Elizabeth daily monitor. [volume] (Elizabeth, N.J.) 1868-1880, 1873-12-23
III " lTENIS

A sailor who was lodged in the Jersey
City hospital saturday. suffering from
the effects of blow on the head by the
mnin boom Of u schooner, died yester-
day. His uume is not known
,. n Crane, OF Hohokrn, has COM
mt need suit against the Hackrn-ack
Turnpike company to recover damages
sustained 10y reason Of the condition ot
the road. Mr.. Crane. while driving
along the roud one night, WAS hurled
down an ungUarded cmbankment.
In the case Of Joseph Il. Reed
charged with libel upon the Chief OF
Police I'll Philudepbla, the jury ycster.
day returned u verdict OF not guilty.
The coroner's Inquest iuto the cause
OF the Rec Mt fatal accident on the rail-
road near il nncbunk. Ne, WIS CON
tinurd yesterday. The engineer and
conductor W 1T examined.
Five or six boys ranging from fifteen
to eighteen var, Of age have been ar
rested III Schenectady on chnrga of in.
cendiarism. Some five or six fires re-
Gently occurring are attributed to
them.
Professor Blake's report to the Exccu.
tive Committee OF the United States
Centennial Commission, says Euro
ptuna look upon the undertaking with
favor. He has had many assurances
OF hearty co-opcrutIon and assistance in
the project,
1t is understood that Governor Dix
will appoint a successor TO the htf
Judge Prekham after Christmas.
Harry Genet escaped from the charge
Of the deputy sheriff in whose custody
he had been since his conviction.
Michael Norton, Thomas Conan q. 4
John j. Walsh, tx Court house Com
miNSionrrs, We're called in The Court ri
oyer and Irrminrr yesterday to answer
10 ndlctm nts for conspiracy to dpfraud
bat none OF them appeared, nor could
thy DO found
he third trial Of ex-Mayor Hail wps
begun in the comt of Oyer and To-
miner A jury was obtained without
difficulty,
William Dillon, the expert who has
ion some months past been making an
examination Of tho official accounts in
Newark, was arrested Sunday NIGHT far
disorderly condnct. and Yesterday fined
five dollars by Justice Mills.
In the Essex county sessions Mt New
ark yesterday A drew OCotnpll the
hrrahr who escaped from the Gust Nv
OF an officer while being taken from the
court horse to the iail. was sentenced tn
four years and six months in state pris,
on.
The taxes collected in Jersey CITY last
week amonnted to &266 913 93.
The poor box of he Second Preshv
terrain church jersey City. WAS stolen
by some thief during service Snnly.
The water,supply was shut off from
Hoboken last night to allow the couuec
ton to be made with the new main at
the foot OF the hill.
George Merritt and Thomas Moran,
two New York sneak thieves who were
captured in Newark, were yesterday
sentenced by Justice Clifford to three
years imprisonment in the state prison,
The residence of Mr., Srhweitzer, the
Treasurer of the North Hudson county
railway company, was entered Ivy hur
glars Su day night aud robbed of cloth
ing, jewels, and siIverware valued III
one thousand dollars.
A maker of funny newspaper para.
graphs las drawn. from the fact that
the present costumes of the women are
lashio ed after those worn by Cutharine
de Medicis and her contemporaries, the
Inference that we are rapidly returning
to the dresses Of the garden of Eden.
The Vile du Hnvre was insured for
four hundred and fifty thousand dollars
in English companies.