The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-02-26
PERSONAL AND NOTABLE.

Real estate transactions throughout the county
were quite active during January, amounting to
1896, 0i2. Twenty-Five buildings are being
erected in Englewood and fifteen at Lyndhurst.
Twenty-three houses have been built at Oradell
in about two years.
Tbs Bergen County Democratic Executive
Committee has unanimously endorsed A. d.
Campbell, the Prosecutor of the Pleas, for re-
appointment. Captain Campbell has acted as
County Prosecutor for twenty years, and is
looked upon as the Democratic leader in the
county. James Leach recently distributed
throughout the county and State circulars
against his reappointment 1t is said that the
Democratic leaders had decided TO prosecute
Leach if the leaflets he spread abroad had caused
Campbell to lose the Democratic endorsement.
A new sewerage system has been adopted for
Passaic and the preliminary steps toward con-
structing it were taken on Monday evening, 1t
is the invention of Colonel George E. Waring, of
Newport, R. l. He calls it the small pipe sys-
tenn. The largest conduit is only 10 inches in
diameter, and nine-tenths of the pipes are less
than s inches. These pipes will receive nothing
but sewage, separate and much larger pipes
being laid for surface water and subsoil drain
age. Flush tanks, working automatically, will
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Assembiyman Klotz will resign the manage
ment of Senator McPherson's farm, at Bell
Mead, in the spring, AMI remove to Someryille-
He expects to be the Democratic candidate for
State Senator from Somerset county next fall
Somerset has had only one Democratic Senator
in fifteen years, but Klotz thinks he can win
Eight-year-old Bertha Meyers has been ar
rested in Warren county for mansiaughter. She
lived with William Reed, near Tranquility, and
is accused of causing the death of his little
baby. Some old women showed her the soft
spot on the baby's head, and when she had a
chance she pressed on it. The baby cried. but
she kept on pressing the spot for several weeks,
when inflammation of the brain set in. Prose-
cutor Simonson held that the child was not re-
sponsible, and ordered her taken to the County
House.
A project is on foot to establish an ice manu-
featuring plant at Trenton, with a capacity of
125 tons per day. 1t will require a capital of
about $3.50, 900 to carry on the business. Colonel
A. Kuser is one of the promoters, and is said
to have Peter Doelger, the millionaire brewer,
behind him. More facts will be known about the
scheme later in the week,
A remonstrance against granting any more
licenses, anu signed by aDOuI SU cltizenS OF
South Orange, was presented to the Village
Trustees on Thursday night and several repre-
sentatives of the anti-saioon element addressed
the board. It was decided that in future licen Sc
applications with the names of signers shall be
published at least once before action is taken, SO
that an opportunity may be given for examine
tion and for protest.
The new syndicate now in control of the
Newark street railroads proposes to abolish
! horse power and substitute electricity. Expert
,nents with q storage battery motor are making
in Philadelphia. 1t was said in Orange yester-
day that the control of the crosstewn line in
that city would probably be secured also.
A free library at Merchantville is one of the
probabilities of the near future. Ex-senator
Cattel is at the head of the movement.
About Christmas time Mrs. Abraham Lams-
hack, living on South Warren street, Trenton,
had her seal skin sacque stolen out of the
house. On Sunday last while attending ser.
vices at the Church of the Sacred Heart, she
saw q woman enter the church with her sacque
on. She waited until the services were closed
when she went to her and informed her that
unless she returned it she would have her ar
rested. On Wednesday night the woman re-
turned the stolen sacque, but refused to say how
she came in possession of it.