The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1891-03-19
STATE NOTES.

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The Irish-American Club of Camden
gave q banquet Tuesday evening at which
General Sewell, George Pfeiffer, Thomas
p. Curley, NJ. j. O'Callaghan, Judge
Armstrong and others responded TO
toasts.
An exciting election at B%urlington,
Tuesday. resulted in the Republicans
e~iecting an equal number OF meinber to
the Town Council with the Democrats.
Usually the town is strongly Democratic.
The Rev. John w. Hickman, a retired
minister OF the New Jersey Conference
of the Methodist Episcopal Church, died
yesterday, aged eighty-one years.
A stock company has been formed for
the manufacture Of glass bottles at Glass
boro.
Washington. Warren county, has a
twelve-year-old boy cornetist, who plays
marvelously well. He is a member Of
the Washington band, and executes solos
with great exactness.
j. L. Van Duyne. foreman OF the Lin
coin Iron Works, at Boston. has invented
a new die and rebuilt a rivet machine for
making solid die riyets- The old ma
chine would make 1900 pounds per day,
while the new one will make 1850.
The Newark Board of Tax Commission
ers is in hot pursuit of the merchants"
who get possession of a temporarily va
cant store, put in a stock of clothing or
other goods. and after doing a big bust
ness for a few weeks. get out Of the city
again without paying license or taxes.
On Saturday morning last Jonas
IIzcoda, a hungarian miner about 20
years old, was found dead on tue road
leading to Mount Hope, a small mining
village about thirteen miles from Morris
town. 1t was thought death was due to
natural caases and the body was buried
without an inquest. Now Pizcoda's sis
ter asks that IL be exhumed, and there are
indications that he met with foul play.
The Board of Excise Of Elizabeth has
decided that hereafter all established
saloons in the city could baye their
licenses renewed by the proprletors fur
nishing two bondsmen, the usual twelve
signers TO be dispensed with; but In cases
where new saloons were TO be opened, the
old rule of exaeting twelve signers for
applications to sell liquor, and ten signers
for applications to sell beer, would be
continued.
William Costello was found dead at his
home in Swedesboro, yesterday, and a
physician pronounced his death due To
heart disease. He was desperately in
love with a girl who was recently mar
ried, and since then he has been deeply
detected. His friends claim that he died
of a broken heart.
The Passaic County Trades Assembly
has taken up the measure in favor of
early closing, for the purpose OF assisting
the Clerks and Salesmen's Association.
Ex-Mayor Charles Seidler OF Jersey
City, receiver for the Loriliard Brick
Works, visited Keyport on Saturday and
paid in full the wage claims held by the
employees.
The Kings Daughters of H~ackensack
are discussing the matter of establishing
a free reading room, with a coffee and
cake annex for the benefit OF the work
ingmen who inhabit the district IN the
summer.
The Elizabeth Journal says:-For q
small wager yesterday John Kennedy, a
Roselle milkman, while in the sample room
of the Elm House on East Grand street,
swallowed seven raw eggs The eggs
were placed by himself In his mouth
whole and then muched and gnlped
down In two minutes and torty-eight sec
onds, followed by three glasses of German
beverage, each containing the yoke OF an
egg. Kennedy then devoured a hearty
meal OF beef, potatoes, ETC., which was
washed down by more German influence.
He then offered TO bet SO he could swal-
low twelve whole eggs, shell and all, in
fifteen minutes. His wager was not COW
cred. Kennedy's feat is the only one of
its kind ever attempted, and there are no
bad effects up to date.
Michael McMullen and Hugh Trainor
of Paterson became boisterous while
drunk In the Pennsylvania depot yester-
= day. Justice Stilsing this morning fined
McMulien So and Trainor 81.
Daniel Ernest OF Lowell, Mass, was
caught begging on the streets with Two
other men yesterday. Seeing Patrolman
Oxley approach all three ran off. Oxley
pursued Ernest aud caught him AS he was
scaling q rear fence in a Morgan street
yard. Ernest was remanded by Justice
Stilsing this morning.
Edward Ellinger, the colored theologi-
cal pugIlist, was again before Justice
Stilsing this morning as a disorderly per-
son. He was having a rough and tumble
fight with his wife. who complained 10
the police that she was afraid TO stay in
the house with him, as he had threatened
to cut her throat. Police Captain Kelly
locked him up. Justice Stiising re-
manded him until his wife's appearance
in court
Catherine Cannon, of No. 3s7 st. Paul's
avenue, caused the arrest yesterday OF her
husband, Frank Cannon, a yard master
connected with a railroad. She charged
him with having frequently beaten her
brutally without any provocation for So
doing. The Court held him for examine
lion.
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