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The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-08-02

strain point in favor of an
administration they are antagonistic to.
From what | can sec IT would appear
that provision has been made for every
thing this year. Unlike previous years,
no items have been omitted Care has
been taken of obligations which
imagine should have been given official
attention before. l will not attempt to
discuss the budget fully at this time. l
may later. I win not say now what DIS
position l propose making OF It. Mr
Midige is, ! am sure, quite Iamlnar Wlin VIII
with him before l do anything. / cannot
say / am pleased with the greatly IN
creased rate. | rather expected 1t, how
ever. as we have had showed upon us.
obligations which do not belong to US.
If it is true that the budget has been
padded to the extent of S2ll000, the re-
moval of that sums would send our tax
rate up to a dangerous extent. This IN
crease had to come and knew it. Those
who are responsible for it, however,
should have been compelled to stand the
result of it. will certainly do what can
to relieve our already overtaxed people
The prevailing impression seems to be
that the Mayor will exercise his prerog-
ative and veto the budget as whole
budget vests in the Finance Board power
by a two-third vote to pass It over
Mayoralty veto. 1t is expected that
Messrs. Brautigam, Kelis;; IA bailey y,,aant ana
will stand by 1t and pass 1t II necessary
over a veto.
1t was reported at the City Hall this
afternoon that if the Mayor does veto the
budget his letter on the subject will be
one which will cause little more con-
fusion in the Finance Boards office. Out
side of the objections Commissioner Mid
lige has made to the budget, the fact has
been cited that the Finance Commission
ers have been unusually liberal with the
several Republican branches of the city
government and close with the Demo
era ~ ones.
The members of the Board Of Educa-
ton are in q state of mind and say that
they see no way in which they will be
able to properly equip and maintain the
new schools and provide teachers with the
limited appropriation granted them. The
Street and Water Commissioners. too, are
hot and insist that, with the limited
funds given them and the fact that the
previous Republican Street and Water
Board mortgaged this years water money
to the extent of $4,000 they will be unable
to properly conduct the department or
make many public improvements which,
for the public health and safety, are nee
essary. From the other branches of the
city government very little complaint is
heard. Mayor Hoos may take some ac-
tion on the budget tomorrow.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-08-02
LOST IN JERSEY CITY.
hut This Polish servant Girl Wound
Up in . New York Court.

NEW YORK, Aug. 2. 1897: "A pretty
girl, well dressed and about eighteen
years old, walked into the West TWen-
tieth street station house early this morn
ing. Sergeant Grey was at the desk. He
was half doing and aroused himself with
a start as the girl began chattering to
him in a language that he did not under
stand. The girl was apparently in dis
tress. and the tears chased each other
down her cheeks. The Sergeant called
up all the policemen in the station house,
but none of them could make out what
the girl was talking about. They learned
however that the girls name was Fran
ces Appel and that she spoke Polish.
The girl was cared for at the station
house, and later was taken to Jefferson
Market Police Court.
Detective Devine explained the girls
predicament to Magistrate Deuel..
Through the court Interpreter it was
learned that the girl was employed as a
domestic with a family named Isaacs..
who lived on First avenue. The number
the girl could not remember. She had
been to Jersey City to visit some friends
in the Polish colony there, and could not
find her way back to the place where she
lived in New York.
Magistrate Deuel. instructed the detec-.
tive to so with the girl to Jersey City.
to find her friends.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-08-02
NORTH RIVER MYSTERY
Body of a Well Dressed Woman
Found OFF Pier No. p
Murder or Suieide7

NEW YORK, Aug. g. 1S97.-The main
clews the police have in this mystery of
the North River are broad gold wedding
ring and a pocketbook, tucked away in
the dress of the dead woman.
The body was floating face downward
rear Pier when discovered.
Daniel Sullivan, the watchman at Pier
No. 2, guessed at first that it was a bum
die of black rags Then little wave
beayed the floating object and hand
showed.
Sullivan drew the body into the pier
and sent word to the nearest police sta
ton The body remained in the water
the grizzliest object that every landed at
Pier 2-until the dead wagon from the
Morgue arrived.
The woman wore good clothes She
must have been person of refinement.
Her hands were long and slim. She was
attired almost coquettishly, daintily.
Her shirt waist of some finely woven
white stuff, was made gay with delicate
red stripe Her skirt was of soft black
cloth, and clung, dripping, around a
comely figure.
Her stockings were black; her under
wear white and garnished with lace.
Black lace shoes encased slim, graceful
feet.
Besides the wedding ring on her left
hand there was a small gold ring, set
with a strange stone carved in bizarre
fashion on her right hand. Her silky
brown hair was coiled in coquettish
knot on the top of her head
She had evidently made a careful toi-
let, this woman, standing minutes be-
fore the mirror, perhaps, before she left
her. home-no one knows where-and met
death-no one knows how.
1t looks like suicide; it may have been
murder The body had been in the water
several days.
She must have been under tfirty-five
years of age and handsome. Her weight
was almost $50 pounds, a plump, we'll
made figure.
The body. is at the morgue. The pocket
book had been carefully placed in the
folds of her dress
Did She fear robbery? The police are
trying to find out.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-08-02
.BNGLAuD'S LATEST GRAB.
Solomon Isles Annexed to the
British Empire Gold Seek
ers Massaered in
Australia.

VANCOUVER. B. c., Aug. 2, 1Ss7-The
steamer Miowera. which arrived from
Sydney brought details of the recent an
nexation of the Solomon group. The
work was done by her British Majestys
ship Wallaroo. The first island made a
colony was Bellona, which the Wal
LARGO reached on July 49, The Union
Jack was hoisted with the usual cere-
monies. The natives were very shy at
first and much frightened at the salute,
but they became reassured on the ship
leaving and removed the notice of the
Board of Annexation and dug up the
bottle containing the proclamation. The
entente cordiale was first established by
the ship rescuing q native blown out to
sea in a canoe.
Runnell Island was also placed under
British protection the same day. The
island is difficult of access and no natives
were seen.
The Wallaroo called at Maru Sound and
proceeded to the Stewart Islands, annex
ing them. The natives are of a high type
and very friendly. They were much
pleased at becoming British subjects.
Runnel and Beliona lie to the southwark
of Guadalcanar, in the Solomon group,
and apparently were discovered by Cap
tain Wilkinson of the Indispensable in
1880. 1t is said copper ore is abundant on
them. According to Lieutenant Richards,
Runnell Island is about forty-fve miles
long and six or seven broad, of a uniform
height of four hundred feet densely
wooded, but apparently affords no anchor
age. The natives resemble those on
Tanna in the New Hebrides. All the
islands are rich in cocoanuts.
The steamer Miowera from Sydney,
brings information that news of still an
other massacre has been received there.
Not long ago great numbers of Aus
tralia's huge army of unemployed were
ming at Papua and other interior points
in New Guiana. Their ranks have been
thfnned by murder, starvation and fatal
swamp fevers. To make matters worse,
every native who helped white man was
marked for the tomanawk.
The remnant of these white pioneers
went to Vanapa for final effort to make
their fortunes and return Their stores
gave out and for months they lived on
''damper" and tea. Natives in the vicin-
ity claimed to be ill-treated by the gov
ernment in the way of scant stores and
by massacreing all the whites within
reach.
The whites were raided at night and
put to death with tomahawks. Many
massacres had occurred in the same place
previously but the government has never
attempted to punish the murderers.
Later news confirms the massacre
which occurred eighty-five miles from
Port Moresby. The entire settlement of
natives and whites had their heads split
open by large band of savages. The
surround the natives and shoot, if neces-
sary. Wholesale arrests viii be made
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-08-02
ALASKA'S RICHES.
Tales Of Petroleum Discoveries
Rival Those of Gold Sam
pies Analysed in Seattle.

SAN FRANCISCO. Aug. 2, 1Ssl.--While
the whole world is excited over the gold
discoveries in the north sight has been
lost of another discovery that promises to
be of great value In the development of
that section. Some months ago a lake of
almost pure petroleum was discovered
and samples were sent to Seattle for
analysis. The report on these has just
been made public, and the find is report
ed to be of great richness company
has been formed in Seattle to handle the
product and travellers from there say the
company intends to put it on the Alaskan
market at once. The lake is Of unknown
depth, several miles wide and five to six
miles in length and the quality of the
petroleum is said to be OF the finest. the
lake is only two miles from the ocean
The hills surrounding are said to be rich
in coal and asphalt. It is the expectation
OF the owners of the lake 10 take its pro-
ducts into the mining camps of northern
Alaska whenever the waterways will per-
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-08-02

sMooDRUFF Suddenly, of aapopIsxy, j; at
sli avenue Jersey city Heights, Mrs
issa Susan Woodruff, widow of Major Gem
eraf Edward Woodruff
Funeral services on Monday. August 2.
al s. P. NJ, at her late residence.
SARNoIiD-o1 Sunday, August 4. 1897:
Elias ogden Arnold Gate of Jersey
~ City, beloaYed husband of Lucinda 3:
Arnold, aged CT years months and ~
days
Relatives and friends of the family are
respectively invited to attend the funeral
on Wednesday, August 4, at one T. M,
from his late residence corner HornblpW-
er avenue and Holmes street. Beileville.
CAREY-On Sunday. August I, 1887. John
the beloved son of Patrick and Cath-
crime Carey, aged rs years.
Relatives and friends of the family are
respectfully invited to attend the funeral
from his late residence, $50 First street,
on Tuesday, August 3, at two P. NJ.
IRWIN--In this CITY, on Sunday, August
l. 1897, Alice c., daughter OF Ella ana
the late Henry Irwin.
Notice Of funeral hereafter.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-08-02
GANGADHAR TILAK COMMITTED

by Cable to The Associated Press.1
BOMBAY, Aug. 2. 1S97.-Gangadhar
Tilak, the native member of the Legis-
lative Council who was arrested during
the evening of July 27, charged with in
citing the natives of Bombay to disaf-
fection, was again brought up in the
police court here today and was formally
committed for trial. When first arraigned
on July 2S, Gangadhar Tilak offered to-
furnish bail for his appearance at any
future proceedings; but the Magistrate
refused to admit the prisoner to bail To-
morrow Gangadhar Tilak will make an
application to the High Court Judges for
an order requiring the authorities to re-
lease him on bail pending his trial on the
charges brought against him.
Gangadhar Tilak, as eabled at the time
of his arrest, has for long time agitated
indiscriminately against British rule in
India. Recently he has been more than
usually virulent.
Eshoo Madow Bal. a partner of Gangad-
har Tilak in the publication of s'Kesari,' -
q native newspaper, was also arrested
on July 81. The police seized at the
newspaper office a quantity of incriminat-
ing documents.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-08-02
TROUBLE IN CHINATOWN.
Highbtnders Post a List Of Thess
Condemned By the Hasehef Mon.

SAN FRANCISCO. Aug. 2. 1ss7.-There
are prospects of trouble in Chinatown.
The Highbinders have posted q list of the
names of Chinese who have been con-
demned to death by the Hatchet 1-men.
The list includes many who stand high In
business circles and who have always in
terested themselves in aiding the officials
in their efforts to make Chinatown law
abiding place. When questioned regard
ing the threats against their lives eese
men stated that they believed it he
jntanfjon of the slave owners IL
data Then, If nOssible They b. mat
they were marked, but felt confiuent they
could take the necessary precaution to
their lives
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-08-02
THEY Died TOGETHER
Henry Aubert and His Wife
Asphyxiate Themselves
With Gas.
BUSINESS, PERHAPS, TIE CAUSE
He Wrote Letter to Friend
Asking Him to Look After
His Affairs.
BUSINESS, PERHAPS, TIE CAUSE

Henry Aubert, So years old, and his
wife, Nina, who was two years his
junior, were found dead in their beds in
their home, No. As Lincoln street, at $50
o'clock this morning. Three gas Jets in
the room were turned on. DR.. Oestman,
of No. 961 Summit avenue, was called and
declared that the couple had been dead
for several hours. 1t is believed that they
committed suicide on account of business
depression. For the last sixteen years
Aubert had conducted the Jersey EN-
broidery Manufacturing Company in .
large two-story frame building at Lin
coin street and Summit avenue. Louisa
Koch was employed by the Auberts as q
domestic. When she came down stairs
this morning she found a large envelope
on the kitchen table. It was addressed
to George Raven. of No. 45S CentraE ave-
nue., who was a friend of Aubert's. She
delivered the letter to Mr.. Raven, wfso on
reading it became greatly excited and
telephoned to Police Headquarters that
he feared Aubert and his wife had conn
mitted suicide.
The Sixth precinct police were notified
and Sergeant Holderer sent Roundsman
Richards to investigate. With the Ser
seant he went to the door of the Auberts'
bedroom and knocked vigorously. AS
there was no response and the door was
locked. he forced it open. The odor OF
gas made him retreat, but only for a
couple of minutes. Tying a handkerchief
over his nostrils. Richards ran into the
room and found Mr.. and Mrs. Aubert
lying side by side in adjoining beds. Rich
ards opened the windows and soon had
the room cleared Of the gas. He found
three Jets turned on full force. All the
windows had been securely fastened and
the cracks had been plugged.
The letter Aubert addressed to Mr..
Raven was written in German on busi-
ness paper. Translated it read as fol-
lows
Dear Friend Raven-4Please do me the
favor and call at oncesat No. 10 Lincoln
street and AXE 'chargeS9f myfhouse and
the middle drawer of,smy desk IS open
and you will find all Keys, saoluding a
letter. Please send ,asdespatch to Louis
Darfiein, loi and, hos 6oSser street, N. r,
at once; also nottfys Crampien and Cas-
teno :
I'm true friendship, yours.
HENRY AUBERT-
George Raven. a5s Central avenue"
Everything about ,theshouse of the dead
thought that an Investigation ofsfheir
business affairs mayelead to knowledge
Of the cause of the ystIcfde. The police
failed to secuBe thek1etter spoken of by
Av Aubert IN his commit tlnsca&toal. to Raven
or of their tworEons, one soesEvhom is in
the Navy. phee Others aivesssomewhere
In New York,
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-08-02
TAX Rate SCARS.
Citizens Seem Disposed to Place
the Blame on Republicans
Where it Belongs.

The announcement that the tax rate,
after a close estimate, will be s2S.72 on the
$1,000 of valuations as against s27.40 last
year, has caused discomfort among prop
erty owners. So far as can be learned
in fact all the outward indications are
that the Wanser administration is being
held responsible for the increase, which
reaches $1.32 on the $1,000
Mayor Hoos' letter to the Board of FL
nance, in which the whole financial sys-
tenn was denounced, is still the cause of
much comment, and His Honor has re-
ceived many letters from Democrats and
Republicans congratulating him for his
courage in assailing the Board and laying
facts, which the writers say have been
kept from the public, open for examina
tion. The Mayors second letter, in
which he urged retrenchment and sug-
gested reductions in many branches of
the city governments payroll, has also
made friends for him and convinced some
men who have written to him that his
purpose was to keep down the tax bur-
dens
Commissioner Midlige's denunciation of
the budget and his charge that it has
been padded to the extent of $211 900, has
also caused commotion. The point he
made relative to the inclusion of certain
sums to be derived from railroads in the
budget. when it is pretty well known
4he taxes from these sources will not be
available this year. has excited no end of
criticism. The citing of the fact that
one-quarter of the liquor license money
which, previous to two years ago was set
aside to meet maturing bonds, has also
been included in the budget and is to be
used to defray current expenses, has
caused astonshment. This mornings
mail brought the Mayor letters from var
ious parts of the city, from taxpayers
urging him to veto the budget as a whole
and throw the responsibility of its crea-
tion upon Messrs, Brautigam, Kellers,
Bailey and Simpson. It is not at all inn
probable that such a course will be fol-
lowed by His Honor.
Clerk Martin Fink, of the Board of FL
nance, sent the budget to the Mayor at
fifteen minutes before twelve o'clock on
Saturday. In years past it has been GUS
tomary for the Mayor to approve the
budget without delay. In previous years
:also the Mayor has usually been consulted
III the preparation of the budget and ar
rangenent of the appropriations to be
distributed Mayor Hoos was not con-
suited this year, and Commissioner Mid
liee the Democratic member, was voted
down in all the propositions he made, by
his colleagues. The budget was still be-
fore the Mayor this morning. He had not
looked at 1t yet and announced that he
had no intention of passing upon it to-
day.
The fact that the tax rate has been
forced up so high has caused the Mayor
uneasiness. Your tax rate is to be 81. 80
on the thousand higher, wish the public
20 understand that am in no way re-
sponsible for it, he said .the budget has
been prepared by four gentlemen who
were appointed BY my predecessor. It is
scarcely consistent to expect them to-
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-08-02
C0WRS REGATTA OPENS.
Yachts of High and Lew Degree
Compete for $4OO-Brifannia Leads

BY Cable to The Associated Press.l
COWES, Isle Of Wight, Aug. 2. 1885,
The Cowes regatta week opened today
with racing under the auspices of the
Royal London Yacht Club. The big
yachts started in a race for prize of
ESQ (s400). The course was from Cowes
twice around the Warner Lightship and
West Lepe Buoy, finishing off this place.
Meteor, owned by Emperor William of
Germany; Aurora, the property of Mr..
Charles Day Rose; Bona, the yacht re-
Gently built for the Duke of Abruzzi,
nephew of the King of Italy, and the
Prince of Wales Britannia started. Me-
teor, Britannia and Aurora crossed the
line together, and the Prince of Wales
yacht soon after assumed the lead, with
Aurora close second.
Britannia then began to draw away and
obtained a good lead over her competi-
tors.
Meteor allows Britannia 1 minute SIS sec
onds; allows Aurora Is minutes 1 second,
and she allows Bona 29 minutes 27 sec
ondS.
Aurora has been referred to as pos
sfble challenger for the Americas Cup.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-08-02
OIL STOVE SENSATION.

Especial to 1.-THE Jersey City News."l
NEWARK, Aug. 2, 1S97.-A gasoline
stove exploded today in a rear balcony
on the second floor of No. 25O West Kin
ney street this city. Mrs. Bernard Sc
binsky, who lives in the apartment, tried
to extinguish the fire. The oil from the
stove set the balcony on fire and soon
Mrs. Sebinsky was hemmed in by the
fiames Sc became so terrified that she
jumped from the balcony into the yard.
She received painful injuries. Firemen
rescued Mrs. Sebinsky's three children by
passing them to a window of an adjoin-
ing house, from where they taken into
the street The fire did 81 500 damage.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-08-02
WILL ANSWER HOOS.

There is to be a special meeting of the
Board of Finance tomorrow evening. The
feature of the meeting will be the Boards
answer to Mayor Hoos' attack upon the
manner in which the city finances have
been managed for the last five years. The
answer, 1t is said, is a bitter document
and one which will cause sensation.
The Finance Commissioners say that
they have endeavored to cover every
point raised by the Mayor in his letter
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-08-02
SWISS MUSEUM ROBBED.

[By Gable, to The Associated Press.l
LAUSANNE. Switzerland. Aug. 2, 1897
An extensive robbery of art works and
other articles of great value has taken
place at the vaud Cantonal Museum.
The Cantonal Museum of the Canton of
Vaud, of which Lausanne is the capital
is located in the college near the Cathe-
dral Of Lausanne. 1t contains natural
history collections. valuable collection
of fresh water conchylia, relics from
Aventfcum and Vidy, the ancient Laus-
anne. and interesting Celtic antiquities
from Lake dwellings. coins medals. etc.
The building also contains the Cantonal
Library, consisting of 10000 volumes.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-08-02
QUEER BOON 10 IRELAND
lBy Gable to The Associated Press.1

by Cable to The Associated Press.l
LONDON. Aug. 2. 1s97.--Mr. A. ]. Bal
four, the First Lord of the Treasury and
Government leader, replying in the House
of Commons today to a question of Mr..
Fl. D. Coghill, Conservative member for
Stoke-on- Trent, as to whether the govern
ment would consider the abolishment of
the Viceroyalty of Ireland and the sub
stitution for it Of Secretary of State.
for Ireland and the establishment of
Royal residence in that country. said he
had always been of the opinion that some
change was advisable, but Mr.. Balfour,
added. he could not promise early legisla-
tion on the subject.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-08-02
TO REooNVENE THE 00RTEs.
[By Cable to The Associated Press.l

Icy CaDIe % 1 ne Ass0cIdt5u Fress'I
VALENCIA, Spain. Aug. 2, 1S97.-Don
Francisco Silvela, the Conservativs leader.
at meeting here yesterday demanded
that the Cortes be reconvened in Octo-
Der, taking the ground that the policy
of the Conservatives had failed politically,
militarily and internationally. Don
silvela also urged that steps be taken to
settle the claim of both sides in the dis
putes between the United States and
Spain.l
In conclusion, the Conservative leader
eulogized the Queen Regent for her con-
ciliatory attitude under very trying cir
cumStanceS
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-08-02
FORT CHAKDARA RELIEVED.
fBy Cable to The Associated Press

[By Cable to The Associated Press.l
BOMBAY. Aug. 2. 1Ss7.-Fort Chakdara,
in the Chitral district, which was
sieged by large force of in ID
tiyes, has been relieved by T.. tish
force under General Blood. The nghting
was severe and the tribesmen lost heav-
ily The loss of the British was light.
NO further details have yet reached here.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-08-02
HIS ARM FROZEN IN AUGUST.
Young Lockwood Won the Dare
Ruf May He a Crfppla

William Lockwood, 10 years old, Of No.
1e5 Van Winlxle street. was removed to
Christ Hospital this afternoon suffering
from frostbitten arm. Lockwood and
a young companion entered VOLTS ice
cream mandatory, at No. Z James ave-
rue, and they tried to see which could
with ice. Lockwood won, but his arm
is in a deadful condition. There is a pos
sibility that 1t will have to be amputated.