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The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-05-28
MINsTRBLs AND DAISIES.
Excellent Musical Entertainment ny
the Pupils of St. Peters school.


The pupils of St. Peters Parochial
School gave an entertainment in the
College Hall last night. The large hall
was crowded, all the seats were filled,
and many people were obliged to stand.
Mr.. j.. B. Ferry was musical director,
and under his care two delightful OPP
erettas were given, 1.-THE Minstrel of
Capri and 1.-THE Rebellion of the
Daisies" "The Minstrel of Capri"
was given first n the overture was
played by the school orchestr7. The
scene of the operetta is the Island CT
Capri at the time of the festival of San
Michele, the patron Saint of the Har-
vest. The story is that of a little min
strel, Moratina, who is singing at the
festival, when two young American
girls, Mary and Kate. who are staying
at the village inn, join the group. The
invite Moratina to come and sing to
their aunt. In the second act the girls
and their aunt are sitting at the inn
when a foreigner. Lady Arabelle Dasher,
enters with, her attendants. Moratina at
that time comes to sing, and Lady Dash
er, who refuses to associate with beg
gars, makes herself very disagreeable to
Mcratina. Queen Margherita, who has
come to be present at the festival, ap-
pears in the third act and requests Nor
atina to sing. After hearing her, the
Queen is SO pleased that she gives her
a ring and promises to take care of
her for the future.
Miss Mary Pagan was a charming
Queen Margherita and acted her part
ME Kenny, who sang very prettily.
Miss Lila Ward caused much amusement
by the excellent manner in which she
portrayed the character of the Lady
Arabelia- Others of the cast were:-Aunt
Phoebe, Miss Annie Flaherty; Mary,
Finneran; Rosetta Qandlady), Mrs. Nata-
lie Bender; Stella (maid), Miss Mary
Sfhe Katydids" was sung by some little
boys and girls from st. Joseph's Home.
The children enraptured the audience
and the song had to be repeated. Little
Two choSuses. 1.-THE Bells" and Excel
sior'' were sung by the vocal classes and
Mr.. Walter Murphy and Miss Lizzie
McKigney sang Going a Moving"
The operetta, The Rebellion of tbs
Daisies was we'll enacted. The daisies
rebel at having to be moved down each
let them live. The cast
King of the Sunflowers, James Rooney;
King of the Daisies. John O'Connor;
Chief of Police, James Butler; Farmer,
Thomas O'Connor; Aesthetic Maiden,
Katie McKenna; Queen of the Sun1owers,
Annie Kenny: Queen of the Daisies,
Mary Spears; Botanist, John Fitzpatrick;
Daisy General, Simon Dolan.
The costumes in both, operettas We're
elaborate and appropriate to the charac-
tiers. The entertainment will be repeat
ed tonight and tomorrow night.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-05-28
AFTER THIRTY YEARS.
A. Veteran Soldier Money
Left with His Father.

HEfciuf jtHC 0GfStU CGB NSuS-
BORDENTOWN, May %, 1S95.-Leyi
Southland of B~ordentown, a veteran of
the late war, has been for the past thirty
years e-ndeavoring to obtain some recog-
hilton in the cur of his claim for
$500 bounty money, which he left in the
hands OF a friend and which afterward
he paid over to his father, Joseph s..
Southland, to buy a property in his W
name. The father bought the property,
but took the deed IN his own name in
stead of his sons. Levi always under
stood that his father was going to re-
transfer the property, but he failed to
do so.
Levi employed different lawyers, who
always accomplished nothing. AS a last
resort he put his case in chancery on a
bill for q declaration of a specific lien
on the land; This, has been granted by
the Chancellor, and the father is ordered
to pay to Levi 81, 100 and costs, or sale
of the land is to be made to satisfy
and pay the amount SO found, $500 and
interest for thirty years.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-05-28
AFTER THE STATE HOUSE NOW.
T@ec,d7fo IA Jcrscy Ctr Ncag

.NccYdyf 10 10 JtfNeU CfIU IVctE5.
TRENTON, May 28, 1S95.-The Mercer
Grand Jury began their investigation of
the matters brought to light by the
Senate Committee yesterday. Billy Let's,
the engineer at the State House; Abe
Swan. who knows something about the
State House 1agpole; Asher Lambert,
who can tell a thing or two about Bar
ney Ford and Samuel Dickinson. were
at the Court House yesterday with sub
poenas in their pockets. Alexander Reil-
ly Of Newark. who was mixed up in
furnishing legislative supplies, was also
in town as the result of a subpoena.
Fritz and DARCY, Hurley's bookkeepers,
have been subpoenaed for today.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-05-28
MEANEsr KIND OF A COWARD.

Jane Higgins of No. 311 Second street
was a prisoner in Justice Potts court
this morning to answer a charge of as
sault upon her husband. From the evi-
dence in the case it would appear that
the husband should nave been the pris-
oner. Last Thursday the woman gave
birth to a babe. Yesterday her husband
quarreled with her and she alleges drove
would harm the child and accordingly
carried it out of the house. deposited
it on the sidewalk and made her escape.
Justice Potts this morning rebuked the
woman's husband and called hin the
meanest kind of a CIR and coward. H
he not pledged himself to treat his wife
we'll in future.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-05-28
BURNED BY BENzINE.
A Little CirI wrapped In Flames by
Exploding Fumes.

Special 10 the JtfSCU LltD WIN.
HADDONFIELD, May %, 1S95.-May
Albertson, the eight-year-old daughter of
Josiah B. Albertson, living en- Cottage
avenue, was badly burned yesterday
morning in a singular nj The
mother Of the child was occupied in
cleaning some plush furniture, using
benzine to destroy moths.
AS the little girl came down stairs in
her night clothes she opened the door
communicating with a room where there
was q fire in the stove. The gas from
the benzine exploded. The flames en-
veloped the child and set her clothes
on fire. Neighbors were attracted by the
noise and hurried into the house and
assisted Mrs. Albertson in e~xtinguishing
the flames and removed the burning
clothes. Mrs. Albertson was slightly
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-05-28
NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS.

Sealed proposals will be received by the
Board of Street and Water Commissioners on
Monday,June II, 1885, at 10 o'clock A-M,for
the building Of a
Steel vIADUCT IN MERCER STREET,
from or about the easterly curb line of Fac
tory street west to about the easterly line
way Of such vtaduct With vitrihed brick
pavement, and the laying of sidewalk thereon,
as granolithlc, and the construction of a
twenty-ineh iron pipe sewer in Mercer street
and running easterly to the point where the
present twenty-inch iron pipe sewer as oullt
ends in Mercer street, such viaduct, pavement.
sewer. ETC., etc, being necessary to the max
way from Merseles street, in lower Jersey
City. through Mercer and Church streets.
the provisions owl ms of 9 Chapter aia 2ss Of the Laws Of
1895, and in accordance with specifications on
ne Blank an th for pnaee Of q bi {he ana Slea agre es sa1f Of 10a sure
ties must be obtained at the office of the
Chief Engineer, corner of Jersey avenue and
EsTfMATE OF QUANTITIES.
About 300 IS pf feet f. M. of yellow pine.
About 100 lbs. Of bolts AID spikes.
About $50 iineal feet of viaduct.
About $500 square yards Of brick paving.
About Is s COO SQUARE feet Of Stone tom tagging las
About 1900 square feet of granolithic style.
About % cubic yards of concrete.
About A pieces Of coping, each 3 feet .
inches x 8 feet 6 inches x u inches.
About A pieces of coping, each 2 feet y
inches X 2 feet 6 inches x u inches.
The party to whom the contract may be
awarded will be allowed three G) months
for the iron work complete; and one q month
for paving thereafter, making four 4D months
in all in which to complete the contract
The making of the above Improvement and
award of the contract therefor will be sub
ject to the remonstrance of the owners OF
the property liable to more than one-half the
assessment therefor on the basis Of prelimi-
nary sketch.
Proposals must be enclosed in sealed en-
velopes, endorsed Proposals for Viaduct. etc.,
Kaiser. Esq. Chairman of Committee on
of the Board in open meeting when called
for in the order of business relating to sealed
proposals.
No city official will be accepted as surety
nor will a substitution of sureties be allowed.
The Board may, under the law above quoted,
exercise its right to reject any or all pro-
posals.
The attention of bidders is especially called
to Section Z, Chapter 1874 of the Laws of 1891.
under the terms whereof no contract shall
be binding upon the city or become effective
or operative until the bondsmen offered by
the contractor have been approved as to
the Corporation Counsel, the President or
this Board having power to examine the pro-
posed bondsmen under oath.
BY order of the Board of Street and Water
Commissioners.
CLERK.
Dated Jersey City, May 2s. 1895.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-05-28
A FORTUNE AT STAKE
Mrs. Gertrude Knold Hopes TO Save
Her Inlleritancc by Divorce.

Spec III % TIC JcTsfU NNn Aclfs.
VINELAND, May %, 1S95.-Mrs. Ger
rude Knold has Instituted a suit for
divorce against her husband, John Knold.
otherwise known as Jack Nigrthawk, by
whom it is alleged she was deserted
after being legally married some years
age. The suit promises to be interesting
The story is that Knold married a
prospective heiress, but tired of waiting
for her rich relative to die and decamp-
ed. For the past two years he has been
travelling through the country as a
fakir with Annie Nighthawk. who passed
as his wife and is named as correspond
ent. Recently Mrs. Knold came into
possession of the expected fortune and
now sues to be legally separated from
her husband. h latter will oppose a
dju0rnp
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-05-28

pense of from a hundred to a hun
dred and twenty-five dollars 9
week. If it is to live. it must base its
advertising rates. not on 1.-The cost Cd
setting up its type, but upon such sort
of publicity as it affords its patrons.
So much for the general theory of ad-
vertising rates. The only question re-
manning is whether the State is entitled
to a present of the papers circulations.
Mr.. Voorhees, blandly proposes to fur
nish to each paper as nan sheets as 1t
may desire. Papers run by business
men n not by idiots would desire
Just none at all, unless the State paid
full advertising rates for their circuia-
ton. So far as papers like THE Jer-
sey City News" the Evening Journal,"
the Newark News" the Newark "Ad-
yertiser,. the state Gazette and TRUE
American" the principal Peterson pa
pers and other sheets of real standing
and influence are concerned, the furnish
ing of sheets by the State would cut no
figure in setting the price at which 1t
would pay them TO give h publicity al
by their circulation to the laws.
the furnishing of the sheets
would create a hopeless mechanical difh-
entity Take the case of the Newark
evening News" with it's thirty-five
circulation; it is obvious that
IL would be impossible for it to insert
the States sheets in such an edition. 1t
could not get out one days papers IN a
week. and no newsdealers could be got
TO handle it.
AS a matter of fact, the law are
about the lowest paid grade of adver-
Using that goes into n prominent
in the State, save ana ex-
cept long time contracts. The laws OF
his year made, roughly, about A5,ooo
of ''The Jersey City News.
The amount paid for them is
about 1900. This is about three cents a
line. and there is no other advertiser,
save and except the State, who can get
into these columns at anything liz that.
rate. 1t is fair to remember, too, that
t costs every of any stand
from $500 to $1,000 to report each
session of the Legislature. This is done
for the public
But must live, and If the
State wants the commodity which they
by selling, it is hardly square fer
It to attempt to ~out-Shylock shylock in
dealing with them.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-05-28
ACCIDENT AT THE REHEARSAL
The Pretty Girl Said oh Charley ;.
and Five Fell to the Groul

A rehearsal for the "Allegory of the
Great Republic was held at the Home
for the Homeless last night and in one
of the lulls between the part rehearsals
two young men and three young women
were cooling themselves on the piazza.
n of the three young ladies' was stand
ing and the other four of the party
were sitting on the railing of the piazza:
Something one of the young. men said
evidently displeased the standing young
him a slight push, but a push hard
enough to brsa k down the rotten rail-
ing and send the five TO the grass below.
All escaped uninjured except the cause
of the mischief. who received slight in
juries upon the back n head.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-05-28
The Publ,casion ofthe Laws.

There is one feature of the report, how
ever. as the Trenton correspondents give
It out, which is at once absurd and UNI
Just. This is the part which refers to
the publication of the laws in the news
papers. AS the Newark Evening News"
outlines this, 1T as follows
As to the promulgation of the laws the
q ecfded to recommend the abolition of the
present system of printing them in the
>qq~ewspapsrs and %fayorins the Connection
newspaper form by contract. and have
he edition large enough to supply each
pd eo eyer sny nnmber Of n sheets fne S. desired aIee
This proceeds on the comical assump-
zion that the circulation of newspapers
Is of no value. It assumes that news
paper proprietcrs are in business a. a
matter of public accommodation and are
willing: to make the State a present Of
the commodity which they sell to .pri-
vate business men at a good stiff price.
1t is certainly a mystery how a man
of ordinary common sense-we beg par
don, a mar of distinguished parts, like
Mr.. Foster M. Voorhees,, can coolly pro-
pose that the should circu-
late the laws for the State free, gratis,
for nothing" as Sam'i of Posen says.
When.a accepts an adver-
tissng order-say when THE News or
the Evening Journal takes ar order
from Mr.. Sampler of this city for such
an advertisement as that which appears
On our frst page today, the cost OF set
ting that advertisement w is not an ele-
rnent In the calculation of its cost. The
paper never represents It, and the bust
ness man never thinks of jt.sasgThe pub
1icfty gained is what the Business man
buys and pays for. Publicity is what
have to sell, and the sale
u 1t Is what they live on. If their rates
were based upon the cost Of setting up
the matter in them, they would starve
to death. Let US ekemplfy with a case
little farther from home. The cost
81 setting up a line Of advertisement
Ia the Herald" or World" is approx
mately one-tenth of a cent. since the
introduction of the type-setting ma
chimes, That line is sold to the adver-
tfser at from twenty-five cents to a
dollar. Nobody thinks Of complaining,
Tor 1t II not the mere type or impression
that IL sold. 1t is the vast circulation
Of these papers. Everyone knows that
they could not live on prices based en-
the cost OF composition. The weekly
Composing Room Bill Of the Herald"
81 .worldy is perhaps from 5000 to
t4.0W. The total expenses Of either
bspsx u up 70 s1s.ooo to 10000.
FhAt applies to these papers on q
sreat scale Is equally { U Of paper
i smaller places. allowing for the diff
fereace ia degree. Aeross-roads HeekIy
With j composing room bill Of forty Or
6fty dpliars II published # : sotai a.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-05-28
FOUND 1T WAS A POLICEMAN.

Chanceman Hennessey of the Fourth
precinct was walking at the end of his
post early this morning when he heard
cries as though someone was in distress,
and upon investigating found Patrolman
Toner Of the same station writhing upon
the ground. He rams for a patrol wagon
and had Toner taken to the City Hospital
where he is now being treated for cole.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-05-28
A VERDICT ALL WILL AGREE UPON
Tho petit Jurnra will Have an Out
ing Next Month.

The petit jurors employed during the
present term of court held a meeting
this morning and arranged to have an
outing on June Is. The following COM
mittee were appointed to complete ar
Simmons. Henry
Post, Louis Forrest, a. r. Clements.
Henry M. Martin. The committee
will report on Monday next. The jury
men also elected these ofacers:-Presi-
dent, John Jurgens: Secretary, S. O..
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-05-28
GOING TO EUROPE.

Mr.. and Mrs. John A. Walker will sail
for Europe on the steamer Paris of the
American line tomorrow. The tour is
will Improve the opportunity to transact
some business. Mr.. and Mrs. Walker will
journey through England and Scotland
and will go as far as Inverness, Scotland.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-05-28
GOOD FISHING AT MANAsQUAN.
Specials to the jersey CYfy Keus.

POINT PLEASANT, May %. 1856
State Riparian Commissioner William 5.
Clarke, who Is an old newspaper q is
the champion bass fisherman at he
M~anasquan Inlet: His prize fish tipped
the scales at Just nineteen pounds and
eight ounces. DR.. r. w. Herbert reeled
Id one next In s-ize-seventeen pounds
b twelve ounces. The surf fishing is
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-05-28
BEAUTIES OF THE POTTS LAW

Robert Burns Of No. 212 Erie street
stole about a ton of coal from Erie Rail
road cars yesterday. This morning JUS
tice Potts fned him 81 and costs of
BY this beautiful arrangement the
city gets the 81, Justice Potts gets IS,
the clerk Of the court. 81, and the COM
gets-left.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-05-28

Sealed proposals. will be received by the
Board Of Street and Water Commissioners on
Monday June II, 1895, at 10 O'CLOCK AM, for
the
The herald., 1895-05-02
Difficulty With Contractors in
San Francisco Settled
MERCHANTS COME TO TIME
They Will Trust the City for Further
Supplies
By Telling to Furnish Any Further Sup.
plies the lien Will Lose What They
Have Already Sent in

SAN FRANCISCO, May 1.-The diff
entity between the contractors for supplies
and the city of San Francisco has been
adjusted and the threatened famine in
the iails, almshouse, hospitals and fire
department has been averted. The con-
tractors have agreed, though with bad
grace, to carry out their contracts and
furnish the city with supplies. The au-
ditor's threat TO refuse to audit their de-
mands for April covering goods already
furnished, has brought them to terms.
Rather than lose what is now due, they
will furnish necessary supplies during
the next fortnight at least. They tried to
make this agreement conditional upon
the auditors pledge to audit their April
accounts. but the auditor refused to bind
himself by promise. He told the con-
tractors that the refusal to furnish any
more supplies was breach of their con-
tracts, and the city could and would hold
the money due them as demands for the
breach of contract, throwing the burden
of suit upon them. The contractors ad-
NIT that they can hardly go into court
of equity with their own broken contract
as the basis of a suit. They will undoubt-
edly continue to furnish supplies until
the end of the civic year in June. but it
is not improbable that the auditor will
withhold their money until the compile
tion of another months contract
The herald., 1895-05-02
GUBERNATORIAL CLEMENCY
Patrick Collins, the Wife Murderer
Reprieved
Rico Murasco Also Stays off the Gailows Until
June-The Governor Explains Why He
Acted in the Latter Case

SACRAMENTO, May /. - Governor
Budd today reprieved Patrick J. Collins.
sentenced to be hanged for killing his
wife in San Francisco on October g., 1893,
and Rico Murasco, also sentenced to be
hanged for killing man near Vacavile
on April 81, 1894. Both men were re-
prieved until June I.
Applications for commutation of SEN
tences had been made in both cases. In
the case of Collins the governor had APP
pointed today as the day on which the
attorneys might endeavor to show him
why he should commute the condemned
man TO life imprisonment. The attor-
neys notified the governor that they did
not have the opportunity to lay the mat
ter before him. and could not have done
so in the time allowed. The governor
states that for these reasons he has
granted the reprieve.
In Murasco's case the governor state
that the condemned man attorneys We're
notified several times that the hearing of
the application for Communication of sen.
tence to life imprisonment had been set
for certain date, and that upon the day
the hearing was to have been held Mu-
rasco's attorneys telegraphed that they
could not be present. They informed the
governor that they had evidence that
would bear upon the question of a re-
duction in the sentence.
The governor notified them to present
to him whatever additional evidence they
have, and this must be done bv the Goth
inst. He stated last night that he has
granted all the delay he is going to in the
case because the testimony for a COM
mutation. as presented to him, was not
sufficient to warrant him in interfering
with the sentence of death.
Murasco was reprieved once before, and
the governor stated that while the reprieve
was granted this time it was with the ex-
pressed understanding that all matters in
connection with the question involved
should be presented and disposed of by
the Goth inst.
The herald., 1895-05-02
THE SECRETARY SPEAKS
Hoke Smith Discusses the Financial
OCeqfion


MACON. Ca, May 1.-Secretary Hoke
Smith of the interior department was in
terviewed here last night on the fnan-
cal question and defined the differences
of opinion on the currency question exist
ing in the country at present. He thought
that in the next twelve months a thor
ough discuss on of the money question
would be presented all over the country.
This discussion would be limited he
thought, to the proposition for the unlim-
tied coinage of silver at ratio of 16 to
1. The secretary divided the people into
three classes-gold monometa!lists, silver
monometalists and bimetallists. He did
not think the god monometall lists were
strong enough to become factor in the
campaign. but that the issue would be
for or against silver monom etallism. He
thought the free and unlimited coinage
of silver at the present ratio would be
nothing more nor less than silver mono
metallism. for it, under that system. the
price of silver bullion was not materially
advanced, no other metal would be pre-
sented for coinage The secretary thought
the agitation of the question was check
ing the return of prosperity. but he hoped
that the plan of the silver men would be
jury. In conclusion Secretary Smith
said:
Il have no doubt that the next presi-
dent of the United States will be opposed
to the unlimited coinage of silver at 16
tn 1 "