The Penn's Grove record., 1896-12-18
New Jersey Items.

are requested 10 attenu y meeung at
Trenton to devise plans to overcome
difficulties now existing over the teach
ers' retiring fund. hi.
Argument in the suit against the
Tobacco Trust was begun before the
Vice. Chancellor at Jersey City.
Mrs. Hurdy, living near Fleming
ton, was saved from asphyxiation by
coal gas by the barking Of a dog. 4
The Hope Hose Fire Company, of
Bordentown, has elected Edward Dick
inson as president for the ensuing
year.
Edward Richardson, aged 10 years,
Id runaway boy from the Jamesburg
Reform School, was captured at Bor-
~dentown.
Hazekiah Scott was found guilty OF
tresspass at WILLIAMSBURG, in hauling
away wood from Robert Johnson's
premises because the latter refused TO
pay for it.
The body OF James Lahey. % years
of age, was picked up dead by a Cen
trail Railroad engineer at Someryille
Station with an arm broken aud a deep
cash in the head. 1t is believed he
fell from a train. 5
Two highwaymen held up two trav-
elers on a lonely road near Vineland
and fled when they saw one intended
yictirp III a constable. Two men
were arrested for the crime.
Atlantic City officials favor accepting
the p. r. r. Co.'S offer in regard to
the new City Hall site.
Egg Harbor c. uncil passed an ordi-
nance ~forbidding bicyclists to ride upon
the sidewalks. 6
Elmer Clawson, 16 years, and Jacob
S, johnson, colored, condemned TO be
hanged at Somerville for murder, were
granted . stay Of execution.
BY the finding Of an old fur hat the
mysterious disappearance of old Jere
Hand from billings may be explained.
Peter Katzenbach, a Trenton hotel
proprietor, has. been sued for $4,000 by
q guest.
Typhoid fever is prevalent and in
creasing in Trenton. Sixty cases are re-
ported.
Vice Chancellor Reed has decided
that Spring Lake and not H. ii. Yard
and the Coast Company controls the
streets and the lake front of the
borough. ]
Aged Lingi Jorio was murdered at
South Vineland by his insane son,
Antonio. AN armed posse dragged
the murderer from his hiding place in
the cellar of his house by cutting a
hole in the floor.
Gottlieb Frank was instantly killed
at Atco by falling from a heavily
loaded wagon, the wheels passing over
his neck.
The Twenty fourth Regiment, New
Jersey Volunteers, held their tenth
annual reunion at Paulsboro. 2
A severe storm prevailed along the
coast, resulting 10 heavy tides over the
meadows. The old Casino Building,
at Atlantic City, where the Elks dis
aster occurred, was blown down.
Colonel William w. skirm, Of Tren-
ion, resigned rs Colonel of the Seventh
Regiment National Guards, and was
retired with the rank of Brigadier Gen.
srai.
DR.. Franklin Gaunt, of Burlington,
was appointed a member of the State
Board of Health.
An unknown man was struck and
killed by a train on the Pennsylvania
Railroad at Beideman.s. 3
Morris Pope wounded his friend,
John E. Keithline, at Wilkes Barre,
aud blew out his own brains.
An explosion of natural gas in an
Allegheny school house nearly caused
a panic among school children.
A girl was frightened 10 death at
Sibley by four Italians trying to break
into a house in which she was alone.
The trial of State tax cases against
delinquent corporations was begun at
Harrisburg. the first n taken up be-
ing agsinst the New York, Pennsylva-
MIA & Ohio for 100000.
Robbers brutally beat an aged couple
near jamestown, because they were
refused money.
The poisoning Of sixty wedding n
niversary guests 10 B air County was
caused by the use of a copper kettle. 8