Beverly banner. [volume] (Beverly, N.J.) 1877-1964, 1889-10-05
State lettings


the smaller towns in South Jersey.
The South Jersey tomato, season is
nearly ended. Only two-thirds crop
was gathered.
The annual convention of the w. G.
T. u, of New Jersey, will be held in
St. Paul's Church, Ocean Grove, on
October 10Th, 18th, 17th, and 18th.
A cornet band at the Morris Plains
Asylum is made up entirely of patients,
save the leader, and it is said to be one
of the best in the northern part Of the
State.
The cranberry yield in Ocean county
will be large this Fall. Picking has
commenced and leading grower of
The county states that 10000 bushels
will be gathered from his plantation.
Efforts are to be made by Monmouth
county temperance people to secure
indictments against Asbury Park
druggists for selling liquor on Sunday.
The October term of court opened on
Tuesday.
An effort was made Monday to effect
compromise in the Meyer will case
at New Brunswick. The widow was
asked to take small sum from the es-
tate, in addition to the 100000 due
under her ante-nuptial contract, and
relinouish all claim to the dover.
Michael Kenny, conductor on a
gravel train on the New Jersey Cen
trail Railroad, had his head cut off on
Saturday morning last by slipping and
falling under the wheels of a car at
Centreville. Kenny is married and
has wife and family living at Roselle.
Conductor Opdycke, of the New
Jersey Central Railroad, a resident of
junction, had to have two fingers
amputated lately, made necessary
through an accident which befel him
while attempting 10 board coal train
at Phillipsburg upon which he had
proposed riding home.
Mrs. Fender, of Raritan, widow
over seventy years old, has been cult
waiting alone quantity of land at
RoyceGeld. A few days ago she took
out of a field only an eighth of an acre
in size fifty bushels of potatoes, equiva-
lent to 400 bushels an acre. She dug
and sacked them in twenty large sacks
in ten hours.
The village of Ilvington, four miles
from Newark, has gold discovery
boom. James Murray, a laborer, while
excavating on the road found ledge
of rock containing shining particles.
Samples of the rock taken to Glorieux
Refinery were found to contain gold.
Judging by the samples, the rock is
said to be worth $50 ton. More of
the ledge will be unearthed at once
and placed in the hands of an assayer.
Daniel A. Young, a prominent
Democratic politician of Hackettstown,
was killed while out driving last Fri
day evening. In crossing the track of
the Pennsylvania Railroad he failed to
see the approaching Easton express
and the locomotive struck his carriage,
smashing it and throwing Mr. Young
TO the ground and instantly killing
him. The horses ran up the track for
half a mile with the fragments of the
carriage before they were caught.
Philip Reilly, of Newark, an old
man of fifty years, had his clothes set
on fire short time ago by four ruff
fans. They poured alcohol on his
clothing and then set fire to it. Reilly
was seen dancing about in terrible
agony endeavoring to put out the
flames. Several bystanders assisted
him in his efforts to extinguish the
flames, and after little while they
succeeded. He was taken to the city
hospital where he lies in precarious
condition.
A horse disease, similar in many re-
spects to the cerebro-spinal meningitis,
has broken out in central New Jersey,
and many valuable horses and mules
have died this month in the vicinity of
Harlingen, Rocky Hill, Blawenburg,
Hopewell, and Princeton. The ami
mails affected lose all appetite, become
paralyzed and infamed and die in a
very short time. Richard Hart has
lost eight head up to the present time
ON his farm near Princeton. The
Hopewell veterinary surgeon had fif
teen cases of the disease under treat
meut at one time.