Elizabeth daily monitor. [volume] (Elizabeth, N.J.) 1868-1880, 1873-12-08
STATE NEWS.

The forco at the West bergen car
shops has been reduced to twenty-five
men.
Beatty's carpet factory at Little Falls
resumes work to-day. Also, Ball@we's
thread works at Paterson. Also, the
Warehouse mill at Passaic city.
About eight hundred men are employ
ed upon the streets in Paterson. The
poor are being well cared for. The Erie
road transmits articles for the poor OF
Paterson to the responsible committees
free of charge.
The gold chain mandatory OF J. W
Hayes & Co., Newark, have again en-
ployed all their old hands at full wages.
Jim Coyne and George Rookie have
ar anged to meet to-day at Newark, and
decide where they will fight on the com.
ing Wednesday.
Peterman, wes arrested yesterday on a
charge OF having assaulted Michael
Lynch, another contractor.
The store of Cooper and Troxell,
Morrstown grocers, was entered Friday
night by burglars. who cut ont the door
panel. The safe key was found and the
safe opened and robbed of about one
hundred dollars.
| Henry Shillebrandt, OF Paterson, was
tried in that city for stealing ten chick
ems. He is silk-dyer, and said his
family were starving. He was let of
by giving his note to pay for the chick
ems when work recommended.
John Monahan and another prisoner
by the name OF Sumner attempted to
escape from the state prison at Trenton
on Saturday. They were caught just
outside the prison walls, Both were
ten year men.
Ten refrigerator cars, direct from the
Texan plains, where they were loaded
with fresh beef, arrived at the Erie sta
ton on Saturday On opening the cars
the meat was found as fresh rs if it had
been killed the day before.
The board of council of Paterson will
to-day be called upon to discharge the
new police specially appointed to act
against the bread rioters, the necessity
of their app intmcnt having ceased, and
five hundred other citizens offering to
act if necessary.
The people of the town OF Montclair,
N j., have raised q question as to
constitutionality OF the act under which
the bonds of tho town were issued for
the benefit of tho Montclair railway
company, and also as the manner in
which the Commissioners, in disregard
of law, exchan .ed the bonds for some
bonds OF the Montclair railway which
had no value when given, the right Of
way not having been secured ut the
time. The law compels the commits
sioners to sell the bonds of the town,
and with the "money" so received in
vest in bonds of tho Montclair railway
onp ny. 1t is now maintained thai
this was never done.
No sooner had The coroner's jury al
HighbridSe concluded the inquest Oh
the body of Catharine Brennan than
her husband was taken off and lodged
in the HRpterdon county jail ut Elem.
ington, s#hers the Patenburg rioters
created such a sensation last year. The
grand jury took tho case at once into
consideration, and on Friday evening
they found au indictment of murder il
Sthe first degree against Brennan. Dis
trict attorney Chamberlain will move
the trial week after next. Owing to the
magnitude of the case he has concluded
TO call on the attorney general to assist
in the prosecution. Brennan's friends
have retained Mr.. Voorhees,, OF Elem.
ineton, and Mercer Beasley, ir., oil
Trenton, for the defence The evidence
against the prisoner is accommodating
since the inquest. Hunterdon county
is establishing reputation for itself.
A man giving his name as Marcus
Chapman was arrested Mt Trenton, on
Friday night, on charge of having pre-
sented forged check at the Doyles.
town, Pa, National bank for eight thou
sand dollars, drawn on the Pennsylvania
National bank at Philadelphia in favor
of Charles Carpenter, signed and en-
dorsed by R. Shoemaker.
Members Of the Camden working
mems association will apply to the in
coming session of the legislature for the
passage of an act prohibiting the circu
lation of any scrip, order, ticket, paper
or token Of any description, represent
ing money, to be paid for wages. Ans
Their application will be made for an ac
restraining proprietors of manufactures
furnaces or any other business estab
lishment from paying anything but law
full money for wages.