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The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1902-05-12
AID SUFFERERS
Mayor Pagan Calls a Meet
ing to Help the Victims
of the West Indies
Catastrophes.

Mayor Fagan has issued call for a
mass meeting for the purpose Of aiding
the sufferers from the West Indian vol
canic eruption, which wiped out of exist
ence about $4,000 people in st. Vincent and
Martinique The meeting win be held in
the assembly chamber of the City Hall
on Wednesday evening. A committee of
the most prominent business men and
citizens of the city will be appointed and
will have charge of the meeting. All who
are interested in the matter and wish to
assist the unfortunates who survived that
awful catastrophe are invited to attend
the meeting. Mayor Pagan and several
others yet to be named will address the
meeting and appeal to the people of the
city generally for subscriptions.
Mayor Pagan said this morning.
Jersey City should be generous in as
sisting those who need assistance in that
i'll fated country. The whole catastrophe
was so horrible that 1t is beyond compre-
hension and those who were spared are
helpless and dependent upon the charity
of the rest of the world. / am sure this
city will do its duty. I have called a
mass meeting for Wednesday night in the
Assembly Chamber of the City Hall. I
win appoint committee of business men
and prominent citizens to arrange mat
ters and then someone viii be appointed
treasurer The details are not yet ar
ranged, but will be today. It Is a matter
that must be carried through at once and
absolutely no time should be lost
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1902-05-12
BISHOP ARRESTED
Colored Girl Charges the Rev
Alexander Walters With
Assault and Battery.

The Rev. Alexander Walters. DID,
Bishop of the African Methodist Episco-
pal Church for New Jersey. Missouri.
Virginia, Michigan and Canada, was ar
rested yesterday in Hackensack and placed
under $500 bail on a charge Of assault and
battery
The warrant was issued by Justice
Heath on an affidavit by Miss Sadie Bill
lings, aged twenty-three, daughter OF
Charles Billings. The Bishop denies the
charges. He says he went to Bethlehem,
Pa, on April 26, the day Of the alleged
assault, and preached there the next day.
Bishop Walters went to Hackensack
yesterday morning and visited the African
Methodist Episcopal Zion Church, OF
which the Rev J. NJ. Corrothers is pas
tor He ordered the pastor out of the
pulpit and suspended him from the min
istry The two men and some of the sis
ters of the church had an exceedingly
acrimonious session of it for an hour or
two.
Bishop Walters is a widower with a son
Of eighteen. He lives at No. OBS Duncan
avenue, this city. The Rev. Mr.. Cor
rothers is a young man who has con-
tributed negro dialect poems to newspap-
ers and magazines.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1902-05-12
FARRELL DISMISSED
Judge Blair Dispenses With
Obstinate Juror Who Kept
Eleven Men Locked
Up All Night.

Petit Juror Farrell was this morning
discharged for the term by Judge Blair in
the Court of General Sessions.
The Court made no comment in remov-
ing the juror from the panel. but it is
understood that it's action was caused by
an investigation of the case of William
Plump, who was tried last week on an
indictment for conducting a disorderly
house at his saloon at Garden and Ferry
streets, Hoboken.
Farrell was one ofthe jury that sat in
the case, and succeeded in Keeping the
trial panel locked up all night because of
his refusal to agree with his eleven col
leagues on a verdict of guilty. The argu-
ments he. advanced for his contrary posi-
ton were so ridiculous that Judge Blair
decided not to allow him to sit on an
other case.
In the meantime Prosecutor Erwin is
conducting an investigation into the
strange actions of Farrell in this case
and the end may not be yet.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1902-05-12
MURTHA'S FIX
Must Lose His Beloved Bank
Deposit or Go to Jail
for Contempt.
SCENE N CHAHCERY CHAMBERS
Vice Chancellor Pitney Signs
An Order Convicting Him
for Refusing to Obey a
Decree of Writ


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The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1902-05-12
WOMEN MISSION WORKERS
Foreign Society of the East New
Jersey Baptist Association Meets

Especial to The Jersey City News.
PLAINFIELD. May u, 1902. The Wom-
ana Baptist Foreign Missionary Society
Of the East New Jersey Baptist Associa-
tion held its annual meeting al the First
Baptist Church here last week. About
1876 delegates were in attendance at each
of the two sessions, morning and after
noon Routine business, including, the
election of officers, occupied the morn
ing's time. The officers chosen were:-
President, Mrs. j. A. Cubber-ey, Of South
Plainleld; Vice Presidents. Mrs. w. D..
Fennell, Newark; Mrs William Myers,
Jersey City, and Mrs. D. j. Yerkes, Plain
field. Mrs Olonzo Petit of Elizabeth
gave a talk on the State work at the
afternoon meeting. and Mrs. Stafford Of
Boston, foreign secretary of the general
society, tod of her missionary trip
around the world. Mrs. Frances Foster
of Newark gave an illustrated talk on
the Farther Lights map exercise. AS a
committee to select the place for the
next meeting, Miss Pecknam and Mrs.
A. H. Ackerson, both of Newark, were
manned
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1902-05-12
NO ELECTION YET
Governor Waiting for Attorney
Generals Opinion in
Fourth Congression-
al Matters.

Special to '~rhe Jersey City News. )
TRENTON. May 12 19o2.-Attorney Gem
eral MeCarter has not yet submitted an
opinion to Governor Murphy on the prop
osition to hold a special election in the
Fourth district. for the purpose of elect
ing a successor 10 Congressman Joshua
S. Salmon, recently deceased.
1t is said that he will have the opinion
ready for the Governor tomorrow. He
has stated to those who have talked the
matter over with him that he has no
discretion in the premises, but is obliged.
under the provisions of the Federal and
State Constitutions to call the election,
but he is desirous of having the Attor-
ney Generals opinion as a foundation
upon which to rest the order.
No other name than that of Lewis J.
Martin. present State Senator from SuG-
sex county is heard in connection with
the nomination on the Democratic side.
He is the shrewest political leader IN
Sussex county and has had aspirations
in the direction of Congress a good many
years. He has one more year to serve as
Senator, but would be willing to resign
his seat in that body, as his election to
Congress would mean $4,000. the aggre-
gate of a two years salary.
The Republicans ar making no prep.
aradons to contest the election Of a
Democrat. but H. Burdett Herr VINO was
saImon's opponent two years ago. may
enter the race against Martin It is ger-
orally conceded that a Republican would
have small chance of election. as the dis
trict is a Democratic stronghold. Salmon
beat Herr by a plurality of 644 in lsJa.
Mahlon Pitney was the only Republican
able to carry the district in a good many
years, and ne went in for his first term
with the Republican landslide in 1896 IF
Martin should be elected to serve the un-
expired term of Congressman salmon r.
would not insure his election for full
term next fall. because under the rear
rangement Of the Congressional district
lines Sussex viii be shifted to the Sixth
district at the next election.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1902-05-12
EXPLOSIVE FOOTBALL
Peculiar Features of Rizzo and
PaIlino's Trial for Arson.

francisco Rizzo and Phillipo Pallino
were placed on trial in the Court of Cen
eral Sessions this morning on three in
dlctments charging them with having set
fire to their barber shop at Grand and
Second streets, Hoboken, on May II last
for the purpose of obtaining s1,10o in
surance on the furniture and the chattles
in the place.
There were three policies and, the Grand
Jury made each one a basis of separate
Indictment against the defendants.
Prosecutor Erwin in bis opening ad-
dress said that after the fire had been
put out the dremen were surprised to
hear an explosion and see another fire
break out This was extinguished and
an investigation disclosed what appeared
to be q football concealed in an excelsior
mattress. The State win try to prove
that this bag was filed with oil or some
other infammable stuff and caused the
explosion that resulted in the second fire.
The evidence revealed that the policies
had been issued on September 3.
The case was still on at recess and will
probably last all day.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1902-05-12
Commissioners Will Have
the City Hall Beds
Adorned As Before.
CITIZENS PROTEST HEEDED
Mayor Fagan's Peanut Econ
onny Has Saved the
City About $3.50.

The City Hall Commissioners viii meet
Wednesday and receive bids for the FUR
nishing of flowers and the planting OF the
beds in the lawns about the City Hail.
This is a new method of purchasing the
flowers and planting the beds. Hereto
fore the City Hail Commissioners ordered
the flowers and work done and then paid
the bills. The cost of this was about $500
each year Mayor Pagan this year an
nounced that, in his opinion, the work
could be done for $500 or less, His system
of economy led the City Hall Commission
ers to dispense with pansies this year and
the flower beds have remained ugly
mounds of earth instead of the beauty
spots they were heretofore. This saeriflee
of the city's beauty has saved the city
about $50. The Mayors demands that
money be saved on the flower beds led
the City Hall Commissioners to the belief
that they would be unable to plant flow
ers this year, and when this became
known generally all classes of citizens
raised such a protest against the admin
istration that Mayor Fagan backed down
and finally consented to have the beds
planted by contract.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1902-05-12
JERSEY SRAD FOR PRESIDENT
Queen of the DeIewaren Furnished
the White House Table

The most remarkable thing about Jer-
sey shad TINS year is their size, some OF
the catches of the past week being re-
garded as phenomenal. There were on
exhibition in Trenton a number of shad
ranging from twelve to fourteen pounds.
and the old fishermen say it is unusual
to see so many beam tippers. AT French
town several OF, nearly the same weight
were caught at the old fishery, which has
been operated for nearly hundred years.
The South Jersey record was broken by
Benjamin Lodge, of Pauisboro. who
caught . shad in the Delaware River OFF
Hope Creek, which was a trifie over
thirteen pounds. 1t was thirty-two inches
long and over twenty in circumference.
1t was promptly packed in ice and sent
to the White House for President Roose-
welt, bearing the card, Queen Of the
Delaware " The scarcely of shad and the
light run still bothers old fishermen, but
it is predicted that they will become plen-
tiful before the season closes.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1902-05-12
MAY HAVE BRANCH COURT
Monmouth Freeholders to Con-
fer With Justice Fort Re-
: garding Proposed Court
Room at Long Branch
Especial to 4The Jersey city News.

especial to Tine Jersey city News
LONG BRANCH, May r. 1902.-It is not
unlikely that in the near future branch
court Of the Monmouth County Circuit of
the Supreme Court, over which Justice ].
Franklin Fort presides, viii be established
at Long Branch. The project has been
talked of for a long while and law was
passed by the last Legislature providing
for its execution. It is stated in the law
that the court shall not be established
except at the request of the presiding
judge of the circuit.
Last week number of lawyers who
desire the branch court waited on Justice
Fort and asked him to take some action.
He told them that it was matter for the
Freeholders of the county to decide, as it
was they who would appropriate the
funds to carry out the plan. lie intImat-
ed that if the Freehoiders wanted the
branch court the request from him. as
provided by Law, would not be slow in
forthcoming.
1t is expected that representatives Of
the Freeholders will confer with Justice
Fort next Wednesday regarding the prac-
ticability Of establishing branch court.
It in said that the only obstacle Is the
matter of expense. For some time the
need of a court room at Long Branch, in
which a Supreme Court Justice might SIT,
has been apparent. and the lawyers have
grown more and more inslstent in their
demand for 1t.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1902-05-12
BUTCHER ECKERT'S WALLET
1t Contained $e38 in Cash and
Checks and Edward Kopp-
man Is Arrested in Con-
nection With Its Loss.

Richard Eckert, a butcher. of Bright
and Monmouth streets, while delivering
goods from his wagon a few days ago,
lost wallet containing $500 in money and
checks to the amount of $438. Eckert re-
ported his loss 10 the police of this city,
and in answer to questions by Inspector
Arcniboid, said that the last time he re-
membered having the wallet was while
he opened it to place some bills in it after
he had served a customer on Hoboker
avenue Detective Alex" Gallagher was
assigned to the case. Last friday ne
went over the ground that Eckert had
travelled with his wagon, and from wha-
he learned became convinced that Edward
Koppman forty-eight years old, of No
s4 Adams street, Hoboken, knew something
about the missing pocketbook Koppman
acted as a watchman for the Mountain
Ice Company, and slept in the company $
barn on Hoboken avenue. After question
ing Koppman Gallagher determined to ar
rest him At Headquarters he was search
ed and $3.50 in bills were found on him.
He admitted that he had found the mon
ey. and said that was all he had found
Detective Gallagher then went to Kopp-
mans home in Hoboken, and upon search
back of a bureau drawer, amounting 10
STA At the time that Detective Gar
lagher brought Koppman to Police mead
quarters he said that he had not found
any more money than the $3.50, but Eckert
said that the bills found in the bureau
drawer belonged to him also, as one Of
the packages was pinned exactly as he
had pinned it before he put it into his
wallet. The $3.50 was returned to Eckert,
but the s174 is still at Police Head"uar-
ters as Koppman has employed Counselor
Dougherty to recoved that amount froln
Detective Gallagher.
The day following the one on which
Eckert lost his wallet and money, he re-
ceived letter containing the checks
amounting TO s4SS The letter was post
marked New York
William &orbeck feed merchant whose
place of business is opposite the Noun
tain Ice Company's plant, found the wal
let in front of his store and turned it over
to the police. 1t contained IS bill at the
time.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1902-05-12
ELSEY CHAPEL CLOSED
sisters" Suspend Services
Until Agitation Against
Them for Surprising
Smallpox Subsidies.

The Elsey Memorial Chapel on Jewett
avenue. on the Heights. was not openel
for services last evening for the first time
in over a decade. The reasons are obvious.
1t was learned that the Sisters who
nave charge of the services, had instruct
ed all the members TO remain away rom
the building until the present unpleasant
notoriety over the seclusion of the nu-
mcrous smallpox cases blows over. The
doctors of the Health Board want to get
the building to funigate it, and to also
yaccinate the members, but they cannot
reach any of the people, and have nor
been able to get in the building.
There viii be no services Tuesday night
,ither nor were there services last Fri
lay night. The Sisters are determined,
te-a4ezsts.4he officials. They all have been
summoned to appear before Police jus
tice Murphy Wednesday morning in the
Oakland avenue court. to explain why the
officials were not notified about the nu-
merous patients.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1902-05-12
HEIRS FIGHT IT
Sale Of Scotch Church Starts
An Injunction Suit in
Chancery Against
Trustees.
CASE LAID OYER TILL MONDAY
Controversy Hinges on a Deed
Given BY the Late George
r. Mckenzie to the
Presbytery.
CASE LAID OYER TILL MONDAY

Because of the absence of one of the
lawyers the case against the Trustees of
the Presbytery, set down for a hearing
in Chancery Chambers today, restraining
them from distributing the proceeds OF
the sale of the property Of the Scotch
Presbyterian Church between West
minister Second and Cfaremont Church,
has gone over until next week.
1.-THE trustees in the meantime are to do
nothing said ex-Judge Bedle, counsel
for the heirs of George R. Mckenzie,
who last Tuesday served an order to
show cause, from Vice Chancellor Steven
son. why the injunction shouldn't issue,
$50 until next Monday it is in statu quo. /"
The bill filed in the suit sets out the
deed from Mckenzie to the Scotch Church
for the property, with its conditions, the
sale of the property, the suit for specific
performance in which a decree was fled
recently, and the intention of the trustees
to distribute the proceeds, which it quotes
from this paper.
The history of the Scotch Church under
the Mckenzie deed is well known. The
church was dissolved and the property
decided to the trustees of presbytery, who
sold it to the Evangelical Lutheran
Church of the Holy Trinity The trustees
of presbytery then wrote to Joseph D..
Bedle, counsel for the heirs of Mckenzie,
on February 5, 1901, enclosing a copy Of
the action of presbytery on the matter
and stating that the money, when re-
ceived would be deposited in the New
Jersey Title Guarantee and Trust Com
pany, and would be held there as long
as might be needful for testing the right
of presbytery to make the disposition pro-
posed The letter stated what amounts
were due and when the payments were
to be made It assured the heirs that the
trustees proposed to act in the most open
and honorable way, that nothing evasive
would be done. and that every opportunity
would be offered for securing decision.
The heirs have awaited decree in the
suit brought to compel the Lutheran
church to complete its purchase before
acting Now they claim only that the
trustees should use the money in accord
ance with the expressed direction of Mr..
Mckenzie They ask an injunction re-
straining the trustees from diverting the
money to churches in which instrumental
music is used in the service This brings
the main question directly before the
court.
with reference to this the Rev. DR..
Herr, pastor of the First Presbyterian
Church, says in the Presbyterian"
'sT'he action of the heirs of George r.
Mckenzie in trying to enjoin the trustees
of Presbytery from using the proceeds
of the sale of the property of the Scotch
Church for the benefit of the local
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1902-05-12
ST. JOHNS NEW vESTRYMEE
Messrs. Hartshorne ard McIlroy
Chosen at Recent Meeting

AT vestry meeting of st. Johns P E.
Church, on Summit avenue, held recently,
Mr.. A. A Bliss was elected senior war
den and Mr. A. L. Lothridge Junior war
den
A new departure was taken in the mat
ter of vestrymen. as it was thought an
opportune time had come to bring some
of the younger men into the vestry, and
Mr.. Hugh Hartshorne and Mr.. George
McI;roy were chosen. Mr.. Hartshorne
has been one of st. Johns boys almost
from the beginning, end for some years
has been treasurer of the mission.
Mr. McIlroy has been in ST. Johns for
about twenty-threo years and for nearly
two-thirds Of that time has acted as
usher on the south aisle of the church.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1902-05-12
D. |. & ". DECREE
It's Rights in Thirteenth Street
Must Not Be Invaded BY
Jersey City.

Lawyers for the D., L. & w. r. H.
Company and for the Mayor and Alder
men of Jersey City discussed for some
time before vice Chancellor Pitney this
morning the terms of the decree to settle
the fight over the ownership OF fhir-
teenth street in favor of the railroad
company.
~As l understand this, said the Vice
Chancellor, "it is a case of too much
verbiage.''
mo. your Honor" rejoined Mr. Robert
Lawrence, for the railroad, ITS case OF
putting in verbiage for verbigae left out.
Then he went to explain that the com
pany wished to have the city permanently
enjoined from trespassing on the property
by force and violence.
City Attorney John w. Queen said that
the city owned a sewer running through
the property and there being manhole
there at times it would be necessary to
go and make repairs and for that reason
the decree should not forbid the city $
right But Mr.. Lawrence objected to any
words which gave the city any right to
enter the land at all.
Corporation Counsel George L. Record
thought the language with force and
violence was superfiuous and he didn't
want the city entangled in any technical
case of contempt OF court if they were
obliged to enter on the ground to pro-
tcct their manhole or sewer. He, like his
colleague, thought the city ought to have
a right expressed in the decree to go
there.
Vice Chancellor Pitney didn't look at it
that way He said the title Of the ground
was in the railroad company and the de-
cree must be drawn up that nothing
should be expressed in it to affect it.
A new decree will be drawn and pre-
sented to the Court next Monday.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1902-05-12
REDUCED RATES TO PORTLAND.
Account National Travellers Pro-
fect;ve Association via p. r. r.

on account of the National Convention
Travellers Protective Association Of
America. June to Z. and the Supreme
Lodge Ancient Order United Workmen,
June 10 TO 20, at Portland, Ore, the Penn
sylvania Railroad Company will sell ex-
.ursion tickets to Portland from all sta
tions on its lines from May IS to June Z,
inclusive, at greatly reduced rates. These
tickets win be good for return passage
within sixty days from date of sale when
executed by Joint Agent at Portland and
payment of fifty cents made for this SER
vice Apply TO Ticket Agents.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1902-05-12
RERRlAac HERO TO MARRY

Special to THE Jersey City News.D
HADDoNFIELD, May Y. 1sO2-The
members of the local division Of the New
Jersey Naval Reserves. who saw service
on the ResoIute in front of Santiago dur
ing the Spanish-Arnerican war, are in re-
eeipt OF invitations 70 the wedding of Miss
Maud TTuntoon of Stuart. Ia, to Osborn
Diegman. The latter, ii w5ll be rsmenl-
bered. was one of the crew Of the Merri-
mac, VINO, with Hobson. tried to block
the harbor by sinking the craft IL the
channel. Diegnan later was made boat
swain on the Resolute