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The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-10-28
OVER0oAT THIEF NABBED.

Herman Heydt yesterday saw two men
acting suspiciously in front of his cloth
ing store, on Washington street, Hobo
ken. They walked by the door two or
three times and looked in at the windows.
Mr.. Heyman hid himself in the store
near the window, where he could watch.
When the men supposed the coast was
clear one of them unbuttoned an over
coat from one of the forms in front of
the store and wrapping up the garment.
put It under his own overcoat. Then he
started down Washington street. The
other man went in the opposite direction.
HeyGu followed the man and his oyercoat
down Washington street, through Third
street. Then the man saw he was being
followed and throwing the overcoat into
the gutter started on a run. Mr.. Heydt
picked the Goa up and ran safter the
thief, who turned into Hudson street.
Mr.. Heydt's cries of Stop thief!N at
tracted a young man, who stopped the
fellow in front of Fire Headquarters. An
officer appeared on the scene and took
the thief to the police station.
In court this morning the man gave
his name as Peter Smith, of No. 24O East
Fortieth street, New York City. He said
his pal had induced him to go to Hobo
ken. telling him he could make some
money over there. He said his pal un-
buttoned the coat and gave it to him be-
cause he could hide it under his over
coat. He was remanded for the Grand
Jury.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-10-28
SAVED BY HIS COLLAR.
Josiah Bertine's Desperate En-
counter With %Highwaymen
at Pelham Manor.


MANOR, N. Y, Oct. Is, 1896.
One of the MOST darsn,g attsunte al
highway robbery and nos,raar go -
corded in westobester county occurred
in this village early last evening Jasdah
n 12ert;na roaf.hx go
q "earony view 1ofh e1ol-
er, dotng business at No. 81 Fulton street,
and Win, tivas IN nc ia s.n,1n 1870
stao7 Eoho - $3.50 .,
Ao AS"ll uiias phace' afraven
mere IN the 1'i4 Train last evening, and
was met ait the station by his carrIage in
cFaara,e of Job,, Roxo1 49, acaaaaan ia
=, l@s coaciiliiai, anu
ms oaugnter, Miss a Berthe, aged
fifteen years. Echo Lawn is about three
ouarters af . n,i,a srom tha ra,tr,.d y
90
tVa, diau ~ usd moi take uhe SPIRITED AMI
ma who was ATTACHED to the vehicle
more than ave snsna,tes ~ ra.,b ana ;,,na
49,. - - = 800 @re luic-
eUi VI Feace sureet ana Jackson avenue,
which is about two hundred feet from the
rear of Mr.. Bertane,s residence
There are no ho,,ses AZ mis- no,nt for
some several hundred wards IN e;ther III
rection except the Rerfina roeidenra ond
just as the carriaee turned into Iockson
street three men sprang from the shadow
of the fence. One grabbad The horse
by the head while another had sprang
to the side Of the carriape and cnvsreS
the occupants with their nisfo,s MIR
Berthe seeing the barrel of a n5sfol with
in a foot of his ~daurhter,s head made
a desperate grab and manaved to erasn
the pistol by the barrel but as he did
so the second man pointed his pistol at
him and fired. the bullet piercing his
collar n penetrated the left side Of
his neck. lust below the ear. At this
the man whose pistol Mr.. Berthe had
grasped. wrenched 1t from his hand and
fairly rafned lead on the inmates of the
carriage.
Seeing the desperafe condition If her
father the young girl snrang ont of the
n o,.vro - ~
to escape uniniI1rad 10 Tho res,danea AZ
William Cars1n > n,ilkman fba naareSt
house. During the shooting Raval the
c~oachnan also vanisbed ana Aid oof
but said he had started for assieta5ne
When he Left the horse haSiv friebfaned
and wounded unto death with one blIIlet
in the shoulder and another IoSged in
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-10-28
METHODIST BISHOPS MEET.
VIII Arrange the Presiding Officers
of the Conferences.

PITTSBURG, Pa, Oct. Is, 1Ss6.-The
s-emi-annual meeting of the Bishops of
the Methodist Episcopal Church began in
the parlors of the Monogahela House this
morning. The business ID be considered
is practically routine, but none the less
important to the church. There are one
hundred and thirty conferences each year.
All complaints from these conferences
are reviewed by the eighteen effective
bishops and adjusted by them. At these
meetings the bishops are assigned to their
charges. Seventeen bishops are in at
tendance, as follows:-
William X. Ninde. ]. C. Hartzeil, John
F. Hurst. Thomas Bowman, Jon p. New
man, Earl {. GEanston. John NJ. Walden,
Stephen NJ. Nfsrill. Charles H. Fowler,
Charles C. M1yabe, James NJ nhoburn,
Edward c. Andrews, Cyrus D. Foss, Hen
ry w. Warren, job H. Vincent, Willard
K. Mallalieu and James il. Fitzgerold.
Bishop William Taylor Of Congo, Africa,
will not attend. Following the Board and
Executive meetings the Bishops will take
part in the session of the church extern
sion society, which convenss November 5.
This Board is composed of twenty-eight
members and the Bishops, and the work
to be done will keep the einbe here
ten days. This evening a reception will
be given the distinguished churchmen at
Christ Church, East End.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-10-28
ARE PIGEONS F0WL9
The Highly Empertan MT Queaticn That
Agftates REoboken Sapftarisns.


At the meeting of the Hoboken Health
Board yesterday afternoon a discussion
arose among the Commissioners as 10
whether a pigeon was a fowl or not. An
old man named Bremen had been sum
moned before the Board by the Sanitary
Committee for mot procuring a permit TO
keep 1fty-four pigeons, of which the
reighbors comslain.
DR. Helfer said ne had gone through the
health code and could not find in any sec
tiou an ordinance compelling a person TO
secure a permit I'M order to keep pigeons.
He Furthermore said that he did not find
the word pigeon anywhere in the entire
code.
COMMISSIONS Fugazzi said that the
word fowl in the code covered the word
pigeon.
DR.. Heller commended that a pigeon was
a bird and not a fowl.
DR.. Steadman said that pigeons were
generally called fowl, and as the other
Commissioners agreed with him Bremen
was notified to secure a permit.
The case of an italian who died on Oc-
tober 8 at No. POP Adams street was
brought before the Board by DR.. Heller.
The death had been recorded twice with
INHERENT diseases; two death Certificates
mad been issued, and the man was accord
ed as being buried twice. Dr.. Simon said
the man had died of and DR..
Foley said he had l~ocornator ataxia.
Al tile last meeting CT the Board the
SANITARY Committee was charged 70 in
yestigate the matter. DIR. Helfer said that
DR.. Simon had refused to appear before
the committee on the ground that the
Health Commissioner had no jurisdFc-
ton. Dr.. Heller also said that DIR. Simon
presumed too much ard was trying to
'puck" the Board in all matters.
Or Steadman did not agree with DIR
Helfer, and said that DIR. Simon was a
CONSCIENTIOUS city official and performed
his duty well. This matter was referred
TO the attorney Of the Board, Horace Z,
Allen, to decide what Jurisdiction The
Board had in tine case.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-10-28
CITY NEWS r

The Unique Club. the successor to the
Old Bachelor Club, held a meeting in
their rooms, at No. 40Si Palisade avenue,
last night and completed arrangements
for their ladies night, which will be
November "A.
Mary Foley, t~hirty-two years old. of No.
30S Third street, was taken i'll on Bergen
avenue, near Duncan avenue, about four
O'Clock yesterday afternoon. she was
taken to the home of her sister. Mrs.
Banker, No. "a Westerveit street.
The Sunday School of the Bergen Ban
fist Church will hold an snment
tomorrow night. The Till family, musi-
clans, will appear.
A citizen brought to the Montgomery
street station house yesterday afternoon
Louis La Forge. a little fellow who lives
at Nc. 226 Monticello avenue, and who had
lost his a He was claimed later BY
his mother.
The W. j. Florence Dramatic Society
will hold its opening reception at Crescent
Hail this evening.
Mary Cox, of No. 1863 jackson avenue.
was arrested on Jackson avenue last night
chaTged by Mary Gee, of No. f75 Union
street, with assault ard battery. The case
was postponed until Eext Friday morning.
when Justice Douglass will hear both
sides Of the story.
Fire Board meets tonight.
The water main at the corner of Com
munipaw avenue and Wilton street Is
leaking.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-10-28
YOUNG M'LE0D RELEASED.
inclination to Drop the
Andrus investigation.

YONKERS, N. r., Oct. %, 1896.-The at
tempt of Coroner Miles to solve the mys-
terry of the Arlington Chemical Works
bomb explosion, which resulted in the
killing of Harnlin J.. Andrus. now seems
to have entirely fallen flat. Even the
Pinkerton men who have been working
on the case confess they are all at sea
and it is now believed will dropt the whole
matter. For several days Coroner Miles
he's had detained at police headquarters
Louis Mcleod, the sixteen-year-old boy
who worked in the Office of the Chemical
Works up to October 20, when he was
discharged. The detention of the lad
has never been properly explained, the
police declaring that they simply held him
under Instructions from fhe Coroner.
Much indignation has been aroused at
this action and the mother of the boy
yesterday threatened to invoke the aid Of
the law to secure the release of her son.
THIS morning the Coroner notified the
police thai he no longer desired
Mcleod held, and accordingly he was per-
mitted TO go free. 1t is generally under
stood that the boy was stainsd because
of certain knowledge he had concerning
rne building of wires in the Arlington
Works. For some mysterious reason the
line CT Investigation Followed to ascerta n
vino constructed these wires has been sud-
denly dropped, and it now appears that
an effort is being made to drop the whole
murder Investigation and establish tine
theory Of Chief Of Police Mangin. who be-
lieves the explosion the result of an ac-
cident.
The inquest Is set down fer tomorrow,
but is likely to be again postponed in
order to give time to work out an ac-
ceptable accidental case.
CHEZ Magin declares it his belief that
mir. Ahdrus was experimenting with the
bomb TO protect the safes in the Office
against burglars when it exploded. Ac-
cording 70 the son, the father was read
ing his morning mail when the explosion
occurred. There are many here who be-
lieve that the bomb was built for the
purpose for which the Chief says, but
not by Andrus himself, but by some
one connected with the factory, who is
afraid to emma faruvard end admit If
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-10-28
CANTON ENTERTAINs HERSELF.



CANTON. Ohio, Oct. Is. 1sse.-ThB has
been designated as Canton Day and 1t
is expected that it viii prove one Of the
important events Of the campaign. This
afternoon the business men and miners
of the city will assemble at Court House
Square and proceed in a body to pay
their respects to the Republican candidate
for the Presidency. 1t will be a testi-
monial from the candidates own towns
men that he will appreciate most highly.
Business generally Will be suspended after
three O'Clock.
There will also be a delegation com
posed of the gentlemen who are the sur
vivors of the candidates. who were On the
Republican ticket in 1869, when Major
Mckinley was a candidate on the
Union Republican ticket for prosecuting
attorney. This was the first appearance
Of Major Mckinley in politics. The ticket
was successful, all blu the candidate for
Sheriff. There are five of these gentle
men still living, and they Will be formally
introduced by r. w. White of Alliance.
Judge Underhill, of this city, who was
the candidate for Probate Judge on the
ticket of 1869, VIII speak for his old COM
p~anions. A few ~out-of-town delegations
are also scheduled to cab on Major Nc
Kinley during the Afternoon. Friday af-
ternoon tins schoolboys cf Canton Will call
ON Major Mckinley. They have selected
spokesman from Their own ranks, and the
delegation will probably be the most
unique that has yet yisHuel the candidate
Shortly after noon a large delegation
of citizens from Buffalo,. N. Y, arrived
to pay their respects to MAjer Mckinley.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-10-28
he SHOULD GET MORE OF 1T.
A Runaway AImshouse Boys Fable
About the ~ssrrocus Stick

John Kelly, a boy of nine years. ran
away from the Snake Hill AImshouse
n was found on Clinton street, Hoboken.
by Officer Garrick yesterday afternoon.
He told a story of cruel treatment TO the
sergeant at the desk, at the hands of
one of the keepers at the institution.
he SAID that he and another boy named
DICK dumping ran away some DAYS ago
because the keeper, whose name is Flvnn
ne said, beat them for every little thing.
he said Flynn had a stick which was
called at the Almshouse the sMocus
stick and this had been used SO often
on nm That he got tired of being beaten
without cause and ran away.
The boy told such a straightforward
story that he was stripped in his cell and
examined to see If he showed any trace
Of the beatings on his body. Their were
several bruises which might have come
from a fall or in rough play. They did
not look like the effects of beating. The
boys clothing showed tina the inmates
are carefully clothed at the A~lmshouse
The boy was called for by one of the
taken back to the Hill.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-10-28
M0NSTR0SITY TINKERING.
Radiators and Plaster for the Thfrd
Ffoor-Laying Out the Grounds.

h City Hall Commissioners met this
morning and received bids for 1000 tons
of yea coal. The bidders and their prices
were:-Thomas Coughlin, $3.50 a ton:
Hoboken Coal Company. $3.50: Waddell
Company, s2.43 and O. H. Perry, S2.S1. A
contract will be awarded to Coughlin at
the next meeting.
Owing to the break which ST. 600 Archi-
tect Broome made in the specifications,
the Commission has found it necessary
TO advertise for radiators for the third
floor: Bids are to be received November
Il Broome made no provision for the
heating of the third floor. He appar-
emily thought the floor would never be
used, as in his peculiar specifications he
also failed to provide for the white plas-
Fefing. of the walls. Thoma Harrington,
who has the contract to lay out the
grounds. reported that he has his work
Well under way. He will finish the side
walks this week. This morning sod was
delivered, and in the course of a day or
two men will begin to lay 1t.
he telephone and telegraph poles are
being taken away and the monstrosity
is beginning to assume a half decent APP
pearance.
The building will be as neal ready for
occupancy by December as It will ever
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-10-28
CHARACTERISTIC POLICE WORK.

NEW BEDFORD. Mass, Oct. %, 1885,
Chief of Police Douglass of the New
Bedford Department, received a cable
gram this morning from the Chief of
Police at Londonderry, Ireland. which
reads
Property not found., h is con-
strued to mean tina Jane Brewster,
whose arrest at Neville under suspicion
of having committed the robbery of dia-
monds at the residence of Mrs. Edward
G. Jones in this city. was reported by
cable dispatches yesterday. is again a
free woman. 1t is evident that the arrest
was a gross and stupid blunder on some
body's part, as no one in New Bedford
believes her guilty and the only instruc-
tons which were issued by the New
Bedford police were to have the bag
gage searched and then to act in ac-
cordance with what the search revealed.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-10-28
RIGHT SORT OF GOLD BRICK.

VANCOUVER. B. c., Oct. %, 1sss.-The
god brick from the Cariboo hydraulic
min is on it's way here. 1t is valued at
$S5, 741, and is the product of fourteen
days. twenty hours run in on the pit.
This makes $11S, 900 mined so far this sea-
sen. The hydraulicing will go en- until
cold weather stops operations. The Two
Friends Mining Company. owning a. claim
in the SLOGAN district, received returns to-
day from the Tacoma srnelter of the first
carload of ore shipped. 1t gives net value
OF $164.0 per tom Deducting the cost of
mining and hauling to water, the net re-
turn is about $131 per ten. The mine will
now be a regular shipper. About $50 tons
of ore are being already blocked out or
ON dunn
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-10-28
BRITISH CASE COMPLETED.
An Important Docnrnsns Submitted
70 IA Venezuelan Commission.

WASHINGTON, Oct. %, 1S96.-The COM
pletion of the British case in the boundary
dispute according to the understanding of
the Venezuelan Commission. was signal
lied at the meeting Of that body today by
the receipt from Secretary Olney of an
important publication printed by the
authority of his Excellency the Governor
of British Guiana" in the colony. The
document which is uniform in appear
ance with the earlier British Blue Book,
is entitled THE Boundary Question. the
control over the disputed territory by Es-
sequibo, by means of her posts. Indian
captains and protectors of Indians
mainly from the records of British Guiana
by James Rodway.'A 1t is divided into
six subdivisions az follows
AREA of Jurisdiction.
&Posts and posbholderz.
3EIndian captains.
4Tlne indian protectorate.
5-Ths watershed of the Essequibo. and
6The Pomeroon district.
This volume has been expected fer some
time and surprise is expressed that 1t
should be transmitted through the Amer
lean Consul at Demorara rather than
case with the other volumes. The first
and second Blue Books were devoted to
the Pollock argument with documents
and maps. The second or supplemental
NOluilS gave IuOSl OF the gunner IN
extenso and corrections to which at
tention had been called. The fourth was
a. surprise to all concerned. as it con
tanned simply a reprint of Counsel Stor-
rows preliminary argument against the
Schomburgk line and did not have
the customary blue cover. No. 5 was a
reply to Mr.. Storrow and 1t has been stat
ed for some time that the sixth and final
volume would be devoted to the Indian
protectorate.
At the Commission meeting today all
the members except DR.. Andrew D.. White
who was absent, participated in discus
luncheon the meeting continued through
out the afternoon.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-10-28
H0BoKEN's HOBO NUISANCE.

Four German tramps were found this
morning back of Eagan's Commercial
School on Ferry street, Hoboken. They
were cutting each others hair and shaw
1ng each other. One of the professors in
the school sent word to the police, who
went around and arrested the four. 1t
appears that fellows of this sort con-
gresate in the rear of the school and
annoy the young ladies. Hoboken has
a good many heboes anyway, and they
steal milk and rolls from the stoops of
me houses and burden the sisters at the
hospital with appeals for food. The evil
Is ~laid at the feet of a man who keeps
an employment agency on River street.
Every vessel that arrives in Hoboken
has a number of deserters among the
crew These hang around the town until
they feel like working again. When a
vessel in New York or Jersey City wishes
10 ship sailors, the River street crimp
supplies the demand with these deserters
e. - a head. 1t is therefore to his in
terest to have as many as possible OF
these men on hand.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-10-28
KEuNY'S AWFUL DEATH
Mangled Under a Bayonne
Trolley Car on Grand
Street.
He WAS CROSSING THE STREET
Stopped as a West Bound Car
Went By, Then Stepped in
Front Of One Going
East.
He WAS CROSSING TIE STREET

Conner Kenny, Of No. $50 Grand street,
was killed by Bayonne trolley car No. 160
at Bishop and Grand streets. last night
at half-past six o'clock. Statements as 70
how the accident occurred vary. Appar-
entity Kenny started to cross Grand street
at Bishop, just as a Bayonne car passed
going west. Kenny stopped to allow the
car to pass, and then started on his way
across, not noticing car No. 100, which was
going east at a high rate of speed. When
Kenny did see the car almost upon him
he was rooted to the spot with terror,and
made no movement until the car struck
him, when he uttered a wild shrek and
seemed to attempt TO jump out of the
way. But he was too late, for with a
roar and a grind the car threw him to
the ground.
The fender, which was down, proved
its utter worthlessness Instead of CATCH
ing Kenny up and tossing him to one
side, it raised up and rode over his body,
exposing a yawning, gaping mouth, the
wire ribs resembling as many teeth, wait
ing to receive its victim.
Under the wheels went Kenny, and on
went the ear, the motorman seeming to
be pafalyzed with fear. Men on the side
walks rushed after the car shouting to
the motorman to stop. The car slid on
until the motorman finally brought it to
a stop nearly a block away from where
IT struck Kenny.
When the car had come to a standstHl
willing hands were ready to help the man
under the wheels, but the body was
found to be so entangled in the truck
that the wrecking Wagon of the Traction
Company was sent for. When 1t arrived
the car was lacked and Kenny lifted out.
Just as he was laid on a blanket beside
the track Kenny gasped once or twice and
then expired.
Coroner Kenny was notified and ordered
the body removed to Speer's morgue.
The motorman, John Bowling, of No.
236 McAdoo avenue, and the constable,
James Kelly. We're both arrested.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-10-28
SAT0LLI a OAHENSLYITB.
Queer revelations from an Unre-
ported speech of the Ex-DeIegate.

queer Revelations from an Unre-
ported speech of the Ex-DeIecate.
WASHINGTON. Oct. %, ISss.-A morn
ing paper publishes a statement that Dr..
F. 2. Rocker, Secretary of the Papal Lee
cation. is shortly to Aesaretired. This
statement is connected with the alleged
suppression of an important speech of
Cardinal Satolli's, made in Pottsvflle. Pa.
last summer Cardinal Satolli went to
Pottsville under the chaperonage of Mgr.
Schroeder, the professor of ogmati
theology at the University. He made an
address to the German congregation at
the Church of st. John the Baptist in
Italian. 1t was translated by Mgr.
schroeder, first into German and then into
Ut was in this speech that o. rdinal
SatoHi gave the first ~intimation of his
cnange of attitude on many questions.
de Is said to have urged the Germans
70 maintain their separate existence in the
church, for only In this way could they
preserve their traditions. Cardinal Sa-
tolil had hitherto, both in public and
IN private, expressed exactly the oppo-
site opinion. He had told the Arch
nssnops IN council that they must adopt
the national habits and customs of the
UNITED States as far as possible without
infringing on the Interchangeable dogma
OF the church. In an address delivered
IL Controversy Be-
tween Bishop Wigger and the late Rev.
Patrick Corrigan, of Hoboken. Father
KiHeen and others, he had warned the
German people that they must learn
the native tongue of their adopted coun-
try, and that German preached in the
churches and taught In the schools would
be tolerated only temporarily.
The speech at Pottsvflle was hailed with
dellght by the German and certain other
Catholic papers. The Cardinal returned
to Washington, and some time later Fa-
Their J. r. Slattery of Baltimore deter
mined to publish the second edition Of
Cardinal Satolli's addresses in this coun-
try. It came out, but in some manner
the .Pottsville speech was not included
in the book. Cardinal Satolli promptly
announced that he had sent the manu-
script, or the speech, to Father Slattery.
The latter followed with the
nent that he had never received 1t.
Evidently" said those interested, sit
must nave been suppressed by some one
through whose hands 1t passed between
the Cardinal and Father Slattery.'
As DR.. Rocker. as Secretary of the Del
egation. was the only one who would
maturity handle the speech In It's passage.
it was charged that he suppressed the
speech. DR.. Rocker denies that he had
in n manner been connected with the
matter.