The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-03-01
STATE NOTES.

George Atkinson, a noted desperate
and crook, Leandor Thompson and
Fred Penny escaped from the Burlington
county jail. at Mount Holly, at an early
hour Saturday morning by cutting the
bars of their cell window. They mads
good their escape.
A mad dog from Lodi bit seven mem
bers of its own race. adozen chickens, two
geese and four ducks, at Garfield. on
Wednesday, and was despatched by an
armed crowd after a lively chase, which
lnsted an hour. AL of the victims were
killed except two dogs that fed to the
woods when shot at by their D
George y. jennings, the Postmaster at
Littleton, Morris county. was bailed for
examination by United States Commits
stone Whitehead on Saturday on q
charge of having opened and detained
letters sent through the mail.
Business Is depressed at Cape May. be-
cause the Reading Railroad failed to pur-
chase the Philadelphia and Seashore
Railroad. 1t is reported that the Penn
%sylvania Railroad will tear up the rails.
A two hundred acre farm, tour miles
from Swedesboro, which in war times
sold for $50 per acre. has just been pur-
chased for Il fraction over $2S per acre.
The story that eX-Judge john W. Her.
bert. of Monmouth county, had been
taken violently insane and placed In the
State Asylum at Trenton, is totally with
out foundation.
Twenty years ago Howard Jobes, of
Camden, had his eye injured by a play
mate. On Friday the injured optic had
to be taken out to preserve the sight of
the other eye.
Louis Herbet, a prominent saloon
keeper, died at Camden Friday night.
Five years ago he was attacked with a
kidney disease and his life was despaired
of. He began to drink skinned milk
and recovered. He at once Iorswore all
solid food and liquids except the milk.
strong. 1t is believed that his peculiar
diet prolonged his life at least four years
and a half.
DR.. Enoch Fithian of Greenwich is the
Oldest college graduate living. He was
i'll the class of 1916. University of Penn
sylvania.
During the past year Camden people
used 3.026.2s5, Gil gallons of water, for
which they paid $136. lab. 90.
The West Jersey Game Protective So
ciety has put forty-fve dozens of quail
in South Jersey counties this Winter.
There is "a well at the roadside in front
of the Fourth Ward Hotel in North
Passaic, which is used by many families
in the neighborhood and also supplies Il
horse trough. When the proprietor of
the hotel got up Friday morning he saw
Il sign on the well containing the follow
ing w~ords:-Blood III FireI Poison Il!
Paris Green and Indigo" The stones
about the well had been removed and
there was Paris green on the ground.
When water was drawn 1t vas found to
be mixed with coal Oil. A sam pie has
been sent away for analysis.
Many OF the taxpayers of Middlesex
are aroused over the determipa-
ton of the Board of Freeholders 10 incur
n debt of 500. 900 for the construction of a
stone arch bridge over the Raritan at
New Brunswick. The excitement is not
because of the expenditure of the amount
named, but because of the belief that
fully $500, 900 will be sunk in needless
work. Tue Board on Saturday awarded
the contract for the bridge to Dean &
w estbrook. of New York, the price being
500, 600; but when that body meets on
Wednesday next Freeholder Tappen, Of
Raritan, says he will show that there is a
scheme Matching by which individual
members hope to make large profits by
changing the plans after the work has
been begun, whereby ali additional sum
will have to be voted to carry on the i'm
provement.
Mrs. Henry Luhrs disappeared from
her home at Paterson on Thursday, and
has not since been seen or heard from by
her husband. She took q four-months
old baby and a child three years old.
She said she was going to visit her dress
maker and would return before supper.
The husband called at the dressmaker's
house and was told that she had not been
there. Mrs. Luhrs is thirty-fve years
old and rather large. No reason can be
given for her disappearance.