Elizabeth daily monitor. [volume] (Elizabeth, N.J.) 1868-1880, 1873-11-08
NEW JERSEY NOTES.

1t was rumored in Paterson yesterday
thai the Danforth locomotive company
had failed for 100000 The rumoi
was also denied
Judge Hoffman has denied the motion
to quash the indictment in the case o
DR.. j. M. Comins, of New York, who il
charged with procuring the death of Ids
W. Vail in jersey City.
Several papers are indignant at the
inhumanity OF an Italian Snowman who
left his trained bear acne with his wife
while he went off in search of lodgings
but they don't mention whether theil
sympathy is given to the bear or. to the
wife.
The rubber factory at Claremont will
be closed next month.
A misplaced switch on the Central
railroad threw q coal train off the track
at Communipaw yesterday.
Messrs. Shandley & Son, Newark con.
tractors, discharged fifty laborers yes
terday, owing to a lack of work.
Philip McDermott had the toes of his
right foot cut off yesterday by train
at the Newark depot of the Newark and
New York railroad.
A five year old son of Patrick Kearns,
residing in Jersey City, drank five
ounces of proof whisky on Thursday
night. His life is despaired of.
An association called the "Anti-dram-
shop society" has been formed at Plain
field, having for its object the suppress
sion of the thirty dram shops.
Michael Hurley, Central railroad
employe, was caught between the bump
ers of two cars at Bayonne, yesterday,
and badly crushed. 1t is thought that
his injuries will prove fatal.
Funeral services of Laura Keene,
once brilliant actress on the American
stage, took place from the little Roman
Catholic church, at Montclair, Essex
county. The funeral was private-two
neices attending as mourners. There
was one carriage, and no pall-bearers.
John J. Zabriskies and Z. Rosen-
cranz's cotton mills at Hoboken have
suspended operations, and large num-
Der of men and women are thrown out
of employment in consequence.
A tenement house on the farm of Will
liam S. Harden caught fire from de-
fective fiue and was completely destroy
ed. There was a partial insurance.
John Auronson and wife, who resided
in Columbus, Burlington county, and
who had lived together for upwards of
half century, died last week together.
They were aged respectively eighty-two
and seventy-nine years.
In Hudson County next year there
will be more officers voted for than in
any subsequent year until 1904. At the
spring election mayor, board of al
dermen, board of freeholders, board
of education, and justices of the peace
will be voted for, and in the fall gov
semblymen, sheriff, county clerk, surro-
gate, and coroners.
The Jersey City board of finance has
adopted resolution requesting the va
rious boards of the city government to
be economical in their expenditure of
money until the panic blows over.
A Newark policeman Was stabbed yes
terday afternoon bya prisoner whom he
was in the act of taking to the lock up.
The wound is in the hand, and is not
considered dangerous. Prisoner fled.
Charles o. Herdman, school teach
err, was on trial yesterday in the Essex
county court of Quarter Session at New
ark for stealing five hundred dollars
from fellow boarder named Savage.
The prisoner admitted that he had serv-
ed term in State prison for forgery.
At the time OF adjournment of the court
the trial was still in progress.
At half-past six o'clock yesterday
morning n collision occurred on the
Pennsylvania railroad at the switch Just
above the Newark avenue crossing, Jer-
sey City. A Pennsylvania raj road con-
struction train, which was crossing the
switch from the north to the south
bound track, was run into by Midland
railroad passenger train, and consider
able damage was the result. No lives
were lost, and no one injured. The
collision was owing to carelessness on
the part of the Midland engineer, who
did not obey the signals of danger which
were displayed.
Shortly before three o'clock yester-
day morning Robert Emmons, who was
confined in the county Jail at Newton,
while suffering from an attack of de-
lirium tremens, set fire to his cell by
scattering burning Goals from the stove
about the floor and in few minutes the
whole interior of the cell was in flames.
Emmons's cries for assistance attracted
the attention of the sheriff, who, on
reaching the scene of the fire, found the
crazy man perched on the window sill,
where he escaped being suffocated by
the smoke. A few pals of water suffic-
ed to extinguish the flames, and En-
mons was rescued from his perilous po-
sition. His face and hands were found
to have been badly burned.
A Boston paper asks, "Will the with