The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1903-12-25
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Eight-inch ice on Lake Estling
Passaic has an endemic Of tvnnid

Eight-inch ice on Lake Estling
Passaic has an epidemic Of typoid.
Middlesex county authorities are
after the "hoboes."
Millburn schools been have ordered
closed. owing to prevalence of scarlet
fever.
Shad fishermen along the lower
Delaware will use naphtha launches
the coming season to lay their nets.
The Newark lodge of Good Templars
has petitioned the excise board of that
city to increase the saloon license fee
to $500.
Strikers at the Smyrna Mills, Nights
town, propose joining the American
Federation of Labor in order to gain
higher wages.
John Turner, of Stanhope, aged 10
years, tried the experiment of crossing
the Lackawanna tracks in front Of a
fast-moying train. He was buried last
Saturday.
The American Bridge Company of
Trenton will cut the wages of its en-
ployees 10 per cent. January l, re-
trenchment of expenses being con-
sidered necessary.
Camden assessors will pay little
heed to Jnstice Garrison's decision
regarding the tax exemption to old
soldiers, firemen and militiamen, such
exemptions to stand for this year.
The Loree brothers, triplets aged
about II years, who were tramping in
search of their mother, were arrested
in Somervile on Friday as Migrants.
Their circumstances being made
known, they were helped along.
Sidney Casey, aged Is years, who
calls Red Bank his home, found a
stick of dynamite and showed it in his
shotgun for bullet. He fired the
gun and still lives to tell of it, al
though his memory is in hazy con-
dition.
The laws regulating fire protection
of public buildings in this State are
so loosely drawn that there is clash
of authority in cities of the first and
second class between the local authori
ties and the department of factories
and workshops.
Emil Baumann, of Paterson, wants
100000 damages for injuries received a
year and a half ago while working in
the mill of Johnson, Cowdin & Co.
Chop off two ciphers, and it will proba
hly hn
eventually receive.
Constantine Kropaczcroski, of Rock
away, has presented the fire de-
partment of that borough with SIS for
services rendered at recent fire.
Gee whizz If he had donated his
name he would have swamped fire,
department, and all.
And even the aristocratic game Of
"gowff" furnishes food and fun for
the legal fraternity. David Honey
man, instructor at the Hillside Golf
Club, has brought suit against Henry
Jackson to recover $75 alleged to be
due for teaching Jackson how to play
golf.
Rockaway people are kicking over
the cut-out of that borough from the
Morris & Essex division trains. A
petition was forwarded to the head
officials of the Lackawanna road last
week praying that changes for the
betterment of Rockaway be made.
The petition has been taken under
adyisement.
The Hardyston Sussex county, tax
issues have now about become State
issue. The Zinc Company's counsel
denies the authority of the State
Board of Taxation. The county coun-
sci wants an order for entry into the
mines, but doesn't seem to be able to
get it, The case will be further
argued in Newton on Tuesday next.