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The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-10-20
BERGEN TO DEFEAT REED.
Somerset Democrats Choose a
Strong Candidate For
Senator.
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SOMERvILLE, Oct 20, 1s99-James ].
Bergen, was nominated for State Senator
by the Democrats at a convention in this
place yesterday.
The most formidable opponent was
Samuel s. Child's, who lives on farm in
Bernard's Township. Just previous to the
convention Elston NJ French, of North
Plainfeld, learned that a majority of the
delegates from his own town were not
going to vote for him, and so he an
nounced his retirement In the interest
Of harmony and party success"
The convention was the largest attended
In several years in the county DIR. S. B.
O. Taylor, of Hillsboro, was elected chair
man After orgssizing a recess was taken
to allow the committee to do their work.
There were no contests among the dele
cations.
Besides Mr.. Bergen, Nelson Z. DUNCAN,
of Montgomery; Samuel S. Childs of Ber-
nards. and Dr. ]. B. O. Taylor were
placed in nomination On the first ballot
Bergen received "a votes, Childs II; Dun
gan and Taylor 9. Bergen was declared
made unanimous
lrouDle WAS eHcouHtefeu III lolllliatlitS
an Assemblyman. Not an avowed candi-
date for the office had been mentioned.
Notwithstanding Childs letter of declina-
tion for that place his name was pre-
sented. A discussion ensued, which re-
suited in committee going out to see
him. They returned and reported that
Childs stood by his letter. Then Prose-
cutor DUNCAN was mentioned. A similar
committee visited him. but he declined.
NJ Monte Corle. of Neshanic, was nom
mated but he arose In the convention
and also declined. Finally L. S. Du Four,
of South Bound Brook was nominated,
ana he accepted.
After the nomination Mr.. Bergen was
escorted to the hall and delivered a speech
of acceptance. He was followed by sew
eral other speakers, including James Mar
tine, of Plainfield.
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At the last session of the Legislature,
Senator Stokes secured the enactment of
a law providing that all wage earners in
the State should be paid at least once
every two weeks, and in cash. This was
intended to correct the company store
evil. 1t is not unusual for men employed
in these places, who 1--we In houses owned
by their employers, and trade at the
company store. where prices rule high,
to find when payday arrives all the money
due them consumed In the settlement for
rent and company store account. Numer-
Gus instances are cited where wage-earn-
ers have not personally received one dol
lar of money for their own use Under
date of October 9, 1899, a man who is IA
miliar with conditions prevailing in many
South Jersey settlements, writes to the
Bureau that out Of more than six hum
dred highly skilled bottle blowers, ems
ployed in one locality, only thirty-nine
own their own homes, and In part at least,
he attributes this condition of things to
the influence Of the company stores.
The law of 1880 was intended to correct
this evil. 1t was very stringently drawn,
but there is one section under which the
evil fourished. The law in the main is
printed below, and the section referred
to printed in full.
The law is entitled IAN act to secure
the workmen the payment of wages in
lawful money" 1t provides that 1t shall
not be lawful for any glass manufac-
turer, iron master, foundryman, collier,
factoryman, employer. cranberry grower
or his agent or company, their agents
or clerks, to pay the wages of workmen
or employees by them employed, In either
store goods, merchandise, printed writ
ten, verbal orders or due bills had been
given or paid; and no settlement made
with such employer shall bar such ac-
tion until after a lapse of one year from
such settlement.
The provisions Of the act shall extend
to all seamstresses females and minors
employed in factories or otherwise
"a violation Of the law Is made a mis-
denaeanor and punishable by fine of not
less than so or more than 500 for each
and every offense, or Imprisonment not to
exceed the term Of thirty days, at the dis
cretion of the court.
ssBut nothing In this act shall apply to
or affect any private individual giving
orders as aforesaid on a store in the bust
ness or profits whereof he has no interest.
directly or indirectly, OF to the Offset of
any debt due from such workmen to any
glass manufacturers. fronmaster, foundry
company where the said debt is invoiun-
tariiy contracted by the employee, or to
the payment Of any debt due from such
workman to any glass manufacturer,
1ronmaster, foundryman, collier factory
man. employer or company.
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DID NOT SUPPORT HIS WIFE
So Mrs. MARI Left Her Husband
and Now He Wants a
Divorce.

Vice Chancellor Emery this morning, In
the Court of Chancery, listened to the
application of John MARI Jr., of Madi-
son, Niddlesex county, for a divorce from
his wife. Lena Maichli MARI. who lives
with her parents IN Brooklyn. MARI, in
his bill, says that he was married to his
wife July 81, 1898, in Brooklyn, and took
her to live on his farm, at Madison. On
October Is. 1893 his wife went to Brook
lyn to visit her parents and has not re-
turned to him. He accused her of willful
desertion.
Mrs. MARI filed an answer denying the
desertion. She said that after their mar
riage her husband took her to a farm
where his parents and brothers and sis
tiers lived and they compelled her to do
the house work and drudgery Even a
short time before her child was born she
was obliged to do washing and ironing
and heavy house work A week after her
child was born her husbands people COM
PEELED sher to get up and do the house
work until she could stand it no longer:
She then, on the advice Of a physician,
who said she needed change and rest,
went to visit her parents at Brooklyn. Her
husband accompanied her and paid the
expenses of the trip.
The next day her husband went home
and she heard nothing from him. After
her husband had been home q month
she invited him to come to Brooklyn TO
the christening OF their child, and he vis-
tied her again, returning to his farm the
next day.
Mrs. MARI claimed that with the excep-
ton Of 80 he never gave her any money
and did not provide for her and her child.
She distinctly declared that her husband
declared she had no means except the
small sum she earned by doing washing
and housework.
She got very little of that and did not
average 50 a week. She had agreed to
pay her parents 50 a week for the sup
port of herself and child but was greatly
In arrears to them, and she also owed
a Brooklyn physician for attending her
and her child when they were sick. She
denied the desertion Mr.. and Mrs Marz
testified to the facts in their bill and an
swer and it did not take long to try the
case.
Mr.. Noonan had just closed his side of
the case when messenger whispered TO
him. Mr. Noonan hurried up to the Vice
Chancellor and In turn whispered to him
in view of some personal business of
counsel this case will be adjourned for
fifteen minutes. said the Vice Chancellor
Mr. Noonan left the court room as
quickly as he could. In a short time he
returned and the case went over to next
week. when the arguments VIII be heard
The messenger told Mr.. Noonan that
three drunken men had insulted his wife
at the ferry and she wished to see him.
When Mr. Noonan reached the ferry the
men had taken a boat and he was unable
to find them
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doubtless be endorsed. Committee reporeI
will be passed upon
REED IN CONTROl
Gusts Thorn pson and His Men
and Disrupts the Party.
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SOMERVILLE, Oct 20, 1S99.-The fight
between the Reed and Thompson factions
of the Republican party in Somerset did
not end with Senator Reeds denomination
in the county convention yesterday The
late afternoon session was the scene of
disorder and disruption.
The embittered feeling between the fac
tlons which had been hid under the cloak
of harmony in the early hours Of the con-
vention developed into a scrap shortly af-
ter Senator Reeds speech of acceptance
and plea for peace. The work OF electing
members of the County Executive Com
mittee was in progress with the Thomp-
son faction in control of the old commit
tee and the Reedites in control of the
convention.
BY an unwritten law Of the Somerset
Republicans the delegation of each town
ship is privileged to nominate its own
member Of the executive committee.
The Bridgewater delegates, which was
composed of Thompson men, announce
the resignation of Lewis A. Thompson as
member of the executive committee,
and presented the names of w. H.Thomp-
son and others TO I'LL vacancies in the
Brfdgewater representation.
Former Assemblyman Van Doren. Of
Franklin Township lieutenant OF Sena-
tor Reed, arose and presented new
slate for Bridgewater. headed by Post
master G. w. Cooper and composed who'll
ly Of Reed men,
Frederick A. Pope, an able lawyer OF
the Bridewater delegation, denounced
Van Doren's action in scathing terms as
a high-handed vancouver that was un-
precedented In the history Of the Repub-
lican party In Somerset County. Benja-
min Hageman. Assemblyman Van Doren
and cher Reed men responded by attack
ing the Republicanism of the Thompson
nominees.
The convention wrangled over the mat
ter until late in the afternoon, when two
Thompson men and one Reed man were
finally elected to fill the Bridgewater
vacancies. The majority of the members
of the Executive Committee from other
townships were elcted by the Reed fac
ton, which places Senator Reed in com
plete control of the political machinery
of the county. The convention broke up
in bad blood.
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COMP ANY STORES
Bureau Of Statisti cs Issues q
Statement Showing
Their Evils.
PRICES FOR GOODS COMPARED
By Trading With His En-
ployer the workingman
Pays sl.ls for 81
Worth of Goods.
PRICES FOR GOODS COMPARED
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TRENTON, Oct 20, 18ss.-Willram
stainsby chief of the New Jersey Bureau
of Statistics, has collected for the nrst
time in this State information relative
to the abuses practiced under the COM
papy store system, and in this connection
has obtained a list Of prices cnarged ior
many of the necessities of life at the So
called company stores in the State and at
private stores in the same locality "A
comparison Of the two has been prepared.
The detailed statistics will be printed IN
the annual report Of the bureau for the
current year. They will cover many
pages.
The quotations obtained cover for food
products and meat more than fifty differ
ent classes of goods, besides different
grades of clothing, cotton goods and cloth,
coal, oil, soaps and other articles which
make up in large part the needs of every
household each day.
There are only fifteen company stores
in New Jersey. Reports have been OBJ
tained regarding all Of them by the bu-
reau.
In Cumberland county there are six
company stores The cost of a bill Of
goods at these averages sSl.91. At private
stores in the same locality the same bill
of goods could be purchased for s2S.l9. At
the private stores 81 will purchase as
much as $1.1s will purchase at the COM
pany stores. The ratio at all Is stores is
81 to Bib, and It ranges from 81 to s116
at the two stores in Morris county. to 81
to s1.06 at the two stores in Salem coun-
ty. The low range of cost at the latter
is probably due to the fact that the two
stores in Salemn county are located in
town of considerable size. where there Is
greater competition.
All prices are higher at the company
stores than at the private stores, and the
average is 19 per cent. On such impor-
tant articles as meat and coffee and tea
the percentage Is higher. On clothing.
which includes underclothing, cotton
goods and canton flannel 81 at the private
stores would purchase what would cost
$119 at the company stores
Average prices for the different quanti-
ties and classes of articles at the fifteen
stores in the State and at the private
stores included in this comparison are
given below, with the ratio OF prices
charged at the company stores compared
with 81 at the private stores
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DIED.

BRUNS-John Bruins, son of Herman and
Anna Margareth Bruins (nee Doscher).
aged 10 years and 6 months.
Services will be held at home Of par
ents, No. S27 Central avenue, on Satur-
day, October p, at p. NJ.
Relatives and friends are kindly request
ed to attend.
DUFFY-On Wednesday, October IS 1899,
Susan, beloved wife Of Thomas Duffy
In her 55th year.
Relatives and friends OF the family are
respectfully invited to attend her funeral
from her late residence, No. 643 Grove
street, on Saturday, October 2l, at A NJ
thence to St. Lucys r. c. Church, where
a. solemn high mass Of requiem will ha
held for the happy repose OF her soul
ROGERS-James Michael Rogers, infant
son of James Rogers and Mary Barry
aged months and II days.
Relatives and friends are respectfully
invited to ATTEND the funeral services ar
residence of his parents, No 229 Twelfth
street, Jersey City, at P. NJ, Saturday,
October n.
Brooklyn papers please copy
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Maxim Guns Check Beers.

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LADYSMITH. Oct. 10, 1899 delayed in
transmission).- The Carbineers and Bor-
der Mounted Rifles, who had been in ac-
tion with the enemy nearly all day, re-
turned this evening, falling back fighting;
in the face of some two thousand Beers
They were several times almost cut of;
but a Maxim gun held the Beers in check.
1t is reported that sixteen Beers were
killed.
Several times the Beers came within
fourhundred yards range, but their shoot,
ing was bad and the Maxims rendered
signal service in stopping their rusheS-
They have large weapon train ana arlil-
lery.
Interferences with the British troops or
giving aid in any way to the enemies OF
the Queen will be summarily punished on
the spot; and all acts contrary to the
usages of civilized warfare will be punish
ed with death. A special court has been
constituted at Kimberly with summary
jurisdiction over spies
The British Channel Squadron has been
ordered to proceed to Gibraltar next Tues
day.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-10-20
STEEL FOR SYDNEY AQuEDUcT
Carnegie Company Has the Entir
Contract.

POTTSTOwlN, Pa, Oct. 20, 1Ses.-The
final steel plate for the Coolgardie Water
Supply Company. of Australia, has been
made by the Glasgow Iron Company.
They are twenty-eight fee In length, and
made from the best steel obtainable. The
weight of the entire 25.0o0 plates, aggre-
gates 5000 tons. They will be shipped
Australia Flat with special machinery for
curvlng them upon their arrival there.
They are to be used In constructing a
steel aqueduct thirty inches in diameter
and ten miles long to supply Sydney with
water. The entire contract was awarded
to he Carnegie Steel C Iron Compan, and
about half the plates were rolled In Potts
town.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-10-20
WANsER CLUB HOPEFUL.

A special meeting of the Wanser Re-
publican Club was held last evening. Some
of the members reported that things looks
ed encouraging throughout the ward. A
set of resolutions endorsing the candi-
dates, a mere matter of form, were passed
because there was nothing else to do.
There were short speeches by the mem
bers who said they thought the Republic
can party would make a good showing
in the coming election.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-10-20
MISSOURI BRUTE NEGRO.

ST. LOUIS. Mo-. Oct. 20, 1854 special
to the Post Despatch" says: A posse
near ST. Annes, Miss, last night captur-
ed Joe Iseflore, negro, who confessed
that he and Bob Anderson on the preced-
ing night went to the house Of ]. II.
Gambrill, at St. Annes, tied Gambrilf 5
feather mattress on, them, poured oil on
the pile, cremated the family and robbed
the house.
Lefore was burned at the stake Bob
Anderson was caught and party burned
but the fire was extinguished before he
was dead, because information which may
clear him was received
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VENEZUELA CRISIS OVER.
Way Has Been Opened for Andrade's .
Graceful Withdrawal.
fBy Gable to the Associated Press. ]

fBy Cable to The Associated Press.
CARACAS, Venezuela, Oct. 20, ssS.-The
crisis is virtually over. General Andrade,
the President, has accepted the conditions
proposed by the insurgent Commander,
General Ciprtano Castro and will go
abroad, the Presidency devoiving upon
the Vice President.
General Castro will enter Caracas peace-
fully tomorrow, thus avoiding bloodshed
and q Dictatorship.
The finaf conference between General
Castro and Senor Matos, the Special En-
voy of General Andrade, was held yes>
terday General Castro proposes that a
popular convention should be assembled
in twenty days For the election of a new
President and the adoption Of a new Com
stitutfon, under which arrangement he
would succeed to the Presidency.
The general feeling here IS that way
Is OPEN for the dignified withdrawal OF
General AndfRde General Ignacio AN
drade was iuaugurated President Of the
limited States OF Venezuela on March /
1893, for term of four years.
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English Winning at Glencoe.

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LADYSMITH, Oct. 20. 1Sss.-At $50 this
morning despatch was received from
General Symons announcing that the
Beers were Smelling Glencoe Camp with
big guns and that the troops were NOV
ing out to attack them. An uneonfrmed
report has been received here that Boer
artillery is shelHng Dundee.
A despatch from Glencoe says that
Boer gun has been captured and that the
Deyonshire and Dorsetshire regiments are
now engaging the Beers.
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being occupied by victorious army Sol
diers were everywhere. Between today
and Monday seventeen thousand men will
leave for South Africa.
AS the Yorkshire departed. the public
cheered vociferously and the troops re-
sponded with vigor.
The Comamnder-in-Chief, General Lord
Garbet Wolseley with his staff, was pres
ent at the enabarkaticn. The United
States naval attache, Lieutenant ]. G. Col
well. was an interested spectator
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S[POY OUTBREAK.
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[By Cable to The Associated Press.j
RANGOON, British Burma, Oct. 20,
1899. Serious riots have broken out in the
Lower Chidwin District of Burma.
nnrnber4 of Sepoys OF the Karen Military
Police. who had been prohibited from at
tendingsa Burmese theatre, broke bounds
on Saturday entered the theatre and at
tackled u number OF English Officers Sc
verely w,ounding four
The Sepoys are dissatisfied with thelr
long detention in the cholera district.
Other outbreaks are reported.
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MORRIS COUNTY NOMINEES.

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MORRISTOWlN, Oct. 20, 1Ss9-Both the
Democratic and Republican county con-
ventions were held at Dover yesterday.
The Democrats nominated for Sheriff
Freeholder Porter of Boonton and for the
Assembly Samuel II. Brant and Augustus
H. BARLEY. The Republicans nominated
for Sheriff F'reeholder Baker of Roxbury
and for the Assembly John w. Welsh of
German Valley and Samuel l.. Garrison
of Boonton.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-10-20
CORNELIUS VANDERBILT SATISFIED
Chauncey Depow Says Talk About a
Contest is Nonsenae.

Chauncey NJ. Depew said today
THE Vanderbilt will is satisfactory to
Cornelius Vanderbilt and the talk about
a contest is nonsense. The delay in pro-
batting the will is not due to dissatisfac-
tion on Cornelius Vanderbilt's part, but to
business reasons. The will will not be
probated until the first of next week,
probably Monday"
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TBy Cable to The Associated Press.1
NEW YORK, Oct. 20, 1sss.-The Com
mercial Gable Company has issued the
following notice.
1--WE are advised that kilograms in code
or cipher can no longer be accepted Tor
any place in British East Africa. German
East Africa. Mozambique. Delagoa Bay,
Rhodesia British Central Africa, cope
Colony Natal, the Transvaal or the
Orange Free State
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OTIS STILL IS CHEERFUL.

WASHINGTON, Oct %. 1sss-The war
Department has received the following
from General OTIS
Manila, Oct. 90
Adjutant General, Washington.
LAY Lawton,s advance under Young n san
Considerable resistance encountered yes
terday- Casualties one killed, three wound
ed, Twenty-second Infantry. Enemy suf-
-fered considerably. One Spaniard, fifteen
insurgent soldiers captured Young re-
ports Inhabitants In section of country
mostly friendly.
(Signed) OTIS.
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ARLINGTON CEN ETERY

was the frst Landscape Lawn Cemetery IN
the State Lot owners have no expense for
care of grounds, for fencing. II you need
8 cemetery lot land every family needs one).
,ou Will be interested In its beauty and neat
ness its moderate prices and easy terms Of
sayment Office In Jersey City. 2s9 Washing
tom street, over Provident Savings Bank. Teic~
nhone No. 52l.
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Boer. Have Large Flooks and Herds

[Ry Gable to The Associated Press.
CAPE TOWN, Oct. 20. 1SSs.-A private
message from iMafeking. undated. says
Fight Monday. All right
Messages from Kimberly. dated Octo-
ber II. say taht the Beers still occupied
tbair nosifion at Spytfontein. They were
lifting cattle and devastating everything.
An Englishman with a Free State permit,
who was temporarily detained near KIM
berly. reports that the Beers have large
focks and herds.
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ALASKA'S BOUNDARY.

WASHINGTON. D. c., Oct 20. 1sss.-
Secretary Hay has received notice from
,the British embassy fthe approval by
the British Foreign Once Of his last
proposition relative to the Alaskan boun-
dairy modus vivendis The formal confir-
nation of the arrangement VIII take place
today.
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Distress Among Refugees.

TBy Cable to The Assoclateu Pfess-I
LORENZO MARQUES, Oct. 20. 1Ss9.-.
The town is overcrowded with refugees
almnst all of whom are without money.
They are compelled to sleep in the open
Many of them are English. The inlapi-
tants are quite unable to cope with tne
distress
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COLLISION ON NEW HAVEN R. R.

FIsHKILL, N. X, Oct 20, 1Sss-There
was head on collision on the Highland
Division of the New Haven Railroad this
morning between a freight and special,
resulting in a bad wreck. William Fill
bert was badly injured and will probably
L.
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MAzTERs or FAox

Stores factories and institutions can now
get their supplies as good as any n. Y house
can serve thern Complete stock, low prices.
At D. Il. Cieary & Co.'S wholesale grocery
stores, Montgomery and Greene streets
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TBy Cable to The Associated Press
LIMERICK, Oct 20. 1Sss--Posters
plaearded in Limerick today urging the
Irish not to enlist for service against the
Beers were torn down by the police.
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ToNIGHTs EVENTS.

Andrew Mack, in '-The Last Of the
Rohans.'' at the Academy of Music.
The Utopians," at the Bon Ton Thea
tire.
Hall
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COUNTY COMMITTEE MEETS.

The Republican County Committee will
meet tonight and the nominees Will