The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1891-01-10
NEWS in NOTES.
STATE NOTES.

The Jane Dempsey will case has
been put down for a hearing at Hack
ensack on January %. The suit in
wolves the possession Of $50, 900 and
is the outcome OF the recent discovery
OF q will twenty-seven years old. The
money was left to Mr.. Delleway. a
lawyer of New York. Under the will
discovered it should go to jane
Dempsey's heirs. The heirs say that
the cas- VIII probably be COM
promised.
Camden Justices of the Peace sent
ga tramps to the County Jail during
December. and for the first seven
days OF January 121 have been COM
mitted. In three days Justice George
w. Miles, of Cramer Hill, committed
flfty-seven, for which he received
$15.15. Besides this the constable
gets fifty cents each, the County
Clerk a fee, and the Sheriff receives
$2.50 a week tor feeding them.
A new disease is taking off horses
near C~edarville, Cumberland county.
Camden county's treasury is de-
pleted, the Freeholders have no
money, and no courts can be held.
The exterior of the insane asylum
at Morris Plains has been handsomely
decorated as the result Of prizes
offered to the attendants OF the NAL e
and female wards for the most artistic
exhibits. The first prize in the male
department went to n of the dan
gerousn wards.
Colonel Julian Scott has returned to
Plainfield from the Indian Territory
and Arizona, where he has been en-
gagged in securing pictures of Indian
life, which he will arrange in proper
form for a permanent exhibition at
Washington. Colonel Scott obtained
the pictures in fulfillnent of an order
from the Government for a faithful
representation of the character and
traits of the Navajo tribe.
The stockholders of the Cooper's
Point and Philadelphia Ferry Com
pany in Camden have elected the fol-
lowing MISREPRESENTATION G. Dayton.
William l.. Elkins. Richard ID. Bar
clay, William j. Sewell, Edmund i.
Read, ST.; Crawford Miller and A. o.
Dayton. The Board subsequently
organized by the election of the fol-
lowing oficers:-President, William J..
Sewell; secretary, James Mcclure;
treasurer. r. w. Smith.
The Trenton Opera House Company
has placed cards notifying men that
they must not light cigars in the Opera
House. The smoking OF cigarettes in
the hallway during an intermission is
another nuisance to be stopped.
Alexander X. Fithian. the newly
elected Collector of the Port, entered
upon his duties at Bridgeton on Mon
day.
The Board Of Aldermen of Keyport
has decided to employ State detec-
tives to work upon the clues that are
Jin their possession in regard to the
sandbagging of Denton Tompkins,
who was waylaid and nearly muir
dered by a gang of ruffiars last
week. The detectives, it said,
already have a number o. names
which will beglven the authorities and
arrests will follow.
Lemuel Hardwick has resigned the
management of Bonnie Brook farm,
in Sussex county, and been succeeded
by Mr. Briggs, from Canada. A large
sheep barn is being erected there.
The Oxford Iron and Nail Com
pany's works have shut down except
ing the blast furnaces. The nailers
have ALI haen discharged. Many of
the men have left to seek employment
elsewhere.
The Common Council, of Plainfield,
has elected Seymour g. Smith, Repub-
lican, from the Third ward, president,
with the aid of Democratic Council
men. His opponent was stephen A.
Quinn, a Republican, from the Second
ward. Joseph b. Coward was elected
City Clerk.
A Board of Examining Physicians
for pensioners has been organized at
Bridgeton. 1t consists of Drs. John
r. G. Thompson, Matthew X. Elwer
and Theodore G.. Davis.
The East Orange Township Com
mittee on Wednesday night, after an
exciting session. adopted a report
granting an electric franchise to the
Newark Passenger Railroad Com