The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1891-08-10
STATE NOTES.


George NJ. Elwell, Jr., a young man OF
Bridgeton, recently married his third
wife, Miss Winolia Stefin, aged fifteen
years. Now she has left him aud caused
mis- arrest for sbrutally choking and
shaking her"
A pine snake, six feet three inches
long, was killed at Mays Landing on
Saturday by Warren Wilson, a ten year
old boy.
A beach committee is TO be organized
at Cape May 10 see that there are no
breaches of decorual in dressing Tor the
surf.
Theodore Kurzhals. a barber at Plain
field, has appealed to Mayor Gilbert for
the suppression of the nuisance caused
by Joseph b. Miller, who conducts a eou-
cert garden at his hotel, next door TO
Kurzhal's residence. The noise and dis
order are such hat Mrs. Kurzhals, who is
an invalid, cannot sleep. kurzhais tried
10 shut out the sounds OF reyelry by
building a high board fence between his
house and the hotel, but ne says tnat
Miller then made the nuisance worse.
William Ryerson, a farmer at Salem,
has been badly bitten by his W maStiff,
and h~ydropnobia IS feared lie came
home late, and the dog. which he bought
only u week ago to scare away tranps,
aid not know him. 1t sprang upou
Ryerson and bore him to the ground,
biting aud tearing his flesh badly before
help came. Ryerson has had his rour
wounds cauterized.
james Leonard of Plainfeld, a mason.
had a terrible fail. but miraculously
escaped serious injury, Saturday after
noon. The scaffoluiug on which he was
working on the new Grace Church build
ing was forty feet above The ground. A
portion Of it gave way. and he fell head
long on a heap OF building stone. he
was taken to the Muhlenberg Hospital,
where his injuries were found to be a
dislocated wrist and a number OF bruises.
Leonard Bowers was released from the
county house at Bridgeton and started TO
walk to see his children, VINO We're TOO
poor to help their old father. He aid TO
the keeper:-'I must see the children
again before / ( die. aud I'm getting old"
After he had walked TO Newport, twelve
miles distant, and while on the track UI
the Cumberland and Maurice River
Road, lac was instantly killed By an extra
freight train.
Henry combs of Elmer had a valuable
horse 50 peculiarly affected that it baff1ed
all the horse doctors for miles around.
On Saturday q bunch OF knotted grass
WIS taken from the horses nostrils u
the animal was relieved Of its sufferings.
The grass had been put there by SOME
eyil-disposed person.
At Atlantic City on Saturday twenty
five rescues were made by the life guards,
some of them being narrow escapes At
the post OF South Carolina avenue, where
the current IS very scIOHss Lhlo 0uatuo
Headly and Jeffries TOOK thirteen per-
sons out of the water.
George Deinzer, Of New Brunswick,
VINO has been suffering from blood-poi-
soniug since June %, as the result of a
scratch by a rusty nail in his right
thumb, had his hand amputated on SAT
urday. He is verg weak from his long
snffering and may not survive.
In five nights fishing the past week
Andrew Stewart, SUPERINTENDENT of the
Weymouth paper mills, and Charles
low WEYMOUTH captured 1889 catfish
and cells with nook and line.
While John Hahn and his w little
boys were half way across the long tres
tie of the New Jersey Southern Railroad,
at Bridgeton. they were horrined TO see
aud engine almost upon them. .fhey
sprang into the river we're and rescued.
CITY NOTES.