Pleasantville weekly press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1890-1911, 1898-08-03
NEWS FROM OUR
CORRESPONDENTS.
Items Of Interest from Hd-
joining Touns.
HAPPENINGS AIoHG The SHORE RESIDENTS.
WHAT Is GOING ON ALONG THE SHORE.
SPICY NEWS GATHERED HERE AND
THERE BY OUR REGULAR coRREsPoN-
DENTS. EyERYBoDY's BUSINESS.
ATLANTIC CITY.

The Life Guards had busy day Sun
day, in rescuiDg venturesome bathers
from drowning.
There were over IA 900 people on the
new Steel Pier Saturday evening and as
many on Sunday.
Information received from Camp Voor-
hees is to the eff-ct that private Morris
fractured an arm while pole vanlting.
Secretary OF State, Hon. William B.
Day, the head of President MlKinlpy's
Cabinet was at the Shellburne over Sun
day.
Edward Early who had his foot in
jured recently, submitted to it's ampu-
tatIon, Saturday, in order to save his
lite, but gangrene had set in, and he
died on Monday.
Phillip Griffenberg, engineer for the
Cold Storage Company, was thrown
from the pit of the main fy-wheel on
Friday and terribly bruised. He was un-
conscious a>long time and it is feared he
may not recover.
A young man, by the name of Joseph
Millard, living in this city, was
instantly killed beneath the Boardwalk,
Sunday evening, by coming in contact
with live wire. Coroner Mclaughlin
will hold an inquest.
Madam Romero, wife of the Mexican
minister at Washington, died in this city
last evening. She had been suffering for
long time from chronic Brights disease.
Undertaken Jeffries took the body to
Washington this morniag.
The Coroner's jury appointed to ascer-
tain the cause OF the death of Edward
Wheeler, of Philadelphia, on July 1S, re-
turned verdict, Monday, of accidental
death, caused by a runaway team be-
longing to Thompson Irwin.
The Sunday travel was the largest of
the season, SO far, and the hotels, Board
walk and all the usual places of resort
was crowded. On Saturday and Sun
day the railroads brought down over
10000 people, the Reading 10, ,480 and
the Pennsylvania IA ,495.
The dedication of The new Asbury M.
E. Church at the corner of Baltic and
Michigan avenues, took place Sunday.
In the morning Rev. II. A Monroe, DID,
preached. The formal dedication took
place in the afternoon when Rev. A. j.
Kynett, d. d, the corresponding scare
tary of the Methodist Episcopal Board
of Church Extension, preached. At night
the Rev. William III. Brooks, d. D, of
New York, made an address. Special
services will be held during the week.
Harris and Moore, of the Willard Hotel,
at Kentucky and Pacific Avenues, were
robbed by their dishonest clerk, Charles
Henry Jeens, Wednesday night of 5000
in cash which belonged to the guests and
had been placed in the office safe for
safety (?) Jeens is an Euglishman and
came to the city few months ago, in
straitened circumstances and Harris and
Moore gave him employment and fitted
him out with new suit of clothes. He
now shows his gratitude to them by
robbing them and decamping with the
fluids. He was captured in Philadelphia
on Friday with $500 of the stolen money
upon his person, and he confessed to the
theft.
At the meeting of the Council Monday
evening, there was considerable lively
talk over the electro light ordinance No
162. which was put back to second
reading for the purpose of amendment.
Mr. Kelly and Mr.. Parker charged the
old electric Lighting companies with in
triguing for delay and to defeat the
Rothermel contract, the former saying
that members of Council had been "seen.'
and that the Mayor had said to Mr.
Rothermel that he could not get his con-
tract through Council,
Mr.. Long denied for himself that he
had been 'seen" and thought Mr.. Kelley
should tell who be referred to.
Mayor ThomOsOn sent in the name of
Rufus Booye, to be Water Commissioner
to succeed Franklin p. Cook, whose term
of office shortly expires. The nomina-
tion was received and filed.