The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-01-19
STATE NOTES.

Lawyer John Wartman, of Camden,
Whose suit against Janitor S%windell, OF
the public buildings, for damages, was
dismissed by Supreme Court Justice
Garrison as too trifying to occupy the
time of the Court, has carried the case to
the Court of Errors and Appeals. Jani-
tor Swindeil removed the reinS from the
lawyers horse because Wartman took his
blackjack.
John Witlemap. eighteen years old.
died in Plafufield from consumption, said
to have been caused by excessive cigar.
cite smoking. He was q young man of
excellent prospects and popular. Some
time ago, when employed by a telephone
company. he met an accident which re-
suited in the loss of a hand After his
recovery, his idle days hung SO heavily on
him that he smoked necessarily to pass
away the time.
Mrs. Peter Flynn died at Plainfield in
her sixty-seventh year. She had been
sick since last June with some peculiar
stomach tronble. During all that time
she was not able to eat a mouthful Of
food, either solid or liquid. She was very
weighing fully two hundred pounds but
had wasted to a mere skeleton. The
local physicians long g gave up at
tempting to diagnose her case.
Frederick KAUFMAN of South River,
Middlesex county. died on January Z, and
was DuTleu on Tie IOOT pdEIu. Tx.
Thompson said that he died of pneu-
monia. Within the past few days & re-
port has been circulated that KAUFMAN
did not die a natural death but was as
saulted on New Years Day in a saloon
kept by Max Frammitt. Detectives have
been at work. and the body of KAUFMAN
is to be exhumed. Among his effects
were papers showing that he was entitled
to 81, 500 from some beneficial order.
A siXteeu-vear-old cat died at Colts
Neck the other day.
A tribe of Red Men is to be organized
at Long Branch.
Charles Ayres has been appointed Post
master at Metucheu.
Ice six inches thick has been cut from
the Morris Canal at Stewartsville.
The Rev. Henry Cross, pastor OF the
Manasquan Baptist Church, has re-
signed.
A Belmar grocer sued a customer for a
bill of groceries and recovered seventy
five cents.
The New Jersey Conferences of the NJ.
E. Church will meet in Morristown on
April s next.
Robert D. Conger. of Sayreville,
MiddleseX county, has purchased the
Camp Hotel. at Deckertown, for $18. 600.
The Knights of Pyth1as fair at English
town, recently held. cleared over 81 1000.
The gross receipts were $1,000.
The man who was foremost in bringing
about the closing Of the Penns2rove Ho-
tel, a few years ago, is now keeping a
liquor saloon in one or the upper wards of
Camden.
A coroner's jury at Elmer has decided
that Mrs. Lydia Jones of Centreton.
came to her death from neglect. and
that William II. Carton, the executor,
of her will. is responsible for that ne
glect."
J.. G. Vert. a Hackettstown baker,
missed Ii of his horses from the stable II
few mornings ago. After y diligent
search he concluded the animal had been
stolen, but upon visiting the hay-mow
soon aiterward. the missing horse vas
found ~contentedIy feeding from the NOW.
The horse had got loose II climbed a
stairway to the NOW.
Misses Sarah. Emily and Mary Sickle.
who lived near Rockaway. Morris county.
were all suffering from the grip at the
same time. Sarah died on Monday
morning, aged seventy-nine years,
and Emily The same afternoon, aged
seventy-one. The three ladies managed a
large farm which had been inherited from
their father nearly MALT a century ago.
and they were remarkably successful III
their farming operations.