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The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-02-06
IN new YORK.
Whirlwinds About the Post
Office Wagon Overturned
by a Gust.

Inere was probably no spot in New
York where the wind blew at a greater
velocity than at the corner of Beekman
and Nassau streets. AT the intersection
OF these two streets there is a high builae
ing on each of the four corners, forming
sort OF canyon, through which the
wind whirled and swept at a great We
loctty. 1t was like mild tornado
AS the wind swept around Nassau street
and whfrled across the four corners ii
caught those walking the streets un-
aWares. Umbrellas were turned inside
out or wrenched them from their owners
grasp and hurled down the street Hats
We're torn from the heads of men and
women and blown along the muddy pave
ment at rapid rate The wrecks Of
five umbrellas were left in the street
within fifteen minutes time.
crowd of between twenty-five and
thirty-fve people stood on the south
east corner cheering the different inei-
dents. AT $3.50 o'clock one philanthropie
Individual stationed himself on the cor
ner opposite to the crowd and warned
persons to hold their hats and fold up
their umbrellas before they got into the
field of the vortex. The crowd dispersed
and then reformed again
A sudden gust of wind overturned the
wagon of Arthur, Mountain Co., of 56
Cedar street, on the west side of Broad
way just above Trinity Church. at 1880
o'clock this morning.
The wind wrenched the shafts and two
front wheels from the wagon proper and
partly demolished it. The driver of the
wagon and companion were thrown
from the seat to the pavement, but es-
capped injury.
The wind struck the wagon in the
rear The horse, as soon as the wagon
was overturned, turned around to run
The hub of one of the front wheels
which he dragged after him caught in
the as,, wagon and stove a hole in its side.
collision of the wheel with the wagon
and dashed down Broadway at a rapid
rate. The driver, his companion and a
which had witnessed the accident, fol-
lowed the runaway horse
The wagon at the time of the accident
was half filled with packages of station
cry The goods were not damaged by
fhn q
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-02-06
A HURRICANE.
Most Furious Wind Storm on
Record Sweeps Over the
Region Of New York.
MANY WRECKS IN THE BAY
A Ship Blown Away With
Two Tugs and Cast on a
Brooklyn Pier.
BUILDING FALLS IN BROOKLYN
Trolleys and TelegraE....
iously Hampered in and
About Jersey City.
TREE FALLS ON A HORSE.
Travel to Newark Suspended
Tracks Buried Under Sand on
West Side Avenue.

The storm that we are having today
is blizzard in all but two tfings-the
wind isn't cold and. there is no snow
If the temperature was little lower
it would be another such storm as the
blizzard of 1888
The wind today is about as high as it
was on that memorable occasion almost
eight years ago. for at ten O'Clock this
morning it was blowing at rate that
varied between 60 and 70 miles an hour.
and at nine o'clock it was 6S.
At that time Mr.. Dunn said the wind
would increase during the day.
How much higher it would get he
couldn't say this morning. The centre
of the storm was not with us then. II
was over Pennsylvania and East Vir-
ssnia, and was coming toward us at a
great rate. How fast it has been travel
ing may be judged from the fact that
the centre of it was over Alabama last
night and by tonight will be passing
over us. The present storm started for
US from the west coast of Texas yester-
day morning. The rainfall wherever
The storm visited was very heavy. Up
to ten o'clock this morning one and one
quarter inches of rain had fallen here
The Thermometer here at the same time
registered 80 degrees, while the bar
ometer was very low.
AT Washington the barometer was the
lowest known in many years. It stood
there this morning at 29.04.
There is no doubt that if there are any
ships along the coast that many wrecks
will be reported as a result of the storm
1t is the most dangerous storm we have
had in many day. The gale is from the
northeast and are particularly dangerous
along the New England and New Jersey
coasts.
The gales will continue today and to-
night. 1t is SO serious a matter that
Chief Moore of the Weather service has
instructed these in charge of the weather
bureaux along the coast to hold all ship
ping Danger signals are set all along
the coast The storm is accompanied
by a heavy fog, which, of course, in
creases the danger.
The fruiterer Lamington, now ashore
off Blue Point L. T., win probably suffer
severely from the storm. In the position
she occupied for several days the st.
Paul would have been wrecked entirely
had she not been got off before the storm
broke on the coast.
Owing TO the violence of the storm the
telegraph wires running in and out of
the city worked slowly They delayed
the production of Mr. Dunns weather
chart until noon. At about 1890 two
of the Western Unions wire routes run
ming south gave ont. Five routes re-
mained.
Superintendent Humstone said he did
not expect that the storm would cripple
the service to any great extent.
add storm
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-02-06
THE JERSEY BIDDERS
The ProVident Savings Bank
Will Get 100000 of
the Great Loan.
WHO IS L. CAHILL. JR.a
He Subseribes for Two Million
Dollars but Nobody in This
City Knows Him.
TABULATING THE OFFERS
Nobody Who Bid Below the Nor
gan Syndicate Will Get
Any of the Bonds.
TABULATING THE OFFERS

Inere were several New Jersey peo-
pie among those who bid for the isspe of
government gold bonds yesterday. The
Provident Institution for Savings made
four bids of $4,000 each at 111.So. III 90
1O.8Q and 1000. The officers of the in
stitution expect that they will receive
100000 of the bonds at their two highese
figures although much figuring will have
to be done before that is settled.
In the published list of the bidders
appears the names of L. Cahill, Jr., Of
Jersey City, who rendered a bid for
100000 at 1Os to 1Os125. Mr.. icahin APP
pears to be sort of Mrs. Harris. None
of the leading financiers in the city know
him nor is he known at any of the banks.
It is evident that some mistake has
been made in the case of Mr.. Cahill.
Either his name is misprinted or else he
belongs to some other city.
+ New Jersey is represented in the highs
est and the lowest bid. Among, those
who bid 1882 was the First National
Bank of Woodstown, which asked for
$1,000 at that price. The next highest
Jersey bidder is the Salem National
Banking Company, which asked for s.,
500 at lis. Then comes the Trenton Bank
ing Company with bid of ia for $780,
COO of the bonds, and next to that solid
old institution comes Joseph Stubie, OF
Monroe who offered ITO take s100 at 1l3.
John A Hall, of Trenton, bid LIZ for sa,%
0oo in his capacity as tfustee and for a
similar amount en- his own individual
account. The Camden Safe Deposit and
Trust Company asked for s25 900 at 112,
and for a similar amount al IL Lerria
T: Scarritt, of Orange, made two bids;
one of 111.5O for $4,000, another of III
for $4,000. The First National Bank of
Belleville offered to take $4,000 at Ill
The Vineland National Bank would pay
Ill for $1,000 and H. A. Ensign, of En-
glewood, offered 1110S for 100000. !.
Two bids were submitted by Allen.
Roosevelt & Shelter, of East Orange, foa
100000 each; one at 11O.7ss1 and the othea
at a fraction in advance.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-02-06
LIQUOR MEN 10 ONIqB.
Efforts to Form a Strong County
Organization Legislation
to Be Looked After.

The Hudson County Liquor Dealers As
sociation held meeting yesterday after
noon in Franklin Hall at Montgomery and
Warren streets. The association is not
supreme in the county. as there are asso-
Citations in Bayonne. Hoboken and Union
l1hl, and they are all members of the
State Liquor Dealers Association
President McArdle's idea is to get the
various liquor dealers organizations in
the county 10 elect three or live delegates
70 70 represent them IN a county league.
Such league would be composed then
OF from twenty to thirty members ac-
cordlng to the number OF saloon keepers
clubs IN the county. This county league
would look after all matters pertaining To
the relations of the liquor dealers to the
liquor question, as they apply to Hudson
county. Such a central body, Of course,
would not acct the relations Of the variA
league.
President McArdle's invitation win now
pc submitted to the various. associations in
this county for adoption. There was some
TAX yesterday that German Liquor
Dealers Association was to be organized
in this city in a few weeks.
Before and after yesterdays meeting
the saloon keepers discussed very freely
h the proposed excise legislation in This
Senator Rogers, of Camden, which pro-
vides that applications for liquor licenses
must hereafter be signed by twelve pro-
a,
property owner must be allowed to sign
more than one license application. at a
time, provoked a spirited discussion.
If that bill of Senator Rogers were
to become law" said President Nc
Ardle. the number of saloons in Jersey
City would be cut down two-thirds IN
stead OF the city receiving $250,000 a year
IN LIQUOR licenses. it would hardly take
in $4,000 year. To restrict a property
holder in the matter of signing applica-
tlons would make it impossible for more
than flve saloons to get a license in the
First Ward, for instance. Under the pres
ent law property holder is allowed to
TO- Pass law to prevent a property
holder from signing more than one ap-
pllcatlon in year, and you'll see what
a hard time the saloonkeepers will have
trying to get signers. 1t isn't every pro-
perty owners who will sign an appiica-
have FIVE saloons licensed in the First
Ward that would mean sixty signers.
doubt whether YOU would be able to get
any more than that in the ward"
The Raines bill, now pending in the
New York Legislature, was also denounc-
ed. 1t Increases the license fee in New
York from $500 to $500. An amendment
just offered to that bill provides that no
saloon Is to be located within 200 feet
of anybody else's house, unless with the
consent of that owner. Such an amend
ment, the liquor dealers thought yester-
day. would practically amount to prohi-
bition in New York.
The officers of the Hudson County as
sociation are: President, Patrick j. Me
hund; financial secretary. John O'Brien
corresponding secretary, NJ. ]. Kennedy
treasurer, James Burns. The association
now numbers about 140 members
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-02-06
ONE THUG CAUGHT.
Jersey City Detectives Run Down
Old Man Moore's AssaiIants.

Old Man Moore's AssaiIants.
One Of the murderous assailants of
Edward Moore of Belleville, the old man
who was beaten and robbed Tuesday
night and left for dead in the road near
Jersey Clty's water works, is in custody
in this city He was captured today by
Sergeant Archibald and Detective Col
vile Smith. The prisoner described him
self as Stephen Bailey. He is well known
to the police of this city, but for some
time past has kept out of the city. He
makes a full confession and furnishes the
pollce with the name of his accompHce.
and is we'll known to the police. He has
been lettering about Belleviile for several
months past.
and Moran We're thinking in a saloon
kept by James McNulty in Belleville,
when old man Moore entered. He in
on each occasion displayed large roll
of bills When the liquor began to eff
feet Moore, Moran informed Bailey he
agreed at once to hold him and rob him
by force, ii necessary; the booty to be
equally divided.
lowed him and later he was Joined by
Bailey. When a dark and unfrequented
part of the Belleville road was reached
old man and dealt him two terrific blows
in the neck. The old man was knocked
down. He also became unconscious.
After striking Moore and seeing him fall
Bailey returned to MoNulty's saloon.
leaving Moran to do the robbing part of
the work
He was joined in short time by Mo-
ran. who told him he had only found S.
in the old mans pockets. The bill was
changed and Bailey was given $2 as his
share of the booty. He objected to the
division and a quarrel ensued. He left
the saloon and went to the boiler house
of the Jersey, City water works. where
he slept all night. What became of
Moran he. does not know.
Detectives are on his track, however,
and he may be arrested before night.
The fire department badge of this city,
which was stolen from Moore. was found
in Bailey'S possession.
The old man is in critical condition
and is not expected to recover.
Bailey will be held in the County Jail
to await the result of his victims in
juries.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-02-06
DIED.
KAISER-On Tuesday, February L. 1885,
Elizabeth Kaiser. beloved wife of
Christian Kaiser, aged sixty years. five

KAISER-On Tuesday, February 4. 1886,
Elizabeth Kaiser. beloved wife of
Christian Kaiser, aged sixty years, five
months, twenty-five days.
Relatives and friends and members of
Teutonia Lodge No. ". f. & A. NJ. Wash
ington Council No. 545. A. L of H.. John
Z. Entwisle Lodge. No. 204. LO.O.F.. and
Carolina Chapter. No. 10, o. E. S.. are
respectfully invited to attend the funeral
avenue, Jersey City. on Friday, FEBRUARY
Z. at two o'clock P. M.
GOI1DEN.-On Wednesday. February s..
H. Golden. aged 81 yAars '-'--'
Relatives and friends are respectfully
invited to attend the funeral from her
late residence, No. 81 Old Bergen Road.
on Friday, February 7, at 8 A. M.
thence to ST. PauPs R. c. Church.
where solemn high mass will be of
fered for the happy repose of her soul
GANNoN.--At Jersey City on Wednes-
day, February 5, 1895. Mary Kate
Geneva Cannon, daughter of Bern
ard and Annie Cannon. in her 14th
Funeral services at. the Church of st.
Paul of the Cross, oh Friday, February
z, at 10 A. NJ. Relatives and friends are
invited to attend
New York papers please copy.
day, February 4, 1895. Walter Byron.
son of James and Elizabeth MciSran-
die. aged l6 years months and IS
\ Reistives and friends Of the family
are invited to attend the funeral on Fri
Park Reformed Church, East Hamilton
place.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-02-06

before $50 this morning and the Quaran-
tine officials experienced great difficulty
in the service.
Trees. telegraph and telephone poles
are down in many places on Staten Is
land
The claiming sloop Favorite. containing
three men. was upset at 1890 o'clock this
morning in the bay off st. George, s. I.
One of the men was drowned The crew
of the United States steamship Columbia
rescued one man and the third drifted
ashore with the sloop
During the blow three tugs were COM
ing up toward New York through the
XIII Won Kull. One of them. it is reported
could not weather the gale and sank OPP
posite Sailors Snug Harbor The other
boats went Ito the assistance of the crew
and landed them safely on the Jersey
shore.
It is said that fishing smack also
sank in the same locality.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-02-06
BROOKLYN CALAMITY.
Old Building Blown Down and
Three Men Buried in
the Ruins.

! An old brick building. four stories high,
that stood at the foot of Thirty ninth
street on First avenue. South Brooklyn,
was blown down by the high wind this
morning at about $50 o'clock. and three
men We're buried in the ruins
One man escaped just as the crash came
there had been only four in the building
and he it was who told who the unfor-
| tunate men were who were buried.
The man was Daniel Meehan. of No.
1O4 Bedford avenue. Brooklyn.
The men buried in the ruins were:-
JAMES QUIGLEY.s .ssof Fourth avenue
and Fifty-third street, South Brooklyn.
MICHAEL MULCAGIEY. nineteen years
old, of Hamilton avenue and Court street.
Brooklyn.
SIMON SEAMAN. of Fulton and Navy
streets. Brooklyn.
When the building fell the whole region
was aroused and a fire alarm and tele-
phone messages brought the fire depart
ment. police reserves and hospital am
bulance to the scene.
Work by the firemen and police at once
began to remove the great mass of bricks.
mortar and timbers n hopes of reaching
some of the buried men still alive
Volunteers were pressed into this service
100. ana forty men worked and labored at
the great mass of ruins. 1T was not ex-
pected, however, that the buried men
could be reached for several hours at
least. They may have been protected by
tirnbers when the crash came, and SO,
even if injured. might be alive
The building, which was a follr-story
brick. 125x50 feet, was owned by the
Phoenix Chemical Works Company The
upper floors were vacant, but the first
floor was rented by James Quigley, who
used it as cooperage shop.
Quigley usually had ten men at work
in his shop, but this morning there were
only himself and threeA others.
Daniel Meehan the man who escaped
when the building fell, said that at the
time he was near the exit on the ferry
side and ran out when he heard the noise
of the first breaking. He was struck by
timbers. but only slightly cut on one
hand and on his hip. The other three
men were at the other side of the shop
and could net get out in time
The building seemed to give way in
the centre, and the whole south side was
totally wrecked. The building has been
shaking in the wind for some time, and
it is supposed the centre of the roof gave
Way
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-02-06

gives the notorman no emu OF trouble
The most usual form of accident result
ing from this obstacle is the burning
out of a fuse. This completely cripples
car when it occurs, leaving it entirely
without motive power. Some two or
three dozen men We're set to work clean
ing out the receiving basins and deepen
ing the trenches regularly maintained
there for this very purpose. They barely
kept pace with the downpour while it
lasted, and when 1t ceased at a few
minutes before one o'clock, they could not
make any headway whateverA
Soon after that hour though cars
were running on regular headway. Dur
ing the blockade they had run as consist
emily with the schedule as was possible.
There were no delays of more than ten
minutes duration encountered. These
called down no end of disagreeable COM
ment from unreasonable citizens who
found waiting in the rain exceedingly un-
comfortable.
The rubber insulation of fuse wire
in the forward part of trolley car No.
1853, of the belt line.s caught fire this
morning ON Pacific avenue. 1t burned
fiercely and emitted considerable smoke.
There were only two passengers both
men. and there was no excitement. The
car reached the ferry safely and the
damage waper fl -; ?{. ~ 124356l29
damage was repaired.
The Western Union Telegraph Company
encountered some difficulty throughout the
city. tree was blown down in the
Court House grounds. 1t carried tele-
graph wires with it when 1t went. Along
the line of the Morris Canal several poles
1..o rTyl.x
caused a break in those wires. Another
break was discovered on Newark avenue.
This was caused by the swapping of a
cross-tree
A large tree which stood at the curb
in front of No 16 Poplar street. came down
with a crash early this morning. It fell
across the driveway and blocked it
completely all day. The police of the
Sixth precinct were notified by residents
on that thoroughfare.
A limb of tree on Pacific avenue was
broken off short by the wind at $50 o'clock
this morning. In falling 1t struck a
horse owned by G. Young. a grocer at
No. 159 Pacific avenue on the head. It
killed the horse Instantly.
The City Hospital received its share
of the big wind A tree in the grounds
on the roof shingles were raised and
blown into the air. No serious break
was made in the roof, but patients were
alarmed little at the unusual commo-
ton raised by the storm. Warden Os-
borne had watch posted on the look
out for danger to the inmates.
Fences along Hoboken avenue were
blown down while the storm prevailed.
This afternoon several houses in the
ne:ghborhood are minus skylights. Some
of these were carried away before sum
rise and in one or two cases sleepers.
beneath them We're treated to a cold
shower
A window pane of the house No. 70
Hoboken avenue, was. blown in with a
loud crash at an early hour.
A canary in a bird cage, which was
suspended, despite the storm, outside
the window of a house on Franklin
street, was carried away, cage and all,
by the wind. The airy castle landed in.
the street. the bottom fell out and Mr..
Canary found himself at liberty. He
improved his opportunity. and flew by
easy flights in southerly direction.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-02-06
IS IT THE SAME SCOTT JACKSON 2
Western Crime Revives<the Name
of Em bezzler Leirs, Fsrfand

of EmbezZler Lelass Friend
Dispatches from Cincinnati have told.
in the last day or two, a shocking stoEv
of the discovery, last Saturday, of the
headless body of a girl at Fort Thomas,
across the Ohio River from Cincinnati
The case seemed to be involved In much
mystery. Yesterday the wife of A. s..
Bryan, a farmer living near Green Cas-
tie, Indiana, identified the body by the
clothing. She said it was her daughter
Pearl, who left her home on Jan. Is to
indianapolis
Last night the police in Cincinnati ar
. rested and charged with murder Scott
Jackson, a student of the Ohio Dental
College, and an order is out for the ar
rest of William Wood, of South Bend
Castle, Ind
Gus iEsstay, a Western Union tele.
which jackson wrote to Wood from
CINCINNATI. Jackson, before the Chief
Of Police and the Mayor, said he knew
Of the murder. The examination con
tinued from eight o'clock until eleven,
when JACKSON weakened and asked to
Mayor, and said he would tell all he
knew. He is about twenty-five years
old. Miss Bryan was twenty-three.
his friend, William F. Wood, had come
to him and informed him That PearIy
Bryan, whom they both knew, was in
son to perform an operation, which he
declined to do He, however, secured the
services of Alonzo Walling, his room
in charge of Wailing. with whom She
was left. Jackson says he knows nothing
of his personal knowledge of Walling or
He declares his belief that Walling muir
dered the girl. Woods has been captured.
LIT is supposed in this city that the
was Alexander Let's accomplice in the
robbery of the P. R. R. freight depart
ment two years ago. Let's lis now in
State Prison.
All that was known of Jackson was
that he had gone West to live with his
mother at Green Castle, Ind, where it
lege and studying dentistry
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-02-06
LIBRARY SITE RUMOR.

A ruinor was freely discussed on the
street this morning among prominent
men that the Free Library Trustees had
completed the purchase of a site on which
to build Free Library Building. 1t
was known that the Trustees met last
night for the sole purpose of discussing
some of the sites reported eligible. but
as to the results of the meeting no in
formation could be gained.
Some Of the Trustees were interviewed
by a News reporter: but no confirmation
Of the current report could be obtained.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-02-06

WASHINGTON. Feb. 6. 1Se6.-The con-
sideration of Senator Quay's resolutions
to recommit to the Finance Committee
the House tariff bill and the free coin
age substitute reported for it, with in
structions to report them back as sepa-
rate propositions was. at. his suggestion,
postponed till Monday next after the
morning hour-it having been first modi-
fed SO as merely to have the matter re-
committed "for further consideration
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-02-06
SAILORMEN FOR CALIFORNIA.

WASHINGTON, d G., Feb 6. 1S96 i
a detachment of one hundred and sixty
men and six officers from the battleshiD
Texas left Portsmouth at 99o a. NJ yes
uerday en- route for Mare Island, Cal,
the route being by the way of the sea-
board Air Line and the Southern Pacific
Railroad (Sunset route). They were carr
ried by special train composed Sof two
baggage cars, five transit sleeping cars
and one Pullman car, ana the tran VIII
run through solid from Portsmouth tn
the coast, Every facility will be used
schedule which has been arranged, y the
time occupied will be about five DAYS
and eight hours. The contract with the
Navy Department was made by the
Southern Pacific officials, ,.'F