The Monmouth inquirer., 1923-09-27
NEW JERSEY
STATE BRIEFS

Andrew Weber, son of a wealthy
New Brunswick hotel keeper, was
shot and killed. Three companions,
arrested afterward, said they believed
he shot himself accidentally, but the
police held the shooting to be mys-
terry.
Three bids for construction of the
Amboy Bridge over the Raritan river
were rejected by the State Highway
Commission as being too high. The
lowest bid, S3,934,OOO, by the Fred
erick Snare Corporation of New York,
was 100000 in excess of the High
way Departments estimate.
T. G. Wheaton Company factory at
Millville has resumed A factory
will also go in blast at the Millville
Bottle Works.
Governor Silzer refused extradition
! papers for Evans G. Slaughter, of
Wildwood, wanted in Philadelphia in
connection with an alleged attack on
Mrs Doris Wintermnte.
The state convention Of the Ancient
Order of Hibernians, in session at
/ Trenton, endorsed Constitution week
and condemned the Ku Klux Khan
| More than 100 priests of the Tren-
ton Diocese, headed by Monsignor
Fox, went on their annual spiritual
retreat at Ocean Rest, the summer
school of the Christian Brothers at
Ocean City.
| When the Lands Township Com
! mittee came to divide the dog tax
money among those who lost chick
ems by dogs last year. the poultrymen
got 16 cents on the dollar The poul-
| trymen are to circumvent the dog
this year, having had a law passed
! requiring the committee to put in the
budget what the dog tax lacks in pay
ing 100 cents on the dollar for losses.
! Police and fire department officials
at Jersey City started separate in
| vestigations into the deaths of seven
persons and the injury of IL others
! in the fire that trapped tenants in a
| four-story brick tenement house on
/ Barrow street Most of the dead were
found in their rooms after the fire
was brought under control. They had
been either burned to death or suf-
| located.
Mrs Ella Hartshorn, so years old,
of the Jersey Central railroad She
had been to Hammonton with her
| spn-in-law, Charles Cossaboon and
/ his family. Cossaboon turned his car
| to avoid a train but it was caught
and crushed. Mrs Hartshorn died
on the way to the Vineland Hospital
The others pulled out of the wreck
were cared for at the hospital.
A traffic squad of public schoolboys
assumed the duty of plotting the small
children across White Horse pike to
and from the school at Oaklyn. Harry
Broy is commanding officer of the
SQUAD, which was duly sworn in and
provided with the necessary para
| phernalia by the Borough Commits
sioners. With their Boy Scout hats
and police whistles ever ready for
action the youths present a military
appearance and receive due respect
from motorists.
State motor inspectors in Camden
have licensed 2S8 new auto drivers.
There were 70 turned down at the
weekly tst.
Robert t. Lee and James ]. Scott,
widely known Camden Masons, have
received sthe thirty-third degree at the
session of the Supreme Council in
New York.
The Pitman High School has start
ed off with an entering class of 66.
The annual flower show, under the
auspices of the Millville Horticultural
Society, was one of the biggest ever
held in that part of the state.
Traces of frost we're found in some
sections of south Jersey, but farmers,
who have been counting upon at least
two weeks more in which to complete
their harvests, say that crops have not
been damaged.
The wife Of Robert Spence of Brigh-
ton avenue gave birth to child at the
! City Hospital, Atlantic City. The
mother is only thirteen years old, the
youngest in the history of the hospital.
Mrs. Spence was we'll enough to leave
the next afternoon Her baby is also
doing well.
The new Hackensack Hospital, en-
bodying, it was said, the most modern
facilities and devices for the surgical
and medical treatment and care of pa
tents, is practically completed and
was opened for public inspection. The
structure cost nearly 100000, all of
which was raised by public subscrip-
ton.
Increased property valuation rather
than an increase in the tax rate will
result in a substantial increase in tax
es paid in New Jersey over the amount
paid last year, according to the eighth
annual report of the State Board Of
Taxes and Assessments submitted
Several barrels of wine were seized
in two raids at Boonton conducted by
Thomas Beddow and David V. Con-
kiln, special officers of the prosecu-
tors staff. At the place of Flaviano
Diedosido three barrels were taken,