The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-03-17
PERSONAL AND NOTABLE.

-
The law firm of Gilhooley & Marsh, Elizabeth,
has been dissolved by mutual consent. Mr..
Giihooly being the president of the Common
Council, and Mr.. Marsh elected as City Attorney,
they thought it improper that their professional
relations should continue under such circum-
stances.
The Episcopal Church Of the Holy Commu-
MON, at Paterson has began the issue of bonds
to the amount of $ie,56o, in $50 bonds of $50
each, to pay off the present indebtedness to a
building and loan association and complete i'm
provements to the property. The bonds have
ten years to run and bear six per cent. intersst t.
A deed Of trust of the property has been made
to three trustees.
The +. E. Crane Company has been organized.
Its object is the determination of vermin and
rodents. The capital stock is 100000. Messrs.
r. E. Crane and ]. D. Muschump, of Paterson,
and j. NJ. Roe, of Newark, are the incorporators.
The Sheet Metal Workers and Slate Roofers,
Unions of Passaic county gave notice to the
employers last Wednesday that beginning with
May / minimum wages of $3.50 a day would be
demanded.
Tho Union County Freeholders stand ten Re-
publicans to seven Democrats. III Morris county
the Democrats retain the Board, and in Passaic
have gained one in Pompton.
The New Jersey Society of the Sons of the
American Revolution in Newark have decided to
celebrate the anniversary Of the battle of Spring
field on June % next, and have appointed a com
mittee for that purpose.
In jumping from his wagon at Haddonfeld
Wednesday, George Clement caught q finger
ring on a curtain button. His whole weight was
ct,S.oapdn1 lMr fl,a rtner ,,,t;1 bo oorocn1 - 49,
lease himself. Then he tainted, and the ring had
to be cut off.
The Pacific Rubber Works. which were de
stroyed at Paterson by fire last week, are to be
rebuilt at once, and the work Of clearing away
the remains Of the fire was begun Wednesday
The firm has several large orders on hand for rub
Der garments.
Mayor Ludlam, of Sea Isle City, is negotiating
for a telephone connection with Philadelphia.
The 10000. 900 young shad put in the Delaware
by the Government three years ago will be ready
for ~planking this season.
Property owners are cutting down the poles Of
the New York and New Jersey Telephone Com
pany between Morristown and Mendham.
The following contracts were signed at tn Q
State prison last Tuesday:-Shoes-Smith &
1CdSiit Q llCH, nlCAuiSub O. CO.t W mBU
Stockings-Powell & Bro, of Philadelphia, 100
men. Shirts and pants-Henry ". Rothschild,
100 men for each department. Brushes-John
Tobin & Co., 100 men. Mats-Semen & Co., 100
men. These contracts were all given out on the
piece price plan. The men are taken at fifty
cents a day. Last month the prison realized
"a, 400 from the labor of the conyicts. This
month the amount will reach So. 600 and next
month $4,000.
The Passaic temperance men have decided to
keep up the fight against saloons.
Cortlandt l.. Parker has heen nominated fol-
Mayor of Perth Amboy by the Prohibitionists.
Mr.. Habirson, whose failure is announced in
New York, owned an elegant residence at West
field.
United States Senator Mcpherson and Con-
gresham McAdoo have asked OF the New jersey
Riparian Boards all documents and information
in reference to the claims of New Jersey TO Bed
lows, Ellis and all islands in New York bay
owned by the State, as setted by the interstate
treaty of last year. 1t is the Intention of Sen
ator Mcpherson to move the substitution of Ellis
Island for Bellows as an immigrant station.
Ex-Assemblyman Isaac M. Smalley will be the
director of the new Board of Freeholders Of
Cumberland county, which win be Democratic
for the first time in a generation.
DR.. James Clement MofHt, S. T. D., who re.
signed the professorship of church history in
the Princeton Theological Seminary about two
years ago, which he had held for twenty-sever
years, is very i'll.
Congress will be asked for an appropriation O
money with which to dig out the creek al
Matawan.
Ex-senator Ephraim Emsou has been elected
to the Ocean county Board of Freeholders fol
his twenty-flfth consecutive year.
The articles seized in the crusades against
Elizabeth storekeepers who INSTRUCTED the side
walk In front Of their places were sold at auc-
ton yesterday. The collection brought the sun
of 1910. The four raids cost the city $50, it il
said, for hire Of wagons alone TO cart or tbs
STUFF.