The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-10-28
NEWS IN NOTES.
STATE NOTES.

IA ten years Henry Baker, of River Edge,
Bergen county, has made enough money to pay
f4r q snug little farm and house besides sup
pbrting his family, out of the peculiar business
Ok gathering water crosses for the New YORK
market. There are several localities in the
county especially adapted to the growing, OF
dresses. and Mr.. Baker understands where all of
them are He pays the owners of the property
for the privilege of gathering the crosses.
] The arresJ of a number of Paterson store
keepers has stirred up some bitter feeling. a
prominent ardware dealer was arrested for
obstructing the sidewalk with goods and was
| fined. and as a sequel a number OF ms nelghpols
doing business on the same block were hauled
before the Recorder on similar charges made by
the hardware man. The prisoners included one
woman, who keeps a fancy goods store,
4 Leon Bowen had a terrible experience with a
i vicious COW near Mount Holly, Friday night. He
/ was leading the animal from the pasture heid
when abe attacked him. He endeavored to beat
her off, but Following loudly she advanced upon
him, and before he could retreat she knocked
Min down with q terrific blow in the side from
her horns. The attack was quickly followed,
and Bowen escaped from the infuriated animal
by crawling through the fence. Several ribs
and his collar bone we're broken.
It was said on good authority at Elizabeth on
Saturday, that the New Jersey Central Railroad
Company had purchased all the piers and water
front at Elizabethport formerly owned By. the
Delaware, Lackawana and Western Railroad
Company, and that the Central intends TO EN-
bark u coal shipping on an extensive. scale.
The price paid by the purchasers is said to be
$3.50, 600. The business men and property own
ers of First street, since the coal piers have
heen idle. have been anxious to open the stree1
to the sugar works, which would necessitate the
crossing Of the score Of tracks leading to the
piers. The City Council, however, will not do
anything to place obstacles in the way or a re-
sumption of the important coal shipping INDUS
try, which would be worth hundred OF thou
sands of dollars to the city.
u. S. Grant is a barber at Toms River.
There is a Hollander living near Lodi who can
saw his prayers in seven languages.
The wife of Charles Fore, of Burlington, is
said to be one of tho heirs to the Wood milhons
Orto Schneider, of Hoboken, and Ernest Ryle,
Of Paterson, students at Yale, were robbed Fri
day night. Their rooms In Dnrfee hall, at tha
college, we're entered during their absence.
ItUncle Sans men are not lively the Point
of Sandy Hook may be swept away by the ocean.
Regular army officers are superintending, the
building of a temporary breakwater to resist the
threatening disaster.
Mrs. Laura B. Voorhees, died at Long Branch
last Thursday . victim Of believers in the cure
weakness after child BIRTH, and had a trained
nurse and a regular doctor, but the latter were
d dn a 6y ner nc mo anert s%no + ! = s pslsess co II
while beying her mothers injunctions and died
Thursday morning.
est in the New Jersey Teachers Reading Circle.
A meeting was held at Trenton last Saturday
with that object Ia view.
The Junior class Of Rutgers College has
elected the following oficers-:President, 7. G.
Field, Of New Brunswick; vice president, W. J.
Cooper, Of New Brunswick; secretary, .. 7.
Dyke, OF Grand hapius, Micu.i treasurer, w. y.
Bullock, of Bordentown; assistant treasurer, G.
r. Percy, of Jersey City Scarlet Letter historian,
Philip McBritt, of Jersey City.
Twenty-Five years ago Mrs. Abram Nelson, of
New Market, Middlesex county, accidentiy ran
a needle into the middle finger Of her right
hand. She felt pains in the fleshy part of her
arm, near the shoulder, Sunday. She was SUR
prised to find the needle protruding. The needle
was extracted. 1t looked as bright as a new
one.
s-Old Toni Whelan, the centenarian Of Pas
sale. WIS sent to the Sisters Hospital at Pater-
SON, on Saturday. The career of this man is
most wonderful. He was q gigantic able-bodied
man as far back as 1898, when work was first
begun on the Dundee canal.