The Jersey City news., 1891-08-04
STATE NOTES.


Annie Weber, ten years old, died in
Paterson yesterday OF lockjaw. Last
week while PLAYING she fell among a lot
of cinders and cut her arm above the
wrist. The wound proved very obstinate
aud on Friday lockjaw set in. The little
ones sufferings were terrible.
Andrew L. Westbrook OF Clifton COM
mitted suicide yesterday BY drowning
himself In Dundee Lake. He was sixty
niue years old aud might have waited q
little longer, but he haa had a stroke of
paralysis and his mind was affected. He
hung his hat and coat on the bushes be-
fore jumping into the lake. He was y re-
tired carman, worth 500 900, and for some
years had lived in Brooklyu.
a syndicate OF New York merchants
has just completed the purchase OF 5000
OF the 1900 acres of the A. X. Coke tract
Railroad. between Mays Landing and
Richlnnd. Industrial settlements will be
started at once, and work given to the
oyercrowded operative classes of New
York.
Fifteen members OF st. Patrick's
Church, Elizabeth, have started on a
pilgrimage to the Shrine Of ST. Ann in
Canada. nine miles from Quebec. The
uiigrins are all females. and several of
them are the wives of prominent mem-
bers of the parish While some go in the
hone of being cnred bv faith of their
bodily ailments, others are making the
trip solely as a religious mission.
Ex-Secretary Robeson fand General E.
Burd Grubb are expected to make adj
dresses at the formal opening Of the new
clubhouse Of the Tenth Ward Republi-
can Club of Trenton on August 49,.
The wife of John Burkhardt OF Newark
has gone off with George Frick, well-to-
do coal dealer, who leaves wife and
three children behind. Mr.. Burkhardt
takes the elopement pbilosoDhically. and
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away four times before. She took her
three-year-old daughter with her. Mrs.
Frick is broken-hearted.
The Firemen's Relief Association of
Elizabeth has begun n reDleyin suit for
$500 against ex-Fire Chief John Peck,
papers, vouchers and other property of
the association In his possession and re-
fuses to surrender them.
II. VI. Lichtenberg. formerly one of the
owners of the EngIewood Times, has
become the sole proprietor OF that paper.
The oldest house fu New Jersey is said
TO be located near irvington on a farm
occupied by William Gummere. IL was
built in 1865.
W. f. Fosdick, a Hackensack real es-
tate agent. has fallen heir to coal lands in
the West upon which he places II value of
SIS 600
William Mccall wants pay for twenty
years. work on the estate of Mrs. Acker,
at Mahwah, Bergen county.
A Paterson florist complains that a
farmer whom he has for two years al
lowed 10 stand in rront of the flower store
10 sell country produce, a few days ago
went into the florists TO purchase ten
bags, and when charged ten cents there
for, told the clerk he could buy them at
rival store for eight cents.
In the last few days unusually many
snipe have made Great Egg HarbOr Bay
feeding place. Sometimes early in the
morning aud toward evening focks OF
these birds, numbering several hundred,
have settled ou the sand. The same thing
has happened at Ocean City, Sen Isle City
and LonGport. Sportsmen have turned
out in crowds. aud within a short time
good marksmen have shot scores of birds.
One man had between zoo and 800 the
other day.