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The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-02-27
FIGHTING FOR A TELEGRAM 90.
Justice LfppiDcott Declines to Inter-
ferc in tho Dispute.

Lawyer James B. Vredenburgh, repre-
senting Joel Stevens, A. B. Chandler.
William H. Baker and Charles Taylor.
stockholders in the United Telegram
Company, made an application to Justice
Lippincott in the Supreme Court, this
morning, to vacate an order granted by
the Court last Saturday directing the
company to hold an election for directors
next Tuesday. The annual meeting and
election should have been held on the first
Wednesday in November according to
the company's charter, but there was not
quorum present and no attempt has
been made to hold an election since
This. it is said, is due to the efforts of
President Robert F. Shame of Boston,
Charles A. Lamson and Stephen A. Mer-
rill. The company seems to be in a
heap of trouble. Mr.. Vredenburgh said
that $4,000 of the company's earnings are
missing. The money should be in the
hands of the president, but he refuses to
give any Information about ii.
William H. Corbin, representing Messrs.
Shame. Lamson and Merrill, opposed the
application. He said he could make some
startling disclosures if he wanted to, but
he evidently didn't want to- Justice Lip
pincott refused to take any action in the
matter. The troubles of the company
are now pending in the Court of Chanc-
Monday. 1t has been suggested that the
whole difficulty is a fight between two
big corporations to absorb the United
Telegram Company. The latter company
the Postal Telegraph Company, No. III
montgomery street.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-02-27
THE FLOODS ABATING.

CINCINNATI, Ohio, Feb. 27, 1SH.-The
flood is subsiding. At eight o'clock this
morning the water works gauge showed
60 feet, 10 inches, a fall of four inches from
the highest point reached yesterday.
The weather is clear and cold and there
is still much suffering among the people
in the inundated district. Many are driv-
en- from their homes without food or shell
ter
To the business men the cold weather
is regarded as source of almost as much
danger as the high water. The stock of
goods which were moved from many of
the business houses in the flooded dist
ricts consist of canned goods and barrels
of fruit and vegetables. They are now
freezing, and in most instances will be a
total loss.
Another cause for alarm lies In the fact
that the freezing weather will not allow
the water to subside as fast as 1T would
otherwise, and in consequence, all the
filth and decaying vegetables will be left
on the streets and in the cellars and sew
ers which in the opinion of many,is lik-
ly to produce an epidemic of disease when
the weather gets warm.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-02-27
INAUGURATION PLANS.
Arrangements for the Military
Display at Washington
Completed.

TRENTON, Feb 81, -Quartermas-
ter General ponnellyy yesterday completed
arrangements for New Jerseys military
display at Washington for the inaugura-
ton
MAJOR General Plume, acting on the mes
sage OF the Governor, has assigned the
following battalions to represent the State
in the inauguration parade Second Regi-
ment, of Paterson, 800 men; Essex Troop.
70 men; Gatling Gun Company B, of Cam
den, IS men. These, with 200 Naval Re
serves, who SO independently to the other
troops. will make representation from
New Jersey of over 100 men.
The bill appropriating $7,loO for the ex-
penses of the military has not yet been
signed by the Governor, but 1T will be in
few days
Quartermaster General Donnelly says
the troops except the Gatling Gun Com
pany will leave Jersey City at 10 o'clock ON
ON Wednesday evening. Colonel Olcott has
been given charge of the transportation en-
route The Commissary Department will
be on tho train, where breakfast will be
served on Thursday morning in Washing
-o1-s tiS Ian W III Dt EuSeQ as Q6dG-
quarters, and the troops will leave It only
when II is time to form for parade re-
turning immediately after the conclusion
of the parade. All the New Jersey contin-
gent will be together in line. The Pater-
son regiment was chosen as a mark of re-
spect to Mr.. Hobart
The transportation expenses have been
cut down so that only day coaches will
be used, and two men will be in a seat.
1t will be trying ordeal for the men, as
they will be two nights travelling, and
one day standing around and marching
in Washington. The New Jersey contin-
gent will march in files of twenty instead
of twenty-feur, as usual and this will not
make a very formidable appearance ON
Pennsylvania avenue. The men, however,
have determined to brace up and do the
best they can.
Next week will be the eighth week of
the session of the Legislature, and it
promises to see very little accomplished.
It was generally believed for some time
that the Legislature would not meet at
all during inaugura 1 week, but the lead
ers decided to hold meetings on Monday
evening and Tuesday morning. A large
percentage of the law. makers are going
to WASHINGTON.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-02-27
TWO BLOWN 10 PIECES.
A Boiler Explosion in New
Bedford Causes a Panic
and Does Much Damage.


NEW BEDFORD, Mass, Feb. 27. 1897. u
The large boiler which furnishes the
power at the Acushnet Mills exploded this
morning just before $50 o'clock. and In
less than it takes to tell the story. the
whole south end of the city was a scene
bordering on bedlam
The widest reports prevailed, and it
was given out that dozen men had
peen Killed, but this proved untrue, for
1t was learned by New England Asso-
clated Press reporter that one man had
been killed, another buried in the ruins
ana several badly injured by steam.
Inc engineer escaped. Manuel Men
doza's headless body was after
wards found near the boiler-house,
where it had been thrown. The
force OF the explosion was so great that
pieces of the boiler plate were sent some
Instance away. large piece struck the
roof Of the South end police station,
badly wrecking the building, while the rim
OF wheel attached to the engine was
sent a quarter of a mile away and
house ON First street. The hosIer and
engine house of the mill was badly
wrecked, the whole east section being 50
eanIysfan ean1g faamaged by fire which followed the
The explosion was attended by a manic
among the several hundreds of the ean-
pioyes at the mill, and the scene, espec-
iahy In the cloth room, which is situated
IN IN lhe wrecked building, was one of ex-
IRENE confusion. The frightened girls
employed in this room dropped everything
and rushed for the outer air trarnpling
on each other in their hurry to escape
Beyond few Incidental bruises attend
ing the mad rush, all the girls in the cloth
room escaped without serious injury.
Fire and escaping steam added to the ex-
c1tement, and in five minutes the streets
IN the vicinity were filed with anxious
and excited people
Two alarms from the fire box on the
premises summoned nearly the entire fire
department to the spot and the work of
quenching the flames and searching the
ruins for bodies at once began. The in
hammable material in the harness shop
and the cloth room gave the flames a
chance to spread, but the fire was CON
lined to the building in which the ex-
plosion occurred
Two bodies, those of Matthias Mendoza.
a Portuguese fireman and Antoine Asoen.
a hfteen-year-old boy, employed in the
harness room, We're taken out of the
runs. They Were burned almost beyond
recognition. The father of the Aspen boy
was able to identify his son by the shoes
and stockings which he wore and the
faee of the Portuguese fireman was slffi-
clently preserved to ensure Identification
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-02-27
NETTIE CRAVEN AGGRESSIVE.

SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. q, 1ss7.-Mrs.
Nettie R. Craven's attorneys became ag-
gressive yesterday-ti is. they assumed
more latitude than in the previous his
tory of the litigation for the millions of
the late Senator Fair. Instead of resting
satisfied with claiming rights to certain
property, they demanded for Mrs. Craven
100000 damages. In addition to this they
asked for all profits accruing to the prop
erty since january g. 1882, at the rate OF
5000 per month"; with the costs of suit
and full possession of the real estate in
dispute. This latest move was made in
the form of an answer to the supplement-
al complaint in the suit of James S. An
gus ct al, executors of the Fair estate,
against Nettie r. Craven, Marie Levin
ston and Others. Owing to the Illness of
Counsel for the defense, the hearing was
set for March IS.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-02-27
FELL FROM TIE SpOOP.
Sad Death Of Mr. Hovey Of
Magnolia Avenue
This Morning.

Inc residents of the Bergen section of
the Fill this morning were shocked to
learn that Mr.. Frederick Hovey, a mem
Der OF very prominent family of this
city, died at four o'clock, from the eff
fects OF a fail from the stoop of his faith
ers mouse on Magnolia avenue, last night
AS the young man was downtown yester-
day attending to his duties as assistant
to his brother-in-law, Mr. Henry w. Dew
lit, manager of the Equitable Life Insur-
ance Company, the news of his sudden
death was scarcely credited.
Last night about eight o'clock, while the
family were at dinner, they were startled
on hearing cry and noise as if some
thing had fallen outside the dining room
windows Miss Florence Hovey rushed
to the window, and in the dim light from
the street, saw a body lying at the base
of the stoop. Sumnoning help, she was
Mortified to find her brother with an ugly
wound at the back of his head, caused by
the sharp edge of the stoop against which
he had fallen.
He was carried upstairs unconscious,
and medical help was summoned. AT in
tervals he spoke to his mother and sis
t6r Dul un1ntelllS1Dly. The wound was
at first not discovered and Mrs. Hovey
did not think II more than a shock from
a severe fall Along towards midnight,
however, when the doctor arrived they
discovered the dangerous condition of the
young man. From that time he slowly
sank and died a few minutes before four
'clcck this morning.
Mr.. Hovey was a model young man.
highly educated, sunny in disposition, en-
ergetic and faithful in his business du-
ties and above all a good son and broth
er. He was married not long ago and
his wife is at present staying in Albany.
1t was only this morning ignorant of the
sad accident, she telegraphed to him to
come up and see her because she was ill.
A few seconds before the noise of the
fall was heard Mr.. Hovey, Sr., went out
by the basement into the street 1t is
belieFed that while he was leaving his
son was standing at the top of the high
sto0p overhead Hearing the sound of
footsteps the young man leaned over to
see who it was and at that moment was
seized with vertigo and toppled headlong
into the basement.
County Physician Converse was sum-
animation, reporting that death resulted
from fracture of the bone Of the brain,
caused by fall. Mr.. Hovey was only
twenty-four years of age.
The shocking accident has Frustrated
his family and much sympathy is eX-
pressed for them in their affliction. The
funeral services will take place on Mon
day and the interment will be in Albany.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-02-27
NOTHING SLOW ABOUT HART

BALTIMORE, Feb. o. 1Ss7-Captain
John D. Hart. of Philadelphia, recently
convicted of completely in filibustering
enterprises. is an applicant for the posi-
ton of Consul-General at Havana, pro-
vided a successor to Consul-General Lee
IS appointed. Captain Hart, who arrived
here yesterday to look after the steamer
Laurada, states that he has forwarded
his application for the Havana position to
President Cleveland. and at the same time
wrote Secretary of State Olney. asking
him to endorse the application Captain
Hart has not yet received a reply from
the President or Secretary Olney.
Captain Hart asserts that General Boleff
who forfeited his bail here last week by
not putting in an appearance in the Unit
ed States Court, did not go to Cuba on
the steamer Bermuda but it still in the
United States
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-02-27
InsurIng Dog., .Lixes

Do you know that dogs are now having
their lives insured? 1t Is a fact This
does not mean the ordinary canine BY
any manner of means. For even the
treasured italian greyhound -the dacfl-
shund, with a pedigree as far back as the
Mayfiower the hairy Scotch terrier
still go without a price upon their lives
But the Japanese pug dogs which are
now the accepted fad of French maid
and matron are regularly insured before
being put aboard vessel which trans
ports them from their native CLINE to
French shores
Merchants who make a business Of i'm
porting these tiny creatures declare that
they. are 50 delicate in constitution that
much care is necessary, especially upon
shipboard. Wherefore the precaution
of irsuring their lives
Judged from the point of French taste
IN the line of CANNES the importation
of these Japanese creatures should prove
a very profitable business. There is
nothing in the dog lime SO dear to your
true Pardsian as that which is odd-odd
even to the point of ugliness Pugs-
even the sleepiest of then-are greatly
admired and valued.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-02-27
JOINT OCCUPATION OF OoREA.
Bp Cable q tho united Press.

I YOKOHAMA, Feb. 27, 1Ss7-The gov
ernments of Russia and Japan have
signed convention by the terms of
which both powers are to station a limit
ed force of troops in Corea for the pro-
lection of the Russian and Japanese set
Elements in that country. The signatory
powers also agree to assist the govern
ment OF Corea financially, and Russia
Undertakes to construct and maintain a
line of telegraphic communication with
Seoul, the Corea Capital
LONDON, Feb. 27 1S97.-Sir Charles
Dixie has given notice that on Monday
ne will ask the government in the House
OF Commons to furnish what information
may be in their possession as to whether
the King of Corea is being protected by
Russia and If the Corean military force
is being drilled by Russian officers. He
will also demand an official expression
OF opinion as to the consistency of Rus
sian action in Corea with the pledge
gwen by the government of Russia when
Great Britain abandoned Port Hamilton
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-02-27
RAIDERS RELEASED.
Or. Jameson's Companions Complete
Their Terms Of Inpriso nment.
BIZ Gable to the United Press

LONDON. Feb. 27, 1ss7.-Major r.
White, who, together with Dr. L. B.
Jameson, Colonel H. F. White, Colonel
R. Grey, Captain Coventry and Major
Sir John Willoughby, was convicted of
participation in the Jameson raid into
the Transvaal, was released from the
Holloway Jail this morning, his term of
seven months imprisonment having ex-
pired. Major Willoughby, who was sem
fenced to ten months Imprisonment, is
the only one of the raiders now in con-
finement. He has still three months to
serve.
Colonel H. f. White and Colonel R.
Grey were liberated at the expiration
of their five months sentence on De-
cember 26, and DR.. Jameson, the leader
of the raid, who was sentenced to fifteen
months Imprisonment, was released on
DECEMBER z on account of i'll health
captain Coventry received sentence
of five months imprisonment, but was
released in the latter part of August
1870 the physicians of Holloway Jail GER
tlfy1ng that further confinement would
endanger his life, as he was suffering
from the effects of a wound received in
the hight between the raiders and the
Boers at krugersdorp on December 81,
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-02-27
NEW PACIFIC AVENUE BRIDGE
Lafayette Citizens Discuss the Subject
and SETTLE the Plans.


The Lafayette Citizens Association
met last night to ponder over the diff
cu1ties which confront the citizens of
that section in the securing of proper
improvements. The subject which occa-
stoned the most discussion was the pro-
posed new bridge over the Morris Canal
at Pacific avenue. The members of the
association discussed the subject at length
and decided that the new bridge should
be fat one and that Pacific avenue
should be graded from Maple street to
the end of the bridge.
The bridge will be the same height
as the present one, that is, between ten
and twelve feet.
The meeting adjourned early as most
Of the members wished to go to the
Colonial Danes reception, at the Jersey
City Club, held last night. Some of the
members did not attend at all.
President Mortimer Lampson said after
the meeting that he was confident they
would In the end get what they asked
for S4
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-02-27
The CrImtn.I IN the oman.

The taking of life is another deed that
the criminal regrets far more than he
has been given credit for. One thinks
of the criminal as the man who has
no respect for life; as one who takes a
life; as one who takes 1t without any
the general rule The business criminal
never takes life, if he can help it; and
when he does. he expects, in court, to re-
ceive the death penalty. Indeed, he be-
lieves as rule, that murder deserves
capital pnnishment and / have often
heard hi1n express wonder at the light
ness of the penalties which murdeIers re-
ceive AT the "hang- out a favorire topic
Of discussion is. which penalty is pre-
-life-imprisonme or death. The
consensus of opinion has generally run in
favor of life-imprisonment, even though
there be no hope for a pardon; but I
have never heard a whimper against the
Justice of the death Sertence-Forl,u
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-02-27

Peculiar inclination and other mental
idiosyncrasiels of men of genius can most
ly be readily explained. Everybody accus-
toned psychclogically to study and dis
sect those whom he meets. so far as OPP
portunity is afforded, is familiar with the
remark that each individual of the human
race has his pecuMarities, more or less
if he has the least breeding, has been ac-
customed from his youth up to hold in
check enc inclination or another which
violates the usages of society, or even per-
haps of good morals. He has learned to
attend sufficiently. to his own conduct not
to allow habits to take root which might
appear unusual or be disagreeable to
much concerned by his inward processes,
his fancy and his work to pay attention
to trifing details of manner. He there
fore appears what he really is, while the
average man would not do this. Conse-
uuently, chance peculiarities and special
inclinations appear in the former more
than in the latter.
Thus it is that the Behavior of great
men is not to be measured by the same
standard as that of Others, that we have
to take account of the motives of their ac-
tions, and that the physical conditions
must be kept in view if we are to draw
any trustworthy differences from their be-
havior. Those mighty natures must be
judged from their own organizations and
net from the Philistine point of view of
the so-called average man.-Dr. William
Hirseh. In Appleton,s Popular Science
Monthly. II, sss 80
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-02-27
VOTE Or BE FINED.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 81, 1s97.-In the
Senate today Mr.. Hoar (Rep., Mass.) in
troduced bill to punish obstruction of
the exercise of constitutional power of
either House of Congress by a member
thereof, by imposing fine of 81, 600 for
wilful absence. It also makes the seat
vacant upon aa failure to qualify.
Mr.. Hoar did not expect action on the
bill now, but he hoped it might be pass
ed in the near future in order that the
dangers of the situation which might
arise at any time might be avoided.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-02-27
MAYORS LUNCH INTERRUPTED.

Mayor Wanser was about to go home
to his lunch at noon today when an
italian party appeared on the scene. The
Mayor remained and tied the knot. The
contracting parties were Anthony Frario,
Il, and Lucretia Lubanea, 20. both of No.
70 Colgate street
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-02-27
MASSACRE IN PROSPECT.
BIZ Cable to the United Press.

LONDON, Feb. 27, 1S97.-A despatch
from Madrid to the Central News says
Among the fifty-five prisoners taken
by the Spanish troops is the uprising at
Manila on Thursday is a man who
claims to be, and undoubtedly is, an
American citizen. All of the prisoners
VIII be tried by court martial, and thirty
of them will doubtless be shot,
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-02-27
PATROL WAGON BREAKS DOWN.

Fire broke out this afternoon III the
basement Of William King, grocery store
at Grove and Fourteenth Streets Only
slight damage was done. While On the
way to the lire the Second precinct pafrol
wagon. n which 4 half d6zen policemen
were riding broke deWn. NO one was
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-02-27
a Rustness by Itself.

The prosecution of personal injury suits
has grown to be business by itself.
Those engaged in it rarely have any other
occupation There are several corpora
tions and many law firms and brokers in
the city of Chicago, as in other cities, do
ing a speculative business in these claims.
They employ runners as q commercial
house employs travelling statesmen. These
runners have business relations with sa-
loon keepers near manufacturing works
tor railway crossings, and surgeons, and
police officers may be found in many
parts of the city having their connection
with this business Sooner or later the
runners succeed in obtaining admission
to every public hospital in the county.
1t rarely happens that an accident is.
mentioned in the newspapers, but the un-
fortunate person who may be injured. or
his family in case of his death, is at
once overrun with applicants desiring to
procure an assignment of the claim. It
decision of the Illinois Supreme Court
decision which happily the court has
again taken under advisement- q, per-
sonal injury claim is property, capable
of being put on the market and trans
ferred from hand to hand, like stock in a
corporation. In most cases the runner
who has succeeded in procuring am as
signment of the claim has it transferred
to some person as trustee. This trustee
represents the runner, the saloon-Aeeper,
the hospital nurse, or other person
through whom he may have procured the
claim, the attorney, surgeons and other
testify, and who will, therefore. have a
right to share in the proceeds, and in
cidentally, the injured person.-North
American Review for FebrIIary
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-02-27
French Awakening to EoerEst Rru-
talftv.
Blu Cable to the Unfted prsss.

PARIS, Feb. 27, 1Ss7rThe "Gaulois''
says that the brutalities and vexations
which are being practiced by the Boer
Government against French citizens and
French industries are engaging the at
tention of a number of the members of
the Chamber of Deputies, with the pos
siple result of the intervention of the
French Government.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-02-27

sailed the ValkyrIe against the Deferdei',
will have charge of the Bona
The Valkyrie remains at her moorfngs
in Gourock Bay. She is much too deep
to compete over most courses against
the shallower boats. While as yet she
has no orders for fitting out it Is hoped
she may be got ready for the British