The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1891-08-03
STATE NOTES.


A remarkable surgical operation is re-
ported at Newark. Nicholas Schnader
shot himself accidentally. The bullet
pierced the liver and caused n violent
hemorrhage and the nlan life was de-
SPARED OF. Drs. Hewlett, Wrightson and
Wallace and Meyer opened the stomach,
extracted the bullet and sewed up the
small holes in the liver. The patient re-
covered from the shock slowly. Saturday
he recovered consciousness and will prob
ably live. TIL surgeons say they have
never heard Of such an operation being
successful.
New Jersey is to have one CT the largest
plants in this country. The Canda Manu-
featuring Company has secured 10000
acres of land at Carterer, on the Central
Railroad of New Jersey. and the entire
scheme Is to be carried out on a scale hat
will make it second only to the enterprise
of George NJ. Pullman. The protest had
its origin In the brain of #. r. Canda, who
was a large owner In the Huntington, w.
Va, car works, that turned out freight
cars only.
Charlie Hing. a Chinese laundryman in
New Brunswick, Is an opium hend, and
has attacked several OF his customers. On
Friday he nearly cut off two OF Jacob
Weber's fingers because he wanted his
wash, and then ran after him with a
~cleaver. cutting his arm before Wener
escaped. Hing then ran the streets,
flourishinz the cleaver and shouting wild
ly. He was finally arrested and lodged in
jail.
den weekly paper, has broken the record.
IL made its appearance on Saturday. IL
contained an article attacking ex-Assem-
Diyman John Harris, clerk and solicitor
OF the Board of Freeholders, n he had
a ummons Issued for James NJ. Fltzger-
aid. the publisher, In a suit for $4,000
damages.
MI. Patten, the Bridgeton horse train
err, was kicked out of his trotting sulky
and severely injured, several ribs being
broken. The horse ran down the bush
ness street. and, taking TO the sidewalk
in one place, knocked down an Italian la
borer, who, it is believed. Is fatally in
jured.
Uncle Billy Stockton, of camden,
the well known and patrlarchal looking
evangelist and one OF the Oldest members
of the New Jersey Conference. who is
known from one end of the State to the
other. is celebrating an suspicious event
the birth of a bouncing baby. The Ven
cradle father is over four score years of
age.
A chair was pulled from under Mrs.
Samuel Barber, at Elmer. as a joke. She
was stunned By the fall, and being sew
enty years old, her injuries may termin-
ate fatally.
Lightning struck Undertaken Isaac C.
. O19 t1
burned a hole through a dress that Miss
Mary Davis was sewing. The occupants
of the house were stunned but not serl-
ously injured.
Robert T. Nichols, a carpenter, fell from
the second story of a building In Newark
Saturday morning. He landed on his
feet. Both legs were broken. and the
shock he sustained was so serious that
his recovery is doubtful.
The body of the man who was killed by
hcit,r cfrnpK nv lfnhfnfno wuhfIo rnflkfpR
a cow In the barn OF Il. II. Avis. at West
Collingswood. has been identified By
Henrietta Dalkes as her husband, John
Dalkes, of Gloucester City.
Richard C0rdukes, seyenry-four years
old. and a former resident of Park Ridge,
Bergen county, fell out of an apple tree
at that place and received what are
thought to be fatal injuries.
A peach exchange has been organized
at P~attenburg. Hnnterdon county, with
NJ. ID. Knight as President and J. NJ.
Maxwell as Secretary and Treasurer. It
is estimated that from 5000 to 100000
baskets of peaches will be shipped from
P~attenburg this season.
James Bonney. the oldest man in CEN
trail New Jersey, is dead at his home, the
old Bonney homestead. near Bound
Brook. he was in his ninety-nfth year.
Mr.. Bonney was n blacksmith In his
early DAYS. when Bound Brook consisted
of a few scattering dwellings. He came
of old Revolutionary STOCK, his grand
father being shot by Tories.
Miss Mamie Sherwood. an attractive
young lady, aged sixteen, living with
her widowed mother, Mrs. Ella Sher-
wood, at Burlington, took a large guam
tity of laudanum Friday night with
suicidal intent. The prompt calling Of a
doctor and energetic measures employed
saved her life. Her mother had rebuked
her Tor staying out late at night.
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