The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-10-10
STATE NOTES.

Vineland has a Womsn's Republican
Association. They have IA clubroom, and
hold weekly meetings.
A chicken few in the way OF a Moores-
town blcycler, upsettlng his machine and
injuring MIN severely by the fall.
The seventy-hfth anniversary of the
Monmouth County Bible Society will be
held at Marlboro on Thursday, Octo-
Der q.
There is already a contest over the seat
Aof Lay Judge Joseph Scull, OF Atlantic
county. whose term expires next year.
The barber shops of Asbury PARK will
remain closed on Sunday during the
winter.
H. v. M. Dennis, of Marlboro, has re-
fused an offer Of 81. rs per barrel for one
Thousand barrels of potatoes.
Mays Landing cotton mills are still idle
on account of the continued drought.
Atlantic CITY lie guards rescued sew
enty-seven drowning people during tue
last season.
An attempt Will be made next year to
have the Egg Harbor City fair closed on
Sundays.
The Huuterdon Democratic County
Convention, for the nomination of two
candidates for Assembly. will be held In
Pennington Oh Monday, October 18th.
Permanent aud summer residents OF
North Long Branch protest against the
licensing of a liquor house at that place.
The town is fifty years old, aud has never
had a licensed saloon.
Next month tue remains of all persons
buried in che yard adjoining ST. PETERS
Church Freehold, will he removed. Some
of ths graves are more than 100 years old.
A few are unmarked, and The church
officials have been unable to ascertain the
names OF the relatives or friends OF those
thus buried. These viii be removed 10 a
plot In Maplewood to be PROVIDED by the
church.
The Camden Board of Public Works
appointed a committee Thursday 60 iuves-
tigate the cost of establishing "a garbage
,rematory and other methods of disposing
of refuse.
John Il. Hendrickson, a Middletown
trucker, sold 81, 900 worth of muskInelOns
this season.
Henry Wornser, who owns a small
farm ear Wortendyke, went into Tue
gairet under the sloping roof of his house
Wednesday morning to get an old trunk
that he mad stored there Two years ago.
He found Il swarm of wasps had built a
nest gu the lid of the box and he resolved
to shoot the colony. He loaded both bar
rels of a gnn heavily, using scraps of
iron and rusty nuils Instead of shot,
aud standing inside the door, which he
hela open with his foot, he pulled
tne two Triggers at the same moment.
The recoil threw them AGAINST the door,
| uiCu cAdhttiNu ldot. LIE uduuI6 WIS
loose aud IL fell on the outside, ragoing
the bar with it. He was locked in the
garnet with the wasps. With the door
closed, De Could see nothing, out the
wasps saw him plainly enough anu they
stung him with d fury that made him
drop his gun and ham,ne at the door
ike Il mailman. Luckily Mis-. Wormser
heard her husbands cries. She found
| The handle of the door aud liberated him,
bat as herself badly sung before she
could lock IN thu wasps. Mr.. Wormser
IS temporarily pIiud anu his mead is half
the size of II lager beer keg. He will be
able 10 attend to his business in about
ten days.
An unknown colored man, about forty
years old, VINO had said his name was
joe" undertook to cross in front of a
PENNSYLVANIA express train a5 New
b. uuswick Tuesday night aud was
struck. He came from New YORK. and
said he had just been discharged from the
| United State, Navy. He snoweu a dis
chaige. Il ticket TO Philadelphia u sew
erai hundred doliats, aging he was OF
his way to Montana. Alter his death it
wa found the MA had been robbed of all
his money aud papers. Ga ole Of his legs
Is tattoord:-"Born April 18th, 1851,
Newark. N. j." Gu the back of his left
ftand is II star. aud on the left arm are
the letters "F. e. c." and an American
flag. IL is said he told people he had
brothers and sisters living III elizabeth
port.