The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-10-07
NEWS IN NOTES.
MI OVER H ST.

1t is announced that the Trenton City
Railway has been sold to @ syndicate with
Governor Campbell, of Ohio, at the head.
An effort will be made to introduce the
system of electric propulsion.
John B. Duffield, of Cedarville, Cum.
berland county, has been held in S40O bal
on q charge of selling liquor illegally;
The township in which ne lives is OF
those which recently adopted the S5,OoC
license fee.
A fakir who swindled people at Phil
lipsburg last Saturday, during the large
firemen's parade in the town that day,
was attacked by O crowd and his wagon
was upset and broken. The fakir man.
aged to escape.
The Rev. e. H. Durell, a Woodbury.
clergyman, is harvesting a fine crop OF
cranberries from q bog he owns in Cape
May county.
While trying to brighten a female
friend by pounding on q window pane,
Sunday night, George Harris, a Camden
man, broke the glass and terribly LAGER
ated his hand.
against Francis Lingo, b merge who Is
suspected of having killed Mrs. Annie
Miller, near Moorestown. On his clothes
have been found the stains Of human
blood, and a witness has been found who
saw him emerge from b woods where
Mrs. Miller's body was found shortly
after the murder must have been COM
miJted.
Colson &c Kiger. Gamers, of Daretown,
had some trouble with their foreman
Wednesday, which resulted in all TN 9
help leaving the factory. The firm sold
their empty cans in stock and closed The
factory.
Two prisoners escaped from the Hun
terdon County Jail Saturday.
The Paterson Board of Trade are anx-
ious for the Dundee Canal to be opened.
Judge Mccormick and wife OF Unl0n
county narrowly escaped death at q rail-
road crossing while out driving Satur-
day.
One thousand dollars has been raised
by three young ladies of the Manasquan
Presbyterian Church toward paying a
debt Of S 1000 on the church property.
Typhoid and malarial fever are preva-
lent in New Brunswick and an epidemic
is feared.
William b. Plasket, of Hartfard, was
nominated for the Legislature by the
Democrats of the Third Assembly dis
trict of Burlington county, at Noun
Holly on Saturday. Mr.. Plasket accepted
the nomination.
Rutherford post Office has been made an
International money order office and Will
issue foreign money orders as soon as the
necessary blank forms arrive.
VAlA0 u AdASO - 0ObShg DAAeJ AS~t
long, and weighing several tons, was
being raised to position at the Cumber-
lard Glass Works, at Bridgetown, the
rope parted and a section of the stack fell
and crashed through the building be-
meath. Thirty people who were working
in the building narrowly escaped death
OF serious injury.
The marriage of Butler Coe, of Engle-
wood, to Edith, daughter of the Rev.
Robert Altman, Madison, is reported TO
have taken place over a year ago and has
just been made public.
In Hamburg, q village OF 500 tnhabi-
tants, there have been torty-f1ve cases Of
malignant dysentery within the last two
months and twenty deaths. There have
been nine deaths in the hamlets near by,
Two prisoners escaped on Saturday
from the Hunterdon county jail.
Seaside commuters complain of the
Withdrawal Of many trains on the Long
Branch Railroad.
The deaths are announced at Hacken-
sack of A. Schuyler Boyd; Haglet, DR..
Cosmo Bradley, and Woodbridge, Will
lianf4T. AmeS.