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The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1906-11-22

days News. Alderman Sheehy, the Dem
,ocratic leader of that Board practically
charged Alderman German with being
animated in the matter by personal and
political spite because the Overseer had
refused after r2akinga n investigation, to
give a certain woman a half a ton Of
coal on the recommendation of Alderman
Gorman's father-in-law. Mr.. German de-
ciared that the assistant Overseer did not
making a propr invstigatioen. but picked
up his information from a person on the
street, He further declared that in seek
ing to have the accounts of the Dyerseer
oyerhauled he did not impugn the homes
ty or integrity of the overseer and his
assistant, but simply contended that the
accounts shold be kept in more busi-
nesslike manner
The Overseer informed the Board of
Finance that he courted an Investigation
of the accounts. It was pointed out at
the Board of Aldermens meeting that
the more elaborate system of bookkeep-
ing suggested by Mr.. German would ne
cessitate extra expenditures that the
meagre $1,000 appropriation could i'll af-
ford. Mr.. German declared that his pro-
posal would not Increase the expenses Of
the Overseer's office
The Finance Board yesterday ordered
warrant drawn on the City Treasurer
for $4,000 in favor of Steven Egan, the
County Collector, on account of County
Taxes
Warrants were ordered drawn on the
same officer to be deposited to the credit
OF December, 1906, intreset as follows
On general account, $2O,519.50, on gem
eral account, to pay interest on assess
ment bonds, $4,000; on water account,
S8 no
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1906-11-22
STAGE GLAMoR TOO STRONG.
Girl Accused Of Robbins Mistress In
Order to Become an Actress.

Order to Become an Actress.
Hoboken, n. J., Nov. 22.-Chief of
Police Hayes told remarkable story
of how housemaid had robbed her
mistress in an effort to get enough
money to prepare her for a career as
an actress.
Remarkable dramatic talent was
shown by her. The chief says that
the girl confessed and restored SIS, all
that she could find in the house, after
which he left the culprit in charge of =
probation officer
To account for the missing money
the girl told a thrilling story of fight
with burglar, planting purchased
derby hat as evidence.
When Chief Hayes confronted the
girl with the evidence against her she
broke down and confessed
The girl said she was tired of house
work and thought that with her good
looks and the ability that she thought
she possessed she could easily find an
opening on the stage and eventually
become a star
She had no money to buy suitable
wardrobe, she said and she planned a
robbery in the hope of finding large
sum of money in her mistress room
She got only SIS and in her fright
threw it out of the window. 1t was
found on the lawn.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1906-11-22
BROOKLYN BRIDGE IN PERIL?
Trolley Car Official Says Company
Fears Great Disaster.

New York, Nov. Recommends.
tons made by the state railroad com
mission designed to relieve somewhat
the Brooklyn bridge crush found a
startling echo when Vice President
Calderwood Of the Brooklyn Rapid
Transit company declared that the
bridge was being worked to its limit
and that his company lived in expecta
tion of a great calamity there.
Almost similar sentiments We're ex
pressed by. Frank Hedley, general
manager of the Interborough, regard
ing the east side traffic in Manhattan.
The Second and Third Avenue EIevat
ed roads, he. said, We're being operated
to their utmost capacity, and unless
they were enlarged, as the railroad
commission recommended, the compa-
ny was absolutely powerless to better
conditions.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1906-11-22
ROOSEVELT in PORTO RICO.
Former Spanish Colony Gives Presi-
dent a Warm Welcome.


San juan, Porto Rico, Nov. 22.-
President Roosevelt arrived here from
Ponce, to which port he had gone from
Colon on board the battleship Loui-
siana.
Ponce was profusely decorated and
crowded with people from the country.
In the throng at the landing place were
many who had waited there all night
AS Mr., Roosevelt stepped ashore the
crowd cried, viva el presidente!''
AT the entrance to the plaza huge
arch had been erected, from which lit
tie girls threw flowers to both Mr. and
Mrs. Roosevelt. The American colors
were intermingled with Spanish flags
At tie city hall he spoke from the
balcony to the largest crowd ever as
sembled in Ponce. He said in part.
I shall continue to use every Nffort
to secure citizenship for Porto Rico. I
am confident this will come in the end,
and all that can personally do to
hasten that day will do. My efforts
win be unceasing to help you along the
path of true self government, which
must have for its basis union Of or
der, liberty, justice and honor. salute
you from my heart as fellow citizens
The reference to citizenship caused
enthusiastic applause.
The presidential party left Ponce in
eleven autos for the run 10 San Juan
over the famous military road 1t
Juano Diaz, Coamo and Aibonito the
president smoke briefly from his auto
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1906-11-22
FINES FOR fCEMEN.
Five Philadelphia Dealers Throw
Themselves on Courts Mercy.


Themselves on Courts Mercy.
Philadelphia. Nov. 90 Five of the
fourteen ice dealers placed on trial in
the criminal court here on the charge
of conspiracy to raise the price of ice
pleaded non yult contendere and
threw themselves upon the mercy of
the court
A plea of this character is virtually
an admission of guilt, but carries with
it the excuse that the offender had no
intention to break the law and had no
knowledge that an offense was being
committed. Before entering the plea
counsel for the icemen announced that
the Philadelphia Ice Exchange, through
which the price OF ice was fixed, had
been dissolved
The five men We're sentenced to pay
fine of S75 each and costs.
Following the entering of the pleas
District Attorney Bell asked the court
to direct verdict of not guilty in the
cases of seven of the other defendants.
Henry w. Bahrenberg, president of
the Mountain Ice company, and Walter
Lee, local agent of the American Ice
company of New York, refused to en-
ter the plea of non yult and decided to
stand trial. Mr.. Bell said that the
seven defendants ordered acquitted
were not manufacturers Of ice, but
merely dealers; that he had come to
the conclusion that they were victims
of circumstances and were compelled
to abide by the prices fixed by the ex-
change.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1906-11-22
ss0o9, $50 Sor ELECTION Funds.

Albanp - Y, Nov. 22.-Ihat nearly
szQ00,090 was -ssent during the recent
campaign to promote the political for
tunes of candidates on the state and
local tickets of all the. parties is admit
ted in statements of election expenses
filed with the secretary of state. 1t is
estimated that S5G0,000 more, of which
no report was made, went the way of
the S2,000.000. The biggest contributors
to the Republican committees fund
were j. P. Morgan and Levi p Morton
& Co, who gave $4,000 each. The list
of Democratic contributors is headed
by Charles F. Murphy. who gave $5,-
600, While his personal adviser, j. Sar-
geant Cram, also gave 5000.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1906-11-22
WAS IT MURDER
OR ACCIDENTAL? !?
Michael Joyce, a P. R. R.
Brakeman Found Dead at
the Bottom of a Sugar
House Vat This Morning


Michael Joyce. employed as brake
man on the Pennsylvania Railroad got
his months pay yesterday At $50 o.
clock this morning his dead body was
found in a vat in between two of the
immense buildings of the sugar House
at the foot Of Washington street. The
vat is about six feet square and, seven
feet deep. Hot water flows through pipes
from the Sugar House buildings into
the vat. Empmloyes of the sugar CON
Germ declard that there was no hot wa
ter turEed into the vat since yesterday
There We're about six inches of water
in the vat when Joyces body was found
The water was cold but Joyce's face
and hands bore evidence of having been
scalded. The body was identified as that
of joyce by saloon keeper Thomas No
Ian, whose place of business he was
elected from at six o'clock this morning.
The vat in which his body was found
is dug in the earth. Il is brick lined
Did Joyce, while intoxicated, wander in
to the alleyway and fall into the vat or
was he robbed and thrown into it is
what the detectives in the case are try
ing to find out The sum Of s12o was
found in one of Joyce's pockets.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1906-11-22

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The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1906-11-22
Oil Official Called Periurer.

Austin, Tex, Nov 22.-The report
that H. Clay Pierce of st. Louis and
New York president of the Waters
Pierce Oil company, has been indicted
by the grand jury of this county for
false swearing was confirmed. Pierce
is said to have left Missouri and gone
to New York to evade arrest and ex-
tradition. 1t is alleged that he made an
affidavit in 1900 that the Standard Oil
company did not own or control any OF
the stock of the Waters Pierce compa-
ny. Recent investigations disclosed
the falsity of this affidavit, it is said.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1906-11-22
Bride Gives up Alimony Claim,

Detroit. Mich, Nov. pa prenuptial
agreement providing that the wedding
shall not affect either party's title to
property and that in case of a separa-
tion the wife shall have no claim for
alimony or separate maintenance was
signed here by Fl. w. Hardman, aged
forty-six, and Miss Hattie e. Briggs,
aged forty-two, who We're later mar
ried here An attorney drew up the
agreement.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1906-11-22
POISON FOR sPoUsEs.
Hungarian Women Garry on Thriving
Trade In Arsenic.

Hungarian Women Carry on Thriving
Trade In Arsenic.
Budapest, Nov. 22.-The Central In
stitute of Medicine has just completed
analytical examinations of portions of
twenty-five human bodies which have
been exhune9 at Knez, in the Temes-
var district, and found that every one
bore strong traces of arsenical poison
ing.
AS result two peasant women have
been arrested, and it is charged they
made a regular practice of selling
arsenic in this district to persons who
desired to rid themselves of their
spouses.
Five men and two women have been
arrested recently at Knez charged
with numbering their spouses. The in
vestigat;an progressing, and other
arrests are expected. Most of the in
habitants ef Knea are Roumanians
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1906-11-22
TO t4eip Russlsn worl<men.

st. Petersburg NsY 22,-In an inter-
view NJ. Eil0ssofoI the minister Of
commerce, said that under his superyfs
sion there were now being prepared
the following projects of law "A law
regulating the hours of labor; a law
establishing compulsory insurance of
workmen against accident and malady
and fixing old age pensions; a law in.
s'ituting a rigorous medical examina-
ton of factories, compelling manufac-
turers to build hygienic workmen's
dwellings, and to provide the workmen
with free medical attendance. and a
ssw placing restrictions upon the EN-.
royment of women and children.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1906-11-22
BIG LINERS In DANGER.

Kaiser Wilhelm der Crosse In Collision
With Another Steamer.
Cherbourg, France, Nov %. "A dis
patch received here reports that the
North German Lloyd steamer Kaiser
Wilhelm der Crosse, which left South
ampfon and Cherbourg- for New York,
has been in collision with the Royal
Mail steamer Orinoco. Both vessels
were severely damaged
It is declared that four members of
the crew of the Kaiser Wilhelm were
killed, while twelve We're injured.
Five members of the crew of the
Orineco are missing and are supposed
to have been drowned The Orinoco
left Southampton for West Indian
ports and New York.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1906-11-22
Central and D. and Il. at Odds.

Schenectady, N. Y, Nov. 22.-The
statement is made on good authority
that serious differences have arisen be-
tween the New York Central and Della
ware and Hudson railroads over the
joint ownership of the Schenectady
Railway company, which has resulted
in the practical completion of a deal
for the purchase of the half interest
held by the Delaware and Hudson by
the New York Central. If this is so it
will give the New York Central inter.
ests another link in the chain of trolley
lines across the state.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1906-11-22
Weather Forecast.
Rain or snow; southwest winds.
General Markets.

New York Nov q.
FLOUR - Firm, but quiet; Minnesota
patents, s41Oa440; winter straights, $350a
$3.50; winter extras, 81. 90a3.l0; winter pat.
ents s3.75a4
WHEAT Following steady opening
wheat turned easy under poor cables ano
liquidation of December, but recovered
later on the light receipts and in sym.
pathys with strength in Minneapolis; De-
cember. 82aS2 5-16c. May, S4 13-16aS51sc
BUTTER State. dairy tubs. fresh
fancy, 26a2634c; firsts, 24a25c.; seconds.
Ma23c. thirds, 19a20c.; creamery, extras.
per pound, 29a291kc.; firsts, 26a2Sc; sec.
onds, 2Sa25c.; held. extras, 2715a2Sc ffrsts.
24a26c.: renovated, extras, 22a2212c.: firsts.
191aa20c.; packing stock, No. /, 1S15a19c.,
No. 3 17t4a1Sc
CHEESE-State full cream, large and
small, September, fancy. 131ac.; October
best, 12s4c.: fair to good 12a121sc; hall
SKINS best, large, l0i4c. small, 101za
101kc.; part skins. prime, 914a91ac; fair to
good, 71saslae.; full skins, sa4c.
EGGS-Fresh gathered, extra, per doz-
en-, 35c.; nearby, fresh gathered, hrsts to
extra firsts 32a32c
TALLow Quiet; city, s1sc.; country.
6Aa6s4c.
HAY Firm; shipping, 75aSoc. good to
choice. S1O5a1.10.
WOOI.-S Steady: domestic fleece, 35asSc.
HOPS-Quieti state. common to choice,
1906, 2oa24c.; 1906, 9a1Sc. Pacific coast,
1906. 15a1Sc. 1905 1ia14c
BEANS Steady; marrow. $255; medium,
a:65; pea, 81. 60a1 6212; red kidney, $3.50
STRAW-Quiet; long rye, 60a70c.
LIVE POULTRY-Dul and weak; fowls,
10al2c.; old ROSTERS. SaSi5c., spring chick
ems, 10a11c.; ducks, 115a121lac; turkeys, Is
a16c, geese, 12al3c,
DRESSED POULTRY Steady and in
fair demand; fowls. choice, 13es; do, fair
to good, 11iAa125ac.; old ROSTERS. s1ac.;
nearby chickens l4a15c.; western do. Il
aj4e. tliraess cheiee lSe. do, fair g
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1906-11-22
Wife Burned, Husband Held.

Chicago, Nov. 22.-Henry NPapineau
was held to the grand jury on the
charge of numbering his wife by pour
ing gasoline on her clothing and set
ting fire to her. Mrs Papineau was
badly burned a few days ago by a fire
which broke out in her home, and al
the coroner's inquest the answers OF
Papineau We're so unsatisfactory con
cerning the cause Of the fire that the
coroner ordered his arrest.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1906-11-22
BID Great Northern Dividend.

New York, Nov 22.-G Great Northern
stockholders will have as a Christmas
box one of the largest financial mel
ons" ever cut in Wall street. James
J. Hill announced officially that a dis
tribution of approximately $3.50, 100000
gratis in securities will occur on Dec.
s. Each shareholder Of his property
will get a slice of the melon. There
are 100000 shares outstanding of
Great Northern.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1906-11-22
Boat Goes Over Dam.

Monessen, Pa, Nov. 22.- Edward w
Harding of Newark, o., and Frank
Campbell of Charleroi, Pa, We're
drowned and D. O. Newkirk of this
city narrowly escaped a similar death
when a small boat from which they
were gathering logs was swept over
dam No. 4 in the Monongahela river
Newkirk saved himself by jumping
from the boat before it was carried
over the dam
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1906-11-22
Roni Paid washerwoman,s Bill

Paris, Nov. % The hearing of the
creditors action for the recovery OF
100000 from the joint estates OF
Count and Countess Boni de Castel-
lane was resumed Maitre Jacobsen,
for Adolph ziegler, the principal cred
itor, added to the counts reputation as
devoted husband by declaring him a
good housekeeper. one mot above such
sordid details as the checking of a
washerwoman's bill"
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1906-11-22
Train unsets. Fifteen Hurt.

Buffalo, Nov. 22.-The Pittsburg flier
on the Buffalo, Rochester and Pitts
burg was wrecked near Golden. About
fifteen persons We're injured. None of
them was brought to hospitals in this
city. No one was Killed. The cause of
the wreck is unknown. Three cars of
the train jumped the track and top
pied over into ditch. The engine re-
mained on the track.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1906-11-22
Rrvce Nav BE An,bassador.

London, Nov. D. An interesting ru-
NOR current in the lobby of the house
of commons was to the effect that
james Bryce, the author of "The Amer
lean Commonwealth and now chief
secretary for Ireland, is likely to be
selected to fill the vacant ambassador
ship at Washington
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1906-11-22
Thaw Trial POSTPONED.

New York, Nov. %. Harry K. Thaw
will not be arraigned for trial before
Recorder Gohf in the court of general
sessions on Dec 8, the date originally
agreed upop Mr.. Jerome appeared be-
fore Justice Greenbaum and without
notice to counsel for Thaw had the
case transferred to the supreme court,
criminal branch. It is not likely that
Thaw will not be called for trial this
year.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1906-11-22
Speedy Trial For Accused Midwife,

New York, Nov. % The case Of Mrs.
Wilhelmina Eckhardt, the midwife
who is said to have done away with a
large number of babies, will be set
down for trial either in the latter part
of the November term or early next
month. Prompt action has been de
eided upon.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1906-11-22
Honor For Carl schurz's Memory

New York, Nov. 22.-The memory of
the late Carl Schurz was honored at
meeting held in Carnegie hall by the
Carl Schurz memorial committee.
Among the speakers were Joseph I'll.
Choate, ex-President Grover Cleveland,
President Eliot of Harvard university
and Booker T. Washington
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1906-11-22
k;ils HsrseJF wIi+b chIoroforr,

Binghamton, n Y, Nov. 3. Lydia
K. Van Slyke, twenty-five years old,
daughter of Architect w. Van Siyke,
committed suicide by pouring a guam
tity of chloroform on her pillow and
burying her face in it. No cause is
known for her act.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1906-11-22
]: Piles
Cured Quickly and Painless
" No Risk, No Danger
A Free Trial Package to Convince
Sent by Mail to All Who Write

Common sense is just as necessary (even
more so9 in medicine as in business or
the affairs of every day life. People are
getting to know more than they used to.
Not SO long ago it was the fashion to
make all sorts of claims for medicine,
and winduD by asking the reader to go
to drug store and buy asbottle. People
won't stand for that kind Of thing now,
want to try the remedy first and if they
find it to be what is claimed they will
be glad enough to buy it.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1906-11-22
Tried and Hanoed in Same Dav

Center, Tex, Nov. 22.-Dick Garrett,
the negro who killed DR.. NJ NJ Paul
here last Saturday, was legally hanged.
The grand jury returned an indiet-
ment, the scaffold was constructed on
the public square, the trial was held
and the execution took place all in the
same day. The negro confessed his
pnilt
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1906-11-22
ive stack Markets.

CATTLE supply fair; market slow
choice s5a5.90; prime $5.25a5.60 veal
calves, S7.5ea5.
HOGS Receipts light; market slow
prime heavies ssiaSa6.49; other grades, sc. Sc
a6.35; roughs, S5aa.SOs
SHEEP AND LAMBS Supply light;
market slow prime wetbers, IS. 40a5. so |;
culls and common. $2a3; lambs EaIs5
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1906-11-22
Senator Allison III.

Washington, Nov 2 Senator All.
san of Iowa. according to advices from
his home, will not return to Washing
ton at the4openin:s Of the congressional
session, his health being such that he
lis unable to do sd.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1906-11-22
FINANCE BOARD
TAKES A HAND
Appoints a Committee to H.
Vestigaee Accounte Of
0Verseer of the Poor After
Aldermen Had turned
Proposition Down
is 1T A GAME OF P0LITI ts

OR IS TT A MATTER OF PERSONAL
SPITE ON THE PART OF ALDER
MAN GoRMAN IS WHAT THE DEM
ocRATs ARE ASKING -GoRMAN
HAS DECLARED HE DOES NOT
MPuGN THE HONESTY OF THE
ovERsEER OR HIS ASSISTANT.
Faiing in the effort to have the account
of the overseer Of the Poor investigated
by the Board OF Aldermen the Pagan FL
nance Board yesterday appointed a com
niitee Of its own to do so. These pream-
bies and resolutions were passed:
whereas, There is pending before this
Board a request from the Board of Al
dermen for sl,5o0 additional for the re-
lief Of out door poor during the current
fiscal year, and
Whereas, Thare are constantly being
brought to the. attention of this Board
the existence of claims for supplies or
dered by the Overseer of the Poor with
out regard tot he presence OF funds for
their payment. and
Whereas. This. Board has requested the
said Overseer of the Poor on several oc-
casions to give this Board an accounting
of receipts and expenditures, which has
not been complied with to this date, be it
Resolved. That the President OF this
Board be and is hereby authorized to ap-
point two members OF the Board as a
committee to inquire into the condition
of the accounts of said Overseer- of the
Poor and report back before the end of
the calendar year with recommendations.
Mesrs. Mccarthy and Quinn were ap-
pointed as the committee.
The proposition TO have the oceounts of
the Overseer of the Poor Investigated
was instigated by Alderman German, a
Faganite and was knocked out at Tues
days meeting Of the Board Of Aldermen
by a voteo + 9 to 6 as stated in yester-
Perfectly healthy people have pure rich
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1906-11-22
Three Die When BuiIdina Falls.

Rochester, n Y. Nov. 22-The new
emulsion builaing at the Eastman Ko-
dak works collapsed Three workmen
were Killed and over dozen injured.
The pcohable cause 5f the accident
was the removal cf the supports Of file
steel flooring before the concrete had
properly set
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1906-11-22
Federation Objects to Chinese Labo

Minneapolis, Mimi, Nov. %. AT the
ces ention of the American Federation
of labor formal protest by resolution
was made against the employment of
Chinese on the Panama canal on the
ground that such employment would
violate the Chinese exclusion laws, the
contract labor law and the thirteenth
nendmenf to the constitution.