January 4, 1887, Forty-Ninth Volume, No. 21

    Charles W. Zaddick, who made dynamite for the bombs used with such fatal effect by the Chicago Anarchists, has been killed by an explosion of his own nitroglycerine in a shaft of the New York aqueduct.  This is truly a case of the engineer having been hoist with his own petard.

    Bridget Tuoby, of Bergen Point, went to the Elizabeth Almshouse on Christmas morning with presents for her daughter, aged eighteen, whom she last saw a year ago.  When she arrived at the Almshouse she learned that her daughter Bridget had been burned to death in the laundry of the institution on August 27.

    Rev. Clayton Kelso, a Presbyterian minister, committed suicide on Tuesday at his home, Macon, Mo., by hanging himself in his barn.  He had just returned from the funeral of his sister, and it is supposed that excessive grief over her death impaired his mind.

    At Miles City, Mont., on Monday night, Frank Smith found his brother Al in a room at a house of ill repute with two women, named Clara Chase and Emma Richmond.  He drew a pistol and fired at Clara, when the ball passed through her arm and killed Al Smith.  The two girls and Frank Smith were at once placed under arrest, but Emma Richmond committed suicide by taking a dose of laudanum.

    Mrs. Hendrickson, wife of ex-Policeman Hendrickson, at Middletown, Ohio, while showing a neighbor, on Monday night, how she would treat tramps if any molested her took a revolver from a drawer and fired a shot in the air from the door.  As she was returning it to the drawer the weapon was accidentally discharged, and Mrs. Hendrickson's 5 year old daughter was killed.

A Lady's Neck Broken in Fall
    Mrs. Marcus L. West, one of South Easton's most estimable ladies, had her neck broken there last Monday night by falling on an icy pavement.  Mrs. West, her daughter, who is the wife of conductor Thomas O'Donnell of the Lehigh Valley road, with the wife of Master Mechanic Hoecker of the Lehigh Valley shops at Weatherly, and a small girl, were returning from a visit to the residence of a relative.  As her head struck the pavement a report resembling the sound made by the explosion of a cap was heard, and upon examination her neck was found to be broken.  Mrs. West was about 64 years of age.

Aged 136 Years
    Mrs. Susanna Warren died on the 5th ult., at Sassakawa, in the Indian Territory, at the age of 136 years, and a letter from that place, received in St. Louis, tells a remarkable story of her age.  It says: "She was born in St. Augustine, Florida, in 1750, was a slave and the property of Spanish masters until 1818, when she, with other Spanish slaves, fled from the town of Pensacola when it was taken by General Jackson.  She lived in the Seminole country from then until the second treaty of peace with the Seminoles, when she was regarded as their common property, and was removed with them to the Indian Territory.  She leaves one daughter living, who resides in Austin, Texas, and is in her ninety-seventh year.  She leaves many grandchildren here, some of them nearly seventy years of age.

    Christina Osborn, aged ninety-six years, of West Point Pleasant, died about a month ago.  She told her four children that she had saved enough to bury her, but neglected to tell where it was secreted.  On Wednesday, while the executors were taking an inventory of the effects they found an old apron hidden away in a drawer in which was wrapped $8000 in gold and silver.  The woman was supposed to have died penniless.

    Peppina Latorre, an Italian girl, 18 years old was killed on Thursday at New York on the Third Avenue Elevated Railroad by slipping and falling in front of an approaching locomotive.  She lived at No. 1663 Third Avenue, and the accident occurred at the Eighty-ninth street station.

    Isaac Bickel, an aged farmer living near Anamosa, Ia., on Wednesday night refused his 19 year old son Ira $1, which the boy wished to spend at a New Year's party.  The father, in a passion, attempted to chastise his son, but was slain by a single blow on the head from a heavy stick in the young man's hands.  The parricide was arrested.

    Shepherd F. Knapp, the well known broker, died after a lingering illness at his home on Audubon Avenue, Washington Heights, New York, on Sunday.  He was one of the most enthusiastic city sporting men, and one of the best known men about town.

    The wife of William H. Strader, of Wykertown, Sussex County, died suddenly on Saturday, of apoplexy.  While the funeral procession was on its way to the church on Monday, word was received by Mr. Strander that his daughter, Mrs. Marietta, had died suddenly of pneumonia.

    Patrick McCormick, a cripple, lay down in a drunken sleep in his little shanty on the Twelfth street meadows at Jersey City Monday night.  While moving about he overturned his oil stove with his foot.  The room caught fire and before the firemen arrived the man was suffocated.

    Mrs. Edwin Stanford, of Stanford's Corners, Jefferson County, N.Y., aged 19 years, was burned to death on Tuesday by her clothing catching fire from the stove, while she was alone in the house.

    Sadie Bigelow and Lizzie Hart, aged respectively 18 and 19 years, for some time employed in a large dry goods house at Boston, spent part of Christmas night in drinking wine with a couple of fast young men, then went to their lodgings, quarreled, agreed to die together, bought and swallowed poison and died in a few hours.  The Bigelow girl is said to have been once married to a respectable man, from whom she soon separated.

    William Lester fell into a vat of prussic acid at Work's candle factory, Cincinnati, on Wednesday, and was so badly scaled that he died the same night.

Marriages

    At the Parsonage, Flemington, by Geo. S. Mott, D. D., Dec. 30, George Ruple and Luella S. Young, daughter of William Young, all of Locktown.

    Dec. 25, at the home of the bride, near Three Bridges, by Rev. J. P. W. Blattenberger, Charles T. Hockenbury, of Barley Sheaf, and Anne R. Deats, of Three Bridges.

    At the residence of the bride's parents, in Locktown, by Elder Jacob Rodenbaugh, William E. Snyder, of Kingwood, and Cora B., only daughter of Samuel A. and Mary J. Carroll, of Locktown.

    At the bride's parents, Stockton, Dec. 29, by Rev. A. Cauldwell, Wm. E. Reinert, of Lambertville, and Maria H. Hann, of Stockton.

    Dec. 25, at the home of the bride's parents, in Frenchtown, by Rev. S. D. Decker, Martin Case, of Everittstown, to Anna R., only daughter of Lewis Hinkle, of Frenchtown.

    Dec. 13, at the home of the bride by Rev. Wm. H. McCormick, Peter E. Flomerfelt and Anna C. Apgar, all of High Bridge.

    Dec. 25, by Rev. A. L. Smith, at the residence of the bride's parents, James W. Carson and Hattie Huffman, all of Peapack.

    At the M. E. Church Parsonage, Everittstown, by Rev. S. H. Jones, Oliver C. Hann, of Pattenburg, to Elizabeth Wright, of Jutland.

    Dec. 23, by Rev. A. L. Smith, William Rockafellow, of Bartleyville, and Luella Sutphin, of Peapack.

    In the First Presbyterian Church, Lambertville, Dec. 23, by Rev. N. D. Gulick, D. D., of Brooklyn, Samuel W. Cochran to Carrie D. Skillman, daughter of Chas. A. Skillman, Esq.

    At the bride's parents, Glen Gardner, on Christmas evening, by Rev. J. W. Lake, Edward Curling and Susie Kellihan.

    By Geo. S. Mott, D. D., Dec. 23, at the house of the bride's father, Flemington, Wesley A. Conover, of Lebanon, and Annie Van Fleet, daughter of Jacob Van Fleet.

    At the home of the bride, Dec. 28, by Rev. F. L. Chapell, Edgar B. Henderson and Mary A., daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Theodore R. Young, of Raritan township.

    At the home of the bride, Dec. 28, by Rev. F. L. Chapell, David S. Prall, of East Amwell, and Rose E., daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Theodore R. Young, of Raritan township.

    At Flemington, Dec. 29, by Rev. F. L. Chapell, Judge John C. Durham and Mrs. Rebecca H. W. Prall, both of Ringoes.

    Dec. 22, at the residence of the bride's father, by Rev. J. Faull, Frank N. Williamson and Ida May Fisher, both of Sergeantsville.

    Dec. 25, at M. E. Parsonage, Sergeantsville, by Rev. J. Faull, John C. Opdyke and Jennie Kugler, both of Kingwood.

    Dec. 25, at M. E. Parsonage, Sergeantsville, by Rev. J. Faull, Henry N. Godown, and Cora B. Van Horn, both of Kingwood.

    Dec. 25, at M. E. Parsonage, Sergeantsville, by6 Rev. J. Faull, Kimble J. Kerr and Lida A. Cramer, both of Kingwood.

    Dec. 22, at the residence of the bride's father, by Rev. J. J. Summerbell, George M. Kinney and Kate Hawk, both of Holland Township.

    Dec. 25, at the M. E. Parsonage, Mechanicsville, by Rev. E. S. Jamison, John W. Cooper to Marguretta P. Calloway, both of White House Station.

    Dec. 25, at Pattenburg, by Rev. T. S. Haggerty, James Stamets, of Pattenburg, and Sarah C. Hand, of Clinton.

    At Flemington, Jan. 1, by Rev. F. L. Chapell, Oliver W. Brown and Malinda Vanderveer, both of Flemington.

Deaths

    Dec. 28, 1886, at Mechanicsville, Jacob S. Werts, aged 66 years.

    At Baptisttown, Dec. 26, 1886, Mrs. Mary Vanderbelt, aged 63 years, 8 months and 5 days.

    Near the Kingwood M. E. Church, Mrs. Mary A. Stull, wife of Levi Stull.

In High Bridge Township, Dec. 30, 1886, John W. Sharp, aged 80 years and 22 days.

    Near Flemington, Oct. 21, 1886, Jane H. Kinney, aged 63 years.

    Near Flemington, Dec. 21, 1886, Ida M., wife of Charles Mills, and daughter of Joseph B. and Annie E. Rockafellow, aged 24 years, 1 month and 5 days.

Local Department

    Dr. Alexander Kirkpatrick, died at his residence on the 22d ult., aged 75 years.  He was born in Ringoes, this county, and at one time was engaged in the mercantile business at that place.

    The young son of James Emmons, of the Pottersville vicinity, who was so badly injured some five or six weeks ago by being dragged from a horse he was riding, (the animal running under a tree,) died on Wednesday last.

    John West, colored, who in his time had been a slave, a doctor and a preacher, and who was the oldest man in Hunterdon County, died at Lambertville, last Tuesday, aged ninety-seven years.  He was born at Raleigh, N.C. and for many years was a man of note among his people.

    The widow of the late Rev. Clarence Mulford, (who some thirty-five years ago was pastor of the Flemington Baptist Church,) died in New York on Christmas day.  Her remains were brought here on Tuesday, and, after services in the church, were laid beside those of her husband in the Baptist graveyard.

    Mrs. Catharine Gordon, of Sergeantsville, died at her residence on Sunday, 26th ult., at the advanced age of 90 years.  She was the widow of the late John Gordon, and they had lived nearly all their lives in that place.  Mrs. Gordon was the mother-in-law of our popular County Collector, Joseph Williamson, Esq.

    Mrs. William Hughes, one of the oldest and most respected residents of this vicinity, died suddenly at her residence one mile east of Flemington, last Thursday night.  Mrs. Hughes had been in failing health for some time past, though able to be up and attend to light household duties.  Her husband was awakened in the night by her peculiar gasping for breath, and lifting her head gently found that she was dying.  Mr. and Mrs. Hughes settled in this place more than fifty years ago.

    A double wedding occurred at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. Theodore R. Young, near Flemington Junction, last Tuesday afternoon, at which time their two accomplished and handsome daughter - Mary and Rose - were married.  The former united with Mr. E. B. Henderson, of Omaha, Nebraska, and the latter with Mr. D. S. Prall, of East Amwell, this county.

Neighborhood Notes

Mrs. Shedcker, who was tried in Morris County a few years ago for the killing of her husband and acquitted on the ground of insanity, died in the Morris Plains Asylum, on Monday of last week.

    Somerville papers make mention of the deaths of Mrs. Margaret Ann, wife of ex-Senator Charles B. Moore, of Kingston, on the 25th ult; James Hagaman, for a number of years station agent at Ricefield, on the 24th ult., aged 78 years; Isaac L. Pittenger, in Somerville on the 24th ult., aged 67 years; Carl Reimers, in Somerville on the 24th ult., aged 84 years; William Rounsaville, formerly of Raritan, on the 22d ult., from the effects of a fall through a hatchway in a Newark store, aged 32 years.

Died
    On the 20th of December, 1886, Thomas Stout Latourette, in the 98th year of his age…

State Items

    Dan Bryant, one of the oldest and best known livery stable keepers in Newark, dropped dead Tuesday night.  Heart disease was the cause.

    William Martin Pyerson, 35 years old, of Newark, committed suicide while temporarily insane, by shooting himself in New York City, Monday.  He graduated at Princeton several years ago, and had been adjudged insane from overwork on a previous occasion; though it is thought a love-affair was the immediate cause of the rash act.

    Patrick Marto, a section master on the Pennsylvania Railroad, who lived at Iselin two miles below Brunswick, boarded the wrong train on Friday night and when he discovered his mistake the train was well under way, but he determined to get off in doing so he rolled under the wheels and was horribly cut and mangled.  He lived but a short time afterward.  A widow and four children survive him.

    Mrs. Joseph Oakeson, of New Brunswick, died Monday from injuries received Christmas morning.  She and her husband while crossing the Freehold and Jamesburg Railroad near Dayton, were struck by the engine of a coal train and hurled thirty feet in the air.  Mrs. Oakeson landed on the tires, fracturing her skull.  She lingered in an unconscious state until the time of her death.  Mr. Oakeson is not expected to live.

    Dennis Osborn, one of Newark's most prominent merchants, was thrown from his buggy last Wednesday night at the Sixth avenue crossing of the Bloomfield Railroad, in Roseville.  His neck was broken.  The locomotive struck the rear end of the wagon and threw out its occupants.  Frank Stryker, the colored driver escaped with a few scratches.  Osborn was fifty-nine years old and unmarried.  Nine years ago his partner, W. H. Camp, was killed at the Centre crossing of the Pennsylvania Railroad.

January 11, 1887, Forty-Ninth Volume, No. 22

    Benjamin F. Irey, Sheriff of Chester County, Pa., was struck by a locomotive at Frazer last Tuesday morning and almost instantly killed.  Mr. Irey was fifty years old and was sworn into office only the day before.

Horrible Butchery
    A bundle of bloody clothing was found on Tuesday in Lexington, Mass., and on Wednesday Farmer Brooks discovered near the place the head of a man, which had been severed from the body, and near it other portions of a body covered by snow.  The disfigured remains were those of a well to do milkman named George M. Codman.  Later information tells of the arrest of James E. Nowlin, for the crime.  He has made a confession.  Nowlin says he killed young Codman the milkman, at 3 o'clock on Tuesday morning by stabbing him in the back of the neck with a carving knife.  The deed was done in Codman's stable...

With A Blow of His Fist
    William E. Dizan of Wheelock, a small town in Vermont, near St. Johnsbury, was lodged in jail last Wednesday, charged with murdering his infant daughter.  It is alleged that when the infant was 3 weeks old, Dizan crushed its head with a blow of his fist.  There was no physician present at the mother's confinement, or at any time thereafter, nor was assistance called in from neighbors.  The disappearance of the child created a great deal of talk in the neighborhood, but nothing could be ascertained and the matter was allowed to rest.  This took place three years ago this winter, and since that time the Dizan's have had four children, two being twins.  All these infants Dizan is alleged to have disposed of in the same manner - crushing in the heads with a blow of his fist. Dizan is about 40 years of age, and five years ago came to Wheelock from Barnston, Canada.  His wife is also a Canadian.  Dizan has owned and carried on a small farm, but his principal business has been smuggling liquor from Canada and selling it in Vermont.

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    The Maysville (Kentucky) community was greatly shocked last Tuesday morning on learning of a sad accident that befell Miss Kate Nicholson the night before.  She was about retiring, and had knelt in front of the fire to say prayers.  Her clothing took fire, and she was badly burned before the flames were extinguished.  Medical aid was summoned, but the injuries proved fatal, and she died at 10 A.M.  The deceased was aged thirty.

A Hair Worth A Life
    A strange instance of death ensuing directly from a trivial cause occurred in Burlington County a few days ago.  Edward Hagerty, aged twenty-two, occupying the position of Postmaster at Indian Mills, a small village near Mount Holly, pulled a small hair from the inside of his nostril, as it had grown beyond the rest and looked unsightly.  He had often done the same thing before and never supposed for a moment that the operation was fraught with any danger, but the result was the erysipelas set in shortly afterwards, and in twenty-four hours he died in spite of the best medical assistance that could be procured.

    For some time past scarlet fever has been prevailing to an alarming extent in the lower section of Camden County, particularly in and about the village of Wilton.  Jacob Besser and three of his children were stricken down with the disease and on Saturday the father died.  His youngest child, aged two years, died a few hours afterwards.

    Mr. Mauri, the Brooklyn (N.Y.) druggist whose three children have died of malignant smallpox within the past week, died on Friday in the hospital.

    Scott Pickler, 12 years old, on Thursday night shot and killed Chester Dodd, 10 years old, at Jackson, Tenn.  The two had quarreled over a trivial matter.

Local Department

    Mr. Phillip Everly, of the Pittstown vicinity, has lost two children from scarlet fever, within the past two weeks.

    Dennis McCarthy, of Glen Gardner, who recently assaulted Nathan Hackett, colored, and who was shot by Hackett at the time, died last Thursday night at 10:30 o'clock.

    Mrs. Wesley Bird, residing near Pattenburg, while walking from one room to another, on the 1st inst, fell to the floor dead.  She was seventy-two years old.  Heart disease is attributed as the cause.

    Mrs. Eliza Pidcock, wife of Aaron Pidcock, died on Sunday, 2nd inst., at her residence, four miles below Lambertville, in the 87th year of her age - only a few days less than 88 years.  She and her husband have lived in that locality nearly all their lives.

Fatal Accident

    On Tuesday last, Jeremiah Johnson and Sandy Lannon, two colored men of this town, were engaged in falling trees in the woods of Mr. Wm. Probasco, about one mile and a half east of Flemington.  The men had worked faithfully all day, and just as the sun was hiding its splendors behind the western hills the choppers had their last tree for the day about ready to stretch its length upon the ground.  As it tottered to its fall the men stepped to one side, but Johnson did not escape one of its far-reaching branches.  It struck him on the head in such a way that his neck was broken, and his life went out even before the crashing noise of the falling monarch of the forest had ceased its echo.  Deceased was a large, powerful man, 48 years of age, and was well respected by our citizens generally.  He leaves a wife and one grown-up daughter.

Neighborhood Notes

Edward Vanauxen, aged seventy years, and Mrs. Anna M. Blake, of Easton, aged sixty, were married at Belvidere on Saturday night. Both are wealthy, and the wedding has created a social sensation.

It is said that diphtheria prevails to an alarming extent in northern part of Warren County. Many cases of the disease are reported. Samuel Dunn, of Allamuchy, has lost three children by it within ten days. They were respectively 3, 7 and 10 years.

George Brown was leaning against the guard-rail of the Weston bridge, Somerset County, talking to a friend, on New Year’s day, when his feet slipped from under him, throwing him over the rail head foremost to the ice-covered river, fifteen feet below. Death was instantaneous, the fall breaking his neck.

“Sam” Carling, at one time proprietor of the Arion Garden, in Easton, died a week or two ago on a canal boat on which he had been employed during the latter part of the boating season.

Catherine Keenan, who was convicted of murdering her husband by a blow on the head with a sugar bowl, was sentenced in the Somerset County Court, on Monday, to imprisonment at hard labor for nine years. Judge Magie, in passing the sentence, said that he would make the penalty light as compared with the nature of the crime, because the woman was 68 years old, and because of the recommendation of the jury to mercy.

The Lambertville papers announced a couple of weeks ago the drowning of a step-son of Mr. George W. Zeigler, at Wilkes-Barre, Pa. The sad news came last week that his little son, aged about two years, died on Monday evening, of membranous croup.

Four Items From Whitehouse

A child 4 years old, of Wm. Connor, living on the Ridge, drank some kerosene oil last week, and after several days suffering, died on Saturday.

J. Schuyler Weart died last Tuesday morning at his residence in Mechanicsville from the effects of a paralytic stroke, received some time since. He was in his 64^th year. He was born near Griggstown, in Somerset County; and after removing on a farm near here, was extensively engaged in peach culture. His wife died four years ago.

Daniel Sheets, a staunch Democrat and one of the best men in Readington Township, died at his residence near Stanton last Monday evening after a very brief illness. He was in Flemington only a week before his death, in apparent good health.

State Items

Mrs. Buyers, of Millville, was probably fatally scalded on Tuesday night by the upsetting of a boiler of hot water.

Sallie Peterson, 9 years old, daughter of Smith Peterson, of Bridgeton, was fatally burned on Monday afternoon by her clothing catching fire from a stove.

Samuel Shaw, the seven year old son of James Shaw, a prominent stationery dealer at Burlington, while attempting to slide down the stair banister, Tuesday night, at his home, fell a distance of twenty feet, and was picked up unconscious. He had convulsions for several hours, and may die from concussion of the brain.

John Henchcliffe, of Paterson, was married in New York Wednesday to Miss Materson, Kate Bergen, aged twenty-three, of Paterson, was a guest. While the ceremony was in progress she fell forward, and was caught by a gentleman. She expired in his arms. The remains were taken to here home Wednesday night. Up to the time of her sad and sudden death she was in remarkably good health.

Marriages

At Barbertown, by Rev. G. B. Young, Jan. 1, I. Newton Search, of Kingwood Township, and Emeline cline, daughter of Lewis Cline.

At the residence of the bride’s parents, Clover Hill, Jan. 1, by Rev. N. L. M. Bogert, Charles Hardenbergh and Mary Hannah Warwick, both of Clover Hill.

Jan. 1, by Geo. S. Mott, D. D., at the Parsonage, Flemington, A Lincoln Rice, of Solebury, pa., and Sadie B. Shepler, of Lambertville.

At the residence of the Bride’s father, near Sunnyside, by Rev. W. F. Smith, Dec. 30, Joseph M. Sharrott, of Sunnyside, and Annie M. Allen.

In Asbury, at the home of the bride, Dec. 25, by Rev. W. Chamberlin, George N. Hoffman, of High Bridge, and Alice Daugler, of Asbury.

By Rev. W. W. Voorhees, Dec. 23, Nathan Nelligan, of Lambertville, to Malissa Peoplesdorph, of Glen Gardner.

At the Parsonage in Glen Gardner, by Rev. W. W. Voorhees, Dec. 28, Wm. S. Creveling to Sennie Smith, all of Pleasant Run.

At the Reformed Parsonage, White House, Jan. 1, by the Rev. Marion T. Conklin, Levi C. Backer and Mary Jane Eick, both of White House.

In Milford, Dec. 24, by the Rev. Isaac M. Patterson, Simeon S. Vanselus, of Kingwood, to Annie R. Britton, of Frenchtown.

At the residence of the bride’s mother, Dec. 30, by the Rev. Isaac M. Patterson, James Griffith, of Wilmington, Del, to Laura J. Eckel, of Milford.

At the residence of the bride’s father, David Stryker, near Milford, Jan. 1, by Rev. J. J. Summerbell, Howard W. Lear, of Bridgeton, Pa., to Carrie B. Stryker, of Milford.

At the residence of the bride, Readington, Dec. 30^th, by Rev. B. W. D. Wyckoff, Geo. T. Dalley, of White House, and Anna M. Conover.

At the house of the bride, Readington, Jan. 1, by Rev. B. V. Wyckoff, Abram J. Hall, of White House Station, and Ida Latourette.

At the Reformed Parsonage, White House, Dec. 30, by Rev. Marion T. Conkling, Wm. J. Mahoney, of Mountainville, and Anna G. Gulick, of White House.

At the residence of Richard Schuyler, Fairmount, Jan. 1, by Rev. G. H. Winans, Henry Millham and Orpheus Schuyler.

At the home of the bride’s parents, Dec. 29, by the Rev. Geo. W. Scarlet, assisted by Rev. T. T. Sowen, of Brooklyn, David T. Sowers and Maggie S., only daughter of Sering Potter, Jr., of Pottersville.

At the residence of the bride’s parents, near Barbertown, Jan. 1, by Rev. W. H. Filson, John M. Warne to Mary J. Cline, all of Kingwood.

At Burlington, Dec. 26, by Rev. T. M. Eastwood, Henry C. Opdycke, of Baptisttown, to R. Anna Hall, daughter of Isaac C. Hall, of Mt. Holly.

At the home of the bride’s mother, by Rev. S. D. Decker, Dec. 29, Silvester Horner, of Kingwood, to Frank Opdycke, of Frenchtown.

At the North Branch Parsonage, Jan.1, by Rev. P. M. Doolittle, William Apgar, of Clinton, to Jennie Brokaw, of North Branch.

At Clinton, Dec. 7, by Rev. T. H. Jacobus, Edward W. Bloom, of New York City, and Carrie Smith, of Valley.

At the Baptist Parsonage, by Rev. P. A. H. Kline, John S. Madison, Jr., to Annie M. Wambold, both of Clinton.

At the residence of the bride’s uncle, Brooklyn, N.Y., Dec. 27, by Rev. E. S. Jamison, John E. Seals, of Mechanicsville, to Maddie Longworth, of Brooklyn, N.Y.

At the bride’s home, Dec. 30, by Rev. E. S. Jamison, Silas Schomp, of Bedminister, to Rose Shafer, of White House.

At the home of the bride’s parents, Dec. 30, by Rev. S. H. Jones, Alison H. Stout to Mary Mechlin, all of Alexandria township.

Deaths

Near Flemington, Jan. 4, 1887, Jeremiah Johnson, aged 48 years.

Near Stanton, Jan. 3, 1887, Daniel Sheets, aged 44 years.

In Sergeantsville, Dec. 26, 1886, Catharine Gordon, widow of the late John H. Gordon, aged 89 years, 2 months and 22 days.

In Lambertville, Jan. 4, 1887, Mrs. Mary Quick, in her 75^th year.

At Mobile, Ala., November, 15^th, 1886, William B. Hughes, formerly of Flemington, in the 59^th year of his age. [Deceased was a son of Mr. William Hughes, of this place. He was a printer by trade and went South in 1854. He was a soldier in the Mexican war.]

January 18, 1887, Forty-Ninth Volume, No. 23

John Roach, the great American ship builder, died on Monday last of cancer of the mouth, aged about 70 years. John Roach was a native of Ireland.

A Brutal Murderer Hanged

A special to the Courier-Journal from Monticello, Ky., states that Granville Prewitt was hanged there last Wednesday, in the presence of 4,000 people. His execution was in atonement for the murder of Jarvis Buck and sister, on October 12^th, 1886. He enticed Buck into the woods upon some pretense, and killed him. He then returned to the house of the murdered man and brained his sister. The son of the latter, a boy 8 years old, witnessed the murder. Prewitt endeavored to kill him, but he escaped, and the murderer was convicted upon his testimony.

Isaac Sprague, the “living skeleton,” who has been inspected by nearly every patron of the traveling circus, died at Chicago, on the 5^th inst. He weighed only 46 pounds, and was born in Bridgewater, Mass. He was quite healthy until his twelfth year, when he caught the cramp while in swimming, fell sick and lost flesh until he was reduced to a mere skeleton. He was married, and the father of three robust children.

The position of Queen of the Gypsies in the United States, made vacant by the death of Mrs. Emma Stanley, near Jackson, Miss., December 30 last, has been filled by the appointment of Miss Lucy Stanley, a 19-year-old sister of the dead queen, who lives about two miles west of Evansville, Ind., where she owns valuable property.

William Fulton, a wealthy farmer of Independence, O., who is suing for divorce from his second wife, Rebecca, testified the other day that, being unable to keep any papers or valuables in the house without his wife getting them, he made a package of them and put them in the manger of his big bull. “They were pretty safe there,” said Mr. Fulton, “because it wasn’t safe for any one on the farm except myself to go near the animal. He was very handy bull.”

State Items

Rosa Reilly was so severely beaten at her home in Newark, on Sunday, by her husband that she died in the hospital Monday night. Her husband was arrested and was committed to await trial on a charge of murder.

On Thursday, a young girl named Maggie Sharp was buried from Moorestown. While playing with some companions on Christmas Eve, she fell and hurt herself, but it was not supposed her injuries were serious. She continued to grow worse, however, and death resulted.

Mrs. Mary Armstrong, a lady aged nearly seventy years, met her death on Wednesday afternoon in a sudden and painful manner while in the enjoyment of robust health. She resided at 14 Jersey Street, in Harrison, and at 4 o’clock visited a sick neighbor in the same street. An hour after in leaving the sick room, which is on the second floor, her foot caught in something and she fell headlong to the foot of the stairs. Neighbors instantly ran to her, when it was found life was extinct. Her neck was broken and skull fractured.

William Agnew, a laborer living at Palmyra, was arrested while fleeing from his home Wednesday night, charged with murdering his wife, who had been missing since Jan.3. He confessed that he had killed the woman by beating her on the head with a chair rocker on the night of Jan. 3 and had slept every night since in bed beside the corpse. A search had revealed the body of the woman covered with blood and frozen stiff in the bed upon which the brutal husband had placed it after striking the murderous blows, and where he had slept nightly since, beside the body of his victim.

While Mrs. Norman Solomon, of Elizabeth, was dusting the mantel in her house Tuesday, she accidentally overturned a kerosene lamp. It fell on the stove and broke and the oil burst into flames. Mrs. Solomon was terribly burned about the head, chest, sides and arms and cannot recover.

The family of John Wooster, of Montpelier, Ind., consisting of five persons, was poisoned on Monday night by eating biscuit in which a very inferior quality of baking powder had been used. Two of the children are dying and the remainder of the family is in a precarious condition.

Mabel Putnam, aged 4 years, was shot and killed on Wednesday at Batavia, N.Y., by Roy Orendorf, a playmate of her own age, who was playing with his father’s revolver.

Thomas J. Cluverius, the young lawyer of King and Queen county, Va., who was convicted of the murder in Richmond on March 13, 1885, of his cousin, Fannie L. Madison, was hanged at Richmond last Friday shortly after one o’clock P.M.

At 9 o’clock Friday morning, Rev. John Paterson, pastor of the Presbyterian Church, at Cambridge, Dane county, Wisconsin, cut his throat with a razor while standing in front of the public library building on Girard Avenue, and now lies in a precarious condition at St. Mary’s hospital. Mr. Paterson was suffering from mental aberration, the result of severe sunstroke last summer. He is about fifty years of age, and has a large family of small children.

Jacob Teepee, employed at the Lebanon Nut and Bolt Works, Lebanon, Pa., was working at a vat filled with hot lye, used for cleaning bolts, nuts &c., when in some manner he slipped and was precipitated into the boiling liquid. He was terribly scaled, the flesh hanging to his limbs only by shreds. His recovery is very doubtful.

Archibald Gray, a baker at Manasquan, died on Friday of blood-poisoning. About three weeks ago a felon appeared on his right hand. The usual remedies were applied, but it rapidly grew worse, until blood-poisoning developed. Mr. Gray weighed 175 pounds when first attacked, but his weight had been reduce to 90 pounds in his three weeks’ illness.

J. H. Fisher, an employee in the money order department of the United States Express Company, was struck by a train on Thursday, at the Jackson avenue station of the Newark and New York Railroad, in Jersey City, and fatally injured.

William Crosby shot and killed his wife Friday at Cedar Fall, Iowa, and then blew out his own brains.

Local Department

Mr. John W. Neice, aged 82 years, died suddenly at the residence of his son, W. B. Neice, in Lambertville, on Wednesday last, of heart disease.

Cornelius Fisher, a prominent resident of Delaware Township, residing near Ringoes, departed this life at the advanced age of 88 years, on Saturday morning, 8^th inst.

Mrs. Catharine A. Rittenhouse, widow of the late Daniel Rittenhouse, died at her residence in Frenchtown, on Wednesday morning, of typhoid pneumonia, aged nearly 75 years.

The family of John Shay, of Junction, is sorely afflicted with diphtheria. One boy, 8 years old died on Friday noon, 7^th inst., and another child died on Saturday evening. The other children have the disease in a mild form.

The community mourns with Rev. f. A. Mason the death of his only son, Frank, a young man of some twenty years of age. That terrible disease consumption was the cause of his death. He was a youth who gave promise of becoming a talented and useful man. Mr. and Mrs. Mason have been exceedingly unfortunate with their children. Out of a family of six, we are told that Frank is the fifth one to fill an early grave. One little girl is left the sorrowing parents.

Neighborhood Notes

Elijah Stout, of Neshanic Mountain, near Rock Mills, was choked while eating his breakfast Friday morning, 7^th inst. He died before assistance could be rendered. His age was 77 years.

On Saturday afternoon, in Frenchtown, died Samuel Slater, the oldest person in that section of country. His age was 91 years, 7 months and 21 days. He was born and raised in Baptisttown, but has resided in Frenchtown with his son-in-law, Mr. George W. Eddy, many years. He was the father of Captain William H. Slater, of Washington, D. C., and Gabriel H. Slater, late of his place, and now residing in Lambertville.

Mrs. Lucinda Scott was buried Friday at Macon, Ga. She lacked only one month of being 101 years old.

Marriages

At the residence of the bride’s father, Jan. 5, by Rev. J. J. Summerbell, Alfred White, of Milford, and Lizzie Hiner, daughter of Wesley S. Hiner, of Little York.

By Geo. S. Mott., D. D., at the bride’s father’s, Jan. 11, B. Franklin Harris, of Phillipsburg, and Annie L. Veit, daughter of Jacob Veit, of Flemington.

Jan. 8, at the residence of the bride’s parents, by Rev. W. W. Voorhees, George F. Gaston, of Morristown, to Cynthia H. Groendyke, of Glen Gardner.

Jan. 5, by Rev. M. Herr, assisted by Revs. E. S. Jamison and W. F. Herr, Arthur H. Stiles, of Pamrapo, to Frances A. Herr, of White House, daughter of the officiating clergyman.

Deaths

In Raritan Township, Jan. 6, 1887, John Boss, aged 84 years, 9 months and 22 days.

In Flemington, January 13, 1887, Frances C. Mason, aged 21 years, 7 months and 7 days.

Near Flemington, November 13, 1886, Ella, wife of William C. Marsh, aged 31 years, 9 months and 23 days.

In Lambertville, Dec. 31, 1886, Rosanna M. Spangler, aged 65 years and 9 months.

In Lambertville, Jan. 3, 1887, Mary L. Quick, aged 84 years.

In Lambertville, Jan. 11, 1887, Mary L. Wilson, in the 55^th year of her age.

Dec. 30, 1886, near Pittstown, Annie M., daughter of Philip and Gertrude Everly, aged 8 years, 8 months and 1 day.

Dec. 31, 1886, near Pittstown, Joseph B., son of Philip and Gertrude Everly, aged 6 years and 14 days.

In Lambertville, Jan. 12, 1887, John W. Niece, aged 83 years.

January 25, 1887, Forty-Ninth Volume, No. 24

Gen. W. B. Hazen, who has been at the head of the Signal Bureau for the past six years, died suddenly in Washington on Sunday evening, of kidney difficulties.

That was a curious crime committed at White Plains, New York, last Thursday night. Two young boys named Tristran, aged 17 and 19 years, armed themselves with pistols and knives and left their good home in New York City evidently for the purpose of committing a robbery. They landed in the village of White Plains by rail, and attempted to rob the money drawer of a bakery. The owner, a young married man named Mead, who undertook to protect his property, was shot dead by the elder Tristran boy, after both boys had been run out of the shop by Mead. The populace turned out in pursuit of the murderers, who, after running some distance, and evidently choosing death to capture, stopped under a bridge and deliberately shot themselves through the head.

A lot of Pinkerton’s detectives have been quartered about the dock in Jersey City for the week past, ostensibly to prevent a riot of the coal handlers, who are on strike. A number of boys got to snow-balling these officers on Thursday, and one of them, Patrick Sheedy, drew his revolver and shot Thomas Hogan, one of the boys, killing him instantly.

A Mother’s Awful Deed.

A horrible murder was committed in Cleveland, Ohio, last Thursday morning, between 7 and 8 o’clock. Vaclay Cabalek is a well-to-do carpenter, living on Independence Street, near the city limits. He has had employment all winter and his eldest son has worked with him. This morning he and his son went to work shortly before 7 o’clock. The mother, Antoinette, had been out of temper at the breakfast table and had refused to talk to her husband. Directly after breakfast she sent Henry, her fifteen-year-old son, to a grocery near by, and still another son to a milk depot. When they returned they could not get in the house. Going into the back yard, they saw James, thirteen years old, in the water closet, bleeding from sixteen wounds in the left side. They hastened away and told their elder brother, who had gone off with the father, and returning, the three boys forced an entrance into the house. They discovered Tony, an eight-year-old girl, bleeding from a dozen cuts in her left side. On the floor near by were Mamie, 5 years old, Antoinette, 3 years old, and Willie, 3 moths old, all dead from dreadful stabs near the heart. A bloody pair of shears told the story. A hunt was made for the mother. She was found in the cellar hanging from a rafter, dead. She had killed her three children, mortally injured two others, and had then committed suicide. The two children who were still alive were removed to a neighboring house, but they will die. Each was stabbed thirteen times.

Burlington was thrown into a state of excitement Thursday morning at the announcement that two lads had skated into an air hole on the Delaware, Wednesday night, and had been drowned. Thomas Gunn, son of Peter Gunn, and Charles Hoover, son of Matilda Hoover, a widow, the former employed at the National Bureau of Engraving and Printing, and the latter acting as mail carrier for the McNeal Pipe and Foundry Company, with others skated at Bristol, and on their way home, the night being very dark, went into the hole. About 10 o’clock next morning the body of Hoover was found. Gunn’s body has not yet been recovered. Both lads were about 17 years old.

Murderers of Eight People

On October 22, in the eastern portion of Know County, Kentucky, the house occupied by the Poe family was burned down, and in the ashes were found the charred remains of eight members of the family. Seven persons, all neighbors of the murdered family, have been arrested on the charge of participating I the affair. Their names are Amelia Worms, Brice Mills, Balmar Mills, Wright Smith, Elias Jackson, Mollie Stamper and Pinda Hammond. The Worms woman is thought to be the leader of the gang and the instigator of the affair.

Joseph Jarney, a porter in the Baltimore Custom House, committed suicide last Tuesday by shooting. He had become insane pondering on the state of his health.

John Long, of Brooklyn, a brewery wagon driver, while turning his wagon off a street-car track last Tuesday was thrown from his seat. He struck on his head and was killed.

Marriages

On Jan. 5, 1887, by Rev. John Hart, George W. Hall, of Branchburg Township, Somerset county, and Sarah E. Fritts, daughter of James F. Fritts, deceased and stepdaughter of Nelson Rowland, Esq., of Neshanic.

In Lambertville, Jan. 19, 1887, by Rev. John H. Boswell, A. S. Scull, of Gloucester, N.J. to Emma E. Lewis, of Lambertville.

At the Frenchtown M. E. Parsonage, Jan. 12, 1887, by Rev. S. D. Decker, Joseph K. Vanderbilt to Susie T. Curtis, both of Milford.

Deaths

In Frenchtown, Jan. 12, 1887, Mrs. Catherine A. Rittenhouse, relict of Daniel Rittenhouse, in her 75^th year.

In Frenchtown, Jan. 15, 1887, Samuel Slater, age 91 years, 7 months and 20 days.

In West Amwell Township, Jan. 14, 1887, Henry Franklin Shipe, son of Mark and Rosa Shipe, aged 2 months.

In Lambertville, Jan. 15, 1887, James Mangan, aged 13 years.

In Lambertville, Jan. 19, 1887, William N. Bastian, aged 43 years.

In Sand Brook, Delaware Township, on Wednesday, Dec. 15, 1886, Arthur T. Wagner, aged 66 years, 4 months and 25 days.

Local Department

Edward Nally, in Junction, buried a little son on Saturday, 15^th inst., and on Sunday morning the second one died. Both had diphtheria and scarlet fever.

Mr. Tunis Van Camp, who for the last few years had been almost entirely blind, died at his residence near Neshanic Station on Wednesday morning last, of pneumonia, aged 76 years.

Ely Soliday, Esq. a well-known citizen of Lambertville, the proprietor of an extensive jewelry establishment in that place, was stricken with apoplexy on Friday, 14^th inst., and lies seriously ill in an unconscious condition.

Mrs. Emma Snyder, mother of Mr. Samuel Snyder, of near Locktown, was buried on the 11^th inst., her death having resulted from injuries occasioned by an unlucky fall a few day previously. She was close to 86 years old and a fine woman.

Hasbrouck Campbell, who went to Illinois some years ago, to accept a position as fireman on an engine, was killed a few days since. His body was mangled beyond recognition. Mr. Campbell resided at Centreville, this county, for a number of years and leaves a wife and several small children to mourn his loss.

Mr. J. Green Quick, an old and highly respected citizen of the Ringoes vicinity, dropped dead last Saturday morning while standing at a window looking out. He had just arisen from his bed, and had given no intimation that he was feeling unwell.

Mr. Atkinson J. Holcombe, a well-known and prosperous farmer of this place, died at his residence on Sunday morning from a complication of diseases from which had been long been a sufferer. His age was about 67 years. He leaves a widow and five grown children.

Mr. William N. Bastian, of Lambertville, died suddenly last Tuesday, at the residence of Mr. S. F. Martindell, from a complication of diseases originating in dyspepsia. Mr. Bastian was a native of Hayle, county of Cornwall, England and had been in this country since 1869.

Nathaniel Frances, Jr., a native of this vicinity, but of late years a resident of Newark, died in that city about a week ago. A team ran away with him several months ago injuring him severely. He was a son of Nathaniel Frances, deceased, one of the best known and well-to-do colored men in these parts.

On Friday afternoon, at 3 o’clock, the body of Mr. Robert O. Middleton, of Lambertville, was found in his wagon six miles east of that place, where he had started early that morning for a load of wood. He was lying in the wagon with his coat and vest off, when Stephen and Samuel Buchanan came by; the horse was standing still at the wagon when they came up to it in the road. George Hunt, a farmer living near, was called and helped remove him to his home, when Coroner H. B. Kitchen was called and an inquest made. On first examination no marks of violence were found, but witnesses before the jury gave evidence that he had fallen on the ice three days before, and had complained somewhat of his head each day until his death, but not so as to interfere with his work… Mr. Middleton had been for years a resident of Lambertville, and was an honest, hard working man. He leaves a wife and one child. He was 27 years of age.

Neighborhood Notes

The death of George V. Rockafellow, a sash and blind maker in Somerville, died on the 16^th inst., aged 71 years. He had been ill for nine months previous to his demise.

George Starker, residing at Point Mt. Mills, near Penwell, has the scarlet fever in his family. On Wednesday, 12^th inst., his little daughter Ida, aged 6 years, died with the disease, and was buried the following Friday. His daughter Ida, aged 10 years, was prostrated with the disease at the time. On Monday morning, 17^th inst., she too was called to sleep with her sister Ida. A still younger son is suffering with the same terrible disease.

Last Thursday evening a sad accident occurred on the Bel. Del. RR, at Phillipsburg. As a coal train drawn by engine No. 468, Brazilian Potter engineer, was backing into a siding at Port Delaware to put the train away, George B. Slack, a brakeman, fell from a car to the track beneath and was instantly killed, eighteen cars and the engine passing over him, mangling the remains in a horrible manner, being entirely unrecognizable. Deceased was 40 years old, and leave a wife and two children. He had been a railroader for 16 years.

Mrs. Emily c. Cornell, a daughter of the late Albert Cammann, of Somerville, died in New York on the 15th inst., whither she had gone for the purpose of having an operation in pelvic surgery performed on her. This was done, Tuesday, Jan. 11, and the operation was a long and critical one. The only chance she had of living longer lay in the success of the operation. Saturday, Dr. Simms found it was necessary to perform a second operation, and 4 hours after it was ended, Mrs. Cornell died.

A New Germantown correspondent of the Home Visitor says: An elopement occurred here on the 11^th inst., Henry Bolmer and Mary Waldron, being the parties. The girl worked at G. S. Hahn’s at the time of the elopement. They walked to Lower Valley where they were married by Rev. Jas. R. Gibson, and then left for parts unknown. They stole a great many things from Mr. Hahn, and they had better not show up in this vicinity or they will run a chance of being locked up for a term.

State Items

John Loder, aged 75 years, a few days ago wedded Mrs. Woodrow, of Williamstown, who is two years his senior.

At Buddtown, Burlington County, on Wednesday, George Wilson, a well-known citizen, 66 years of age, expired suddenly of heart disease while engaged in prayer at his home.

Clayton Hand, who was sentenced to State Prison last week for forging a check in Cumberland County, was notified shortly after receiving his sentence that his mother had died of worry over his misdeeds.

Andrew J. Little, died Sunday morning, at his home in Ogdensburg, Sussex County, at the extreme age of 96 years. His faculties remained unimpaired up to within a few days of his death, when he contracted a cold which terminated in death.

Frederick William Beyer, a carpenter, aged 56, hanged himself on Monday in an outhouse at Elizabethport. Beyer quarreled with his family about six years ago and his wife and sons left him. Since that time he has wandered about and picked up odd jobs.

February 1, 1887, Forty-Ninth Volume, No. 25

A sad case of sudden death occurred Wednesday night in Hope, Warren County. A son of John C. Bennett became suddenly insane from alcoholic causes, and the father in alarm started from the house to kind a physician. He was on his way home when he was stricken with apoplexy and fell dead on the road. He was 55 years old, and largely interested in the business of the village.

William T. Woods, from Bridgeton, aged 34, a Philadelphia jewelry salesman, committed suicide with poison in Philadelphia on Wednesday. A letter which Woods had written was found lying upon the bureau addressed to his roommate, Edward Leslie. It requested him to send the body to his relatives in Bridgeton, and said that all his troubles were due to rum.

Stabbed To The Heart

Early last Wednesday morning, in Chicago, John Watts, a well-known character about the docks, entered George Water and Clark streets, accompanied by a male companion and two women. The quartette entered a wine room in the rear. Shortly afterwards three men entered the saloon, one of whom had a badly bruised face and eye. This one listened at the door of the wine-room, and then, turning to his companions, said: “Now I am going to do him.” With that he drew a long dirk from his pocket and stepped hastily to the win-room door. Pushing it open, he saw John Watts sitting with his back to him, and, without a word of warning, the murderer bent over the unsuspecting man’s shoulder and plunged the dagger up to the hilt into his heart. Watts rolled from his chair with a wine glass still clutched between his fingers and died in a few minutes…. The quarrel was over a woman.

Mrs. Clarissa Davenport Raymond died in Walton, Conn., on Wednesday last, aged 104 years, 8 months and 25 days. Her husband died in 1884. She was the oldest person in Connecticut. She has many descendants, including a number of great-great-grand children.

State Items

Daniel O’Connell was on Wednesday in the Morris County Court sentenced to fifteen years for the murder of John Smith, a Scotch miner of Stone Hill.

The daughter of Captain Adam Smith, of Camden, 11 years old, has just died from the effects of being thrown upon her head by a rope that was used in playing the game of “cow catcher” in the school yard at recess time. The rope, which was made into a lasso, was thrown at her by another girl. It caught the deceased by the feet, throwing her upon the ground. The child was speedily taken ill with congestion of the brain and died after suffering great agony. Several years ago, Captain Smith’s son, a lad of seven years, was the victim of a child’s deadly sport, he having been thrown from a cart at school by a playmate, whom had purposely dumped it.

About 10 o’clock Tuesday night of last week, a young girl named Maggie Albrecht, an inmate of a house on Lawrence street, Newark, was stabbed by some unknown person, and died a few hours later…. The police are on the case, and it is believed by them and Decker that Eddy Coates, a son of the woman who keeps the house, is the murderer. The Coates family formerly resided in this county. – Newton Herald.

Near Jeffersonville, Ind., on Tuesday evening last, A. A. Jewitt, a line burner met a horrible death. He was standing at the end of the dump track, above the kiln when he lost his footing and fell into the burning kiln, the stone from a car falling in after him. After much effort a few bones of the unfortunate man were taken out at the bottom of the kiln. Jewitt was 45 years of age, and leaves a widow and large family.

At Wellsboro, Pa., last Wednesday, in a family quarrel, Jake Van Woerk, a farmer living one mile below Stokesdale Junction, on the Pine Creek Railroad, was shot and instantly killed by his sixteen-year-old wife. Two shots were fired. Van Woerk is said to have been a brutal, abusive bully, who used his wife shamefully.

Joseph Armstrong and Frank Holmes, of Penwater, Mich., were hunting near Manisque Saturday. Holmes cut a gash in his leg, and Armstrong, fearing he would bleed to death, went after medical assistance. Within tow hours he returned to find a few bloody bones and scraps of clothing, and round about the carcasses of five wolves which Holmes had killed in his struggle for life. The bones were gathered up and shipped to Penwater.

Axe and Pistol

Mrs. Amelia Carr, of Fuller’s Patch, a mining settlement near Wyoming, known commonly as “Hell’s Delight,” because of the tough character of the people living there, was mortally wounded by Constable Lake last Tuesday night while he was attempting to arrest Patrick Flannagan for breach of the peace. The woman tried to protect the man from arrest and assaulted the officer with an axe, and in order to defend himself from her vicious assault he fired at her twice, one ball passing through her ear, and the other taking effect in abdomen and causing a wound from which she is expected to die.

Died In His Cell

William Exton, colored, a driver for Mark T. Warne, a coal dealer in Phillipsburg, got drunk on Saturday night, and fell on Main Street. He was found lying on a sidewalk at 10 o’clock, and removed to the station house on a wheelbarrow by Officers Nixon and Norton. Two bottles, one empty and the other filled with liquor, were found in his pockets. He was seen at 2 o’clock Monday morning by the officers. He was then asleep and snoring. At 8 o’clock the same officers found him dead. He was thirty years of age, and supported his parents.

Local Department

An old man named Joseph Force was found dead in bed at his home near Changewater last Tuesday morning. His age was 87 years.

A little girl, a grand-daughter of Mr. Joseph Force, near Changewater, with whom she lived, was on Monday last scalded to death by falling into a boiler of scalding water. Her age was about 3 years.

We are sorry to learn that Mrs. George Eckel, of Little York, was found dead in her bed last Friday morning. Mrs. Eckel had been in bad health for some time, and her daughter had got used to her lying in bed mornings until she chose to arise. When the old lady did not make her appearance at 10 o’clock, the daughter went into the room and approached the bed, when to her great sorrow found that she was dead. Her remains will be interred at Mt. Pleasant this Monday.

Neighborhood Notes

Michael Brown came from Secaucus to Boonton, intending to work in the blast furnace. Before he went to work he drank such a quantity of whiskey that his death ensued from acute congestion of the brain.

Within the past ten days five old citizens of Warren County have passed away. Their names and ages are as follows: Henry Frome, 81 and Wm. Merritt, 84, both of Harmony Township; Abraham Newman, 83, of Oxford; David Cook, 71, of Hope, and Abraham Beck, 73, of Belvidere.

Mrs. Agnes Palmer, from Boston, died Sunday, 23d ult., while on a visit to her daughter, Mrs. S. g. Bridge, near Flaggtown. Her age was 67 years. Mrs. John Stout, formerly of Kingston, died at Monmouth Junction on the 23d ult., after a brief illness from pneumonia. William H. Stevens died on the 17^th ult., at the residence of Henry Staats, about the Sand Hill, on the Pluckamin road. Nathan C. Auten, a native of Somerset County, died at Knoxville, Iowa, Jan. 5, aged 83 years. John H. Demaray, aged 58, died of Bright’s disease, in Somersville, on the 24^th ult. Mrs. Mary e. Honnell, wife of Benjamin R. Honnell, died on the 20^th ult., in Bedminster Township, Somerset county, aged 61 years. William Zimmerman, aged 44, died at Martinville, on the 19^th ult.

Letter From California

Mr. Jacob P. Rockafellow, a native of Hunterdon county and now residing at Los Angeles, Cal., writes us as follows:….

Mr. Nicholas Tiger, a respected citizen of High Bridge Township, died on the 20^th ult. His case is rather a peculiar one, inasmuch as the physicians who attended him did not agree as to the cause of his sickness. Up to a few months ago Mr. Tiger was a strong, healthy man. Suddenly he began to pine away; a sort of melancholy came over him, and though he ate heartily he seemed to be dying (as he really did die) of starvation. An autopsy revealed several hundred cancers, varying in size from a grain of sand to an egg, in and around the mesenteric glands of the omentum. – Clinton Democrat

Miss Mary Mooney, 72 years old, who lived with her brother at Dempster’s quarry, near Phillipsburg, was fatally burned on Friday morning. She was very feeble, and on arising between 6 and 7 o’clock lighted a candle that was standing on a table; in doing so her clothes caught fire; she being old and feeble was unable to render herself any assistance. The brother returned while the clothing was still in flames, and succeeded in extinguishing them, but not until she had been badly burned. She died about three hours afterward.

Marriages

At White House, Jan. 23, 1887, by Rev. Marion T. Conklin, John V. D. Vliet, of Lamington, and Ella Lomerson, of White House.

At Sidney, Jan. 20, 1887, by Rev. J. G. Williamson, Isaac A. Baldwin and Sarah Ann Stockton, both of Union township.

Dec. 27, 1887 [1886], at the bride’s home, by Rev. T. s. Haggerty, Joseph H. McConell, of Hamden, to Ida, oldest daughter of P. D. Lair.

Jan. 26, 1887, at Neshanic Parsonage, by Rev. John hart, Isaac H. Vanarsdale, of Branchburg township, Somerset Co., to Anna, daughter of Richard Hall, Esq., of Readington township, Hunterdon Co.

At Flemington, by Geo. S. Mott, D. D., Jan. 27, George Dilley, of White House, and Wilhelmina Stevenson, of Flemington.

Deaths

At Asheville, N. C., Jan. 25, 1887, Thomas B. Rittenhouse, of Jersey City, aged 44 years, formerly of Hunterdon County.

At the residence of her son-in-law, Thomas Millen, High Bridge, N.Y. City, Jan. 18, 1887, Mrs. Elizabeth Shepperd, widow of the late S. D. Shepperd, aged 69 years, 3 months and 7 days.

In Newark, Jan. 17, 1887, Nathaniel Francis, Jr., aged 47 years and 7 months.

In West Amwell township, [Jan] 21, 1887, Robert O. Middleton, aged 26 years.

At Lambertville, Jan. 4, 1887, Mrs. Mary L. Quick, widow of the late Theophilus Quick, in the 85^th year of her age.

At the residence of William Dalrymple, in Kingwood Township, Jan. 24, 1887, Esther Ann Dalrymple, aged about 60 years.

Sheriff’s Sale

By virtue of a writ of Fi. Fa. To me directed, issued out of the Court of Chancery of New Jersey, will be exposed to sale at public vendue, On Monday, the Seventh day of March next, between the hours of twelve and five o’clock in the afternoon of said day, at the Court House in Flemington, in the township of Raritan, in the county of Hunterdon, all those tracts or parcels of land and premises, situate, lying and being in the township of Tewksbury, in the county of Hunterdon and State of New Jersey, bounded and described as follows:….

Also a second track of land adjacent to the above farm and lying to the south of the same, and which was conveyed to Conrad P. Apgar by Nicholas Apgar and wife, …. Also tracts No. 3, 4 and 5 being three several wood lots. No. 1, being the same that was conveyed to said Conrad P. Apgar, by deed from executors of John Sutton, deceased, dated May 1, 1826, and recorded in vol. 40, folio 322, &c., of deeds, containing twenty-two acres of land, excepting ten acres thereof conveyed to Mathias Hildebrant….

February 8, 1887, Forty-Ninth Volume, No. 26

Last week Mr. and Mrs. Albert J. Bogart, of Teaneck, Bergen county, celebrated their golden wedding anniversary and the bridesmaid and the best man of fifty years ago participated in the festivities, a very rare, if not unparalleled circumstance.

The death is announced of Rev. Jonathan Vannote, pastor of the old Front Street M. E. Church, Trenton, during the war and afterwards editor of the State Gazette.

The will of Josiah Schanck, who died recently at East Millstone, bequeaths $500 to the Somerset County Bible Society; $500 to Tunis V. M. Cox, of Readington; $100 to each of his surviving nephews and nieces; $50 each to Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Dunn, and the balance of the estate to the Board of Domestic Missions of the Reformed Church of America. The estate will probably amount to $10,000.

Patrick Leddy, night train dispatcher for the Central Railroad Company at Elizabethport, was caught between two cars and instantly killed Tuesday morning.

Julius Hanley, a settler near Wolverine station, thirty miles south of Cheboygan, Wis., on Tuesday, while locating section lines through the woods on snowshoes, came suddenly upon a ravenous bear a short distance from his cabin, and a terrible encounter ensued. Hanley’s ears and nose were bitten off, his face frightfully slashed and the flesh on his breast torn off in strips. One hand was chewed off. He was found in his cabin in a dying condition. Hanley fought with a pocket knife.

The mangled body of Thomas Moolick, an elderly man, was found last Tuesday morning in Edward Zeph’s house at Schenectady, N.Y., and it is supposed that Zeph, who has been arrested, killed Moolick with a hatchet which was found in the room.

Mrs. Stotthoff, a middle-aged married woman, resided at Far Rockaway, L.I., was found dead on Monday morning standing upright between the ties of the locomotive turntable, near the railroad depot. Death was caused by exposure while intoxicated.

Dr. Mott Alexander committed suicide last Tuesday at Knoxville, Tenn., by taking morphine. He was one of the leading physicians, but had recently been dissipated.

During a masquerade at Freeport, Kansas last Thursday night, a paper headdress worn by Miss Cora Bonton caught fire from a bracket lamp. She pulled off the cap, threw it on the floor, and tried to stamp out the flame, but her dress, which was also papered, caught fire, and she was burned to death.

J. C. Russell, of Memphis, drew $15,000 in a lottery three years ago and since then has gone from bad to worse, closing his career by an attack on his wife, during which he was struck on the head by a rescuing party and received a fatal blow.

William Galloway and a clerk in his employ named McLease were shot and fatally wounded on Monday night at the formers general merchandise store in Galloway, Ark., by a gang of burglars whom they surprised in the store.

Robert Wann shot and killed George Downing eight miles from Newburry, S. C., on Sunday. They had quarreled at Christmas about 75 cents. Wann hid behind a post and shot Downing while the latter was passing by with his wife.

Miss Achsah Hoffman, daughter of a wealthy farmer living near Millersburg, Ind., committed suicide by inhaling chloroform upon receiving an invitation to the marriage with another of a young man to whom she had been betrothed.

Francis S. Smith, one of the proprietors of the New York Weekly, died at the Windsor Hotel, New York, l