The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-09-30
NEWS IN NOTES.
ALL OVER THE STATE

Ex-Postmaster Joseph Malloy, of Pa
vonia. Camden county, who was serving
a year's sentence for ri1ing letters, has
been pardoned by the president. -,
James T. Allen, eleven-years-old, 1ell
thIrty-fve feet to the ground from a third
story window ct Paterson on SATURDAY.
A deep cash was cut In his head, but ne
seems TO have escaped serious injury.
The roadmaster of the FarsheytoWn
district, Bergen county, is q woman. IL
appears that she and her husband are the
only residents of the district who do not
pay their road tax elsewhere. The U
Dand was roadmaster last year, n as he
did not post the election notice required
by law, he was not eligible to serve
again, and the township committee ap-
pointed his wife.
It is now thought that the creditors of
William J. M. Byrne, the EngleWood
banker, will not get more. than hfteen
cents on the dollar.
The Camden County Board Of Reg is
t%ration, after experimenting. with the
patent ballot-boxes, W decided TO use
Them at the November election.
An agent for the patent ballot-box man !
ufacturerS has gone TO Atlantic county
to put the boxes in. repair. They were
such a dilapidated condition when re-
ceived that the Board of Freeholders. re-
fused to accept them, and in the election s
the old boxes lave always been used.
The second annual fair of the North
ern New Jersey Fair Association will be
held at Dundee Lake, beginning Septem :
Der 30th and ending October 4th. owe r
$500 will be given in prizes for bicycle
races. !
Somerville has decided to build asewer
system that will cost $50, 900.
David VanWagoner, OF Etna, Bergen
county, only son and heir to the extensive
estate of John d. Van Wagner. who
married Miss Leah Demarest fifteen years
..~o 10 <h> hnvor, fnfhar nf a h0nnrinO
boy, their first offspring.
a little eight-year-old daughter of Free
man Gray, of Long Branch, drank some
water from the well of the primary school
in the village last Friday She noticed no
bad effects until Saturday, when she had
a peculiar feeling in her stomach. Her
parents gave her some medicine, but 1T
failed TO bring relief. Sunday DR.. Brown
was called. He at once gave her an
emetic, and in q shortiJime the little one
yomited two small water snakes yet alive.
The child while drinking water evidently
swallowed them unknowiHgly.
Hebrew circles in Newark were sur
prised on Sunday by the announcement
that Miss Ella Samuels, the eighteen
year-old daughter of Mendel Samuels,
The wealthy junk dealer, had eloped with
George M. Dicker, a Gentle, and son of
Captain John Dicker. The Samuels are
one of the Oldest and best known Hebrew
families in Newark, and the escapade of
the daughter has caused a gloom in the
household. The young couple were mar
ried by Mayor Haynes on Saturday even
ing, after which they started for Wash
1ngton.
The Rev. Alexander Mann, assistant to
the rector of Grace Church, Orange, has
received a call to Trinity Church, Toledo.
Ohio, the parish made vacant by the ele-
walton of the Rev. Dr.. Atwlll to the
Bishopric of Western Missouri. Mr.. Mann
has the call under advisement, and is now
in Toledo visiting the parish.
The Republican Club of Newark, which
is having a phenomenal growth, since it
fitted up the handsome new club house
in Park Place adjoining the Essex Club,
now fndsi its new home already too small,
and arrangements have been made for
charging the building by erecting an ex-
tension.
1t cost Warren OFT. a Bridgeton youth.
just $40. 70 to swear or Bridgeton streets.
A Jewish synagogue is to be erected on
the road leading from Garfield to Lodi,
near Passaic.
A number Of new shoe factories have
been opened in Sussex county.
The publication of the Princeton col
lege journal, The Tiger, is to be resumed.
Strawberries were picked at Bridgeton
Saturday.