Elizabeth daily monitor. [volume] (Elizabeth, N.J.) 1868-1880, 1873-12-10
STATE ITEMS.

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STATE ITEMS.
| The children of Trenton are suffering
from the mumps.
Miss l.. W. Putnam, daughter of Mr..
Putnam, of South Orange, was among
the passengers lost by the sinking of the
steamship Vile du Havre.
Seven hundred persons were supplied
with food on Monday by the Newark
Relief Association.
A negro, his wife and child, were
burned to death at Hartford, Conn, on
Monday night.
A committee has been appointed by
the citizens of East and South Orange
aud Orange proper to take steps to Sc
cure the consolidation of the three
towns.
During Monday night burglars forced
an entrance into Curriers' machine.
shop, on Railroad avenue in Newark,
blew open the safe, and carried away
about one hundred dollars in money and
postage stamps.
A laboring man, whose name was not
ascertained, was killed last night by a
nitro glyc rine explosion at Metuchen.
Many OF the employees who were dis
charged by the Jersey City Board of
Public Works have been re-employed at
reduced wages.
The Newark Citizens Investigating
Committee claims to have found dis
crepancy between the City Auditors
and Treasurer's accounts in the school
fund amounting to eighty-four thousand
dollars.
The Washington train was run into
the Pennsylvania depot, Jersey City,
with such force yesterday morning that
the bunk' Is were carried away, and one
of the cars was hanging twelve feet oven
the water after the train was topped.
Justice AIdridge, of Jersey City, yes
terday issued warrant for the arrest OF
William l.. Schopp, Il constable, who is
charged with having embezzled goods
which he had seized under attachment.
Andrew O'Connell. the burglar who
inst after sentence in Newark a few
days ago escaped from the constable
who was removing him from the Court
house to the Jail, was recaptured in that
city yesterday.
Franz Hense of Newark has been
sentenced to two years in State Prison
in the Essex County Court for embez-
cling the fu DIS of the Society of Good
Brethren, which were intrusted to him
for distribution among widows and or.
phans.
The workingmen OF Newark will hold
meeting in Military park this after
noon, for the purpose of getting work
or relief for their families.
A drunken man, who was sit ing M.
on the track near the Market street de
pot, yesterday afternoon, was rescued
from an approaching train by colored
woman. ehe was herself nearly run over
in the heroic act.
Postmaster Ward, of Newark, was
on Monday nominated by the president
for second term-a proper recognition
of faithful and efficient service.
The committee on the revision of the
constitutional convention met at Tren-
ton yesterday. They revised and ar.
ranged the work of the commission, and
directed that the same be printed and
forwarded to the members preparatory
to their final meeting Oh the 23d inst.
OF the two hundred and ninety-three
thousand sixty-four dollars which are
due for taxes in Hohoken only thirty
one thousand one hundred and fifty five
dollars and eighty-two cents have been
collected.
In the town hall Mt Passaic last even
ing Coroner Sprouli resumed the in
quest over the remains of William +,
Barley and Councilman George Nc.
Lean, who were killed by the falling OF
Speer'+ building on Main street and
Washington place, Passaic, Thursday OF
last week. Further testimony was given
showing the cnlpability of Speers, the
owner of the fallen building, and the
inquest was adjourned until Thursday.
The Paterson common council ha-
not been able to sell any of the relief
bonds, and Alderman Swinburn, chair
man OF the finance committee. says that
the only offer OF money he has received
WAS at the rate of per cent. per month.
The men hired by the city will soon
have to be discharged for want of funds
/ 10 pay them. the TOTAL NUMBER oil
tickets issued for work on the streets
up to yesterday was five hundred and
seven. The relief society visitors dc
not find SO many sufferers as was anti
cipated. One committee that searched
one of the poorest districts of the city
found only twenty destitute families gu,
of two hundred visited.
Two weeks ago the beard of public
works of jersey City discharged mum
Der of clerks from the public employ
and reduced til salaries of others foi
the purpose of reducing expenses. A
question having arisen as to the legality
of the reduction of the salaries. Corpor.
alton Attorney Lewis submitted an OPP
inion at the meeting of the board held
yesterday that the reduction is entirely
legal. The hoard. after an animated
debate, decided to reinstate the dis
charged employees. The Hoboken au
thorities having complained that the
supply of water from Jersey City is in
sufficient to meet the demands of the
Hoboken people, the board decided tc
lay new main between the two cities