Elizabeth daily monitor. [volume] (Elizabeth, N.J.) 1868-1880, 1873-08-15
NEWS ITEMS.

were burned yesterday.
The vessel which landed quantity
of guns and ammunition at Frontarbia
for the Carlists and was afterward cap
rured by "a Spanish man of war is the
British steam yacht Deerhound, well
known in connection with the fight be-
tween the Kearsarge and the Alabama.
John Roach, little boy, was instant
ly killed by lager beer wagon in Eight
zenith street, Hoboken, yesterday morn.
ing. 4a
William Morton, of Essex street, Jer-
sey City, was found under the ash pan
of Pennsylvania locomotive on We'd
nesday night terribly crushed. He died
soon afterward.
Some boys who were playing in Hud-
son street, Jersey City, fastened a little
girl in boiler lying on the walk and
left her there. When found and re-
leased two hours afterward she was
nearly dead from fright and nervous ex-
| haustion.
The stable of Mr.. S. D. Brown, at
| Riverside, suburb of Paterson, was en-
tered early yesterday morning and two
fine horses, a ph@ton, and five sets of
harness stolen.
A Paterson man, whose property is
| worth one hundred thousand dollars,
was elected from an Erie railroad train
on the Newark meadows, on Monday,
because he refused to pay his fare from
Newark to New York, having in his
possession through ticket on which he
had that morning rode from Paterson
to Newark. He proposes to carry the
matter into the courts.
John Roach, aged sixteen, was run
over by lager beer wagon and instant
ly killed at Weehawken on Wednesday
night. The driver, Alfred Vett, was
placed under bonds to await the result.
Coroner Reinhardt last night impanelled
a jury, who viewed the body, after
which the inquest was adjourned until
this evening. s,..- sHalIs .D4
| The lower part of New Brunswick
was flooded yesterday by the overflow
of the Morris street brook, and factories
were compelled to suspend business.
On Wednesday night William Good
win, of A Gregory street, Jersey City,
made short cut across the Pennsylva-
mia railroad yard. He was about half
way when he became confused by the
number oflocomotives which were rush
ing around, and getting out of the way
of one fell in front of another, and
was crushed.
The Utica and Saratoga races adver-
tised for yesterday were postponed on
account of the rain. M
Gov. Straw of New Hampshire has
invited the President to visit Portsmouth
and the Isles of Shoals.
The defalcations in the Fairfield,
Ohio, county treasury amounts to $145,-
545
Governor Booth of California, de-
nounces railroad rapacity.
A plot to blow up house has been
discovered at Mansfield, Ohio.
Boston is counting its smells, to see
if they equal those of Cologne in num-
| Der. . rLl. lar.
Lawrence, Kansas, is building what
is to be "the finest swimming bath west
Of the Mississippi river" ~
The people of Atlanta, Ga, are lis
tening to the "deep base notes" of an
alligator, which is waddling about be-
meath the city in the sewer.
An oil train was burned near Phila-
delphia.
It was rumored in the New Nork GUS
tom-house that large number of Off
Gals were to be removed for frauds and
corruption. Hr
| An insane patient of the Lancaster
County Penn. Hospital secretly twin
ed a line from the leaves of peach
tree it was over three hundred feet
long, and strong enough to bear the
weight of two men.
| Two men have b cen arrested for steal.
| ing iewelry worth twenty thousand dol
lars in st. Louis. ffaH,-fi- al
There is a man in Detroit who is SC
| slovenly that his friends have to wash
him and trim his hair and beard by
force. He threatens lawsuit, but is
too lazy to commence proceedings. -a-aso
| A team of horses and coach, valued
in all at four thousand dollars, were
stolen from the stable of S. d. Brown
of Paterson, some time Wednesday
night or yesterday morning. There is
no clue to the thieves, or the route they
took. ......,o. q. .4s,-.f-o-s r..
| When the route of the proposed new
railroad from Easton to Amboy was sur
veyed through Newmarket the property
owners estimated the lands to be taker
at $102,690 The commissioners have
made an award of $13, SOL.
Robert Johnson was arrested in Ho
boken last night charged with attempt
ing to swindle several car conductors by
telling them that he was "spotter,
and should report them unless they
paid him. He was committed fol
trial. ,-'-- lf
| George Farnival, q noted rough o
Paterson, is under arrest for mayhem
having nearly bitten off the thumb o
Officer Wildes, who attempted to ares
him for drunkenness. 1t is said tina
he will be delivered to the authorities O
New York for attempting to kill a MAI
named Adams in Brooklyn. d.
A lumber-mill and salt works wer,
burned at Saginaw, Mich.
!, A Detroit man threw cold water OF
the desires of q burglar who was trying
to get in his front-door, by dropping
the water pitcher on his head from the
second story window. Ft d WI
. There was large fire in Liverpool
yesterday two cotton warehouses wer'