The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1903-03-13
MORRIS AND NEARBY COUNTIES
Brief Snappy Squibs Cleaned From
Various Places and Condensed
for Busy Readers.

During the year ending March 1, the
Newton fire department responded to
Ia alarms of fire.
Newton's town committee estimate
that the cost of running the town dur
ing the coming year will be 81 400,
Sanford Reed, as executor Of Joseph
Barber, deceased, on March 2 sold at
public sale the farm of the deceased at
Houses, to William Reed, for ST, ZOO
above the incumbrance of Sl0O. The
property comprised ia acres
The funeral services of James My
ers, the night foreman of the coal plant
at the Edison Cement Works, who lost
his life in the terrible explosion of coal
dust last week, we're held at the Stew
artsville Presbyterian Church on Sun
day.
The funeral of George Bowman, the
timekeeper and telegraph operator at
the Edison plant, who died at the
Easton Hospital and was the eighth
victim of the explosion, was held Mon
day afternoon at Broadway Methodist
Church.
There was an exciting contest in
Washington township Saturday for the
nomination for assessor on the Demo-
cratic ticket, which is equivalent to
an election. Samuel Rhinehart won
over Benjamin Opdyke. Daniel Fits
was renominated for collector and II.
i. Bowers for committeeman.
The body of William r. O'Keefe, of
PittSburg, who was run down and
killed by a Lackawanna train near
Rockport Thursday of last week, was
identified by his sister, Miss Mary o.
Keefe, of Hackettstown. She said her
brother left Pittsburg February 20 to
seek employment as blacksmith.
The Sussex Independent says that
Dr. e. A. Nugent, of Unionville, has
secured patent for a COW mixer
whereby all milk is put into bottles
without coming in contact with the
air. One man, after the mixers are
adjusted, can milk forty cows as quick
ly as he can one, and the milk will be
in bottles ready for market.
Harry Suthard, the alleged burglar
arrested in Montclair Saturday after
noon at the home of Frank Smith in
Park street, is said to have admitted
to Chief of Police Gallagher that he
had committed burglaries in Orange.
Detectives from cities in Essex and
Hudson counties visited the Montclair
police station to get glimpse of the
prisoner. Some of them had seen the
fellow in their territory. Suthard will
be kept at the police station for seve-
raj days,
Juries must not be funny in their
verdicts. One in Essex county re-
turned verdict of gully of assault
and battery with intent to scare. y
The Judge sent back the jury and told
them to return a verdict according tC
the terms of the indictment-gu guilty
or not guilty of assault and battery,
or of assault and battery with intent
to kill" The case went up to the
Supreme Court, and Justice Gummere
Fort, Garrison and VanSyckel solenly
adjudicated that the Judge was al
right in sending back the jury. War
rem Journal.
The family of Lewis r. Labar, o.
Beattystown, had narrow escape
from asphyxiation by coal gas yester
day morning. About O'Clock Mr.. ant
Mrs. Labar were awakened by the
noise made by their niece, Miss Flor
ence Houser, who had felt a sense Of
suffocation, and in attempting to leave
her room had fallen unconscious neal
the door of the room occupied by hel
uncle and aunt. Mr.. Labar carried
Miss Houser to an open window in an
other part of the house, and assisted
his wife, who was not afflicted so bad
ly by the gas. A physician completed
the work of restoring the patients tt
normal conditions. They are now out
of danger. The escape of the gas into
the rooms was due to brick that haC
fallen into the chimney, choking it up