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Arizona republican., 1897-12-16

to be native of Austria, for he told William Limbrock. one of the few men in Phoenix with whom he was acquainted. that he was a Vienna boy, but he told him nothing more, not even his name, so that Mir. Limbrock in speaking of him refers to him as ''the Vienna Boy"
 w. A. Davis, who has had charge of the body of Lynch. last night sent it to Grand Rapids. Mich, in care of the Adams Express company
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-07-06
STORY OF AN OWL.
This Bird Jared tha Washington
MOnu m enf.

In one of the many glass cases in the
Smithsonian Institution at Washington
is a stuffed owl This fact in itself is
nothing remarkable, as there are numer-
Gus other fowls of all varieties exhibited
there. But this particular ow. is the
one, in the words of the late President
Hayes, ..that Jared the Washington
monument" and therin lies the story.
During Centennial year Congress re-
solved to provide the necessary funds for
the completion Of the n4onumoit, which
I'M to that time had been worked at only
while the several smaller appropriations
lasted It was discovered, however that
the original foundation was hkeiy TO
prove incapable of sustaining the encr-
nous weight of marble necessary for car
rying the shaft so fee. above terra
frrna. A new foundation was therefore
Needed. and architects thought g solid
concrete bed 100 feet square and nearly
fourteen feet in thickness would accom-
plish the rentsthcnirrg desired
During the operation of replacing the
old foundation 1t was considered expedi-
ent to provide means for noting carefully
the slightest vibration of the walls lest
lapsing Accordingly heavy weight was
suspended by a stout thread from the
apex to pan of thick syrup located in
the base, so that no chance drafts of
air would be likely to sway the weight.
An ingenious contrivance was SO attached
to the weight that the slightest vibration
of the shaft would be faithfully recorded,
and it's insecurity would at once be an
established fact.
One morning few months after these
careful precautions had been taken there
was a great commotion among the work
men. A complete record of numerous
perturbations and 'tremblings had been
written on the index showing conclu-
sively that the mammoth obelisk had
Jared. swayed and settled during the
night. Scientific heads We're dubiously
shaken. After much persuasion one or
the men finally consented to go to the top
and examine into the cause. The as
tonishing report came into the midst or
the anxious throng below that an owl In
seeking shelter in the lofty tower had
somehow managed to catch its wings in
the thread and was still hanging there,
suspended In the interior of the monu-
ment. and the innumerable happings and
struggles of his owlship had all been re-
corded by the index as testimony against
the stability of plunb-laid marble blocks
and solid concrete.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-07-06
DEATH OF CONRAD DAVIS.

Especial to 1.-THE Jersey City News."]
RAILWAY, July 5, 1Ss7.-The dead body
of Conrad Davis. resident of New York
City, was picked up today by the crew Of
freight train on the track near the sig
nal tower at Perth Amboy junction ana
brought here.
Yesterday Davis was a guest of the
Warnake family of this place. 1t is al
legged that during the day he threatened
to shoot Warnake and his wife and
daughter The police were summoned
and Davis disappeared. 1t is believed
that, while drunk Davis was accidentally
killed by train.
Warnake has a blacksmith shop at No.
65 First street Jersey City. Warnake
saws that Davies left his home last night
and threatened to kill himself. Warnake
believes that Davies carried out his
threat Warnake says that yesterday
Davis quarrelled with him and threatened
to shoot his family. Davies fired one shot
from his revolver and the police wsEg
called Then Davies disappeared.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-07-06
q. s. JUBILEE EXPENSES
Erroneous Rumors as TO the Special
Embassy,s Expenditure.

TBy Cable to The Associated Press.l
LONDON, July 6, 1se7-It has been err
roneously reported from America that
the expenses of the United States Special
Embassy at the Queens Jubilee were
$4,000 ($40. 0.000). The United States De-
partment only allowed e2,G0O $4,000
for the expenses, and probably not a
quarter of this amount $4,000 has been
used, as the Hon. Whitelaw Reid, the
United States Special Envoy, and his
Secretaries, are paying their own ex-
penSeS.
Mr.. Reid goes to Windsor this after
noon at the Queens invitation, ana Will
dine and sleep at Windsor Castle
The United States Ambassador, Colonel
John Hay will give dinner tonight al
his residence on Carlton House Terrace.
in honor of the United States Monetary
Commission. In addition to Mr.. and
Mrs. Hay, the following guests will be
present Senator Edward o. Wolcott OF
Colorado and Mrs Wolcott, former Vice
President Adlai E. Stevenson of Illinois
and Mrs. Stevenson, General Charles
Jackson Paine of Massachusetts,, Michael
Hicks-Beach, the Chancellor of the Ex-
chequer,- and Lady Hicks Beach, Mr.
Admiralty. and Mrs. Goschen; Lord and
Lady Rothschild, Mr. and Mrs. w. H
Grenfell, Mr.. and Mrs. George N. Curzon
Lord and Lady Tweedmouth, the Ear
and Countess of Enroll, Mr. and Mrs
John w. Foster and Sir Julian Pauncefote
the British Ambassador to the United
States, and LADY Pauncefote
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-07-06

DIED.

HULI-On Tuesday, July s, 1897, Desiree
e. Hull, widow of the late Ransom
Hull.
Relatives and friends are invited to
fur eral services on Thursday, at p. NJ.
at the residence of her son, Ransom c..
Hull. No. III Union street.
IiSterment at convenience of family.
LAWYER-After lingering illness.
George ]. Lawyer, aged 50 years.
Relatives and friends are invited to at
tend the funeral services at his Late resi-
dence No. $50 Palisade avenue, this even-
ing, at o'clock.
interment at convenience Of the family.
SMITH-On Monday, July S, 1887. Frank
Smith, Sr., aged 62 years.
Relatives and friends are invited to att
tend the funeral on Wednesday, July Z,
at three P. NJ, from the residence Of his
son, Frank Smith, Jr., No. 81 Monticeilo
avenue.
STARTUP.-On July 6. 1897, Ira w. Start
up. in his 46th year.
$50 p. NJ, at the residence of his brother.
II NJ Startup. No. PA Montgomery street.
Relatives and friends invited.
Interment at Middletown, N Y
MrTCHELL-On Monday July 5. 1897.
Robert F., son of John and Mary
Mitchell aged 10 months.
Funeral private from the residence OK
his parents. 12f Ege avenue.
Internent in Greenwood.
NEIMANN--On Monday July 8. 1897, at
her residence 244 Ogden avenue, l..
Marie Neimann, widow of H. II. Ne1-
mann, aged so years.
Funeral services on Wednesday, July u
at Two Z. M.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-07-06
TWO NORTH RIVER WAITS.
Unkno wn Eodies Waiting for Iden'
tfficattoR at the Morgua.

The bodies of two unknown men were
found in the North River within twelve
hours. Both are at the morgue await
ing Identification The first was found on
Sunday night at nine o'clock off the Cen
trail Railroad coal docks. The body was
that of man who was apparently 40
years old, feet 9 inches tail, 175 pounds.
He had light curly hair and heavy sandy
moustache. His clothes were gray, his
underclothing white. In the pockets were
a silver hunting case watch, a brass
chain, three keys and thirteen cents. Two
teeth were out of the upper jaw in front
and two out of the lower jaw, with one
standing between.
The second body tailed in nearly every
particular with that of the first. 1t was
found at s o'clock yesterday morning, off
Johnston avenue. 1t was that of a man
evidently 40 years old, measured feet, 9
inches, had short sandy hair and a large
sandy moustache.
The clothes of the second fioater were
of dark material. The contents of the
pockets were bottle and s1.03. 1t is be-
lieved that the second body was that of a
Swede named johnson, who worked
aboard a lighter off the Communipaw
shore
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-07-06
CITY NEWS NOTES.

Hugo Quack, age %, of No. 8 Third ave-
nue., Fort Hill, Staten Island, while. rid
ing along the Boulevard, near fitzpatrick
street, yesterday afternoon, was overcome
by the heat and removed to the City Hos
pital.
The body of a male child about eight
months old, was found floating in the New
York Bay at the foot of Chapel avenue
on Saturday afternoon, about two o'clock
The body was removed to the morgue.
John Kelly, 20 years old, of No. AZ
Walnut street, while playing ball on the
Harrison estate, at Palisade and Newark
avenues, yesterday fell and broke his left
leg below the knee. He was taken to St
Francis Hospital in the city ambulance
A chair in the home Of James Hamilton
of No. III Oak street, caught fire. at 8
o'clock last night. The fire spread and
did sloo damage before members of En-
gine Company No. 8 arrived and ex-
tinguished it.
A chimney fire in the fiat at Lafayette
and Monitor streets, owned by George
Ogeline, caused considerable excitement
at 9:20 O'Clock last night. 1t brought out
two engines, Chief Conway and Battalion
Chief Hogan, a hook and ladder company
and the reserves Of the Fourth Precinct.
IT was extinguished with pail OF water
The damage was slight
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-07-06
a BRAVE AND MODEST oYoLIsT
saves a Man From Drowning and
Rfdes on without Giving His Name.

Saves n Man From Drowning and
Rides on without Giving His Name.
James Reagan, Cornelius Desmond and
Timothy Donnegan, three longshoremen,
all of No. 135 lie Roy street. New York,
hired a small rowboat Sunday afternoon
at the foot Of Morton street, New York
and went to row on the Hudson. When
they had rowed out IN the middle of the
river Desmond and Donegan stood up in
the boat AT the same moment the little
craft lurched to one side and overturned
throwing all three men into the water.
Desmond and Donegan clung to the upset
boat, but Reagan was unable to reach it
and was drowned.
The captain of the ferryboat Moonacn:e
which was on its way to Fourteenth
street, Hoboken, saw the Ineii struggling
in the water anl turned his boat TO-
wards them. When the fefryboat was
within few rods OF the men young
man in a bicycle costume who was stand
ing on the forward deck sprapg over
board and swan towards Donnegan who
appeared to be exhausted and was losing
his hold on the rowboat Seizing Dom
negan by the coat the cyclist held him
above water until one of the deckhands
threw him line. While Donnegan was
being dragged on deck another deckhand
rescued Desmond with boat hook
Reagan's body was not recovered.
AS soon as the Monachie reached Hobo
ken the bicyclist mounted his wheel and
rode away without giving his name.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-07-06
TURKEY MAKING TROUBLE

[By Cable to The Associated Press.l
CONSTANTINOPLE, July 5. 1851
delayed In transmission).- Contrary to
expectations, the decision of the Council
of Ministers yesterday was not favorable
to the demands of the Ambassadors
relative to the Greco-Turk frontier
negotiations The situation, threfore. is
regarded as being very strained, the
Turkish reply virtually implying rup-
ture of the negotiations and that the
powers must make concessions or adopt
measures to enforce their decisions.
1t is reported that the Grand Vizier has
declared to the Sultan that he will never
sign an agreement based on the strategic
line proposed by the Ambassadors. AT
the same time it is thought in some
quarters that the attitude of the Turkish
Government is designed to enable the Sui
tan to yield later by sacrificing some OF
his Ministers, and rurnors of impending
Cabinet changes are already current
The Boerse at Gaiata is largely affected
by the situation. There has been con-
siderable fall in Turkish consolidated
securities. The Turks are selling them
freely, some circles expressing the
opinion that Turkey will only yield to
European pressure.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-07-06
HELLO, CHANCELLOR!
Bill, COR a Receiver for the
Hudson Telephone Com
pany to Be Filed.
CONCERN DECLARED lEsoLYENT
Pittsburg Firm Places a Lien on
the Henderson Street Build
ing and Plant.

Lawyer Ezra K. Seguine, of this city,
is preparing a bill in Chancery applying
for an order compelling the Hudson Tele-
phone Company to produce its books IN
the Court of Chancery and for receiver
for the company on the ground that al
though the company may appear by IT'S
books to be perfectly sound financially
the company is insolvent.
The complainants are Thmas Hill and
William B. AFFORD. of jersey City, stock
holders of the company. who claim that
the trouble with the company is that 1t
has been mismanaged. They charge that
the men who manage the Hudson Com
pany are connected with the Best Tele-
phone Manufacturing Company of Balti-
more, whose patents and products are
used exclusively by the Hudson Telephone
Company, which pays handsome royalties
for the use thereof The amount of these
royalties are fixed by the men interested
in the Best Company, who are managing
the Hudson Telephone Company, and, the
compliments charge are very liberal to-
ward the manufacturing company.
corporation known as the New York
Telegraph and Telephone Construction
Company, which the complaints charge,
is composed of men interested in the
Hudson Telephone Company and the
Best Manufacturing Company, purchased
all the material used in the construction
of the conduits through this city.
firm which furnished this company
with poles sent a bill to the company
and it came back accompanied with
check for the amount, signed by j. II.
Atkinson. who is one of the managers OF
the Hudson Telephone Company The
check was on a Newark bank and came
back protested.
Subsequently the firm received notes
for their claim given by employees of the
company to Atkinson. and by him en-
dorsed to the firm. All of these notes,
like the check, came back protested Then
as final resort, Atkinson sent note for
the entire amount of the claim together
With a $500 bond of the Home Telephone
Company of Trenton as collateral Mr..
Rappfeyea, of the firm. consulted Mr.. Sc
guine, who advised hi mnot to take the
bond The advice was accepted. the bond
returned and Mr.. Seguine directed to
bring suit against the Construction Com
pany The suit was begun and is now
pending. The Underground Cable Com
pany of Pittsburg on Wednesday
and building in this city of the
Hudson Telephone Company for 81 900 for
cable furnished the Construction Com
pany. The complafnants claim that the
Construction Company and Telephone
Company are one and that the debts OF
ono are the debts Of the others and
therefore the Telephone Company is in
solvent
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-07-06
TRACK UNDERMINED.
Fatal Railway Accident the Result
of a ClOudhurAt.

WOODSvILLE, N. H., July 6, 1S9I.-A
freight train on the White Mountain di-
vision of the Boston and Maine Railroad
was wrecked by washout, at point
about four miles north OF this station
early this morning. and three men were
killed and the engine and three cars were
badly wrecked. The killed were:-
Patrick Lennon, engineer, Whitefeld,
N. H.
Bert Pebbles, fireman. Woodsville.
o. F. Lange, brakeman. Berlin, N. III.
The wreck occurred about 800 o'clock
this morning. The train, which was
known as No. /, left here bound north at
three o'clock. 1t was made up of twenty
four cars, most of which were heavily
loaded
AT Poors Brook, one mile south of Bath.
where the track is low, the locomotive
suddenly left the rails and sank into a
lagoon formed by mud and water beneath,
and the first six cars were derailed and
three of them We're demolished and the
contents scattered along the road and in
the water.
4 The engineer of the trains Patrick Len
non, of Whitefield, Fireman Pebbles and
Brakeman Lange, went down with the
NTeCh ditU iOSl ttlSAA i4NSS. <NAA y -
badly cut and bruised. Lange it is sup
posed was on the engine, or else on one
of the forward cars. 1t is thought the
engine plunged through the undermined
track without warning as no attempt to
slacken the speed of the train was noted
by the other train hands.
AS the locomotive found lodgment in
the bed of the pool, the heavy cars rush
ing on behind crushed it into a broken
and twisted mass of debris. The three
cars following the engine were split apart
and totally wrecked, causing considerable
damage both to the rolling stock and to
freight. The other cars which were de-
rallied were not badly damaged.
Wrecking crews reached here as soon
as possible, and the work Of clearing
away the wreckage and repairing the
roadbed and track was begun 1t is
thought trains will not be running regu-
larly until late this afternoon or early
tomorrow morning.
The washout was caused by a cloud
burst, which passed over this section yes
terday. A great volume of water fell
in a short time and the small streams
overfiowed the low lands.
1t was reported here this morning that
another washout occurred on the railroad
at North Haverhill, south of this place.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-07-06
NEW ENGINE COMPANY ORDERED
Fire Commissioners Meet and Make
Transfers.

A meeting of the Fire Commissioners
was held Saturday evening, with all the
members present. The most important
business transacted, to the residents of
West Side at least. was the organization
of Engine Co. No. 15 the new company
which is to be placed in that section. The
new company consists of Commissioner
Mills son-in-law, Clare Birch, member of
Engine Company No. g. captain; Thomas
Coffey. engineer; Edward Coyle, stoker;
John Anderson. driver; Victor Ker, hose
man; John Kingman, Augustus F. Ger
ard and John Cullen; hesemen.
The new company will go to work on
July Is, and will be quartered in the horse
hospital on Belmont avenue for the pres
ent.
Chief Conway's weekly report showed
that 12 alarms, 6 of which were bell
alarms. had been responded to.
Superintendent John Speicher of the
telegraph system reported that boxes 81
and 2S had been damaged by lightning.
Inspector of Horses w. H: Arrowsmith
reported IL horses under treatment dur
ing the week, all of which were dis
charged as cured.
Patrick O'Neill. Engine Company No. !.
was fined five days pay for engaging in
an alteration with StolSer Edward Coyle.
Hoseman James Mcclure responded late
to fire call and was fined two days pay.
William Dingier hoseman of Engine
Company No. 2, to be stoker of Engine
Company No. l.
Thomas Dillon, stoker of Engine Com
pany No. 13, to be engineer Engine Com
pany No. II.
Frederick Seibeck. hoseman of Engine
Company, to be driver of same company.
These new appointments we're made:.
John J. Hogan, son of Battalion Chief
Hogan, hoseman in Engine Company
No. 8.
John Kelly. hoseman Engine Company
No. Z.
James Post, hoseman Engine Com
paEy No 2; W. III. Decker, hoseman En-
gine Company No. 8.
Patrick Sullivan, hosernan Engine Com
IN
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-07-06
The invasion of America.

We depend upon our vast population
resources and wealth to overawe our
enemies, when history teaches US that
great wealth only facilitates the task Of
the invader, since the contributions he
can levy will indemnity him for the cost
of war, and that. without previous prepar-
ation no population no matter how great,
can in a few weeks produce an army, but
only an armed mob We talk about the
vastness of our territory. and the I'M IN
possibility of an army penetrating far
from the seaboard, and lose sight of the
fact that under present conditions, were
a well trained army Of 100000 men landed
on on our coast, would be at its mercy, and
that after levying enormous contributions
indemnifying it for all the expenses of
the war. it might be possible for the
enemy to withdraw, leaving to us the
shame of defeat, and the postponement
of our revenge until our armed strength
has been increased and our blood cooled
-Harper's Magazine for July.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-07-06
A SING SING KILLING.

SING SING. N. Y, July 6, 1s97.-John
Henry Barker the colored wife murderer,
was electrocuted here today ,at Ills A.
M. He was to have been put to death
yesterday but the execution was post
poned on account of the celebration of
the Fourth.
On the afternoon of August 80, 1895.
Barker walked up to his house at Mig
ger Hills just outside of White Plains,
N. Y. He had a shotgun on his shoulder.
His wife. of whom ne was very jealous,
saw him coming and started to run.
Barker fired both barrels, and the woman
fell, dead. Then he hacked her body
with a spade. He was captured few
days afterward by Sheriff's posse, after
a hard fight.
Barker was the first person from West
chester county to sit IN the death chair.
Barker owned two lots in White Plains.
Before his death today he made will
in which he bequeathed the real estate
equally among his four children, Georgi-
ana, Lucy. Eliza and John Henry, Jr.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-07-06
TRIED TO WRECK A SALOON.

Michael Haggerty, of No. 12o Monroe
street, Hoboken, got into a fight while
drinking in Jacob Goldberg's saloon, at
No. 614 First street, on Saturday night.
He started in to wreck the place and
when Goldberg and his brother Louis at
tempted to interfere he drew penknife
and inflicted a stab wound in Goldberg S
right hip
Goldberg had his injuries attended at
Police Headquarters. Haggerty, who was
arrested preferred a counter charge of
assault and battery against the Gold
bergs and Acting Recorder Mccullough
held all three men for examination.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-07-06
manner state or the south.

The condition of the Southern States is
unsatisfactory, not merely because in edu-
cation, industry and wealth they are
much behind the rest of the Union, but
because, owing to want of facilities, their
resources are not properly developed. 1t
is true that one-third of the population is
colored but even allowing for this fact,
there is no reason why the South is not
altogether on a par with one of it's own
States, Texas, which has % per cent of
its population colored With regard to
the number of its inhabitants, Texas has
45 per cent, more railways, 40 per cent
more banks than the other States of the
South, and each of its hands employed in
farming produces nearly three times as
much.
More schools. more railways. more
banks, are needed in the Southern States,
direction the results will certainly prove
successful.-North American Review for
T,rTx
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-07-06
ulABuI ~ bUnb aI0 nANUs
William Hofacrf Picks Up a Giant
Cracker which Explodea.

William Hoffert, thirty-eight years old,
of No. 6 Court street, Hoboken, was sit
ting on the front door step of his home
about nine o'clock last night setting off
fireworks for his children, when some one
threw giant firecracker in the street.
1t did not go off and Hoffert ran out to
pick 1t up. He had just touched the
cracker when 1t exploded with a loud re-
port. His whole right hand was horribly
mutilated, three of his fingers being COM
pletely torn away.
Mrs Hoffert wrapped her husband S
bleeding member in a towel and hurried
him off to Police Headquarters, where
DR.. Simon was summoned The physician
attended Hoffert's injuries and then sent
him to st. Mary's Hospital 1t was said
at the hospital last night that Hoffert' S
hand would have to be amputated.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-07-06
Tho Centre of our Population.

of gravity of the inhabitants of the
country If the United States were COM
sidered as a plane, with all its people AS:
Of equal weight, the centre Of population
plane might be balanced and remain
steady through equilibrium It expresses
the net resultant of the movements of
population from decade to decade. This
point. according to the census of 1890,
Is located at 39' 11.9' north latitude and
So 32y west longitude, about twenty
miles east of columbus Indiana. It
moves westward about four miles a year,
and is now three-fourths of degree
south and more than seventeen degrees
east Of the centre Of ares. Ladies Home
Journal. -