The Monmouth inquirer. [volume] (Freehold, N.J.) 1865-1933, 1925-06-25

the discovery OF d uI5 III garage
there and is said to have acknowl-
edged kindling that and two other re-
cent fires in Tenafy. He is locked up
in the county jail In Hackensack,
charged with arson.
An incendiary attempted to set fire
to Miss Fines Princeton School on
Stockton street, formerly the old
Princeton Inn. Some paper on the
rear porch OF the school building was
set afre, and it was likely to result
in a large confiagration, but the blaze
was quenched before the woodwork Of
the section became afire. The culprit
has not yet been discovered
Damage estimated at $75O,0OO was
caused in Bayonne when fire swept
through a lumber yard at Flftieth
street and Avenue E, jumped across
the street to plumbers supply store
house, and spread through ten frame
dwellings in its path. The flames were
placed under control after several
hours Of fighting by the entire fire de-
partment of the city.
The Marine Trust Company bought
lot at New York and Atlantic ave-
nues, adjoining the company's build
ing, in Atlantic city. According to
former Mayor William Riddle, presi-
dent of the bank this lot will ebe
utilized as a site for a motion picture
theatre, run by the bank, in which
they will attempt to educate custom
ers in matters financial by means Of
motion pictures and comedy skits.
A verdict Of first degree murder
with recommendation of confinement
at hard labor was returned by the jury
at SomerviIle in the trial of Pasquale
De Pierro, thirty-eight, charged with
the Staying in 1918 of Paul De Bennett
to at Bound Brook
Former Senator William H. Parry OF
Nutley, as counsel for certain proper
ty owners in Passaic avenue, that
town, has written letter to the town
commission protesting against an
award on the Passaic avenue paving
contract to the Franklin Contracting
Company.
Drawing a dense motor traffic and
travelling through some of the most
congested thoroughfares in the city,
three. year-old John Lyons, Jr., of TIC
Twelfth avenue, Newark, rode new
gift bicycle three miles, bent upon To-
eating Frank Kramer, former worlds
champion bicycle rider, who, he had
heard, was a resident of East Orange
United States Marshal James HI
Mulheron died suddenly in St. Francis
Hospital, Trenton, where he was op-
Grated on for intestinal trouble His
death was due to weak heart, aggra-
waited by the death Of his eldest son
and the long and serious Illness or
Mrs Mulheron, who is now in Phila-
delphia hospital. He was born seven
ty-one years ago in Greenwich Village
New York City.
The truck farmers in Princeton
township and vicinity are being hard
hit by the scorching heat of this sea-
son and merchants and vegetable
hawkers at Princeton say that the
fresh vegetable market around this
section is going to witness rise in
prices. There are a great many farms
about this place which supply local.
grocers and vendors with large per-
centage of their fresh vegetables.
Charles Johnson, a colored convict
who escaped from the labor camp
near Toms River, while serving a two
to seven years sentence, was rear
rested four hours after he had
clicked Mrs. Matilda jeffrey, "a years
old and left her unconscious in her
home at Lanoka. Sheriff Grant and
Constables Cornelius and Buckwalter
captured the prisoner as he was walk
ing along the road to Atlantic City.
The SO foot motor boat Com
manche, captured by coast guard
crew near Chester few weeks ago
and which was moored at the immi-
grafton station at Gloucester, was
sold at auction for $1,210.
A federal probe opened at Atlantic
City into the circumstances surround
ing the explosion and sinking of the
gasoline yacht Crystal off the COST
causing the death of five persons and
serious injury to three.
The Borough Council of Metuchen
at a special meeting suspended two
policemen for alleged participation in
crap game. The charges were made
by Chief Hutchinson. Charles From
was relieved Of duty for one week and
C.. N. Manziano for two weeks
The decline of the study Of Greek
in American secondary schools has
been commented on for sometime
but in the past few years very de-
cided drop has been noticed and Dean
Andrew f. West, Of Princeton, views
the situation very seriously. DIR. West
is noted classicist and president of
the American Classical League.
Mrs. Ronald Schenck, twenty-five,
and Mrs. Joseph McGarry, twenty-five,
both of Plainfield. Y. j.. who were in
jured when an aerial bomb exploded
at the st. Anthony Day celebration,
we're reported out of danger
Despondent, her father believes,
over her failure to pass the examina-
tions in the high school in Bristol.