Pleasantville weekly press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1890-1911, 1896-03-04

the heavy falling ladder. The left hant
above the knuckles, was mashed, ant
the artery in the left thumb severed, be
sides the flesh of the arm being torn oper
several inches The left elbow suffered c
confusion and swelled up terribly.
After one of the hottest politica
fights on record the Republican City
Convention held in Odd Fellows Hall
on Friday night, placed in nomination
the following city ticket TO be voted for
at the spring election on March 10th:
For Mayor-F'ranklin p Stoy
For AldermaR-James D. Southwick.
For Recorder-Robert II. Ingersoll
For Tax Collector-Carlton Godfrey
Esq.
For City Treasurer-John A. Jeifries.
For Overseer Of the Poor-Robert DUP
levy.
For City Marshal-Cornelius s Fort.
For JudiciOus reeholders-Edwin
Silvers, DR.. William Fl. Vanness and E.
p. Sharp.
First Ward.-For Council, Edward A.
Parker.
Second Ward.-For Cohncil, Enos T.
Ham; For Chosen Freeholder, Frank A.
Souder; For Constable, Jacob H. Rich
ards.
Third Ward.-For Council, Samuel B.
Rose; For Justice of the Peace, Charles
L. DeHart
Fourth Ward.-For Council, William
A.. Ireland; For Chosen Freeholder,
Hugo Garnich; For Constable, Marcus
Giegerich.
DR.. Schaeffer, the State Superinten-
dent of Education of the State OF PEN
nsylvania will give lecture in this city
on March 18th at the High School
building on Pennsylvania avenue.
Bew Brothers, proprietors of the
Hotel Berkeley, have purchased two
properties fronting on the Promenade
above Kentucky avenue. giving them,
with their other possessions, an ocean
fronting of one hundred feet. The price
paid for the recent purchases of 50 feet
was $4,000.
William Minps, colored man, about
60 years old, on Thursday morning, shot
and dangerously wounded Samuel III.
Innis another colored gentleman of 25,
who was suspected of being much too
fond of Minis wife. The pistol bullet
lodged in Innis' skull, and was extracted,
a day later, by the surgeon at the City
Hospital.
Work was commenced last week on
the Japanese Tea Garden on the Board
walk, at the foot Of Connecticut avenue.
George S. Ohno, with a force of Japa-
nese mechanics, started the erection of a
work shop where the frame work OF the
buildings will be made ready for erection.
The gardens will occupy space of35OX-
375 feet, and between thirty-five and
forty thousand dollars will be expended
in the work p. Y. Kushibiki, the pro-
moter OF the scheme, is now in Japan
and will return about April with ten
will be employed in the garden. The
maidens will attend to serving tea aud
refreshments, while the men will be en-
plOyed as gardners, etc. The main gates
will be made in Japan and brought to
this country. as villa number of other
buildings. Over fifty car loads of stone
will be used in the landscape gardening
for making the miniture mountains and
hills atlantic City Press.
Mr.. and Mrs. David Nassano, who have
been on i've months visit to Italy, re-
turned home Sunday morning after a
delightful trip to their native land, with
greatly improved health.
The body of Josiah Smith or Captain
ST Bowen. as he was popularity known,
of Brigantine Beach, was found floating
in Gardners Canal, Sunday. 1t is sup
posed that he met his death by falling
into the canal from Mathis wharf some
time during Saturday night. Doughty
Somers discovered the body about three
o'clock in the afternoon, while taking
walk about thecanal. Somers happened
to go to the string piece of the wharf and
looking down saw the corpse lying at
full length in the water at his feet. 1t lay
close to the wharf and under the bowsprit
of schooner that was made fast there.
A few feet on the other side of the body
Smiths small boat was tied. The corpse
was dressed in full suit of clothes with
heavy rubber boots, but the hat was
missing and the face of the dead man
stared up at the sky. Startled by his
discovery Somers called to several men
who happened to be nearby and a rope
was carefully lowered about the body,
which was made fast to the wharf, and
word was at once sent to coroner Nc
Laughlan. When he arrived the body
was removed from the water and given
in charge of undertaken Champion. The
coroner made an examination OF the
corpse and could fiud no cause tor
suspicion that Smith had died save by
drowning. There were no marks of
violence on the body nor signs of any
accidental injury. Smith, who was
sometimes called the Councilman of
Brigantine," lived alone and for
several weeks had been living in his
sloop yacht, which lay at anchor
out in the stream near the mouth of
Gardner's Canal. Smith came ashore in
a small boat on Saturday night, and, it
is supposed, that when returning to bis
yacht late at night he fell into the canal
while attempting to climb into the
small boat. He was seen on the streets
near the canal at 8 O'Clock at night by
Isaac Smith and others, and all aver
that he was all right then. The body
rose apparently within few feet Of
where it went down, out some surprise
is expressed that it came to the surface
again in SO short a time. 1t was
thought that Smith had been drinking
during the night as whiskey bottle
was found in one of his pockets. The
drowned man, who was about so years
of age, has but few relatives as far as
is known in this city. His brother-in-
law is Josiah Bowen who resides at
Arctic and Connecticut avenues.
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