Elizabeth daily monitor. [volume] (Elizabeth, N.J.) 1868-1880, 1873-08-29

fever in that city.
Capt. Ed. Holbrook, who was thrown
from a street car in Louisville on We'd.
nesday, died yesterday. He was one
of the pioneers of the tobacco trade in
that city.
The democratic Legislative municipal
convention of San Francisco have effect
ed a compromise and nominated Philip
Roach and Frank McCoppin for the
state senate.
On Tuesday evening Mrs. Jane Haz-
lett, aged 40, while taking in some
clothes from high shed at Al Melrose
street, Boston, made mistep and fell
into the yard of the next house, receiv-
ing frightful injuries, which it is feared
will prove fatal.
Only three car loads of peaches were
received at Jersey City depots yester-
day.
Rev. Mr.. Hageman has promised to
resign the passionate of the First Con-
gregational church, Paterson, to take eff
feet October l.
A union freight car on the Pennsyl-
vania railroad ran off the track in the
Bergen cut yesterday, and caused de-
lay of over two hours.
During the past five days the ship
ments of freight to the West by the
Erie railway averaged more than three
hundred cars, or over three thousand
tons per day.
Stephen Donegan was poisoned in
Lowell on Wednesday, by taking bug
poison handed him in mistake for Or
binary medicine.
An unknown man and woman we're
killed on the Troy railroad, near Bath,
Rensselaer, county, yesterday. Each
was sixty years OF age, and the man was
blind.
In Chicago, yesterday, Beane, the
conductor of the coal train on the
Chicago and Alton railroad which caused
the recent terrible loss of life at Lamont,
was arrested and committed to Jail.
During the past three months the
French railroads have sold three hun
bred and sixty thousand tickets to re-
ligious pilgrims.
A despatch from Lexington, Mo- says
that four or five of the Iowa train rob-
bers have appeared in Lafayette county.
Two of them were at Dover, Just below
Lexington, Tuesday, mounted on splen-
did horses. 1t is believed the others
We're near by, as they do not trust them
selves far away from each other. Three
days ago three of the gang rode through
Lexington publicly, made some purcha-
ses, and went away. The citizens are
awed by them.
A party of ruffians assembled yester-
day at Point Airy on the lower part of
Smiths Island, opposite the city of
Philadelphia, to witness prize fight
between John G. Donovan and James
Murray, but the police interfered and
arrested the principals and ten other
persons.
A student undergoing his examina-
ton was asked what was the action of
disinfectants. He replied : "They smell
so badly that the people open the win
dows and the air gets in"
The count of Manderstolm of Sweden
is dead.
During picnic on Tuesday at Hamp-
ton park, N. B., on the Inter Colonial
railway, riot occurred. James Camp
bell, hotel proprietor, was shot dead,
and another man named Burke was shot
by some person behind the bar, but it is
not known who fired the shots in either
case.
A new style of brick has come into
use in France. A mortise is cut in the
opposite ends of each brick, and when
they are placed end to end in the wall
small brick of the right shape is drop
ped between them, firmly locking them
together. Curved bricks for making
round chimneys and light houses are
made in the same way, with the NOR
tises and lock-pieces of suitable shape
to fit the curve. 1t is said that the
bricks are so securely fastened that no
mortar is needed on the mortise pieces.
The bridge now in process of erection
across the river Tay, in Scotland, will
be, when completed, the largest iron
bridge in the world, and already takes
rank as the most important engineering
work now being carried out in Great
Britain. Its total length from shore to
shore is ten thousand three hundred
and twenty feet.
Ex-Judge David Burnett died at his
residence in Ward street, Paterson, at
three p. m. yesterday He was born at
Springfield, in 1900. When about
eighteen he went to New York and
learned the trade of printer, and about
December 81, 1922, he went to Paterson
and worked nearly three years as a
journeyman printer In September,
1925, he and Mr.. Day started The Pat
erson Intelligencer. Mr.. Burnett was
appointed Surrogate of Passaic county
in April, 1S45, and held the office until
the following November. He was Clerk
of the Board of Chosen Freeholders ten
years. He was also Cashier of the old
Peoples Bank and subsequently of the
Passaic County Bank, and was connect
ed with other banks of the city. For
forty years past he was an active mem
Der and an elder of the First Presbyter-
ian church, and was highly respected
by large circle of acquaintance.
THE MIsERIES OF A SUMMER RESORT.
There is no more real repose for Won