CAPE MAY HERALD.

VOL. IV. NO. 39.

CAPE MAY, N. J., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1904.—EIGHT PAGES.

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COURI OPENED ON TUESDAY

WITH NEW JUDGE, SWAYZE PRE- FRANK 5MATTDCK SHOT WHILE SIDING. ON SHIPBOARD.

BULLET WOUNDNOTSERIOUS

CAPE KAY THE CHAHPIONS

UST OF CASES WAS SHORT

PRIMHENT COTTAGER HERE

ApplUmUona Itor Ltcenaca ofTarerBa And Idb Held Oyer I'bUI Today—Oother Bualne««.

Bullet Haa Been Patient la Now

The regular September term of the ▼»- rioua county court# waa opened at the Court Houae on Tueaday with Supreme Court Justice Swayae preaidlmj. and with 1j.w Judge Harriaon H. Voorheea also 00 the bench. This is Judge Swayaa’a first appearance In the Cape Mar Connty Courts and it U the first time In a few centuries t Lat a Judge who Is a member of the Republican party has sat upon the bench

Sheriff Calls Grand Jarjr. Sheriff Samuel R Ewing, who-e term espire* before the next term of court, called the following grand jury: Charles A. Nortan. chairman. Alfred Cooper. William K WUHamaoo. John 8. Cole. Cbarlea P. Vans man, John D. Craig. Warren Hughes. Harry Hoffman, Kills H. Marshall. Nachman Dlmond. William T Bate, Alfred Cresae. I. Swain Townsend, Thomas M. Seeley, Dr. Howard Burt. Michael Kearns. Adolph Edward*. Ed round James. Morris L. Bayard, Samuel El well. Somers Barnett, Harry W. Cobb and Frank Millar. „

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The court list was not a long one. there being but five Supreme Court issues on the list and three Circuit Court nearly all of which were poetpooed, usually the case. The complaints were so numerous before the Grand Jury that that body wi paired to take all of Tueaday In considering the complaints and aeren/hilla of Indictments were found. All applications for Inn and Tareru 11 censes and naturalization papers were laid over until tomorrow at eleven C ' when they will be heard. All the I stranoea against the granting of 11 are required to be filed by to-day. After the call lag of the Supreme Court and Circuit llata it developed that there art but two cases to be tried and they were in the Circuit Court which will open on October 10. On Monday next - the Common Pleas -1-1- and indictmeuu will begin to be heard Before Judge Voorheea. The first appearenoe of JndgeSwayxe on the Cape May bench was highly satisfactory to the people of the connty who were present and the manner In which he dispatched business was not only pleasing to the Jurors who bad befen summoned bat to the members of the Bar as well-

Last Friday the summer ootlags colony and many of oar residents were shocked to hear of the shooting of Frank R. Shat' tuck by a crazy mao on the steamer print Oskar near Genoa, Italy. The American Consul at Naples, Italy, sent the following aooonnt of the shooting to the Phlladflphia North American which gives the de-

tails of the affair:

NAPLES. Italy,SeH.» North American, Philadelphia. ‘At captain's dinner aboard steamship Print Oskar. Tueaday evening, Bomolo Alclvar, who says be b a lientanant An the Mexican Army, suddenly sprang to Us feet, drew a email revolver and unintelligibly at Captain DoggA wh seated at the bead of the table. Mr. tack was at the Captain's left.

Mealae last Tarias.

Before be could be disarmed he shot at Captain Dngge twice. The first-bcllet struck the csptaln In the cheek, gaming through and lodging In the a lion behind him. The second ballet struck Mr. Shat tack in the left shoulder, and was deflected downward, lodging In the mnsof the back against the ribs, where it remains. Fortnn^oly the ballet had not force enough to break any bones. The ship's surgeon dressed the wonads of the two meo. When the Print Oskar arrived here Alcirar, who had been put In irons, waa arraigned before a Magistrate and pnt In prison. Doctors who have exilbed him say he b mentally unbaluoc-

Nnmber of Lights Reduced.

As a result of the Hxksld calling attention to the numerous lights on the beach front east of Madison avenue the commitu of city council has reduced the number of lights taere and therefore saved xome needless expense to the city. There are, however, five or tlx more lights down in that section whore there are no bouses and where no lights are needed which should be shut off. The catting off of £ these lights means tbs saving to the city

sn average of two or three <

amounts ton great deal.

Kor a New Ocean Pier. Recorder John W. Thompson and John 8. Newman, one of the prominent salsa agents of the Gape May Bea] Estate Company, are two of the Incorporators of a pier company to be propoead to bnlld an ocean pter along the Kaat Cape May beach. It la ondentood that they shortly start onl and mk fee sabeeripOaM

DENNISVILLE BATTED ALL OVER THE HELD.

PITCHER DEVLIN CARRIED OFF

Flatting Team Outplayed at all Points aad Crowd Wild With Katbaslaam at the Finish.

In the game for the championship of Cape May Connty played oo the rear lawn of the Stockton * Hotel last Saturday tbs Cape May team defeated the Dennbvllle gallon by a score of 9 to 0. Harper pitched for 'he visitors daring the first half of the game and from him Cape May mad* most of the hits which brought them

In their rone. %

Harper waa succeeded In the box by JThlte, who played first base In the early part of the game The visitors were Outplayed on every hand and the result of the game, together with the preceding one beet the two teams, showed oonclnsively Cape May City bolds the championship of the county and that it b' destined

to remain the champion for a long time,

ag b the sc

The following b the score In detail: DENNIS VILLE i CAPE MAY rhoae rhoae

Sayre, cf 0 110 OSUtes. 8 9 4 S 0 »ng. at 0 0 11 1 Cassidy, cf 9 19 0 0 White, lb 0 18 1 0 Doak. c 0 17 10

J'ereoa, 9h 0 0 S 4 1 Clay. 8b 0 1020 R'arda.^b 0 0 1 9 4 Devlin, p 1 9 0 8 u TAernan, e 0 1 « o O Haad. If 2 10 0 0

Haad... Scull, If 0 0 9 0 0 Rutb'rd lb 1 0 8 0 . Hacket. rf 0 0 1 0 0 Nichols, aa 1 0 19 8 0 Harper, p n 0 0 5 I Doener, rf 0 10 0 1

Denobville 0000-0000 0-0 Cape May 0 6 1 0 0 0 2 0 g—0 Two-baae hits.'Stile* sod Clay. Struck oat. by Devlin 6; by Harper 2; by White 4. Passed balls. Doakt 1, Tiernau 2. Umpire

Wales. Time. 1.40.

Neither Captain Dngge nor Mr. Shattock waa dangerously injured, though their wounds arc painful. Both proceed id Genoa on the Print Oskar. Mr. Shattnck will probably have toe ballet extracted there. (Signed) "AMERICAN CONSUL Relatives and friends of Mr. Sbattnek highly appreciated The North American’s efforts to get newt of the shooting. The ballet has been extracted and Mr. b now noting easily In Paris.

Mr*. Sbattnek. who resides in a Co Ana avenue cottage here, waa at first fcxbe aad newt, bat b bow, after being reaasmed that her. hoi band b out of danger, not so nervous but iTbatnr ally very anxious to have her husband fully recovered and all the people of Cape May Join with her in that with.

GROCER IN BANKRUPTCY.

Alexander Cotton of Ocean City, Says He is Unable to Pay Debts. A voluntary petition of bankruptcy waa filed in the United States coart last Friday by Alexander H. Cotton, a grocer at

Ocean City.

He claims liaMIHiae of •8JBS.0fi.of which claims* Hb aa

avu amount to 91.837.36. Of the amount the greater part la represented by the

veins of stock in trade.

Words of Prof. Barr, the new principal of the Cape May City Public School is already

probably be bottt at Gape May Point to take the piece of the old wooden pier*

formerly need for the

OondlUone are Favorable.

The oonditton of Mr. Jeremiah Mecray, who underwent aa oisrattoa for appendicitis In Philadelphia on September 18. b rapidly improving, and baa now, it la be- " ' ‘ s danger point of hb

PEOPLE’S CHOICE FOR SHERIFF.

Totals. 0894117] Totals. 9997119

BEAUTIFYING CAPE MAY.

Mrs. Jones W la ter Erecting Flower Monads Along Her Property. Mrs. Jones Wbter, who owns the hand >me property at the corner of Beach

owns the riparian rights of the beach id oo the ocean side of the beach drive and boardwalk, has begun the erection ou the strand of a magnificent flower bed. On Monday nine carloads of gravel were brought to Cape May for her aad with |t the flower-bed baas b to be

Tbb will be the first flower bed ever set up on top of beach sand and outside of Cape May's boardwalk. It will be an Innovation In view of the fact that it baa been an unalterable rale at Cape May that nothing should be built on the outside of the boardwalk, but since the city has found out that it leg ally has no control over the strand there will be flower beds, booths and all other thing* erected and placed there which the owner* of the strand righto desire to

«y«IILUAM H. BRIGHT, of Five Mila Bearh. the Lepubhcan candidslf for [U sheritl, was at the opening of wort on Tnestisy ami incidentally watching the routine. Without doubt Mr. Bright will be the sheriff of the county when the next term of court opens in December pext. The Hekald takes great pleasure in presenting herewith a cut of the popular candidate. •»

TOU AND TOUR FRIENDS.

Social and Personal Chat About Oar Residents and Vial tors. Mr. and Mr*. Chari** Laqg were guest* early in the week of Mr- -end Mrs. 6. H. Moore at tbvlr cottage on Ocean steert. Commodore J. Wealey Allboa. of the Cape May Yacht Club, and Mrs. Allbou are enjoying a trip to the SU'DOnb Expotil ion. Conductor Christopher Hand, of the Atlantic City Railroad, baa removed hb fam. Uy to Tuckahoe where they will reside during the winter. Miss Katherine Loftus. who recently recovered from typhoid fever, has now returned to Cape May and b gradually regaining her usual health. Mrs. Alfonso Bennett and Mbs Bertha Bennett, of Philadelphia, are enjoying a few day# at Cape May. Mrs. Bennett’* father. Capt. James T. Smith, b also at

A Handsome Home.

The new cottage of Mr. H. D. Jnsti at the corner of Ocean street and Columbia avenue b half completed and aa work its building progresses it b shown that it will be one of the moat handsome villas at Ub resort. It b said that Mr. Jnsti will

tpy It daring the entire year.

Proprietor Shuts, ef the Delaware Bay

win

Mr. Henry C. Lea, one of our prominent cottagers and president of the American Geographical Society, will dose hb Grant street cottage next week aad return to hb

Philadelphia home.

Mr. and Mr*. James T. Dolby, who have occupied a cottage on Washington street daring the summer, have returned to their Pennsylvania home. Mrs. Dolby was formerly Mb* Rachael S. Mecray and b n sister of Dr. Jamee Mecray, of thb city, Mrs. Sally D. Davis, who has been oo pylng a cottage on Franklin suect throughout the ■ummrr, left on for her home La Philadelphia Mr*. Day b entertained, daring the Utter two weeks of her stay hue, a grand niece from Hone-

Fratemal Visit,

Past State Councilor Frank K. Mata, cf Bridgeton, attended the Cape May

Hnghes street cottage for a lengthy peried daring the present satama. He b one of Cape May's late stayers and b a popular

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Hand, daughter of Mr.

and Mr*.- Rooert S. Hand, who has passed the last three months at SnugartMe. N.Y., with Mr. and Mr*. Louta H- Washburns, returned home on Saturday evening. She thoroughly enjoyed her riritto tUs pretty place which b located on the Hudson. Mr. and Mr*. L Merritt Schallenger, of Royereford, Pa., an gnaete of Mr*. SehatL enger'* parents. Chief of Police * *' William Farrow, nt their home Mr ScheUesger b one of the substantial business men of that PManyAyanU

town, and has met with gn

leaving Cape May

Mr. aad Mrs. Ralph A. Black have removed to York, Pa-, where Mr. Blacc taken a lucrative position. Mr. Bi baa hew tne eflMmt min ■gar ef the Western Union Telegraph Oeaapany of Capa May for ahont tear year* and

Capa Mar AGONTIXUJtD ON I

I PAOKJ

DEPOSITORS PAID IN FULL

Creditors of Pi rat National Bank Get Dollar fbr Dollar, With Interest. The Receiver of the First National Bank egan paying off the final dividend to the depositor* of that corporation pa Monday. The dual dividend was 70 par cent, of the total amount of tbe deposit pins the interest from May 94 to September 15. In all the depositor* are receiving 101.67 per cent, on their depoaiu, so that no depositor loses any money but gets interest on hb money while it waa lied up in the defunct bant. Dr. Rmlen Pbysick. who was president of the bank, and upon whose orders tbe bank was closed, decided to take over the aaaeU of the bank and pay iu creditor*. Receiver A. D. Lynch deserves great credit for the manner in which he haa conducted the affairs of the hank and hurriedly closed it np. It b largely dne to him that Dr. Physic* was induced to take the steps he has, ft which all thedeposltors of the bank approved. The depositors themselves, by not becoming excited or ugly, contributed largely to the bringing about of this settlement In full of their own account*. Judge Lynch expect* to conclude nb business at Cape May thb week and all wko have not called for their chncka by Saturday will probably be compelled to present tbeir claim* to the treasurer's department at Washington for their divi- ^

At the meeting of the Democratic County Association at Cape May Court House last Saturday It was decided to postpone tiie meeting of the Democratic Connty Convention to nominate candidate* tor connty oAoer* until Saturday. October A The officer* of thb s sand at Ion are Matthew Jefferson, bee Isle City, president; Llewellyn Hildreth, of Wildwood, necro- , and Michael H. Kearns, of Cape May sorer. Thb convention b aaid to be likely to nominate Sheriff Samuel K. Ewing for ooGnty clerk and ex-Major F. J. Melvin, of Cape May. tor sheriff.

Captain Samnel E. Parry, of Atlantic Oty. who waa recently nominated tor Ooogreas by tfaa Damocnta of thb dietrict and who at flint declined to i