Evening journal., 1889-01-29
NEWS OF OUR NsIeHsoRs.
Happenings Of Interest in Several States
Briefly Chronicled.

llNtl luclt, ana Wls under constant lthu-
ment for twenty days She was told that had
she arrived three days later She could not
have been cured.
The engine and boiler rooms Of Harvey's
silk mill at Reading were demolished by the
explosion of one of the boilers Two men
We're badly scaldel, and two others slightly
cut by flying debris
Judge Fellows hns agreed 10 a change Of
venue IN the case of Doodle Alderman Cleary,
it appearing 20 be an impossibility 20 get a
jury in New York. Hundreds have been
called and not one chosen
Mr.. and Mrs. Potts have become reconciled
to the marriage Of their lo-year-old daughter,
Lizzie. TO the 3s-year-old bachelor Concy,
who, while visiting the Potts family 40 Wash
ington, n g., induced the girl TO elope
James Gallagher enticcd the beautiful little
5-year-old daughter Of mis- employer Charles
Baker into the barn at Germantown, and
attempted 10 assault her. There was a strong
disposition to lynch Gallagher when bis crime
became known, but he was saved by arrest
Judge Paxson Of the supreme court, has
released John w. keely, Of motor fame, at
Philadelphia on the ground that the order
commanding him 10 exhibit and explain his
motor was prematurely made
Edward Stewart, Camden harness maker,
ended a long spree by taking laudanum and
ending his life. He was father Of a large
family Of small children.
The German Cremation society will petit
ton the New Jersey legislature 10 establish a
state crcmatory, In which all bodies Of those
who die Of contagious diseases shall be ere
mated.
Work is TO be begun at once ON Elizabeth's
new race track, which win have half mile
frontage on Meadow and Spring streets and
extend two miles back 10 the edge Of the
meadows There will be stables for 400 horses
and grand stand 10 accommodate 5000
people.
Amos " Scott, locomotive fireman. was
killed at Millham, n. j. He was in the pit
under his engine when a train was hacked
against it, and his head was completely
smashed.
A large portion Of the country graveyard
adjoining the pike meeting house. near
Hinkletown, Pa, has suddenly sunk about
fifteen feet. Superstitious residents seem to
believe the sinking is the result Of a combined
plot on the part of the dead buried there, and
tell weird tales Of remarkable ghost wear
ing shining helmet and carrying beautiful
child ghost in his arms, paiading the grounds
at unseemly hours
Burglars got into the Railway a. j. post
office and secured registered letters, money
and stamps to the value of about 81 500
There is no clew.
Fire did about 1900 damage in the Church
of the Holy Sepulchre, in East Sevensy-fourth
street. New York.
During the past year $40 crimes in Long
Branch were found to be due solely to rum
The German United Workmen of Newark
have boycotted Gottfried Kruger and Will
lam Hit, brewers, because they have at
tempted 70 get customers away from union
brewers.
Constable William Reed, Of New Bruins
wick, n. j., has captured thief William
Reed lcoloredl, who has been stealing canned
goods from merchants for some time
Some person sent Congressman Pidcock an
advertising card bearing the printed legend,
Don't be clamn The congressman has not
made a speech or Gotion during his four
Years terra Ia congress
J, +, Hunter, long Branch artist. Who
has Dragged OF his method Of compelling
patrons 20 take and pay for poorly executed
and rejected cruyon photographs, by placing
the pictures prominently in ms show window
and attaching offensive placards. has been
held IN $500 bail for the next grand jury for
thus posting picture of the deceased son Of
Postmaster Bennett.
The physicians say that Annie Eisenhart,
the night nurse in the Cooper hospital at
Camden, who was assaulted. viii recover.
There is still no clew 10 her aSsailant She
has repeated her first story Of the assault in
substantially the same words She accu-
rately describes her asailant, and is confident
she could identify him She said she saw the
man twice ON Friday
The general term Of the supreme court at
New York has upheld the action of the police
commissioners in reappointing John j. O'Bren
chief of the bureau of elections, though ex-
soldiers were among the applicants for the
place.
Philip Kelsey, aged q, of 273 Quincy street,
Brooklyn, went 70 Waterbury, Conn. last
week, represented himself as iewelry sales
man, and cut a wide swath among fast
women and livery stables He was over
taken yesterday near Stamford while making
for the state line with a team and buggy be-
longing TO r B. Norton, and will have 10
answer charge Of grand larceny
Governor Green, Of New Jersey, has signed
the bill repeating the law which required
ballot boxes to be closed al sunset
The Sheldon axle works at Wilke,baire.
Pa, the largest plant in the country. has stis
pended temporarily. Tweve hundred men
are thrown out of work
Ives and Staynor We're taken to Ludlow
Street jail New York, having failed to secure
bondsmen.
Mr.. Cameron introduced into the senate the
house bill appropriating S225. 600 for the pur-
chase OF strip of land in Atlantic and Cum
berland counties, n. j., 70 BE used as a prov
ing ground for heavy ordnance
The Yale University club house. near the
college campus, for years favorite resort
Of Yale's undergraduates, has been sold 10 the
Quinnipiac club Of New Haven for SIS. 900.
At the meeting Of the Irish parliamentary
fund committee in New York II was an
nounced that the subscriptions for the de
Tense of Mr.. Panel already reached s., 0OC
and were increasing
James Mcmahon, New York contractor,
requested the police 20 look for his wife and
Paul Byne, his former partner, who had
elo,ed together.
The coroner's jury decided that Frank
Dudgeon procured the operation which
caused Kitty Cody's death in New York. and
that DR.. G. +. Hall ana MIS-. Hartman were
guilty of a criminal act in concealing the
facts. Dudgeon Is in Jail
John NJ. Glover, a lawyer and real estate
agent at l20 Broadway, New York. was
arrested charged with the larceny Of Sll.0OO
from Mrs Emily j. Early Mrs Early is the
administrative Of the estate of William II.
Sibley, and she retained Glover as her at
torney. Up TO May, 1887, Glover had col
lected nearly $1,000 from the estate. which
Mrs Early says he has retained and given nc
accounting for. He viii be examined to-day.
Thomas Mcfarland, fourth engineer Of the