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The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-01-23
1n GaliIeo,s own yyrttIng.

Very important discoveries have recent
ly been made in the Vatican library, ac-
cording to a correspondent of the Lon
don esDaily Mall While examining state
Able Cozza Luzzi, assistant librarian,
found the original manuscript of the
treatise by Galileo on the tides. The
manuscript is all in Galileo's own hand
writing, and ends with the words written
in Rome in the Medici gardens on Janu-
ary 8, 1916. Leo XIII. has taken the
greatest interest in the discovery, and
has ordered the manuscript to be pub
lished in an elegant edition at the expense
of the Vatican. These important docu-
ments will shortly be published by the
Holy See The Pope will present a richly
bound copy to the Queen Regent of Spain
and one to the President of the United
State. although this latter act of cour-
tesy is not viewed with favor by num-
lber Of prelates Of the Pontifcial Court,
who are doing all in their power to pre-
vent it.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-01-23
QUAY'S CHANCES.
He Will Not Be Elected
Senator From Penn
sylvania.

HARRISBURG, Pa, Jan. %, 1S99.--E A.
Van Valkenburg, who is managing the
anti-Quay campaign, issued statement
tonight in which he says the Senatorial
situation is no longer complicated or un-
certain. Mr.. Van Vakenburg claims
Senator Quay's strength was at high tide
when he received 113 votes, which is just
IA short of a majority. Against him are
139 votes, 81 are Democrats and So anti
Quay Republicans
"The Quay managers have abolished all
hope of securing a single vote from the
anti-Quay ranks. But while admitting
that no Democrat will vote directly for
Quay at any stage of the contest, they as
sert with an air of mystery rather than
of confidence that at the proper time
enough Democrats will be found to supply
the necessary fourteen votes that Senator
Quay must have to elect him. The Quay
machine is bankrupt in the matter Of po-
litical patronage. All the attempts of the
Quay people to create friction between
the Democrats and the anti1Quayites have
sgnally failed. Senator Quay amassed
all his strength to break the anti-Quay
lines last Wednesday and failed. He has
given orders that every effort must be
made to break them next Tuesday, but he
will again fail. Senator Quay may be
able to prolong the deadlock but re-eect
himself United States Senator from
PENNSYLVANIA. never -
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-01-23
GIGANTIC SOUTHERN DEAL.
Fifteen Millions Invested in Mines
and Furnaces.

KNOXVILLE, Tenn, Jan. %, 1899.-Tne
largest business transaction made in the
South in ten years has just been an
nounced here. 1t involves an investment
of fifteen million dollars and is of vital
Importance to upper East Tennessee and
Southwestern Virginia. The Virginia
Coal, Iron and Railway Co. has bought
in the blast furnaces at Max Meadows,
Pulaski, Roanoke, Virginia and Bristol,
Tenn, also the Bristol and Elizabethton
and the South Atlantic and Ohio Rail-
roads. Cash is paid for all the properties.
The company becomes owner of $4,000
acres of coal lands, sixty thousand acres
of ore lands, two railroads and nine furn-
aces. The railroads extend from Big
Stone Gap, Va, to Elizabethton, Tenn,
passing through Bristol, Tenn. and the
rich coal and mineral and timber lands
of the new company. Colonel E. j. San
ford, of this city, president of the Knox
vile and Ohio Railroad, c. H. McGhee,
of this city, and Benjamin Delaney, of
Bristol, Tenn, promoted the deal.
New York financiers were interested in
the enterprise, the outcome of which was
an organization with 81, 100000 stock sub
scribed and the same amount of bonds
which were issued and sold for cash. e.
B. Chapman of Moore & Schley, the New
York bankers, carried the deal through
and that firm underworld the bonds.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-01-23
euIoN TRIED FOR STEALING WATCH


Truman Guion, of No. 2S4 Seventh
street, returned soldier, was before
Police Justice Nevin this morning, charg-
ed with stealing a gold watch, valued at
$50, from Robert E. Woods, of No. l2o
Maple street. The latter is in the en-
ploy of the Columbia Ice Cream Com
pany, where Guion was also formerly en-
ployed.
Guion has, since he returned from the
army, hung around the place, and on
Wednesday last asked Woods the time.
Woods looked at his watch, which was in
the inside pocket of his coat, hanging
on the wall, and told him. Ten minutes
later the watch was gone. In the mean
time Woods had gone out for a moment
on the sidewalk. No person other than
Guion had entered the place. The ac-
cused denied taking the watch. The case
was adjourned until tomorrow to secure
the attendance of witness.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-01-23

OF dinner dishes. The other articles and
their winners ere:-fsenaissance. pillows,
Counselor John Griffin: silver knives a and =
ed cane Mr.. John Mullins; parlor lamp,
Mr.. b. E. Cleary; bicycle, Dr. George
King; hot water radiator system sSdo donatea 5,e.,
Thomas Fallon; toilet set, s =, Eills,
painted placque Mrs; =; Siaae,lnahi INA il Iar- mp
Clerk NJ j. O'Donnell; carved oaK cane cane
Mayor L. Fagan; silver water pltcher'
MI A. Christie Map pd Sssohh Sooth % chief john
Conway won an oil painting. Clerk John
p Egan won hand-painted screen. Ine
sealed envelope, value $5o was won py
the donor, Senator Allan L. Mcpermott;
onyx table and lamp, James Larkins;
onyx table, Mrs. F. McNally; gold-platea
clock, Constable Thomas Golden; on
paintings of Leader Davis and SnerlH
Heller, won by Sheriff Heller, who tool. took
fifty chances on the pair; statuary, Re
becca at the Well,' value $50, won by
the Rev. Father Carroll of st: Patrick
won by Mr.. Emil vockroth; set of dishes,
Mrs NJ 7. Kelaher; jardiniere and small
Davis Association picture, Mr.. W. Muller.
AT the Eleventh ward booth it was mid
night before the articles were all dis
posed of The winners were:-Music box,
Sheriff Heller; onyx cabinet, M j. Geary;
either, Miss Luce; oil painting, Constable
John Masker; building and loan stock.
value SlUU, w lllldll II. IliSSlAto, oAi pam
ing, Harry Heller.
In the Twelfth ward booth the fortune
wheel was kept going until late in the
evening, and these prizes were won as
follows:-Parlor lamp, Andrew MCGOWAN.
clock, Seigfried Elliott jardiniere and
pedestal L. Burkhardt; silver butter dish,
Mrs. Hopkins; bisque images, l.. Burk-
hardt.
Leader Davis has decided to give the
prizes he won, except the horse and the
pictures, to st. Peters fair, which opens
on February l.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-01-23
WILL GO TO MOUNTAINS
Cuban Papers Say if the Peo-
pie Must Work Without
Pay They Will
Leave.
[By Cable to The Associated Press.]


SANTIAGO DE CUBA, Jan. 22 1885,
The order from the United States military
authorities in Havana directing the au-
thorities of the Santiago Military Depart
ment not to expend a cent of the customs
receipts without the permission of the
Governor General, and the order directing
that hereafter the bulk of the sanitary
work shall be done without money pay
and for rations merely were given to the
local press for publication yesterday,
though received here last Thursday.
Eel Cubano," in commenting upon the
Instructions of the Governor General,
says:-sThe feeling is prevalent that the
only course now is to retire to the noun
tains." This is, of course, an exaggera-
ton, though the fact is that there are
people who make just such threats.
AS showing how far the province has
drifted backward since the first an
nouncement that the customs were not to
be freely expended for provincial i'm
provements the Santiago "Heraldo' re-
ports that band of men are committing
wholesale depredations in the Mayari dis
trict where several people have been
murdered, and that another band in the
Guantanamo district have burned all the
cane prepared for pressing on the Isabel
Plantation. '"These outbreaks" says the
"Heraldo," 'are first fruits of the money
Capitalization system"
AS yet the Mayari report has not been
verified and Mr.. Brooke, owner of the
Isabel plantation, who arrived yesterday,
says that the burning reported on the
plantation must have been done since he
left, as the cane there was intact when
he started for Santiago. He does not ac-
cept the report absolutely, but says that
the adjoining plantation, the property of
Senior Bueno, was fired at four different
points. the entire crop being destroyed.
So far as the order regarding sanitary
work is concerned, a Cuban inspector, in
the Sanitary Department, told Major Geo.
M. Barbour, the Health Commissioner of
Santiago, yesterday that the Cubans of
the province had at last regained their
self-respect and would not work again for
rations.
"They do good work." he said, ''and
deserve to be paid in money. If they
are ordered again to work for rations,
most of them will go to the mountains"
The sIndependencia, which publishes
the two orders, is comparatively tempe
rate in its editorial comments, except that
it INDUCES in the usual personal abuse of
Governor General Brooke. The editorial
concludes with defiant declaration III
necessary the Cubans will know how to
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The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-01-23
GERMAN AND AMERICaa CABLE.
New Company Formed -- Englisk
Pres Talks Peace.
IBy Cable to The Associated Press.1

TBy Cable to The Associated Press.1
LONDON, Jan. %, 1Sss.-The Berlin corr
respondent of the Times says
There are good reasons for believing
that the German Government regards the
maintenance of cordial relations with
Great Britain and the United States as
far more important thap even German
commercial interests in Samoa. The tone
of the leading journals, therefore, is, on
the whole, free from bitterness or exag-
geration
In word, there are many indications
that Germany will not frustIete a re4
vision of the treaty of Berlin by extrava-
giant demands, such as for the qession of
the islands to Germany The 'Kolnischa
zeitung'' ridicule the report that De. Won
Holleben German Ambassador at Wash
ington) has complained of Mr.. Berry's
remarks in the House of Representatives
and says that the United States Am-
bassador in Berlin 0NIr. White) might as
well have complained of Herr Ahlwardt's
anti-American rawlings in the Reichstag.
The daily News says editorially to-
day
lar document, signed by a weak American
administrator in peculiar circumstances,
and for Lord Salisbury 10 insist upon its
unconditional observance now would be
neither gracious nor wise"
The Berlin correspondent of the DAILY
News says:-
IA joint stock company has been form-
ed at Cologne, with a capital of f500,000
(s2. SOC, 000), to lay a cable direct from Ger
many to the United States. At the same
time Wolffs Telegraph Agency decided
to establish branch ofice in New YORK
paign against Germany, which has caused
great enlightenment on both sides, has ip-
duced the German Government to favor
ercise direct influence upon public opin-
ion in the United States"
The Honorable David ]. Brewer, Assoc
ciate Justice of the United States Su-
preme Court and member of the Nenezu-
elan Boundary Commission, left London
Sunday evening for Paris.
The Times says this morning.
"Owing to the immense mass of docu-
ments put in, the Venezuelan arbitration
sessions are expected to last for several
months"
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-01-23
LORD BERsfoRp's VIEWS.

by Cable to The Associated Press.I
YOKOHAMA, Jan. %, 1S99.-Rear Ad-
miral Lord Charles Beresford of the
British Navy, who has been making .
tour of the Chinese ports in the inter.
est of the Associated Chambers of Come
merce of Great Britain, is on his way
home by way of Japan and the Un4ted
States. He spoke at Toxic on Saturday
before the japanese Oriental Association
and repeated his wish to see an alliance
between Japan, Germany, the United
States and Great Britain to protect their
trade interests in China He copdewned
any policy based upon spheres OF in
fluence' that country could take.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-01-23
MRS. LUcKENs' DEATH.

Mrs Mary c. Lukens, wife of Henry
Clay Lukens, the well-known newspaper
writer died yesterday of heart disease
at her home, No. 1S9 Ogden avenue, this
city. She was fifty-eight years old. Mrs.
Lukens was born in Philadelphia. She
was formerly Mary Catherine Painter and
married Mr.. Lukens forty years ago. They
have two living children, Edgar v.
Aimee Lukens.
Mrs Lukens, like her husband. was of
literary turn of mind. In her earlier
years she was a contributor to maga-
zines under the nom de plume of Kath-
ryne Paynter.
Funeral services will be held Tuesday
night The interment will be in Mount
Peace Cemetery, Philadelphia, Wednes-
sday
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-01-23
NO AWARD TO-DAY.
Mayor Hoos Waits to Hear
From McDermott and
Edwards.

Mayor Hoos will not act on the water
award today.
$50 long as Corporation Counsel Nc
Dermott and Counsellor Edwards have
not acted he said, 81 see no reason why
I should act.'
Mayor Hoos, some days ago, requested
Mr.. McDermott to give him information
concerning some legal points in the pro-
posed award to Flynn. The Mayor has
not heard from McDermott as yet. The
latter explains that he has been too busy
to collect the information the Mayor re-
quests. He will have it prepared, how
ever, in few days, possibly tomorrow.
Until Mr.. McDermott is heard from the
Mayor will not act on the award.
From Counsellor Edwards Mayor Hoos
wants information relative to the con-
struction of certain parts of the proposed
plant. He also wants information per-
tanning to the precautionary measures
which are to be employed in the protec-
ton of the sources of supply from con-
tamination now and from possible pollu-
tion in the future by reason of towns
developing within the watershed or
drainage area.
When this information is furnished the
Mayor he will make speedy disposition of
the award. If reports be true he will ap-
prove.
The Mayor was quite confident on Sat
urday that he would hear from Congress
man McEwan today because of the return
of the McEwan protests. So far Thomas
has not been heard from. Mayor Hoos is
entirely satisfied that he pursued the
n a
documents when their sponsor declined to
make them public.
In justice to those who favor the con-
tract the Mayor insists that McEwan
should have consented to the publication
of the protests if he wished them to be
given the same consideration that has
haa ord
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-01-23
MRS. HILL WATCHES HER HUSBAND

In the First Criminal Court this morn
ing, before Police Justice Nevin, Mrs.
Nora Hill of No. 80 Morris street, was
charged by Albert J. Barr, night watch
man of the Manhattan Electric Supply
Works, on Morris street, with coming to
the works at night in search of her hus-
band, who is there employed, and abusing
the watchman and others. He alleged
that on Thursday night last she forced
her way into the place and threw water
on him and brick through the window.
Mrs. Hill is supposed TO be demented and
was held for examination by the County
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-01-23
BISHOP WIGGER HAS GRIP.

The Rev Father Carroll, o St. rat
rick's Church, said yesterday that the
Rt Rev. Bishop Wigger has been suffer-
ing from a severe attack of the grip for
the past ten days.
HE was very ILL., indeed" said Father
Carroll, sbut he is now very much inn
proved l go to see him twice week,
and on my last visit, Thursday, he said
he felt much better
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-01-23
PUT OFF A TRAIN.

H N Frazee broker, of Roseville, n.
T., got boisteriously drunk Saturday night
at the Delaware, Lackawanna and West
ern Railroad depot in Hoboken, and as
sauted the gateman. He was put off
passenger train, and Policeman Whitlock
locked him up. This morning Recorder
Stanton fined him $40 for being drunk and
diSnrdarlY
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-01-23
GROVE STREET GANG SENTENCED

Benjamin Levi, Cornelius Stiles and
John Hogan were in the First Criminal
Court this morning charged with belong
ing to the gang which congregates at the
corner of Grove and Twelfth streets, and
which recently stole a case of liquor from
the wagon of Louis Fischer, a liquor dea-
Ter. Mallon and Trout of the same gang
who were arrested several days ago, were
arraigned with the others. Hogan, who
pleaded guilty, was committed to the
penitentiaTy for six months; Levy. and
Stiles, as disorderly persons, got ninety
days, and Mallon and Trout thirty days
ooo Il,
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-01-23
WALKED TO BIG JAKE'S DINNER.

An interesting feature of the recent dim
ner, in honor of big Jake" Kraemer's
birthday, was that four of the guests de-
termined to foot 1t to Bayonne, where the
repast was spread. The four were Com
missioner John Brennan, Harry Peck
ham, Benny Burch and the Rev. Father
Kraus. The start was made from Enoch
Smiths place, at $40 P. M. and at s
o'clock the travellers arrived. Commits
sioner John set the pace.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-01-23
ERIE SIDEWALK SPANS TO BE LAID

The Street and Water Commissioners
have given the Erie Railroad Company
officials permission to lay the spans over
the sidewalks where streets are to be
depressed between the tunnel and train
she'd The sidewalk spans will in nowise
interfere with traffic. Nothing can be
done about the street spans until the
Finance Board has heard from Corpora
ton Counsel McDerlnotts relative to its
power in the issuance of temporary loan
bonds for the prosecution of that part of
the work the city has agreed to per-
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-01-23
SOCIETY GIRL BURNED TO DEATH

SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. %, 1sss.-Afiss
Jenie Moore, daughter of the late I. c.
Moore and a prominent society belle, died
yesterday at the family residence on
Cough street from the effects of fire. The
curtains of her room became ignited
from a gas jet. She attempted to ex-
tinguish the blaze, but her clothing caught
fire and she rushed into the hall a mass
of flames, which were quenched with
difficulty by the family.
The young lady, who was twenty-three
years of age, and noted for her beauty
several hours when she died.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-01-23
STEPHENS STOLE BRASS GATES.

Adam Stephens of No. Provost street,
was caught yesterday in the act of at
tempting to steal brass gates from Pull
man parlor cars, on. the Pennsylvania
Railroad at Waldo avenue. He ran when
he found he was discovered, but was pur
sued and captured He said he wanted
to get the brasses to sell them In the
First Criminal Court this morning he was
held for the Grand Jury in $500 bail.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-01-23

departments will demand a similar con-
cession, with the result that general dis
organization will follow.
Aguilera Silva. who had been accepted
as candidate for the police force
thol a. not yet sworn in, last night, sin.
gle handed, caught four thieves and lock-
ed them in a room in a private house
Today when he went to look after his
prisoners they fell upon him, beat ni1n
nearly to death and escaped.
There is not a single case of yellow
fever in Major General Lees camp. The
two suspected cases in the Second Texas
Regiment have been diagnosed as typhoid
fever and pneumonia respectively.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-01-23
ACCUSED OF ABANDONMENT

Joseph vaekinski, Russian, of No. 167
Fifteenth street, was charged by. the
Overseer of the Poor with abandonment
of his wife and siz children. His wife
testified that her husband had given her
no money in several weeks and she had
to send one her children to restaurants
to beg victuals. The accused stoutly
maintained that he earns from nine to
thirteen dollars a week. being employed
in the sugar refinery at Greenpoint and
that he gives his wife every week the
greater part of his wages. The case was
adjourned until tomorrow.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-01-23
STEWART FELL FROM A scAFFol

Ambrose w. Stewart, sixty years old, of
No. 121 Monticello avenue, was badly in
jured this morning while at work painting
a house at West Side and Harrison ave-
nues. The rope which held the scaffold
on which he was standing broke and he
fell a distance of twenty feet to the
ground. His left leg was broken and he
was badly injured about his body. He
was taken to the City Hospital.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-01-23
ARCHBISHOP IRELAND IN ENGLAND

sTBy Cable to The Associated Press.l
LONDON, Jan. %. 1S99.-The Paris cor
respondent of the DAILY Chronicle says:
archbishop ireland. after his visit to
Rome will come here to consult with the
French Bishops on the subject of Heck
erism.
THE Bishop of Orleans has invited the
distinguished American ecclesiastic to
preside over the fetes in honor OF Joan
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-01-23
AGONC|LLO MAY BE
RECALLED.
.[By cable to The Aggociated Press.l

LONDON, Jan. %, 1S99-The Filipino
Junta here has received dispatches say
ing that if Agoncillo, one of Aguinaldo's
ENJOYS at Washington, is not received by
the United States Government within
few days, Aguinaldo will recall him to
Manila and suspend relations with the
United States, thus removing an impor-
tant medium for arriving at a peaceful
understanding.
The Junta's adviees also assert that
''large numbers of the American troops
are fraternizing with the natives and
that many of them are engaged to Fill
pino girls
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-01-23
coYLE'S STORE ENTERED.

Detective Keenan, reported to Chief Of
Police Murphy this morning that between
s and 5:3$ o'clock this morning the Office of
James Coyle, coal dealer, at the foot of
Manhattan avenue, was forced open and
$4 in dimes, $1.50 in so cent pieces and 81
in postage stamps was stolen.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-01-23
.ROESEL'S WRIT DENIED.

WASHINGTON. Jan. g. 1S9s.-The
United States Supreme Court today af-
firmed the decision of the Circuit Court
for the District of New Jersey in the case
of Louis C. Roesel. Reesel is under sem
tence of death for murder at Elizabeth.
He applied to the Circuit Court for.
writ Of habeas corpus, which was denied
him.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-01-23
OUR GERMAN OUTLOOK.
England Expects Peace Among
the Three Powers--Treaty
Will Not Be Broken.
[Ry cable 70 The Asgociated Press.l

BERLIN, Jan. q, 1ss9-Germany. IT is
understood, is not likely to propose a con-
ference as to Samoan affairs, but the
Government will readily consent to enter
a conference, if the United States Govern
ment proposes one.
The German gunboat Iltis has been or
dered to Samoa to replace the cruiser
Cormoran.
Emperor William has issued an order
permitting reports henceforth to be sent
him typewriter.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-01-23
NOT E. B. BISHOP.

The $500 which caused the trouble in the
Hudson County National Bank did not be-
long to E. B. Bishop & Sons, but to the
private account of Mr.. David A. Bishop.
Mr.. Bishop resides at No. 800 Bergen
q
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-01-23
FERRYBoAT BEGGAR FINED.

John Samson, of Poughkepsie was flied
$40 by Police Justice Nevin, in the FIRST
Criminal Court, this morning. for beg
ging on a Pennsylvania Railroad ferry
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-01-23
.FIL|P|NOS RELEASE
PRISONERS
[By Cable to The Associated Press.J

[By Cable to The Associated Press.1
MADRID, Jan. %, 1899-According to
despatch received here from Manila, the
Filipino Congress at Malolos has author
lied the release of the Spanish civil pris-
oners and will shortly liberate the mill
tary prisoners.
News was received this evening from
San Sebastian of terrible fire at Elgoi-
bar-Deva, about ten miles west of San
Sebastian, in which twenty persons lost
their lives.