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The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-06-05
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ssHlackfA NReta<saD HtitAsmbrd.eiVBark.
The management fsofIetEfatlkTa AfneYaFseesi
the new outdoor show at Ambrose Park.
South Brooklyn, received yesterday q
consignment OF 175 more southern me-
groes, principally from the b~aeixwoods
plaptations of North Carolina These.
added TO the 500 negroes already at Am
bfese Park, considerably enhances the
interest in the entertainment. Some of
them are unique characters n Their way,
and one of them Is supposed to be over
111 years old. Among the features to be
added 10 the entertainment Is a genuine
ttoie VEinny" cake walk, something
quite different from the fancy cake
walks the people of the north a been
IN the habit of see.ng
a number Of other plantation melodies
are sung daily and nightly. The atten-
Is the people are beginning. to realize
The character OF the entertainment the
management confidently rely on the
rrAnd Stand being continually packed.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-06-05
EIFEOTS OF THE HOT WAVE.
FIFTY Sheep Per Ray Die i'm the Jersey
City AhntfOfr.

During the recent hot weather the
mortality in this county among sheep
was very great. Nearly all the great
lines which enter this city have
sheep pens in their cattle yards, and it is
estimated that not less than $50 sheep
a day died on Saturday, Sunday and
Monday in these pens and in the cattle
cars while in transit.
At the Jersey City abittoir, Superin-
tendent Simeon H. Smith says, the num-
Der of deaths ranged from fifty to sixty
a day. The dead sheep from all the rail-
road yards and abittoirs were removed
to a rendering establishment.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-06-05
NOTICE TO CONTAGIOUS.

Sealed proposals will be received by the
Board Of Street and Water Commissioners
for all labor and materials necessary to the
co4sTTBfsSSa scHooL BUILDING NO. 81
at Wayne and Colgate streets, in accordai
with plans and specifications for the same,
n nG Of Jersey. avenue ana Mercer stree
where blank forms of bid and agreement
of sureties must be obtained.
The bidding will be divided into four sec
Tirst-All work and materials comprised IN
Masons' specifications.
Second-Al work and materials comprised
in Carpenters specifications.
Third-Al work and materials comprised in
plumbing and Steam Heating specifications.
Proposals must be enclosed in sealed en-
fed Public School Building No. o. directed
PARKS %idSsS and handed to the Clerk Of the Board
in open meeting when called for in the order
No city official VIII be accepted as surety
nor will q substitution of %sureties be allowed.
or al ali proposals, it i considers that the best
interests Of the city can be conserved by SO
The attention of bidders is especially called
to Section Z, Chapter 1s4 OF the Laws of 1891;
be binding upon the city or become effective
or operative until the bondsmen offered by
suniciency by this Board and as to form by
the Corporation Counsel, the President OF TINS
Board having power to examine the proposed
bondsmen under oath
By order of the Board of Street and Water
GEO. t. BoUToN.
Dated Jersey City, May z. lss3.
MASTERS SALEM cIIANCERY or NEW
Between Daniel j. o'Brien and wife. COM
pIainants, and John d. OBrien ct al, defend
ants.
On bill for partition and decree for sale
Robert Carey, Solicitor.
decree of the Court Of Chancery OF New
Jersey, made in the above stated cause, I
premises hereinafter described, on Tuesday.
the twenty-ffth day of June next us90, at two
as st to me shall seem most for the interest Of
the parties, a certain plot of land or premises
Counts County Of Of Hudson fps G's and state Of New New Jerseys eve
bounded and described as follows, to witt
of land and premises hereinafter particularly
described, situate, lying and. being in the
SON and stats Of New Jersey, commencing at
a point formed by the intersection Of the
erly line of. Gaines street formerly Oxford
avenue), and running thence n-orthwesterly
hundred feet 200 ftl; thence southwesterly
and parallel with Sackett street one hundred
feet 400 ft.); thence southeasterly and parallel
with Gaines street one hundred feet 600 ft);
Themes, norteessterly and along the northwest
sE I f1ibnss59l Ssea aet5 street one hundrsd feet
a4sG IS linz ny l lsGs3 opn qE '6 Sssdd Is 9ti, 9hFt enle N.
R RasdAsa9 s aaS ss fRreQP 9sos1,a asoSs a4 hSIs1sE as,
Thirteenth. Fourteenth, Fifteenth and sixc
teenth wards of Jersey City, made II John
=. culver, City Surveyor, 1870, including
the inchoate estate and interest in dover
of the complainant, Marguerite O'Brien, and
the estate by the courtesy of the defendant,
Edwin NcCinuis.
Together with all and singular the heredita-
ments and appurtenances to the said prem
ises belonging or In any wise apnertaining.
Special Master in chancery Of New Jersey.
f<S.sNs
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-06-05
EEe rfeant to Commitment.

Mrs. snooper-'Mr. Kilduff alludes to
his wife In a very uncomplimentary
manner"
Mrs. Sumway-"yVhat does he say?"
Mrs. Snooper-.I heard Mr., Skidnore
ask him what he thought OF the new
woman, and he replied that the old
woman was good enough for HIM
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-06-05

Money to Loan on Household
Furniture. Pianos.

and personal property without removal. You
can have the use Of both the property and
the money and you can have the money es
long as you desire, ano you can pay 1t by
ins,aiIments. Furniture Leases paid off and
more money advanced. Loans made prompt
ly at the lowest rates.
CARTON & Co, NO. ZIG NEWARK Az.
Cor. Grove at. Booream Building, Room No. L
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-06-05
WANTED.

GENTS MAKE s. Daily. Marvellous invent on
n RetaiIs q cents; 2 to s sold in q house; sample
mailed FREE. foRsHEE s McMAKIN. Cincinnati, v
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1895-12-04
Doctors Mend a Broken Neck.

CLEVELAND, O., Nov. 2s.-Two Cleve-
land surgeons, Charles b. Humiston and
Samuel +. Knestlin, have cast precedent
aside and completely mended a broken
neck and saved life. They have brought
to recovery Erwin Keidel, l4-year-old
boy, who sustained complete fracture
of the third cervical yertebrae on
August "a. There is no ease throughout
the world where this has ever been ac-
compIished before.
The lads neck was snapped beneath a
heavy wagon wheel and doubled under
his body, and the driver and others
heard the vertebrae crack. The fracture
he sustained is ANNOUNCED in the ac-
counts of executions by hanging, where
in it is stated: THE neck was broken,
and death was instantaneous"
Dr. Kaestlin happened to be immedi-
ately on the spot. Noticing that respira-
ton had ceased, he held the lads head Sc
that il returned. While thus held, hero
| ie surgery was undertaken and an i'm
movable iron cage was applied. This
has been kept on the boys head till his
broken neck is now completely mended.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1895-12-04
The Pension Roll.

According TO the report of the Secre-
tary of the Interior there were g10,54
pensioners on the roll on June 30th. 1885.
On June 30th, 1894, there We're 969,5A.
and during the year 81, ls5 new pension
ers were added and 400 restored to the
roll. There were 27,sl6 deaths reported
during the year and 1856 dropped for
other causes, making 4, All in all. The
increase over last year is go. There
were 81, ls5 new claims allowed, and the
increases, additionals and other cham ges,
numbered 57,l52- There were l03,355
claims rejected The number of new ap-
plications filed within the year was 1859
and on June Both, 1896. the number of
pending cases was 552,2l0. These are
represented by 459,475 claimants, of
whom 10 are now on roll and 2l0,-
765 are original claimants, widows, or
dependents not upon the roll. The pend
ing cases of the latter class are 6,44
less than at the beginning of the year.
Nearly all these cases that have been
pending great length of time have been
examined repeatedly, and are lacking in
required evidence claimants procure
members of Congress and other public
men to make frequent calls for status,
which often require careful examination
of the case to answer correctly. Over
5000 Congressional calls were answered
during the year.
The amount applicable to payment of
pensions during the year was sl50,00S,-
672,5s, of which slS9, sO7, ,337 30 was
paid out, leaving a surplus of Sl0.20l,-
S55 2s. The amount appropriated for
lsS6 is sl40,6OO,0O0.
The amount paid for pensions for 1895,
Sl39, ,SO7, ,:j37 80, was S2,S76 - in excess
of the amount paid for pensions in 1891.
The act of March 2d, 1895, increasing all
pensions below 50 per month to that rate,
and another act OF the same date repeal
| ing the act of March Sd, 1893, which for
bade payment OF pensions TO non-resi-
dents after July lst, 1893, increased the
payments during the last four months of
1895 about s275,OoO. 1t is probable, how
ever, that the appropriation for the pres
ent year, Sl40,0o0,Oo. will be suffi-
cient, unless pensions are increased by
further legislation, AS pensions must
otherwise decrease from natural causes.
The estimates for 1897 are as follows:
For pensions, sl40,0oo.co0; for surgeons
fees, SSO0,GDo; for salaries of pension
agents, s72,00O; for clerk hire ut pension
agencies, $4,000; for fuel at pension
| agencies SO. for light al pension apen-
cies, $3.50; for rents at pension agencies,
s26,O7O; for contingent expenses, $500.
The Board of Revision during the year
acted upon l0i, l60 cases, in which 4, l4g
pensioners were dropped from the rolls
as not disabled in pensionahle degree,
and 2,27g were dropped under said ac,
and restored - the pensions granted them
under the general law. In 2O,359 cases
the rates of pensions were reduced, and
in q ,3I3 cases in which further evidence
was filed the pensions were continued.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1895-12-04
Important to Pensioners.

Owing 10 the fact that may magistrates
before whom pension vouchers are exc
cuted have been in the habit of forward
ing such vouchers to the Pension Agent
for payment enclosed in envelopes which
do not have the proper amount Of postage
thereon, thus putting the Pension Agents
to the trouble and expense of paying the
overdue postage before such packages
can be delivered, it has become necessary
for the Pension Department to adop, 4
stringent rule for the correction of such
abuses. Pension Agents have therefore
been instructed by the Department at
Washington TO hereafter refuse payment
of such deficient postage and to allow all
such packages to go to the Dead Letter
Office. Speaking upon this subject Cap
tain Skinner the Pension Agent at Pitts
! burg says, This abuse has grown To such
| proportions that have been obliged TO
pay as much rs Three Dollars in one
month on account OF such deficiC NJ
I postage The fault Is not with the pen
/ sicners who mali their own v0uch-
/ ers because single letter stamp
| is always sufficient for the trans
mission of Il single voucher, but with GER
tain magistrates and claim agents " no are
| in the habit of transmitting each quarter
"A large package of vouchers with single
| postage stamp thereon, evidently expect
| ing that the Pension Agent Will pay The
| deficient postage rather than delay pay
| ment To the pensioners. We have sought
TO correct these petty abuses by saving
the envelopes and returning them to the
sender thereof, but this course has had
little effect in stopping what might prop
| erly be called ~ system ofpe;ty swind-
| ling" because we are informed that
many of these magistrates collect , cents
for postage from every pensioner whose
vouchers they execute and then fail tO
use sIch stamps for the purpose intend
ed. Ia view, therefore, of this recent or
| der from the Pension Bureau az Wash
| ington | trust that all pensioners and
! magistrates in the district may pay close
attention 10 this matter of postage in the
| future. Ifthey do not they may expect
| great delay in transmission OF checks,
because all such packages deficient in
postage will surely 90 10 the Dead Letter
Office"
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1895-12-04
Horse Sets a Town Gold-Mad.

NEW YORK, Nov. "a horse in Flat
bush Is responsible for half the town be-
ing gold mad. The horse the other day
picked up in its shoe gold guinea, coined
in the mint of George III, in 1853. Tradi-
ton has it that large quantities of gold
were buried in Flatbash before the Revo-
lntion, and many times the gold fever has
revived and people have dug over acres
in the search for this buried treasure.
To-day being holiday, Flatbushers
and many Brooklynites celebrated 10y
shoyeling Girt near where the horse
picked up the coin. They worked and
sweat and swore until several city lots
looked like newly-plowe6 fields, but not
even copper penny appeared. Finally
the people who own the land had TO call
on the police to save the new streets and
lots from destruction.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1895-12-04
The Lareast Oak Roard.

The largest oak board ever sawed was
ripped from the body of a mammoth tree
which formerly stood near Scottsburg,
Ind. The tree was y feet in circumfer-
ence, and was said TO be the largest per
fectly round oak in the State. II was
purchased 10y II. Herman, the New York
lnmber dealer, for the sum of SO, and
was cut down and sawed into boards.
The largest of these boards was 10 inches
thick, > feet p inches wide at the butt
and five feet exactly at the top. II was
~ feet long. and required the combined
strength of two yoke Of oxen and eight
hors es a whole day TO move it II miles on
a broad-tread wagon from the saw millto
the depot Lnmbermen say that this
was the largest oak board ever sawed in
America.-S,. Louis Republic,
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1895-12-04

THE political whirligig has again
plaeed Thomas b. Reed in the Speak
er's chair, but under very different
auspices from those under which he
occupied it in the Fifty-first Congress.
Then he had but meager majority at
his back. and WIS confronted by a
turbulent and truculent Democratic
minority that had previously boasted
that il would control legislation in the
House.
The scenes of turbulence verging on
riot, that occurred during the early
DAYS of the session, are remembered
by all who felt interest in public af'
fairs. To Mr.. Reeds courage anC
firmness, then displayed, the country
owes its preservation from humiliation
and disgrace; but so acrimonious wa.
the feeling of the minority that Mr.
Reed left the chair at the end of the
session without the usual compliment
ary vote Of thanks. Mr.. Reed now re
turns to the speakership with NOR,
than two-thirds majority at his back
the most emphatically vindicateC
states man of his day; while the mol
that shouted 'czar, tyrant, usurper,
and vilified and denounced him, i
PROSTATE i'm the dust of humiliation a
their utter overthrow.
In all our political history there i
nothing comparable to the seconC
coming of Mr.. Speaker Reed.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1895-12-04
Better Lines for Fnrners.

Secretary Morton. in his annual report.
makes the clever and agreeable statement
that better times for the farmers are just
ahead. and the vaine Of land will increase.
The farmers will he happy 10 learn all
this and take the secretary at his word
They have been waiting for turn in the
tide for years-something that would
isring wheat mp TO the dollar mark and
sheir acres 10 a figure outside those met
with al sherifi-s sale. and the chance
for Improvement is evidently justified by
fact. The increase Of millions to the
population and the demand in foreign
snarkeis are tae factor in this field of
promise for the farmers. Secretary Nor
son has also set a lesson i'm economy in
expenditures in his department. Ont of
-. .le2, 52S appropriated during the past
two fiscal years. si.l35.2 Us have been re
turned 10 the treasury as the unexpend-
ed balance
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1895-12-04
No Fever at California Normal.

CALIFoRNIA, PA, Nov. %, 1885.
EDITOR HERALD:
SIR-Inasmuch as a rumor has been
circulated at the County Institute that a
number of the students, including sever
al from Somerset county, are stricken
with TYPHOID fever, we beg leave to in
form the people of Somerset county that
the report is a false one. There has been
no serious illness at the Normal this
term, much less any fever. We can not
see why such an erroneous report should
he circulated; hut one of two things is
evident either tha originator of it was not
acquainted with affairs at the school, or
the object was to prevent persons who
are thinking Of taking a Normsl course
from coming 20 California. Should the
latter be the ease we would say that few
schools, if any, can show sIch good
health record aS California. y
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1895-12-04
A Great Gold Find.

SALT LAKE, Utah, Nov. 29-Recent dis
ccveries Of vast gold fields at Mercur,
about sixty-five miles south OF Salt Lake
City, which give every indication of max
ing that place one OF the largest ami
richest gold mining camps in the world,
have created intense excitement. For
about two years only one property has
been operated, and that by the Mercur
Gold Mining and Milling Company, and
in that period IL has paid dividends OF
over 100000. IL now appears that the
valley for miles in every direction con-
tains ore equally as rich or richer than
the Mercur Company's property.
Within a very short period a district
of seven miles by three miles has been
almost entirely taken up, and fully 1,G00
miners and prospectors are at work.
Three new mills have been started up
and are now operating even more profit
ably than the original one. New dis
eoveries are being made daily, and there
is great excitement.
The ore is OF character different
from any other gold ore in the world. 1t
bears some resemblance to quartz, and is
being treated by an adapted cyanide
process. 1t is of medium grade, running
sl2 to sl4 to the ton. although in spots
il runs as high as 500, bat the quantity
of i seems to he practically unlimited.
English experts who have thoroughly
examined the ground say that it is a
richer and more extensive gold region
than those of South America. Pay ore
is found at depth of 2eO feet.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1895-12-04
End of the Year Weather A La Poster

My last Bulletin gave forecasts Of the
storm wave 10 cross the continent from
the 2sth to Dec. 2nd, aud the next will
reach the Pacific coast about Dec. 3rd,
cross the west of Rockies country by the
close of the 4th. great central valleys,
from the 5th to eth, and the eastern States
the sth. This disturbance will probably
cause the warmest weather of the month.
and for the whole OF the United States the
precipitation will average below normal.
heavy rains and SHOWS falling only in
limited localities. The warm wave viii
cross the west of the Rockies country
about the End, great central valleys the
5th, and the eastern States the 9Th. Cool
wave will cross the west of Rockies
country about the 6th, great central val
leys the Sth and eastern States the 10th.
December temperature will average
below normal east, and above normal
west of the Rocky mountain ridge.
Within each of these divisions, more
particularly east of the Rockies, locali-
ties will materially differ in average
temperature.
a.
Orleans, and thence to Charleston, 5.
c.. and you will have the center Of the
cold path, on either side of which will
occur the greatest below average temper
ature departures for the coming month.
| The temperature departures are expect
| ed To average lowest at Winnipeg, Du-
buque, Chicago, Kansas City, Fort
] Wayne. San Antonio, New Orleans,
| Atlanta, Charleston and intermediate
points. The Ohio valley will average
below, but not so much as the other
points named. The lower lakes, Penn
sylvania, New York and New England
States will average below, but while
there viii be periods of very cold wealth
er, the average will not he very much
| below.
Rainfall for December will be a little
| above normal east of the Rockies and
below on the Pacific slope. The lower
Missouri valley will get most, the Ohio
valley, southern Florida, western Texas,
the east of Rockies arid countries, upper
Missouri and Red River of the North
valleys least rain. On the Atlantic coast
about an average rainfall may be expected,
heaviest in Maine, Massachusetts and in
the vicinity of Philadelphia. The upper
Mississippi valley and upper lakes will
get average rainfall, and in all the north
ern States, east of the Rockies, the pre-
eipitation viii be principally in the form
of snow.
The coolest weather of the month
will follow the storm wave due to cross
the continent from the 10th to 10Th.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1895-12-04
Four People Drowned.

UNIoNTowN. Pa, Dec. l.-,James Me-
Inford and his wife, John Pici<u and
Laura Stevenson, of Woods Run, were
drowned in the Monongahela river Il
midnight last night. They had been in
Brownsville all afternoon, and it was
late when they started down the river
low Brownsville they met the steamer
James G.. Blaine coming up the river.
They got too close to the steamer and
the waves upset the skiff, throwing
them out into the water. They soon
became helpless and sank to the bot
tom. The bodies of the two men have
been recovered. but the women are still
nj the bottom of the river.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1895-12-04
Another Battle in Cuba.

HAVANA, Nov. 30-The column of
troops commanded by Brigadier Gener-
ais Oliver and Luque have both been en-
gagged twice with the insurgent forces
commanded by Maximo Gomez in the
province of Santa Clara. The insurgents
left on the field eighty killed and car
ried off their wounded.
General Luque commanded 1900 in
fantrymen, 100 cavalrymen, and had one
piece of artillery, while General Oliver
had 400 infantrymen, 100 cavalrymen
and two pieces of artillery. Gomez is
reported to have had 1900 cavalrymen
and , 200 infantrymen and one piece OF
artillery. They were drawn up in order
of battle, General Gomez knowing that
the government forces were abou; 10 COM
mence an attack upon him. The fire was
opened by the Spanish artillery.
One thousand cavalrymen under Guer-
ra closely engaged the attention of the
infantry, but the deadly effects of the
Mauser rifles compelled retreat. Gen
eral Gomez then ordered the whole cav
airy 10 attack the en- emy, but their hors-
e. became so tired before they reached
one-half the distance that the insurgents
returned disheartened, and the cavalry
attack upon the Spaniards at this point
was ineffective.
Gomez next ordered 800 men and a can
non to the top of the hill, but the cannon
burst at the firing of the first shot, kill
ing four men. General Oliver rushed in
at the head of 800 of the Spanish infantry.
| The insurgents were somewhat disheart-
enei and retreated. The Spanish artil-
lery kept up continuous firing OF shells,
and the insurgents were compelled to
abandon their positions, finally seeking
safety in the woods.
The Cubans left 10 killed, and accord
ing TO official advice oyer 100 were wound
ed. of the troops two lieutenants, cor
poral and eight soldiers were killed and
eighteen persons were wounded.