Perth Amboy evening news., 1905-10-14
CITY BRIEFS

Graham & McKeon. contractors,
who have had the job of grading and
repairing Elm street. completed the
work yesterday and it is expected thai
it will be inspected by City Engineer
Forrest L. Smith this afternoon.
Joseph Minway, of State street,
was nearly overcome by some gas he
inhaled Thursday while at work at
the chemical works and he was taken
home. where he is recovering rapidly.
Tho earth is being made even for
the concrete walk to be laid leading
to and around the high school.
The condition of James Cosgrove,
of 30 North First Street, whose skull
was fractured by a train Mt the Wash
ington street crossing on the Central
railroad and who vas taken to the
city hospital Wednesday night, is still
unchanged. He is conscious.
About $50 workmen in the en-
ploy of the New York & New jersey
OOAipdhJ arc db. Woih 1
Woodbridge road laying conduits for
the trunk line of the telephone COM
pany. from this city to Railway.
"A neighbor has complained to the
police that a oma living at Kenne-
dale Heights has put her five children
out of the house, to make room for a
mar Of none too good repute and that
drrnken debauches.. are frequent. The
Oversee of the poor has been notified.
On the local docks of the Lehigh
! Valley railroad the employees are now
working full time because of an extra
a v shipment of coal to New York,
-Out-of-talent has been secured by
the committee in charge of the smok-
or. supper and entertainment which
Corliss Association No. ID, of Station
AIRY Engineers Association, will hold
in Columbia Hall. October Is.
Two carpenter mallets were
found in front of 355 State street by
an officer last night and We're re-
turned to the owner.
Solomon Weiss, of Hall avenue,
reported 10 the authorities this
morning that a light brown horse of
his hal gone away during the night
and he did not know anything as to
it's Whereabouts. The horse was
light in weight and wore a blanket.
Reynolds brothers have decor
ated the balcony of their store in a
pretty manner with birch bark and
autumn leaves.
Lawrence Lodge, T.. o. o. F., in
itiated a candidate last night.
The Ramblers will hold a sup
per tonight in the Eagle A. G.. club
house at Smith and Hobart streets.
The committee in charge, under
Chef. Thomas Cluney, left nothing
undone to make a success of the af-
fair. A special meeting of the Ram
blers has been called for tomorrow
afternoon.
A special meeting of the trus-
tees of the Eagle A. c. will be held
in the club house at Smith and Ho-
bart streets, Monday night at s
o'clock.
Catholic Club will meet Monday
night.
"A meeting of Lincoln Engine
Company will be held Tuesday night.
-Laborers' Protective Union will
hold a session in the Dana building
Monday night.
-Braga Singing Society will meet
in Braga Hall Monday night.
There will be a dance in Wilder
Music Hall, Smith street, tonight.
-Work on the new fence around
the Lehigh Valley property has been
started.
The employees OF the Elizabeth
Cornice Company will have a clam
bake at Linden tomorrow afternoon
Last night the Westminster
Cadets held Il meeting and drill.
The committee in charge of the
coming ball and reception of the
Chesebrough Vaseline Works en-
ployes will get together next week to
make the final arrangements for the
affair.
1T is understood that when the
Hudson & MiddleseX Telephone &
Telegraph Company puts the free
phone service in city hail, according
to its franchise, that more than one
phone Will be put in, one for each
of three or four departments.
Two brothers became engaged
in a quarrel over some fish at the
store of one of them on Fayette
street yesterday and an officer was
called.
james Collins, of State street.
appeared before the recon der last
night charged with picking the poek-
cts of Edward Burke, of Washing
ton street, of about S35 in a State
street saloon Thursday night. Burke
had no witnesses to c%orroborate his
testimony and Collins was discharg-
ed from custody.
james Cosgrove, the young man
hit by a Central train at Washington
street Wednesday night, is still liv-
ing, at the hospital, and has a good
chance for recovery.
Two saloon doors We're found
unlocked by Officers long after mid