The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-10-15
NEWS IN NOTES.
STATE NOTES.

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The State House Commission held a
meeting yesterday at Trenton and APP
pointed a committee consisting of the
Comptrcller and Secretary of State TO as
certain the expense of having the C&pltol
frescoed. They will report at an early
meeting, AT present the walls and cell,
ings of the old part are being scraped and
PAINTED with a smooth coat. This is
done to hide the dirt which has been
gathering for years, and which makes
the walls look dingy. Then 1t is
thought that this paint would have u De
put on before the walls could De res
coed, and it is consequently no extra eA-
pense.
The Republican Club, of Newark. IS
making arrangements ar a formal
reception to Minister Phelps at the
club house in Park place, thai city.
The affair will be n of the most
notable that has ever taken place in the
city.
Alexander Sutherland died suddenly at
his home III South Amboy, Monday. lie
had been in the railroad business Tor
twenty-five years, first in the employ OF
the Camden md Amboy R1ilroad Com
pany and later of the Pennsylvania Com
pany. :,
The State Tax Commissioners counsel
a~re.engaged in making deductions from
and arranging the material which they
have already collected in different parts
of the State. They will soon begin 70
have hearings in the different cities, 10
ginning with Jersey City.
Judge Hoffman, counsel for MIS- Eva
Hamilton, says that he will appear in
court in answer to the recently
served upon her, citing her to be present
in the Surrogate's Court when RoDerG
Ray Hamilton's will shall be admitted TO
probate. If her right TO the wife's dowry
is disputed he will make a contention for
her rights.
The National Cordage Company, of
New York city. has just filed a certificate
with the Secretary of State increasing
their capital stock from 81, SOC, 600 to So.
$780, 600. This company manufactures har-
yesting Irvine, and it is said that u COM
bination mas been formed to control the
business in the West, which is the great
market.
The Committee of the State Board of
Education met yesterday at the State
House, at Trenton, and awarded Che con-
tract for the construction of the new
Normal building to the three lowest bid
ders. William johnson. mason work:
Cubberly q Kafer, carpenter work, and
Thomas Craig, plumbing.
Trials will begin in the Federal Court
tomorrow. The jury was discharged yes
terday until that time.
William r. Jones, a Republican who
has been honored by reelection as a Free
holder of Somerset county for twenty
five successive years, died in Plalntield
Monday from liver disease.
The West Orange police on Monday
afternoon discovered the rendezvous of
the Lizard gang of d~epredators that have
committed many petty robberies in the
last few months. Policemen hunting in
Rollinson's woods for two of the gang
found beneath an old bridge on an unused
road the home of the gang, where was an
entire cooking outfit and burglars tools.
The policemen arrested Nicholas Greer
and Patrick McKoun.
DIR. NJ. e. Gates bid farewell to the stu
dents Of Rutgers College at the chapel
meeting yesterday morning. Every mem
Der of the faculty was present. and DR..
Gates was moved to tears as he dwelt
upon the sundering of those ties that
bound him in affectIonate regard for the
institution over which he had presided as
president for eight years. Acting Presi-
dent Doolittle responded on behalf of the
faculty and students. The students filed
down the central aisle of the chapel and
shook DIR. Gates hand. DR.. Gates de-
parted for Amherst College yesterday, to
assume h duties of the presidency.
John Wesley Bonnell, who served as
drum major of the Twenty-third New
Jersey Volunteers during the war, died
at his residence in Orange on Sunday of
Bright's disease. lie was sixty-Jhree
years old and leaves two sons and four
daughters, n of the latter being the
wife of State Labor Inspector Lawrence
L. Fell.
William Rowland has presented the
Remsen Avenue Baptist Church Society
Of New Brunswick with a valuable lot oil
which to erect a new church.
While amusing a crowd with a pet
opossum at Davis Hotel, Clayton. Lewis
Bowers lost part of his nose. the animal
fastening upon him and holding tena-
ciously till dragged off.