The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1891-05-09
STATE NOTES.

The Egg Harbor City Common Council
had an exciting debate Thursday night
over the license fee. A proposition was
made to raise it to S275, but the low license
members insisted on $3.50. 1t was finally
fixed at $3.50. and seventeen licenses were
granted.
The children of Springfield recently
gathered $50 pretty little bouquets Of
apple blossoms, dogwood, violets an d
pansies, and sent them to the Five Points
Mission, in New York. where they were
distributed to children connected with
that Institution.
The Postal Telegraph Company has be-
gun to string wires In Monmouth county
and Offices will be established in all the
principal towns. The lines will extend as
far south as Asbury Park, and perhaps
farther. The line will be In operation
from Red Ban in about q fortnight
Relatives found s4,500 In the vest pocket
of Captain Boon of Salem, who died sud-
denly on Wednesday.
The American Mechanics have sixteen
councils in Monmouth County.
Mr.. Disbrow, the keeper of the hotel at
Perrineville. has a silver half dime of the
COINAGE of 1904. with fourteen stars. 1t
WAS found by q boy ia the ruins Of u
chimney near the village, ON a hill where
formerly, in ante-electric days. was a
signal station.
A special election is to be held at Cape
May on May 20 to vote on increasing the
bonded Indebtedness of the city TO $780,
Geo.
The window of the late Clifton w. Tay-
1eure of Long Branch has received 5000
from the Equitable Life Assurance So
ciety for arnOunt Of insurance due on her
husbands life insurance policy. Mr..
Tayleure had failed to paw the last two
premiums due on his policy. aud his es-
late was not legally entitled to the insur-
ance, but the society generously waived
their right and paid the full amount of
the policy.
The women Of Biairstown, Warren
county. have organized what they call an
.Indignation Club" the object of which
is TO discourage gambling and unseason-
able hours amoung the husbands or the
members. The society contains twenty
or thirty members. among them the
wives of leading citizens. There is a great
complaint in the place over alleged i'm
moralities in which some OF the married
men are alleged 10 be participants, and
the women say they are determined TO
bring about a reform at all hazards,
Fifteen or twenty tramps, led by Harry
Edwards, have been terrorizing Westfeld
for a week. All kind of ~depredations are
committed daily. Edwards organized the
band In New York. They built q camp in
n grove. At houses where food was re-
fused burglaries ave been committed.
and many people are afraid to go to bed.
George Burrill, colored. received warning
that his house would be robbed, and thai
he would be punished. He lay awake
several nights waiting for his visitors.
They appeared at the window aud Burriu
snatched up a shotgun and fred both bar
rels at the burglars. but failed 70 wound
them. There are only three constables in
town, u Edwards is known to be such a
desperate man that none of them have
dared to arrest MIN.
A novel method OF punishment IN vogue
At the Newark Orphan Asylum was
brought out recently during the question |
ng Of a ten-year old lad VINO ran away