The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-10-11
STATE NOTES.

The Rev. William Fryne, a former
missionary to China and the South Pa
cihc Islands, has been extend ed a call by
The Baptist Church of Tuchahoe.
The violet disease is troubling florists
In the northern part OF Bergen unit
The Saddle River growers have lost their
entire crop by It. There is nj known
remedy TOR this fungus.
The u. A. X. monument to be erected
by Mcpherson Post in the Hackensack
Cemetery will be dedicated on Friday,
The 2ls5 inst. with appropriate cere-
monies. nh cost will be about $1.150.
Judge Mccormick, IN the Union county
Court Of Common Pleas on Saturday de-
clared that he would grant no more
licenses for new taverns in Uuion county.
He refused applications for new places IN
Crawford, Union, New Providence and
Summit townships, and refused TO per-
NIT John AlcGrath, proprietor of the
Spring Lake House, neal Summit. TO
have his license transferred To the hotel
which. at great expense, he has ittsd up
In Summit.
Tuckahos farmers report a total failure
of the late potato crop.
Jachb Burleigh of Long Branch is dead,
but his two widows survive. Burleigh
dted in Monmouth Memorial Hospital
last Thursday. Mrs. NJ. A. Burleigh OF
Long Branch claimed the body as that of
her husband, although they had not lived
together for a long time. She showed u
marriage certificate to back up her claim.
Another Mrs. Bur.eigh, from Brooklyn.
appeared at this poiut Il put in ev.-
dence TWO sonsin law, husbands of tue
daughters Of herself and Burleigh, to
suhs5antiate her claim to the latter's
body. Matters were getting complicated
until 1t was discovered that Burleigh's
estate amounted to only $50, when the
Long Branch widow waived her claims.
At the annual session of the Lady
Masons of the State. held in Camden on
Thursday, the following officers were
elected:-G. I. Fl. P, Lizzie u. Biddle.
Atlantic City; G. H. p, Beulah Murphy,
Millville: Grapd Recording Secretary.
Anna Nj. Quick, Camden; Grand Treas
nrer. Ruth A. Ross, Camden; Grand SIS
ter of Ceremonies, lane Wiisey, Bridge
ton; Grand Senior Inspsctress. Mary
Humans. Bridgeton: Grand Junior In
spectress, S, J.. Calty, Pltman Grove;
Grand Tyler, Mary Tolin. Trenton; Grand
Chaplain; Mary MerKle, Camden.
If Mrs. H%arrison's health will permit,
the President will go duck shooting this
fall in q novel boat built for john l..
Young Of Atlantic City, which was given
q successful trial trip at Camden on Fri.
day. The boat lie, modelled after a whale
back and is eighteen feet long with five
feet beam. 1t is practically unsuitable.
and can be submerged so thai nothing
can be seen by the unsuspecting ducks
except a row of mlrroW-, behind which
the runners will sit and fire through
portfolios. A small oil burning engine
propels the novel craft.
Martin V. Bergen, superintendent of
the Camden public schools, deHles the
statement Of State Superintendent Mat
thewS that the falling off this year in
Camden's school census show tnat pre-
yious lists were padded. He claims that
the enumerators failed to fud 5000 chill
dren of school age because they did not
want to find them OF neglected to make
the proper inquiries. II would under
take to find at least 1000 of the missing
names myself" ~ said Superintendent
Bergen.
The screams of a child attracted q
throng TO a canal boat tied TO Oates
Dock, in Bloomfield, on Wednesday
evening. A little girl had been alarmed
because her sister had fallen overheard.
The child was not in deep water and was
eRsily rescued. The accident led to the
discovery that the eight-year-old girl,
with her two younger sisters, had been
alone and without food on the canal boat
for two days. Their mother was dead
and their father was off on u protracted
spree.
Colonel Cambell. of the First Regiment,
has issued an order couvsning u court
martial on October 10 for the trial of the
members of Companies l and NJ. of New
ark, who refused To report for duty in
the Paterson celebration. and have since
aDsented themselves from their COM
mand.