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The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-10-19
PUT TWO ARMIES TO FLIGHT.


EOAACOAAAAn IhcAtAy OtbPN a 1t2tBl0 NEE
tween Hoboken and Jersey city Roys
For man years past. the boys of the
Heights and the boys of Hoboken have
been carrying on a bitter war. The
Heights boys are known as Killers,
and the Hobokenites as Down Killers"
Yesterday the respective armies met
upon the famous battlefield, which is the
Old Ravine Road Cut, and had another
pitched battle.
The fighters use stones, rocks, beam
shooters, and now and then 1t goes so
far that even pistols are brought into
use, and with serious RESULTS. While the
fight was at it's height yesterday Patrol
man Terrence Reilly of the Webster ave-
nue. precinct surprised the Killers from
their rear and captured two of their
warriors The prisoners are. James Bow
en-, 16 years old. of No. Is Ravine avenue.
and William Overman, IA years old, of
No. 135 New York avenue.
The prisoners kicked and squirmed to
get away and called upon their COM
the rest of the fighters saw the brass
buttons, they forgot about their m
the Down Hillers," and made a nasty
retreat. breaking ranks and fleeing in
disorder in every direction.
The Down Killers thinking that they
had routed their foes. advanced. with
shouts of victory, but when they saw the
glittering buttons of the policeman in the
Terrence walked -triumphantly TO the
station house with his prisoners, and as
he passed the people on mis- way he was
greeted with lusty cheers.
Why said one of his fellow policemen
this morning, Terry is the biggest man
In the precinct. Just think he not only
put one army to flight, like the hero in
the biblical story, but he put two of
Them
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-10-19
A BIOYgLIsT'S TERRIBLE FALL
The Fork of wiiIfam =. SteTens,
Bicycle Breaks and He Is Injured.

William j. Steffens, living at No, 1,22S
Park avenue, Hoboken, and his brother,
Hent riding on their wheels yesterday
morning. After q short spin on the
Hudson Boulevard. they started to re-
turn home by the Weehawken Boulevard.
William was a little in the lead Of his
bother and opposite the Baldwin Hose
Fire house. the front fork Of Williams
wheel snapped. He was thrown over the
handle bar, made two complete somer-
saults and landed on his face in the car
tracks.
He was picked up unconscious by his
brother and another young man and car
ried to Schne.derss Hotel. Mr.. and Mrs.
Schneider did all In their power to restore
the young man TO Consciousness, and az
ter ten minutes of hard work succeeded
in doing SO. Mr.: stefens had the left
side Of his face badly bruised, his chin
was scraped. and his left eur almost
torn from his head. HIS lower jaw was
Injured to such an extent that II was
with much difficulty and pain lie could
open his mouth. Mrs. Schneider with
&Hotherly care ~bandaged the young man,s
s sbsad .s enc Is Vas 4.s sakeq hesns: AifheisA
xeblx ~ toatred M ~.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-10-19
AM W ENTS.
A Great Attraction at the Academy
of Music.

The Great Diamond Robbery" a melo-
drama by A. C. Wheeler and E.. M. Al
friend, will be presented at the Academy
of Music this evening for one week, with
matinees on Wednesday and Saturday.
This drama reaches US still warm with
the glow of metropolitan approval, as in
Mat city it enjoyed a prosperous season
of five months. 1.-THE Great Diamond
Robbery Is withall an American drama,
the scenes of which are enacted in New
York. while its characters are said to
truthfully represent well known types of
Gotham The story of this most alb
sorbing play treats of the theft of Jewels
of great value.
The action is said to be brisk and the
interest intense. The scenery marvels
of reproduction. Employed in its rep
resentation. 'The Great Diamond Rob
berry" presents a cast of unsurpassed
strength in the names of Rose Eytinge.
Mrs. Annie Yeamans. Fanny Cohen. JOS
eph E. Whiting, George e. Boniface,
Seiene Johnson, Irene Hayward, Louise
Closer, Ellen Cummins, w. A. White
car, Edward Ames, Thomas NJ. Hunter.
H., Cosser, Joseph Bell, Gustave
Frankel, Jos. A. Wilkes, James Bevins.
James Floyd, John Jones', w. A. Black
and Edward Bartlett.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-10-19

Boys and girls. old and young. who en-
Joy Immensely the frivolities OF a Punch
and Judy show will be glad to learn that
the exhibition has a serious side as well
as a comic one-is. In fact. a direct lineal
descendant of the ancient miracle plays
which our ancestors were fond Of some
six or seven centuries ago. At least that
Is the opinion of the Rev. DR.. G.. n,
Woodward, who recently delivered a lee
ture IN Ancient Carols" In the chapter
house OF st. Paul's to members of the
Plainsong and Medieval Music Society.
He commended that the modern Punch and
Judy show. with its tambourine. drur,
and pipe. represented the triumph of vlr-
tue over vice. Punch is very like Pons.
or Pounce Pontius) Plate. Judy was In
for Judar' the traitor. or for
was evidently the dog mentioned ii tbs
book Of Tobit. He, therefore. discarded
the Italian derivation of the word and
held that tbs modern form Of the OLD
religious shoH was simply 4 corrupted
|Ss sss8ss Ssl.ss = ss'' Is asF e'e sa'sa rs sss
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-10-19

The reduction from 1895 to 1896 is Just
sal,Sss.A- But disseminating the publica-
ton Of the laws in the newspapers caused
an econom Of about 100000. Therefore.
the other expenses must have been about
$4,000 more e~xtravagant in 1896 than In
1895.
The reason why the State fund Tor 1887
Is about SO much is tina the figures
published SO far do not give 1t exactly.
# Is dumped, with the school fund,
and We a not accurate figures avail
able to disentangle the two accounts. The
figure we give is reached BY estimating
this years school money at about the
same as last years.
We further make ~ 1897 appropriation
fhus, ito date This Is because the de-
hciency bill is yet to come. It viii come
II next years session of the Legislature.
This years. deficiency bill is s2ss. 81. os for
ne General Fund. A similar addition To
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-10-19
Amerfcan Magic.

I was in a village in Beloochistan some
years ago. with a party which included.
among others. an American who had a
knack at p~restidigitation and magic.
Somehow or other he became opposed
to a native practitioner of the black art,
and a competition in magic was agreed
upon. When the party reached the clump
Of palms where the great struggle was
to be held we found the native necroman-
Ger surrounded with the darkest and most
impressive array of magical concomirants.
Very different was the attitude of the
American magician. who sailed up with
a smile IN his face and a satchel across
his shoulder.
The competition was short but decisive.
The American, while waiting for the COM
mencenent. took a fucifer out of his
pocket, struck it on the soul of his shoe,
and lit a cigarette. whereupon the whole
Oriental contingent took to their heels
The next day when we saw the Belooch-
istanese wizard at the next village, he
said he would compete in magic against
any man, bu4 no devil. lone who pickett
up a splinter of wood and lighreth ii into
a blaze from the FIRE in his heel is not
human" said the magician Allah pre-
serve US from the deviisl"
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-10-19
A Household In Germany.

Germany is not a rich country, and the
incomes of the professional and mercan-
tile classes are much smaller than in
England. so that the women OF these
classes are far more AIKEN up with house
hold care. There has been developed a
state of things where the minds of the
women are absorbed in details. The stand
ard Of German housekeeping is petty and
even so is hardly ever reached because
its multifarious requirements are too
many for the number of women in the
household to fuhill. No system has been
developed and housekeeping is both IN
scientific and inartistic; the German
should be devoted to the details of her
housekeeping, 60 makes no attempt to
simplify it that she may have time TO
develop her own individuality. Yet from
this unpromising class has come q move
menr to overcome German ~prejudices and
widen ideas about women; many women
of this class have shown an inclination
to revolt at the tyranny of the mis3irect-
ed household care. The aristoeratic wom-
en- of Germany take no interest in politics
and public life, the daughters especially
being very restricted, even In the matter
OF carrying on through study at home.
The universities a% practically closed
to women. and the English resourc of
nursing is hardly known to German
women; becoming a deaeoness is almost
the only way of leaving home for the
girl who does not marry, but that is far
from being an independent life. Charity
occupies the attention of the women of
bazars and concerts and some few socie-
ties for helping the poor and sick, in
which they do very little hard work
Newark Sunday Cali.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-10-19
The Great Financial JuggIe.

The Gr.ggsite papers last week printed
an elaborate figure juggle. designed to
deiude the people into the belief that the
Appropriation bill for the present year
and, that for 1867 stood for economical
management of the State finances. The
figures were divided up into ordinary
and extraordinary in a bewildering way,
and for former years the State and
school funds were separated, while for
1867 they were punched together. THIS
punching of the State and school funds
is a remarkable thing by the way. 1t
has not yet been revealed what extrav-
agance it is intended to cover up.
Brushing all the juggles aside the main
facts may as well be considered by the
people in their plain unaGorned verify.
And first Of all here is a statement of
the total annual aggregate expenditures
Of the State from both funds
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-10-19

N cHANcnRY 81 Ngw JERsEY.


To Cianbrock Steam Boiler Company and
John King and j. c. Mccullough. Receivers
By virtue Of an order Of the Court Of Chan
Gerry OF New Jersey, made on the day Of the
date hereof, in q cause wherein Anthony s.
DiHer is complainant and the Standard Iron
Company of Jersey City, yen and others are
defendants. you are required 10 appear. plead,
answer or demur 10 the bill u said CONF
plainant. on or before the first day Of De-
cember next, or the said bin win be taken az
confessed against YOU
The said bill is flied to foreclose two mort
cares given by the STANDARD Iron Company
ST Jersey City TO the said complainant. dated
November sth. 1890. and March LIST. 1899. re-
spective1y, upon certain lands In Jersey City
Hudson County, New Jersey, and you, the
Canhrock Steam Boiler Company, are made a
defendant because YOU are the holder of a
mortgage made by said Standard Iron Gem
pany Of Jersey City to William A D. Bow
man. BY virtue of an assignment duly re-
corded In the Registers Once of Hudson
County aforesaid; and you John King ard
]. G.. Mccullough. Receivers, ETC., are made
defendants because you recovered a Judgment
against said Standard Iran Company OF Jersey
City. and BY virtue thereof. you and each OF
you. claim TO have some lien upon Or interest
in the said mortgaged premises
Dated october LIST. Es5.
MANNING & EN9ELRREcHT,
Solicitors Of Complainant.
No. 2s Washington street, Jersey City, n. j.
$3.50.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-10-19
Highest Of al IN Leavening Powers-Latcst US. Govt Report
R BsklRs
ABSOLUTELY PURE

| tative faculties of their hearers, but al
dices. When the most important issue
are at stake, they ignore them and take
when they espouse a great and worthy
cause, their narrowness is apt to be pro-
ously to be the case in the consequences
of the Parkhurst crusade in New York.
Just what Mr.. Hathaway was, aiming
at in his sermon, we have failed on a
careful reading to discover. 1t seems to
be an inco~nsequential diatribe against
politics in general as they are, with a re-
mote suggestion that they should be
turned over to the control of the clerics.
In so far as his remarks were non-par-
tisan, they are to be commended. In 50
far as they tend to represent Sabbath
observance as the only or even the chief
issue of the age, they are simply fatuous.
Mr.. Scudder is not non-partisan. He
never is. He is a Republican. first, last
and all the time. in his pulpit and in his
study. in his private conversation n
in his exercise of his public functions as
a minister and a leader. If Mr.. Scudder
announced that a Republican ratification
meeting would be held at the Tabernacle
every Sunday evening during each cam
paign, nc one could cavil, for there is no
hypocrisy about Mr.. scudder's partisan
ship. It is of the out and out, all wool,
yard wide kind. What we complain of is
the fctional designation of the proceed
ings as religious services. But, so long
as the Tabernacle congregation stands 1t,
perhaps no one else has a right to kick.
Mr.. Scudder's idea of the Sheriff's duties
is funny. He seems to regard him as an
official jury packer. who is malfeasant if
he draws any one on a Grand Inquest
who is not warranted to indict everyone
and everything that Mr.. scudder disap-
This is about as near a reason
able alance as Mr.. Seudder ever gets
on a public question, and it is remark
able that such a man should be SO long
tolerated as a teacher upon practical
questions.
Every word of Mr.. Scudder's discourse
last evening reeked with partisan gall
and wormwood. There was not a sign
either of justice or charity perceptible in
it. 1t was such a speech as, if it had
been delivered on the hastings, we should
~denounce in very strong Anglo-saxon
terms. As it is. we leave it to the sense
of ~propriety Of a public that is not easily
fooled.
Before leaving Mr.. scudder, we beg to
offer him our respectful compliments on
his flowers of rhetoric. They are as
good as his sense and his morals. Here
is a specimen
The Sheriff's Office can be made a
sceptre of Righteousness or a sluice-gate
of iniquity.
There is a certain freshness and origi-
nality in picturing one and the same
thing as a sceptre and a sluice-gate.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-10-19
CHRIST n M'KINLEY.

H NVO
a the annual rally of the members of
the Waverly Congregational Church on
Booraem avenue. yesterday, the Rev. Mr..
Emerich, the pastor, delivered a political
sermon. in which he advised the male
members of his church to vote for Nc
Kinley and Hobart. During his remarks
he said that the coming election was the
most important one since the one previous
to the wal of the Rebellion. Every one
should do his duty at the polls. he said
on Election Day. and vote for Mckinney
and Hobart and sound money. Continuing.
he said
some preachers are opposed to bring
Ing politics into the pulpit. but I believe
that It is the duty of every minister to
ADVISE his congregation when the honor
Qf the country Is concerned
ne tnen compared the characters of
Christ, the Saviour, and Barabbas, the
good deeds performed by the Saviour, he
told of the robberies and w-ickedness Of
Barabbas. He then compared Bryan to
Barabbas- He said
B~arabbas, who was a robbie did not
pay his debts and believed in dishonest
money; just 50 Bryan would do. Bryan
wound repudiate our nations debt by
paying It off in money worth about half
Qi&o III NQQtd diflCSl
conhscate propeEty belonging to bodies Of
men, known as syndicates, in the name of
the government, thus making the govern
ment practically a robber.n
Then he elevated Mckinley TO the
state OF sainthood. by comparing him with
Christ he said, gave His life for the
people and taught everybody to be honest.
and that is what Mckinley is doing today.
He is giving his life, if need be. to the
American people to save the country from
dishonor and shame, and by his great
stand for honest money is teaching the
people of the United States to be honest
Tn rest of his sermon was chiefly
spiritual, with a word now and then upon
the great necessity of electing a sound
money ticket.
During the evening a silver collection
was taken up for the home Missionaries.
and two songs, which were written bv
Pastor Emerich, We're sung. One of the
songs was to the time Of die Wacht am
Rhein.''
The church was crowded and during the
sermon there was slight applause at times.
The preacher also said during his dis
course that two of the most prominent
members Of his congregation, one of which
was Mr.. G. F. Staples, a wealthy resident
OF the Heights, had always been good
Democrats. but this year were going to
vote for Mckinley.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-10-19
PUBLIC LIBRARY CIRCULATION.

The record of circulation of books for
home reading for the week ending October
II, 1896. was as follows:-General Works,
s.; Philosophy, So; Religion, 121; Sociology.
lao; Philology, "A; Natural Science, $50;
Useful Arts, 80; Fin Arts, SO; Literature,
$50; Fiction, 4,499; Juvenile Fiction, {, 23S;
History, go; Biography, 107; Travels, 329.
Total, 8, 1872.
Of this number there were delivered
through the delivery stations, 5,214.
Number Of borrowers registered during
the week, SO.
Total number of registered borrowers,
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-10-19
WILLIAM Hellsr and James Y. I'm.

We print in our news coluInns today
full and interesting sketches of the per-
sonality and career of William Heller and
James T. LilIis, Democratic candidates
for Sheriff and Surrogate, respectively.
The facts show them both to be able
men and good citizens, men of clean rec
ords and liberal views, men who are de-
serving of the support of all classes in
the community.
Mr.. Heller, when he is elected Sheriff,
will give the county a businesslike aG-
ministration of the office. He is a bust
ness a energetic and careful at the
same. time. He win carry these qualities
into his new post as he has into the trusts
which the public nave already reposed
in him. He will have the confidence of
the courts. the lawyers and their clients.
and, when his term ends, it will be found
that ne has deserved well of all. MT.
Heller will draw his juries, grand and
petit, fairly and squarely, without fear
or favor. He will select the members of
the Grand Inquest from the best ele-
ments of the community-thoughtful.
honorable men who have the public good
at heart. But he will not pack them
with his own friends or with his enc
mics enemies. He will not make his
selections from his party enrolment
sheets. He will not go through the coun-
ty with a fine comb to find persons who
are Indignantly disposed towards per-
sons or classes. whom he desires to strike.
In a word, in all matters where impair
tiality and ~even-handed justice will be
involved. his administration will be in
contrast with that given under Republic
can domination in his county.
Mr.. Lillis has been for over a score of
years an attache of the Surrogate's office.
He began in it almost a boy, and he has
thoroughly conversant with every detail
of the Office. He possesses the full trust
of the entire community. He has con-
Quoted his business in a way which has
won him the lasting friendship of those
whom bereavement has brought to his
office. 1t is said of him h he has more
personal friends h any man in Hud-
son county. This is probably true. He
has friends he knows nothing of, and
many of them are lifelong Republicans.
THE News cordially commends these
two sterling Democrats to the voters of
Hudson county Their personality en-
titles them to support and every con-
sideration of party loyalty demands that
they be supported for the good of the
party, whose mainstay they are in this
somewhat unhappy fight.
We urge every Democrat to vote for
William Heller and James T. Lillis.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-10-19
The Hesses at the Lyric Theatre.
Hoboken.

The Hoses are coming and have been
groomed up to date. This unnies Of
all farce comedies will prance at the
Lyric Theatre, Monday, Tuesday. Wednes-
day, and Wednesday matinee, and is said
to contain all new features: new shoes,
new girls. The cast contains such well
enw girls he cast contains such well
known people as Joseph Conyers. Eric
Pollock. Carlotta, Gussie Hart. Eddie
Magee, John McVeigh. Harry Belmont,
Sylvester Warren and a host of others.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-10-19

the 1897 appropriation will make the ex-
penses of the year about s2,5oo,o 900.
The explanation given for this years
heavy appropriation is that the extraor-
binary expenses are heavy. They are.
Here are some very pretty as well as
extraordinary expenses for a .Presiden-
tial year.: 500, 600 for a Camden Armory;
SIS, 900 for more building at the Morris
Plains Asylum; s75, 900 for the Reform
atory building job at Railway, and $4,000
for an emergency fund. for the Gov
ernor.
Economy and reform according to the
Republican dispensat;on. are truly great
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-10-19
Freeholders:-

Jersey City
First Ward-ALExANDER CLEMENTS.
Second Ward-MIcHAEL J. KENNY.
Third Ward-FRANK McNALLY.
Fourth Ward-JAMEs TREMBLE.
Fifth W~ard-PHILLIP McGovERN.
Sixth Ward-WILLIAM MCWnLAMs.
Seventh Ward-JosEPH P. MURRAY.
Eighth Ward-JoHN B. FAuNcE.
Ninth Ward-GREGoRY JUDGE.
Tenth Ward-JosEPH ~FIrzsIMMoNs.
Eleventh Ward-PETER F. MAGUIRE.
Twelfth Ward-CHARLEs SCHMIDT.
Bayonne-VALENTINE HoLzAPPLE, PETER
GALLAGHER.
H~oboken-JoHN f. HEATING.
Weehawken-SMoN KELLY.
West Hoboken-EDwARD T. BoEHLER,
RICHARD J.. LYNCH.
Union Hil-EML GRorH, FREDERICK
RIPE.
Guttenberg-CHARLEs KLEIN.
North Bergen-CoNRAD DTETz.
Harrison-JosEPH A. RIoRDAN.
East Eewark-JAMEs DUFFY.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-10-19
Is Enxland,s Prosperity nenaeeda

The chief obstacles to the progress of
education in England are party spirit n
religious intolerance. Proposals for edu-
cational reform are discussed and decid-
ed, not in a philosophical spirit. but with
all the acrimony Of p~artisans- Yet 1t is
admitted that the case is a very urgent
one; that England is engaged in a strug-
gle with her foreign competitors not only
for the supremacy but even for the very
existence of her Industries; that her
workers are worse instructed b their
rivals, and are on that account going
to the wall; and that better education,
both elementary and technical, is vital
TO the continuance of her prosperity. 1t
is the fact that in both town n coun-
try elementary instruction is so back
ward that, even il adequate technical
schools were provided, the mass of the
people are untitled to take full van
tage of them. Yet, Notwithstanding all
this, English statesmen will postpone re-
form indefinitely If they can see their
way to secure q party advantage there
by. The only hope is that public opin-
ion may appreciate, before it is too late,
the position of education. both element
airy and technical; may become agreed
as to the direction in which development
ought to take place. and may force Par
lament and the government to grapple
with the difficulties which have to be
overcome.-North American Review for
October.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-10-19
DR.. PEAROE's RECITAL.

At the First Presbyterian Church, last
night, the following works of Schubert
were rendered by DR.. S. Austin Pearce-
Allegro" .'Andante Con Moto,s in A
minor; finale, Allegro vivace,e Sacred
Tears" Lob der Thraen, AVE Marian.
The Soul Shall Live Forever" and
Great Is Jehovah, the Lord"
DR.. Pearce played between the hours
of 7:30 to s o'clock, just prior to the
services.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-10-19

The programme which was given at the
Bon Ton Theatre this afternoon was in
keeping with the excellent performances
which have been given at this theatre
his season. It is replete with the best
people on the vaudeville stage, and every
one of them is an artist.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-10-19

A monument in honor of Vatican will
be dedicated in the Garden of Luxem-
bourg, Paris. on October II, the 10th an
niversary Of the painters birth. 1t will
Carrara marble IN the style Of Louis
XIV, supporting a bust of the artist. Be
meath is the simple inscription: "a. Wat
teau. 16S4-l721.'