The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-08-30
NEWS IN NOTES.

There is a prospect Of some of the JUS
fices of the Peace being hauled before the
court. The Dogberrys are abundant
One downtown Justice sent a man, a
merchant to jail a few days ago because
* was after his business hours, n he re :
fused bail. His hours, he announced ,
were from eight a. m. to six D. m; The
bond was offered a few minutes after SIX
in the evening.
A policeman said last night that the
down town officers were not disposed to
make arrests as Police Justice Stllsing
so frequently requires them to produce
witnesses to c~orroborate them even in
drunk and disorderly cases. The Justice
is quite right.
The day clerks in the freight depart
ment of the pennsylvania Railroad are
working until midnight, and often all
night. owing TO the heavy shipments OF
freight since the strike on the New York
Central.
Mr.. E. NJ. Doane has bought out the
business of the late William Ward, the
halter, and will continue the manage
ment of it.
A policeman was excuses last night as
he wanted to be at the bedside of a dying
relative In Brooklyn. Judge of the aston
ishment of the Captain of the precinct
when he met the policeman working the
stones throw of the police station, and
the dwelling is not that of the policeman.
Billy Farrier was telling some of the
members of the Crescent Club last night
why so few local plumbers acquire for
tunes. 1t was interesting and he proved
how necessary it is for q Der to De a
clever matthew atician.
There will be four parades in The lower
section of the city on Monday Eext. The
Trades and Labor organizations, the
Suabian Society of Greenville, who have
q festival at the Greenville S%cheutzen
T1r-I- %lo n+o Arrn ~ Tnn,hnO1 n RatN
and the Empire Brewery Guards will pa
rade.
Captain Farrier has a lively chipmunk
in q squirrel cage at his office. Yester-
day morning when he entered the cage
was lying on the floor and the chipmuDk
had disappeared. The office was thor
oughly searched and the captain con-
Guided his pet had gone. Last night he
heard a disturbance behind one of the
pictures on the wall. A second later the
missing chip appeared at the top OF the
frame. He Jumped from frame to frame
until he reached the cage, which he en-
tered and took a spin in the wheel. He
is still there. What perplexes the Cap
tain is where the little scamp was hiding
while the Office was being so completely
ransacked.
St. Francis Hospital is crowded.
The police this morning stopped the
dumping of dirt in the empty lots on
Palisade venue
Michael Curley, of No. 40 Pavonia av-
enue, arraigned in the Second District
Police Court this morning for falling to
place q red light on a street obstruction,
was discharged.
Oakland Park is to have a club of fe-
male baseball players next week.
Automatic machines from which a Gig
arctic may be taken when a penny is
dropped III are quite numerous on the
avenue.
If Policeman Commissions Kelly could
have heard some of the remarks made
about him, after the police trials yester-
day by some policemen in the hall, his
hair would nave turned several shades
deeper in hue.
The policeman who make out the best
cases against their prisoners in Justice
Wanser's Court are all from the Fifth,
Captain Smiths precinct. They seldom
make an u~nwarrantable arrest.
The tracks by which the Grove street
cars cross the Erie railroad need fixing.
The old factory at the corner of Grove
and Tenth streets SO long unoccupied is
now used by the New York Car Motive
Power Company.
James Murray, of No. leS Deg street, a
brakeman in the employ of the Erie Rail
road, while coupling cars at the west end
of the tunnel at four D.. m. yesterday,
caught his foot in a frog and was unable
to extricate himself. No one saw him or
heard him scream, and he was run over
and killed instantly by the train ON which
he was at work.
Joseph Rein, of Rose avenue, and Her
man Ehlers, of Gates avenue, were ar
raigned In the Second District Police
Court this morning for disorderly con-
duct and sent up for thirty days. Officers
Miller and Ernest say they found them
lettering suspiciously around Greenville
and as their characters are not of the best
they were arrested.
People still lave to walk the plank to
get across Hudson street st Exchange
place. The water which accumulated
there during the storm of Wednesday
yet lies around the corner like a lake, and
three large planks are laid across it from
the curb to the railroad tracks. If the
members of the Street and Water Board
could hear the im%precations which are
hurled at them at all hours of the day,
they would soon have the receiving basin
cleaned
The fire hydrant in front of Taylor's
Hotel has been leaking for over a week.
Policeman Rickerich has reported the
break several times. but the Street and
Water Board has paid no attention TO the
matter.
The frames for the arches for the new
building of the New Jersey Title, Guar
antee and Trust Company were put in
place this morning, and it will not be
long before the graceful arch will be
completed.