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The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-01-26
ADDIE H0xIE'S SAD TALE.
Accuses William Sheppard's Father
of Preventing Their Marriage.

Justice of the Peace Milton Hanna is
sued a warrant yesterday morning for
the arrest of William Sheppard of Bristol,
Rhode Island, whom Addie Hoxsie, of the
same city, charges with seduction. The
woman appeared before Justice Potts
yesterday morning and told the follow
ing story
She said that Sheppard had promised to
marry her and that about a week ago
they eloped, going to Danbury, Conn.,
where they were to be married. Shep-
pard's father overlook them and brought
hiy son back home. Later he sent him
y relatives house in West Hoboken,
Just where she did not know. She followed
him, she said, and came to the Court for
advice. She was directed to the Justice
of the Peace's office, Justice Potts say
ing that he had NO power out of Jersey
City. This morning it appears that Shep-
pard left for Bristol yesterday morning,
and that the woman followed him last
evening.
The woman is about to become mother
and she said Sheppard was perfectly Will
ing to marry her and would have done
SO but for his father.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-01-26
EXCITING RUNAWAY IN AoBoKEN
Old Woman's Marrow Escape and
Horse Killed

There was an exciting runaway in the
Fourth ward section of Hoboken this
morning. There were several narrow
escapes and the runaway created SEN
sation.
A horse and buggy belonging to Herbert
& Weishbart, butchers, of Henderson and
Twenty y-first- streets, Jersey City, We're
standing DIT Madison and Second streets,
Hoboken, when the horse, a mettlesome
animal, became frightened at the bell OF
a passing Rutherford trolley car, and
dashed at breakneck speed along Madison
street, causing a swath among other
vehicles and pedestrians. At First street
the horse narrowly missed killing Mrs.
Peters, an old woman. The woman fell
directly in the path Of the flying animal.
The horse SHE'D however, and the vehicle
just grazed the old woman's head. Her
escape from injury was almost miracu-
lous. She suffered from shock, and was
revived in a nearby drug store.
The horse continued his mad career to
Monroe and Ferry streets. There the
buggy struck pillar of the Hoboken
elevated road with terrible force. The
buggy was completely wrecked and the
shaft was forced into the right side of the
animal Blood gushed from terrible
wound in the SIDE and the horse sank to
the street with groan. Veterinary Sur
geon Dixon was sent for, and with two
Well-directed shots put the animal out OF
agony.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-01-26
THEY RETURN BOOTY.
Nearly All the Money Stolen From
London Bank, Returned.
[By Gable to The Associated Press.


LONDON, Jan. 26, 1S99.-The robbery
city, on Monday last, which has been the
sensation of the week, took a draematic
turn today when the chairman of the
bank announced at a meeting of the
shareholders that $4,000 in the biggest
notes had been returned to the bank by
post
The robbery apparently was a most
have walked boldly behind the counter
where there were over one hundred
clerks at work, to have opened a draw
er taking a parcel of notes, and walked
out of the bank undetected. American
thieves are suspected of having been
concerned in the theft of the notes, as
it is said several Americans were notic-
ed lettering recently about the premises.
The police are again utterly helpless.
Thirty-six G1, 900 notes and twenty-five
$500 notes figured in the robbery. Most
of these have now been returned and the
remainder of the notes are practically un-
negotiable.
The chairman of the bank also an
nounced that the Bank of England had
promised to pay this amount. the SAT 900,
of which $4,000 was returned. The re-
mainder of the money was in notes of
smaller amounts, which could be easily
passed and might therefore be considered
lost.
The shareholders greeted this unexpect-
ed announcement with enthusiasm,
declaration of a dividend of nineteen per
cent
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-01-26
BOY COOKED FOR THE FAMILY.
Strange Story Revealed in the First
Criminal Court.

Joseph Smith and James Cosgroye,
boys, who live in the tenement house No
IA Morris street, were before Police JUS
tice Nevin in the First Criminal Court
this morning for annoying Mrs. Merkie
who lives on Warren street near Morris
street, and breaking a window in her
house.
Police Justice Nevin lectured the father
of Smith for not taking better care of his
son. He gave as his excuse that he had
been working in Boston for some time
and had not been able to keep track of
his sons actions. The Cosgrove boy, who
is but eleven years old, lost his mother
three weeks ago and is obliged to do the
housework for his father and two
brothers. He told Justice Nevin that he
had arranged for their dinner today and
that if he was not home to cook it they
would have to go hungry. He was
paroled.
Mr. Smith promised to pay 50 for the
broken pane of glass and his son was re-
leased.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-01-26
TW0 MORET TRUSTS
Three Allied Tin Plate Con-
Germs Form One Conn
pany With $4,000,
600 Capital.
RUBBER GOOD MAKERS UNITE
Concern Will Have an Auth
orized of $500 900, 900 One
Half Being Preferred
Stock.
RUBBER GOOD MAKERS UNITE
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Especial to THE Jersey City News
TRENTON. Jan. 26, 1Sss-Articles of ins
corporation were filed today of three all
lied concerns, the National Tin Plate
Company, the United States Tin Plate
Company and the National Tin Plate and
Stamped Ware Company. The two form
er have an authorized capital stock Of
$4,000 each, and the latter, the National
Tin Plate and Stamped Ware Company,
an authorized capital of $2O,60O,oO0 The
companies are empowered to manufactur
and deal in tin, terne, black plate and
steel plate, and the larger concern is,
in addition, authorized to manufacture
steel and iron.
The ncorporators of the three compa-
nies are the same individuals, viz: David
6. Reid, William B. Leeds, and James
B. Dill. The capital stock of the Ma
tional Tin Plate and Stampedware Conn
pany is divided into $4,000, 900 preferred
stock with seven per cent. cumulative d.
vidend and $1OO0O,0OO common stock. The
companies are understood to be organic
ed in opposition to the National Enamel-
ling and Stamping Company Incorporated
on Saturday last with an authorized cap
ital of $50 OO0,0 900.
Articles of incorporation were filed with
tiio HSeie'eiy VI otdle toudy diso u LIS
Rubber Goods Manufacturing Company
with an authorized capital stock of So,
100000, one-half of which is to be preferred
and the other half common stock. The
preferred stock is to bear z per cent
cumulative dividends. The company il
empowered to manufacture and deal in
all goods of which India rubber. gutta
percha balata, or other substitutes form
component part.
ner, of Brooklyn; Camillus G. Kidder, OF
Orange, \. j., and the following New
Yorkers:-Henry Steers, Thomas Russell
Hebard, R. L. Edwards, Perry Chubb,
Herbert ]. Davis, Alden S. Swan, C. H.
Dale, Charles Stewart Smith, George L
Dearborn and Ansel L. White.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-01-26
THOMAS BROWN.
BOARDING HOUSE THIEF CAUGHT
He Tried to Work His Game in
BrookIvn and Was Arrested.

The boarding house thief for whom the
police of Jersey City, Hoboken and New
ark have been looking for for several
weeks was arrested, in Brooklyn, last
night by the Brooklyn police, assisted by
Detectives Prescott and Pearson of Jer-
sey City. The police were notified by
Mrs. Lint of No. 293 Pearl street, of whom
he had hired a room. She keeps board
ing house. The police had notified all
boarding house keepers to look out for
such man if he should attempt to hire
a room. The Brooklyn police kept the
man under surveillance until Prescott
and Pearson arrived. The Jersey City
policemen identified him from descrip-
tions given them by boarding house keep
ers who had been robbed by him.
The thief is George A. Hoffman of
Philadelphia He is wanted for several
robberies in Brooklyn Detective Prescott
this morning took number OF Jersey
CITY boarding house keepers who had
met Hoffman and they Identified him.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-01-26
RIPARIAN BOARD MEETS.
New Bridge to Be Built Over
Shark River.

The Board of Riparian Commissioners
had its regular monthly meeting this
morning. There were presents Commits
sioners Fiske, Clarke and Holt. An appli-
cation was received from the borough of
Belmar for the conversion of lease into
grant. The Ocean Beach Association
has sold to the borough of Belmar the
whole water front, and the borough de-
sires to secure absolute possession. A
grant on the Passaic River at Woodside
was made to Alfred Zusi at the extraor-
binary low rate of S. a foot This conces-
sion was made because of an old dock
that was built on the grant years ago, and
which gives Zusi certain legal rights
which might cause the Commissioners to
become involved in a lengthy lawsuit if
they made the price of the grant too high.
The Mount Zion Sanctuary trustees de-
sire a grant of the land under the water
of the New York Bay. in front of the
Sanctuary. Coult & Howell of Newark,
counsel for the trustees, this morning filed
a brief of title. The application for a
grant will be considered at the next meet
ing of the Commissioners.
The Atlantic Coast Railway Company
submitted a plan for a new bridge over
Shark River to replace the present struc
ture which nterferes with the flow of the
river owing to the number of piles and
the small size of the spans. The present
supports are but IA fet apart The new
bridge will be supported by round iron
cylinders four in number. The highway
spans will be SO feet in width and the
channel span so feet, All the old piling
will be removed. The plans propose a
structure that will be handsome in ap-
pearance. and advantageous for the river.
An effort will be made to have the New
York and Long Branch Railroad Compan
build a similar structure A special
meeting of the Riparian Board will be
called to approve the plans as soon as
they can be examined.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-01-26
DISCUSSING NEW CHURCH PLANS
Greenvi11e English Lutherans Anxi-
ous to Build,


There was meeting of the congrega-
ton of the English Lutheran Church OIL
the Redeemer last evening, in Bamber
Hall, Linden avenue, Greenvilles for the
purpose of deciding whether or not the
Board of Trustees should be given the
power to select suitable site upon
which to erect a new and more commo-
dious house of worship for the congre-
CATION. Definite action was postponed,
however, until several matters pertain
ing to the church project are looked up.
The trustees were, however, given the
power to incorporate the church, and the
matter will be placed in the hands OF
LAWYER Robert Carey, who has volun-
teered to prepare the necessary articles.
There is no doubt but that new
church will be erected in the near future.
but Just how soon, even the pastor, the
Rev. J. E. Heindel, does not know. He
said this morning that the project had
been considered, but that committee to
look after a church site would not be
appointed until another meeting of the
congregation was held.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-01-26
Hartnett's Thermometrioal Report
DIED.

COAR-Suddenly, at Villa Nova College.
Pa, January 26, 1899, the Rev. Waltei
A. Coar, 0. S. A.
Tuesday, fan. "a, 1899,
VIM. Meerbott, Sr., beloved husband
of Louise Meerbott, in his S5th year:
Funeral services on Thursday. Jan. 26.
at p M, at No. % Fifty-third street.
Bayonne.
Interment at convenience of the family.
McMAHON-On Tuesday, Jan. "a, 1899,
Margaret, beloved mother of Mrs.
James McCabe and Phillip, James and
John Mcmahon.
Relatives and friends are invited to at.
tend the funeral on Friday, Jan. q, at
9 A M. from her late residence. No.
221 Fourth street; thence to st. Mary's
Church, where solemn high mass OF
requiem will be offered for the happy
repose of her soul.
ALLBN-In this city, on Monday. Jan,
Relatives and friends of the family. also
Constitution Lodge, No. 241, F. & A. M.
of New York City, are invited to attend
ing January 26, at s o'clock, from hia
late residence, No. 116 Storm avenue, Jer-
sey City Heights.
Interment at convenience of family.
BANKS-On Tuesday, Jan. IA, 1899, Emma
Louise, only daughter. Of Orion ana
Margaret Banks, aged IL years ana
Relatives and friends are invited to ar<
tend the funeral from her late residence,
No 80 Van Reipen avenue, Friday, Jan-
uary 81, at s P. M.
CORCORAN-On Wednesday, January q,
Grove street. Margaret Corcoran, bes
loved wife of Timothy Corcoran, in
the 40th year of her age.
Notice of funeral hereafter.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-01-26
HoBoKEN's TRAIL OF BLOOD.
Sailor Falls Through Plate Glass
Window Dangerously Cutting Him.

There was a bloody trail all through
the lower streets of Hoboken, about mid
night last night. 1t began at Ferry and
Garden streets, trailed along Ferry street
to Washington street, to Newark street,
to Hudson street Here, in front of
Kamlah's drug store, the trail became
big pool. Then the trail went back
to Washington street, to First street and
finally terminated at Police Headquar-
ters.
In the meantime all the detective force
the blood. Exaggerated stories of man
being stabbed by a woman. in saloon
at Ferry and Garden streets, where the
trail began, were rife; but when the VIC
tim appeared at Headquarters the stories
evaporated.
The man was Ottt, Nedruff, twenty
four years old, a steamship fireman on
was almost unconscious from the loss Of
blood. His clothing was dyed with the
red fluid. The blood came from ter
rible cash in the right arm The sailor
told the police that while drunk she fell
against the plate glass window of the
saloon at Ferry and Garden streets. The
police crudely attempted to stop the flow
geon Arlitz. DR.. Arlitz stopped the bleed
ing and said that Nedruff had lost so
much blood that his life was in danger.
He advised his immediate removal to st.
Mary'S Hospital, which was done. There
he lies in a critical condition.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-01-26
TROUBLE IN MANILA.
American Sentry Kills a Fill
pino and Three Others
Are Arrested.
TBv cable to The Associated Presg.1

TBy Cable to The Associated Press.1
MANILA, Jan. %, via Hong Kong, Jan.
26, 1S99.-On Saturday evening January
~, five Filipinos, determined to have re-
venge for their captains death, attempted
to enter our lines An American sentry
killed one of them, who was armed with
a revolver. After an exchange of shots
the others were arrested The incident
has intensified the excitement hre.
The Mabini Cabinet yesterday insisted
upon the liberation of the Spanish civil
prisoners, in commemoration of the pro-
clamation of the Filipino Republic, and
also donated money to the native clergy.
A decree to that effect was signed. The
Spanish clergy, however, remain prison.
ers.
An elaborate programme has been ar
ranged for the formal ratification of the
Constitution today.
Nothing was accomplished at the con-
ference here yesterday and it is rumored
that the F'ilipinos, at their next meeting,
will give the Americans eight days in
which to accde to their demand for rec
ognition. The rumor is discredited.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-01-26
GLASS STRIKE IMPENDING.

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MILLVILLE, Jan. 26, 1S99.-There was
no change in the situation in the glass
trade yesterday. Officers of the Green
Glass Blowers Association are hard at
work st lgtheniI< their lines for the
contest with the manufacturers that is
bound to come. The crisis may not come
for several days unless it is forced by
the manufacturers. 1t is said that one
of the Bridgeton firms will try to force
an issue by putting lot of new appren-
tices in their factory.
Meetings of the glass blowrs are being
held nightly and non-union men are COM
ing into the union. Vice President Dough-
erty and George Branin of the Executive
Committee of the Union, started yester-
day morning on a tour of the glass towns.
Al big meeting of the glass workers was
held last night at Elmer. Meetings will
be held tonight at Clayton and Glass
boro, at Medford on Friday night, and
ait Bridgeton on Saturday night.
There will be no demonstration or
strike the officers of the Blowers Asso-
ciation say until the organization is per-
fected in all the glass towns, and the
demands of the men are presented to
their employers.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-01-26
DAVENPORT'S TWO MONTHS
Actor Who Stole From Hobo
ken Gets a Light Sentence
--Schlichting's Sentence
Postponed.

When Edward Davenport, respect
able looking young man, was called up in
the General Sessions Court this morning,
to be sentenced on two charges of petty
larceny to which he had pleaded guilty,
Lawyer Joseph M. Noonan addressed
the Court in the prisoners behalf. Daven-
port had stolen watch from young
woman to whom he was paying attention
and pawned it. Afterward he stole S.
bill which had been marked and set as a
trap for him. Davenport does an aero
batic turn in variety shows, and while
1illing an engagement in Hoboken thea
tire, became acquainted with Miss Annie
Schubert, of No III Bloomfield street. Al
though married man, he represented
himself as single, and called on Miss
Schubert. After his visits something was
missing from the house, and finally the
marked S. bill was set as a trap for him
and he fell into it.
Mr.. Noonan said he had reason. to be-
lieve that the court had intended to exer-
else leniency in the case. and that the
Prosecutor was satisfied, as it was the
defendants first offense. He had been
informed. however, that the Hoboken po-
lice had filled their minds with sundry
dark impressions about the young man
and had committed the outrage of going
through Davenport's correspondence. The
police, not only in Hoboken. but else
where. have an idea that as soon as
man is arrested they have right to ex-
anime his private papers. Mr.. Noonan
quoted from Judge Cooley, who expressed
the opinion that officers who take such
liberoes are more criminal than the man
who is charged with the crime. He ex-
pressed a hope that the court would not
be influenced by the criminal researches
of the Hoboken police. Miss Schubert,
the only person injured, was willing that
the prisoner should be discharged, and
thes prisoners aged mother had pleaded
for him. In view of these facts he hoped
that the court would exercise the Glenn
ency he had reason to believe was origin
aIly intended, Judge Blair said that the
court was not Influenced by anything ex-
cept the fact that the young man had
pleaded guilty to two charges of larceny
and ought to be punished. Davenport
was sentenced to two months in the Penl-
tentiary on each charge, the terms to
run consecutively.
Sentence on Justice of the Peace Oscar
Schlichting, OF Hoboken, for assault ana
battery on Adolph Lankering was post
poned for one week.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-01-26
REV. WALTER COAR KILLED.
Shocking Accident to a Jersey City
Man at Villa Vova College, Pa.

Friends of the Rev. Walter A. Coar,
o. S. A., Vice President of Villa Nova
College, Pa, were shocked to learn, this
morning; that he was killed, last night,
by a locomotive, near the college grounds.
Mr.. Coar was the son of Water Pur-
veyor Robert B. Coar, of this city, and
a young man of great intellectual attain
ments. He was only thirty years of age
and had made for himself a very enviable
position in the scholastic world. After
his early college course he graduated
from the University of Pennsylvania. In
Jersey City he was very well known
and much beloved for his manly quail
ties, and his death has caused univer-
sal grief. No details of the accident
have been yet received, but it is believed
that he met his death while crossing,
at dusk, the track near the college.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-01-26
CONTINUALLY DRUNK.

James S. Stewart, thirty-five years old,
who says he boards at the City Hotel,
at Grand and Hudson streets, was yes
terday arrested by Policeman Losey for
being drunk. He was found drunk on
the hotel corner but had no revolver,
as the policeman had been informed, and
was apprehended as disorderly person.
A brother of the accused, John M. Stew
art, of No 317 West 117th street, New
York, appeared against him in court this
morning, stating that James has not
drawn sober breath in two or three
years. The accused denied the state
ment, claiming that until recently he had
been far away and his brother knew
nothing about him.
Justice Nevin committed him to jail for
fftean davS
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-01-26
TROLLEY INJURIES WORTH $4,000
Thomas F. McKenna Receives YER
dict in Suit Against North Jersey.

Thomas F. McKenna, who was injured
on the North Hudson County Railroad on
June 10, last year, was awarded verdict
of $4,000 yesterday afternoon. The case
had been on trial for three days in the
Supreme Court before Justice Lippincott
and jury The accident occurred on the
elevated road near the Washington street
station in Hoboken. McKenna's story
was that just as he was about to board a
car the car started He was dragged
along the tracks for distance of about
fifty feet and then he dropped through the
trestle work tolthe street. He sustained
a fracture of the skull and other injuries,
from which he never has, and, he claims
never will recover. The defence claimed
that Flynn was responsible for the aeci-
dent as he attempted to climb on the car
after it had started MCGEE, Bedle and
Bedle appeared for the plaintiff and Ed
wards and Holmes for the defendant.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-01-26
Mr.. CASEY PROTESTS.
Wants Asphalt and Other Improves
. ments for the Pavonia Section.

John Casey, the largest property owner
north of the Erie tracks, called on Mayor
Hoos today and entered protest against
the treatment that portion of the city is
receiving Mr. Casey called attention to
the fact that the Pavonia avenue section
boasts of as many, if not more, saloons
than any portion of the city. Inasmuch
as fifty per cent. of the liquor license
moneys is spent repairing and repaving
paved Streets Mr.. Casey maintained that
the Pavonia avenue section should be
given improvements at the same ratio
that its payments into the liquor license
fund represent to the whole amount paid
into that particular ,und of the city. Mr..
Casey argued that the Pavonia section
is as much entitled to asphalt streets as
is the Bergen ection.
Mayor Hoos said he would communicate
with the Street and Water Commissioners
on the subject.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-01-26
WRONG TO BECOME SURETY.
Priest Tells Bondswoman That in Do
ing So She Encouraged Wrong Doing

James Clark, who was recently required
to produce bonds for the payment of a
weekly allowance to his wife for her sup
port was this morning surrendered by his
sister, who was his surety. Mrs. Clark
alleges that her husband is intimate with
a woman in Gloucester.
Miss Clark, it developed in the First
Criminal Court this morning, delivered
her brother on the advice of a missionary
father, who told her while he was holding
services in st. Johns Church, that in
being her brothers security she. was en-
couraging him to do wrong. Clark de-
clared that his desire was to return to his
wife and children Mrs Clark would not
listen to such a proposition. Police JUS
tice Nevin ordered Clark to pay his wife
81 week and give bonds in $3.50 to guar
antee the payment of that amount