The Monmouth inquirer., 1889-01-10
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Sources for the Accommodation of Busy
People.
PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 3.-The Lebigh Val
ley Railroad company is making extensive
improvements at various points along the
line. The company is now building five
piers at its new terminal at Jersey City, adj
joining on the mol tt the new passenger sta
tion of the Jersey Central road. They will
each be 600 feet long by rs feet wide. All
will be covered with corrugated sheet iron,
and will have tracks upon them in order
that cars can be run upon floats at the ends
and be carried across the river to New York.
The floats and docks near the piers have
been filled in. The Lehigh Valley has built
a double track road from Roselle to Jersey
City, which has just been opened, and now
contemplates laying tracks at grade across
two of the principal streets in Jersey City,
to enable the line to reach the river. The
company now has the right to the made
land of Communipaw south of the gap.
The Legislature.
TRENTON, Jan. 6-The legislature will con-
vene in its 18th session here on Tuesday next
at 3 o'clock p. m. There are eleven Demo-
Gratis and ten Republicans in th senate, and
thirty-one Democrats and twenty-eighr Re-
publcans in the house. The senate is always
quiet body, and Senator Werts, Of Morris
county, who expects to be governor after
this year, will be chosen president with
out serious opposition. The scenes in the
house will be quite different. Assembly
man McDermitt, of Essex, has announced
himself as a candidate for speaker;
Governor Green's annual message will be
devoted to the discussion Of state affairs in
the dignifed way which precedent has die
tated should distinguish executive communi-
cations in New Jersey. There is to be very
little politics in the message as whole, all
though the governor will undoubtedly make
an exception in the matter of redistricting
the state He will not discuss the liquor
question, it is said, to any extent, and may
omit it entirely. He will recommend the re-
peal Of the legislation that reduced the gov
ernor's power of appointment, and probably
stop there in partisan matters. As to other
topics, he will recommend ballot reform and
a new charter for Jersey City, and make
minor suggestions as to details of state busi-
ness.
The caucus to nominate successor to SEN
ator Mcpherson will be held in about a fort
night. Ex-Governor Albeit and Mr.. Nc
Pherson continue to be candidates. The
.speakership contest will develop the strength
of the rival camps to some degree. Assem-
Robert Elder Hanged.
MAYS LANDING, N. j., Jan. 4-Robert
Elder, Jr., was hanged here for tbs murder
of his father, John Elder, last August. Death
was almost instantaneous, the pulsations
ceasing seven minutes after the drop fell.
Elder was calm, and joined in singing
S'Shall We Gather at the River" before the
march to the gallows
A Heavy Wind Storm.
JERSEY CRY, Jan 1.-THE severest short
storm of the season visited the Jersey coast
on Saturday night. 1t rained in torrents,
and the wind blew from sixty-five to seventy
three miles an hour. The Arnold house and
other buildings at Point Pleasant were
flooded Surfman Harvey at Barehead sta
tion discovered steamer heading for the
beach. Warming lights were burned, and
she went off shore at a. m. Patrolmen's
lights could not be kept burning, and they
were forced to feel their way, arriving at
the stations totally exhausted. The sea
broke over many bulkheads along the coast.
An unknown schooner struck off Point Hook
in the height of the gale. Tugs towed her
off in a wild sea, thus saving the vessel and
protecting the lives of all on board Much
damage was done to summer cottages along
the coast.
1t Is not MIR. Kline, of Trenton.
PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 1.-The Girard house
suicide is not Emanuel Kline, Of Trenton,
N. J. The remarkable coincidence of the
letter 81" tattooed in blue ink. on the right
forearm of the dead man, and the bullet
scar on his leg, which answer exactly to
distinguishing marks ON Mr.. Kline, led to the
deduction that it must be he, but relatives
of Mr.. Kline failed to identify the body
The body is yet unidentified.
An Orange Halter In Trouble.
NEW YORK, Jan. 3.-Isaac Overend, a hat
ter, of Orange N. j., is under arrest there
for murderous assault upon his son Isaac
aged 81. The young man was found in the
hallway Of the house in which he and his
father lived, in an unconscious condition, his
head and face covered with cuts and bruises.
His father was found asleep in bed, with
blood upon his person and clothing. He is
believed to be suffering from religious insan-
ity, and supposed that it was necessary to
kill his son. There had been no family quar-
rel. Isaac is in critical condition and may
not recover.
Fatal Saloon Fight.
JERSEY CITY, Jan. 2.-Dominico Lutz shot
and fatally wounded Frank Carrello in
saloon quarrel, at Avondale, and escaped by
a passing train, but was arrested on arrival
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blood, and claims that the shooting was in
self defense, as he had first been attacked ant
beaten.
More Pennsylvania White Caps.
WnLIAMsPoRr, Pa, Jan. 4-The Seventh
Division of Pennsylvania White Caps has
been organized and established in the vicin-
ity of Lock Haven, and several gentlemen
of that city have received warning notices.
One gentleman says that he had received
two of them-the second one informing him