The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-12-29
NEWS IN NOTES.
STATE NOTES.


Rev. DR.. William ID. Hedden, one of
the old residents OF East Orange, and
for twenty-five years the pastor of the
Maple avenne Baptist Church, died at
the residence of his daughter. Mrs. l..
o. Morningstern, Wednesday. Mr..
Hedden was born in that place
November q, 1928. He was educated
in the East Orange schools.
While the funeral procession OF the
late John Oils was proceeding TO the
German Baptist Church Cemetery. near
Sergeantsviile, Hunterdon County, on
Friday the gale lifted a horse and
wagon driven by DIR. George III. Lari-
son and hurled 1t across the roadway
against a fence, knocking the physi-
clan senseiess. Two other teams,
also, were wrecked, and the occupants
were seriously injured. The process
sion reached the grave with difficulty.
The mourners had to dig out the grave
again. as 1t was filled with o
A novel race, which may eventually
result in two cases OF pneumonia
took place on Branch Brook, Newark,
on Thursday. The contestants were
Martin Weiss and James Keegan.
The purse was $50, and the conditions
that they should run 200 yards on the
ice in their bare feet. Ii was thought
that the bitter cold weather would
deter them from making the attempt.
but both men were on time. They
started evenly and kept well together
until the last twenty-five yards was
reached, when Weiss spurted, and,
urged on by the crowd OF skaters, won
by about fifteen feet.
n William Moore, known in tine sport
ing fraternity as Uncle Billy" Moore.
died about a year ago at Plainfield.
BY a will. to which was attached his
mark, half of his estate, worth $780,
600, was left to a second wife, who
died a few days after her husband.
Mr.. Moore had one son, who contested
the will on the grounds of undue in
fiuence and improper execution, and
an ejectment suit was instituted be-
fore Chief Justice Beasley. This suit
has been decided in favor of the son,
who thus obtains the money which
otherwise would have gone to the
heirs OF his late step-mother.
A circular has been issued by acom-
mittee, consisting of Martha f. Nell
son, OF the Union Library. Trenton;
Frank p. Hill, OF the Free Public
Library, Newark, and Ernest G. Rich
ardson, OF the Princeton College Ii
brary, calling a meeting of librarians,
trustees and others interested in
Sbrary work, to be held at Library
all, Trenton, today, for the pur-
Sc OF forming a State Library Asso-
| Alton.
1t is rumored that the Egg Harbor
and Mays Landing Branch Railroad,
which has not been in operation for
the past eight years. is soon to be
opened again for business.
Trhn Copoyar ono IF fIta hast
known business men in Central New
Jersey, died on December "a at Prince
ton, after a brief illness, aged seventy
seven years. He had been Mayor of
Princeton.
James Davis, who is serving a SEN
tence in the jail at Bridgeton for lar
ceny, was on Christmas Eve put to
work in the jail yard. He hid in the
haymow OF q barn until midnight,
when he made his escape. He was
recaptured.
I, Commodore Charles Higgins, Of FL
izabefh, is seriously i'll. He is over
eighty years old. Commodore kig-
gins was a famous singer. He sang
the Star Spangled Banner in the
First Presbyterian Church IN every
anniversary of Independence Day.
Ex-Sherif Isaac A. Hopper, OF Ber-
gen, appears, on a certificate of incor-
poration filed In the Bergen County
Clerks Office, as president of the Fair
Lawn Land Improvement Association,
whose object is TO buy, sell and i'm
prove lands at Fair Lawn, formerly
called Small Lots. The old Demo
cratic leader and his associates formed
the company to keep a Paterson cor
poration from starting a cemetery in
their neighborhood. They bought
up the proposed cemetery plot before
the Paterson syndicate vas ware of
their purpose, and will now make an
effort to sell their holding in village
1nts