The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1891-07-13


away. but Patrolman Mullins caught
Tommy.
Central Assembly No. AZ, r. 8. G. f..
gave a very successful excui sion TO Green
wood Lake yesterday. There were seven
car loads OF excursionists.
William Henderson of No. $50 Wash
ington street was held By Police Justice
O'Donneii this morning for bre aking a
seal OF n Pennsylvania freight ar with
the object Of stepIing goods from tue car.
West Bergen.
The exercises at the NJ f. Church yes
terday morning were unusually interest,"
ing. A thank service for the purpose OF
paying OIL a deot of $500 incurred In re-
pairing and refitting the church. was
held. Over WI hundred dollars was
subscribed.
The regular monthly meeting of the
EDwortn League will be held on Thurs
dag evening. A fine literary aud musical
programme has been arranged. Mr.
GEORGE Perry, Of Newark, will be present.
aud give several Rotations.
The regular monthly meeting OF the
West Bergen Citizens Improvement As
ISOLATION will be held this evening at Mr..
Vreeland's Office. Nc. 200 West Side ave
me. Amoug the matters that will be
talked about are:-The low West Side
avenue bridge, new West Side sewers,
need OF more street lamps, those disease
breeding ponds on Yale Il Hatcn ave
tues and the need OF u hight agent at the
railroai station.
The Willing Workers Society Of Kings
Daughters viii meet this evening at the
residence of Mrs. w. II. Beach, No. 90
West Side
A ang of men are at work erecting
new telephone poles on West Sid avenue
New water pipes are being laid In Pol
lock avenue.
A meeting OF the d. NJ. Brennan Asso-
4 ofnef,. sa.r ha1d IN katssrduu aNanfn~ of
No. 20 Hatch avenue. The arrangements
for the lchowder party on Labor Day were
completed.
A large crowd of New York people
visited the gypsy camp yesterday after
noon. The gypsies are making money BY
telling fortunes.
Virginia avenue should be tagged be-
fore the new school house is completed.
The rotten board walk is dangerous and
should not be allowed to remain.
A local stove polish manufacturer is
lacking up street signs on all the corners
of this section Attached to each sign Is
an advertisement Of the stove polish.
Greenvilie.
G~reenville Building and Loan Associa-
ton No. | will meet this evening at the
rooms No. 80 Linden aveuus. The Green
vile United Il and L. Association will
also meet this evening at Bamber Hall.
A stag sociable will be held at the Min
1 NtuU IOOIlS VI ONGAu dNGuuo blllo
evening. The members anticipate a jolly
time.
The bathing season is now under full
sway and the SURF on the Newark Bay
shore Is crowded and enjoyed every day.
Dick Uldrlch's bathing houses are at a
premium. Nearly every one has been en-
gagged for the season.
The children of the industrial School
will have a jolly time at the Faith Cure
grounds tomorrow afternoon A COLA
ton has been prepared by the teachers,
and the little ones will be permitted to
indulge in outdoor SPORTS to tneis hearts
content. Tine school now has over two
hundred scholars, and children are being
admitted every week.
The Greenville Wneelmen are looking
for u suitable club house. The member
ship has grown 10 twenty-one, aud the
success Of the club seems assured. The
members will take u run TO Bergen Point
return this evening.
The Old vestry Of the Grace p. Z. Church
held n gospel service at the residence of
Mr.. r. f. Morse, on Columbus Place, last
evening.
Messrs. G. and o. Dealing have Joined
the Reformed Church choir. Both nave
cultivated tenor voices. Under the
dictatorship of Mr.. Westervelt the choir
is developing into a ine musical body.
Carpenters began work on the Van
Nostrand Place railroad station. The
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completed by August -.
The u picnic of the Eagle Pleasure
Club will be held this afternoon and
evening at the Schueizen Park.
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Z. Palmer have re-
turned froui their Southern honeymoon
and will receive at their residence on
Thursday evening.
Lafayette.
The Eagle Oil Company is improving
its property at Cayen Point. Four new
tanks are being built and two new store
houses have just been completed. Tn
meadow land surrounding the property
is being filled 10 with earth and cinders.
The work on the new railroad station
at Communipaw Is progressing rapidly
the foundation has been laid ard tomor-
row The carpenters will begin their par
OF the work.
Charles Lambert, ten years old, ant
living on Van Horn street, while playing
on Pacific avenue his morning was bit
ten by a mad dog. The wound was eau
rerized at a nearby drug store. The do {
was shot.
THE annual picnic OF the LAFAYETTE So
cial Union will be held on Saturday July
81, AT Salter's Grove, Pamrapo. The com
mittee of arrangements is as foliows:-
John HartwelI, Frank Golden, Harr,
Spencer, Charles Lewis and Walter
Perry.
Mary Mahoney. thirty-two years old
while hanging out clothes at her home OIL
Pine street this morning, fell from the
secoud story window to the ground
twenty feet below. Her right arm was
broken in two places. She was removed
to the City Hospital.
The Lafayette Bicycle Club will meet
this evening at the residence of Charles
Armstrong on Pacific avenue, Arrange
ments Will be made for a club run to
Morristowa.
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Petroleum as Intoxicstion's Antidote.
The number of remedies-not to sa,
nostrums-which lave from time to tint
been Wanted as specifics for alcoholism is
legion, some of the latest being red Gin
chons, strychnines ichthyol, phosphorus
hydrobromate of hyoscine ami hydrastis
The most recently suggested remedy il
petroleum, or parafiine oil, to which ths
attention of the ST. Petersburg medica
authorities was called by accident. 1t ar
pears tilat a laboring man. who had been
drinking heavily for foul days and
nights, entered into a complete state OF
intoxication in a grocer's shop without
being conscious of where he was or what
he was doing
Unnoticed by the shopkeeper he stag
gered up to an upen cask of petroleum and
began drinking from It. With difficulty