Weather Indications Tonight and Friday
The forecast calls for fair conditions tonight and Friday with fresh west winds.
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Newspaper
Asbury Park Journal
Location
Asbury Park, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Dec 06, 1900
Page
12
The forecast calls for fair conditions tonight and Friday with fresh west winds.
The report claims murderer Bullock was mortally wounded by captors while fleeing the Freehold jail and facing possible execution. After two prior murder convictions, he may escape the gallows, with liberty appearing sweet amid grim circumstances and potential county expense saved by his fate.
A New Jersey letter to the editor defends Rep. Howell against claims Asbury Park’s post office project is not prioritized. It notes New Brunswick securing a federal building fund while Asbury Park awaits. The piece cites Howell’s promise to advocate for the Asbury Park project and mentions beer prices and a domino game fad in Monmouth County.
The Treasury Secretary presents New Jersey details for the 1902 fiscal year with totals for salaries of internal revenue staff and surveyors totaling 85 067 dollars and river and harbor projects across multiple streams and harbors including Passaic Matawan and Raritan rivers, and post office janitors and custodians budgets.
Friends of Rev. H T Widdemer former pastor of the First Congregational Church held divine services in the parlors of the Lake Avenue Hotel. Magistrate Cross awarded $50 against James Johnson a butcher for violating a contract with Harriet Corbin colored.
The Freehold Driving Club held its annual dinner at Simonson's Hotel Freehold electing Thomas E. Morris as president William H. DuBosa first vice president W E Truex second vice president H A Sutphen treasurer W H Carson Clifford C Snyder and C G Da Bola to the Executive Board Hyacinth C Levy Peter F Conover and Judson Matthews were named new members The club set next year’s big race meets for Memorial Day and the Fourth of July.
Chaplain Glazebrook reports two men Robert King twenty four and Joseph Mahoney twenty one were jailed after attempting to steal silverware from Rev Dr Otis A Glazebrook’s residence. They were pursued after leaving the house and caught following a brief chase.
Health officials push Boston style reforms to Newark barber shops to ensure cleanliness. Rules require sterilized tools, single use towels, restricted blood stopping materials, hot and cold running water, and strict hand cleansing. The Indianapolis code demands even stricter measures, including separate water faucets for each barber.
This evening multiple groups meet at 8 o clock in Appleby and Manning Halls including Coast City Council Royal Arcanum Pride of Park Council and Twin City Council with Nobles invited to attend. Next Wednesday G H Terpenny will visit the Macabees. remarks cover benefits of membership. Refreshments by J R Weir Jr. Knights of Golden Eagle elects new members. Liberty Temple holds lodge of sorrow for Mrs Alexander Hanshe next Wednesday with Corinthian Castle invited. Grand Fraternity staged an Educational Hall entertainment with Warren G Richards and Professor Waterhouse. George Carr spoke on orders benefits. Dancing closes the program.
Philip Jones died in Camden after a broken neck suffered at Palmyra last Monday. His case drew wide medical interest as the vertebrae below the fracture separated and the instant survival was noted as remarkable.
Jennie Cello 17 seeks protection from longtime suitor Marcello Pece who allegedly threatens to cut her throat if she refuses. Elizabethport Bank names Charles D. Doctor as cashier replacing Walter O. Smith after a robbery loss of 109716. Abram Greenberg sues John and Leonora Lynch over being walled up in a rental home. Cape May ends gas contract with electric company. Eatontown fire destroys two barns and hotel sheds in $3000 loss. Strong winds raise sea levels at Raritan Bay affecting late Central road trains. Jersey City confectioner fined 20 for selling rum candy to schoolchildren.
A long list of property transfers across Neptune Township West Asbury Park Ocean Grove and nearby towns. Transfers include Walton and Johnson to various buyers with prices from $1 to $20 838 and noted sums such as 10 000 and 1 400. Names include West Avurtna Ewptna Wyckoff Hawkes Applegate Davia Johnson Rogers Beebe Matthews Truex Loud Gurndon McDermott Maloney and others.
The Morris and Essex Railroad Company, leased to the Delaware Lackawanna and Western as a division of the Lackawanna system, filed a mortgage of 85 million to Farmers' Loan and Trust Company with County Clerk Howard in Elizabeth. The loan bears 0.33 percent interest and matures in December 2000. Revenue stamps totaling nearly 16 thousand dollars were required.
Dozens of cords of pine wood were washed ashore on West End beach on Tuesday. Fishermen secured enough wood to last them through winter. The timber likely came from a deck load aboard a schooner bound up the coast. high seas apparently swept it overboard. The vessel did not strike the beach.
The article notes 798 distinct rose species and describes a telephonic link project between England and Belgium to open to the public around February 1, 1901. It also reports Typhoid endemic in Guam and a rapid telegraphic messaging system using light and perforated paper. Mount St. Elias experienced a strong earthquake causing ice avalanches and large debris to cascade downslope.
The St. Louis Globe Democrat reports that South Carolina African Americans have begun a new industry by hand-picking phosphate rock. They anchor boats on the Coosaw river in depths of 17 to 25 feet and dive for rock fragments, sometimes recovering stones weighing up to a hundred pounds. The phosphate from the river bed is described as the most valuable known.
Washington Dec six state department reports that Chinese foreign ministers reached an agreement. The United States prefers the severest punishment and formal admission of liability for indemnity, with future negotiations to follow. The Rosecrans sails from Nagasaki to Manila with the Fifteenth Infantry to relieve posts in China.
Chinese forces under General Ma hold Shanai mountain passes on the Chi-li frontier amid reports from Pe king. An explosion at Paoo-Ting Fu killed one and wounded four others. Li Hung Chang cites Sih- Liang's harsh actions against rebels, with Yam duties toward missionaries.
The battleship Iowa and the cruiser Philadelphia have orders to leave San Francisco for a winter cruise southward. No specific objective is listed, but unsettled conditions near the isthmus prompt U S ships to maintain a visible presence in that region.
Boston dispatch reports a gale across New England causing multiple marine disasters. Four schooners driven ashore at Beverly, one tug and five barges sunk at Newburyport, another tug injured in a collision, and three schooners driven ashore at Salem.
Boston report details a months long case of remorse after a theft from the Boston and Maine Railroad. A letterled confession linked two boxes of flannel valued at 300 dollars to a theft in Ballardvale, with subsequent partial payments totaling 144 dollars and later 74 dollars, as the balance was promised.
Condensed dispatches report the Bulgarian cabinet has resigned as a political shakeup unfolds. Severe gales sweep the English Channel and the czar’s convalescence continues toward a favorable course. A Boston fire on Portland and Causeway streets causes $150,000 in losses. Reports note Turkey blocks telegrams from Smyrna about Kentucky. The Dutch premier says he cannot state when Holland could propose arbitration between England and the Boers.
Amtr's arrival at Victoria reports two unknown men found frozen on the trail and partially eaten by wolves. Weather near Dawson was brutally cold with Selwyn reporting 59. Below on November 16. Also notes deaths of Sterling B. Higgins and Hector McDonald and stalled auto traffic between Dawson and White Horse. Mail service continues despite hardships.
New York committee ended its famine relief work after subscriptions reached 252 088 dollars. The group, appointed in May with William B. Dodge as chairman and John Crosby Brown as secretary, notes more than 1 000 000 dollars has been sent from the United States to India for the sufferers.
Adolph Hoffman and his wife Florence pleaded guilty to first degree arson in a New York tenement fire on November 2 that killed or endangered 20 people across five families. Facing up to 40 years, the pair were processed before Recorder Goff.
William H. Mack a Harvard freshman of 18 and 149 pounds draws curiosity for standing still while several strong men try to lift him. European and American scientists study him. theories cite nerve resistance or hypnotic currents. Mack demonstrated power by pinning a vaulting pole and deflecting force from others with palm pressure. He recalls the power forming in adolescence and remains unable to explain it.
Rev G Campbell Morgan of New Court Chapel London has accepted a call to lead the Northfield Massachusetts church left by Dwight L Moody. His career includes service in Stone and Birchfield and writings such as The True Estimate of Life. Also notes on Arnold and a Nightingale study.
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