Bridgeton pioneer. (Bridgeton, N.J.) 1884-1919, 1886-04-29
MCGOWAN & NICHOLS, Publishers.
STATE NEWS.

Three Atlantic City burglars have
been sent to State Prison for ten years
each
G. G. Green will erect a model barn
on his place at Woodbury., to cost
$20000
The Newark bakers have advanced
the price of bread one cent a loaf.
They claim that the advance in neces-
STATED by the increased cost of labor
The only Republican Postmaster left
in Gloucester Co, is Matthew Gill, at
Paulsboro, and he would have quilted
the office long ago but for the fact that
the Democrats could not agree upon his
successor.
The seven Democratic members and
a boiling Republican of the Paterson
Board of Aldermen have elected AL
dermen Cooke, Republican, to the
Presidency of the Board, over the Re
publican caucus nominee
The temperance movement has as
sumed dgreat proportions in Moorestown
and it is proposed to do away with all
licensed hotels in the town. A fund of
$4,000 has been subscribed to start a
temperance hotel
The managers of the Matthieson s.
Wiechers sugar refinery, in Jersey City,
where 1900 men are employed, have
anticipated the possibility of q strike
voluntary advancing the pay of their
hands 10 per cent.
Hugh Kinney, a workman in Nc
Meals foundry, at Burlington, acci-
IDENTIFY fell into one of the pits, Friday
morning, striking his head against a
mass of iron and cutting and bruising
him so severely that paralysis is feared.
Lynn & Petit, the Philadelphia mat
ting manufacturers, have decided to
remove their plant to Mt. Holly, the
residents of that town having sub
scrided 1890 and promised to erect
brick factory for their accommodation.
The distillery of John E. Vanderveer,
uedi TIeeuOlu, MOllulOulil COulby,
which was seized by Revenue Collector
Ferrell of Camden, last December, for
violating the internal revenue laws,
has been released on the payment Of
it's owner of 1880 fine and costs.
The Domestic Sewing Machine Co.'S.
works at Newark, have shut down,
throwing 800 persons out of work.
The moulders had asked for restora-
ton of their old wages, but the man
agement said the demand had nothing
to do with the suspension of operations.
More Pennsylvania couples were
married during the past month than
during any similar period since the
marriage license law was passed in
Pennsylvania. Three hundred and
one couples were joined together, ac-
cording to City Clerk Carman's docket,
and of these nearly half were residents
of Philadelphia.
Colonel H. w. Sawyer, of Cape May
City, and one of the recently appoint
ed commissioners for the selection of ia
site for the new Home for Disabled
Soldiers, is agitating the question of
locating the new Home at that place
The Colonel will go to Newark on May
Sd, when he will present to the board
the advantages offered by Cape May
The Number of dailies, weeklies and
other periodicals published in the
twenty-one counties of the State are
Atlantic, 10; Bergen, Huntington, II;
Camden, 10; Cape May. Cumberland,
10; Essex, %; Gloucester, s; Hudson, II;
Hunterdon, 10; Mercer, IA; Middlesex,
10; Monmouth, 1S; Morris, Z; Ocean, 4;
Passaic, 13; Salem, 6; Somerset, 4; Sus-
sex, 4; Union, 12; Warren s.
Persons passing No 310 Fifth street,
Jersey City, Friday afternoon, were
startled by the sight of man from
whose throat blood gushed in streams,
rushing from the areaway into the
street. He was seized, and an ambu-
lance was called. He died before reach
ing Une HOSplltti. he was 1eTiuau VI.
Herriclers, a boss carpenter, and his
suicide was the elimination of a pro-
tracted spree.
Jesse Higgins, the old farmer of
Plumstead township, Burlington Co.,
who kRd a personal encounter with
Levi Challender because of a difficulty
in regard to Higgins young wife, has
been convicted of assault and mayhem,
and sentenced to two years in State
prison. The young wife is held to
answer at the next term of court to the
charge of being unduly intimate with
Frank Pratt, a young married man.