The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1903-10-23
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held in Califon.
The Presbyterian Synod of New
Jersey is in session at Lakewood.
The recent freshet in the Delaware
was four feet three inches higher than
the flood of 1841, which was the highest
on record.
Work on the Phillipsburg-W Washing
ton trolley line was begun on Monday.
Lit is said that this line will be ex-
tended to Clinton.
The October term of the Court of
Chancery opened at Trenton on.
Tuesday. Twenty-seven cases are
listed for argument.
The New Jersey Central Railroad
Company has sold a passenger coach
to the Rockaway Valley Railroad
Company. Watch out for excursions.
The new class at Princeton Univer-
sity numbers about 400, which is the
largest on record. There are now about
1000 students in this college institu-
tion
The seventy-fourth anniversary of
the New Jersey Baptist Missionary
Convention will be held on October 26,
n and % at the First Baptist Church
in Asbury Park.
The Bergen County Board of Free
holders have estimated the loss to the
county by the recent flood at $780,,
600, an amount much larger than
first anticipated.
The question of reducing the board
of freeholders of Mercer county from
twenty-three to five members will be
submitted to the people of that county
at the coming election,
Several of the companies that owned
toll bridges over the Delaware have
arranged to have wire ropes stretched
across the river for ferry purposes.
The ferries will be used until the
bridges are rebuilt.
The discussion as to where the Rev.
Edwin S. Lines, the bishop-elect of
the Newark Episcopal diocese, will be
consecrated has, it is said, been set
tied by DR.. Lines himself electing to
have the ceremony in ST. Peters
Church, Morristown.
Frenchtown, Hunterdon county, is
awaking from the lethargy that has
enwrapped the place for several years.
The Frenchtown Cornet Band is to be
recognized, and the people are hum
ming over DR.. Watts ''Hark, from
the tombs doleful sound"
Under writ of replevin secured by
United States District Attorney
Cortland Parker, Jr., United States
Marshal Olcott went to Elizabeth
last Monday and took possession Of
the cruiser Chattanooga, which is in
the custody of the sheriff of Union
county.
At Freehold last Friday the petit
jury acquitted David Lamar, ''Monk"
Eastman, Bernard Smith and Joseph
Brown, who were charged with con-
spring to kill Joseph Mcmahon,
formerly a coachman for Lamar.
Jersey Justice seems to be a farce
in Monmouth county.
The twenty-tifth anniversary of
Major G. A. Angel Post, No. 20, G..
A. r., will be celebrated at Lambert
vile, ON Friday evening, November 20.
Henry Dubs, Nelson j. Baylor, John
HI. Chichester, d. S. Williams and
Harry S. Kroesen have been appointed
committee to make necessary ar
engagements.
The Democratic City Convention of
Summit was held last Saturday night
and the following ticket was I'M
animously nominated. For mayor,
George H. Baldwin; councilman-at-
large, DR.. J. Boyd Rish; city clerk,
T. j. Scott; commissioners of appeal,
A. A. Taylor; j. Fl. Nelson and j. J.
Muchmore.
The Delaware Bridge Company has
decided to rebuild the bridge between
Lambertville and New Hope carried
away by the recent flood. The new
structure will be of steel and several
feet higher than the old one washed
away by the flood. A steam launch
will be run to carry passengers until
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Theodore Van Orden, of Newton,
who was recently arrested for stealing
some wooden frames belonging to
Robert Van Stone, contractor, put
in as his defense at the trial on We'd
nesday that the high water ten days
ago carried the frames to his yard
where he picked them up and placed
them upon his woodpile to wait for
someone to claim them.
New Jersey Democrats, following
the example set by those in New
York, have adopted fiye-pointed star
as party emblem, and in addition,
have selected Jersey blue" as their
party color. The star and stripe of
blue will be used for the first time at
the coming election, when both will
be displayed on the new voting ma.
chimes as provided by law.
Mount Holly, Oct. 22.-James
Champion and Ellis Rodman, two
Burlington county wife beaters, were
sentenced on Monday to one year
each in State prison. In pronounc-
ing sentence Judge Gaskill stated that
hereafter lie would listen to no ex-
cuses in cases of this character. but
would make wife-beating State
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