The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-09-22
NEWS IN NOTES.
ALL OVER THE STATE.

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ALL OVER THE STATE.
The Central Labor Union ofNewark at
its meeting yesterday took h initial
steps towards placing a boycott on the
Prudential Life Insurance Company of
that city, which has had trouble with the
bricklayers employed upon its new build
ing. 5Ge sicf
The Woman'ai Christian Temperance
Union Of Monmouth county has passed
resolutions of sympathy for the family Of
General Clinton B. Fisk.
Mrs. E. Sheridan, a guest at Hotel
Netherwood, Plainfeld, was seriously In
iured by an accident at the hotel Thurs
day night. Surprising that the Diazzas
extended around to that side of the hotel
she raised one of the windows in her
room and stepped over the sill n space.
She fell sixteen feet and landed on q hard
gravel driveway. Her arms were frac-
tured, her face was cut, Inc her body was
covered with bruises. She is very feeble
and will be confined to her bed for weeks.
The Rev. /. N. Blauvelt, of Roseile, had
a very narrow escape from being killed
by lightning. He was recling on alounge
in his residence during a thunder storm
last week. With pencil and pad he WAS
jotting down the points for next Sun
DAYS sermon, when u bolt of lightning
struck the side Of the house. The glass
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and a piece of wood was splintered from
the lounge. DR.. Blauvelt was severely
shocked, and thinks he narrowly escaped
an imperative cali
A riot occurred at the canning factory
of Thurber, Whyland & Co., at Moores-
town, on Friday, which at one time threat
ened to assume serious proportions.
Charles Jessup, who Is employed to give
out the brass checks in payment of each
pail of peeled Tomatoes, refused to give
one of the colored girls II check, claiming
that the pail was not full. Whereupon
the women flew at him in a body, peellng
knives in hand. and would have cut him
TO death had not Manager Yerkes given
him refuge in the office.
A coroner's jury in Gloucester county
sat on the case of an old man who had
died in q small boat he was repairing.
Their verdict was "That the said William
a.. Faunce came to his death by the wish
tation of God and not otherwise"
The American Agricultural Union. q
branch of the Farmers Alliance, which
was recently organized by the farmers in
Burlington county, held a large meeting
at Columbus on Friday. They propose TO
cut adrift from the old parties and sup
port candidates in their own interest.
A Salem county farmer has a curiosity
in the shape of two pumpkins, estimated
TO weigh twenty and twenty-five pounds
respectively, which has grown on one
stem.
James Sampson, the well known horse
man, died shortly before six O'Clock last
evening, at his home on South Broad
street. Trenton. He had been i'll for
some time, but the direct cause of his
death was u fall which he received at the
Mount Holly fair. He was in his sulky,
driving his fast trotter Morrisey, when
the animal slipped and threw him
from his sulky. He was sixty-three years
old and owned some of the fastest horses
in the State. 1911
The School for Deaf Mutes at Trenton
has been opened a little over a week, and
has the prospect of a prosperous year.
There are 125 pupils in attendance, and
they range in 9 from eight to twenty
one years.
There was great excitement among the
boys OF Trenton on Saturday. A patent
medicine company gave away about ten
thousand whistles. ut was found neces-
sary to bring out the police to manage the
crowd OF boys which collected in front OF
the City Hall.
Camden and Philadelphia capitalists
have signed a contract for the erection, at
lnteriaken, near Long Branch, of n of
The finest hotels along the coast. The
building when completed will cost, out
side OF furniture, between S65, 600 and
$4,000. Work on the hotelis to be begun at
an early date. The location is on the
point between the two lakes just opposite
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Company is said to be interested in the
hotel.
The Madison water contract has been
awarded to Moffet, Hodgins & Clark. of
Syracuse. for $50, 925.
Captain w. p. Mockett, of Company B.
sixth RegimenJ. National Guard, of Cam
den, together with nineteen men, last
Saturday afternoon marched from Cam
den to Beverly, seventeen miles. The
roads were in a terrible condition, and 4
drenching rain fell most of the time. The
start was made at two o'clock, and the
camped in the armory OF Company Hand
at nine o'clock On Sunday morning
started to march back to Camden, reach
ing their armory at $50 p. M, thoroughly
fatigued. Captain Mockett stated that
his object was TO test the endurance and
staying qualities" of the men and that
The order was in no way compulsory.