The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-07-19

While James Irwin lay sick in bed in Newark
he called repeatedly to his wife, who was in an
adjoining room. Getting no response he shouted
for a neighbor who found Mrs. Irwin dead. She
had been III some time with heart trouble.
William G. Kugler, a Newark druggist. is just
recovering the use of his left hand. Several
weeks ago a mosquito bit him on the finger and
something which the mosquito had been eating,
the doctors say, poisoned his blood and caused
an abscess.
A plague of foxes troubles Salem county.
Some time ago the creatures were turned loose
in the country districts by would be sportsTnen.
The result is that now almost daily reports OF
rAvages among the farmers small live stock
are heard. Last week two adjoining farms lost
forty young turkeys. Sunday an entire litter of
young pigs were stolen. Spring chickens have
become a most rare luxury among the people,
but the Reynard gang has Jared well.
Jacob Barton, of Klinesville, Hunterdon
county, lay down In the shade at the edge of a
field of rye he had been cutting, yesterday. and
his team, attached to the old-fashioned reaper.
began wandering about in search of fodder and
passed over where he lay. The machinery
caught in his garments and flesh and terribly
mangled him. His thighs were hacked to pieces,
his ribs were crushed and his arms and face
were terribly torn.
Colonel James S. Yard, of the Monmouth
Democrat has taken his son Joseph into the
being James S. YRrk & Son. joe is a very
cool headed, practical and steady young man.
There is trouble in the choir of the Methodist
Church at Sea Cliff. The organist, a very pretty
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ner in which the choir conducted itself and at
once resigned. The church, in consequence, is
divided between allegiance to the leader OF the
choir and devotion to the pretty organist. Two
months ago the choir was reorganized and the
organist did not like the change.
A syndicate of New York, Philadelphia and
Atlantic City capitalists has bought q large
tract of land at Pomona, Atlantic county, for
the purpose OF laying out a town. The location
Is choice. The company will be known as the
Pomona Land Company, J; G. McAliister, now
interested in Ocean City, is the president.
Two men, Jacob o. Field and Louis Brown, Of
Bound Brook, went fishing last Saturday below
the dam in the Raritan. Field caught a shad on
a hook and line. After a struggle of fifteen
mfdutes he succeeded In landing the fish in the
boat. 1t was a nice specimen Of an unusual oc-
currence. Mr.. Field is a scientific fisherman,
but this is the first time he has ever succeeded
in catching a shad on a hook and line.
7, A committee Of the Elizabeth Council is going
to recommend to the Tax Commissioners that a
reduction Of $4,000 be made on the annual tax
levy.
The State Committee having in charge the
building of the annex to the Normal School has
Nagreed to advertise for proposals for the con-
Sstppction Of a building to cost $4,000.
HTnterdon county already has eleven news
papefs and there is talk Of another one being
started, with White House as the location.
The sClinton Democrat says:-The Altemus
Bfothers, have just placed a couple Of hand
asonf9 monuments in the Clinton NJ. E. Cemetery
t6anark the graves of two Of the wives of Mr..
4. S~Alpaugh, of Jersey City.
The Salvation Army at Asbury Park has been
iudtlging In a series of meetings. The most
sdiSfihguished guest was Marshal Balllngton
BOOTH. the great leader of the organization, who
was limited to address a morning meeting at the
Young Nipples Temple in Ocean Grove. The
invitatiohAwas TO him only, but his devotees also
made their way to the temple. By the Rev. DIR.
sfokes's order they were refused admittance.
The Rev. Charles H. Yatman protested in vain.
Alliance, N. j., the Jewish settlement of
refugee Russian Jews, has during the past eight
yeaT grown into q prosperous village OF 62 in
hsTfsaTtS. Eight years ago several Thousand
acres OF wild brush land in Salem county were
S~purchasedfN and given. to the refugees by the
Nebrew Aid Society, the land being then valued
a. Sbout SIG per acre. 1t is now worth over 500
per Acre, and the Jews are prosperous and happy
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