The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-01-24

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commence on Monday night at the
Academy of Music.
The forthcoming engagement in
cludes in the cast players of well
known ability. All the scenery and
accessories made from the original
models will be brought by the COM
pany.
PERSONAL AND NOTABLE.
The seventeenth annual meeting of the New
Jersey Board of Agriculture win be held at the
State House on Wednesday, Thursday and Fri
day of next week.
The suit of Robert Ray Hamilton for the an
nulment of his marriage TO Evangeline L. Ham
ilton has been placed upon the calendar OF the
New York Supreme Court for trial.
The establishment of the patrol-box system in
Camden is being opposed by citizens in front of
whose houses the boxes are being placed. One
lady raised a rumpus and had to be cared for by
the police.
The Summit Record says:-'Elmore D.. Moi
felt, who has been elected president of Plainfield
Common Council, is said to be a candidate to
suceeed County Clerk John l. Crowell on the ex
pir alton of the latter's term
The Trenton authorities have decided to OPP
pose the Trenton horse railroads, and the City
Solicitor has been instructed to carry the case
involving the city's right to regulate the rails to
be used to the court Of last resort
A manual training school is proposed / in Cam
den.
The Long Branch colored people have formed
/ a la .e,.a f~r nrntaoF;ooL op1 odvapcatnant
j. r. Jesup, a well known New York lawyer,
has been stricken by paralysis at Lakewood, and
it is said cannot recover.
A. w, Clement has been elected president of
Haddonfeld's National Bank.
A company of militia will soon be organized
in Plainfeld. The new organization will be at
tached to the National Guard of New Jersey.
Articles Of incorporation were filed Tuesday.
in the Camden County Clerks office, by the
Camden Glass Manufacturing Company. The
capital stock is 500, coo, with $1,000 paid in. The
objects Of the corporation are to manufacture,
buy and sell glass and glassware.
The West Jersey Democratic League, of Cam
den. Tuesday evening elected the following
oficers:-President. j. H.. Magee; vice presi-
dents, Frederick Bourquln, Howard Carrow and
T.. S. Armstrong; recording secretary, G. S. Ma
grath; financial secretary, f. W. Tussey; treas
urer, George d. Boxton; trustees, r. T. Stewart
and r. I. Miller.
The Rev. DR.. D. R. Frazer, pastor of the First
Presbyterian Church. of Newrrk, is confined to
his home with serious illness. Dr.. Frazer is one
of the most popular ciergymen Of Newark, and
his church recently celebrated the 20Hh ami
versary. The attending physicians say that he
will not be able to appear In his pulpit for several
months to come.
Wells are being bored on the property of John
Taylor Johnston, at the foot OF the first noun
tain in Plainfield, for the new wafer works. The
contract provides that the source Of the supply
shall be in or beyond the northeastern part OF
the city, fas the subterranean flow Is from
northeast to southwest. The Johnston property
is about a mile north Of the heart of the city and
the water obtained will be the purest that can be
found.
The Passaic county Grand Jurors are to hear
complaints about selling liquor in the townships
ON Sunday. Several clergymen from the town
ships have started on a crusade against the
tavern keepers who sell liquor on Sunday and in
other ways disregard the law. A large number
of witnesses are expected before the jury. The
Rev. Solomon Parsons, Of Prospect Street NJ. C.
Church, told the Grand Jury Yesterday wha,
he knows about selling liquor in Paterson on
Sunday.
A peculiar death occurred at the house Of
Charles Maltby, in the suburbs OF Plainfield,
Wednesday. George Henry Robinson, a lad EN-
ployed to assist Mir. Maltby's gardener, slyly
entered the buffers storeroom after dinner and
fed himself generously on dried prunes. He
then drank largely OF water and in a short time
began TO swell up to an amazing size. He suf-
fered excruciatlng pains, which medical skill
could not lessen, and within an hour after ply
sicians had been summoned he was dead.
Camden's Board of Trade has appointed d
committee to see that the streets are kept clean
and to try and induce the ferry companies to re-
move the turnstiles at the ferries, on the ground
that a person is liable to sustain serious injuries
by pushing against them.
Leo Daft, the electrician, has not accepted
the franchise awarded him by the Plainieid
Common Council to operate a ztreet railroad
with his storage battery system of electricity.
At o recent meeting Of the Council an applica-
ton from various citizens to operate a horse
railroad was fayorably considered.
The Woodbury. glass works, in which Colonel
G.. q. Green has a controlling interest, has com,
menced operations with a force Of union Jour
neymen glasshlowers. This factory has been
running for two months with non union men.
On Friday lost Colonel Green mad Il conference
with Master workman Arlington, and agreed to
grant the demands oil the union men,