The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-04-14
PERSONAL AND NOTABLE

The receipts of the Atlantic City post office for
the year ending April 1 aggregated nearly
$25,OO0.
The creamery proprietors, dairymen, butchers
and others of Woodstown have organized under
the title of the Woodstown Ice Company. The
object is to buy ice in large quantities and save
the profits Of the middlemen.
George, a son of George S. Clarke, of Mata-
wan, while making some ice cream a few days
ago, used laudanum instead Of fiayoring ex-
tract.
1t is rumored in Elizabeth that another State
bank besides the one soon to open will shortly be
organized by several wealthy capitalists, who
think the boom in real estate will make a profit
able business.
At the Princeton borough election on Monday
the Republicans elected one Of the four Council
men, two Commissioners of Appeals and the In
spector of Election. The balance of the ticket
went Democratic. The Common Council now
stands five Republicans and four Democrats.
Bonding the town for street paving for $4,000
was completely knocked out by a big majority
of 412 to 80.
Robert B. Benson, a wealthy resident of Ay-
crigg avenue, Passaic, has one Of the most
severe cases of smallpox ever known in that
city. All day yesterday his food had to be
passed into his room on the second floor by
means of a ladder. Another case was reported
last night, and the alarm is becoming general. A
canvass of the schools will be made to see that
all the pupils are properly vaccinated.
The shad fishermen are having good luck for
the beginning of the season. One party took
nearly three hundred large shad Ii in their first
haul at Keyport, N. j.
During O thunderstorm at Millviile last Mon
day fourteen houses in and around the city were
struck by lightning, but the damage was slight.
The window glass blowers at Warrick's works,
Glassboro, returned to work under an adjust
ment Of their troubles yesterday.
Thursday night the Gloucester City Council
men passed an ordinance raising the license fee
from $500 to 5000 per annnm. There are eighty
saloons in the city.
Captain F. Q. Gilbert, of Elizabeth wheelmen,
and Secretary sBonnett shave made charges of
assault against Theodore Glazer and his son
Fritz, who, the wheelmen allege, attacked them
Saturday night as they were riding on their bicy-
cles along Railway avenue, Elizabeth. Glazer
claimed that the wheelmen frightened his horse,
and he afterwards went at them with a horse
whip, while his son attacked them with a hoe.
There were five wheeImsn. The others were
Lieutenant Caldwell and Messrs. Conklins and
Whipple. 1t is said the New Jersey Division of
the League Of American Wheelmen will vigor-
ously prosecute the charges.
One day last week two mules on the Morris
canal were drowned in the S~tanhope reservoir
They were attached to two boats and a strong
wind suddenly swept across the reservoir sweep
ing the boats out into the lake and dragging the
mules from the tow path.
The State Medical Society has appointed ORB.
A. Washington, of Salem, to represent New Jer-
sey at the American Medical. Association, which
meets at Nashville, Tenn, on May 20.
The management Of the Clinton Democrat has
been changed. William H. Carpenter, for many
years the local editor of that paper, has entered
into partnership with his brother.
Moses Bigelow, of Newark, has sold the Mine
Hill farm, in Franklin, Sussex county, to the
Franklin Iron Company. This celebrated farm
belonged to the late DR.. Samuel Fowler, Mr..
Bigelow's grandfather, and contains the most
valuable deposit of franklinite ore in the world
Two little girls, aged four and six years, ar
rived in Philadelphia on Saturday morning from
Stockton, Cal. with tags upon their clothing
upon which was written:-"To be handed over
to Mrs. Gotleib Burke, Of Atco, N. J., upon their
arrival at Philadelphia They had made the
trip across the continent u-naccompanied. Mrs
Burke was at the station when they arrived.
The names of the two young travellers are
Christie and Sophie Burke. They had travelled
seven days, and had been well cared for on the
trip by kind passengers. Their parents died
recently in California, and they were sent east
to their aunt, who lives on the line of the Attain
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