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Show POLICEMAN WITH EVERY .FUNERAL- i Queer State Dt AflVii Thai la Sad to ElUt i , In .Irr.. Ur- j New York. Oct. :!3 It has beoouie j necessary in Jersey City now to have a policeman at every funeral. The undertakers under-takers and the union coachdiivers are at variance. Each ban an association. The drivers caused the prvsent trouble by refusing to drive If a non-union coachman was in line, and arrests had to be made of the union men. . The un-dertakers un-dertakers decided last week to check these scones, and have practically decided de-cided to dissolve the drivers' Onion. The latter will die hrd. They manifested mani-fested their disposition to tight on Saturday at the funeral of Mr. Host-wick Host-wick in Greenville. The undertaker in charge was William II. Sheer. The drivers quickly organized a strike to compel Sheer to withdraw from the undertakers' un-dertakers' organization and sanction the drivers' union. The drivers did not show their hand until they reached the house of mourning, then the demand was made. Sheer would not accede and the funeral was about to be post- Sotied when police aid was sought. The rivers were informed that as they had started to drive the mourners io the cemetery they must execute the con tract or they would he arrested for conspiracy. con-spiracy. The drivers hnd a conference and concluded to abandon the strike until some other time. The fuiiHial wu delayed only a short timo |