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The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-09-23
JAPANESE IN HAWAII.
Official Contradiction of the story
That Armed Squads Were Landed.

WASHINGTON, Sept. g. 1Ss7.-Refer-
ring to reports brought by the steamer
Peking that the passengers saw a large
number of well-drilled Japanese land in
Hawaii under the direction of a sergeant
and divided into military squads, Mr.
Durham c. Stevens, counsellor of the
Japanese legation, says the reports are
untrue and are calculated to cause an I'M
justifiable impression against Japan.
Mr.. Stevens says no Japanese immi-
grants are allowed to land in Hawaii un-
less they have previously secured the ap-
proyal Of the Hawaiian immigration au-
thorities and their services have been
previously engaged by petition from the
Hawaiian planters. 1t is impossible
therefore, for japanese to land unless
Hawaii desires their presence. Persistent
reports have appeared that the Japanese
were gradually and quietly building up
strong military establishment in Hawaii
but Mr. Stevens says all these reports are
false and prejudicial.
The Japanese warship Naniwa has been
withdrawn from Hawaii so that Japan is
no longer represented by any military or
naval force
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-09-23
THIEVES OLEVERLY CAPTURED.
Detective Benueft,s Good Work
Bring Two Crooks TO BAY.

Detective BenEett captured three clever
sneak thieves this afternoon. He caught
them lettering about houses on Van
Worst Square Bennett took his prison.
ers to Railroad avenue and Barrow street,
intending to send for the patrol wagon.
While he was waiting one of the prisoners
made a break to escape. Bennett fired
shot at the fugitive and giving chase
overlook him. A policeman took charge
of the other prisoners
At the Gregory street police station the
men said they were Edward Anderson, of
No. 105 Broome street, New York; Joseph
Conway, of No. 50 Broome street, and
New York. When searched they were
found to have burglars tools in their
possession. They will be arraigned be-
fore Justice Potts in the morning.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-09-23
NO NEW GASES.
Two Deaths from Yellow Fever Al
New Orleans To-day.

New Orleans To-day.
NEW ORLEANS, Sept. %, 1S97.-No new
cases had been reported to the Board of
Health up to ten o'clock this morning.
Four of the sick are considered still to be
in dangerous condition. The others
are all doing well and the sanitary Off
GERS and health authorities expects to be
able in o few days to announce that the
fever which started first on st. Claude
street, in this city, has been completely
stamped out. The patients on that
square, except in one house, are nearly
we'll. The temperature this morning was
lower than for any day this week and
last night was extremely cool. However,
scientists may differ as to the effect of
low temperature on the spread of yellow
fever, the change here has had the effect
of increasing public confidence and of
Strengthening faith in the opinion Of Dr..
Tcuatre, that there is absolutely no dam
ger here of an epidemic. The city coun-
Gil will hold a special session at noon to-
day to consider the arrangement made
yesterday by which the city financial
agents are to advance $4,000 to
the Board of Health to assist it in carry
ing on it's fight against yellow fever
Some objection has been made by Coun-
men on the ground that the money ought
to be expended by the city and that the
State ought to make provision for the
work of the Board of Health. Requests
are being made to the Board of Health
to close the theatres. The Board, how
ever, has taken no action in the prem
ises.
Shortly after ten o'clock this morning
two deaths from yellow fever were re-
ported at the Board of Health. They
are:-Marie Dubois, child. living on st.
Charles street, between Cherokee and
Hillary, who was taken sick on the 18th,
and G.. Secreto, of No. S11S Birch street.
Both of these deaths occurred in the ex-
treme upper portion of the city. One
new case was also reported this morning.
1t is that of Edgar Ray, at Miro and
Esplanade streets. Sickness already ex-
isted in the premises. The total number
of cases up to the present writing has
been eighty. There have been ten deaths
in ALL The death rate is trifle over
u per cent.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-09-23
ONE OF WEYLBR'S TRIUMPHS.
One Rebel officer and a Handful of
Men Surrender.

by Cable to The Associated Press.l
HAVANA, September %, 1S97.-It was
officially announced today that two insur-
gent officers and twenty-one armed in
surgent cavalrymen, who belonged to the
insurgent force under Trellez, surrendered
yesterday to the Spanish authorities at
Yaguaramas, Province of Santa Clara
Trellez, it is added, was killed the prev
ious night by three of his followers.
A column of Spanish troops, commanded
by Colonel Munoz. while accommodating
the north coast of Havana province, be-
tween Boca Cobre and Boca Ciega, East
of Bacuranao, has captured sixty boxes of
ammunition and twelve lots of rifles said
to have belonged to a filibustering ex-
pedition which has recently landed in that
vicinity. The troops are continuing the
search and hope to capture more arms
and ammunition.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-09-23
REVERTBR AND TIE BISHOP.
[By Cable to The Associated Press. I

fftss.j
ROME, Sept. %, 1S97-The uncom-
promising attitude towards the Spanish
Government of the Bishop of Majorca,
who excommunicated the Spanish Min
lister of Finance, Senior Reverter, for
seizing the treasury of church in his
diocese, and, the evident approval which
the Bishops action is meeting with upon
the part of his Spanish confreres, has so
alarmed the authorities at the Vatican
that the Pope has again instructed the
Papal Nuncio at Madrid to insist upon
the clergy opposing Carlism and to urge
the clergy to earnestly support the pres
ent Spanish Ministry and present Spanish
DYNASTY
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-09-23
Are ofa Crocodile.

One of the most Interesting specimens in
the British Museum is a crocodile more
than 1900 years old. 1t is a big, well pre-
served specimen, and on its back there is
a whole family of little erocodiles. Years
before the Christian era the Egyptians
worshipped crocodiles among their animal
deities, and many specimens We're kept at
Gardens Ide where they were attended : BY By
priests and given all sorts of dainty NOR
sells for food. When these crocodile gods
died they were embalmed and placed in
the tombs along with the mummies or
other sacred animals. This particular
crocodile was prepared by dipping it in
wax and pitch, which rendered it hard
and shiny, and it lay in one of the pyra-
mids century after century, until the
Egyptian Government dug it out and pre-
sented it to the British Museum.-Los An
geles Times.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-09-23
WILL TRANSPORT THE KINd

[By Cable to The Associated Press
LAGOS, West Coast of Africa, Sept. %,
1S97.--Drunami, the King of Benin, who
has been on trial at Benin City since
August IS last, with number of his
leading chiefs, charged with being con-
cerned in the massacre of an unarmed
expedition under British Consul Phillips,
has been condemned to be transported to
Callahan. slave settlement of British
West Africa.
Three of the King of Benin's chiefs were
previously sentenced. Two of them were
shot, and their bodies were displayed
hanging in the streets for twenty-four
hours. The third of these chiefs escaped
similar fate by committing suicide
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-09-23

vision at the City Hospital for the care
of contagious or infectious cases. Some
thing had to be done for the woman, how
ever. so she was finally sent to the City
Hospital at risk of spreading disease
among the other patients.
Poormaster Hewitt said to a reporter
for The News" - Jersey City must pay
TO the county for the care of its dependent
poor whatever the Board of Freeholders
demand. The law which the Freeholders
had passed compels such payment and
forces Jersey City to send its paupers to
the county Institutions. After having this
law passed, the Freeholders refuse to care
for the dependent poor of Jersey City.
There is a hospital at Snake Hill which
was built especially for contagious and
infectious diseases other than smallpox
but Jersey City has never been able to
get patient admitted to it,
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-09-23
NIOARAGUAN REBELS
BEATEN.

MANAGUA, Nicaragua, via Galveston,
Texas. Sept. %. 1S97.-General Paiz, the
commander of the Revolutionary forces,
is reported to have been wounded in the
leg during the battle fought yesterday,
near Rivas, with the Government troops,
and which is said to have resulted in a
complete victory for the latter.
The foreign consuls here have sent a
petition to President Zelaya asking him
to release from the prison at Granada,
Senior e. Beeche, the Consul General of
Costa Rica. and to allow him to resign.
on parole, at the house of one of the
consuls here.
Doctors Velasquez and De Bale, two
prominent native surgeons, have just re-
turned here from Paris.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-09-23
NANSEN COMING HERE.

NEW YORK, Sept. %, 1S97.-It was
learned here today that DR.. Nansen, the
polar explorer, will sail by the steamer
st. Paul from Southampton on October
16, arriving in New York October 49, His
first American lecture will be held in
New York on October %.
The entire Nansen exhibit now at Stock
holm will be shipped from there for New
York on October 5. The extensive Chris
tiania collection left Stockholm by the
Amerika, of the Thingvalla line today.
They will be placed on free exhibition
her upon arrival
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-09-23
RUSSIAN COAL OIL IN GERMANY

WASHINGTON, Sept 2s, 1Ss7-From
Russian sources, United States Consul
German, at Zurich. learns that traffic
arrangement has just been closed between
the German and Russian State railways
whereby the Russian coal oil producers
will henceforth be enabled to compete
with American coal oil in the German
markets. As soon as the new arrange
ment is in force direct shipment of coal
oil will be made from the Caspian Sea
and Volga ports to the principal German
cities without the present burdensome and
expensive transfer at the frontier.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-09-23
4 TITLED BLUEJAoKET.

SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. %, 1ss7-The
U. S. Cruiser Olympia is credited with
having in her crew a son of Sir John
Coventry, Baronet, of England. 1t is
stated that he has just come into the
possession of $4,000 a year. The young
sailor has been on the cruiser Charleston
and was transferred to the Olympia be-
fore She started for the Orient.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-09-23
COMPLETING A JAPANESE CRUISER
Union Iron Works TO Launch the
Chflose in January

SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 23, 1Ss7.-The
officers of the Union Iron Works expect
to launch the hull of the Japanese cruiser
Chilose early in January Work on the
vessel is being rushed along as rapidly as
possible. Most of the plates of the pro-
tective deck are in place and the sharp
steel ram at the cruisers bows is COM
plete. The protective deck of the battle-
ship Wisconsin is nearly completed and
her steel stern post and ram are in place.
The frames of the torpedo boat Farra-
gut are up, and it is thought that she
will be ready for launching at about the
time the Japanese cruiser slips into the
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-09-23
DEFICIT JUMPS,

From This Mornings 'Tribune.")
Customs receipts reported from Wash
ington today were $5sl.766, internal rev
enue receipts 1924 and the miscel-
laneous receipts s1O,346; total Government
receipts for the day, ss74,5ss; expenditures,
Receipts for month to date. s15,e92,455; ex-
penditures. slS,5Ss,Ooo; excess of expendi-
lures. s2,Sso,545.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-09-23
JAKE CANTOR MARRIED

CHICAGO, Sept. %, 1S97.-The wedding
of State Senator Jacob A. Cantor, of New
York, to Miss Lydia Miriam Greenebaum,
was celebrated at high noon today. The
ceremony took place at the residence of
the brides parents, Mr.. and Mrs. David
A. Greenebaum, No. 3156 South Park ave-
nue. the Rev. E. G. Hirsch officiating.
Dick Croker was best man.
The wedding was private and only a
few immediate friends were present. The
bride wore a travelling gown of light tan
colored clothbraided, the jacket faced
with French green velvet The hat was of
soft felt, trimmed with lace and black
ostrich feathers. Pinning the throat of
the jacket was the groom's gift. brooch
of pearls and diamonds.
The presents were magnificent, one of
the most notable being a complete silver
service from Senator A. N. Brady of
New York
Immediately after the breakfast Sena-
tor and Mrs. Cantor left on short we'd
ding journey through the East. They
will live at the Marie Antoinette in New
York City.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-09-23
Essayt.t Haxlitt,s SON.

The late William Hazlitt son of the
British essayist. had promising voice
as boy and either Charles or Mary
Lamb suggested that he should be trained
for the lyric stage; but, we are told, his
fathers insuperable repugnance to the
choice of any line of life fingered with him
to the A last; ne wanted 1 to to see his son q
Independent of the world" Consequently
it was not until after his father died that
he took up the legal profession.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-09-23
CLOSE OF A TWELVE YEARS SUIT
U. $. Governm.nt secures 100000

from q Former Indian Agent.
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept %, 1S97.-The
United States Government has received a
judgment amounting to over 100000 in the
United States Circuit Court as the con-
clusion of twelve years suit against
Andrew J. Barnes, who was Indian Agent
on the Hooper Valley Reservation in 1879
and for several years thereabouts.
Barnes has died since the suit COM
menced and it is doubtful if anything can
be recovered. The suit was the outcome
of disputes over Barnes accounts in
which there were many shortages.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-09-23
Harder Than Oiamond.

M. Maisson, a French savant, has dis
covered a substance harder than dia
mond for which a patent is to be issued
ide of titanium Is used for coloring ar
tificiai teeth, which is the only practica
use for the metal hitherto developed.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-09-23
Hartnett,s Thermometer Report
MATTERS oE Exnr

--5tores, factories and Institutions can NOR
get their supplies good as any N, n house
can serve them Complete STOCK low prices
at D. e. Cleary & Co.'S wholesale grocery
stores. Montgomery and Greene streets.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-09-23
WEATHER INDICATIONS.

NEW YORK. Sept. %, 1Ss7.-Forecast for
thirty-six hours ending eight P. M. Fri
Rain tonight and Friday; clearing Friday
afternoon; stationary temperature; north
east winds,
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-09-23

Economy and strength are combined In
Hoods Sarsaparilla. Every bottle contains Ia
doses and viii average to last month.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-07-28
Not so MANY PROTESTS EXPECTED.

DUTY PAYMENTS AT THE Custom HOUSE YES
TERDAY s3l9.e32 90
tests from importers under the Dingley tariff
there were under the Wilson and the Mckinley
tariffs. In The first year after the Mckinley tariff
went into effect there were 1900 protests. A good
many were based on the calm that The law was
unconstitutional. There many thousand pro-
tests under the Wilson tariff, the claim being that
the law effective August !. 1891. instead Of
August 2S when IL declared to be operative.
The duty payments at the Custom House yester-
day $3l9632 90 Only $4,000 represented duties
paid OH goods withdrawn from bond The remain
der constituted duties direct imports.
The Majestic Of the White Star Line, due from
Liverpool to-day, will be the first large passenger
ship to arrive sirce the DinEey bill into effect
Under the new law a passenger can bring into the
country free of duty only 800 in personal effects.
Heretofore a passenger has been permitted to bring
In almost any amount Of wearing apparel. etc. In
some cases the amount has reached 81 The
subjec. yesterday afternoon The Collector said the
iaw vas on the statute books and must be en-
forced. There intention harass pas
sengers. The law would be explained 10 them by
the customs Inspectors, and they would be asked TO
declare for duty any effects exceeding 800 in value
There would be no actual seizures unless there
were attempts at smuggling. The effects In excess
OF 800 would be appraised and released pay
ment OF duties.
The Surveyor will be at the pier when the Majes-
tic arrives direct in person the operations OF the
customs inspectors.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-07-28
MOVING THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS-.

THE WORK TO BE VIGOROUSLY PUSHED NOW
THAT CONGRESS HAS ADJOURNED.
Washington, July 27.-The removal of the large
collections of the Library of Congress from their
present quarters in the Capitol to the magnificent
new building will. now that Congress has ad-
journed. be vigorously prosecuted This undertake
ing will involve the closing of the library at the
Capitol 10 the public for some weeks. because OF
the noise dust and confusion incident TO the ols-
placement Of great mass OF books me re-
moval will also require the constant labor OF th1se
now employed in the library. systematic pan
has been adopted by which the contents OF eacn
shelf in the many divisions and subdivisions VIII
he separately boxed and transferred. duly mum
hored and ticketed to the shelves destined 70 re-
ceive them In the iron stacks of the new building.
shelf space will he reserved in each division for
large acccssions thus doing away with the neces-
sitv Of removing any of the great divisions from
the places now assigned to them for many years
10 come The arrangement Of the whole collection
is subjective. and the great outlines of division
will be observed while many details Will be I'M
proved in the classification. The copyright de-
partnent will he moved first and an office opened
in the new building. The removal OF the books
will consume several weeks time. and from forty
10 seventy persons will be employed in the work.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-07-28
WANT TO KNOW WHERE JOHN =. RICE is

Anybody VINO can tell TIE WHEREABOUTS Of John
s. Rice may consider himself $1,000 better or.
information which will lead TO the locating of the
missing Wall Street broker. il given 10 Messrs.
Maclay. of No lO2 Chambers-st., VIII be rewarded
In that amount.
IAN We want to know Is whore he Is" said
Charles McBurney. n member of the firm OF Mac
lay & Maclay. ''If he has deserted his invalid
wife FOR some other woman. all well and good.
we firmly believe that he is alive. but where he is
t. what bothcrs us.
Rice disappeared from his summer home IN Pas
sale ~ j. May g. II has been learned that
after he left there he went his brokers Toler &
Ualsey. and drew 5000. lie then went 70 a trunk
store and bought a dress-suit case: Then he went
10 his taors and got some clothes. Since then
nothing definite has beer learned Of his where
abouts although W. T. Taylor says he saw him in
Fifth-ave. on May 10 or H.
The bank account OF the missing man has not
been drawn upon since his Disappearance and the
opening OF his safe-deposit box at the request OF
his wife has shown that he left behind securities 70
a larke amount. He also owns considerable real
estate His relatives say they know absolutely no
reason FOR his DISAPPEARANCE. lie lived happily
wife
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-07-28
NEW RULES or THE ROID.
ALDERMEN MAKE LAWS To PREVENT ACCIDENTS
IN CITY TRAVEL SMALL FINES
VIOLATIONS


The Board of Aldermen yesterday passed the
road rules which had been prepared by the Law
Committee. as amended since a previous meeting
The rules are intended to prevent bockades and
accidents in streets in which there Is heavy travel
and in which bicycles used freely They give
vehicles going north and south the right of way
over those going east and west and make 1t a
mlsdemeanor for a citizen 10 refuse 10 yield the
right OF way TO an ambulance. a police wagon. a
fire engine or a doctors wagon. provided the doctor
has police permit.
left when overtaking another going In the same
not turn unless they fifteen feet ahead of a
wnips or give some kind OF signal when stopping
or about to turn a corner and bicycliss must carry
A bell not more than three inches in diameter, so
that they will not be mistaken for a 1re engine
or an ambulance Eight miles an hour IL fixed as
the limit OF speed AT which bcycists can ride in
the city No more than two can ride abreast. ana
roasting is forbidden below One hundred-and-
twenty-hfth-st. They must carry lamps a. at
present ,.-. - -,
age Heavy wagons must not go faster IMAM I'VE
than bicycles forbidden TO turn corners faster
walk is prohibited but wheelmcn may rundle
the,r machines there in single file. Bicycliss cam
not carry babies under five years Of age on their
wheels The penalty for violation OF any or the
provisions ia fixed at $40. instead of $50 as originally
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-07-28
TO MAKE 1T 4 MODEL POST.

AN INVESTIGATION OF THE OFFICE OF SUPERIN-
Washington July 27.-The Postmaster-General has
desgnate ed commission consisting of Division Su-
perntendent Pepper Of the Railway Mail Service at
Cleveland. Ohio; Superintendent of Mails Mongom-
cry. of the Chicago Postofiice. and Pos'cfice In
spector Baird. OF Chattanooga. Tenn. 10 make an
investigation nd report on the office OF Suporn-
tendent of Mails at New-York The inquiry has no
connection with the personality of that Office, but Is
10 be made with the view of making the place a
model one.
The post in view especially of the Greater New
York extension, is one of the most important OF
Government offices. and the idea Is 10 make thor
ough inquiry as u the Office and all matters con-
nected with 1t. the duties of the Superintendent and
his employees, methods of distribution ana dispatch
OF the mails etc Second Assistant Postmaster
General Shalenberger has strong hopes that by the
aid of this commission he will he able 10 make val
liable improvements on the present methods. Inc
members OF the commission were here to-day and
had a long conference with Mr.. ShallenberSer. The
work will be undertaken soon