The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-10-11
NEWS IN NOTES.
ALL OVER THE STATE.


The corner stone for a new $1,000
addition to the Home for Feeble Minded
Children. near Vineland, was laid Tues
lay.
THE overcrowded condition of the Ber-
gen County Jail, in Hackensack, is caus-
ing much criticism. For the last few
weeks there have been many more prison
Frs than cells.
John Jackson was shut up in a Swedes-
boro hotel ice house on Saturday night.
He had been arrested for fighting. and he
says he is about cured.
In Essex county the Democrats have
made the following Assembly nomina-
tiona:-Second district, John Nieder;
Third, Charles F. Garfield; Fourth,
Seventh, Charles Trefz; Eighth. John j..
Bertram; Ninth, Timothy Barrett; Tenth,
George de Isle Zimmerman. In the
First district thirty-four ballots were
AIKEN without a choice. In the Sixth no
choice was made.
In Union county tine Republicans on
Thursday nominated John G. Rankin.
the Mayor of Elizabeth, for Senator,
James Fl. Clark, OF Railway, for Sheriff;
and Drs. Norton l.. Wilson and Sherman
a. Cooper for Coroners. Foster ID. Voor-
bees was named in the convention for
Senator, but a letter was read from him
In which he declined to be u candidate,
as his private business requires his atten-
ton.
The Democratic Assembly conventions
were held in Camden county on Thurs
day night. In the First district. David
7. Lumm1s, OF Camden was nominated;
In the Second, Francis j. McAdams, OF
Camden; in the Third, Abraham W.Nash
was nominated. George d. Stewart, the
Democratic nominee for County Clerk.
has positively declined to run. lie is
confined to his bed with a broken leg.
2 NJ $1,000. ~ ~ " hnNrA
nominated John ii. Huyler for the AS
sembly in the first district, and George
Zimmerman in the Second.
The Ocean County Democratic Cenven-
ton was held at Toms River Thursday
afternoon, and the following nominal
tions made:-Sheriff, A. W. Irons; AS
sembly. Joseph b. Cox, Jr.; Collector,
Edgar Horner.
On Wednesday morning William Hud
son, aged thirteen years, left his Home at
Belleville with a younger playmate TO
fish IN the Hackensack River. Hudson
was taken with a fit and fell into the
water. His companion, who was much
smaller than Willie, saw that it would be
useless for him TO try to rescue the boy
and ran to a farm house, which was quite
a distance away. When the farm hands
reached the spot where young Hudson
fell in they found him dead. The river is
very shallow at that point, the water
being only ter inches deep.
James Parker, who was defeated last
year by John Il. Kerr, in the Second AS
sembly district of Passaic county, has
again been nominated by the Republi-
cans.
Harry Westcott, a former Cape May
lite guard, fell twenty feet into a ''swlng
hole'' at the Cohansey Glass Works,
Bridgeton, on Thursday, and was badly
cut int bruised.
From an orchard of 10000 trees Phineas
Hires, OF Cumberland county, picked his
crop Of five peaches on Thursday. AS he
raised the fruit "on shares he carried
two-fifth of the crop to his landlord.
The necessary capital has been sub
scribed for a street car line in Mount
Holly and the company has been organ
lied.
City Marshall Senft, of Egg Harbor
City, has y peach tree in full bloom.
Fl. M. Carroll has been appointed
postmaster at Dennisyille. Cape May
county.
The surviving members of the famous
First New Jersey Calvary Volunteers
will meet in this city Thursday, October
16, and hold their business meeting in
the rooms of Bayard Post, No. s, G. A.
r., corner Of South Broad n Lafayette
streets, Trenton. This will be the
eleventh reunion of that once famous or
g~anization. They will banquet at the
American House.