The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-09-01
STATE NOTES.

Another ice factory is talked of at Asbury
Park.
Atlantic City Council has increased the City
Treasurer's salary from $500 to $1,000.
General Secretary Frank D. Stanley of the
Morristown Y. NJ. c, A. will go to Danbury,
Conn.,. to act in a similar capacity for the Dan
bury Association,
The people of Atlantic Highlands will vote on
the question OF appropriating 500, 900 for the
construction of q system of water works and
sewerage, on September rs.
The Arlington authorities are investigating a
case of infantcide. Della Mortimer, a domestic.
after the birth Of her male child, concealed the
little one In an ash barrel, where it was found
dead.
Bert R. West, of Camden, was badly injured
on Monday by being run over by a bicycle. One
of his ribs was broken.
A county convention of the Woman's Chris
tian Temperance Union will be held at Atlantic
highlands, on September Z and s.
John Carson, coachman for Washington Will
son, of Elberon. who was kicked by a horse two
weeks ago, died at Elberon on Sunday after
noon.
The Rev. William Schmitz preached his fare
well sermon at the Greenwich Presbyterian
Church last Sunday morning. He has accented
the call to the Dutch Reformed Church of Ful-
~tonvllle, N. Y. He was regularly dismissed
from the Greenwich Church by the Presbytery
last spring.
RJoseph Gibbs, a Paterson q cigarmaker, on
Sunday smoked 100 cigarettes in eight hours and
won S20 that was put up. He began smoking at
ten o'clock and finished ftty-ive of the
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ished his job, with plenty of time to spare.
Gibbs. although not in the habit of smoking
cigarettes, suffered no inconvenience except
that his lips were in a greatly swollen condition,
no doubt caused by the nicotine.
The elopement of William P. Broadwater and
Miss Rebecca Harris, of Camden, on July S. has
not turned out happily. The bride only lived
with her husband q week before she went home
to her parents. When B~roadwater called to re-
monstrate his mother In law chased him out of
the house and ruined his hat with a big fork
Mrs. Broadwater declares her husband is
stingy and has only given her 25 cents, which
she used to get her bangs cut. Now she wants
a divorce.
Catharine Muller of Gutenberg was buried
on Monday. She was the bride of a week and
died by her own hand. Charles Muller, the
husband, says that he and his wife met for the
first time on the steamer that brought them to
this country. It was a case of love at first
sight. The girls parents objected, and when
they settled in Guttenburg they forbade Muller
the house. The girl went out to service. finding
employment with a family named Koch In the
same town. There Muller visited her, and on
August q, they eloped and were married. They
returned to Guttenburg, where Muller had also
found employment. Mrs. Muller was contented
until Friday, when she expressed a desire to see
her parents to obtain their forgiveness. The
husband asked her to wait until he could go
with her, and promised to write in the mean
time, She seemed satisfied, but when Muller
went home from his work on Saturday he found
bis wife dead. She hanged herself to a bedpost.