The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1891-08-29

man of Keyport, a veteran OF the war,
applied to the Government for a pension.
Mr.. Freeman has been dead several years.
The other day the pension. amounting TO
5000. came along.
A Freehold hotel keeper gives a good
excuse for not having a fire escape from
a bedroom in the second story. He says
that he had one placed there a year ago,
but the first two weeks three boarders
skipped their bills by It's means and then
be had it taken out.
The Eiberon Hotel aud cottage. in
which Garfield died, and o adjacent
plots, were offered for sale at the New
York Real Estate Exchange the other
dav. There were no bidders. The trus-
tees bought in the property at $4,000. 1t
cost originally Si25.o0
r.. e. Boon OF Salem city has a heifer
eighteen months old, which has never
given birth to a calf. from which he
MIXED three quarts OF milk on Sunday
morning, and then supposed to have left
one quart in the udder. The heller is Of
the Jersey and Guernsey stock. She is
not expected to come into profit until
November.
J. Wymau Jones' ten-acre country seat
at Englewood, which was rather wet, has
been scientifically drained. There was
recently built one large main drain OF six
incn pipe, one thousand feet long. From
this run six thousand feet of drains, four
feet deep. macadamized to six inches All
OF these are bliBd drains, and the surface
is now firm and dry and under all condi-
tions of weather will stay SO.
Mrs. Elizabeth Beatty OF Elizabeth is
dead, aged ~eighty-etght years. She was
y maid Of honor at the Court of King
George ~. Of England. and afterward
married a British officer. Upon his
death half q century z she came TO
New Jersey and married George Beatty.
a wealthy farmer. from whom the New
I~~o.r~ T-1f~.. C1.h hnunhr rnaaf of tho
land for the Elizabeth tract. She died
without making a will, and having no
heir her property. valued at $4,000. goes
to the State.
William e. Conover, one of the best
known and most successful Monmouth
county farmers. met with a horrible
death on his farm, abou seven miles
from FarmiDgdale. While in n OF his
fields alone he WAS viciously attacked by
a bull which had previously been very
docile. The enraged animal knocked
Mr.. Conover down aud gored him, max
ing an awful cash in his abdomen.
Mr.. Conover managed, although still
pinioned by the horn, to get on the OPP
posite side of the fence, when ne stabbed
the animal repeatedly in the nose with a
pocket knife to compel it to abandon its
| assault. Conover was discovered by an
emoloye and assisted to his home. lie
died from his injuries on Monday.
T~hirty-dve years ago, in New York
City. four orphan children. w. H. knight,
George w. Knight and Emily and lsa-
bella Knight. were parted by distribution
among relatives. w. II. Knight, then
seven years old. was taken to Michigan
by an uncle. The children grew mp with
| out any communication with each other.
| William felt a desire to see his brothers
and sisters twenty years ago, and came
east and found George in Newark. The
two brothers then started to md the
| sisters, but with no result for twenty
wears. Emily, one of the sisters, mas
lived In I~rvington. near Newark. Stree
| 1870, and has made a similar search.
| About five weeks ago an advertisement
inserted by William in a Newark paper
caught her eye and she found her
brother.