The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-10-02
NEWS IN NOTES.
ALL OVER THE STATE.

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The State Convention of Christian En-
deavor Societies of New Jersey will be
held in the First Presbyterian Church at
Camden on October 30 and 30. Extensive
ar-rangenents are being made for the en-
tcrtainmen6 of visitors, and the exercises
will be interesting and profitable. Inc
societies OF this city will be represented
at the convention.
Mercer county farmers have sold pota-
toes this year valued at $4,000.
The American Derrick Company mas
been incorporated in Trenton. The CAPT
tai stock is $500. 600.
The Republicans of the First Assent bly,
district of Cumberland county will elect
delegates Saturday night.
Work on the new sewer at Somerv1lle
was begun Monday. The engineer is IA.
H. Mitchell, of Newark, and the work is
being done under hes supervision OF Car
rol Phi. Bassett. SmaI s. Berry, OF New
York are the contractors. There are l0O
men at work, and it is expected That the
sewers will be finished by December l.
A number of colored women employed
in q MorrisGown canning establishment
attacked q man named Charles Jessup,
who worked with them, last Saturday,
aud almost killed him. They beat nm
~sayagely with sticks and threw him lnto
u vat Of catsup. He was rescued just IN
time by the manager. The cause of the
trouble was the mans failur to give ono
of the women a theatre ticket according
to promise. =.
William Skimlp. an ~eight-year-old lad, OF
Bridgeton. is under arrest on u charge OF
breaking into the rooms of the Young
Mems Christian Association and steallng
a quantity of valuables. He has been
before the Mayor twice already OF SIM
liar charges.
There were several p~erceptible shocks
of earthquake at Mount Holly. TUESDAY
D,1iI1{,,o nj xt-af.a ahakpn and n
low rumbling noise was heard, There was
a great deal Of excitement, but NOBODY
was injured.
Police Lieutenant Furman. of the Eliza
beth police. died Tuesday, aged eighty
years. He was one of the heroes OF the
great fire in New York in 1885, when by
his GOODNESS he checked a mutiny that
broke out among the fremen on that
occasion, He was one of the organizers OF
the Elizabeth Fire Department.
The construction of the new building or
the Orange National Bank in Orange is
likely to be interfered with by n singular
suit over the old well that is on the dlvld-
ing line between the bank lot n that of
the Central Hotel. An injunction has
been served on the contractor enJoining
him not to I'LL the well up. 1t is over LOO
years old.
The Republicans of the First Assembly
district of Cumberland county will elect
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ator j. II. Nichols is q candidate for noml-
nation: contested by Il. w. Trenchard.
A pear tree on the farm of Captain
William Marts, of Rockville, bore two
crops this season.
The Rev. Joseph Lawler, of Phillips
burg, who disappeared SO mysteriously a
few days ago, is still missing.
Twenty-one members of Com pany +,
Sixth Regiment New Jersey National
Guard, were court-martialed at Atlantic
City, Tuesday, for not attending the re-
cent annual encampment of the regi-
ment at Sea Girt. Sentence was sus-
pended, and q number of them Will be
dishonorably discharged. Among those
summoned before the board were Chief
of Police Eldredge. First Sergeant Harry
Leeds, and two attaches of the Post
Office.
Washington Beneficial Society, of Sa-
lem. which was instituted May 2, 1882, is
winding up its affairs. During its organ
ization it has had the names of most of
The business men of the town of Salem on
Its roll and has paid out q large amount
In benefits; but within a few years past,
owing to the death CT old members and
the ranks not being recruited by new
ones, together with the depreciation of
property held by it. its financial ability
was curtailed to such an extent that some
time ago the payment of sick benefits was
stopped,
A. w. Garreton, of Hillsborough town
ship, Somerset CO unity, has a melon patch
450 feet long and 80 feet wide, having four
rows, each 8 feet apart, which will give
him over 1,500 musk melons. He has al
ready sold 1900, for which he has re-
ceived from $40 to SIS per hundred whole
sale. He received both first and second
premiums at the Somerset Fair.
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