The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1891-11-27
STATE NOTES.

Levi Page. of Bridgeton. now trots his
twenty-fourth child udon his knee.
Cape May Court House residents are
talking seriously of changing the towns
name.
Elk Senator Joseph B. Roe is said to be
slated as the next postmaster OF Wood
bury.
George S. Salter. of Pennington, caught
over twenty rats III q single trap, one
night last week.
Israel Heath caught an eel weighing
eight pounds, in the pond at Oxford,
Warren county, recently.
Mrs. Ellen Melroy, OF Little York, war
rem county, entered upon her one hun
dredth year last Tuesday.
Harriet Dunkle, of Waterford, has sur
prised her friends by marrying John Will
son, coiored, of Williamstown.
Mrs. Dora LutZ, of Bridgeton, was
jailed on Monday for beating her son
Samuel. a Young man, with a poker.
The old fishing huts at Seabright,
which were destroyed by the big fire, are
being replaced by handsome little cot
tages.
IT is said that the business men of Eat
ontown have suffered to the extent OF
$50. 900 from the closing of Monmouth
Park.
The Paterson coal dealers have formed
a combination to fix the price OF coal Il
protect their customers from short
weight.
A bogus agent has been victimizing the
people of Sussex county by taking sub
scriptions to magazines and collecting
the money in advance.
Cumberland county officials refuse to
pay costs in cases of tramps sent from
Bridgeton to the county Jail, and Bridge
ton officials are kicking.
While l.. G. CorSOn was entering the
new Methodist Church at MilIville, q
bricK fell forty-two feet from the tower
and broke over his head.
Robert Elkin, a farmer at Fairton, was
kicked in the head by one of his mules a
few days ago, and on Monday a colt
kicked him in the face. breaking his jaw.
The Rev. Earnest S. o.. Millington of
Waterbury. n. Y, has accepted the call
as pastor Of the Baptist Church at Ham
burg, Sussex county. He will assume
charge ABOUT the first of January.
Robert Shandy recently caught two
three legged squirrels In the woods at
Hohokus. Each had but one hind leg,
vet they sit upon their launches as grace
fully as any squirrel. They are the size
aud build of the common red squirrel but
much lighterin color.
Cornelius Spillane, a young boy living
In North Plainield, shut the family cat
in the kitchen stove on Sunday and then
built a fire. No one knew of This exploit.
A horrible stencil was noticed, and inves-
tigating discovered the cats charred re-
mains in the oven.
George G. Bali, Il Blairstown liveryman,
twenty years ago resolved to save rs cents
a day, and has regularly laid aside in his
safe that amount daily ever since. The
fund now amounts to S1,S25. which he
saws he does not intend to touch, but will
save it for his heir.
Harmonious business men have or
ganized an enterprise association for
the purpose of encouraging manufactur-
ing enterprises and business Industries to
locate there. Profiting by the experience
of other places, they refused to call their
association a Board Of Trade.
Nicholas Fischer OF Lodi is in the lack
ensack Jail on a charge of causing the
death of his father, John Fischer, who
was sixty-eight years old, and who kept a
hotel in Lodi. Nicholas Fischer. The Dris-
pner, who is tweDty-six years old, was ar
rested on complaint of his brother, Tunis
Fischer. The latter alleges that his father
and brother Nicholas had a quarrel In a
barroom about TWO weeks ago, and that
Nicholas inflicted injuries on his father
which caused his death on Sunday night.
Mrs. Fischer and her daughter and Mrs.
A. Seilheimer of Hackensack are said to
have been present at the time OF the as
sault. The prisoner denies that he as
saulted his father. and says that the old
man was injured by falling IN the bar
room.