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The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-06-25
Dated Jersey city. June "A. 1897.
N cHANcERY OF NEW JERSEY.
~ nhrirtina Martin and Adam Afnrtin

IN CHANCERY OF NEW JERSEY.
TO Christina Martin and Adam Martin.
Take notice that by virtue of an order of the
Court Of Chancery, made on the day Of the
date hereof, in a certain cause wherein William
S. V&rhies. executor, etc. Of Nelson S. Hib-
bier, is complainant. and you and another are
defendants, you are required to appear, plead.
demur or answer to the complainant Bill on
or before the twenty-seventh day of July next,
and that in default thereof such decree he
made against You as the Chancellor shall think
equitable and lust The said bill Is filed to
q. Bumsted. bearing date November eta 1850
to secure the payment of the sum OF six thou.
sand dollars; covering lands in Jersey City.
dant because you. claim to own said lands.
And you, Adam Martin. are made defendant
you are the husband Of Christina Martin. who
claims to own said mortgaeed premises.
Dated May 18th, 1891.
WALLIS. EDWARDS & RUMSFED.
Solicitors for Complainant.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-06-25
PRISONERS RELEASED IN PARENT

Especial to 9Th Jersey City News..l
MOUNT HOLLY, june %, 1Ss7.-Judge
sympathy was aroused yester-
day over the condition of the youthful al
legged irebugs who were brought to jail
from Burlington on Tuesday. Louis Lip
pincott and Ellis Reed were held as wit
nesses, while the charge of arson was
preferred against Samuel Jones. William
ana Harry, Baldwin. On account of the
long period necessary to reach their case
the Judge felt justified in releasing them
N the care of their parents until the
Grand Jury meets in October.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-06-25
Hurniifty.

It is not every great man who carries
his honors as meekly as the Mayor of
Inverness, who rebuked an admiring
crowd in the words: "Frens, I'm just a
mortal man like yersels Sir Wilfrid
Lawson tells the following story: "A
woman was once pursuing her fugitive
COW down a lane when she called out 10
some one in front, Man, turn my COW.
The man took 10 notice, and allowed the
cow 70 pass. When she came up she
cowg He replied Woman, l am not a
man; 1 am a magistrate Household
Words.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-06-25
A MAD DOGS RAVAGEs,
Especial to .aThe Jersey city News."l

LAMBERTvILLE, June Is. Iss7.-A
strange dog. about ten days ago. after
biting a calf and a number of ducks
and chicken belonging to different
farmers, attacked the cattle on the farm
of Cyrus Risler.
A number of cows were bitten, two
OF which have since died of hydrophobia.
A COW owned by Isaac Keyser also went
mao and died, and another shows symp-
toms of the disease. A large number of
his chickens have also die from the
dogs. bites. Another mad dog was shot
and killed at Barbertown yesterday.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-06-25
FRIDAY. JUNE Is. 1897.
This paper is Democratic IN principles
and Is Independent in its raescs on an local
questions.


Last week 1.-THE News pointed out that
the Finance Board was going to have no
easy task this year to do justice to the
growing needs of the growing city and
at the same time secure a material re-
duction of the tax rate, making good
the promise of the city to the Legislature
when the concession of s11S.OO0 from the
State Railway tax fund was made.
government which spend the money,
moved on the F~inanciers. last evening,
with overwhelming demands and still
more overwhelming arguments. Con-
cede at once. that hals Of all. the in
creases asked for may be Topped off with
out conjunction. what remains is enough
to appan a stout heart.
The great need for street cleaning,
sewer cleaning and sewer extension keeps
pace. in particular with the demand for
civilized thoroughfares. Every mile of
street that is paved is a mile more to
clean. Every mile that remains unpaved
helps clog up a mile of sewer and tends
of some other street. Every house that
is built calls for a little more expendi-
ture for the removal of ashes and gar
bage. The more we grow, the more we
need, and the difficulty is to keep the
city's income up to the demands of its
progress.
1t is plain that the Financiers cannot
refuse every demand that is made on
Them They will nave to make some
larger appropriations than last year, and
the money must be found to pay them.
This brings the responsibility up to the
Tax Commissioners 1t will be their duty |
to see that the Improvements which call
for more expenditures shall pay their
way. Where property has advanced in
value, the assessment should be con-
stantly kept up with it, and property
which can pay, but which has not paid
in the past, should be made the subject
of a rigid levy. BY this we do not mean
that vacant and lots
should be taxed in any theoretic way, up
to their nominal value. Such a policy is
simply ruinous to the city's finances. The
tax on improved land. if it is placed high,
will not be paid, because the owners can
not afford to pay it The annual list of
delinquents is loaded down with just such
cases. When the tax is set too high, the
owners either let it run on until the land
is forfeited under the Martin Act proceed
ings. or else until an increase in demand
enables them to sell at a profit and settle
with the city out of the price. In either
case, the tax assessed on the parcel is
simply padding in the tax levy. 1t is
income on paper and it is no real help in
solving the annual problem of the cityss
running expenses.
The proper course for the Tax Commits
eioners is to concentrate their attention
the property of all classes, real and
personal, which is in remunerative use.
the property which is worth an income or
its equivalent to its owners. There is
enough of this in the city to bear all the
If it were fairly assessed, and in
addition to reduce the tax rate without
reference to the railway fund. The
trouble is that too much of it is allowed
to escape altogether.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-06-25

Cups and saucers are now all nodded
by mechanical appliances. The glaze IS
laid on, the fined qualities are hand
painted and the cheaper are stamrefl
with stencilS ere the baking is done.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-06-25
SEA GRIT ORDERS
Colonel Mason Perfeets
a arrangements for the
Fourth's Annual En-
campment.

Lieutenant Colonel Mason, in temporary
command Of the Fourth Regiment, has is
sued general Orders No. 2. which detail
me arrangements for the approaching
encampment at Sea Girt, and lay down
the rules by which the regiment will be
governed while in camp. The orders fol-
low
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-06-25
N oHANcERY OF NEW jersey I

To the Creditors Of The F. B. wheeler COM
pany:-
Take notice that in pursuance of an order
of the Court of Chancery of the State Of New
Jersey, made on the twenty-flrst day of June,
A ~ eighteen hundred and ninety-seven. you
Receiver of The F.. B. Wheeler Company, an
insolyent corporation, and prnNe before him.
your several claims and demands against said
insolvsnt corporation, within three months
from tire date Of said order, and, in default
thereof you Will be excluded from the benefit
ofNsuch dividends. as. NAV be hereafter declared
solvent corporation.
Your claims must be presented and proved
before the Receiver at his Office. No. "a
Montgomery street, Jersey CITY. \. J.
JOHN w QUEEN.
rov,t nc : Receiver.
OF Counsel with Receiver.
Dated June ~. 1891. sac
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-06-25
A story of Tw. m51non.,r..

some time ago, says the London sMa1.
before South African miIlionaires were
as common as blackberries, a certain
noble ~hnancier, whose manner are
enormously as bad as his credit is good
was guilty of an act of extreme rude
ness oward a brother fnancier whose
shekels We're not then as numerous as
his generations from the Patriarchs.
fortunate speculations at Johannesburg
suddenly placed the despised operator he
yond the dreams of avarice in Park lane.
and forgetful of his former slight. the
noble fnancier recently took pains to
scrape acquaintance with the new DO
tentate, called, and invited him. as the
guest OF the evening, to a banquet where
ne has to meet all that was rich and
admired in London.
AZ eight the guests assembled-but by
half-past the great South African had
not come. At a quarter to 9 the feast
was begun-but neither that night nor
next morning came there a word from
the absentee. Later in the day he was
encountered by his disappointed host in
the city. .Hallon" you never came last
night" mo" was the reply. For
getT asked III nobleman. Wasn't
hungry replied the ~unforgetful. He
mad only waited six years to get even.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-06-25

The cost and life of pavements in VOL
verhampton, England, is made the sub
ject of a late report by the borough engin-
ment, concrete base, 6 inches thick, cost
ment. concrte base, s inches thick, cost
S3 per square yard and nave a probable
life of 30 years. Australian hard wood
blocks. set on the same base. cost $3.50
per square yard and nave a life of IS
years, and creosoted deal blocks on the
same base cost So per square yard and
have a life of II years. Natural rock
asphalt pavement, 2 inches thick on a g.
inch Portland cement concrete base can
be laid for 1924 per square yard, with a
calculated life of 10 years. The total ex-
penditure upo these pavements for so
years for maintenance, cleaning and
watering, is liked as follows-Common
area, 1892 square yards. granite, $45. 900; |
Australian. hard wood, sS7, 30; creosoted
S65. 175.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-06-25

Mr. and Mrs, Ralph D. Earle, formerly
OF this city, will spend the summer at
Avon on the Jersey coast and at the
White Mountains.
Miss Jennie Ransom left the city vester-
day for Middletown. where she win spend
the summer
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-06-25
CORPORATION NOTICE.

DATED Jersey city. June "A. 1897.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-06-25

MI. n Mrs Edward schermerhorn and
their little son will spend the summer at
Gr~eensburg.
The advocate., 1897-09-15
OFFICIAL STATE PAPER.

'Now, l find that in December, 1894,
wheat was 555s cents and yesterday it
was 95% cents in Chicago. That is q
good deal of rise in hard times. Wheat
was low under a Democratic administra-
tion in 1894 and high under a Republi-
can administration. The Republicans
tell us they are responsible for the
change. But let us compare the prices
of corn in the same papers. In Deem
Der, 1894, corn was AZ cents bushel in
Chicago; yesterday 1t was 81 cents"
IF the Republican party made wheat
go up, want to know why 1t made corn
go down."
He pointed out clearly that the one
thing which controlled prices was the
law Of supply and demand, and the
crowd heard, understood and cheered
approvingly.
Mr.. Bryan spoke for almost two hours,
and when he finished the crowd made
rush for him, and he was kept busy
shaking hands as long as he remained at
the fair grounds.
The advocate., 1897-09-15
Topeka, KANSAS, SEPTEMBER Is, 1897

scattered themselves and sought the
shade Of the trees for protection, but
there was no need of that then. APP
preaching the place where the shooting
occurred, people were met Wringing their
hands and bemoaning the catastrophe.
They could not talk intelligently, and
it was with the greatest difficulty that
information was CLEANED.
Along the bank of the trolley road
men laid in every position, some dead,
others dying. Three bodies, face down
ward, lay along the incline, and three
others were but a short distance away.
On the other side Of the road as many
more bodies lay. The school house was
transformed into a temporary hospital
and some of the wounded were taken
there. The cOlliery ambulance was sum
moned to the place as soon as possible,
and upon it's arrival two men, both shot
through the legs, were found on the road
side and in the fields. Many miners
who had been carried to distance
could not be found
The advocate., 1897-09-15
SHOT DOWN LIKE SHEEP.
Miners Killed by sherifP's Deputies on the
Highway,


Hazleton, Pa, September 10.-The
strike situation reached terrible crisis
on the outskirts of Latimer this after
noon, when a band of deputy Sheriffs
fired into a mob of miners. The men
fell like so many sheep, and the excite
ment has since been so intense that no
accurate figures Of dead and wounded
can be obtained. Reports run from
twenty to $50 odd killed and forty or
more wounded. One man who reached
the scene tonight counted thirteen
corpses Four other bodies lie in the
mountains between Latimer and Har-
leigh. Those who were not injured car
ried away their dead and wounded
friends into the woods and estimate is
baffled.
Three bodies were found tonight on
the road to Latimer.
The strikers left HaZleton about $3.50
o'clock this afternoon and it was their
intention to go to Latimer. AS soon as
it became known a crowd of deputies was
loaded on q trolley car and went whirl-
ing across the mountain to the scene,
where the bloody conflict Followed Af-
ter reaching Latimer they left they car
and formed into three companies, under
Thomas Hall, e. A. Hess and Samuel
P. Brice. They drew up in line at the
edge of the village, with a fence and line
of houses in their rear
Sheriff Martin was in entire command
and stood in front Of the line until the
strikers approached. They were seen
coming across the ridge and Martin went
out to meet them. The men drew up
suddenly and listened in silence until
he had once read the riot act. This fin
ished, a low muttering arose among the
foreigners and there was slight move
ment forward. Perceiving this the
Sheriff stepped forward and in deter
mined tone forbade advance. Someone
struck the Sheriff and the next moment
there was command to the deputies to
fire.
The guns of the deputies instantly
belched forth terrible volley. The re-
port seemed to shake the very noun
tains, and cry of dismay went UP from
the people. The strikers were taken en-
tirely by surprise, and as the men top
pied and fell over each other those who
remained unhurt stampeded. The men
went down before the storm of bullets
like ten-pins, and the groans of the dy-
ing and wounded filed the air.
The excitement that followed was sim
ply indescribable. The deputies seemed
to be terTor-stricken at the deadly exc
cutiOn of their guns, and seeing the liv-
ing strikers fleeing like wild beasts, and
others dropping to the earth, they went
to the aid of the unfortunates whom they
had brought down.
The people Of Iatimer rushed pell-mell
to the scene, but the shfieks of the
wounded drowned the cries of the SYM
pathizing and half-crazed inhabitants.
A reporter who soon afterwards
reached the scene found the road leading
to Latimer filled with groups of fright
ened Hungarians. Some surrounded dy-
ing companions, and others, fearful of
pursuit, clung to the newcomer and
begged his protection.
At Farley's hotel there were two men
lying on the porch. Both had been shot
in the head.
One had three bullets in him. His
groans and appeals for doctor were
heartrending.
All along the road the wounded who
were able to leave the field Of battle
The advocate., 1897-09-15
PUBLIC OWNERSHIP OF RAILROADS
Judge Brewers Opinion ON the Rights of
the People.

Attorney General Boyle calls atten-
tion to the fact that Justice David J.
Brewer, in an opinion delivered in the
Anes case and found in Vol. Ga of the
Federal Reporter, gives some able rea-
sons why the transportation Of indiVid
uals and merchandise would be better
conducted on the same system as the
pOstoftice instead of as a business"
The Ames case is the one which in
wolves the validity of the Nebraska rail
road law. 1t was argued recently by w.
J. Bryan before the United States Su-
preme court at Washington Justice
Brewers opinion, however, was deliv-
cred prior to that time, while sitting in
one of the United States Circuit courts.
Justice Brewer said in part:
II think it may assist to true under
standing of the scope of this question,
and the various considerations which
must enter into it, if we notice how, as
matter of history, the situation and the
question have arisen. So far as the mere
question Of power is concerned the trans
pOrtatiOn of persons and property is,
equally with the carrying of letters and
papers, a legitimate function Of govern
ment. By reason of this private COrpO-
rltions, acting as private carriers, are
given the right to exercise the govern
mental power Of eminent domain and
thus, against the will Of the owner, to
take his property for their public or
quasi public uses.
"But, in the history of this country,
the carrying of papers and letters was
assumed by the government, and the
transportation Of persons and property
left to private persons. In other words,
the people chose to manage the carrying
Of the correspondence of the country
and to leave the matter of transpOrta-
tion TO individuals With the wisdom of
this the courts have no concern. I SIM
ply note the fact. But in consequence
of this the carrying Of letters and papers
by strictly governmental agencies be-
came what may be fairly called a sys-
tenn, while the transportation of persons
and property by private individuals and
corporations became business.
I'm the one there was a simple classif-
cation and a uniform rate, and the sys-
tenn was extended wherever population
went, and so far as possible to supply all
the needs of all parts OF the country in
the way Of transportation of news and
letters. Whether, In the carrying out of
this system, at the end Of each year
there was a profit or not, was inmate
rial. 1t was something which the people
Continued on page 1S)
The advocate., 1897-09-15
ALTGELD IN A NEW ROLE.
He Advocates Public Ownership Of Public
Franchises.

On Labor day, at Philadelphia, ex-
Governor Altgeld delivered an address
on municipal and government owner
ship and government by injunction, from
which we take the following extracts;
THE most serious problem that con-
fronts the American people to-day is
that Of rescuing their cities, States and
the Federal government, including the
Federal Judiciary, from the absolute con-
troll Of corporate monopoly. How to re-
store the voice Of the citizen in the gov
ernment OF his country, and how to put
an end to those proceedings in some of
the higher courts which are farce and
mockery on one side and criminal
usurpatiOn and oppression on the other
Corporations that were to be servants
and begged the privilege of supplying
cities with conveniences, or of serving
the country at large, have become mas
ters.
Eve have had thirty years of colorless
politics, in which both of the political
parties were simply conveniences for or
ganized greed There was nothing to
arouse the deep, slumbering patriotism
of the masses, and a race Of politicians
came to the front, many Of whom had
no convictions, but straddled every prop
osition and then waited to be seduced.
They were men who made every promise
to the laborer and then betrayed him.
These men became the instruments
through which the corporations worked.
AN individual rarely has interest
enough or money enough to bribe City
Council or buy Legislature. But the
corporations have both, and as the
money all comes off the public, they of
fer temptations that are too strong for
the average man to resist.
"Inasmuch as no government can en-
dure in which corrupt greed not only
makes the laws, but decides who shall
construe them, many Of our best citizens
are beginning to despair of the republic.
"Others urge that we should remove
the bribe-givers- is, destroy this
overwhelming temptation by having the
government take all of these monOpolles
itself and furnish the service which they
now furnish, and thus not only save our
institutions but have the great profits,
which now go into the pockets OF private
corporations, go into the public treasury.
However, the world Is not ripe for the
application of Socialism. There are as
yet hundreds Of things that cannot be
done successfully by the State, and that
must be left to the Individual
"But this fact certainly does not de-
Continued on page 1s.l
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1897-12-21
CARS THAT run AWAY.
s..o.yIy,nia Has an Experience With Two Sc
rious Accidents.
FRIGHT TRAIN BREAKS LOOSE ON A HILL


-. roo % a freirht train
Altoona re- s,-a oars trove,lpr
of twenty-one loaueu V"''
s,,., the mountain to this city tonight
,o unmanageable in consequence
became ,t.ta,, a., ,,,o traclss
Of the slippery r..,,.,. 49,
made the twelve mics lro'ii Na'i''" ''i',
,,,.,,o in as many minutes, ana
A'O ,,,,o n freight train in the
orasheu ~ a., eront or tbe passen-
yards directy III tio". W -.
-er station. About hity cars were
',lstelv broken up and theHollidays-
.On' l.,,gsenrer train. which was stand
burg pussehs'i u 80 49,. ..,..,,,,s,
ine on the track outsiuc tne 70,
MA was thrown over on its side. The
-. and fireman of the runaway
ens'i'NN' ,.,,,,a ,,on, tho cob of the
train were he'hea 80, -, ,,,,Io.
wrecked locomotive anu po'n "eie "o'e
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1897-12-21
YOUNG LuETGERT A roRGrR.


Fraudulent Notes.
Chicago, Dec. 2O.-Arnold C. Luetgert
admits that he forged a name TO notes
amounting to $3.50, and turned them
over to Attorney William y. Vincent
and victimized others TO the extent of
over $1,000.
Arnold Luetgert is the son OF Adolph
l.. Luetgert now on trial charged with
numbering his wife, and Attorney Vim
cent was the chief counsel of the sau-
sage maker during his trial. The law
yer withdrew from the caes when he
realized that he had been deceived. and
when the story that he had been an
easy victim to young Luetgert was first
suggested, endeavored to suppress the
details. He finally admitted that the
young man had told him of having
forged Endorsements on three notes and
deposited them with him to secure his
fee in the murder case, and Luetgert
himself. in the presence of witnesses,
corroborated the story.
Arnold Luetgert laughed when 1t was
suggested that trouble might come of
his free use of signatures not his own,
and said that he considered it good
joke on Attorney Vincent. The sigma
ture which the lawyer supposed was
Endorsed upon the notes is, when cor
rectly written, paul Jaeschke," the
name of an old acquaintance of a. l..
Luetgert. He is n plumber
Arnold Luetgert said today: 81 don't
see nothing so bad about it. It's a
matter between Vincent and me. If he
don't holler. its nobody's business.
did admit to Vincent that / signed an
other name besides my own to the
notes and / am ready to stand by 1t.
There is somebody else in It, too, but
am willing TO take the blame and stand
for the whole thing. l amt afraid and
Vincents holler won't do him no good.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1897-12-21

Topeka. Kan, Dec. 20.--Reuben Lane,
who has but one leg of regulation
length. came ID this city few days
ago from Barnshoro. Pa. He started
out to walk the entire distance of over
thousand miles and actually covered
COO miles OF the distance on foot.
Lane came to Topeka by arrangement
with Mrs Eliza Ann Parker of this
city who had promised to marry him.
Their acquaintance began through n
matrimonial bureau. The correspond
ence thus begun led TO n proposal by
mail. Lane confessed his poverty,
while he stoutly insisted that he loved
her madly. Finally, upon her protest
ing repeatedly that his affection was
returned, and urging him to some to
her, he started out with but IS cents
In his pocket.
He was thlrtv-nve days on the road,
most of the distance. MS stated, he COW
cred on foot while he begged rides the
rest of the way When he presented
himself at the home of his promised
bride he made such Il sorry appearance
that she weakened and declared all
negotiations on.
Lane is 80 years old. and is widoweI
with five children. Mrs, Parker Is
nearly GO years old. She has beer
married three times and has several
children. She has considerable proper
| ty in her own name.