The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1891-08-18
STATE NOTES.

w. II. Chase. q travelling fortune teller
of D~ennisville, aged about fifty years,
while walking TO CnDe May. was struck
by the express OF the West Jersey and
probably fatally injured.
George Adams, of Camden, went to
Mount Holly to call on a friend. and after
wards started to walk to Masonville.
While walking al0ng the road he was
stricken with apoplexy, and Just as he
was recovering consciousness no was at
tackled by two tramps. who ROBBED him
OF Sill ia money and his shirt studs. He
was too weak to offer any resistance, but
afterwards recovered and got as far as
Stan wick. where the- station agent gave
him a ticket for Camden. The tramps es-
capped.
A council of the Jr. o. U. A. NJ. has
been established at Dunellen. with hfty-
seven charter members.
The annual harvest of "king crabs"
has begun at West Creek. aud the ferIil-
izer factories have started up again after
months of idleness. New Jersey is the
only State in the Union that manu-
features fertilizer out OF crabs, and the
largest factory in this State is situated at
West Creek. A visitor is surprised to
see the vast number of king crabs hat
are brought here by boats and wagons
from all directions These old she'll
fish are caught in stationary nets along
the Cape May coast from Cape May Poin
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son, it is computed. about 2, 100000 of the
uDgainly crabs were captured, and this
season is likely to surpnss the last. The
fertilizer made from the crabs is used to
force early vegetables aud fruits.
William Wailing. a prosperous farmer.
was at the Red Bank railway station with
his team. Tn horses we're frightened by
the cars. Mr.. Walling jumped to catch
the animals by the head and was hit i'll
the throat by the neck yoke and knocked
down. The blow on the throat knocked
him speechless, and it is thought that he
received internal injuries.
Water has been turned into the mains
of the Plainfield Water Company. The
water Is pumped from the depth of fifty
feet through twenty driven wells near
the N~etherwood station of the Central
Railroad 1t is raised in a st lndpipe of
boiler iron to a height OF las feet, thrown
into the air for aeration, and then dis
tributed through the mains. The pu mps
that raise the water a a capacity of
5000, 600 gallons OF water daily. The
water tower, which is twenty-five feer in
diameter and 145 feet high, will hold $751;
600 gallons of water. 1t is not intended
as a reservoir. but simply as a means of
maintaining & steady pressure on the
mains The force OF the water is sufh-
cent TO throw a stream through q fire.
hose nozzle over the highest building in
the city, without the aid of u steam fire
engine.
The vestry of st. Marks Church. of
Orange, has extended a call to the Rev.
Frank b. Reason, rector of St Johns
Church, of Delhi, \. \.
Judge Gilhooly, of the District Court,
and President of the City Council, has
begun suit for criminal libel against
William s. Mexican, editor OF the Eliza
beth Herald, because of the publication
of an article imputIng corrupt motives to
the Judge, in his vote on a resolution be-
fore the Council.
Timothy H. Morse, of Plainfield. saws
he is the oldest Freenlason in the State.
He is ninety years old, and has been a
Freemason since 1924
Charles Miller. OF Burlington, has be-
gun suit for 500 damages against JOIN
Dorsey, who accidentally shot him in the
foot a few weeks ago.