The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1891-03-04
STATE NOTES.

The shoe factory at Washington, War
rem County. which has not been very sue
cessfully operated. is to be turned into a
silk mill
the moral people of the town mp in arms.
and the affair is to be brought to the at
tention Of the Grand Jury. Quite a num-
Der of local officials and peaee officers at
tended the fight as spectators. =,
Red Bangs new Navesink Bank Will
open for business 10 about I'VE weeks.
Mrs. Cooper, who Is ninety-eight years
|. old, and Paterson's oldest resident, at
tended Grace NJ. E. Church on Sunday to
listen TO q sermon on John Wesley. who
died but two years before she was born ,
aud the centenary of whose death was
being observed. Mrs. Cooper has nve
generations Of descendants.
William L. Ewing, a farmer OF Fishing
Creek, Cape May county, last week Gu I
down a sweet gum tree which was PROB
ably the largest tree in that part OF New
Jersey. 1t was foul feet in diameter at
the butt and from the top Mr.. Ewing cut
two cords of wood and a wagon load OF
trimmings. There yet remains forty-two
feet of the trunk to be cut up.
The Newark Journal gives the follow
ing list of persons and estates in that
city reputed to be worth sl,0OQ.0 600 or
more:-William Clarke, Jonn II. BaIlan-
tine, Robert II. Ballanti tine, Edward Bal.
bach, George A Halsey, Gottfrie q
Kruger. James G. Barnett, Thomas u.
Kinney, Alexander Turnbull, George b.
Jenkinson. Mrs. Christine Trefz' william
estate of Frederick I. Frelinghuysen.
estate of Beach Vanderpool, estate of A:
L. Dennis, estate of Marcu us l.. Ward and
estate of S. R. w. Heath.
The handsome house of Assemblyman
George Kyte, at a nwood, was robbed or
valuable silverware on Sunday night. A
detective catch on a rear window allowed
burglars to gain possession OF the house,
the lower floors of which were ransacked
and everything of value stolen. Silver
plate valued at 5000 was carried OH,
many Of the silver pieces being family
heiriooms. The burglars must have
spent several hours in the house, as every
closet and drawer on the lower noor was
closely searched for ~valuables. The rob-
bers had a luncheon during their stay.
and drank several bottles of wine and
carried off a supply OF other liquors from
Mr.. Kyte's stores.
When jeremiah Thompson of Kearny
went into his cowhouse Monday morning
he missed his best mixer. He knew that
the animal had a propensity to stray over
the salt Hackensack meadows. and he
sent his fourteen year old son Jimmy TO
look for her. W. hour later the COW
returned without the boy. She was pias-
tered from boof to horn with green slime,
and her condition showed that she had
Jimmy's absence seemed to indicate that
he was stuck in it, and the dairyman
started out to search for his son. After
tramping for an hour over the frozen
marshes he found the boy buried mp TO
his waist, and still slowly, sinking. IN q
ouicksand. He was half lead with the
cold, and his father had a good deal OF
difficulty in extricating him. He said the
COW had fioundered into the morass first,
and he had tumbled after her. She had
managed to free herself. and he had
grasped her tail, hoping she would drag
him out behind her; but a bunch of hair
came off in his hand, and he back,
as he supposed, 10 his death