The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-09-26
NEWS In NOTES.
ALL OVER THE STATE.

- H.M"
After two years idleness the glass
works Mt Swedesboro have started up
with a full force of n%on-union lowers.
The new street railway for Mount
HoIIv ia assured. Seven thousand dol
lars has been subscribed, and operations
will be begun at once.
Al wild animal thought to be a panther
is disturbing the people in the vicinity OIL
Beasley's Point, Cape May county.
me Botany Worsted Mill, of Passaic
CITY. on Wednesday, filed with the Sec
retary of State q certificate of the increase
of their capital stock by $650,OOO, making
the total 81, 8 1000
built at Cape May Point this winter. and
among them one is rumored to be Tor
Secretary Blaine who, it is expected, Will
reside near the Presidential cottage next
summer.
Some miscreant on Tuesday night en-
tered the stable of p. h. Hall, a hotel
keeper of Burlington, and cut a gasn
about a foot in length on the right hip
of one of his valuable horses. Ii IS sup
posed that some enemy OF Mr.. Hairs COM
mitted the deed as a means OF revenge.
Farmers in the vicinity of Bridgebor-
ough are annoyed by frequent visits from
chicken thieves. -
Brotherhood Cemetery, at Mt. Holly, ana
within the past few days several bodies
have been removed, among the number
being tina of John Bowner, the man who
was murdered on the Lumberton road
last week by John M. Price. The body
was Inferred there by Undertaken Burtis,
and on Monday Robert +. Coleman,
superintendent of the cemetery, found
several graves had been disturbed, and
near by were the tracks of d horse and
wagon. Bowner was a man OF me
physique, and it is the general impression
that his body was resurrected by medical
students, who were anxious to secure 1t
for dissection. This is the only reason
able explanation that has been offered.
William Hunt Cleaver, ninety-two
Years old, died at the home of his SOD. the
Rev. j. B. Cleaver, at North Plainf1eld,
Wednesday morning. He was born IN
Vermont, and was q nephew OF Bishop
William Cleaver. He was one of the
pioneer teachers who made famous che
Scotch Plains village school. Mr.. Cleav-
er,s wife, lightweight years old, survives
him. The aged couple celebrated their
sixty-ninth wedding anniversary in July.
Ching Ling, the Asbury Park laundry
man. who left town with Miss Lottie
Dickinson, before leaving gave those Gus
toners who called to redeem their own
clothing whatever they wished out OF the
bundles of other customers. he kept all
articles of feminine wearing apparel q
took them to New York, 1t IS presumed.
2" IOF MISS OlCkGISOu- 0AO 0AAL6
Ling from New York to Asbury Park,
aud spent all her spare time ~promenading
the beach with him or occupying a chair
in his laundry. Miss Dickinson was
completely infatuated with her Chinese
lover and Indignantly repulsed all adj
vances by Americans.
Tillie Muth, the three-year-old daugh.
ter of George Muth, of Jersey. City, was
drowned in the river on Wednesday.
When playing with her little brother she
fell into the river. Half an hour later
the boy strolled leisurely into the house
and said to his mother, "Tillie Is in the
water"
The M. E.. Tabernacle, at Atlantic
Highlands, was struck a few days ago
BY lightning. This is the third e%cclesi-
asticaI edifce in Middletown township
within the last three years. First the
New Mountain Baptist steeDle was shat
tered by lightning; then the Atlantic
Highlands Baptist Church had its turn,
and now the Tabernacle gets Q dose. Be-
sides this, the spire of the Middletown
Baptist Church was blown off last
spring.
Vitrifed paving bricks will be tried in
Camden.
Salem will hold a big fair to raise funds
to contribute to any manufactures locat-
ing there.
Camden Presbyterians are arranging
for the semi-ceutennial of the founding
of their faith in that city.
With a big u at her shoulder, Mrs.
Davenport drove off q threatening tramp
from her home near Swedesboro.
A Camden dyer, William Vanderslice,
was made temporarily insane a few days
z by inhaling the fumes of vitriol at his
work.
Pitman Grove Camp Meeting Associa,
ton has announced a dividend Of six per
cent, and decided to build a drug store
in the woods.