Capita.u •2S.OOO. P»%okit« a.nd Sur»*I.U«, *1200 Established 1901.

CAPE MAY CITY, N. J.

OFFICERS: ft' mtlby R. Walks. Prr«ident. Bakckl T. Eldhedoe, Vies Pres’L Obokok M. Hekdbicks, t'Mhler. Lawn T. Stkvkkb. bollcltor.

DIRECTORS; I Bamckl F. Eldrkdoe, I Westlkt R. Walks, l William N. Nokckoss, | Lkwii T. Btkvkns, Josars Sct A- L. Hatkbb, Oko. W. Kobci Okobob M. Hxksbicu.

Account* of Uerchsnts snd IndlridusU sollcitad. CsrtllicAW* ol oeposit Denrtng lb re. per cent. Interest Issued, interest beginning on tbs dsts of Issue. Bsnkers moner order* psysble in sll parts of the United States pod Forelgr exebsnge psysble In all parts of the world, sold at lowest rates. THE HOMESTEAB East Corner Washinerton and Jackson Sts. CAPE MAY, N. J. THE CAFE * s thoroughly up-to-date in all appoint uients. Handsomely appointed parlors CTj for ladies.

NEW

JERSEY STATE

Latest Keppenlngs Qleaned From

Over the SUt*-

NHYS.

KV

Cottages ser\'ed with Choicest Wines, Liquors and Beers J. J. RATTY, Proprietor

• ILUe 4. SCkCKCT.

ffl. ©. Beng^ef?ip Si Sons, " " ^Zumibers - - and §team fitters. ®AiBDYA!BV A aiPK®!] AkTO

Eetlmatos F’urnlshecl.

*1© WA.WHINOTON ST.. GA.FB r.xA.V. N. J. IRE ALDINE

Appointments first-class. Cul i

'Joe excellent. Rates, $2 per day, upward; *10 per week, upward. . THEODORE MUELLER.

The quick wit and cool heed of Most Worshipful Grand Master W. Holt, Ansar, of Trenton, at the irstitutmf of Medford Lodge. No. 178. F. and A M., in the Odd Fellows' Hail, Med 'oid. prevented a catastrophe thai doubtless would have been attendee with aerious result*. The Grand Mas ter, with many of his associate Gram Officers and more than aoo members o' the craft from Camden. Merchantville Moorestown, Mount Holly and othei points, was about completing the cere monies when a snapping sound wat beard. Instantly the floor began to settle in the centre and a large crack appeared in the wall. At the command of the Grand Master nearly all <S tht visiting Masons were massed close tc the sides of the three sound walls and ordered to leave the room. In the rooir below over thirty of the wives of Ma

preparing hutch, ligation showed t

An investigation showed that one o the iron girders in the centre of th< room had snapped under the hcavj strain. The fac: was reported to tb< Grand Master. More of the craft we-« equested to leave the room. The

tallatii— : —

Jude elect 1 hall 1

situation ceremonies were then

eluded. The town is without gas 01 electric lighting. On each floor of th<

eight big coal oil lamps. Hac

the crash c imagined.

Sorai

mps. Hac in only be

:aused by th tridge on th<

was finding of a dynamite c

trolley track at Riverton. A man _ :d Davenport picked up the cartridge . few seconds before an eastbound cai passed the place. It was handed Avei to the conductor, and is now at tbi office of the Camden and Trenton Trac tion Company, in Riverside. There wa' sufficient of the explosive to have de molished the car and wrecked ncarb> buildings had it been discharged. At a meeting of the parents of tht striking boys at Moore Bros.’ glas; works. Clayton, twenty voted in favoi of the boys going to work and two o prolonging the strike. When the boy' heard this such a protest was mad; that the meeting wa, again called tc order and it was decided to let the boygo to work if they wished to do so o;' stay out The strike leaders claim thai * ‘ desert thi'

than a dozen -

—irles Plum

has lost four horses receni

immer, of Lower Alloway four horses recently from some ailment. Last season he lost -ill his croos by. a hailstorm.

The catch of shad has been excc ^ tionally poor the past wfcek. consider ing the warm weather. Dowrn i“ * t -' bay better success attended the

raged

M. C. SWAIN &

OFFICE ^ RESIDENCE, ARTIFICIAL STONE

C orgie ana Queen Streets

CAPE MAY. If. J.

Twenty-five Years Experience.

PAVEMENTS* CELLARS

FLOORS, &c.

OF ANY COLOR OR DESIGN.

FIO'FElEx ©ORE)ON

(FORMERLY PIER AVENUE

UNDER NEW MANAGEMENT.

OPEN ALL

INN.)

RENOVATED THROUGHOUT,

E YEAR.

BOARDING BY THE DAY OR WEEK.

CAPE

131* DECATUR STREET, A. R. CORDON.

MAY CITY, N. A

MECRAYS’ CENTRAL MARKET, Comer Washington and Ocean Streets, 602 Washington Street, 217, 219, 221 Ocean Street

CHOICE BUTTERS - Sharpless' Gill Edge • » SPECIUTT. Country Produce, Fresh Daily from our own Farm. rax, jii.iu cun in muni, snusi nran. 0S?“The Largest Market in Cape May City.

CIGAR EMPORIUM, Ocean and Hughes Streets, CAPS ILkT, N. J, IMPORTED, Key Weft and Domestic Cigars, “ Turkish and Domestic Cigarette*. BRIAR AND MEERSCHAUM PIPES High grad* smoking and chewing tobaccos, cOfU And all article* for the Smoker qflfk

where they avers) net The - prices have to $40 per hundred.*

Postmaster Derousse was noti

uthoritiei that thi

im 30 to 50 pe. been fair—53;

ified bs

Civi.

- Camden office would be uni Philadelphia commission. William H Auble, of Camden, will be retained -a; an auxiliary secretary. The Newark grand jury reported in dictments against George Powell, for mer sergeant-at-arms of the New Jer »ey House of Assembly; William Gaines and W ~ ed conspiracy "•a

COMMERCIAL REVIEW. Central TrsSt CesdltioiL Bradstrect's says: Retail trade Is ixpanding. favored by spring-like weather, and jobbers report reorders tom retailers increasing, while collecdons note some improvement. Some sricc revisions arc to be noted, panicslarly in raw wool, coal, pig iron, cop>er, coffee and sugar on the Atlantic icaboard. Flour is slightly higher on he excellent export business. The industries, particularly iron and tteel and lumber, are active the country over. The spring crop of strikes s equal to the average, tnough most jfnhem have appeared a trifle earlier, nanicularly in the building trades. The activity in lumber is a notable 'cature iust now. the only complaint dicing of deliveries not‘being sufficient 0 meet current deman '. Shoe raanuacturing is in rather better shape than previously. Pressure of foreign iron at Eastern seaboard markets is the reason assigntd for the cut of $x per ton in South:m foundry grades and for the sympathetic weakening of 50 cents per ton -n other kinds of pig iron at Eastern narkets. A large business is report sd to have been done at the conceslions, however. In finished i.on only favorable reports are noted Business failures in the United State-. 'or the week ending with April 1 lumber 145, against 175 last week, 176 ri the like week of 190s, 188 in 1901. 182 in 1900 and 190 in 1899. -In Canada ail tires for the week number 18. ipiinst.16 last week and 18 in this week » year ago. LATEST QUOTATIONS Flour—Spring clear. [email protected]>; best Pa ent, $4.70; choice Family, %3-9i-Wheat—New York No. 2. 79'A «; Ph' 1 idclphia No. 2, 7fk§7&Mc; Baltimore No. 2. 79c. Corn—New York. No. 2, 51c; Phila lelphia No. 2, 48K@4fWc: Baltimore No. 2 48Kjc. ~ -New . No. 2, 43c; I27SC. Hay—No. 1 timothy, $19.50(520.00. No. 2 timothy, $18.00^19.00; No. 3 imothy $15.00(517.00. Fruits and Vegetables—Cabbage. Danish, large, per ton, [email protected]; do lo, small, do do. $6.00^.00; do domestic. per ton, —(??—. Potatoes. Maryand and Pennsylvania, per bushel, 6,v.; 17c; do Eastern, per bushel., 63(567: Egg plant, Florida, per orange box •12.00(52.75. Onions, yellow, per bush:1. 3«g50c; do red, per bushel, 20<530c Celery, per dozen, 6tX§75c. Apple* Eastern, good to choice, per barrel. il.40J12.oo; do Western, do do, $t.S5 1.75: do No. 2, all kinds, 50@75c Sweet potatoes. Potomac, rellovt per >arrel. $2.7sQ3.00; do do. North Caroina, yellow, $2.50(6.3.00; do do, East :m Snore, yellow, $2.25(52.75. Yams rellow, $i-50<Si-75- Tomatoes, Florida, ser carrier, [email protected] Asparagus. Charleston, per bunch, I5@30C. Butter—Separator. 30@3i; Gathere i :ream, 29^C30I Prints, t-lb, 29®3C: Rolls. 2-lb, 29(530c; Dairy pts. Md. ?a.. Va.. 28(6 29c. ■Butter—

from all municipalities sej; will be invited to ; ticipate in the jubilee. •

.... suits, flooded ditches, ac ridents to workmen, many care-ins and a few fights, the sewer has been finish : ed at last and accepted by the Moores-

lown township committee. Sunday, April 19, has 1

upon the n

ty, April 19, has been decided 1 the day for the dedication oi

itist Church at Newp

new Baptist Church

Joseph Brown, of Nesco. sustain a broken leg by being kicked by

horae.

William H. Griffen, aged arrears, of Camden, while at work at Dialogue's ship yard, fell from a scaffold and sus tained severe lacerations of the scalp. The Pennsylvania Plantation Company, capital $2,500,000, and the Mexican Lumber and Milling Company, capital ,$500,000, filed articles of incorporation in the County Clerk's office at Camden.

15?

was conncico 01 naving shot rerely wounded Bernard J. 3 at Oranpe, was sentedoV months' imprisonment in jail. When arraigned for 1

ort. ined

A FULL LIRE OP PINE STATIONERY. • MT* Morning «ad Evening Paper* .tervad to Cottn** md HuUli '1 HOWARD F. OTTER, No. 619 Washington Su Cape May City, N- 4 GENERAL UPHOLSTERER. RENOVATOR OP FURNITURE AND MATTRESSES winov oasis, Avnm An mas run a otciaitt. CAWFCT* «aor AND PVT 0*¥/N. su. w

and seIcCallam

... to si*

_ _ the county

jail. When arraigned for sentence she asked that she be sent to prison for life Qyihg that her life had been ruined and she might as well spend what re-

mained of it in jaiL

On* of Trade’s Superstitions. Owing to the strike of bookbinder* the autumn season was practically cut In two. The loll which followed the activity of the eaity part of the season threatens in its torn to glv* place te a flood of belated book*. TM. lt is possible that now many will be bold over until the early

spring season.

The persistence with which the two publishing seasons are kept is aggravating sometimes, not only to the reviewer, but to the public. Thor* Is no Insurmountable reason why ths issue of books should not go on at a fairly even pace throughout the Year. Indeed, •ome publishers have already found that it is wisest to publish a book in the so-called dead season. People do not want books only in spring and autumn. It is a mer* superstition of the trad*—London

. t that he

won *b,000.000 on th* races in Sas Francisco CoL Oates merely remarks that he does not see how ths public can be interested in the customary

Ion of a g _

right It the colonel r:

.000,000. now, the e;

trifle which doe* not deeerve chron

CLOSE TO THE PEOPLE. Ic Urri became lb

Ths. bs. been b “ ‘ in th# *

pie of Dosu'. Kidney Pill, with tuch good remit# ! *em to Toledo for »nother box, xnd they cured Be.—Beau E. Corrasu, Curtice. 0. FiLKOi-rn. V*.—I .tigered over twelve month, with pain In the .mall of my back. Medicines and plaster, gave only temporary relief. Doan'. Kidney PllU cured me.—F. 6. IInow*, Falmouth, Va.

West Havsx. Co**.

took a severe 1 bo* of Dpan'

much I

Eight month, ago I

pain In my back. The .ample ! r > Kidney Pill, helped me to ased two bozsa ; am on my seo- - *•—‘ -*—‘ —‘ •—*—r me as It

BaaDLZT,

ond box. hfy hei

used to and I feel well.—B|Baii E. No. 377 Elm Street, We« ilaren. Conn.

imple of n benefit

Howtos, Txx. — I took

'loan's Kidney PUls with such great i bought a box at our druggist's. Used over half and .topped, because my urine which before had only come dribbling, now became so free. I had medicine enough. I had lumbago and the pill, rid me of IL I should have written sooner, but yon know how soon a well peraon forceu about being rick.—Mr. C. H. HoBSCK* No. 2819 UcKenny Are. Hourion,

i (he grtaluri t

Aching back, are cued. nip. back, snd loin pain, overcome. Swelling of the limb, snd dropsy sign, vanish. They correct urine with brick dust sedl roenl, nigh colored, pain in pasting, drib bllng, frequency, bed wetting. Doaft'r Kidney Pill, remove calculi and gravel Relieve heart palpitation, alceplciaiuu headache, nervousness, dizziness ' win—idfuNo roii sriiiNO kIdncy ills

North Carolina and Mississippi have State schools for the study of textile fabrics. FITS permanently on red.No fltsornervousnra. after first day', use ol Dr.KUne'. Great Nerve Bestorer. •* trial bottleand t realise free Dr. B.H. Klixx, Ltd., Ml AryhSt., Phlla-.Pa. The finger of Korn ia often a part of the hand of (ate.

Mr*. Winslow's SoothlngSyrup for children leethlng^oftae the gums, reduces Infiamma ii.n.aluy. pain,cures wind colic. 25c. a bottle Lota of excuses are not worth the trouble it takes to make them.

Our o in the a

is trebles are always the wont

A If! 1

Is the Standard Rheumatic R4medy.

disteM without doiog irreparable barm to the digestive organ*. UNEQUALLED as a BLOOD PURIFIER. CHCCRFULLY RCCOMMKNDS IT.

FfeRRAn, B. C. AUK. U. MB.

I had to uaa ststiaM,ssi

«veral times.

. LaM spring I began to tahe - Ruxtruicicx" 1 used two ilste.^as I bave had no symptoms of rh«nm«Sm alnoa. smend your medicine. B. F. FBNIOAH.

For sale by Druggists, or sent expmssgt prepaid o Bobbitt Chemical Co.,

1 receipt of $1.00. — ». m

?a.. Va., 3&Q29C.

Eggs—Choice Maryland and Pennsy;rania 14c; Virginia and Western 14; Vestern Virginia 14; Southern 13H: luck eggs 24^25. jobbing price. M to

...— _ pnee. | •c higher. Cheese—Large. 60-lbs, I4)j@i4^c; io. 36-lb*. 23-lbs, 1456®

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Almost a Disease With Him. “I *ee," said Mrs. Oldcastle, “that your husband seems to have a tender spot for Cupid. There are three pictures of the little fellow in the library, and here you have him carved on the newel post” “Ye*,” her hostess replied. “I didn't ..ant so many of them around, but there don’t Josiah of b

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and mongrels,

each,

""Provisions and Hi

„-4: do muse

•ey and mongrels. 14®!?- Geese, West•nt each. 40@6o. Guinea fowl, each.

log Pro

dear rib sides, 11c; bulk dear sides, it54; bulk shoulders, 10: bulk fat backs, 18 lbs. and under, 10; bulk bellies, it; bulk bam butts, 10; bacon dear rib

12; sugar-curec

to56; sug

to54; sugar-t. to56; sugar-cured

broad, 11%:

bams, 1054. t* lbs and

and

6am 1

—lers,'

ihoulders, narrow.

shoulders, extra sugar-cured California nvased and uneanvased. over, i3>4: hams, canrased

uneanvased, 15 lbs and over, 13; _ as, skinned, 14; refined lard, secondhand tubs. io>4; refiqed lard, half-bar-rels and new tubs, 10X; tierces lard, Hides—Heavy steers, association and lalters, late kill, 60-lbs and up, close selections, togioyjc; cows and light

steers, 8@8)4.

Urc Stock.

Chicago—Cattle—Good to primf steers $4.90(55-60; poor to medium. [email protected]«; Stockers and feeders. $2.7j 5-4.75; cows $1.60(54.50; heifers $2.50® 4B0; canners [email protected]; bulls $2.50® 440;. calves $3-SO@7-3S: Texas fed steers $4.00(54.50. Hogs—Receipts todsy 18,000 head; tomorrow 152XX); left over 3500; average steady; mixed and butchers' $7.i5®7-35: good to choice heavy $7.45(57-65; rough heavy $7-20® 745; light $6.00(57.30: bulk of sales [email protected] Sheep—Receipts 12,00# head. Sheen and lambs steady to 15c lower; good to choice wethers $5.50® 5.65: f*»r »o choice mixed $4^o@5-50;

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:rs $6.40(56.65; culls and common $2.25 §4.75; choice lambs $7-75®8.oo; vc»' calves $7.00(57.50. SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY. The deaths from pneumonia in Chicago have averaged over 500 a month this year. One hundred and thirty kinds of wild - flowers are found near Notoe, Alaska The art of glyptics, engraving on precious stones, is being revived in France. Thermometer* used by physicist! show a change of a millioneth of a de-

*

lis^uis ol soli

A Golden Rule of Agriculture: Be good to your land snd; will be good. Plenty of Potash