Weather Indications For Fair Tonight And Friday
The forecast calls for fair conditions tonight and Friday with fresh westerly winds. No precipitation is expected and temperatures should remain mild.
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Newspaper
Asbury Park Journal
Location
Asbury Park, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Dec 06, 1900
Page
4
The forecast calls for fair conditions tonight and Friday with fresh westerly winds. No precipitation is expected and temperatures should remain mild.
Report says murderer Bullock was mortally wounded by captors during arrest after escaping Freehold jail. Twice convicted of murder in the fiat degree, he may avoid the gallows, provoking debate over liberty and county expense in Monmouth.
The piece questions if Mr Howell is mistaken about prior claims to a federal building for Asbury Park versus New Brunswick. It defends Howell as careful and suggests he will back the Asbury Park project while noting beer prices and a domino craze affecting Monmouth County residents.
The Treasury Secretary provides New Jersey specific figures for the 1902 budget. Items include salaries for Internal Revenue collectors and deputies, surveyors, and grounds at Sandy Hook, with a total of 85 067 dollars. River and harbor improvements cover many waterways with multiple line items totaling 700 000 dollars for Delaware Pennsylvania and New Jersey. Additional allocations include Life Saving Service, Newark and Trenton post offices, and janitorial costs.
One year ago today Friends of Rev H T Widdemer former pastor of First Congregational Church held divine services in the parlors of the Lake Avenue Hotel. Magistrate Cross awarded $50 to Harriet Corbin against James Johnson for breach of contract by the butcher.
The Freehold Driving Club held its annual dinner at Simonson's Hotel in Freehold. New officers were elected: President Thomas E. Morris, VPs William H. DuBosa and Dr W E Truex, Treasurer H A Sutphen, Secretary W H Carson, with C C Snyder and C G Da Bola added to the Executive Board. New members Hyacinth C Levy Peter F Conover and Judson Matthews joined. The club set its big race meets for Memorial Day and the Fourth of July next year.
Chaplain Glazebrook reports Robers Robert King aged twenty four and Joseph Mahoney twenty one were sent to county jail yesterday in Elizabeth for attempting to steal silverware Tuesday from Rev. Dr Otis A Glazebrook chaplain of the Third Regiment N G NJ Glazebrook had given them fifty cents and as they left the house one of them snatched silverware from the sideboard They were chased and caught after a short pursuit.
Health officials outline Boston inspired rules to clean barber shops in Newark. Requirements include sterilized tools, single use towels, hot and cold running water, immediate hand cleansing, and prohibition of powder puffs and dormitory use. Indianapolis and western city variants add separate faucets and stricter measures.
The report lists multiple secret society meetings this evening at various venues including Coast City Council No 813 Royal Arcanum Winckler Hall and Pride of Park Council No 15 at 8 o clock. Next Wednesday G H Terpenny will address the Macabees and refresh ments will be served by Joseph R Weir Jr. The Knights of Golden Eagle elected John F Leaver Joseph Brower and Richard Bradford.
Philip Jones a railroad brakeman who broke his neck at Palmyra last Monday and whose case drew medical attention has died in Camden. His vertebra fractured below the injury was separated and his instant survival attracted notice among physicians.
Jennie Cello 17 seeks protection from barber Marcello Pece who allegedly harasses her with threats to cut her throat if she does not run away. Elizabethport Banking Co. to appoint Charles D. Doctor as cashier replacing Walter O. Smith after a bank robbery involving $109,716 by clerk William Schreiberg. Abram Greenberg and wife sue John and Leonora Lynch for damages over being walled up in their house due to rent arrears. Cape May reverts to gas as city council declines renewal with electric company. Fire in Eatontown destroys barns and hotel sheds with about $3,000 loss. Strong winds raise sea level at Raritan Bay causing late trains to be held at Morgan's station. Jersey City confectioner fined $20 for selling rum candy to schoolchildren.
A period listing numerous property transfers dated December 1 1900 in Neptune township and adjacent areas. Transfers include West Abbott Park West Asbury Park Ocean Grove and Allenhurst parcels with prices ranging from $1 to $20 838 and deeds involving multiple individuals and banks. Notable parties include James A Wyckoff Lewis Arthur Hawkes Obadiah E Davis and Charles E Loud with parcels referenced in Asbury Park Spring Lake and Neptune City.
The Morris and Essex Railroad Company now leased to the Delaware Lackawanna and Western and operated as a Lackawanna division filed a mortgage for 85 million dollars with Farmers Loan and Trust Company through County Clerk Howard in Elizabeth on Tuesday. The loan bears 33 percent interest and is due in December 2000. Revenue stamps totaling nearly 16 thousand dollars were required.
Dozens of cords of pine wood washed ashore on West End beach Tuesday. Flahéermen secured enough wood to last winter. Wood came from a schooner bound up the coast and likely washed overboard in high seas. The vessel did not strike the beach.
Popular Science reports 798 species of roses exist. A telephonic link between England and Belgium is planned for public use around February 1 1901.
The St. Louis Globe-Democrat notes that African Americans in South Carolina have begun a new industry by hand-picking phosphate rock. They anchor along the Coosaw River, depths run 17 to 25 feet, and dive for fertilizing rock, sometimes recovering fragments weighing up to 100 pounds.
Washington reports the foreign ministers in Peking reached an agreement submitted to home offices. Secretary Hay authorized Conger to sign. The United States prevailed on punishment and indemnity terms. China to admit liability and defer further talks on indemnity while other points follow the French proposal. Also notes Rosecrans sails from Nagasaki for Manila with the Fifteenth Infantry relieving units in China.
Reports from Peiping and Shanai say Chinese regulars under General Ma defend mountain passes on the Chi-li frontier amid Boxer suppression. An explosion at Paoo-Ting Fu killed one, wounded Lieutenant Wolfgramm and four others.
The battleship Iowa and the vessel Philadelphia, part of the Pacific fleet, are ordered from San Francisco to begin a winter cruise southward. No specific mission is given, but unrest along the isthmus makes a quick U S presence prudent.
Boston December 6 report notes widespread maritime damage from the gale. Four schooners ashore at Beverly, one tug and five barges sunk at Newburyport, another tug injured in a collision, and three schooners driven ashore at Salem with more possible as storms continue.
Chief Inspector Watts reveals a months long mystery of awakening conscience. A sender returned 14 rolls of flannel valued at $300 and two boxes of stolen goods from the Boston and Maine Railroad. Letters instructed payment of the balance and expenses, with cash portions arriving on Nov. 22, 24, and Dec. 6.
Condensed dispatches report the Bulgarian cabinet's resignation amid a government reshuffle. Severe gales sweep the English Channel. The czar's convalescence progresses favorably. A Boston fire on Portland and Causeway streets causes $150,000 in losses. Turkey blocks telegrams from Smyrna about Kentucky. The Dutch premier cannot set a date for arbitration between England and the Boers.
Amtrak reaches Victoria from Alaska with the first Dawson coast party since freeze up. Two unknown men’ bodies found on the trail, wolves reportedly fed on them, Severe cold noted at Selwyn and other Dawson activity includes idle workers and mail sacks. York plans for Hudson Express boats to 40 mph with 250 passengers proposed.
New York relief efforts for India's famine ended after subscriptions totaling 252 088 dollars. The New York committee, formed in May with William B. Dodge as chairman and John Crosby Brown as secretary, met to conclude its work. It is estimated over 1 000 000 dollars has been sent from the United States to aid India.
Adolph Hoffman 24 and his wife Florence pleaded guilty to arson in the first degree before Recorder Goff in New York. They faced possible 40 year sentences for setting fire to their East One Hundred and Forty-sixth street tenement on November 2, affecting 20 residents across five families.
18 year old Harvard freshman William H. Mack weighs 149 pounds and can remain motionless while several strong men cannot lift him. European and American scientists, including Prof. Virchow, hypothesize a nerve resistance force or hypnotic current from his hands. Mack demonstrated by pinning a vaulting pole and stymying attempts to move it, with no clear understanding of the power.
The New Court Congregational chapel London pastor Rev G Campbell Morgan accepts a call to Northfield Massachusetts following Dwight L Moody's death. Morgan, born 1863 in Tetbury, has preached in Northfield and Chicago and authored books including The True Estimate of Life and Discipleship. He leaves London for Massachusetts.
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