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carpenter, shot himself by placing the end
OF barrel of "A gun in his mouth and pull
ing the trigger with string looped
around his foot. His head was half blown
off. He had been drinking.
STOCKTON, June 12-At a meeting of
the board of education last night. after lis
tening to the appeals Of a number of col
ored petitioners, that the Octavius Cato
school be kept open to their race, the
boards decision to close the school was re-
considered.
MOUNT HOLLY, n. j., June 12.-John
Koenig, alias Leisner, who has just served
years Imprisonment for shooting an Of
ficer at Avondale, Pa, who was convicted
at the present term Of the Burlington
county court for roLbing b store at Penn
berton, was yesterday sentenced by Judge
Gaskill to five years in the state prison.
TRENTON, June 16-A decision was rem
dered in the court of errors and appeals
yesterday which clears up the question
whether trolley companies can erect poles
in front of private properties without the
consent of owners. The decision answers
the question in the affirmative. The case
was that of Mrs. Washington A. Roeblng
against the Trenton Traction company.
CAMDEN, y. J., June 12.-The Camden
county grand jury yesterday returned
thirteen indictments against Frank +.
Michellon, ex-city treasurer. Six of the
indictments charge him with embezzle-
ment, and the other seven with malfeas-
ance in office. The ex-city treasurer was
not in court, but he is in the city, and he :
was given until today to secure bonds
men. Bail was fixed at 5000.
JERSEY CITY, June 12.-Edward Cliff
ford, who killed William G. Watson, di-
vision superintendent of the West Shore
railroad, in Weehawken last March, was
put on trial for his life here yesterday.
Clifford had been a detective in the ser
vice Of the West Shore road, and it is al
legged that the killing of Superintendent
Watson was done out of revenge because
Watson discharged him for drunken
ness.
JERSEY CITY, June 12.-The Erie Rail
road company has agreed to go to the en-
ormous expense of s1,0OOO0O in order to
elevate its tracks in Jersey City BY so
doing it has brought joy to the hearts of
the thousands of people who have been
clamoring for track elevation for the past
five years. The plans for the abolition of
the Erie's grade crossings are now being
perfected by the railroad company's en-
gineer.
AsBURY PARK, June 1O-Mrs Peter
Stein, while craZed with grief, committed
suicide Monday night by drowning. She
jumped from the Deal lake bridge about
o'clock. Mrs. Stein had been to the Long
Branch hospital to see her husband who
was fatally kicked by horse last week.
The doctors told her that her husband
could not live through the night. Mr..
Stein died at midnight. The couple left
no children.
ATLANTIC CITY, June 15.-One of the
severest wind and rain storms in many
years passed over this city yesterday, blow
ing down trees fences, smokestacks, two
tents Of the Salvation Army, and creating
other damage A pleasure yacht named
Tillie Covert was sunk at the Inlet, but
fortunately no one was aboard at the
time The schooner Richard X. Fox had
her rigging torn in pieces, while smaller
boats were driven up the bank along the
Inlet.
GLOUCESTER CITY, June 13-Alfred Pan
coast, II years, who lived with his parents
on Market street, went with several cont
panions into bathe this afternoon in the
Delaware river, near McGlade's pavilion.
The current was swift, and before his
companions could reach him in response
to his call for help he sank out of sight
A search was made by crews of boatmen
and the body was recovered. Efforts were
made to resuscitate' the lad but unsuc-
ceSsfully.
JERSEY CITY, June Ex-Governor Griggs
has decided to respite John Mackin, who
was sentenced to be hanged on June IS
for the murder of his wife and his mother
in-law until after the next meeting of the
board of pardons, which will be held June
%, in order that his counsel, Mr.. Denim,
might apply to have the sentence COM
muted to life imprisonment. Mackin, who
has been on the verge of collapse, and
whose death from fright was anticipated,
was overjoyed when his counsel told him
of the reprieve.
JERSEY CITY, June 15.-Probably for the
first time on record in this state, jury
in murder case brought in a verdict of
murder IN the first degree, accompanied by
a recommendation of mercy. This prece-
dent was established by the St 'uck jury
which tried ex-Detective Edward Clifford
G. Watson, of the West Shore railroad, on
March s. The court would not accept the
recommendation to mercy. The law does
not permit it. Clifford was remanded for
sentence He will be hanged, unless the
court of pardons interferes. He killed
Watson because Watson had discharged
him.
ATLANTIC CITY, June 13.-A young man
who lives at Baltic and Michigan avenues
was severely beaten by Mrs. Samuel Her
bert, Of Atlantic and Illinois avenues,
about l o'clock this morning, because Of
his alleged attempted assault upon her g.
year-old daughter on the beach front dur
ing the afternoon. The child told her
mother of the circumstances, and the lat
ter armed with horsewhip and escorted
by her husband, laid in waiting for the
victim While the husband held him the
wife mercilessly piled the whip, cutting
him in several places about the head and
face and making him smart from head to
foot Sheer exhaustion alone compelled
her to stop.
CAMDEN, n j., June 1O.-The steamer
Bermuda, which has figured so promi-
nently in carrying men and war materials
to aid the Cuban insurgents, was seized
yesterday by Acting Deputy United States
Marshal Jacob Leon, of this city. The
papers in the case were issued by United
States Commissioner J. Willard Morgan,
of Camden The Bermuda is libelled on
a claim for $3.50 unpaid wages. The plain
tiffs are George Mansen, Servente Goden
and John Peterson, able Sc amen. The Ber-
muda has been living at the Vine street