The Monmouth inquirer., 1925-11-05
NeuU Jersey
State Briefs

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drug store of Adolph Alvens, dropped
dead of heart disease. His wife, son
and two daughters survive.
Governor Silzer announced the APP
pointment of William Lowden Of
Elizabeth as a member Of the State
Board Of Dentistry. He succeeds DR..
Charles Faupel, who resigned.
Anthony Nardello, building con-
tractor, of Totowa, pleaded non vuit
to charge of grand larcency for the
theft of $17,035 from the Riverside
Trust Company in October, 1924.
Hoboken opened six public coal sta
tions, where poor people could buy
fuel In 100-pound lots. The Depart
ment of Public Safety and Department
of Health supervised the stations.
Wesley Boyle. 81, Of Hoboken, was
held for Federal authorities, charged
with posing as a prohibition agent.
He was arrested when police said he
entered a saloon and demanded $50
to prevent raid. He was equipped
with a genuine prohibition agents
shield.
| Thirteen barrels of malt were
seized on the beach at Elberon, by
coast guardsmen, after a gun battle
with rum-runners, in which more than
twenty shots were fired. Eight men
had just finished unloading the malt
from launch when the guardsmen
approached
Stricken with a heart attack while
driving horse drawn truck in Town
| ley, Thomas Walsh, seventy years old,
fell from the truck and died before
the arrival of an ambulance from the
Elizabeth General Hospital. Walsh
was employed by Michael Murphy, a
Townley farmer, more than 80 years.
| That a crime wave is prevalent in
Essex county was denied by Common
Pleas Judge Edwin c. Caffey at New
ark, in charging the second half of
the September term grand jury. There
are no great questions of lawlessness
to be presented them, the jurist said,
in appointing Edison L. Clark, BAL
Park avenue, as foreman.
| George Winters, who stabbed his
young wife fatally October IA, in Jer-
sey City, was taken to the county Jail
from the City Hospital. Winters was
prisoner in the hospital, recovering
from six-inch stab wound in his
chest which he inflicted after he killed
his wife, and while four police officers
hammered at the door of their apart
ment.
During the month of September
1909 deaths were reported to the Blu
reau of Vital Statistics Of the State
Department Of Health The death
rate for the month is 9.85, which is
the lowest for this year. The previous
low rate was for August, when the
rate dropped to 1851. Thirty-three
persons committed suicide during
September.
| A marriage course for prospective
husbands has been started at Jersey
City in the Y M. c. A. DR.. Harry L.
Everett, Congregational minister,
talked on why Marry?" as the first
of ten marriage lessons to be given
by as many speakers during the next
two months. The only woman SEIZED
uled to speak is DR.. Margaret Sulli-
van, who will explain "How a Wo-
man Looks Upon Marriage"
Four bandits held up fifty patrons
OF Johnny Dundee and Phil Krug's
poolroom in East Newark and es-
capped with $4,000.
! National Park borough officials ex-
pect to have the new pumping station
and municipal water system in opera
ton before the end of this month.
Pennsgrove Council has arranged for
the refunding of floating Indebtedness
for the new municipal hall by a bond
issue of $4,000 under date of Decem-
Der 1.
Daniel Marinaro, lawyer, Morris
town. who pleaded non vult and was
jailed in default of $1,000 fine on
charges OF conspiracy in the case OF
James H. Bolitho, has been released.
When the State Board of Education
meets November Z for its monthly
session, 1t Is expected that recommen-
dations will be made by the commit
tee of the School for the Deaf that
steps be taken to sell the property at
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| Trenton. which is now being aban-
doned as school Completion OF the
new buildings at Trenton Junction
will make it unnecessary after next
fall, it is said. to carry on any school
activities at the Hamilton avenue
school.
Mrs. Annie Fox, 25, was shot to
death by her husband. John. in Mont
gomery street, Highland Park, in
front of the home of Samuel Shul-
man, in which she was employed as a
domestic. Fox shot himself through
the head and died an hour later. An
infant child Of Mrs. Shulman's was
in Mrs. Fox's custody at the time Of
the shooting and escaped uninjured.
Fox and his wife had been separated
for some time, Mrs. Fox refusing to
accede to his requests that she quit
working and return to him.