Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-06-29


Another crusade against Sabbath
breakers is on at Riverside.
A big run of blue fish has again
appeared in Barnegat Bay.
Grocery and butcher stores of East
Camden Wednesday closed at noon,
inaugurating the Wednesday half
holidays.
Burlington Knights OF Columbus
Wednesday night celebrated the fifth
anniversary of their council with a
reception and banquet.
Giassworkers are daily returning
from the west to their summer homes
in Melville, the blasts having been
discontinued until fall.
Assemblyman William c. Cattell,
of Wenonah, is out with the an
nouncement of his candidacy for re-
election on the republican ticket.
While making a broad jump at a
church picnic Edward Whomsley,
aged eighteen, son of George G:
Whomsley, of Burlington, sprained
his ankle.
While playing with a corn chopper,
Louie Triton, ten-year-old son OF
Charles Tilton, of Toms River, had
the ends of three of his fingers cut
off.
Caught beneath an o%verturning
wagon, A. r. Reed, a milk dealer OF
No. IS North Thirty-fifth street,
Camden, suffered a spinal injury and
broken rib Wednesday.
Camden police are looking Tor a
sneak thief who stole 500 from a
trunk belonging to j. Willard, a
boarder in the home of Mrs. A. Nun
ion, on Mickle street, below Fifth.
Professor Frank Forrest Freder-
ick. of the University of Illinois, mas
been elected director of the Trenton
School of Industrial Arts to succeed
Professor Henry Mcbride.
Herbert Denny paid he costs IN
Camedn police court "Wednesday TOT
playing ball on the street. This IS
the first arrest under Mayor Ellis
orders to stop this practice.
Fred Bibbins, one of the best
known baseball players OF Trenton,
was struck in the left eye by a lying
niece of steel and may lose the sight
of the member.
After two years of coaxing and
threats on the part of Millville coun-
ell. the West Jersey & Seashore Rail
road has started the foundation for
the first safety gates which it prom
ised to erect.
The special election at Pennington
to decide upon the question of build
ing a macadamized road from flem-
ington to Ringoes resulted in favor
of the stone road advocated by a ma
jority of 237. .
There was a large attendance at
the musicale given in the Catholic
Lyceum, Camden, Wednesday night,
by the pupils of st. Mary's Academy,
connected with the Church OF the
Immaculate Conception.
A delegation of clergymen called
on Prosecutor Lloyd, in Camden,
Wednesday and complained hat the
law was being violated at Woodlynne
Park by the operation of gambling
devices and sale of goods on Sundays.
d. G.. McGalliard, a farmer living
at White Horse, near Trenton, asserts
with all seriousness that after a re-
cent hail storm one of his cows,
which was exposed to the weather,
gave four quarts of ice cream instead
of milk.
Convicted 1ef aeddling neckties
without a license, Hen Cavner, a boy,
was about to be committed to jail by
Recorder Stackhouse, of Camden,
Wednesday, when M. Brooks, of
Philadelphia, paid $3.50 for costs
and planked down S. for a license.
A committee of the Methodist
Preachers Meeting, of Camden, after
an interview with Prosecutor Lloyd,
Wednesday, issued a statement that
of the clergymen identified with
the Sunday closing movement IS
guilty Of failing to promptly file mar
riage returns.
Just two weeks from the day he
had his right foot 50 badly crushed
under train wheels that it had to be
amputated, A. G.. McCausland, of
Camden, superintendent of the Allan
tic City Railroad, was able to be re-
moved Wednesday from Cooper Hos
pital to his home.
A dog owned by Spencer Cum
mings. of No. 500 North Thirty-sixth
street. Camden, went mad yesterday
and was shot by him. Policeman
George Johnson also shot a vicious
dog that had badly bitten Charles
King, aged twelve years, of Thirty
seventh street and Central avenue.