The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1891-05-07
STATE NOTES.

Miles Smith, a wealthy farmer, of Ten
Mile Run, Middlesex county, sat down
last Wednesday on a chair upon which a
newspaper WAS lying. Under the news
paper was the family cat, which bit Mr..
Smiths right hand severely. Little at
tention was paid to the hurt until FRIDAY,
when the hand and arm became greatly
swollen, and the medical man called
found that blood poisoning had set in.
According to the report OF the state
Board of Assessors there are TWENTY-FIVE
horse railroad companies doing business
in this State. They operate 2O91s miles OF
track; have a capital stock issued OF 81
797, 500; a paid up capital stock of So,lIl,-
929. so; a funded debt OF So,S0o,4sO and
| other debts amounting to $462, $50. 81. The
cost of these roads, including equipments
aud a-ppurtenances, was SIC. 4Sl, 243.9
Thomas Smith, a laborer in the employ
| of Captain 4. d. French, of Port Republic.
became so excited by the forest fires that
were raging in the vicinity that while ne
was engaged fighting the IN on Sat
urday he dashed INTO the fire and was sup
posed to have been burned TO death. sun
! day morning he was onn beside a brook,
into which he had jumped. he was Sc
Yerely burned about the face and his hair
was singed of.
A large frog stopped up the water pipes
in the Y. NJ. c. A. building at New Bruins
wick recently. The janitor unscrewed a
Joint to make an investigation and the
LEAD frog was blown into mis- lace. toll
lowed by a hood of water that almost took
away his breath.
Mrs SiIas w. Wilson, of New Bruins
wick, was struck by a bat in the hands of
a Doy who was playing ball on the street
/ on Saturday. The bat struck her on the
left temple, and she was unconscious Tor
several hours.
DIR. S. III. Hunt. of Long Branch, a
prominent citizen of that place, died sud
denly on Sunday night from paralysis
while on a visit 10 the Monmouth Beach
! Club House, to which place he had been
called. He was fifty-ive years old, and
was a prominent member OF the State,
county and local medical societies. He
was also president of the
4 Memorial Hospital, which was dedicated
on Friday last, and he was also a pioneer
member of the New Jersey branch OF the
Sous of the Revolution.
The competitive cadetship examination
In Paterson on April rs furnished the
ninth victory in sixteen years for the
Union street free public school, Hacken-
sack, OF which Nelson Haas. A NJ, is
principal. Six pupils from the school
have won cadetships Ia the navy, one OF
whom could not enter the Annapolis
Academy because OF weak eyes; two are
in the army, and one gained tae free
scholarship in the Agricultural College
&C New Brunswick. One of the boys,
Ellsworth o.. Bertholf. was dismissed
| from the Naval Acduemy lOf 0AzlnR. ne
, then moved TO New YORK city, and won a
West Point cadetship on competitive ex-
animation, but was shut out on his Au-
napolis record; subsequently he won a
place in the Revenue Marine, where he is
now an officer.
Grin has protrated nearly ona-half the
/ population OF the Saddle River valley.
bergen county. aud many eat have
occurred.
A large turkey buzzard scared over
Atlantic City one day last week and
finally alightsd on the roof Of q house in