn,
as a development of popular govern
ment the present Constitutional Con-
vention is a spectacle for gods and
men. This body consists of eighteen
elected and nineteen ex-officio mem
bers. The e~x-ofieio gentlemen are
the chiefs of the ProyisionalGovern
ment. 1t was very republican, in
deed, you see, TO allow the people to
elect a minority of the Convention
when the conspirators who overthrow
Queen Liliuokalani had all the rest.
But there is another neat joker in
this election business. In the last
preceding election in Hawaii some
thing like 159, 900 votes were cast. In
the Constitutional Convention cleo
ton the vote cast was 20, 200. All the
natives and Others hostile to the
Thurston olligarehy were neatly de-
prived of the suffrage by a test oath
which the vast majority of male
residents of the Islands would not
take, as it abjured allegiance to the
Queen, who evidently still enjoys the
loyal regard of the vast majority OF
the Hawaiian people.
Tie newspaper reports, which we
read every day, show what the real
spirit of the Thurston-Dol combine
ton is. They have suppressed freedom
of speech and the liberty of the press;
they are curtailing the suffrage SO as
to practically limit it to the English
speaking colony. Their plan is to re-
duee the natives to a sort OF serfdom
aud set themselves up as an aristo-
cratic class owning the country and
all that is in it and ruling its people
for their own pleasure and profit.
And this is the sort of rule that was
established through a cabal in which
an American Minister and probably
an American President were involved;
this is the government that was set up
through the power of American bay
onets and American rifles. This is
the anti-republican and utterly inn
moral power that another American
President urged our people to over
throw in the interest of freedom and
justice, but which continues to have
our eountenance and moral support
through the influence o~ffools, villains
aud demagogues.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-06-12
WHAT CLOUDS ARE.
Scientists studying the Altitudinous
ROdtes of VapOr.


Clouds are simply a form of water made
visible by the cooling of the air which pre-
viously held the water in the form of invisi-
BILE vapor. Every cloud may be regarded as
the top of an invisible warm column or cur
rent thrusting its way into a colder body OF
air.
The comparative altitude of a cloud may
be judged, when there is no time or oppor-
tunity to make exact measurements,
from its form and outline, its shape or
shadow, It's apparent size and move
ment, it's perspective effect, and the
length of time it remains directly,
Illuminated after sunset. By the last method
MIR. Inwards states that some clouds have
been estimated to have been at least ten
miles above the surface of the earth.
The cloud velocities at high attitudes have
been carefully noted at the Blue Hill Obser-
vatory, Mass, q. S., and show, practically,
that at about five miles in height the velo-
cities are three times as fast in summer and
six times in winter as the velocities OF the
currents on the earth's surface. Acknowledges.