The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1916-01-15

lights, for which the citizens refused
to vote an appropriation. Many more
arc lights are to be installed.
A horse to cost not more than $3.50
has been ordered by the Westfield
council for the use of the police de
partment for a mounted police officer
on the outskirts of the town.
Nine burglars were surprised while
at work in PENIS Grove p~ostoffice and
In a running fight with the police three
were more or less seriously wounded
Six were captured and three escaped.
Mrs. Bessie Wilson of Hackensack
complained to Chief of Police Dun that
Mrs. Jennie Hughes had kidnapped her
baby for a bill of 50. Policeman Kirk
restored the baby to the frantic par.
ent.
Joseph Tauria. ten years old. and Al
bert HALO, nine years old. both Of
Union Hill. We're killed while pickin.
coal III the yards Of the West Shore
railroad. A freight train backed down
on them.
Handing up indictments against
seven persons, the Newton December
grand jury established a record for
speed. 1t began its session in the morn
ing and was discharged in the after
noon.
Judge Peter F. DAILY in the quarter
sessions court in Newark sentenced
Harry Ellensweig of New York to one
year in the Essex County penitentiary
and to pay a fine of $500 for receiy-
ing stolen goods.
The bad debtor will have a slim
chance to get tick" hereafter in Hack
ettstown. according to steps taken at
the January meeting of the Hacketts-
town Merchants association. A black
list will be compiled at once.
Sheriff Thompson of Morristown has
sixty prisoners to care for and only
twenty-five cells. He is putting two
men in each 4 by Z cell. Four cots in
the hospital ward are in use. The re
mainder of the prisoners will have to
bunk on the floor. Sheriff Thompson
has sent for blankets. so that none of
the prisoner campers will suffer from
the cold.
While assisting in operating a shred
ding machine, the same one that cost
him his left arm fifteen years ago.
John NJ. Sickles. siXty-eight years old.
of Oceanport lost the thumb and first
finger of his right hand.
The "anti-jag'' board of Pompton
Lakes must either act or get out. The
hnroII0h an11nai1 mt fha nao+for cn1ara
ly up to two of the delinquent mem
bers. The listed drinkers continue to
get drinks the council said.
A reported raise of 81 a ton in the
price of coal after Jan. 10 has reused
the citizens of Atlantic City. In other
places the raise is said to be % cents.
and it is said there is no reason for a
greater increase in Atlantic City.
Physicians throughout the state have
taken up the question of urging the
repeal of the law governing the exam
ination of candidates for registered
nurses. They declare stringent rules
make selection of aids difficult.
The safe in Barnet Cohen's jewelry
store at Paterson was robbed of S10,-
600 worth of jewelry and unset stones.
The safe was opened with a "can open
err" and the burglars left their tools
behind. Cohen carried no insurance.
Funeral services over the remains Of
sixteen-year-old Ira Stringham, who
drowned in the Norris canal, near
Bates street, Jersey City. after saving
two little boys who had broken through
the ice. were held at his late home.
The Rev. DIR. Stephen Joseph Her
ben, pastor of the Orange Methodist
church. has been called by the First
Methodist church of Westfield. Mrs.
Thomas A. Edison, wife of the inven-
tor, is an active worker in his church.
Internal Revenue Collector Charles
v. Duffy issued a warning In Newark
to all special taxpayers in the Fifth
district that if the special tax Is not
paid before Jan. 81 a penalty of so
per cent would be added to the amount
The quarter ending Dec. 81 was a