The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1891-05-25
STATE NOTES.

James Metcalf, of Camden, who lost
three children from black diphtheria, has
been stricken himself. and two more
daughters are critically ILL
Black River glen, a beautiful and pic
turesque section of Somerset county. is to
be opened as a pleasure resort this season.
1t is on the new Rockaway Valley Rail
road, near Pottersyille.
John Williamson, twelve years old, IS
lying in a critical condition at his home
in Cliffwood, Monmouth county. suffer-
ing from the effects of swallowing a piece
Of glass. 1t is thought the glass is lodged
in his throat. =
During a terrific thunder storm at At
lantic City, the early part of Friday even
ing, Mrs. Mary Carroll, . colored woman,
t~hirty-tive years old. was frightened to
death. She was found after the storm on
the porch of Bayer's hotel. DR.. Eugene
Reed said death was due to fright.
An old landmark in the shape of a four
teen room brick house, built half a CEN
fury ago, is now being removed bodily
from It's present location in Mount Holly,
to make room for the new Masonic Tenn
pie.
The house and store of Andrew l.. Rog-
ers, at Glendola, near Asbury Park. was
partly burned at an early hour Saturday
morning. The family barely escaped suf-
location, and had to be carried from the
burning building. The origin OF the fire
is
1t cost Bergen county S34s, 900 for boun-
ties during the war, aud there are still
S16S 600 of the bonds outstanding. at
seven per cent. interest, and the last pay
ment viii not be paid until 1905.
Mrs. Margaret Robbins has brought
suit for limited divorce and support
against her husband, Daniel Robbins, a
wealthy contractor of Asbury Park. Mrs.
Robbins. in her petition, claims that her
husband deserted her in 1889, since which
time he has refused TO contribute stewards
her maintenance.
Some fishermen who went out to raise
their nets yesterday morning be-
fore daylight, found a great
surprise awaiting them, and rowed
ashore with valuable freight. A sc hool
of macherel had wandered IN and the
men captured over 600. Such a thing
rarely happens. They are the ordinary,
not the Spanish mackerel. and weigh
about Il pound and a half each.
Chancellor McGill has issued an order
for the arrest and Imprisonment of
Adolph Wassermau, in case he does not
comply with an order of the court to re-
move his ar-ease-reniering establishment
outside the limits of Somerville- The
local board of health has been e~ndeayor-
ing for two years TO have the nuisance
abated. and Wasserman has been fighting
the BOARD in the courts.
John Sickle, a miner. was killed on
" ednesday in the Andover mine, at Hi
hernia, by a falling sock which struck
him ON the head. His son and a fellow
workman were severely injured. The
men were at work at a dump when the
large rock became dislodged and crashed
upon them Sticie was so years old, and
leaves a widow and several small
children.
The Somerville Unionist-Gdzette says:
Inexperienced peach growers say that
NJ to the present time there is every
prospect of a good yield of peaches this
season ia Somerset ouuty. Tho rains of
a week ago came just at a time when it
was feared the setting frnit would fall
for lack of moisture, INT as yet the late
frosts have not injured the tender fruit.
About White House. New Germantown.
Peapack, NeShanic and vicinity, the trees
LOOK remarkably thrifty and many or
chards very full There having been no
yield for Q year or two the trees nave had