The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1891-03-23
STATE NOTES.

The plate mill OF the Paterson Iron
Company is to be removed from Paterson.
Ex-Congressman Charles ID. Beckwith is
chief owner Of the concern. The mill has
been shut down for some time for lack of
orders. MIR. Beckwith says that it cost him
$500 "A ton for coal which the plate mills
along the Della ware get for $500; help is
scarce in this section. and freight rates
are unfayorable. He has been looking at
sites along the Delaware aud elsewhere.
aud has three different offers from Will
m~ington, Philadelphia aad baltimore
capitalists. The forge works will remnin
In Paterson.
An unknown man made three uusuc-
cessful attempts to commit suic ide at
H~ackenaack on Saturday afternoon by
lying down on the railroad track as trains
were approaching. A train due at Tia e
Essex depot at ass O'CLOCK had to be
stopped so that the would be suicide could
be removed from the track. Soon after
this he again threw himself on the truck,
Il mother engineer barely stopped his
train In time to save the mans life. The
man also made another aud similar at
tempt to end his existence. The last time
he was pulled from the track by the sta
tion agent, when he made u desperate
struggle.
An odd suit is to be tried In the Second
District Court, at Newark, on Friday. X.
q. Solomon, a leather manufacturer, re-
tains ten cents per week from the pay OF
each or his employees for a sick ben eft.
Martin Hyman, one of his men, has sued
to recover so re served for this fund. One
OF the conditions imposed on the work
men is that if they leave without giving
a months notice they hall sacrifice all
they have paid into the fund. Lyman
says he left because his wages were to be
reduced. Fifty similar suits will prob
ably be instituted against Solomon If Hy-
man wins his.
Company II. Sixth Regiment, OF Cape
May, Is practically disarlned owing TO q
difficulty between its former com mand-
ing officer, Captain II. w. Edmunds, and
the new c-omtnandaut, Captain Freeman
Douglass. The latter declines TO receipt
Tor the guns and other property, and
General Donnelly has sent orders for
their shipment to headquarters,
Parerson's Chief of Police wants the
force Increased by thirty men. He now
has but ifty-three men to do police duty
night and day. The entire force consists
OF seventy. Three do desk duty; two are
Kept for detective work; one as truant
officer; one for depot duty, and one on
duty in the Recorders court, and nine are
officers. The city covers eight and one
third square miles, aud has u population
of S0,0OO,
- frank Haugari, for seven years an em-
pioye OF the New Jersey Copper Extrac-
ton Company at Tremly Point, has been
imprisoned for three years in Germany
for using insulting language while speak
ing of the Emperor. +.
Joseph Sullivan. the Elizabeth prize
fighter, was caught on Thurs lay night in
the act of stealing chickens from Robert
WalPole of Scotch Plains. He was held
for trial.
Joseph B. johnson. the fourth Mayor Of
Bordentown, died recently 1T Farmer
City, Ill at the age of seyenty-four.
General a.. T. Shiras Post Of Mount
Holly has arranged to mark the graves of
all the soldiers in the county with iron
monuments.