The Morris County chronicle., 1904-02-05
STATE AND
COUNTY NEWS
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ant and Interesting Events
m New Jersey
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Postmaster Treweeke, of Butler,
has been reappointed for term of
four years
Burglars in Plainfield walked off
with 800 cash and turkey. Bad
neighborhood, that Plainfield.
1t is stated that the intense cold
and deep snow have caused the death
of many birds and wild animals.
Elmer Hendershot, of Washington,
age II years, was instantly killed on
j Tuesday evening, while coasting.
Goshen, N. Y, appears to be afflicted
with glut of high-priced horses and
a detachment ofsthe Salvation Army.
/ Orange has to pay Newark 800 for
/ 100000 gallons of water. The daily
consumption is l23 gallons per capita.
In the State of New Jersey there
are l34.6 farms, and their aggre-
gate worth, with their equipment is
1896, ,359, 106.
The Yankee Girl Knitting Conn
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which has been in existence about a
year. has gone out of business.
Mr. and Mrs. Elijah Dutford, of Mid
die Valley, celebrated their golden
wedding on Monday. Mr.. Dufford is
! IS years DID, and his wife eight years
younger
Almost the entire plant of the
Ashley & Bailey Silk Company in
Paterson was destroyed by fire on
Saturday morning. Loss estimated
at 100000.
The large mills of the Boonton Iron
and Steel Company, located on the
property of the j. Couper-Lord estate,
were partially destroyed by fire Sun
| day morning
Peter Flynn, who for several years
was the largest and tallest member of
Elizabeth's police force, was on Sun
day at his own request taken to the
Morris Plains Hospital.
Mrs. Catherine Hoover Burd, of
Califon, was 103 years old last month.
Consequently she has lived in tn terms
of every President of the United
States save those of Washington.
The building law in Atlantic City is
so strict that If man drives nail
in the kitchen wall to hang the pam
cake griddle on he will have to take out
permit or violate the law.
At the Sunday meeting of the
Orange Y. M. @. A. one of the speakers
stated that the young people of
America had spent three times as
much for chewing gum as for foreign
missions.
East Orange authorities, to reduce
the bunch of bobsled casualties to a
minimum, has fixed the maximum
number of those who are ready to
sacrifice life and limb in coasting to
| four on one sled
Bishop Scarborough on Tuesday
celebrated the twenty-ninth anniver-
sary of his conservation. The exer-
cises were held in Grace Episcopal
Church, Elizabethport. He was pre-
sented with purse containing twen-
ty-nine gold coins.
During the heavy gale of Monday
afternoon an icehOuSe at Stockholm
belonging to the Summit Ice Com
pany collapsed and Andrew Pulls and
Edgar Boyd were killed and four la
! borers injured, two of whom will die.
J. L. Allen, proprietor of the Pa
vilion Hotel at Nolan's Point, Lake
HopatcOng, is having his well-known
hotel remodeled throughout. He has
also erected the largest boat house ON
the lake, containing one hundred and
ten boats, including thirty fishing
boats of the latest model.
Asserting that there are technical
errors in Chancellor Magie's determ-
nation of the trust funds under which
they are decedents, the grandchil-
dren of the late John |. Blair, of War
rem county, have appealed from the
chancellors prerogative court decis-
ion. The estate left by John |. Blair
is valued between $50, ,000,0 and $40,
100000.
The safe in the United States
Express Company's office in the Mill
burn depot was blown open on Satur-
day morning, and SSl in cash belong
ing mostly to the railroad company
was taken. 1t is believed that nitro
glycerine was used. The safe door
was blown completely off, and the
front of the steel case wrecked. The
clock on the opposite side of the
wooden partition in the ticket office
was dislodged, and the hands stopped
at 4.33 O'Clock, indicating the
time Of the blast