The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-11-07
NEWS IN NOTES.
STATE NOTES.

At Black Oak Ridge, on election day
Louis Card, fifteen years old. OF Pompton
Plains, was hunting with TWO compan'
ions, and in reloading one barrel OF his
shotgun. the other barrel was discharged
into his head, killing him instantly.
The K. r. ParsIl Pearl Button Company
was Incorporated IN Newark "Wednesday.
The capital stock is $50. 900. The company
will capitalize on existing business. and
take advantage of the protective tariff
rates on imported pearl buttons.
Walter d. Vanderhoff, a clerk in the
Susquehanna freight Office in Paterson,
was accidentally shot by Frank p. Ham,
road, while the party were out shooting
at Oak Ridge, Passaic county, Wednes-
day. He cannot survive.
The of the Elizabeth City
Hospital have decided TO accept the gift
of money from the race tracks in aid of
the institution, despite the fact that some
of the Board of Directors wanted the offer
rejected. z
John Cruise, who fell when he shot and
killed his friend and neighoor, j. q. Hof-
man, In mistake Tor q deer, while gun
ming near Dorchester last Saturday, has
not yet gained consciousness.
Burglars are busy round about Asbury
Park.
Another death from diphtheria occurred
in Bridgeton Wednesday.
Joseph Woodward, a YOUNGSTOWN
farmer, has a number of children en-
gagged in sorting pumpkin seeds from the
puips aud cleaning them preparatory to
disposing of them to a New York firm, to
be used for medicinal purposes. Some OF
the children will often collect and pre-
pare from thirty to forty quarts of the
seed each day.
The trustees of Pitman Grove Metho-
dist Episcopal Church have appointed a
committee TO have prepared plans for a
new church building. 35x56 feet. The
Camp Meeting Association will donate
two lots, worth $500, on which to erect
the building. A legacy OF $50 awaits the
laying of the foundations, aud John J.
Hood. Of Philadelphia. will, it is stated,
give an additional 500.
Any Asbury Park boy who Is found
hereafter with a slung shot IN his posses
sion will be arrested on a charge OF carry
ing concealed weapons. The Chief of
Police has already made a raid on the
schoolboys' pockets and captured nearly
one hundred of the dangerous weapons.
Jainesburg Adpance; Brother Louns-
berry pulled i've caOOage heads last
Thursday forenoon, and sent them to the
warehouse to AVE them weighed. And
after having the stems n outer leaves
taken off they weighed ninety pounds.
Respectively. two seventeen pounds
each, one seventeen and one-half, one
eighteen, and the largest twenty ana one
half pounds. How is this for State farm
cabbage, at which place an Indiana
Hoosier Representative reported that
-whippO0rwills starve to death.
A water main in Main street, Paterson,
burst Wednesday forenoon while work
men were repairing a leak, and a muddy
waterspout two feet thick spurted diagon'
ally against the building opposite, reacn
ing to the roofs and delugiug a grocery
and a drug store with the tawny huid. A
large crowd was attracted. The force oil
the stream crushed several plate glass
windows. aud it was ten minute before
the water company dared to shut of the
flow. for fear OF accident to mills using
the same main. The water company viii
pay for the damage, which amounts te
several hundred dollars.