Gloucester County Democrat., 1891-09-17
NEWS OF NEW JERSEY. II

y CAPE MAY, Sept. 12.-The Cape May
Prohibitionists yesterday afternoon nom
mated John P. C.. Smith, of Ocean City,
for state senator. and Rev. John G. En-
triken. Of Tuckahoe, for assemblyman.
CAPE MAY PoINT, N. j., Sept. 12 -
The president has appointed William
Il. Leig postmaster at Steelton, Pa,
vice Christian Hess, removed. Reuben
J. Mott gets the Port Allegheny post
mastership, succeeding w. J. Davis.
CAMDEN, N. r., Sept. ia spark
from a locomotive caused serious con-
fiagration ye-lerday. The fire started
in S. B. Hoff's patent medicine factory,
and this, with two houses adjoining,
was quickly destroyed. The loss is $685.
600; partly insured.
CAMDEN, N. j., Sept. l2.-The men,
bers Of the Order Of American Mechan-
les and the Grand Army men Of this
city are indignant over the display of
the red flag by some Of the Philadelphia
labor organizations in their parade TO
Stockton park on Labor Day. They
will demand that the legislature pass a
law making it criminal offense to dis
play the emblem Of anarchy in the state.
CAMDEN, N. j., Sept. 14.-WiIliam
J. Thompson, president of the South
Jersey Jockey club, who was arrested
on warrant sworn out at the instance
of the Camden Law and Order society,
charging him with maintaining public
nuisance at Gloucester, had a hearing
Saturday, and, was. held in the sum Of
81 900 bail for his appearance before the
grand jury. Mr.. Thompson entered
bail and was discharged. He is the
owner of the Gloucester race track.
ELIZABETH, N. j., Sept ia sloop
rugged yacht, while cruising in Staten
Island sound, was run into by tug
\ at Elizabethport. The yacht was cap.
sized. Henry Fairchild and Walter
Dodd, young men, residents of Orange,
were drowned. Albert and Henry Stew.
art, also Of Orange, held on to the
wrecked boat and were saved. The
bodies of Fairchild and Dodd have not
been recovered.
BRIDGEToN, n. j., Sept. Il. The
household Of William Fogg, respected
citizen, has been seized with diptheria.
/ First Mr.. Fogg was stricken, then his
wife and three children, the entire fam
ily, while three physicians have been in
attendance for week past. Thursday
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died, and today the remainder Of the
family are lying at deaths door, with
only one chance in hundred of recov-
ering from the dreaded disease.
ATLANTIC CITY, Sept. 16.-Judge Al
bert w. Irving, better known as the
| 'sPooh Bah" of Atlantic City, who was
indicted on the charge of misappropri-
ating money belonging to the Atlantic
City Building and Loan association, Of
which he was secretary, had his trial at
Mays Landing yesterday, and after an
hours deliberation by the jury was ac-
quilted of the charge, it having been
conclusively shown that his clerk had
control of most of the money. Irving
was the justice before whom Eva Ham
ilton had her preliminary trial at the
time of the stabbing affray.
AsBURY PARK, Sept. 14.-Aime Louis
Barrand, the dynamiter in jail at Bel
videre for attempting to blow up train
on the Lehigh Valley railroad, early
Thursday morning, was q guest at the
Hotel Barmoral, Ocean Grove, last
month. Barrand arrived at the hotel
on Aug. $ and engaged rooms for the
balance of the season. He remained
| just five days and then skipped without
paying his board. He left behind him
a large valise, which has Just been
opened and found to contain rusty
suit of clothes and monster internal
machine containing several pounds of
dynamite. Attached to the machine
were two fuses seven feet long.
CAMDEN, N. j., Sept. 12.-The recep-
ton to General E. Burd Grubb, United
States minister to Spain. by his New
Jersey comrades of the Grand Army in
this city tonight promises to be brill.
liant affair There will he street pa
rade, in which the Camden and Glou-
cester City posts, Naval Post No. 400
and q. S. Grant post No. ., of Phila-
delphia, and detachments from many
South Jersey posts will participate.
This will be followed by reception and
reunion in the Sixth regiment armory,
where the speakers will be General
Grubb, ex-senator III. nj. Nevins, Com
mander- i'm Chief John Palmer. Colonel
John Mackie, and Receiver Of Taxes
John TYLER. Of Phjladeiplia.