The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1904-01-15
STATE AND
COUNTY NEWS
Pointed Paragraphs Of Import.
ant and Interesting Events
IN New Jersey
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Orange has servant girls union.
Trenton has two cases of smallpox.
Montclair is overrun by worthless
/ ours.
Dover demands an increase in the
force of letter carriers.
/ Over 1000 trout "fingerlingsr have
been freed in Hunterdon county
/ streams.
/ Ice harvesting at Lake Hopatcong
has commenced and about 300 men are
at work.
The Taylor Iron and Steel Company,
High Bridge, has cut the pay of its en-
ployees 10 per cent.
! The Lackawanna is about erecting
in Orange two new station buildings,
aggregating 100000. lt ~
Newark Bay, for the first time in
fourteen years, was frozen over on
Monday, completely blocking navi-
cation.
| 1t is rumored that the Lackawanna
Railroad Company is negotiating for
the Edison Cement Works at New
Village.
Benjamin Macarthur, of Elizabeth,
on Sunday night shot and killed
Philip f. McEnroe, of Newark, over
a game of dice.
1t is stated that a new clubhouse is
to be erected on the Breslin grounds,
Lake Hopatcong, to cost 100000. 1t
is to be completed by July |.
Barbara Kaltz, of Lafayette town.
ship, was burned to death last week.
Cause, to free use of kerosene while
kindling fire. She was SO years old.
A bobsled ON which fifteen boys and
girls were coasting down Court street,
Newark, on Tuesday evening ran into
trolley car and seven of the fifteen
were injured, four of them seriously.
| The official record of game killed at
Tranquility Farms, Warren county,
this season is 2, 402 English pheasants,
SO rabbits, ! quail. The dob Whites"
seem to have taken very good care of
themselves.
South Orange is to have new jail.
Plans have been drawn and contracts
let for structure which will be built
of brick and covered with stucco. The
architecture will be in conformity
with the old Spanish mission buildings
that are found in California and Mex
leo.
The Middlessex Grand Jury last
week brought in presentment recon-
mending that the county establish a
chain gang, that constables be paid
$3.50 for each tramp arrested, and
that all tramps committed under the
vagrancy act be set to work in gangs
of six on county roads, each tramp
to have ball and chain on his ankle.
While Mr.. and Mrs. John HI. Voor-
hees, of Elizabeth, were attending a
performance of Midnight in China
town" at Lyceum Theatre Monday
evening, there house at Sayre place,
caught fire and their youngest son,
Allen, two years old was burned to
death in his cradle. An older child
was saved by the nurse from similar
| fate.
Rev. Mr.. Morgan, of Stanhope, has
sued DR.. A. G. VanSyckle, of Hack
ettstown, for $4,000 damages on ac-
count of an accident caused by col
lision, whereby the minister and his
wife were both injured. AS the ac-
cident happened in Mt. Olive town
ship the venue is laid in this county
Elmer King for plaintiff ; w. W. Gut
Ter for defendant.
Engineer Alexander Potter, of South
Orange, has announced that the big
joint sewer which drains a large sec
tion Of Union, Essex and Morris coun-
| ties is nearly finished. The only por-
tion unfinished is part of the section
which includes tunnel through a
hill in Unionville. This will be com
pleted in March. Progress is being
made at the rate of eighteen feet a
day.
New jersey, according to the advance
sheets of the report of the United
States Commissioner of Education,
has total population of 1883 $3.50 and
population of 1,4S0, 49S over ten
years of age. Among this latter num-
Der there are S6,658 persons who can
not read or write, or SO per cent. of
the States population is illiterate.
In 1890 the percentage Of illiterates
in the State was 6.5
''The Modern Orchestra" an illus
trated lecture by Miss Lola Phinney,
Mus. b., Yale University, will be
given at the house of Mrs. Robert
Walsh, Headley road, on Wednesday
afternoon next at 3 O'Clock. Songs
will be rendered by Miss Mamie
Beirne Trowbridge. Tickets may be
had at the Woman's Exchange.