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SH0HHNC IS
UN RAINED.
Johnson had Bullet in his Stom
ach but will not Tell Who
Fired the Shot.
Yesterday afternoon Jack Johnson
went home and not finding any dinner
asked his son Fred why he had not
gotten ii ready as he had told him to
do. The boy replied that he hadn't
been told to get dinner. The lie was
passed, it is said, and Johnson is de
clared to have picked np a kettle of
boiling water and started towards the
boy. The latter ran out of the house,
pursued by his father.
Some say that the boy pulled a re
volver out of his pocket and told his
father that if he threw the kettle at
im lie would shoot him. Others say
I hat the boy ran down the street with
Lit saying a word to Jhis father. In
Ime manner Johnson was 6hot in the
lomach and walked down to Dr.
laine’s office where the doctor probed
Ir the bullet and found it about eight
m nine inches from where it had en
ered, it having entered the fleshy
iart of the stomach and followed to
he opposite side, just beneath the
kin. Johnson refused to tell how he
vas shot. There are several stories
Lgarding it. No one has been
P CAR OFF THE TRACK.
The heavy rain’Jwaslied the sand
down on the trolley tracks, corner of
Broadway and Bordentown avenue,
last night, and trolley car No. 6,
which came in at 6.30 o’clock, jump
ed the track while trying to go around
the curve. The tracks were complete
ly covered with sand. They succeed
ed in getting the car on the track
finally and did not attempt to go to
l the end of the route again. Later on
Khe cars managed to go round the
Hur^^^^fftTch .times thq late Steven
missed, ior hy. was always
PK^n^matter hew hard it rained,
clearing the gutters at the crossing
and very often the trolley tracks also,
on the curve. Just to accommodate
the people and because it was near
where he resided.
Sickles Bros., of Perth Amboy, are
going 10 give awav tomorrow free a
iull book of stamps. See what they
say on page 3. —adv.
COON HUNTING.
Jonn Everett says he caught a coon
in his cornfield Monday. So now the
local.'coon ^hnnters have canght the
coon fever and are preparing for a
coon hunt and soon the woods will
ring with the old song of “Coon.
Coon, Coon,’’ again.
Grnmmiir nml firocerlc**.
The purist who figures in the following
story was the proprietor of a grocery in
Ct T.rtuic hilt thin ("’Vi i na <n\ Iloconl L-Jr>»»
aid, which prints the story, suggests that
he probably came from the east.
One day he was called to the telephone
In great haste. “Does some one wish to
speak to Mr. Perkins?” he asked.
“Yes,” said the girlish voice at the
other end of the wire. “Mamma wishes
me to tell you that she wants the eggs
she ordered this morning very bad.”
“I am .sorry,” replied the grocer, “that
we have not. to my knowledge, a bad peg
in the house. Couldn’t your mother pos
sibly use good ones?”
"Dpar me!” he murmured, hanging
tip the receiver. “I wonder why she rang
in my ear that way?”
Troiilile Either Way.
“My money.” she said, “makes me
doubt. I would always be afraid you
had married me for that.”
"It's easy to remove such doubts,” he
replied.
“How?” she asked.
“Why, If you should give your
money to me first.” he explained,
“there could be no possibility that I
married you for it, and yet it would
not be lost to us.”
For a moment she seemed convinced.
Then a shade of doubt again clcmded her
eautiful face.
“In that case,” she said, “I would al
ays be afraid I had married you for
ur money.”—Chicago Post.
<t ueMtiona hie.
he—So you consider Mr. Doubleday
?nius, do you?
le—Yes. in a way. He’ssome thing of
ver and something of a musician,
cli is his profession?”
lawyers call him a musi
" ’' ians call him a law
ly News.
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NEWS ITEMS.
Superintendent Shepherd’s yacht
was brought here on Tuesday to be
put in winter quarters at the P. R. R.
shipyard, but owing to the heavy sea
on, they were not able to haul her
out.
It is said that the South Amboy
football team have received a chal
lenge from a New Brunswick team
for a week from Saturday, to be play
ed at South River.
Charles Tues, of Perth Amboy,
spent Sunday evening .with Mr. and
Mrs. Christian, of Main street.
Mrs. Selb is very ill again after be
ing thought on the road to recovery
by her family.
Mrs. Cannon, of Perth Amboy,
formerly of this borough, is reported
as very ill.
Miss Grace Brown, of John street,
has a position as saleslady in Sickles
Brothers dry goods store, in Perth
Amboy.
The Raritan River Railroad com
pany is building a platform for Purl
ins Powder works, for the loading
and unloading of freight.
Mr. Oscar Mundy was a Perth Am
boy visitor Wednesday.
The bricks have come for Rehfnss’
new building, and Mr. Mundv has
eight men at work on it.
Miss Irene Bogart was a Perth Am
boy visitor Monday.
Mr. and Mrs. James Pryce, of
Plainfield, have been visiting Mrs.
Tl_1 _ __Tilf mm „ .. .1 Uf %*n \
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Slover. >
William Walters has been repairing
his duck boat that someone had been
so kind as to smash the stern entirely
out of, while lying on the beach.
Ridgeway Such bagged quite a
number of English snipe on the mea
dows last week.
Chris Straub Jr., has had his meat
wagons newly painted.
It is said B. Hunt has a position in
New York.
George Walters, florist, has carna
tions in bloom in his green houses.
The Ladies Aid Society, of the Bap
tist church, will hold a clam chowder
supperJTuesday night in the Sunday
school room at 5 p. m. It can be pur
chased by the quart at 20 cents.
Lots of apples are being brought ■
into town, beauties, probably for ship
ment.
Tomatoes are said to be very scarce
and high priced, sixty cents a crate,
and yet one of the gentlemen farmers
has had a quantity of his plants with
fine green and ripe tomatoes on,
ploughed under. It is said that he
might better have given them to those
who couldn’t afford to pay the pre
vailing price, or at least have sold
them at a lower figure, to them.
Libby King and her baby brother,
the oldest and youngest children of
Mr. and Mrs. Preston King, of John
street, are ill with diptheria. They
have a professional nurse in attend
ance.
Sil»erin*N Navigable Rivern.
One result of the opening of the Si
horifin mil WAV h A.S hppn thp Hitsonverv
of many previously unknown, or un
utilized, resources of the broad land
that it traverses. Investigation of the
Yenisei and Obi rivers, for instance, has
revealed the faPt that they are naviga
ble to ocean steamers for a distance of
nearly 1,000 miles. Oil has been discov
ered in central Siberia gs well as in the
province of Irkutsk, and encourage
ment by a special grant is extended to
prospectors for gold.—Youth’s Compan
ion.
I II I’p.
“What spoilt Archie's chance with
Miss Oofsax?”
“She told him she disliked compli
ments.”
| “And he persisted in paying them?”
"No—he was fool enough to v believe
her, and leave off.”—Ally Sloper.
A* Defined,
"Mam-ma,” asked ^ small Floramy,
"what's a dude?”
"A dude, my dear,” replied the know
ing mother, “is an example of what a
man is when he isn’t ’’—Cincinnati En
quirer.
ym?tT^GOOD
jggJSsJi HORSE
•8? WP SENSE
/ Ij y ij jlj. will teach yoa that
ftjjX- 1 'll Kj coffee in an air-tight,
Hilli ,6 'Inlli sealed package is
\yy purer, cleaner and
fresher than coffee
\jtoutg 1 kept in open bins.
Jlion coffee
never sold in bulk.
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TOTTENVILLE. f
The Evening News is on sale at Ost
burgs’ 44 Main street,'' and at John
Boss' Hotel, formerly John Kail’s
stand. Extra copies of the News and
all NewYork papers can always be se
cured.
ELECTION REGISTRATION.
The registration for citv election1
begins in Staten Island today. The
books will be opened from 7 o’clock
this morning until 10 o’clock tonight.
All who can are expected [to register
today. There are but four registra
tion days, today, Saturday, Ootober
10, Friday, October 19 and Saturday,
October 20. The city election will
take place Tuesday, November 3.
A PLEASANT EVENING.
The Huguenot Chapter, Order [of
the Eastern Star, held a meeting in ’
the Knights of Pythias Hall on Wed- j
nesday night. After all of the regular
business had been finished, coffee and
cake were served.
MORE ROOM NEEDED.
The Public School, at Tottenville,
is so orowded now that the Board of
Education have found it necessary to
get more room. They have leased a
vnnm frrrni fVio trncfnne ftf Sf Power’s
church, Kreiscrierville.
ENGAGEMENT ANNOUNCED.
The engagement of Miss Lillian
Peterson to Robert Graham, both of
Tottenville, is announced. The wed
ding will take place Wednesday,
October 21. Both young people are
well known and very popular.
TO HOLD A FAIR.
The Epworth League of [the Pleas
ant Plaijis M. E. church is making
preparations for a fair which will bo
held one night next week.
ROUNDSMAN PROMOTED.
Roundsman Charles Sherwood, who
is known as the most popular police
man from Tottenville to New Dorp,
has been promoted to the grade of ;
sergeant, and assigned to duty in the
12th presinct, New York.
lu Snow-Cliul Siberia.
Heretofore the transportation facil
ities have been so inadequate that the
journe#- to Arctic Siberia has been sel
dom attempted. The completion, how
ever, of the great Trans-Siberian road ,
has brought the country within com
paratively easy access to the traveler,
who, by leaving the great railway at
Irkutsk, can take a side trip by horse
sledge, northwards to Yakutsk. Here
one bids adieu to civilization and, with
reindeer team, makes an abrupt plunge
Into a wild, frozen and trackless coun
try where, in isolated and scattered set
tlements hundreds of miles apart, are
found the various nomadic and hunting
tribes of the Arctic . The territory over
which these tribes roam is enormous,
being one and a half times as large as
all Europe, and that they are children
of nature and utterly unsuited to the
wavs of the modern world, is nroven hv
the fact that they still kindle their fires
by the use of wooden implements, such
as were used by the cave dwellers of
prehistoric days.—From “Unknown Si
beria,” by Walter L. Beasley, in Four
Track News.
Scotch School Children.
Tlie fact that Edinburgh board school
children are below the average height
and weight of scholars in England may
be explained in some measure by the
bad system of meal times laid down in
Edinburgh and Scotland generally. A
dinner interval is not allowed in Scot
tish board or other schools, half an hour
or 20 minutes being granted at noon
for luncheon, which generally consists '
of a “piece,” i. e.. bread and butter. As ;
the s£hcul classes are not dismissed 1
till thret p. m. the children have prac- I
tically no nourishing food between 8:30 I
a. m. and 3:30 p.m. The Edinburgh !
Merchant company, which provides ex
cellent secondary education to some
5,000 children of the middle classes, has
resolved to adopt the English system of
meal hours. So wedded to custom, how
ever, are parents in the Scottish capi
tal that the Edinburgh papers are full
of letters, from heads of families pro
testing against the change.—London
Chronicle.
Speiiker Gully.
Mr. Gully, the speaker of the house of
commons, has one great hobby, and that
is to know more thoroughly than anyone
else the geography of his own country,
tnd his knowledge in this direction is
really wonderful. He was one day, some
few years ago, and before he came to his
present high position, traveling from 1
Carlisle to London, and on the way he
was able to tell a companion the name i
of every stream they crossed, even down
to the smallest brooks.
MR. BOSS A DELEGATE
At the meeting of the Eureka En
gine Company members, held in their
hose house, Eurkea Place, Wednesday
night, John Boss, first assistant chief
of the Tottenville Fire Department,
was elected a delegate to the South
ern New York Volunteer Firemen’s
Convention, which will be held next
Tuesday and Wednesday at Green
point, L. I. Many firemen from
Tottenville and Pleasant Plains will
attend the convention.
YELLOW RIBBON CLUB.
The Yellow Ribbon Driving Club,
of Pleasant Plains, is talking over the
plans for a run on the Hudson County
Boulevard two weeks hence. Last
week the club drove to Plainfield 22
strong, by way of Tottenville to Perth I
Amboy and then out. On every whip (
in the carriages and on every bridle
on the horse were yellow ribbons.
MAY ENTERTAIN THE MEN.
The ladies who were invited to
attend the reception given by the
Aquahonga Bowling Club in the club
bouse Wednesday night, were so well
pleased with the way that they were
entertained by the club that they may
bold a reception to which the club
members will be invited. ‘
Sickles Bros., of Perth Amboy, ore
$oing to give away tomorrow free a
foil book of stamps. See what they
iay on page 3. —adv.
FOOTBALL.
The Keystone football team of Elt
ngville, expected to play a pickup
earn from the other end of the island
m the gridiron at Pleasant Plains to
morrow afternoon. They are in fine
rim and would no doubt easily win
;he battle. The grounds, however,
will doubtless be too wet.
NEWS ITEMS.
Police Captain Naughton, of West
Brighton, was a Totteuville visitor
yesterday afternoon.
A reception and dance was held at
kelson’s Hall, Kreischerville, last
light.
The gang of laborers which the
Rapid Transit Railroad had at work
in the Main street crossing, have com
pleted their job, and a decided im
provement is noticed at that place.
Captain George Androvette, former
y of Tompkinsville, but now a resi
lent of Philadelphia, is spending a
few days with Captain Reuben Andro
rette, of Broadway.
James Christopher, of Washington,
D. O., is visiting his parents, Mr. and
Mis. Christopher, of Broadway.
Milton Meserean, , of Tottenville,
was in Newark yesterday.
Mrs. H. A. Kreps, of Brooklyn, is
risking her daughter, Mrs. George
Moore, of Lafayette Place, Totten
rille.
The men who have made the largest
fortunes in business are those who
have been the most extensive adver
tisers
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/I ments arc great val- y
IS ue at these prices, Jr
I $10, 12.50, 14.50,18,00, %
$ and 21.00. J
I Philip Levine. |
I THE NEW CLOAK STORE I
I 351 State Street I
Near Fayette St. gjJ
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NEWS ITEMS
Miss Florence Vaudeveer, formerly
of this town, was married to Dr.
Vail, of Rahway, on Wednesday even
ing.
Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Boynton are
expected home from Colorado next
week.
Mrs. F. I. Perry spent Tuesday in
Now York.
Miss Ha P. Lockwood has returned
to her home after a two weeks visit
in Litchfield, Conn.
The Woodbridge boys are practising
for a baseball game.
Miss Laura Cntter will entertain
the Afternoon Whist Club on Friday.
Miss Jennie Shrouds is taking up
shorthand and typewriting in the
High school here.
Sickles Bros., of Perth Amboy, are
going to give away tomorrow free a
full book of stamps. See what they
say on page 3. —adv.
Great preparations are being made
for the “Trip Around the World” on
Fiiday evening. Don’t miss it for
anything. Tickets only 35c.
The Orpheus Society has taken up
the “Creation” for their first pieoe.
Mr. Frank Valentine’s house on
Orfton strpfit. iR almost comuleted.
Mr. Waldo E. Berry has signed the
lease for the house in Sewaren, prev
iously owned bv Mr. Metcalf, and on
November 1 will move into it. Mr.
and Mrs. Metcalf and family will
move to New York.
Mrs. Wilson Waring and Miss Anna
Waring have returned from a trip to
Mt. Pocono.
Mr. James MaGowan and Miss Katie
MaGowan attended the State fair at
Trenton on Tnursday.
There will be a grand musical by
Dr. O. F. A. Klein and his pupils at
the W. A. A. club house on Monday,
October 19 at 7.30 p. m. Admission
will be 25c.
Mr. and Mrs. Weiss, of Newark,
were in town on Tuesday night.
A TRUE FINANCIER.
» _
The Man Who Got One Hnnilr«d anil
Forty-Five Dollars for u
Mnety-Dollnr Mule.
The road to financial success, says
the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, is to ash
a little more for everything you have
to sell than you think it is worth. I
remember a few year3 ago that James
Stewart, of Rlille»~burg, came to town
with a mule to sell, and tried all day
to sell it for $90, without finding any
one.
He was about ready to go home,
when along about sundown a fellow
walked up to where it was tied, and
looked around it. threw his thumb un
der its lip and took a peep at its
molars, and finally asked him what he
would take for It. Thinking he was
like the other chances he had encoun
tered during the day, and that there
was no hope of a sale, he asked the
man $150.
The stronger walked around the
mule again and offered $145. But
-dim said he was determined to get his
price; the other man was stubborn, and
said he wanted to go home, and if
that wouldn’t buy It go he must.
Finally Jim concluded that he want
ed to go home, too, and with the air
of seeming reluctance that was played
to perfection, he agreed to let the ani
•=ial go at $145.
Mutter of
Annette—Dorothy is certainly a
lucky girl. She must have been born
with a gold spoon in her mouth.
Genevieve—Yes; and from all indi
cations I should judge it was a table
spoon.—Cincinnati Enquirer.
I'linsitml, Certainlty.
“What is there so extraordinary about
him?”
“Why, he’s the only man I ever knew
who didn’t think the possetsion of a
racing automobile made him superior
to the law.”—Chipago Post.
American Wedding*,
'Foreigner—Your young girls are the
pictures of health; but why.do-the mar
ried women look so delicate?
American—Oh, they always work
themselves sick getting ready for the
wedding.—N. Y. Weekly.
A §lnn»ler Retnted.
"I^ow absurd it is,” she mused, “to
describe women as bargain-hunters.
Just look at my oase. I am deliberately
exchanging the name ‘Montmorency’
for that of ‘Smith.’ What kind of a bar
gain is that?”—Tit-Bits.
Nothin*? Doin’.
Diggs—What does that fellow Skinner
do for a living?
Biggs—Nothing. He lives on his wits.
Diggs—Huh! No wonder he has such
a lean and hungry look.—Chicago Daily
News.
METUCHEN.
NEWS ITEMS.
Metuchen ’a main street has now the
distinction of being curbed. The
work was finished last week and is a
good .iob. A grade was established
and a curb and gutter laid. In some
places great ohanges were made. At
one place much filling in was neces
sary as the bottom of the curb stone
was ahove the sidewalk. Metuchen is
improving her already excellent
streets. The borough shows its inde
pendence by macadamizing its own
main street, the bids received being
regarded as too high.
Sickles Bros., of Perth Amboy, are
going to give away tomorrow free a
full book of stamps. See what they
say on page 3. adv.
The fourth year of the grammar
grades will, beginning Monday, assem
ble in Washington Hall. The High
Sohool is so largely attended that it
has become necessary to take one more
class from the auditorium and put it
in a separate class room. There is a
great demand for a new High School.
The old one is very large but is not
large enough to accommodate the 600
sunoiars attuumug.
^HAVE METALS LIVES ?
Italian Scientist's Clnim I.ends to
A in 11 si Kg Conjectures—Criminal
Code Will Need Revising.
I read that some great Italian scien
tist has discovered that there Is life
in metals. The statement has a
•trange, uncanny sound, and It will
take some repetition before we are
reconciled to it; but, at the same
time,. scientific men have been work
ing up to the discovery for years past,
says a writer in London Sketch.
“Matter may be regarded as a form
of thought, thought may be regarded
as a property of matter,” wrote Hux
ley 30 or -K> years ago, and from this
statement to the discovery that met
als exhibit certain phenomena of life
is no far cry.
The Italian savant declares that it
is possible to destroy this life in met
als—to poison a metal Just as you
can poison a man.
This aspect of the discovery vexes
me. for I see in the near future a so
ciety for the prevention of cruelty to
, metals, with substantial offices, ir
monthly or weekly record of convic
tions, and rich endowments from sen
sitive old ladles who have devoted the
latter half of their lives to keeping
cats and lapdog3 in luxury.
There will be an act of parliament
specifying the offenses to metals that
are punishable b fine and imprison
menf. Working metals n an unfit
state, packing them improperly, beat
ing them into shapes they do not
wish to assume—these arid similar
crimes mivst soon come within the
range of the law.
Capt. Klim'* Mlntnke.
Capt. Kidd looked angry.
“And to think,” he muttered, "that
I’ve spent all these years pacing a
quarter deck when I could have won
the money with a poker deck more eas- t
fly.” )
Perceiving that he was a back num
ber old pirate, he sorrowfully consigned
his treasure to its grave.—N. Y. Times,
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Plgakln Inatrnl of Hnbber.
A Scotch firm is authority for the state
ment ttiat rubber tires for vehicles of all
kinds will soon be displaced by pigskin.. N
The firm Ifas a process for ta'nning the
skins which renders them so hard that'
when used as tires they will wear longer
than rubber and give equal satisfaction
in other respects. *
Frank—Ferdy over there is an ex
travagant boy. He ordered ten new
suits to-day.
Frances—Gracious! Can he afford
them?
“No; if he could he’d wear his old
ones.”—Puck. ,
Canada'M Railway Mileage.
Canada now has 19,000 miles of rail
way.
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STOVES, RANGES, HEATERS.
Rahway Ave.
Shop near CR Depot, CarterOtyN-J
JOHN THOMPSON
Garden r and Builder
Jobb ig pron* ptly attended to. Estimates given
PORT READING, N. J.
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Painter and Paperhanger
A1 orders by mail promptly attends 1 o.
CARTERET ', N. J.
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