The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-12-05
NEWS IN NOTES.
STATE NOTES.


The State Board OF Factory In
spectors met at the Continental Hotel
yesterday and remained IN session all
day. Deputy Darcy said that the re-
port Is not yet ready and that moth
ing will be given to the public until
the report has been submitted, as
usual, TO Governor Albeit. When he
has approved OF 1t it will be ordered
printed.
The Homeopathic Hospital, of
Camden, has closed its doors. owing
to the indifference of homeopathic
physicians to its success. There was
no trouble on o of finances.
Bryan G. Gnerin, q we'll known
hotel keeper OF Morristown. died
Wednesday of heart disease.
! A. Stoughton Ross. eldest son of
hChristian K. Ross and brother of the
lost Charlie Ross. died at East Orange
! Wednesday.
The Burlington County Board of
Agriculture win hold a Farmers In
Jstitute at Mount Holly on December
IL and 10.
John Mccormick and James s..
Henry, the new State detectives,
Governor Albeit on Wednesday.
katA0 2tCikttRtAs VI -
the oldest ex-AsseInblylnan living.
He is now ninety-three years Of age
and still talks politics.
Margaret Hilton. a nurse at st. Bar
nabas Hospital, Newark, was informed
Wednesday that by the will of the
late Mrs. Hoffman, of New York. a
formar patient. a legacy of s., 900 had
been left TO her for her disinterested
attendance.
In the recount of Newark's popula-
ton by the Tax Board of that city 1t
is found that the Ninth ward has
twenty-six less population than was
given to the ward by the Federal
enumerators. All the other wards
show gains
The anniversary of the battle of
Princeton will be celebrated Decem-
Der 26 by the Sons of Revolution.
The people of Stockton are taking
steps to be incorporated as a city of
the third class.
At the election of officers of the
Senior Glass of Princeton University
on Wednesday evening, james H..
Durham, of Trenton. was elected class
poet, and Halsey Durand, of New
Jersey, prophet. The members of
committees from New Jersey are Ill.
B. Yeomans, on the Ode COMMITTEES;
George Patton, Memorial Committee;
+. G. More. E. A. s. Lewis. II. ID. Pax
ton, George Bergen and w. b. Black
we'll, Class Day Committee.
The directors of the First National
Bank OF Asbury Park will refuse to
pay the borough and township assess
ments upon their capital stock on the
ground that they are taxed too much.
The capital stock Is assessed at $40,
600, of which 800, 600 is par value and
$40, 0000 surplus. The bank claims
this Is more than double the burden
that other invested money has to
bear, and that IL the same amount of
money was invested in real estate it
would be assessed at about $50. 900,
with a tax of $16.5 so on a thousand.
The directors cite instances where
valuable hotel property was assessed
less than one-fourth the SUN hat had
| been refused for 1t.
William J, Moore, a brick mason
and contractor, ut Atlantic City, has
Just received title from the West Jer-
sey Board of Proprietors to an island
which he discovered was without an
owner. He values his find at S., 200.
The island is located in the thorough
fare, a stream OF water that divides
Atlantic City from the mainland, mid
way between the railroad bridge and
the New found fishing grounds. 1t
contains a trifie over fourteen acres.
The title, which he 10Y holds by vir-
tue of having located the land and
filed a survey with the Board of Pro-
prietors, is transmitted from the es-
tate OF William Morris Cooper. The
cost of establishing his claim to the
land was less than $3.50.