The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-10-13
NEWS In NOTES.
STATE NoTRs.

Ex-senator Taylor, of Trenton, is hav'
ing q warehouse built adjoining his old
works On Perrine avenue to be 3Oxl2I
feet.
The Downs & Finch shirt factory a
Bordentown will be sold at receivers salt
Monday, Novem Der "a.
Mayor Barnett, of Paterson, has given
orders to Chief of Police Graul to teal
down or cover all improper theatrical
posters in future. The owners of bill
boards where such Autographs arc posted
will be prosecuted as well as the bill pos
vigorous crusade against this class of ad-
vertising for some days past. through the
pulpit and press.
The City Council of Elizabeth has de.
cided that more than one lieutenant of
the police force is an expensive luxury
which the taxpayers can afford to dis
pense with. The extra lieutenants pro
vided by the charter have been therefore
abolished, and hereafter theirs will be
only one officer of that rank.
John Bamerick, sixty-eight years old,
who lived In New York. went to Hacken-
sack on Friday to unload a lumber
schooner at Westervelt Brothers dock.
After finishing the job he went to the
Su5quehanna station to take the train
for home. At the station he tool a drink
of ice water and fell dead, face downward
on the platform.
WIlilhtl Ddlcs VI IbluRtuGlu, aCGQ66u Ol
killing his neighbours dogs inc chickens
by means of poison disguised and scat
tered broadcast, has been acquitted in
the Bergen county
The Camden Veterans dinner to Gen
eral E. Burd Grub has been arranged
for the afternoon of October 20. TIL re-
ception will take place in the evening at
The Sixth Regiment Armory.
A gold headed needle, which must have
been wandering about in her system for
years, was removed from the arm of Mrs.
William Collins, mother-in-law of County
Clerk Burroughs, of Camden, IN Friday
evening.
A Ridgeield, Bergen county, oarsman
made IN attempt last week to row fifty
miles in twelve hours, for q purse of $50,
over a course from the township bridge
to Leonia. He withdrew after eight
hours of rowing.
The scabbard of the sword in the pos
session of Henry d. Riepe, of KingsIand,
Bergen county, which was claimed to
have belonged to Major Andre, proves to
be of malleable iron, the process of max
ing which was not discovered until 1888.
The handsome house, at Orange, OF
Charles A. Tucker, of the Tucker Elec-
trical Construction Company, was burned
Thursday morning. The loss is about
SIP, 000; insured. Mr.. Tucker had just re-
fitted the house with costly electrical APP
pliances.
The corner stone OF q new S60, 900 hos
pital building was laid at Paterson on
Saturday. II will be built OF brick and
brownstone.
The verdict of one cent damages, for
the bite of Flora Marshall's dog, which
Miss Abbie Rice got in The Camden Dis
trict court dissatisfied her, n her coun-
sci has moved for a new trial.
Colonel b. A. Lee, of the Third New
Jersey Regiment, has been appointed
Postmaster at Keyport, to succeed e. Nc
Kinney.
A Holstein bull belonging to Joseph K.
Lippincotu, of .Wo3dsrown, has been in IL
peculiar predicatment for nearly a fort
night. The door of an underground ice
house was Left open, and in ~endeavoring
to get q view of the interior, the bull
slipped and fell thirteen feet TO the bot
tom Of the cellar. There is no hosting APP
paratus on the farm, and Mr.. Lippincott
has felt that the situation of the II is not
altogether a bad one, considering that
its temper is not always admirable.
It has been fed and watered every day,
u perhaps when the ice house Is needed
this winter measures may be taken to get
it out. 1t would be q dangerous matter
for anybody TO go down to put a sling on
the bull and the roof will have to be re-
moved before it can be heisted ont.
During the last two years the Society OF
the Kings Daughters, OF Middletown,
has been making u bed quilt of old kid
gloves, the quilt to be sold and the money
realized used to assist the poor of the
township during the winter. Hundreds
of pieces of old kid gloves were utilized in
the construction of the quilt, which was
two yards square n nicely bound. Four
hundred shares were sold at % cents each
and the quilt was sold on Thursday,
Miss Switzer, of New York, being tine
winner.