The Monmouth inquirer., 1924-07-31
NEW JERSEY
STATE NEWS

Morse of the Eastern Steamship
Lines, Inc, which left Rockland for
Bar Harbor, struck on Crotch Island,
near the entrance to Stonington Har-
Dor, in thick fog.
Following the loss of his left leg
under a Baltimore & Ohio freight
train Frank Williams. nine years old,
Of So Bayway, died in the Elizabeth
General Hospital.
Mrs. William Steer of Rockaway.
was sentenced to thirty days in Nor
ris County Jail and to pay court costs
BY Recorder Thomas Harmon on be-
ing found guilty of trespassing upon
and wilfully destroying property
owned by Mr.. and Mrs. William Shu-
mann, who lives next door.
Salmon Brothers, of Netcong, who
are constructing the new Manunka-
chunk-Delaware state highway, broke
records Tuesday, when they put down
a stretch of concrete road 1908 feet
ir length by ten feet wide In one
working day, 1t was reported to the
county officers. Up to that time the
record was between 900 and 1000 feet.
Philip Chirojaine Of the Queen City
Hotel management was held for the
action of the Union County Grand
Jury by Recorder William Buckley Of
Scotch Plains Township on charge
of manslaughter, after the death Of
Nicholas Failures Of Plafnfeld, from
injuries sustained in an automobile
accident in Mountain avenue, Scotch
Plains. July Il.
Louis Chalmers, formerly a mem
Der of the crew Of the British steam
ship Genevieve, wanted in Atlantic
CITY in connection with the killing
last November of Robert Pike, a fell
low-member Of the crew, on Rum
Row." off the New Jersey coast, has
been arrested in New Orleans by
Department of Justice agent on in
structions from Washington
Plans and specifications for recon
structing Whitehead Road from the
Pennsylvania Railroad Bridge to the
Delaware and Raritan Canal were ap-
proved by the Board Of Freeholders.
Bids will be received on August and
the work will be finished by Novem-
Der 15 1t is expected that the road
will cost nearly $4,000.
Lindley E. Johnson was reelected
president of the North Christian Or
phanage at Carversville at the annual
meeting held a few days ago. In the
annual reports submitted 1t was
shown that during the past year the
work of the institution under his di-
rection has been very successful and
the institution is in prosperous con-
dition
William A, Ward, member Of the
Town Council in Nutley before the
commission form of government was
adopted, died at the home of Mr.. and
Mrs. L. G. Stager, 239 Franklin ave-
Eue, that town.
Charged with violation of the ma
tional prohibition act, three Fleming
ton hotel men we're placed under 81 900
bail to await the action of the Fed
eral Grand Jury at Trenton
Westmont faces a water famine
such as Collingswood experienced last
year. The failure of a test well drilled
by the General Water Supply Com
pany between Crystal Lake and Stoy
avenue is responsible for low pressure
all over the town, engineers say.
The water for the township is supplied
from Merchantville through Ceilings
wood, as is Woodlynne.
National Park borough officials have
been notified that work on the road
from Woodbury. viii be started within
two weeks, the board Of trustees hav-
ing awarded the contract last week.
Sydney Martin, who has large bee
hive in the yard of his home at Ma
tional Park, discovered that bees had
hiyed in an old straw hat in the yard
Henry Morrison, Herbert BuZby and
Maurice Vanaman left Millville on bi-
cycles for Niagara Falls and expect
to complete the journey in five days.
The first green corn of the season is
being cut by some of the south Jersey
growers.
Edward N Wiker of Wike- & Stru-
bel, cattle dealers, died in st. Mary's
Hospital. Orange, Of appendicitis. He
owned a large estate near Newton.
More than 20 boy scouts were in
jured, several seriously, when large
motor truck bringing them home from
days outing crashed into store on
Death Curve. West Orange.
Frank Danroskey, ffty-three, was
drowned in the Delaware river at Bur
lington when he and some friends, out
in a rowboat, decided to take swim.
Danroskey sank shortly after he en-
tered the water. His companions
said they thought he was kidding"
them and rowed back home without
him.
After a five day trial, in which two
presidents we're set in the jurispru-
dence of Atlantic county, that of plac-
ing in evidence murdered body, and
the continuance of d trial until nearly
midnight on a Saturday, the jury de-
liberated but two hours in finding
verdict of acquittal for Mrs. Pearl VII
lard and John ]. Gillies. charged with
the murder of Mrs. Wizards i've