The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-10-20
NEWS In NOTES.
STATE NOTES.

Within the last few weeks stolen goods,
consisting of cloth and handkerchiefs
valued at nearly $1,000, have been found
close to the tracks of the Erie Railroad,
within q short distance of Rutherford,
Bergen county. The first discovery oc-
CURED some time ago, when cloth and
handkerchiefs worth $500 were found
under a load of hay. On Wednesday two
CarlstadU men were arrested on the
charge that they had found and taken
home cloth to the value Of $50. On FIJI
day ID. Gatewood, while hunting in the
meadows that line the Erie road between
Jersey City and Rutherford, found four
rolls of cloth worth SIS. and Saturday
Detectives Harris and Quinn, after along
search through the long grass of the
meadows, got two more rolls, worth
about $275. All these goods had been
taken from Erie freight trains and con-
cealed until sue time as the thieves
could come for them. There seems no
doubt that q gang of robbers has been
systematically stealing from the Erie
freight cars between Jersey City and the
Short Cut, and detectives are making en-
ergetic efforts to discover them.
The Grand Lodge of Ladies of Friend
ship met on Thursday in Camden. After
trunsacting routine work the following
officers were installed for the ensuing
ycar:-P. G. c., Mrs. Mary Kline, of Cam
den; p: G. w. s., Mrs. Emeline Howe;
u. w. Del, MIS- IJllHLDCuA w hlJOug VI 0RhA-
den; G. J. S., Mrs. Beulah Murphy, Mill
Vile; P. G. c., Mrs. Mary r. Myers, Cam
den; G. A. c., Mrs. Rosanna Severns, of
Camden; grand secretary, Mrs. Matte
Garrison, of Camden; grand treasurer,
Mrs. M. Day, of Camden. Thu reports OF
the various officers show the organization
to be in a prosperous condition.
Newark is considering the ~advisabllity
of having a new census taken.
Cumberland county carpenters and
joiners have organized a protective So
ciety.
their latest effort being made Friday
night, when they attempted to burn the
new freight depot of the West Jersey
Railroad Company in the centre of the
city. Kerosene oil had been poured on
the Dlanking, and a pile of oiled wood
shavings laid over it. The Waterman
surprised three men at the work, and
they escaped.
-Four hundred acres of farm land at
North PlaiDfield lave been bought by the
Lehigh Valley Railroad Company, upon
which will be erected an immense coal
storage plant. The farms varied in size
from ten to one hundred acres, for which
an a verage price per acre of 500 was
paid.
The NelD. Jersey Agriculturist, pub
lished at Haddonfield by William G. Tay-
lor, has been sold to e. S. Hammell,
editor of the Jamesburg Record; |. H..
Dreyenstadt and L. Wilton Hill, OF
Jamesburg. The paper will remain a
special organ of New Jersey agricul-
turists, but will be published at James
burg.
Twelve of q pack of twenty-five or
thirty wild dogssthat have been killing
sheep and other farm animals in Warren
county were killed by the farmers, who
organized a hunting party to exterminate
them.
Government engineers are at Cape
May examining into the feasibility OF
erecting a breakwater On the shoals
there.
John e. Diament, of the Packing Com
pany, of Cedarville, has contracted for
200 tons Of pumpkins, which he will put
up in cans The tomato pack in South
Jersey Is larger this year tina ever be-
fore.
The Ferracute Machine Company of
Bridgetons is about closing a contract
that will give steady employment to the
company's full force OF employees for at
least three years. This company does
work for points all over the world. Sew
eral of their die presses have recently
been shipped to Cuba.
Leopold Hague, of Oradell, Bergen
county, has a young pigeon which has
four f~ull-developed legs and feet. The
strange bird is solid white in color and
was bred from common stock. Nothing
strange was noticed about the SQUAD until
interfere out little with its walking
Hague's neighbors have been trying to
buy the freak for speculative purposes.
A reunion of the Second New Jersey
Cavalry will be held in Trenton on No
vember IA.