The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1891-05-31
ALL OVER THE STATE

Several aged and well-known residents
OF Sussex county have died during the
past week, among whom were:-At Mon
roe. Mrs Theresa, widow OF Jacob SUIT
ton, aged eighty-one; at Swartswood.
Mrs. Margaret. widow of Jacob Hender-
shot. eighty-fve; at Newton. Mrs. Susan
Adeline. widow Of Samuel A. Everett.
seventy-one; nc Peters Valley, Mrs.
Rachael Van Sickel, seyenty-seven.
A new iron tughoat sheathed with
wood. the first Of the kind ever built in
Elizabeth, was launched Friday from the
sllipyard Of S. L. Moore 81 Sons Company
dc Elizubethport 1t Is for the use of the
Pennsylvania Railroad Company, and
Will pc known as the Palmyra The YES
sci is 100 feet long.
Claus Spreckles, Jr.. OF the Spreckels
Sugar Refining Company, with number
Of guest, vlsired Gloucester City yester-
dav on The trr boab Relief and partook OF
planked shaa dinuer at Thompson
Hotel. The arty consisted of twenty
pronline husine4s men of Philadelphia
and New York cities, principally sugar
brokers.
Catherine A. Bleecker died Thursday at
her home in Pom pton of old age. Mrs.
B!eecker was Dtaety-sfx Years old. She
was born November 10. 1195, at Haver-
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A runaway box car of merchandise
Knocked an engine of the turntable at
Sosner's Point Thursday. Both were
wrecked,
Burlington County Assessors Thursday
received instructions regarding the as
sessments under the new law. Property
VIII be assessed hereafter at its full
s;sl;so.
Newark's Board OF Trade has asked
local merchants to subscribe $50, 600 to
establish safe deposit and trust com
pany in Havana, Cuba, for commercial
purposes.
The moving OF a line fence one inch
caused the arrest Of Christopher Quincy,
Of Line street. Camden, Thursday, and he
was placed under DO nds to keep the peace
for threatening to kill his neighbor, John
Hughes.
The Rogers Locomotive Works at Pat
erson has tdrned out the first of a num-
Der Of decaped locomotives The engine
has ten driving wheels on each side, and
weighs $4,000 pounds. or about ninety
tons.
The unusual sight of o locomotive on
fire attracted large crowd of spectators
10 the North avenue station OF the Jersey
Central Railway ut PIainfieid on Wednes-
day morning. Wnen the last spark was
extinguished the disfigured locomotive
train. twenty minutes late. The entire
wooden jacket the boards of which were
an inch thick. from cab to smOkestack
was badly charred, and the spectators
carried away bits of the black Goals as
souvenirs Of the singular aud unusual
accident
Mrs Nancy Halstead, widow of General
Nathaniel Halstead, and one OF the
Regents of Mount Vernon, who recently
died on her beautiful estate on the
Passaics In Kearny, has left all her prop
efty for the establishment OF home and
school open TO all creeds and conditions
The Immediate estate aud the site of the
new home comprise ten acres Of valuable
land. beautifully situated, and filed with
superb trees and shruboery. The house
Is an imposing stone mansion on a COM
manding emineuce. There in other prop
erty also 10 go to the support OF the in
stitutiou. General Halstead, who was
killed seven years ago in a railroad acci-
dent, gave Princeton College an astrono-
mlcal observatory at a cost of $40, 600.
The commencement exercises at Rut-
gers College, New Brunswick, will begin
on Friday, June 18th, with the reading
OF theses by the graduating classes of
the Scientific School at D. M; Sunday,
June 18th. baccalaureate sermon by Rev.
DR.. Thomas Bowling of Albany, n. Y;
Monday. June l6. entrance examinations,
class day exercises and glee club concert;
Tuesday, 10th, entrance examinations,
meeting OF The Board Of Trustees,
alumni meeting and address by Rev. DIR,
Graham Taylor, class of 40, alumni din
ner and address by Hon. Charles s. Fair
child. LII d., on Liberty and College
Life; exhibition drill by Rutgers Corps
Cadets; the Junior exhibition; Wednes-
day, June nth, annual commencement
exercises at 10 a. m. and Presidents re-
cepti0n from to 10 p. N.