The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-07-30
PERSONAL AND NOTABLE

The annual encampment of the Northern New
Jersey Association of Union Elk Prisoners of War
| Uzal Dodd Post, No. 1853 Main street, Orange.
The -encampment will open at 10 a. M, and all
ex-prisoners of war are invited to be present.
The ages of three residents of Westwood, Ber-
gen county, aggregate 1865 years. George 7.
| Rrickell is 80 years of age; Mrs. Brickell 81, and
| Mr.. Brickell's sister 80.
Mnason Huntsman, the religious crank who
was released from the Belvidere jail about q
| year ago, is at Park Ridge. Instead of going
about as he used to do to preach IN his peculiar
| style, Mnason has turned his attention to help
ing Farmer Storms to gather the harvest. Mrs.
Jane Howell is also one of the assistants.
At the conclusion of a circus performance on
| Saturday evening at Asbury Park, Justice of
the Peace Borden stepped to the centre of the
| and Miss Mary Monehan, of the same city. They
were soon made husband aud wife. The bride
is a pretty brunette of eighteen She wore a
| white gown deliberately trimmed with lace and
| ribbons. When the newly made husband turned
to kiss the bride the spectators gave him a round
of cheers.
Orville T. Warning, of the STANDARD Oil Com
| pany's New York office, still checks up the
heads of his horses, Notwithstanding the orders
Of the Plainfield Society for the Prevention of
Cruelty to Animals. He has given orders to his
coachman to submit to arrest if the society's
| agents presist in interfering with his animals.
| Mr.. Warning is reported to have said:-"The
society is overstepping its prerogatiyes in at
tempting to interfere with the refining up of my
horses. am anxious to have the questions in
| volved submitted TO a proper tribunal and a test
case made. as / am quite sure l shall be sus-
tanned.
The Board of Education of New Brunswick has
elected former State Superintendent Ellis A. APP
gar to be Superintendent of Schools of New
Brunswick, in place of Prof, Jacobus, resigned.
Judge Van SICKLE has ordered a mandamus
issued to compel Atlantic county to pay half the
expense of erecting the new bridge over the
Mulica river, between Atlantic and Burlington
counties.
The strike is at an end at the Trenton Iron
Works and the mill will be in operation today.
The men go to work at the old prices. Nothing
has yet been done toward an adjustment of the
difficulties at the New Jersey Steel and Iron
| Works.
The people of Deckertown, Sussex county, are
agitated over the action OF some OF the leading
insurance companies in cancelling all their poll
1 cies in that place because of the lack of protec-
ton against fire. The citizens are making an
effort to organize q fire department and have the
town establish water works.
The Edison Industrial Works have filed arti-
Giles Of Incorporation in the County Clerks Office.
The principal place of business in New Jersey is
Silver Lake, in this county. The company is to
have an office in New York and other States of
the Union. The object of the company Ia to
! manufacture, buy, sell, lease and use machinery
| and apparatus for mechanical, scientific, mining
and chemical purposee, to manufacture inven-
lions, to- purchase mines, factories or other
! property. The total amount of the capital stock
Is 100000 and the company begin business
| Will $3.50, coo. The incorporators are Thomas A.
| Edison, West Orange; Samuel insult, Orange;
| Thomas Batter, New York.
A tramp boldly entered a house in Garfield
| the other day, and demanded that the lady of
the house who was ironing at the time send out
| and get him some beer. She sent out, but for a
| policeman, and the tramp went out OF one door
! with one of the fiat irons as the law came in
the other. The tramp was captured after quite
| a run with the iron in his hand. It Is hardly
necessary to add that the tramp gets his board
\ now at the expense of the public.