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The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-05-12
THE PROSPECT OF PEACE
by Gable to the Associated Press

| lBy Gable to the Associated Press.1
CoNSTANTINOPLE1,N May H. 1s97.-( (De-
iayed in transmission. 1.-The Ambassadors
| met this morning for an exchange of
views on the subject of mediation In
the meanwhile the Turks are advancing
IN Greece, Edhen Pasha's original or
ders being to march upon Athens
Uneasiness prevails here on the subject
OF the peace negotiations. 1t was feared
that the reported conditions will render
an agreement difficult and cause further
complications 1t is expected Russia may
propose concessions to the MaceGonians
The Director of the Deutsche Bank of
Berlin is expected here shortly, with pro-
posals to reorganize the Turkish finances
ana conclude loan and secure railway
concessions.
The Admirals in command of the for
elgn iAeets IN Cretan waters have been
notified of the mediation of the powers
between Turkey and Greece and have
been Instructed to permit the departure
q the Greek troops from the Island of
The Turkish military commander at
Janina telegraphs that all the Greek
forces in II Epirus have fled to Arta. aban-
aoading aod 1000 rifles, 800 cases of ammunition
Greeks, the despatch further states, were
Killed in the recent fighting
me, fourth batch of wounded Turkish
soldiers mas arrived here.
A decree issued today by the Council
OF ministers orders a battalion OF gen
darmes to be despatched to Larissa and
also appoints the former Ottoman Con-
suls at Volo, Larssa and Trikhala to be
kaimakams, or Administrators, OF these
districts with powers to organize Turkish
admIinistration in those parts of Greece.
The Sultan will personally defray the
cost OF the war medals which are to he
presented to the Turkish troops which
nave taken part in the campaign against
The Ambassadors of the powers held
another meeting this morning, after
which they presented at the Palace and
to the Turkish Government a collective
the negotiations for peace, between
Turkey and Greece, which are now in
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-05-12
NILES TO SEE ARMIES

by Cable to the Associated Press.l
SOUTHAMPTON, May 12, 1s97.-General
Nelson A. Miles, U. S. A, who arrived
here by the American Line steamship st.
Paul, from New York, on his way to the
whether the conclusion of peace, which
brought about, would change his plans
The General said it would not, that he
starts tonight for Constantinople and
that he intends to see the Turkish Army
and the armies of Europe generally be-
fore returning to the United States.
General Horace Porter, the new United
states Ambassador to France sails for
daughter will go to London for a week
or ten days.
General W. Nj. Osborne, the new Con-
sui General Of the United States at Lon
don, and Mr.. j. K Gowdy, the new Con-
sui General of the United States at
Paris, also started for London.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-05-12
DROWNED WEEKS AGO.

The body Of an unknown man, which
had evidently been in the water several
weeks, was discovered in the New York
Bay, at the foot of Phillips street, at ten
o'clock this morning, by some men and
boys who were mending nets. The man
was five feet eight inches tall and weigh
ed about 150 pounds. The features were
50 badly decomposed as to be unrecog-
nizable The clothing Of the drowned
man consisted of light brown over
coat, cardigan jacket striped trousers
and vest, light shirt, and lace shoes. In
the clothes was $1.07 and three keys. The
body was tied to the pier until the
morgue wagon arrived and took it to
Speer'S morgue.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-05-12
ARGENTINE REPUBLICS HORSES
Commission Sent From England to
Secure Them for the Arnnr

WASHINGTON, May II, 1Ss7.-The
Bureau of the American Republics has
received reliable information that in the
latter part of April Commission com
posed of fifteen cavalry officers and six
veterinary surgeons, left England for the
city Of Buenos Ayres for the purpose Of
having large number of horses in the
Argentine Republic to be used in the cav
airy service of the English Army
The circumstance is regarded as sig
nificant only in the fact of showing the
development in that part of the world.
1t is the first time that any European
country has had recourse to the markets
of South America for such a purpose.
Heretofore the British Army has been
supplied with horses from the United
States and Canada and to limited ex-
tent from the Continent of Europe.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-05-12
RAMPAGEoUs CIRCUS TRAIN.

ROCHESTER,, N. Y. May 12. 1897
While the third section Of the Forepaugh
& Sells Brothers circus train was pass
ing the Brown street crossing of the Cen
trail Railroad, at $40 o'clock this morn
ing, draw head broke on the front end
of the fifth ear from the engine, derail-
ing that car and two Others which
crashed through the flag station, carried
away two big telegraph poles, ripped off
forty feet OF the station platform and
finally brought up diagonally across one
Of the Buffalo, Rochester & Pittsburg
tracks. No ore was injured The loss
to the circus people will aggregate $40
000 at the lowest estimate, counting in
damage to cars and wagons.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-05-12
BLUECOAT BRUTES
Two Policemen Whom the
Board Should Promptly
Bounce.
yam YECHTEES INJURED DIGNITY
Their Victims Placed on Trial for
Assault-Tables Turned
in Court.
In YECHTEN'S INJURED DIGNITY

Policemen George Van vechten and
Nicholas Walsh were sent out on Sunday,
February q, in citizens clothes to pick
up crap shooters. Joseph Norman, Bosso
Brono and Michael Cont were standing
at First and Brunswick streets. AS Van
ten or fifteen feet in the rear, Norman
remarked: Here come two dead fly
cops" Van Vechten considered that
deadly insult and he promptly put Nor
man under arrest. Van Vechten did not
say that he was an officer. He and Walsh
did the three men up in great shape and
then arrested them. Brono. Norman and
Cont were tried in the General Sessions
Court today for assault and battery on
the officers. Van Vechten testified that
one of the defendants said; Here comes
two dead fly COPS" and then made
noise with his mouth. The witness went
back and placed Norman under arrest for
insulting him. Cont came across and
struck him. Then Walsh came to his
assistance and after fierce struggle, in
which they used their clubs very freely
and vigorously, they got Norman and
Bruno to the station house. The prisoners
were badly cut. Walsh corroborated Van
Vechten's statement, except that he did
not hear the gross insult which was Of
fered to his brother officer.
The testimony for the defence showea
that the arrest and the attack by Won
Vechten on Norman and the old man
Brono was brutal outrage
Norman is a one-armed man of slight
build. He and two companions were sit
ting on stoop and one of his compan-
ions was about to take a package of
cigarettes and break them up to fill his
pipe. Norman said ..Aber nit.'' Van
Vechten asked him what he meant by in
sulting him. Norman replied that he had
not insulted him. in fact he had not
spoken to him at all. The brave Van
Veehten thereupon struck the one-armed
man in the jaw with his elenehed fist and
hioSA0u Hill uOWL. NOC SdIlSIleQ WIN
that he drew his billy and began club
bing the PROSTATE man. Old man Brono
protested and Van vechten and Walsh
dubbed him There was some excuse for
Walsh's action, as. he thought Van
Vechten was being attacked. but there
was no justification whatever for Van
Vechten's brutality. CONT who is Bro
nos nephew, saw his uncle being clubbed
by two strange men and went to his as
sistance. In the melee he struck Van
Vechten. The State abandoned the case
against Norman and Brono
Allan L. McDermott. who appeared for
the defence. scored the policemen un-
mercifully and said that they should be
on trial instead of the defendants He
paid special attention to Van Vechten.
who, because he thought his dignity was
insulted, proceeded to knock one-armed
man down and club him. The one great
need of the Police Department. Mr. Nc
Dermott said, is a school for the educa-
ton of policemen.
Assistant Prosecutor Noonan did not
spare Van Vechten either. The arrest.
he said, was entirely unjustifiable. and
he described Van vechten as a. stupen-
dous specimen of incompetency. The jury
promptly acquitted the defendants.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-05-12
ALL INVITATIONS DFoTJNpD

WASHINGTON. Nav r. 1997.-The
President has practically decided to de-
cline all the invitations extended to him
81. He had. among others, Invitations to
attend the exercises of Meade Post, No.
l, at Philadelphia. those at West Point.
New York city and at ST. Louis.
His trip to Philadelphia this week to
attend the exercises connected with the
unyeiling of the Washington monument
ana his contemplated trip to the Nash
visable for him to be absent from Wash
ington at the close Of this month
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-05-12
LAFAYETTE N. F. SUNDAY soHOo1

The annual meeting of the teachers of
the Lafayette M. e. Church Sunday
School was held last night An increase
Of eighty members was reported w. r..
Wheeler was elected Superintendent of
the Boys Department and Mrs r. F.
Duryer Superintendent of the Girls: j.
Case was elected Secretary and F. O.
with Centenary Church in holding an ex-
curSion in June.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-05-12
DROWNED TN a WE'LL.

Yesterday afternoon, while ,nlavjnp in
the rear of her fathers residence, on
Clerk street, little Margaret Higgins fell
INTO 2 well ana was drowned.
margaret was only sixteen months old.
and her parents reside at No. Igg Clerk
street. Ali the afternoon she had been
with other children scampering about the
lot. In trying TO evade a collision with
a playmate she fell into the we'll A
man. named James Van Doren heard the
children screaming for help and at once
got ladder. When he reached the lit
tie girl she was dead
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-05-12
]. @. DRIVING CLUB MEETS.

A meeting of the Jersey City Driving
Club was held last evening at Denton,
Shaw & landlord $ stable, on Gregory
street. A contract for the erection of a
1c0-foot shed was awarded, Ito be built
on the ground at the foot of Duncan
avenue.
Building Committee was appointed
consisting of Mr.. McKenna, Mr.. Duncan
and Dr. Farrell, to look after the erec-
ton of a fence to encircle the ground
grand stand. The meeting then adjourn
ed to. meet next Tuesday evening.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-05-12
THOSE DISPUTED BALLOTS.

The County Board OF Elections met
again yesterday afternoon and wrestled
with the Helff-Lane election contest.
They did not succeed in doing anything
more than pay each other some left
handed compliments. It was finally ar
ranged that Supreme Court Commissioners
Nugent will prepare a report notifying
Justice Lippincott that the Board is un-
able to agree upon any disposition of the
disputed ballots and ask for further in
struction. The report win be presented
to Justice Idppincott TODAY
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-05-12
THE TRANSVAAL DEFIANT
[By Gable to The Associated Press.l

IBy Gable to The Associated Pressl
LONDON, May IL, 1S97.-A special
despatch from Cabe Town says that the
reply of the Transvaal Government to the
strong note, said to amount to an ulti-
matum, from the Secretary of State for
the Colonies, Mr.. Joseph Chamberlain is
defiant in tone. 1t insists, the despatch
adds, upon the right of the Transvaal
to demand arbitration of the questions in
dispute and also upon it's right to pass
the Aliens Immigration law and asserts
that if this right is disputed arbitration
is the best means of arriving at settle
ment of the question. u
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-05-12
NICE CAPTURE BY SEA.
[By Gable to The Associated Press.1

by Gable to The Associated Press
ATHENS, May II, 1S97.-Advices receiv-
ed here today from the Island of Ski
atnos' on the East coast of the Volo
Peninsula, say that the Greek gunooat
Penus and the Greek torpedo boat No.
a captured, yesterday, off the Island of
Ter edos, on the, West coast of Asia
Minor a Turkish steamer having on
board 100 Turkish soldiers, six officers,
800 Martini rifles, several thousand cart
tary stores and $4,000 ($20,OOo) in CASH
The money was found upon a Turkish
Major, who was one of the officers cap
tured- The Greek warships took4-the
prize to the Island of Skiathos.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-05-12
RAPID TRANSIT TO ENGLAND.
sir Donald Smith Hopes for East
Steamers WIsEssm Two Years

fly Cable to The Associated Press.1
LONDON. May II, 1S9T.-Sir Donald
Smith, the Canadian High Commissioner
in an interview with a representative of
The Associated Press today, said he was
hopeful that fast steamships between
Canada and Great Britain would be run
ming within two years.
In regard to the tariff, Sir Donald
Smith remarked that it was nothing but
the accentuation of Canadas attachment
to Great Britain, with which she desires
the closest possible commercial relations
certainly with no feeling of hostility to
the United States, with which country
Canada is eager for real reciprocity.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-05-12
ARRANGEMENTS FoR NO. / SCHOOL

The Board of Education will meet to-
morrow evening and the principal busi-
ness, outside of routine matters, will be a
discussion Of Public School No. l. The
sufficient sum for the fixing up of the
old City Hall to be temporarily used un-
til the new school is ready, and the Board
rangements in relation to the new quar-
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-05-12
CANADIAN TARIFF PROPOSALS.

FBy Gable to The Associated Press.
LONDON, May u, 1S97.-Mr. James
Roche, irish Nationalist. Member of Par
lament for the East Division OF Kerry,
has given notice of a motion to cali at
tention to the Canadian tariff proposals.
in addition to raising the question as to
how far the treaties with France and
Belgium prevent Great Britians ac-
quiescence. MIR. Rech opposes the Cam
adian tariff proposals on the ground that
they will create unfair competition with
irish agriculture by flooding the markets
duce.'
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-05-12
+ ONE GLIMMER OF REASON.

WASHINGTON, May Il, 1897. THE SEN
ate Committee on Foreign Relations to-
day decided upon the adverse report upon
Senator Aliens resolution expressing
sympathy with the Greeks in their war
with Turkey on the ground that the sub
ject had been covered in the action of
the Senate of last SESSION on a resolu-
tion of which Senator Cameron was the
autf fnr .-t..-.----
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-05-12
THROWN OFF HIS WAGON

Carl Hensha. of No. 166 Mercer street.
a driver for A. Meyer, was seriously in
jured internally this morning. His wag-
on collided with an iron ash can at Oak
land and Newark avenues and he was
thrown violently to the street. He was
picked UP unconscious and sent to the
City Hospital in an ambulance
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-05-12
MRS. RUDIGER INSANE.

Mrs. Rudiger, the woman who attempt
Cd suicide by jumping from the Hoboken
ferfyboat Bremen yesterday has been
examined by County Physician Converse
ana declared insane She will be sent by
her husband to an asylum as soon as she
has ree0 Terea from the shock of her inl-
% easion sufficiently Y be moved.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-05-12
EDHEM PASHA AT PHAR-
SAL0S
[By Cable to the Associated Press.I

LBy Gable to the Associated Press.1
PHARSALos, May II, 1S97.-Ednem
Pasha, the Turkish Commander-in-C Chief,
has established his headquarters on a
hill opposite Pharsa1os
Ihe Greek Irregulars are raiding parts
or Thessaly and Irregular Greek bands
have attempted to cut the Turkish line
of communication with Elassona
important lighting is expected here be-
tween the Turks. and Greeks unless an
armistice is Immediately agreed upon at
ConStantinople
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-05-12
DUO D'AUMALh'S FUNERAL.
tBy Cable to the Associated Press. ]

81 II7V oer'7le % NJ -1''soS1aS0u 7 tess.
PALERMO, Island of Sicily, May Il,
1s97.-After a funeral service here today
over the remains Of the late Due d'Au-
male, who died on May al his villa,
hearing the news Of the death of his
niece (by marriage), the Duchesse d AL
encon, who was one of the victims of the
Charity Bazaar fire at Paris on May A.
the body was embarked for France The
garrison of Palermo lined the streets
along the route followed by the funeral
rrocessYon
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-05-12
Fighting in Bech uanaIand.

[Isy Cable to The Associated Press.
LONDON, May r. 1S97-A special
despatch from Cape Town announces that
serious engagement has taken place in
Bechuanaland. Chief Toto has been cap
,ad suped ana SIX volunteers have been
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-05-12
70 INVESTIGATE RUJzss DEATH

by Gable to The Associated Pressl
HAVANA, May 12 leS7-Mr William
y. Calhoun, the Special Commissioner ap-
pointed by President Mckinley on April
2S, to investigate the death Of DR.. Ri
care.o Ruiz and other cases, and who left
Key West. Florida for this place, last
night, arrived here today
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-05-12
NOTICE >
is hereby given that
w ater Rents
for the year
So7-0S
will be
Due on the First Day Of May, 1897,
Due on the First Day of May, 1897,

aud the same will be payable to the Regis
trar at the office of the Board of Street and
Water Commissioners, City Hall, Jersey
City.
Penalties for non-payment will be added
as follows:
On all rents remaining unpaid on the first
day of July following, one ~ per cent.
On the first day of September, two ~ per
cent.
On the first day Of November. three 81
per cent
Interest at the rate of seven "a per cent.
per annuln will be added to all rents remain
ing unpaid ON the twentieth day of Decem-
ber following
Water rents for the year 1s97-9S viii not
DO received from property in arrears until
such arrears are paid
Board Of Street and Water Commission
ers. by
GEORGE II. BOUTON, Clark.
Dated Jersey City, April so, 1891.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-05-12
MATTERS oFEACr.

New Jerseys best -four costs 25c more per
barrel than ordinary flour. but worth dollar
extra. Wholesale only at d. z. Cieary Co.'S
stores. Greene and Montgomery streets.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-05-12
CLAVSON HANGED.
The Somerset Boy Murderer
Pays the Penalty Of
His Crime.
Especial to ..The Jersey city news y


SOMERVILLE, May Y. 1S97-Elmer
clawson. age 10, the youngest murderer
executed in the State, and next to Al
defl f'ales, the Newark boy murderer, the
youngest person convicted of a capital
crime in New Jersey, was hanged here to-
day.
Clawson was baptised last night by
Eastor Winner of the NJ E. Church in
solneryilie. and expressed deep sorrow
Tor ms crime and the belief that he had
made his peace with God. He silent
7soundly from midnight to six o'clock this
morning.
y was but short distance from Claw
sons cell to the instrument Of deatb
eiaWson was very cool and retained his
nerve TO the end. He thanked the iail
oinciais Tor their kind treatment. and
said ne was sorry for what he had done
ana was willing to meet death. He then
snook hands with those near him
Ga si.g tuso, crop Iell at 1007 In nine minutes
btcd;Wson t,od;g was pronounced dead. His
oody was cut down at 1925. MS
Ciasgson's Crime.
playar fgllner fGlawsoni shot a former en-
the ne morning of August 29 last oiI
Inc murderer. on the morning of +ba
e,d ~ ilie, ASKED Hodgett to re-employ him
.,,I oii Tue farmer S refusal to do sa a
aeaTTeI began which ended in the desth
ol ,Hoogett Clawson drew a reyolver
anu az nfed three shots at his victim two
oi Wnlcn took effect. Then, mountinp
iM;heel, i;.I, the murderer rode away. Hodeett
nved put five minutes, the bullets hsv.
iils entered near the heart CIawson was
Is, Rursued and caught without resistance
ne case was taken to the Court of An.
peas, put without effect
About year before the crime Jodga++
! young Englishman. and the owner Of
q small farm at Pluckemin. discha rsed
SlaWson Tor not turning in all the monev
ne had collected on produce. Hodgeft
WORKED very hard and brought his fam
ny mere from England and after three
years residence had his farm on a naS1I
lng basis On the morning of the n1I,r-
der farmer Hodgett was hitehing up his
morse when Clawson arrived al the farm
ana beng desaied re-ehaploynent demand
ed money due him. Hodgett ordered him
away, saying that Clawson himself was
oeotor to him. The shooting followed
ana Clawson mounted his wheel. Hodgett
endeavored to catch his murderer ana
Followed him to the gate but toppled
over, dead, there pp-e0
by the tracks of Clawson's bicyele he
was easily traced to clump of bushes
at Far Hills, Flour miles away. There
was talk of a lynching, but Constable
THOMAS Lynch got him to the County
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-05-12
WEATHER INDICATIONS.

NEW YORK, May 12. 1ss7-Forecast for
thirty-six hours ending eight p III.
Thursday for New York City and vini&s
lty-Showers tonight clearing cooISe
thursday; southwest to northwest winds.
Hartnett,s Thern,omet.r w.r.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-05-12

If the system Is fortified by Hoods sarsa-
pariila. which makes rich, red BLOOD there
is little danger Of sicknesA
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-05-12
INCREASE IN GOLD sHIpMBNTs.

NEW YORK, May s12, 1897. 97.-Keader. Pea
body & CO., have Increased their gold
shipment for tomorrow $4,000 making
their, total shipment $3.50 900.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-05-12
. HUDSON ClEs-ulT COURT

Calender Thursday, May 13. a. ID. 1897.
Clreuits Court cases. Nos. 81. 194. 1856.
The age-herald., 1897-12-14
THE BOY WONDER TALKS.
Says Mckinley Does Not Go Far Enough in - His Financial Recommendations.


 St. Louis, Dec. 13.-Comptroller of the Currency James H. Eckles when asked to- day if he agreed with the recommendations as to the currency made by President Me- Kinley in his recent message to congress, sad 'I think they are very good as far as they go. He does not go far enough, in my opinion, when he says certain things ought to be done if possible. Things that ought to be done, should be done, especially when they so vitally touch the country's business life.
 Eckels was the guest of the Commercial club tonight and delivered a speech before that body taking as hubject, "A Great Ma tion's Weakness" Eckels said in part:
 This nation stands out from all it's sister nations as having monetary and financial laws which invite public disgrace and private disaster. The government now pre- sents the rather pitiable spectacle of a. boasted great nation resting its monetary integrity upon the mere chance of having a man of sound principle and strong sense of right in the executive chair Tf by the accident of an election, man of unsound monetary views or weak will should be placed in office the whole finacial fabric would go to pieces"