The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1891-04-08
STATE NOTES.

Patersonis Truant Officer captured
seventy-six children who we're ''playing
hockey" last month.
The area of the water shed Of Budd's
Lake is Ills square miles and that Of Lake
Hopatcong 25 4 square miles.
Ricn pr0uerty owners aud hotel pro-
prietors at Long Branch have taken de-
clded steps toward the adoption of meas
ures to ward of the steady encroachments
OF the sea, which seems to threaten the
ultimate ruin of the place as a resort. IL
Is intended to construct a system of let
lies n n continuous bulkhead from the
West End Hotel property. running north
to North Long Branch, on the ocean side
of the avenue, a distance Of between a
mile and a half and two miles. The pro-
posed bulkhead will be four feet on top
aud some fifteen feet high, flied in with
rocks. At intervals of 800 feet jetties
seventy-tive feet leng Will extend out into
the water. IL is claimed that this system
cur he built for "A total outlay OF 500. 900
to $50, 000, which the committee proposes
shall be raised by subscription.
An unsuccessful attempt was made
some time Saturday night to destroy the
German Lutheran Church, large frame
strueture-situated ON the Hainesport
road, near NJ. Holly. A festival was held
in the neighborhood OF Saturday night
for the benefit OF the church, and several
of those who attended It noticed a light
in the vicinity of the church on their way
nome. DuJ UOUe u Luetu LOOK the trOuOfe
to stop and investigate IL. On Sunday
morning the sexton discovered that
nearly all the carpet had been burned off
the floor of the church. Upon going down
in the basement he saw where a fire had
been started In the woodbin and had gone
out. In the upper room the carpet had
-been torn from tho chancel, piled in n
hep and set on fire, but rs there was no
dFaught the flames had gone out before
setting lire to the woodwork.
John Bolster, g years old. attempted to
climb over the moving cable at the in
ciined plane ia the Morris canal, at Boon
ton, on Saturday. IL was so high hat his
clothing caught fast aud he was dragged
along for fifty yards or until he struck u
pulley. Here he was terribly hurt, t1e
flesh being torn from his legs IN shre1s.
A workman in passing heard the child's
screams and succeeded in releasing him.
The little fellow is in a precarlous condi-
ton. there being very little fesa left on
mis- legs,
The Philadelphia capitalists who have
been negotiating for the Bucsshutem.
mill property aud some yaluabls glass
sand deposits adjoining, near Millville,
have succeeded in purchasing the proper
ties aud will engage at once in the bust
ness of sand washing on an extensive
scale. Several thousand dollars worth of
improved machinery will be introduced.
wharves erected aud d number OF barges
built to carry the sand TO Philadelphia
and New York. There are now four or
five sand washes in that vicinity, but this
Will be operated, it is said, on a larger
scale thar any of the others.
Twenty Prohibition tickets voted at the
spring election in Chester township. Bur
lington county contained pastors bearing
the name of Samuel S. Dagger, a saloon
keeper; which recalls TO the Mays Landing
Record the fact that at the recount OF the
Assembly vote In Atlantic county in 1886,
IL was discovered that nearly forty Pro
hibilion ballots cas-. In Egg Harbor
ship contained the name of John b..
Champion, u saloon keeper at Alta mite
City, pasted over that of the regular Pro
hihitiDn nominee for State Senator.
Ex-Postmaster Benjamin Little was out
cunning for Richard Johns, sou of a
methodist minister at Bound Brook, on
Friday, and he threatened TO shoot the
young man on sight. he was persuaded,
however, that the law was the best
coarse, and he had Johns arrested. Jen-
ME DAVIS, Mr.. Little's eighteen-year-old
~grandcnilu, says Johns wrongei her
while she was alone in the telegraph
Office at Bound Brook last Sunday night.
She kept the matter secret until Friday.
Richard Ogburn. who is supposed to be
the murderer of the missing man John
Marshall OF Shamoag, has been commit
attempting to kill Marshali's wife with
an axe. Tne theory of the police is that
Ogburn conspired with Marsnall's wife to
kill her husband aud hide his body in the
woods, and that afterwards Mrs. Marshalt
threatened to tell the whole story, where
upon Ogden assaulted her. She is IN a
critical eondftion