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The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-05-28
ON ADEATH BED FROM CIGARETTES
A IA Year Old Lad Who Smoked
Since He Was Z Years old.
Nhecinl 10 tlIc .Ierseu Cif1 M5eai

ATLANTIC CITY. May %, 1sss.-Harry
Jeffries, the foutrteen-year-old som Of
ex-Life Guard Jeffries, is dangerously
Ill at his home. No. 2So6 Arctic avenue
from the excessive use of cigarettes and
Is not expected to live twenty-four hours.
The boy was taken i'll about two DAYS
ago with Inflammation of the stomach
and is suffering great agony. He has
been in the habit of smoking cigareffes
since he was seven years old. The physi-
slams say that nicotine produced the
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-05-28
CADETS ON GUARD


sIFF7Hb 70 rHt JtT5tU C1U NEUx-
TRENTON. May %, 1S96.-Lieutenant
M. w. Roweil Of the Tenth United States
Cavalry, by request Of Major General
Joseph w. Plume, has made a visit to
the Bordentown Military Institute, at
BordentoWn, and has instructed the
cadets in the United States regulations
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-05-28
BETTER rot DRINK AT ALL

From the Evening Sum Of Monday.
The Christian En~deavorers Of Jersey
been providing for The past I'VE q six
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-05-28
PIDooOK's NEW VENTURE.

.Specfdt to the Jersey City Nems.
PENNINGTON, May %. 1Sse.-Ex-Con-
gresham Pidcock is setting out so. 900
peach trees on his farm, near White
House. Hunterdon county.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-05-28
SEWER IN FIFTH sTREET.

SEWER IN FIFTH STREET,
from Newark avenue to Brunswick street. and
through Brunswick street to and connecting
with sewer in Fourth street.
Said sewer to be built confor,nably 20 the
provisions of Chapter 27 of the Laws of 1895.
in the office Of the Clerk Of said Board.
Blank forms of bid and agreement Of sure
ties must be obtained at the office Of the
Chief Engineer. corner Of Jersey avenue and
Mercer street. Jersey City. N. ].
ESTIMATE OF QUANTITIES.
About $40 lineal feet 15-inch vitrifed pipe
sewer.
About 5000 feet 3. NJ. sheathing and bot
tom.
About . receiving basins.
About 100 lbs. I'D. nails.
Time allowed for the completion Of the
work. 40 working days
The making of the above Improvement and
the award or contract therefor will be sub
ject to the remonstrance Of 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 the Construc-
tion of Sewer in Fifth Street, etc." directed
to 'tMr. John c. Kaiser, Chairman of the
Committee on Streets and Sewers and hand
ed to the Clerk of the Board in open meeting
when called for in the order of business re-
No city official will be accepted as surety,
nor will a substitution of sureties be allowed.
The Board may. under the provisions of the
act above cited. exercise its right to reject
any OF. all proposals.
The attention Of bidders is especially called
to Section Z, Chapter 1874 of the Laws of 1891,
be binding upon the city or become effective
or operative until the bondsmen offered by
the contractor have been approved as to
suficiency by this Board, and as to form by
the Corporation Counsel, the President of this
Board having power to examine the proposed
bondsmen under oath.
GEO. T, BoUToN.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-05-28
The Coronation of Ia Gar and It's
Usefulness.

People who have read the accounts of
the coronation Of the Car for the last
day or two and who have learned that
the splendors of that event cost $40, 900, 900,
may be apt to regard the expenditure as
a hideous waste. No doubt many will make
the old stock comment that this sum
would have fed thousands of poor people
for months. and there will be those who
VII regard it as sin and shame that so
much should be thrown away on pride
and vainglory.
A second thought will correct this i'm
preston It will be seen that the money
Is not wasted and the human race is vast
" advanced by the display which is
bought with it. 1t is almost trite to point
out that the money has in fact gone to
feed the poor. 1t has eventually filtered
down to the army of artisans who con-
structed the show and who helped bring
together the concourse who witnessed it.
It has gone into the pockets off artists
and designers. of goldsmiths and jewell
lers, of makers of ornaments and fine
fabrics, of tailors and dressmakers. IT
mas given work to railway employees, to
hotel servan and to all the thousands
who minister to the travelling public.
Thus there is no economic waste of the
money, and the people who receive it pro-
fit far more by earning it through their
kill and toll than they would If it were
gwen them as mere largesse, seeing that
their self-respect is preserved and cuiti-
waited.
But, besides, the world profits by the
material for thought and Imagination
which the spectacular display affords. In
this respect, we in Republican America
are the beneficiaries almost equally with
the Russians themselves. If we afford the
other nations of the earth lessons in poll
tical freedom and the simplicity of indie
pendent manhood, they reciprocate with
suggestions as to the grandeur and ma
jesty of authority.
Our minds are so constructed that our
abstract ideas are all based upon the con
5Fsrete facts of life. Even our conception
of the Almighty is a product of our knowl-
edge of earthly rulers, and when we try
to define his position in the universe, we
can find no better formula for his awe
inspiring dignity than to call him King
OF Kings. Our best conceptions of the
Heaven to which we all aspire are con-
strueted out of just such materials as
dazzled the multitudes at Moscow with
the sheen of gold and the radiance of pre-
cious stones. The Imagination of Milton
could go no farther than to picture the
Deity as
Safe Of a throne whose glories far out
shone
The wealth of ormuz or of Ind
And Macaulay speaks Of the rebel an
gels in Paradise as casting down upon
the jasper pavement their crown Of
amaranth and gold"
It is curious to think what the mate
rails for such imaginings will be If ever
the world reaches a time when there will
be no Kaiser, no Car. no King. no En-
peror, and when materiafism and the Grad
grind spirit of ",practicalHy'' will have
reduced expenditures to an even relation
with the daily needs of hunger n thirst.
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The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-05-28
HOTEL

A MEETING OF THE STOCKHOLDERS OF
the Upright Cycle Company is called, to be
held at the dftlce OF the company, Green and
Grand streets, Jersey City, n. j.. at eleven
o'clock A.. NJ, June 16, for the purpose OF
voting on a resolution to issue one hundred
thousand dollars of preferred stock.
HOWE Secrataru-
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-05-28
dated Jersey CITY. May %. 1873
NOTICE nc CONTRACTORS.

Sealed proposals will be received by the
Board of Street and Water Commissioners on
Monday, June l. 1856. at two O'Clock P. NJ,
for the construction of a 15-inch vitrifed
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-05-28
MILITARY.

NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. FOR THE u. s.
Marine Corps, able-bodied, unmarried men
between the ages of q and so years. Applv
u. S. Marine Recruiting Office. No, 100 West
street, New YORK. City.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-05-28

No, Maudas dear, the greatest prevaricatore
AZ not work "A w fAsterisa
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-06-18
THE NEWS OF SAN JOSE,
More Dispositions Against Mrs.
Emma Parker in the Will
Contest.
Accused of Intemperance, Immoral ty
and Making Threats to Kill
Jane Pomeroy.

SAN JOSE, CAL, June lin the
Parker will contest to-day some damaging
evidence was introduced against Emma
L.. Parker, the contestant. The entire day
was given over to the reading of deposit
tons and most OF them gave Mrs. Parker a
very bad reputation.
At the opening of court the reading of
the deposition of Margaret Mcdonald was
continued. She had advised Mrs. Emma
Parker to tell George Parker and Noah
and Jane Pomeroy the truth about her
past life.
Emma Parker was afraid to do so. A
Mr.. Mitchell called at the Pomeroy house
and Emma Parker said that he was settling
up her estate in California. She also told
her husband SO. When Edward Park er
found out that his wife had lied to HIM
about her property he was very angry.
Mrs. Pomeroy told Mrs. Mcdonald that
Emma Parker was an inveterate liar.
There were number of stories af1oat in
the neighborhood as to Mrs. Parker's past
life.
The deposition of Mrs. Mary A. Frost
a cousin of Mrs. Jane Pomeroy, was then
read. She had lived at Mrs. Pomeroy's
house, and had room on the same floor
as Edward Parker and his wife. The night
Edward Parker and his wife LETT the Pome-
roy house she heard EmmaParker threaten
to blow Jane Pomeroy's brains out.
Emma Parker was enraged because Mrs.
Pomeroy had found out about her past life
and bad character.
The deposition OF George Lewis was very
damaging to the contestant. He had
known Mrs. Parker at Plantsville. He
had gone TO school with her, and her name
then was Emma Hough. Prior to her
Z. M D.. -
ing with man. Her character for chast-
ity had always been bad. After her mar
riage she was known to have criminal
intimacies with other men.
George Van Nostrand, captain of police
of Meriden Conn.,, said he knew Mrs. Par
ker as Emma Hough in 1868. At that
time she was an inmate of house of i'll
fame. On one occasion she got drunk and
raised a row, and was ordered by the po-
lice to leave town.
Similar dispositions showing the bad
character of Mrs. Emma Parker were read
during the dav
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-06-18
Of the ESQ Persons on Board
Probably All but a Few
Were Lost.
THREE SURVIVORS PICKED UP.
Tugs Have Been Sent From Brest in
the Hope of Making Further
.RescueS

LONDON, Eng, June ia dispatch
received here to-day reports that the Brit
lsh steamer Drummond Castle, which
sailed from Table Bay May % for this
port with $50 persons on board, was sunk
near Ushant, the most westerly of the
islands off the coast of Brittany, France.
She was damaged by collision with an
other steamer and sank in three minutes.
A survivor of the disaster, named Mer-
werk, is at Ushant, and two Others at lie
de Molen. Six bodies have been recovered.
A representative of the Castle line stated
that the Drummond Castles passenger
list contained 143 names, and that she car
ried crew of 104 men.
The United Press correspondent at Brest
telegraphed tonight that no positive
knowledge had been obtained up to that
hour regarding the fate of the missing
passengers and crew of the sunken steamer
except as before reported-one survivor
was at Ushant and two others were at the
lie de Molen, and that six bodies had
been recovered. The corr espondent also
stated that search is being made by
steamers in the vicinity of the scene of the
disaster in the hope of rescuing other sur
vivors.
The Drummond Castle was of 1881 tons
register and was commanded by Captain
Pierce. She belonged to the famous Cas-
tie line of steamships running between
South Africa and London, and was last
heard of at Las Palmas.
Tugs have been sent out from Brest to
the scene of the disaster in the hope of
picking up some of the survivors. The
fate of the steamer with which she col
!ided is not known
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-06-18
Redemption Of DupOnt.St. Bonds.

TREAsURER's OFFICE. CITY ANDCoUNTY
of San Francisco June IL, 1895.
Holders of Dupont-street bonds issued under an
act of The state Legislature entitled IAN act 70
authGrz the widening of Dupont street, in the
City of San Francisco" adopted March o. 1873
are h. reby notified that the undersigned will re
ceive sealed proposals for surrender of said
bonds, as provided by section Is Of said act at
his ofi1ce, III the New CITY Hall, San Francisco,
1895. - ~ -
the amount to be applied to the redemption OF
said nonds is about three hundred and seventy-fve
tnousAnd collars (S3160O0). Bidders will state
At what rate they will surrender their bonds for
payment. less coupons due. No proposals above
par will be considered.
Bids to be Endorsed, Proposals for Surrender of
Dupont-street Bonds.'' A. G. WIDBER
City and County Treasurer.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-06-18
Followed by Incessant Shocks
Which Paralyze the In.
habitantS.
TIDAL-WAvE ACCOMPANIMENT.
Town of Kamaishi Swept Out of Elk.
istenee-0nly Meager Details
Obtainable.

YOKOHAMA, JAPAN. June 17.-Earth-
quakes and tidal waves have caused great
loss of life in Northern Japan.
The town of Kamaishi has been entirely
destroyed and it is estimated that at least
1000 people were killed. During twenty
hours there were 159 distinct shocks Of
earthquake. The tidal waves did much
damage along the coast.
The island of Yesso, where the greatest
devastation and loss of life occurred, con-
tains the northern, provinces of Japan
none of which escaped the effects of the
awful calamity.
The ground rumblings are described as
resem bling the roar of distant cannon
and were followed by incessant shocks fol
fifty hours, during which time the inhab-
itants who were not engulfed were par
alyzed with fear.
1t is impossible to obtain details or the
disaster at present. but enough is known
to make it certain that it is one of the
most appalling of modern times.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-06-18
LOVED BY A CONDUCTOR
Mrs. McIlrath of Oakland Fol-
lowed East by a Street-Car
Man.
He Made Threats Against Her Life
and She Had Him Ar.
rested.

CLEVELAND, OHIO, June IL. = Mrs
Agnes McIlrath of West Oakland, CAL,
called at the Office of the Police Prosecutor
this afternoon to ask protection against
w. E. Jackson from the same place. Her
story was distinctly peculiar. Mrs. Nc
Ilrath said she was widow and in good
social standing in West Oakland, and was
accustomed to ride on the Grove-street
line of streetcars
Jackson was fine-looking fellow and
was conductor on that line and became
madly in love with her. He sec ured an
introduction and for time she returned
his interest. After a little, however, he
became obnoxious to her and she treated
him with GOODNESS and tried to rid herself
of him. He acted with violence, threat
ening to shoot her and threw stone at
her.
After considerable trouble she left Cali
fornia to visit relatives in her girlhood
home in Beaver, Pa, chiefly to get rid of
Jackson. From there she came here, and
is stopping with the family of S. I. Leba-
ron on Crawford road. Last night, to her
dismay, Jackson called there, and threat
ened that if she would not meet him in
Wade Park this afternoon he would kill
her or throw vitriol in her face.
The police told her to keep the appoint
ment, and were there at the time and
arrested Jackson. The man says he never
threatened the woman, but admits his
passion. Mrs. McIlrath is in mortal terror
of him. For time she lived in the Mil
lard House in Oakland and was later on
the staff of the West Oakland Home.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-06-18
TAooMA,s NEW DRYDooK.
CdptGin Higgins Is bout to Common


Captain Higgins Is bout to Commence
Operations.
TACOMA. WASH, June H. Captain
John E. Higgins announced to-day that
he will build craving drydock at the
Narrows, five miles west of Tacoma, COM
mencing next month. To-day he sent the
plans and contracts to New York to his
brother and other capitalists interested in
the project.
Contractors Dougan, Bringham & Cowen
to-day signed contract to build the dock
for $50, 900, giving $400 bond. AS soon
IS the contract and plans are ratified in
the East work will be commenced.
Repair shops and machinery will in
crease the cost OF the plant to over $685.
600. The dimensions of the dock will be-
Length. clear of keel blocks, 425 feet !;
depth. q feet; width, 80 feet at top and
so on bottom. 1t will be similar in con-
struction and about two-thirds of the size
of the Government dock at Port Orchard.
CAPTAIN Higgins has been prominent on
the PACING Coast since 1851, when he ar
rived at San Francisco as mate on the
John Bestram.
Between then and 1870 ne was fore
man for several years during the con-
struction of the docks at Mare Island and
foreman in the employ of the Pacific Mail
Company three years. In the seventies he
built several steamers-at Sacramento, later
coming to Puget Sound, where he got out
cargoes of spars for San Francisco firms
He has been working on the drydock pro-
ject six years, securing the site in 1890.
This will make the second dryuock at Ia
coma, the floating dock at Quartermaster
Harbor having been built in 1891.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-06-18
A DARE DEVIL ENTERPRISE.
How Robert Smalls Seized the Confed-
crate Steamship Planter.

How Robert Smalls Seized the Confed-
crate Steamship Planter.
How Robert Smalls, the well-Known
negro politician of Charleston, s. G., took
possession of the Confederate steamship
Planter in Charleston harbor during the
war and delivered her to the Federal au-
thorities forms the subject of one of the
most interesting war claims now before
Congress. At that time Smalls received a
part of the prize-money, but the full
amount to which he was entitled was
never paid him, and there is now before
the House BILL favorably reported,
which appropriates $4,000, to be paid over
to him for the performance of one of the
most daring feats of the rebellion. This
case is not entirely new in Congressional
history, for Mr.. Smalls has not been idle
all these years, and the measure has been
previously considered by the committee
and favorably recommended. But COM
paratively few persons know the history of
the case, which is given in detail in one of
the reports recently made to the House
from the Committee on War Claims:
On May Is, 1862, the Confederate steam
boat Planter, the special dispatch.boat of
General Ripley, the Confederate post COM
mander at Charleston, S. c., was taken by
Robert Smalls under the following cir
cumstances from the wharf at which she
was lying, carried safely out of Charleston
harbor, and delivered to one of the vessels
of the Federal feet then blockading that
port:
On the day previous, May II, the Planter,
which had for two weeks been engaged IN
removing guns from Coles Island to James
Island, returned to Charleston. That night
all the officers went ashore and slept in
the city, leaving on board crew of eight
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-06-18
RACING IN THE EAST.

Results at the Forsyth, GrGUesend and
st. Louis Tracks.
CHICAGO, ILL, June 17.-Results at For.
syth:
Seven Undergraduates won; Big Strike Sec
ond, Frank Jauber third. Time, 1881.
Four and half furlongs-Chenille won, Ma
RE Csecond, Sieg fried third Time, 0:55.
One mile-Orinda won, Loudon second
Charlie Mcdonald third. Time, All.
One and quarter m1les-Tambio won, Her.
cules second, My Luck third. Time, FL ga,
Six furlongs-Miss Young won, Lollie Eastin
second, Nellie H third Time, 1:1412.
Six and half furlongs- Revenue won, We
ola second, John Hickey third. Time, :2015
NEW YORK, N. Y, June 17.-Results at
Gravesend:
Five furlongs, Eldolon won Set Fast second,
Euphemia third. Time, / :04.
One and a sixteenth miles, Lansdale won,
Doggett second. Relief third. Time, 1:5212.
One mile: Roundsman won, Sherlock second,
Baritone ii third Time, :4734.
Five furlongs, Royal Rose won, Florian sec
ond Collateral third. Time, l:04.
One and an eighth miles, St. Maxim won,
Belmar second. keenan, third. Time, 2:O2
Six furlongs, Amanda won, Palmerston Sec
ond, Brilliancy third Time, lis.
ST. LOUIS, Mo-, June 17.-Results
Six furlongs-Strathreel won, Bridget second,
Joe 0'Sot third. Time, l 49,.
Five furlongs-Harrie Floyd won, Answer
second, Kasdsle third. Time, 1;04.
Mile and guarter-;Argentlna won, Don
Six furlongs-Dorah Wood won, May Thomp-
son second. Sligo third. Time, IA.
Six and a half furlongs--Goodwin II won,
Nellie Fl Ill second, Jovial third. Time,
:221a.
OAKLEY, OHIO, June 17.-Suisun, Mike
DIVERS $4,000 beauty, ran unplaced in the
third race to-day. Summarizes:
Four and half furlougs, selfng-Fessy
won, Elgitha second, Frances Fesler third.
Time. :56.
Seven furlongs, selling-Katie G won, Lucy
Lee second, Black Silk third. Time, 28A
Five and half furlongs. George Rose won,
Oak Leaf second, Bell Bramble third. Time,
/ :0S.
Seven furlongs selling, Paul Pry won. Car
RE Lyle second, Rasper third. Time, 1:27H.
Four and half furlongs, Ella T. won, Lady
Sover second, Alice G.. third. Time, :55.
One mile, selling, Helen Mar won, Good Adj
vice second, Daisy Bolander third. Time,
L :42%.
PORTLAND, Or, June 17.-Results at Irving
ton to-day:
Trotting 2:15 class-Challenger Chief won,
Shamrock second. Time, I'll.
Running, seven-eighths of Il mile dash--Jim
Bozeman won, Allahabad second. Time, 1928
best time for distance in the State ON slow
track.
Running, half a mile--I Don't Know won,
grover second. Time. 80.
Running, three-quarters of mtle-Baby
Ruth won, Skalhaho second. Time, 10.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-06-18
RENO LIBEI SUIT.

Dtstrict Attorney NOrcross after the
Publishers of the journal.
RENO, New, June 17.-WaCrants in
criminal libel proceedings were served to-
night on E. D. Kelly, editor of the Daily
Journal, and H. H. Beck, a prominent
citizen of Reno. The complainant is F.
IT. Norcross, District Attorney OF this
county: The proceedings grew out OF a
newspaper article appearing in the Jour
nal this morning which termed the Dis
trict Attorney one OF ring OF Dooolers
who were robbing the county through
fraudulent claims allowed by the Board of
Commissioners.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-06-18
WoRsr FEARS ooSFIRmED.
HeGrtrendin0 Scenes at the Office of the
Steamship Company.

HeGrtrersdinc Scenes at the Office of the
Steamship Company.
LONDON, Enc, June ia telegram
was received tonight at the Admiralty
Office from the commander of the British
warship Sibyll, which is cruising
in the Bay of Biscay, confirm
ing the reports previously received re-
garding the suddeness of the laundering of
the Drummond Castle. The telegram
states that the Sibyll lowered her boats
and did all possible to rescue those on
board the steamer, but the efforts OF the
cruisers men we're in vain.
Many friends of persons who we're known
to have been on board the lost steamer,
especially ladies, remained at the offices of
the steamship company until late to-
night, hoping to learn that there were
other survivors of the disaster, and that
among them would be found their friends.
The kilograms received only tended to
confirm the worst reports and several per-
sons tainted and many painful scenes
were enacted when the messages were
read.
This Castle Steamship Company at mid
night tonight had received no further
news regarding the sinking of the boat
The Daily News prints the names of
some of the passengers on the Drummond
Castle including number of residents of
Johannesburg, Kim berley and Cape Town,
who were accompanied by their wives and
children.
The News also publishes report of an
interview had with Sir Donald Currie, Nj.
P, chairman Of the Castle Steamship Com
pany, in which Sir Donald declared that
Ushante was terrible place; the current
in the vicinity OF the island being very
strong and running irregularly.
Captain Pearce, Sir Donald added, had
been thirty-three years in the company's
service and was considered irst:rate
man.
Among the passengers on the Drum
moud Castle were some of the persons
who were concerned in the recent troubles
in the Transvaal. Late advices from Brest
state that the Drummond Castle was max
ing the passage from Plymouth to the
east of Ushante Island when the acct
dent occurred.
A slight haze hung over the water and
the steamer crashed upon rock and
foundered in three minutes.
This disposes of the report that the boat
was in a collision, and it is conjectured
that the Drummond Castle was lost while
trying to make the always dangerous pas
sage to the east of Ushante Island.