The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1891-04-04
STATE NOTES.

Judge Van Valen Of Bergen county,
has denied the motion to refuse the pro-
bate of the Jane Dempsey will. on the
ground that the attestation clause was
defective. The clause. as well as the will.
was signed by the testatrix. The Court
declared that the signature strengthened
the will rather than weakened II.
President William II. Skirm OF the
Trenton City Railway, its sale
TO a Boston syndicate. The syndicate
secured 700 shares out of q total of $50,
and the price is said to have been Sl25
a~ggregating Sill, l25. The road recently
obtained from the City Council a fran
cbise to operate by electricity. The roed
was started in 1876, but has been extended
until 1t now covers about nine miles. IL
has never paid a dividend.
The Worthington Hydraulic Pump
Works Company of South Brooklyn has
begun the erection of the foundry branch
of It's plant in Elizabeth. There will be
two ~foundries, 143 by 343 aud 80 by 200
feet. The contract for the mason work
has heenawarded to David Henry of Pat
erson, and for the woodwork to j. Grail
cf Newark, The buildings must be fin
ished and ready for occupation on July
1 The company will give employment
TO LOCO persons.
The Paterson Press has enlarged its
form by the addition of a column TO each
page, making it nine columns in width.
1t promises improvements in every de-
partment.
The Interstate Fair people are sending
out circulars announcing that they have
no competition except with their W
past, and stating the actual attendance at
the exhibition of 1888, as 33,995; Lass, Oh
159; 1890. n. 905.
John 6. Truesdell and Thomas s. Henry
the newly-appointed District Court
Judges at Newark, were sworn in on
8 Wednesday morning by Judge Depue-
Shortly afterward Truesdell, with John
OsConnor, whom he had selected as clerk,
appeared in the FIRST District Court to
take charge. Judge Miller, his prede-
eessor. was hearing a case ana sook no
ward Judge Miller finished the case he
was trying. and walking past his sue
cessor, put on his coat and departed with
out salutation. Judge Truesdell then
too his place upon the bench. Tit old
clerk. Thomas Pearson, who is q veteran,
served legal notice upon Judge Truesdell
tina he would contest his removal under a
law of the last Legislature forbiddiDg the
dismissal of a veteran from a public Office
without good cause. The new clerk quail
fed and took possession
Monmouth Democratic says:-One day
n week or so ago, while Oscar Pohlemus
was blowing on the ID. A. Statesir farm,
near B~radevelt, he unearthed a human
skeleton, together with a stone or cl ay
pipe of peculiar construction, aud a pair
of copper bracelets, which probabley indi-
rate that the bones were those OF an
Indian. Everything except the pipe and
the bracelet cruDbled away when e.
posed TO the air.
State Gaologist Smock Is Investigating,
at Cape May. the report that the islands
in South Jersey are settling.
Jhe masons, carpenters. hod-carriers
and building laboIers at Plainield went
on strike on Wednesday, their demands
for Increase Of wages ahd shortening of
the day TO eight hours having been re-
fused. The unskilled laborers ask for an
diva nee OF twenty-five cents a day, and
the carpenters aud masons ask for from
hfsy 10 seventy-dve cents a day increase.
Easter Sunday in Lakewood drew the
largest Number Of visitors thsy have ever