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

The Phoenix Iron Works, of Tren-
ton. has received an order from the
Government for the manufacture OF a
lighthouse Il be erected on the Pacific
coast, off San Francisco. The contract
price is $3.50, 900. This lighthouse will
be of a different style, and it will take
about four months to complete the
job.
The certificate Of incorporation of
the Robertson Art Tile Company has
been fled in the Office of the County
Clerk. with a capital stock named OF
$50, 600. The ~incorporators are George
w. Robertson, James A. b. Robertson,
pbert X. Bowman and Arthur d.
rst. The company will begin BUSH
with $50, 600, and will conduct its
RS in Trenton and in M~orrisville,
nc the extensive works have been
ted and are now almost ready for
Rstion.
RRev. s. i. Cox. who has been APP
pointed missionary for the North New
4 Jersey Baptist Association, with his
headquarters at New Durham, near
Hoboken, has resigned his charge at
Mt. Olive, Sussex county.
The residents of Drakestown, a
mall village near Haekettstown, are
discussing the divorce suit brought by
Louis Batson, who is eighty years of
age, against his wife, who is forty
years old. The couple have been
married twenty years and have a
number of children. OF late years
they have not lived happily together,
and Mr.. Batson, in his complaint, ac-
cuses his wife of being unfaithful to
him, and accuses Jacob Smith, a
brother of the murdered Tillie Smith,
Of Hackettstown seminary fame, and
John Chamberlain, OF Budd's Lake.
A peculiar phase Is said to have
arisen out of the incorporation of
Landing, Morris county. The license
fees from the four hotels located
there, amounting TO 5000. will now go
into the borough treasury instead OF
that Of the township of Roxbury, as
heretofore. But in order to obtain
licenses for four hotels the signatures
OF forty-eight resident Freeholders of
the borough will be required. 1t is
said that there are not much more
than half that number OF Freeholders
resident in the borough, and as one
Freebooter cannot sign to applica-
tions for license, quite a difficulty is
presented In the matter of obtaining
the necessary signatures.
Inc AcUuEy IdFh Law anu ONuef
League has issued orders to all store
keepers In West Park to close on Sun
DAYS or suffer prosecution.
The old likeness OF General Grant
! in the Grant memorial window at st.
Luke's NJ. f. Church. Long Branch.
has been replaced by a new and much
/ better one.
Ice seven inches thick is being cut
In Suaaax Qoupfv
The new lite saving station at Sea-
bright has been commenced. 1t is to
cost s 1000.
4 Over three tons OF hogs were killed
Cat a general hog killing at Alloway
one day last week.
Six or seven barns have been burned
the vicinity of Elmer, Salem
4unty, during the fall.
tProf. j. ID. Wallace, of Trenton,
and John p. Dullard, editor of the
GHightstown Independent. have pur-
: chased the NeU Jersey Catholic Jour
nal, published at Trenton. They will
publish the paper under the firm
name Of Wallace s. Dullard, and will
assume charge at once. Thomas E.
Heating, the former publisher, will
enter the Industrial insurance bust
ness and will remain in town.