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The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-03-06
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CERT|ORARI.
Lawyer Thompson to Apply
For a Writ to Test the
Water Contract.
MAYOR WANTS A TEST.
Thinks Certiorari of Water
Contract Would Be Good
for City.
MAYOR WANTS A TEST.

Mr.. Charles H. Thompson, of the law
firm of Dickinson & Thompson, went to
Trenton today to apply for a writ of GER
tiorari against the contract made by P.
H. Flynn with Jersey City for new sup
ply of water.
Mr.. w. D. Edwards is also in Trenton.
1t is rumored that he is there to oppose
the writ.
Mr.. Thompson's nominal client is Mr..
T. H. Spengemann, the real estate oper-
ator and property owner, but it is be
lieved that some one is behind Mr..
spengeman, but just who is not known.
A despatch to "The News from Tren-
ton had not yet been made, but that
lawyers were there for the purpose of
making it.
Mr.. Frederick H. Spengeman, talking of
the suit instituted by him, said this morn
ing that he was in favor of a good water
supply, but he took exception to certain
features of the Flynn contract. He de-
clned to discuss these Objectionable
parts.
Mayor Hoos has heard nothing new
about the water contract. So far as he
can learn no certiorari proceedings are
contemplated. The Mayor regrets that
fact as he would like to see the contract
who imagines for a moment that he did
not throw out every possible safeguard
for the protection of the city. About the
only person who it is thought probable
will institute proceedings is Lebbeus B.
Ward. and he has been conspicuous by his
absence since the contract was executed.
Suit must be inaugurated within thirty
days or the chance to contest fails.
Thomas McEwan has declared that he
has no funds to make test. He is will
ing he says to subscribe to such a fund,
provided it is thought that he is the
counsel to be retained.
Contractor Flynn has his men at work
and report of borings and surveys made
will probably be filed with the Street
and Water Commissioners the latter part
of this week or the first of next. Mr..
Flynn's counsel entertains no doubt but
what the contract will be approved in
every particular by the courts in the
event of a test being made.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-03-06
SNAKE HILL HORROR.
Needed Supplies Bought in
New York. --Investi-
cation Today.

Freeholder Riordan, chairman of the
Almshouse Committee, called a meeting
of the committee on Saturday to consider
the shocking condition of affairs at that
institution as described by Freeholder
Fallon and other members of the Board
at the meeting last Thursday night.
1t was decided that prompt action was
necessary to remedy the existing evils.
The chairman, acting under the authority
of the committee, went to New York and
ordered stock of the supplies needed,
and which the contractors have failed to
furnish or which have been rejected by
Storekeeper O'Neill. Among the supplies
ordered are shoes, muslin and blue jeans.
They will be delivered at Snake Hill to-
day and it will not be long before the
paupers will have the much needed
change of clothing. Freeholder Riordan
feels confident that the Board will sustain
the action of the committee even if it has
stretched it's authority little bit.
1t has been ascertained that the lunatic
asylum and penitentiary were threatened
with the same condition of affairs as
exist at the almshouse, but Freeholders
Clements and Kenny chairman of the re-
spective committees in charge of those in
gether and ordered needed supplies which
the contractors had not furnished
The special committee to investigate the
differences between Storekeeper O'Neill
and the contractors will meet this after
noon. 1t has been intimated that the
samples exhibited in the office of the
Board of Freeholders and on which the
contractors based their bids were of an
inferior quality to those now in the pos
session of Storekeeper O'Neill and which
he uses for comparison with the supplies
furnished by the contractors. Mr.. o Neilis
samples and the samples exhibited in the
office of the Board will be examined by
the committee and the experts who are
to be called.
The Grand Jury will investigate Snake
Hill affairs at its next meeting. No fault
is to be found with the Penitentiary or
Asylum. The abuses seem to be confined
to the Aims House. Warden Ryan, sew
eral of the employees and the members of
the Freeholder Committee having charge
of that institution are to be summoned
before the Jury.
Repairs are to be suggested and en-
forced. Indictments are said not to be
improbable
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-03-06
A Point Of Law.

History tells US of an eminent jurist
who agreed to teach a young man law.
According TO the contract the young man
was to pay him half of the tuition right
away, and the other half provided he
gained his first case. Some time after the
old lawyer sued the young man for the
second half of the tuition, and laid before
him the following dilemma
l. The case will be decided in my favor
or in your favor.
q If the case is decided in my favor then
by the decision of the court you will have
to pay me.
8. If the case is decided in your favor,
then you must pay me by virtue of our
contract
A. Therefore, whether gain or lose the
case you must pay me the money.
The young man replied
l. will either gain or lose the case.
2. If l gain, then by the decision of the
court will owe you nothing.
s. If I lose the case. then according to
our contract, you will get nothing.
A. Therefore. whether l gain or lose the
case, / need not pay you.
case, I need not pay you.-American Far
mer.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-03-06
LOST IN A HIRED RIG.
Kenny Says He Got Drunk While
Moving Pictures.

John Kenny, an agent of No. 200 Mon
ticello avenue, was booked this morning
on charge of grand larceny, preferred
by Daniel Smith, of No. As Seidler street.
Smith claims that the prisoner hired a
rig from him Saturday and failed to re-
turn it. The horse and wagon he val
ued at $100.
Kenny admitted hiring the missing rig,
saying that he did SO to move few
pictures, got drunk and lost it. He was
held for examination.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-03-06
DID HE COMMIT SUICIDE ?

The police of the Sixth precinct are at a
loss to know whether or not a German
aged about sixty, whose name could not
be learned, and who acted as janitor
of a fiat at No. 102 Linden avenue, at
tempted suicide this morning by use of
drugs. He was found lying on the floor
of his apartments by H. P. Nelson, a
tenant of the house.
Word was sent to the police and Rounds
man Engels visited the place. No trace
of poison could be found.
The unconscious man was removed to
the City Hospital in the patrol wagon.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-03-06

CITY POLITICS.
Davis Makes No Promises
and Tells ALI Aspirants
to Prepare Petitions.
HOOS GETTING READY
Record of the Party and
More Reform Demo-
cratic Planks.

Leader Davis is a busy man these days.
He is besieged from early in the morning
until late at night by aspirants for office.
They all want his promise first and usual
ly wind up by declaring that they will
be entirely satisfied if he will give them
his support.
Leader Davis is making no promises.
He simply advises every aspirant to pre-
pare a petition and file it at once with
the established fee with Secretary P. H.
Murphy, whose office Is in the Surro-
gates office Court House.
Mayor Hoos has not prepared his petit
tion as yet. He will have it all ready
to be filed not later than Thursday next.
Who the Mayors signers will be no one
knows
Commissioner Heintze has not prepared
his petition as yet, but he will have it
ready before the flag falls next Satur-
day afternoon at five o'clock
This morning Mr.. John j. Sullivan, who
1t is thought will succeed Commissioners
Boltwood, called on Mr.. Davis. Sulli-
van was advised to get his petition ready
at once. Sullivan's boom seems to be
growing, and it is now regarded as a sure
thing that he will be nominated. Every
body in the Second ward wants to sign
Sullivan's petition.
OF course the great bulk of petitions Will
come from Aldermanic candidates. Theirs
will be contests in one or two of the hill
top wards. Down town the candidates
have been practically agreed upon.
The political pot is boiling merrily. Ths
elective primaries take place on Wednes-
day evening the fifteenth. Just as soon
as the City Committee meets as con-
vention and announces the regular candi-
dates the campaign will be opened in ear
nest A red hot fight is to be made all
along the line. The record of the party
and more reform will be the planks the
candidates will stand on.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-03-06
FIGHT IN HoBoKEM SALOON.

There was a big row Saturday night in
William Welz's saloon, No. 41O First street
Hoboken. Joseph Carroll, of Madison
and First streets, went in the saloon
drunk and started to play nickel-in-the-
slot machine. The proprietor discovered
that he was putting in "slugs" of lead and
ordered him to stop. A fight resulted in
Carroll being thrown out on his head.
Yesterday morning Carroll appeared be-
fore Recorder Stanton and swore out a
warrant for Welz'S arrest, charging him
with maintaining a gambling machine.
Recorder Stanton issued the warrant and
detailed Policeman Leahy to arrest Welz
and confiscate the machine.
When the case was called this morning
Recorder Stanton held Welz in default
of $500 bail to await the action of the
Grand Jury and fined Carroll $5.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-03-06
MEDICAL SWINDLER ARRESTED.
Another OF Hoboken's Fake Com
pany Caught Yesterday.

Detective Weinthal of Hoboken, yester-
day arrested another one of the members
of the "Equord Medical Society," the
swindling organization which has been
operating in Hoboken. The fellow arrest
ed is Thomas Glaser. who was employed
as collector by the fake concern.
Weinthal learned that the fellow was in
New York and that one of his haunts
was a Hungarian cafe on Second avenue,
between Seventh and Eighth streets.
Weinthal went to New York Police Head
quarters and got the assistance of Detec-
tive Sergeant Chandler. They waited at
the Hungarian Cafe from one o'clock un-
til six O'Clock last night, and finally got
their man.
He is now locked up in New York Police
Headquarters awaiting requisition papers.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-03-06
DICKINSON is WORRIED.
His BIZ partisan Ellis Scheduled 70
Defeat,

Colonel Samuel Dickinson is commenc-
ing to get worried about his bipartisan
measures. 1t was said in City Hall to-
day that he has concluded he is beaten.
The Colonel declines to discuss the sub
ject, however He is going to Trenton
today and will remain there all this
week. If he is unsuccessful in his efforts
this week it is likely he will drop the
project Republicans who had hoped the
bills would pass are down in the mouth.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-03-06
FELL in FRONT OF A TROLLEY.

Mrs. J. Hennessey, of No. III Month
cello avenue, was crossing the street in
front of her home about ten o'clock this
morning, when she slipped and fell direct
ly in front of a trolley car
The motorman jammed the brake down
quickly, thus preventing a serious acci-
dent,
Mrs. Hennessey was cut about the head.
She was taken to her home.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-03-06
GATES DIVORCE CASE ARGUMENT.

Argument in the divorce case of Her
man Gates, of Edgewater, against his
wife, Mrs. Anna Gates, on the ground of
desertion, will be heard before Vice
Chancellor Stevens on Wednesday. Gates
is employed in an oil factory near Fort
Lee His wife, he complained, instead
of staying at home and darning his socks.
went gallavanting about the country. She
complained that he was always grum-
bling, particularly when in making him
buttered toast she accidentally dropped
the butter on his trousers.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-03-06
FILED IN TRENTON.
Especial to .rhe Jersey city News."l

Especial to 1.-THE Jersey City News."]
TRENTON, March 6, 1S99.-Articles OF
Incorporation were filed with the Secre-
tary of State today of the United Electric
Company with an authorized capltal OF
$20 600, 900. The company is formed Tor the
purpose of acquiring and consolidating
the electric light companies of Essex,
Hudson and adjoining counties in North
ern New Jersey, and is backed by the
United Gas Improvement Company OF
Philadelphia. The incorporators are
Frank NJ. Stillman, Railway; Thomas j.
Joyce, Newark, and William ]. Davis, of
Harrison
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-03-06
GROCERY coMPANY's REcElvERsHlP

The American Grocery Company, a New
Jersey corporation doing business in New
York, was dissolved recently by the
mutual consent of the stockholders. Since
there was a fund of $4,000 to be dis
trjbuted among the 81. 100000 worth of
stockholders. and for this reason Vice
Chancellor Pitney this morning appointed
Lawyer Walter McDermott, son of Sena-
tor Allan L. McDermott, the receiver.
His bonds are $50.0D0.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-03-06
LASK0 WAS DISCHARGED,

Peter Lasko, who was charged with
stealing $310 from a trunk owned by Mary
Schilaski several days ago was discharged
on his own recognizance by Justice Nevin.
The papers, however, were sent to the
era nd lllrX-
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-03-06
DIED.

KEISS-On Sunday. March ), 1899, after
short illness, Margaret, beloved wife Of
George Keiss, at her late residence,
No. 29 Rutgers avenue, Greenville, in
her 34th year
Funeral service at ST. Paurs r. C.
Church, ON Wednesday morning, at nine
o'clock
Interment in the family plot in the Bays
view Cemetery.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-03-06
MATTERS OF Fact.

Stores, factories and institutions can now
get their supplies GOOD as any N. Y. 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, 1899-03-06
ARLINGTON CEmRTER Z

Was the first Landscape Lawn Cemetery iH
the State Lot owners have no expense fog
care of grounds. nor for fencing. II you need
a cemetery lot (and every family needs ones
ness. its moderate prices and easy terms Of
payment. Office in Jersey City. 2Ss Washing
ton street. over Provident Savings Bank. Tele-
Dhone No. SCI.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-03-06
fURST'S P0PLIN 75c. A YARD.

owing to typographical error in the.
advertisement of Furst Brothers in THE
News of Saturday, black French poplins
appeared at 25 cents per yard. The real
price is % cents.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-03-06
WEATHER INDICATIONS.

NEW YORK. March 6. 9-Forecast
for the thirty-six hours ending at eight
P. NJ Tuesday. For New York City and
vicinity:-Fair tonight and Tuesday;
colder; fresh to brisk west to north winds.
Ha-snstt's Thermometrical Repor
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-03-06
sanitation Theatres.

The Medical Record asserts that the
hygienic arrangements of theatres the
world over are shamefully neglected. The
general indifference to this state of af-
fairs is ascribed to the fact that the
public's stay in places of amusement is
necessarily brief.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-03-06
Soft an6 Musical.

The Turkish language is said by schol-
ars to be the softest and most musical
language of modern times, being better
adapted to the purpose of musical nota-
ton and recitation than even the Italian.
u .orldon Tit-Bits.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-03-06
WEDNESDAY, MARCH IS, 1899,

At ten o'clock in the forenoon.
Specifications for furnishing and delivering
the coal may be inspected at the office Of
the Clerk to said Board (Room D, City Hall,
between the hours of A. NJ. and P. NJ !
daily, where blank forms Of bid must be OBJ
tanned.
Parties making proposal for furnishing and
delivering of said coal, under the speoifca-
tions, will be required to present, with their
estimate, a bond as now provided by law, or
a certified check for twenty-five per cent. Of
the amount of their respective bid, guar
antee of good faith of signing such contract
and bond. as will be drawn by the Cofpora-
ton Attorney.
The Commissioners reserve the right to re-
ject any or all bids, if deemed for the best
Interest of the city so to do.
Proposals will be marked Proposals for
Coal. City Hall'' directed to Board OF Citp
Hall Commissioners Jersey City," and handed
to the Clerk in open meeting when called foE
in the order of business relating to sealed pro-
posals.
BY order Of the Commissioners
GEORGE F. FARRELL, Clerk.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-03-06
SCHOOL NO II NOT OPEN TODAY

School No. u. at Astor place and
Crescent avenue was not opened this
morning for sessions as many thought it
would be.
superintendent Snyder said that. today,
the school will surely be opened next
Monday morning. Aefew repairs will be
made to the roof and ceiling in the mean
time.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-03-06
KELLY EucHRE TOMORROW NIGHT

The Thomas ]. Kelly Association, a
Democratic organization in every sense
of the word, has arranged social ses-
sion for tomorrow evening in its rooms,
at Newark avenue and Grove street.
There will be a progressive euchre, with
suitable prizes, and musical entertain
ment
James ]. Wiseman, chairman of the
Arrangement Committee, has secured
good talent and jolly time is promised.
There will be refreshments for every one.
All are invited.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-03-06
MRS. HINES BURNED TO DEATH

SARATOGA, N. r.. March s, 1S9s.--
Mrs. Bridget Hines, a widow, aged s..
was burned to death in her house which
was destroyed by fire at Salem, Washing
ton county, early this morning. She was
formerly a resident of Jersey City.
Nothing ever brewed in America to
equal Feigenspan's Scotch Ale.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-03-06
CE Tx EE IL.
SEALED PROPOSALS
ABOUT SEVEN HUNDRED 600.
GROSS TONS OF PEA COAL,

for use in City Hail. Jersey City. N. J.. ac.
cording to specifications for same file with
the Clerk of the Board, will be received at the
meeting of the Board Of City Hall Comniss
sioners, to be held in the Assembly Chambers
in tbe itO Hall
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-03-06

Good health is worth more than anything
else to you, and every bottle OF Hoods Sarsa-
parilla contains good health
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-03-06

Get your neighbor's opinion ON Feigen
SPANS Scotch Ale.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-03-06

Rich in color, delicious in flavor,
Feigensan's Scotch Ale in jugs.
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1899-11-08
Copyright, 1899,
by g, w, Hooke.

,yurh, uut wnpn tie suiu, Inns - "a
tremcly satisfactory. Miss Blaisdell,"
drew one breath long enough to make
my average right.
Then he offered me tho position Of
secretury-he was careful to say secre-
tary-and inquired if $40 week would
be satisfactory In the beginning. Tween
ty dollars week! Twenty gold mines
in the Iilondikel Was 1t satisfactory:
Well
went to work Immediately and real
ly had quite II busy day, though It end.
ed before 3 o'clock.
you won't iind me so dilIscnt on
the average said Mr.. IIamlIn ns he
prepared 10 leave the office. IL usually
wind II up about 4. Can you he here
at 10 O'Clock tomorrow
Ten to A. Was II banker?
All this was too good to be true. and
1t came to me with an especial shock
Of Joy because had Just had my first
experience of that peculiar fear which
comes from the failure to get work
the sensation that all doors ARE shut
and only the way that leads down to
abJcct poverty is LETT open. When Mr..
IIamlin had gone, | actually sang for
the first time In months.
Our offices We're at the east end OF q
corridor. Midway down this corridor
are branches to right and left. like the
arms Of II cross. and GU the sides OF
these arms are the elevator shafts.
On my way to un elevator. just be.
fore | reached the intersecting hail,
dropped glove, and as stopped to
pick II up heard two Office boys talk.
ing us they waited by the shafts. They
and | were not in sight of ench other,
though so near. One of the boys
knew to be In Mr. uamlin's employ
md this was the conversation | over
heard:
al Hamlin's got new typewriter"
"Homely as the last oneT'
as she! Say. the other one was n
dream alongside of this enc. She's q
sketch. She looks like so cents marked
down to %"
Ills wife won't let him hire any 9th
er kind, they say"
"And that's right. She's a DRAGON
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1899-11-08
THE GLASS OF FASHION.

The thinncst of gauze Is made into
long neck scarfs and edged with heavy
silk fringe.
A handsome black cloth gown is sim
ply but effectively trimmed with bands
of black satin stitched with white,
a pretty bow of velvet for the hair
is more chic and has more style If n
piping Of white satin or silk is stitched
ON the edge a velvet ribbon an inch
and half wide with plped edge =
very attractive.
Among the eleganccs of the dress
costumes for the autumn and winter
are Louis XIV waistcoats and revers
of white or cream satin, covered with
Persian embroideries and bordered
with Il narrow line Of seal, otter
ermine, chenille ruching or plated lace.
Some of the prettiest hats for COM
mon wear not Of the style of rough
rider or similar felt hats, which have
become somewhat wearisome even
when they are not distinctly unbecom-
Ing, nre the soft hats. small and tur-
banlllie, made of folds of corded or
stitched soft felt.
No more daring exhibition of black
and white has been seen in trimmings
than in the heavy passcmenteries this
fall. There are not occasionally black
threads in the white. or white In the
black. OF edges of one for the other,
but the pattern shows the black and
the white, each combined in large
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1899-11-08
Two For One.

BY special arrangements We Offer
Home and Farm in combination
with our paper for 81, icing tho
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for al lev or old subscribers re-
newing and paying in advance, We
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made by farmers for farmers It's
Home Department conducted by
Aunt Jane, its Children's Depart
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Renew now and get this great
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Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1899-11-08

You omit nick I'm n comic papcr
w,,hout rnndinr nbn,it mo. am the
y,nnv mans lost rlrJ. lie loves Inc
b,,tnr ,han a mo,lnr.lu-lnv. or his Chi
Vc,ro uin with tho hig feet. am the
bomplv ,vncwrlicr pirl who Is employ
cd Inv ,Ic gentleman with the Jealous
wife.
iocw OF nv readers can realize how
bard 1t is 10 he n living Joke; to be IL
xi.ter To tbc bannna pctl on the side
walk md 10 the countrymnn's carpet
tmr Let me assure Won that it is very
tryluv.
1 wasn't always a homcly girl Five
years ago was quite nrctIy, and at
that ncrioi Of nav life the humble type
writing instrument was FAR lDelow tho
bcysl OF nv ambitions. expected to
marry n rich man. but the rich man
uas rricd soncbody else. and very lnop-
pol,unriy for me, because it was lust
mt ,hot time that wc all became poor.
NV mothers little fortune went to Aus
xrolla In a trustees pockct and never
came back. So my sister and had to