January 3, 1888, Fiftieth Volume, No. 21

    Miss Belle Smith, residing in the village of Chauncey, Ill., was engaged in sweeping around an open fireplace on Christmas Eve, when her clothing caught fire and she was burned to death. The ceased was to have been married next day.

John Kentner’s Suicide

John Kentner, a well known farmer, near Cherry Valley, northwest of Princeton, was found hanging from a beam dead, in his barn, on Christmas morning. He had adjusted the rope while standing on a bench. He had on an overcoat and his gloves, and when found was partly frozen. He purchased the Sutphin farm that was sold at auction in his neighborhood some time ago, paying $43 per acre for 104 acres. Several persons, it is said, informed him that he had given too much for the land, and it is believed that this preyed upon and unsettled his mind. His father was a peculiar man. Neighbors say that he disappeared in an unceremonious manner one day, and was gone 14 years. When he returned he entered the house and took his place at the hearth as quietly, naturally and unceremoniously as if he had been absent less than 14 minutes. - State Gazette.

Two Men and A Horse Killed

Last Friday night as Richard Runyon, a lawyer residing at Princeton was crossing the Bound Brook Railroad at Skillman’s Station, his vehicle was struck by a train, and himself, colored driver and horse were instantly killed. Mr. Runyon was admitted to the bar at the February term 1877, and was a successful lawyer and affable gentleman. He was a watchmaker by trade and studied law while being engaged in that business.

Strange Fatality

At Atlanta, Ga., last Wednesday night, Fritz Ryan, the son of Mrs. Mary E. Ryan, the Southern authoress, was amusing himself with fireworks. One of his pieces was a cotton ball, framed on several small hoops, which he would dip into kerosene, and applying a match, throw it up. The burning ball fell back quickly, struck his head and set his head on fire. The ball was fastened upon his head by a protuberance through one of the hoops. He was seized, and his head stuck into the sand as the only means of stifling the flames. He was horribly disfigured, and cannot survive.

Killed His Wife and Her Admirer

William Herrig, a wealthy planter of St. Frances, Ark., has for some time past been jealous of the attentions paid to his wife by Wm. Matthewson, and he forbade him to come to his house. This was disregarded by Matthewson, and on Tuesday last he called and invited Mrs. Herrig to take a drive with him. While the woman was getting ready, Herrig shot and killed Matthewson, and then forced his wife to drive Matthewson’s house with the dead body. On her return she found her home in flames, and was shot and killed by her husband. Herrig then fled. Mrs. Herrig was formerly in Pauline Markham’s company, and later was in W. H. Lyttle’s combination.

After the double murder, Herrig started for Missouri, but was closely followed by a crowd of men determined to avenge the crime with his death. He was found last Thursday night asleep under a tree. When told that he must died he said he was willing and ready; he had done nothing he had cause to regret. He was then hanged on the tree under which he had been found sleeping.

Killed His Child In His Rage

John North reeled from the doorway of his residence, at 327 South Twenty-fifth Street, Philadelphia, last Wednesday, in a drunken condition and sought a 5^th district police officer, into whose charge he committed himself while relating the circumstances which had led him to commit a horrible crime. North and his wife had been drinking freely during the day, and toward evening they quarreled. After a few hot words had been exchanged he became enraged at his wife, and aimed a blow at her head. Mrs. North was holding her babe of three months in her arms at the time, and attempted to dodge the blow. The child caught the full force of the blow on the side of its face and fell from its mother’s arms to the floor dead.

Mr. Charles House, foreman of the Richmond and Danville Railroad Company’s printing office in Washington, D. C., who lives in Alexandria, Va., on Sunday, was walking on the railroad near Alexandria with his daughter, and while standing between the north and south tracks, absorbed in amusing the child, the south-bound limited express struck Mr. House, knocked him on the track and crushed him so that his remains were hardly recognizable as those of a human body. The child was unhurt.

Mrs. Sarah G. Ewing, living four miles west of Shelbyville, Ind., was found dead in her barnyard on Christmas day by her grandson. Her body had been terribly mangled by hogs, which were with the greatest difficulty driven off. During the absence of her daughter and the latter’s husband on Saturday the old lady had gone out to milk. The hogs, it is thought, pulled her down and killed her.

Joseph Turned, shot at a rat last Thursday morning in New York City and fatally wounded Paul Grosche. They were 15-years-old lads, employed in neighboring offices at No. 6 Murray Street, and were accustomed to practice target firing with Turner’s employer’s rifle during the employer’s absence. Turner was held in $1000 bail, though Groschke says the shooting was accidental.

Gordon DeGrot, of Quinney, Wis., was on Thursday found frozen to death in a farmyard three miles from Stockbridge, whither he had wandered. Dan DeGrot, an uncle of the deceased, was unconscious when discovered. Both had imbibed too freely of spirits.

Annie Northacker, 17 years old, while drunk, entered the 126^th Street police station at New York on Tuesday night and was locked up in a cell, where she drank carbolic acid from a vial she had concealed. She died Wednesday.

Emerson Littlefield, aged 19 years, while skating backward last Monday at Peoria, Ill., went into a hole and was drowned.

Luman E. Grant, aged 28 years, broke through the ice while skating on Onondaga Lake, at Syracuse, N.Y., Monday, and was drowned.

A flying fragment of an exploded toy cannon killed Mrs. William Widgins, of Petersburg, Va., on Monday night.

Hugh M. Brooks, alias Maxwell, the young Englishman under sentence of death at St. Louis for murdering Arthur Preller, has embraced the Catholic faith.

Henry Wise, a farmed, was on Wednesday found frozen to death ten miles from Austin, Texas.

State Items

Dr. H. L. Richards Fairchilds, a wealthy and prominent sporting man and theatrical manager, of New Brunswick, died on Sunday in the Inebriates Home, New York City.

Dennis O’Day, 80 years old, was burned to death in a cabin in the rear of his daughter’s house, at Bergen Point, Monday morning. The fire was caused by the explosion of a lamp.

John Ebing, 98 years old, died suddenly at his home in new Durham, on Sunday. He was born in Leipzig, fought at Waterloo against Napoleon I, was a member of the Order of the Iron Cross, and won a bronze medal for bravery on the battlefield. His great great granddaughter was born in Union Hill last Thursday. He was a farmer.

Fatal End Of A Spree

At a Christmas debauch last Monday night at Exeter Borough, Pa., near West Pittston, Edward McMullen and Annie McMullen and Bessie, their daughter, became so intoxicated that they went to sleep, leaving Bessie’s daughter, 4 years of age, in the kitchen. The child’s dress caught fire, and she tried to arouse the inmates, but failed. The house took fire, and the child was burned to a crisp. Her mother died on Tuesday from her injuries. The others were badly burned.

The body of Willie Steele, a 13 year-old lad, who has been missing from his home in Trenton for a month, was found last Thursday under the ice in the canal basin. It was believed at first that the lad had been abducted, and the public excitement over his disappearance was so great at the time that the City Council offered a reward for him, dead or alive.

A young daughter of Joseph Merritt, a druggist of Woodbury, died last Thursday after a few hours illness. It is supposed that the cause of death was the eating of candies from a Christmas tree. Another child, about 8 years old, is dangerously ill from the same cause.

While William Jones, of Malaga, N.J., was carrying a package of gunpowder in the upper pocket of his coat last Thursday, he thoughtlessly placed in the same pocket a lighted pipe. There soon followed a terrific explosion, which tore off his arm and otherwise injured him. His recovery is doubtful.

Daniel Stillwell, aged 70 years, a highly respected citizen of South Pittsburg, Tenn., froze to death on Monday while attempting to make his way home from the Alabama State line, seven miles distance.

Joseph Faivre, 80 years old, was frozen to death on Christmas morning in Perry County, Mo., while on his way to church.

Local Department

John Closson, a well known resident of Delaware Township, died at his residence near Sand Brook last Monday, from apoplexy, aged 73 years.

We learn that Mr. Uriah Emmons, of Delaware Township, died after an illness of only a few hours on the 23d ult., but have not heard the nature of his ailment.

The event of the season at Centreville occurred last Wednesday, being the marriage of Miss Mary A. Case and Mr. Luther Van Fleet. The bride was handsomely attired, which, together with her natural good looks and easy, pleasant manners, won for her the universal admiration of the happy company assembled. She is the daughter of Mrs. Sarah Case.

Clinton Democrat: John C. Miller, of Penwell, died on Sunday morning, aged about 66 years. Mrs. Miller had lived his life at Penwell, except three years when he was in the mercantile business at Baptisttown. He was the son of Henry Miller, a slave holder during his time. He married Hester Wyckoff, of Jackson Valley, who died last May. He leaves three grown-up daughters to mourn his loss.

Within Gun Shot of Home

Mrs. Charles Hall died at Bound Brook on Saturday 24^th ult. Her remains were taken to Mechanicsville where services were held on Tuesday and she was buried in the Methodist Cemetery. She was 78 years of age.

William Taylor, Bound Brook’s veteran hackman, died Thursday, aged 63 years, of consumption. Deceased had resided in Bound Brook about 40 years, 22 of which he drove a stage between there and New Brunswick. His wife, four sons and two daughters survive him.

Thomas Zearfoss, residing near Riegelsville, Warren County, died suddenly about 9:30 o’clock Christmas morning, of heart disease, aged 75 years. The deceased was well known. He leaves a wife, one daughter and two sons – Godfrey and James R., both citizens of Easton.

About six weeks ago, Edward Irvin, aged 74, a blacksmith in Somerset County, felt a dull pain in one of his great toes. On removing his stocking at night he found a brass eyelet from his shoe embedded in the flesh of his toe. He dressed the place with salve, but the leg began to swell and the toes turned black in a few days, and he was taken to Muhlenberg Hospital, Plainfield, where he is slowly dying from gangrene, which has affected both legs so as to render amputation useless. His death is only a question of a few days.

Peter Brugler, aged forty-six, living about a mile and a half from Columbia, Warren County, has been missing since the night of the deep snow. His friends thought he had been stopping with relatives at Delaware Station. They were surprised last Thursday to learn that he had not been there that night nor since. A search was instituted, and his hat was found a short distance from a hotel, the last visited by him. It is believed that he was lost in the storm and frozen to death in a drift.

Marriages

December 27, 1887, by Elder William J. Purrington, at the residence of the bridge’s parents, John H. Totten, of Hopewell, to J. Louisa Rudebock, of Copper Hill.

In Trenton, on December 24, 1887, by the Rev. Samuel M. Studdiford, D. D., Asher Wilson and Ann Elizabeth, daughter of Elias Lambert, both of West Amwell Township.

December 21^st, 1887, at the bride’s residence, by the Rev. Charles F. Walton, John W. Reading, of Flemington, and Violetta M. Fleming, of Quakertown.

At the residence of the bride’s parents, near Jutland, December 22, 1887, by Rev. L. Myers, Ezekiel C. Clickenger to Anne E., only daughter of Joseph R. VanSyckel, Esq. both of Jutland.

December 24, 1887, by Elder Jacob Rodenbaugh, George V. Wolverton and Sarah E. Barlow, both of Croton.

At the residence of the bride’s parents, December 28^th, by Elder F. P. Cassel, Theodore Green, of Sergeantsville, and Jennie F. Moore, of Sand Brook.

By George S. Mott, D. D., December 28, 1887, at the residence of the bride’s father, Charles F. Crater and Maggie B. Dilts, daughter of Augustus Dilts, all of Copper Hill.

At the New Germantown M. E. Parsonage, December 28, 1887, by Rev. T. S. Haggerty, George H. Apgar and Belle Glazer, both of Fairmount.

At Califon, Dec. 28, 1887, by J. W. Henderson, J. P., Daniel Covert and Annie M. Rice, both of Washington Township, Morris County.

At Lower Valley Manse, December 24, 1887, by Rev. James Richard Gibson, George Alvah Farley, of Califon, and Minnie Fritts, of Woodglen.

December 28, 1887, at the home of the bride, by Rev. P. A. H. Kline, John T. Force, of Glen Gardner, to Lizzie Lance, daughter of Mr. Edgar Lance, of High Bridge Township.

At the parsonage in Junction, December 24, 1887, by Rev. William A. Smith, Charles W. Fox, of Washington, N.J., and Emma Mayberry, of Penwell.

At the residence of the bride’s parents, December 21, 1887, by Rev. William E. Davis, Theodore A. Hendershot and Charlotte S. Melick, all of Lebanon.

At the parsonage in Junction, December 21, 1887, by the Rev. William A. Smith, Frederic S. Lewis, of Junction, and Annie R. Cowell, of Washington, N.J.

In Lambertville, December 27, 1887, at the residence of the bride’s parents, by the Rev. W. W. Bullock, John C. Ball and Nettie A. Loder, both of Lambertville.

At Frenchtown, December 22, 1887, by the Rev. W. W. Bullock, W. C. Williams, M. D., and Lizzie Lair, both of Frenchtown.

At the Parsonage, in Lebanon, December 17, 1887, by Rev. William E. Davis, John J. Mattis and Annie G. Stout, all of Lebanon.

At the residence of the bride’s parents, December 22, 1887, by Rev. William E. Davis, Lucas Voorhees, Jr., and Rillie V. Ramsey, all of Lebanon.

In Lambertville, December 24, 1887, by Rev. William Swan, Elmer Heins and Susie W. Hoppock, both of Lambertville.

In Lambertville, December 22, 1887, by the Rev. John H. Boswell, Joseph Foy and Mary Anna Cooper, both of Lambertville.

In Phillipsburg, December 22, 1887, by Rev. J. R. Bryan, William E. Dilts and Elvia Reading, both of Stockton.

Deaths

In Nebraska, December 17, 1887, Walter Martin, son of Jacob Martin, of Asbury Station, aged 20 years and 10 months.

Near Flemington, Dec. 26, 1887, Mrs. Emma S. Conover, wife of William W. Conover, aged 62 years, 5 months and 4 days.

In Reaville, December 13, 1887, Georgianna, daughter, of Andrew R. Holcombe, aged 2 years, 7 months and 13 days.

At Sand Brook, December 26, 1887, of apoplexy, John Closson, aged about 73 years.

At Sergeantsville, December 17, 1887, Lydia H. Bush, widow of George T. Bush, aged 27 years, 6 months and 23 days.

January 10, 1888, Fiftieth Volume, No. 22

Murdered At Long Branch

Robert Hamilton, an old resident of Long Branch, was murderously assaulted and robbed early New Year’s morning, and on the same evening expired without regaining consciousness. Hamilton was fifty-one years old, and has been a resident of Long Branch the greater part of his life. For a quarter of a century he had cared for the house and grounds of A. J. Drexel, the Philadelphia banker, whose elegant residence is a short distance below the West End cottages.

A Faithful Dog

John Faust, aged 19, was accidentally killed by William Brigman, aged 17, at Columbia, S. C., last Monday. Faust wished to shoot Brigman’s pistol, and Brigman was explaining how the pistol was broken and would not shoot, when it was discharged, the ball passing through Faust’s heart. For eight hours a dog belonging to deceased prevented any one from approaching his dead master. Before the Coroner could hold an inquest the dog had to be almost killed.

The friends and relatives of Peter Brugler, a bachelor, who has been dividing his time for some time past between his brothers and Jerry Creamer, in the vicinity of Hainesburg, are much exercised over his sudden disappearance. Having his home in different places he was not missed until one day lat week when the bothers meeting asked after Peter. The last seen of him was on the night of the deep snow, when he left the Columbia Hotel about 8 o’clock saying he was going to the home of J. P. Thomas for the night. When he was found to be missing a search was made over the path he would have been likely to have taken and his hat and his bottle found about a quarter of a miles form Mr. Thomas’s, but that is all the trace of him they could discover. There seems to be no doubt whatever but that he became lost in the terrible snow storm of that night and has fallen and been covered, perhaps in a drift.

Ex-Gov. Joel Parker Dies Suddenly

Ex-Governor Joel Parker, New Jersey’s “War Governor,” died at the residence of a relative in Philadelphia early last Monday morning from the effects of a paralytic stroke with which he was attacked last Saturday afternoon.

Ex-Governor Joel Parker was born in Monmouth, New Jersey, November 24^th, 1816. He graduated at Princeton College in 1839 and was admitted to the bar in 1842. He was chosen Governor of New Jersey in 1862 and again in 1876, and was afterwards appointed Judge of the Supreme Court of New Jersey, which position he held at the time of his death.

John McElbery, a convict, committed suicide by hanging at the State prison Thursday morning. The rope and noose were formed out of strips which he obtained by tearing up his shirt. His body was discovered lying on the floor of the cell, the rope having broken after his death. He was 26 years old and was from Paterson, where he was sentenced to two years for breaking and entering. It is believed that his mind was affected, as his term would have expired in March.

Charles S. Moore, one of the best known young lawyers in Washington, D. C., dropped dead in the Street at an early hour Wednesday morning just after he had eaten a hearty meal.

The body of F. Dawman, an itinerant clock-mender, was found in the woods four miles from Creswell, Washington County, N. C., on Tuesday. Appearances indicated that he had been murdered.

Tom Buttsfield, a young farmer living near Palmyra, Neb., was arrested Thursday charged with murdering his father and mother by giving them poisoned whisky on Christmas Eve.

Charles McAleer, a carpenter employed on a farm about two miles from Wilmington, Del., in Christiana Hundred, died Wednesday from injuries received on Monday by being run over by a horse and wagon.

Local Department

Thomas P. Burket, son of the late Charles Burket, of Frenchtown, died suddenly of heart disease at his residence in Raritan Township, on Sunday afternoon, 1^st inst. His funeral took place last Thursday at Quakertown.

Mr. Wesley Servis, who recently removed his family from this town to Plainfield, has had a tussle with diphtheria. Mr. Servis is not only down with the disease, buy also all his children, one of which – a child three years of age – died from it a couple of weeks ago. At last accounts it was thought Mr. S. and the remaining children had passed the critical point and that all would recover.

Alice M., daughter of Dr. Mathias M. Abel, formerly of Quakertown, N.J., now of Providence, R.I., was married last Thursday to Erastus J. Parrot, of Scranton, Pa. The ceremony was performed by the Rev. Robert M. Martin, I the presence of a goodly number of friends and relatives. The bridal party will visit New York, Philadelphia, Washington and other cities, and will then make their home in Scranton, Pa., where Mr. Parrot is engaged as Teller of the First National Bank of that city.

Disastrous Fire at Baptisttown

Mrs. Dr. Leidy, of Baptisttown, was awakened at midnight last Monday by a crackling and roaring noise. She listened a moment, and the sound became more audible. She then aroused her husband and requested him to account for the unusual noise. The Doctor sat up in bed and at once seen that a great conflagration was raging near by, his bed chamber being filled with a blaze of light. Hastily dressing himself and going out of doors he discovered that the little store opposite his house, which had been conducted for a year or more past by Stacy and Jonathan Sutton, was a sheet of flame from cellar to gable. The Doctor set himself to work arousing the neighbors, but with no hope of saving anything from the store owing to the great headway the fire had gained. His aim was to awaken Mrs. David Pittenger and her sister, Mrs. Snyder, who occupied the house alongside of the store, and, if possible, to save the building. All efforts to awaken the two aged women seemed of no avail, and as the flames had by this time communicated to their dwelling the Doctor had to break down the door to gain admission. Hurrying to their bedroom he dragged or lifted them from their bed and with one under each arm he bravely carried them from the burning house just in time to same their lives. In less than an hour both the store and the dwelling were but heaps of ashes, nothing whatever being saved from either. The two women lost everything but their night dresses.

The Sutton brothers had an insurance of $2,000 on the stock in the store. Both buildings belonged to the estate of the late David Pittenger. They had been sold about a month previously to Anderson Bray, who lives near Point Breeze, possession to be given April First.

A Wanderer’s Return

Jacob Voorhees, brother of Hon. Peter Voorhees, County clerk, is visiting his aged mother and friends at White House Station. He left White House Station in 1854 and went to Kansas. He served as Sheriff of Marshall County for eight successive years, and has arrested many a criminal at the point of the revolver. After his shrievalty he purchased a large farm and mill property at Waterville, Kansas, where he has carried on a successful business. On Decoration Day he had the misfortune of being burned out. The citizens of the capital of Nebraska, an enterprising town, gave him $4,000 and ten acres of land to start a steam roller process flour mill, which he accepted and has now completed, and will, upon his return West, put in operation. All this we learn through the Somerset Unionist-Gazette.

Blown In From Bordering Counties

A colored woman named Granny Higgins died in Kingston, Somerset County, on Monday night last, aged 100 years. She retained her faculties to the last and was very active until a short time before her death, which was caused by old age.

State Items

Mrs. Jordon Fleming, of New Brunswick, fell dead Saturday evening of heart disease, in that city.

Four children of Anton Schall, a Jersey City silverplater, who is out of work and destitute, have died within three weeks of scarlet fever, and his only surviving child is dying of the disease.

Miss Kate Holt, of Beverly, died on Monday of scarlet fever. ON the previous Friday morning while in a delirious state, she arose from her bed and went down stairs and passed out into the Street. She was found about three squares from her home in her night dress and barefooted, the thermometer being below zero.

David Fuller, colored, who belonged at Stroudsburg, Pa., has from some time been living at Phillipsburg, where he picked up enough to keep him about half-drunk and half-fed by playing the banjo about the saloons and Streets. On Sunday morning his dead body was found at the foot of the hill in the rear of the Central Railroad roundhouse, and it is supposed that while drunk he fell down the hill and broke his neck. He was about 20 years old.

Charles and Thomas Gast, of Bonhamtown, Middlesex County, while skating over the thin ice covering Egert’s mill dam at that place on Monday, broke through the surface. Charles, the younger, aged 12 years, clung to his brother, who held on to the ice, which soon gave way. Miss McGinnis, a neighbor’s daughter, secured a board and attempted to save the boys, and Thomas succeeded in dragging himself from the water. His brother same beneath the ice and was drowned. The body was recovered.

Charles Gaskill, the twelve-year-old son of Charels Gaskill, was drowned in Silver Lake, at Ocean Beach, Thursday evening, while skating. The body was recovered. Two companions, Bert Cooper and Lewis Buhler, who broke through the ice at the same time, were rescued with difficulty.

James Dougherty, aged 60, of Mendham Township, Morris County, was taken to the Morris Plains insane asylum on Wednesday night, after having twice attempted to kill his wife.

Marriages

At the Baptist Parsonage in Stockton, Dec. 31, 1887, by Rev. A. Cauldwell, George A. Hann and Adda A. Hutchinson, both of Flemington.

Dec. 31, 1887, in Sergeantsville, by Rev. A. H. Haines, Nelson Sperling, of Raven Rock, and Awilda Naylor, of Sergeantsville.

At the home of the bride, in Centreville, Dec. 28, 1887, by Rev. Eugene Hill, Luther S. Van Fleet, of Three Bridges, to Mary A. Case.

At the parsonage in Sergeantsville, Dec. 28, 1887, by Rev. P. C. Bascom, David Garman and Anna Belle Shepherd, both of Sergeantsville.

At the parsonage in Sergeantsville, Dec. 27, 1887, by the Rev. P. C. Bascom, Harry Hoff, of Stockton, and Annie Hoppock, of Sergeantsville.

At the M. E. Parsonage in Frenchtown, Dec. 28, 1887, by the Rev. S. D. Decker, Amos M. Stout and Lucy Bray, both of Kingwood.

Jan. 1, 1888, at the house of the bride’s mother, by Rev. Elvin K. Smith, Charles William Bair and Sarah Cooper Worthington, all of Lambertville.

In Lambertville, Dec. 29, 1887, by Rev. George H. Larison, Isaac Peters, of Buckingham Township, Pa., to Theodosia C. Shadinger, of Solebury Township, Pa.

Jan 5. 1888, at the residence of the bride’s parents, Providence, R.I., by Rev. R. M. Martin, Erastus J. Parrott, of Scranton, Pa., and Alice M., daughter of Dr. Mathias Abel, formerly of Quakertown, this County.

Deaths

In Raritan Township, Jan. 1, 1888, Thomas P. Burket, aged about 51 years.

In Kingwood Township, Jan. 4, 1888, Mrs. Charity Hawk, aged about 88 years.

January 17, 1888, Fiftieth Volume, No. 23

Mrs. Annie Weber, of Louisville, Ky., was found frozen to death on Sunday morning sitting on a stump at the north gate of National Park, where she had gone while drunk. She had an industrious husband and eleven children.

While coasting at Joliet, Ill., on Monday night Miss Oriena Wheeler ran into a crowd of boys, breaking her left leg in two places and George Van Allen’s ribs, injuries that may result fatally.

State Items

A two-year-old child of Joseph Merritt, druggist, at Woodbury, fell out of a chair, Tuesday morning, and was injured so badly is the third child that Mr. Merritt has lost within a month, two others dying of scarlet fever about two weeks ago.

A Miner Buried 60 Feet

Last Tuesday afternoon while William Johnson, a miner, was filling in and unused shaft at the Hacklebarney mines, two miles from Chester, Morris County, walked over the pile from which the supports had been taken away and the rock gave way beneath his feet, precipitating him to the bottom of the shaft. He was buried to a depth of 60 feet, and it will require a week to recover his body. He was 28 years old and leaves a wife and five small children in destitute circumstances. Two men at work with him had a narrow escape from death.

In 1882 James Ahearn, a 6-year-old boy, fell through the flooring of the pier at the foot of Jackson Street, East River, New York, and was drowned. His father brought suit against the owners of the pier, alleging that the flooring was rotten, and a jury on Monday gave Mr. Ahearn a verdict of $4500.

Maggie Brady, aged 32 years, who keep a house of ill repute in the village of Woodville, North Providence, R.I., shot and killed Charles Schneider, 22 years old, a weaver, on Monday night while he was endeavoring to force an entrance to her dwelling.

Marriages

Jan. 12, 1888, at the residence of the bride, by Rev. Chas. E. Walton, Louis R. Potts and Lucinda S. Trimmer, both of Quakertown.

At the residence of the bride’s parents, Califon, Jan. 10, 1888, by the Rev. Jas. Richard Tibson, W. P. Flowers, of New York, and Mary Morgan.

Jan. 4, 1888, by Rev. J. P. Searle, at Somerville, George M. Hoagland, of East Millstone, and Susie K. Cronce, of Reaville.

Jan. 7, 1888, at High Bridge M. E. Parsonage, by the Rev. W. F. Randolph, M. N. Walters, of Glen Gardner, and Almira Harrison, of New Market.

At Everittstown, Jan. 4, 1888, by Rev. A. M. Harris, U. S. G. Cooley to Jennie R. Holland, both of Everittstown.

At the residence of the bride’s parents near Frenchtown, Jan. 7, 1888, by the Rev. C. W. Ray, D. D., Lizzie Meyers to Joseph C. Wolverton.

In Philadelphia, Jan. 11, 1888, by Rev. J. Addison Henry, D. D., John W. Young, formerly of Ringoes, to Ella Bricker, daughter of James Bricker, Esq., all of Philadelphia.

Deaths

At Bowne Station on Thursday, Jan. 12, 1888, Joseph G. Bowne, aged 84 years.

Local Department

J. Garner Bowne, one of the oldest and most highly respected citizens of Delaware Township, died at his residence at Oak Dale last Thursday. Mr. Bowne represented the County of Hunterdon in the State Senate from 1867 to 1870.

D. Sweeney Stute, postal clerk on the mail route from New York to Binghamton, died at his father’s residence, near Bloomsbury, on Wednesday last, of typhoid pneumonia. He was a prominent Democratic politician in Hunterdon County, having held several important offices. He was engrossing clerk during the legislative session of 1885. He was Master of Bethlehem Lodge, F. and A. M., for years. His age was 39.

Death of Augustus Hall

Mr. Augustus Hall, who went from this County to California some years ago, settling at Oakland, died on January 1^st from the effects of injuries sustained by a fall from a bridge upon which he was at work along about Christmas. He was a carpenter by trade, and at the time of the accident that cost him his life had a large gang of men under his supervision. He was a brother to Mr. Wm. H. Hall, of this place. He leaves a wife, to whom he had been married about two years, and several grown up children by a former wife. His age was 52 years.

Blown In From Bordering Counties

John Bird, of Phillipsburg, a brakeman on the “Buck Rabbit” freight train of the Bel. Del. Road was badly jammed while coupling cars at Trenton Tuesday. It is feared that his injuries may be fatal.

Wm. Fisher, aged 46, died at his home in Belvidere Monday. He was a son of Peter Fisher, a former hotel keeper of that town. William served three years in the Seventh N.J. Volunteers.

Elijah Allen, aged 36, a resident of Harmony Township, Warren County, met with a terrible death at Lower Harmony last Tuesday afternoon. He and his father were engaged in making some repairs to the machinery of their grist mill. The father stepped outside of the building for a moment, and when he returned found the body of his son fast between two large cogwheels and terribly mangled. He died in a few minutes. The deceased was greatly respected. He leaves a widow and four children.

The Dangers of Coasting

A coasting accident occurred at Bloomsbury on the afternoon of the 6^th inst., by which John Kelly, aged fourteen, had his skull fractured and received internal injuries. Edward Eichlin was driving through Front Street when his horse became frightened and ran at lightning speed until the crossing of Church Street, which was covered with ice, was reached.

Among a number coasting on Church Street was young Kelly, who reached the crossing simultaneously with the runaway horse, and was trampled under the infuriated animal’s feet. Kelly was picked up unconscious and carried to the office of Dr. J. S. Lindabury. He was restored to consciousness, had his wounds dressed and was carried home. He is seriously injured internally and it is believed he will die.

January 24, 1888, Fiftieth Volume, No. 24

Two farmers living near Little Rock, Ark., by name of Baker and Hitt, became engaged in a quarrel last Thursday while dividing their land between a son and daughter of each who were about to be married, and coming to blows, stabbed each other with bowie knives in such a frightful manner that Baker died, and Hitt cannot recover.

After The Big Blizzard

Reports Still Coming In of the Storm’s Ravages in the Northwest.

The Pioneer Press specials tonight say that Sarah Dolan, a school teacher of Goodwin, near Clear Lake, Dak., and Hugo Scheff, farmer, of Altamont, Dak., have been found frozen to death. News reached Jamestown, Dak., this afternoon of the breezing to death of M. A. Ryan, a farmer living near Windsor, where he had a claim. His body was found by a searching party tonight near a hay-stack about eight miles from Windsor.

Sioux Falls, Dak., Jan. 17 – The eighth victim in this County of the recent blizzard was discovered yesterday. It was Eric Ericson, a farmer six miles from the city. He was hauling hay but a short distance from his house when the storm struck. He was soon blinded by the storm, as was everyone who was out in it, and lost his way. He unharnessed the horses and unhitched the front portion of the bobsled, but was probably then too much exhausted to do anything further. The horses were discovered next day, but Ericson’s body cannot be found. Henry Bliss, a farmer near Montrose, next County, went to the barn to do chores. His wife put a light in the window to guide him back, but he never came. James Kennedy, who passed the night in a haystack is but slightly frozen. His wife and son who went out to find him were both frozen, and the boy’s body has not been recovered. G. Grandstrom’s body was found last night. He was driving home from his city, and being overtaken by the storm unhitched the horses and abandoned them. He finally fell down in the snow and perished within twenty-five yards of his house.

Omaha, Neb., Jan. 18 – Charles Gray, living near Tekogah, died yesterday from exposure in Thursday’s storm. He walked all night between his horses to keep from freezing, and was found half a mile from home by neighbors badly frozen.

Miss Louise Royce, a school teacher, eight miles from Plainview, had but three pupils on the day of the storm. She started at 2 o’clock with the children for a house about twenty rods distance, but lost her way. All lay down in the snow, and Miss Royce wrapped up the little ones as best she could. Early in the night one child died and later a second one, and just as morning broke the third child succumbed to the cold. Miss Royce then managed to reach the house, less than twenty rods away. Both her feet are badly frozen, and they will probably have to be amputated.

Dubuque, Iowa, Jan. 18 – Byron Cleveland of Manchester, Delaware County, has received information that his two sons, aged 15 and 17 years, were frozen to death during the storm, together with 90 head of cattle.

John Olney was found in a snow drift near Marathon frozen dead.

Perils of Coasting

Benjamin Sawyer one of the young men injured in the coasting accident at Oswego, New York, is dead, and one of two others are liable to die. There were ten persons on bobs. The hill is very steep and one mass of ice and they were running at least seventy-five miles an hour. Near the bottom of the hill they ran into a heavy load of timber, knocking it into the ditch. Every person on the bobs was rendered insensible from the force of the collision and some were horribly cut and mangled.

Sawyer, who died, did not regain consciousness. Both hips were broken and bones driven into the abdomen. He was married on New Year’s Day.

Cut to Death On a Saw

At Ithaca, N.Y., last Monday, William Covert, an employee in a saw mill was standing with his left leg thrown over the saw and with his thigh resting against the teeth. The usual signal was given before starting the machinery, but he did not hear it, and the saw, that usually makes 300 revolutions to the minute, began tearing and lacerating the flesh and bones of his knee-joint and followed along the thigh-bone. Doctors amputated his thing, but he died. Covert was forty years old, and leaves a widow and two children.

An old man named Tadgray, living about six miles from ladonia, Texas, on the 14^th inst., started home facing the blizzard. His horse went up to this gate and stopped. He had literally frozen to death in the saddle and sat stiff and upright.

Elihu Jones, who died recently in Rutherford County, Tennessee, aged 80 years, had his own grave dug on his premises several years ago, and in the bottom of it had a stone receptacle constructed in which his uncoffined body was placed.

David Price, a wealthy miser, who had long lived a hermit’s life in Weathersfield Township, near Warren, O., was found dead in his hut last Tuesday and a large sum of money was found hidden about his premises.

Local Department

James R. Sutton has contracted to keep the poor of Kingwood Township for the ensuing year, for $450.

Raritan Township has lost a good and useful citizen by the death of Wm. S. Quick, Esq., at his residence near Larison’s Corner on Monday night last. For a long time he had been a terrible sufferer from cancer of the throat.

Rev. Levi G. Beck, an old-time pastor of the Flemington Baptist Church, died suddenly at Bloomfield on the 12^th inst. Mr. Beck had also been pastor in Trenton, Freehold, Allowaytown and Pembertown.

Smith Ely died suddenly of apoplexy at his residence in Lambertville last Tuesday morning, aged 80 years. He was one of the oldest and best known citizens of the place, having for years been conductor on the Belvidere Division of the Pennsylvania Railroad.

Who Knows George Milburn?

Postmaster Poulson received a postal from Hellertown, Pa., Saturday last, stating that George W. Milburn had been killed on the railroad at that place on the 18^th inst., and asking that his relatives be notified if they can be found. The body was to be buried this Monday unless claimed by the relatives.

Home From a Distant Land

Miss Ella Kuhl, of San Paulo, Brazil, South America, arrived at her old home at Copper Hill, on Jan. 17^th. The journey of twenty-five days she says was an unusually favorable one for the winter months. She expects to spend a year in the States.

Brief Facts From Over The Border

Edward Meader, the station agent at Evona, (formerly of Somerville,) died on Monday last.

William Messick, son of the Rev. Dr. J. F. Messick, died at his father’s residence, near Blawenburgh, on Monday. A cold contracted a year ago threw him into consumption. Until a few months ago he practiced law in Philadelphia. He was in his 48^th year.

A two-year-old child of Peter Michael, of Pahaquarry Township near the Water Gap, fell backwards in a pail of scalding water on the 14^th inst., and was so badly burned that it died next day. The family was in the room at the time and saw the child fall in, but it was wedged so tight in the pail that it could not be freed before it was so scalded that it was thrown into fits.

W. Harvey, Jr., formerly a conductor on the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western and other railroads, was sentenced by the Court to imprisonment for two years in the Albany Penitentiary on the 14^th inst. for bigamy. Harvey married Minnie Barnard, his cousin, in Washington, Warren County, in June 1884, when he had a wife living at Scranton. He was acquainted with his second wife only ten days before he married her out of “mutual infatuation,” as he explained, and he deserted her to return to his first wife within five months after his first marriage.

All Sorts From All About

A 12-year-old son of Mr. Godfrey Bellis, of Milford, died on the 12^th inst., after only a few days sickness from diphtheria.

State Items

James Page, a young farmer of Columbus, was killed on Monday, being run over by a wagon in which he was riding. In falling his feet caught in the gearing and he was dragged for a considerable distance. He died before medical assistance could reach him.

Mrs. Mercy Ann Fowler, of Chambersburg, committed suicide last Thursday by hanging herself in the cellar. The woman was deserted ten years ago by a man named Cubberly. She then married John Fowler, a carpenter, but on Wednesday her first husband returned, and because of her martial complication she killed herself.

Six months ago Clara Stillson disappeared from her home at New Durham, and it was supposed that she had eloped with a young man employed as a brakeman on the West Shore Road. Last Thursday evening the girl came home with a husband, a well-dressed man abut forty years old, who she said, was a Mr. Foster, a Broadway dry goods merchant.

Seven Children Drowned

Severn children, four of them sisters, were out skating on Sand lake about ten miles east of Ennis, Texas, last Wednesday afternoon, when two of the sister, the daughters of Wm. Williams, and a young man named Babbitt, fell through the thin ice and were drowning. Seeing the danger of the trio, Babbitt’s sister and the other two Williams girls, aged nine and thirteen years, went to their rescue. The rescuing party also fell in, as did a little son of Williams, who tried to help the drowning girls.

One of the girls saved the boy by throwing him on to the ice, but all the rest of the party were drowned, together with an older Williams boy. The mother of the Williams girls came near drowning and was only saved by being thrown a rope, by which was dragged out. All the bodies were recovered, as the water was only seven feet deep, and seven coffins now hold the bodies of the members of the skating party.

John White, a wealthy farmer and lumberman of Handy, Alcona County, Mich., went to Oscoda last Thursday with a large amount of money, got drunk and disappeared, and is believed to have been murdered.

Marriages

Jan. 12, 1888, at the residence of the bride, by Rev. Chas. F. Walton, Louis R. Potts and Lucinda S. Trimmer, both of Quakertown.

At Belvidere, Jan. 18, 1888, by the Rev. E. N. Crasto, at the bride’s home, John Snyder, of Manunka Chuck, and Hattie V. Simerson, eldest daughter of John Simerson, of Belvidere.

At the residence of the bride’s parents near Frenchtown, Jan. 7, 1888, by the Rev. C. W. Ray, D. D., Joseph C. Wolverton to Lizzie Meyers.

Jan. 14, 1888, by Rev. W. W. Bullock, W. Richard Bowlby, of Bucks Co., Pa., and Ida M. Reading, of Lambertville.

Deaths

In Lambertville, Jan. 17, 1888, Smith Ely, in the 81^st year of his age.

In Lambertville, January 4, 1888, Conrad Hoppell, in his 63d year.

At his residence, near Readington, Jan. 16, 1888, George Anderson Schomp, in the 85^th year of his age.

At the residence of his son – Clark Cole, near Scranton – Jan. 17, 1888, Jacob O. Cole, aged 89 years, 9 months and 9 days. (The deceased was the father of Mr. Samuel H. Volk, of Flemington.)

January 31, 1888, Fiftieth Volume, No. 25

Halifax’s Great Storm

A dispatch train from Halifax under date of Jan. 25 says: Yesterday’s snow was one of the worst know here for years. Railway travel is again demoralized.

At midnight, when the storm was at its worst, the dwelling house of Alexander Beaton, a prominent resident of Bolandere, caught fire and in a few minutes was completely destroyed. Mr. Beaton’s wife and grandchild were burned to death. The other inmates barely escaped with their lives.

Joseph Field, a farmer of Middletown, will be 96 years old on his next birthday. He was born in the old Field homestead in Middletown on September 26^th, 1792, and has lived in the vicinity ever since. In early life he bought 150 acres, to which he has added little by little until now he owns more than 400 acres of the best farm land in the State. Mr. Field was not married until 1867, when, at the age of 75, he married Uretta, a daughter of John Hedden. She lived only a few years, but left three children; Joseph, Uretta and Rebecca.

When the wife of A. J. Ellis, living at No. 1113 Harrison Street, Kansas City, Mo., woke up last Wednesday morning she found her month-old twin children, a boy and a girl, dead by her side. The little ones had been accidentally smothered in bed.

Peter Coffee, charged with the murder of Station Agent Charlie Way at Stony Creek, Conn., on May 9, 1887, was on Tuesday at New Haven found guilty of murder in the second degree and sentenced to State prison for life.

“Nosy” Smith, who fled from Montana to the Northwest Territory two years ago to escape hanging for shamefully abusing his two daughters, recently returned to Sun River, Mont., to regain possession of the girls, when he was caught by Vigilantes and hanged.

At Brownwood, Texas, City Marshal Butler and wife were kept up nearly all of Tuesday night by a sick child. About three o’clock both fell asleep, with the baby lying asleep between them. When they awoke the baby was gone. A search discovered it dead in a cistern. No servants were employed, and the only theory held is that one of the parents drowned the child in a fit of somnambulism. Whoever did the terrible act carried the child through the house, opened and closed two doors, and after putting it in the cistern, replaced the cistern cover and set the water bucket on top of it.

Local Department

Rev. James H. Runyon, a former pastor of Frenchtown M. E. Church, died at his home on Staten Island week before last.

It is reported that David Farley, formerly a resident of Fairmount, was killed by an accident at Indianola, Nebraska, a few days ago. Mr. Farley had been in that State for the past four years.

The 35^th marriage anniversary of Mr. and Mrs. John H. Ramsey, of Potterstown, was celebrated by a large gathering of relatives and friends on the 20^th inst.

William West, who had been living with C. A. Butterfoss, at Barbertown, for some time past, died suddenly on the evening of the 21^st inst. He had been complaining for some weeks but was not considered seriously ill. He was a son of the late Joseph West.

Philip Hazlet, of Asbury, Warren County and a colored man were serious injured at Swayze’s mine, at West End, on Thursday. The men were in the bucket which was carried to the roof of the building. Hazlet’s right arm was almost torn from the shoulder and he will probably die.

The following item we clip from one of the numerous exchanges that we find it in: Mrs. Sarah A. Pearson, 98 years old, of Vineland, who died a few days ago, was a great-niece to Colonel Lowry, Adjutant General to George Washington, and her parent’ home at Flemington was frequently visited by the first President.

Driven To Suicide

Stephen Backer, an old and respected resident of Mechanicsville, committed suicide by hanging himself in his barn last Thursday afternoon. The old gentleman is supposed to have been driven to desperation by the disgrace attending his son Richard’s acts which are set forth in another column in an article copied from the New York World. Richard had forged his father’s name as endorser to numerous promissory notes for amounts aggregating $10,000, and then induced different persons about White House Station and Mechanicsville to discount the worthless paper. He was about 75 years of age.

All Sorts From All About

Mr. George R. Hoagland, formerly of this vicinity, who has been living for several years in Rochester, N.Y., has gone to Lead City, Dakota, where he has a good position as secretary of a mining company which has recently been organized.

Brief Facts From Over The Border

Samuel B. Birdsell, aged 70 years, was buried at Somerville on Monday last. He had been confined to his bed for a long time, perfectly helpless. In the days of his usefulness he resided on the farm known as the “Sandhill Farm,” and was a director in the First National Bank of Somerville.

Monday’s New York papers announced the death of Col. Spencer Wallace Cone, aged 69, who in 1844 was a resident of Somerville. He was the father of Kate Claxton, the well-known actress, and died at her residence in New York on the 21^st inst. Col. Cone lived for a number of years in and near New Brunswick and was at one time on the editorial staff of the Times in that city.

Miss Mary, daughter of John B. Staats, living near Flaggtown, committed suicide Saturday afternoon, 28^th inst., by hanging. Miss Staats was a young lady who had hosts of friends, a comfortable home and everything to make life enjoyable. Various rumors as to the cause of the act are afloat, but nothing definite is known. She was about 21 years old.

Mrs. John Lumpkin, of Stewartsville, died very suddenly last Tuesday. She prepared her husband’s breakfast as usual and he left for his work in Phillipsburg, where he is employed as carpenter on the M. & E. Railroad. At eight o’clock he received work of her sudden death.

Jephtha Snyder, aged 45 years, a carpenter by trade, residing on Scott’s Mountain, was found frozen to death in the woods in Monroe County, Pa., on Sunday afternoon, 22d inst. He left home on Friday for Stroudsburg, with the intention of fishing on the ice either in Pike or Monroe County, and had traveled some fifteen miles on foot, when it is supposed he was overcome by the intense cold. His body was found about 24 hours after death.

State Items

At a wedding at Bonhamtown, on Monday, the groom, Mr. Holcomb, was 69 years old and the bride, Miss Kate Bergen, 16. The newly married couple will make their home in Plainfield.

Kate Howland, aged 14, dropped dead of heart disease at Asbury Park, about 9 o’clock Monday night. She had been skating on Wesley Lake during the evening and taken off her skates to go home.

“Aunt” Sophia F. Randolph, a maiden lady, died in Piscataway Township, Union County, on Monday, aged 94. She had never lived five miles away from the place where she was born, and was well known and highly esteemed in the neighborhood.

The body of Jefferson Sleider, a workman living near Belvidere, was found on Tuesday on the road between Stroudsburg and Porter’s lake. He left Thursday last, walked to Stroudsburg, and started for a place called “Home Stretch,” where he has a son. He was found by a stage driver sitting bolt upright in the road frozen to death. He was fifty years old and leaves a wife and several small children.

A horrible accident occurred at 5 o’clock Monday afternoon at Elizabeth. Annie Rodgers, 9 years old, was run over while coasting on a hill on Spring Street, by the team of horses belonging to Jefferson Engine Company, which was attached to a heavily loaded truck. The wheels of the truck passed over the girl’s neck, nearly severing her head from the body.

Marriages

At the residence of the bride, at Three Tuns, Pa., Jan. 28, 1888, by Rev. I. Poulson, George H. Yorks and Sallie Sperry.

At the parsonage, Lebanon, Jan. 20, 1888, by Rev. Wm. E. Davis, David B. Hendershot and Mrs. Emma Rush, both of Hampton Junction.

At the Baptist Parsonage in Baptisttown, Jan. 14, 1888, by the Rev. S. C. Dare, John g. Higgins to Florence M. Muncey, both of Bristol, Pa.

At Locktown, by Elder Jacob Rodenbaugh, Jan. 21, 1888, S. T. Leidy, of Point Pleasant, Pa., and Mary J. Moore, of Locktown.

At the Pottersville Parsonage, Jan. 14, 1888, by Rev. George W. Scarlet, Cornelius B. Stiger, of Chester, N.J., to Lizzie C. Anderson, of Peapack, N.J.

Jan. 18, 1888, by Rev. George w. Scarlet, at the Pottersville Parsonage, Alvah M. Eick to Laura Hyler, both of New Germantown, N.J.

Deaths

In Elizabeth, Jan. 25, 1888, Elizabeth, wife of William Van Houten, formerly of White House, aged about 62 years.

Near Klinesville, January 21, 1888, Joseph H. Baker, aged about 80 years.

In Frenchtown, January 19, 1888, Mary E., wife of Irving McClain, aged 25 years, 6 months and 25 days.

At Wertsville, Jan. 24, 1888, John M. Housel, in the 69^th year of his age.

February 7, 1888, Fiftieth Volume, No. 26

Joseph Mocci, an Italian barber, shot and killed his wife last Wednesday at the house of her parents, No. 308 East 107^th Street, New York, where they were living. Mocci fled, and has not yet been captured. The woman was 23 years old and had a 2 year-old child. The shooting was the result of a quarrel arising from the wife’s refusal to leave the city with her husband.

John Cullen, a ship-caulker, aged 34 years, while drunk last Tuesday night at Buffalo, N.Y., killed his mother, Ann Cullen, with an ax. He said he was afraid she might get in the workhouse.

At Wallace, Mo., on Sunday night Peter Estes and his 18-year-old son, William, murdered a young man named Blakeley because he had accompanied to church Miss Annie Estes, a daughter and sister of the murderers.

Two German farmers of Campbell County, Dakota, named Fred and George Cormelil, on Monday while walking from La Grace to Mound City, last their way, became exhausted, laid down to sleep and froze to death.

One More Victim of the Cigarette

Albert H. Erwin, fourteen years old, died on Monday night at his father’s residence in Philadelphia, of spinal meningitis, caused by excessive cigarette smoking.

Local Department

Charles Emery, one of the oldest and most highly respected citizens of Jutland, died last Monday afternoon after an illness of some weeks.

The death of John Johnson, of Cokesburg, is announced. He was the wheelwright and undertaker for that section. A wife and four children survive him.

Gideon C. Angle, the well known Clinton photographer and notion dealer has become mentally unstrung, and on Tuesday he was moved to the Morris Plains Asylum for treatment.

All Sorts From All About

Mr. and Mrs. William J. Case, of Pittstown, are now basking in the warm sunshine of the beautiful city of Sherman, in the State of Texas, they being on a visit to their son, Prof. Geo. Elmer Case, who is musical instructor in the famous Sherman Institute.

Brief Facts From Over the Border

George Miller, for a number of years past an employee in Noll’s shaving parlors, in Somerville, complained of feeling ill last Saturday week, and accordingly went home. His illness proved to be diphtheria of a dangerous character, and about 11 o’clock last Wednesday night he died.

David Conkling, of Broadway, Warren County, buried three children at Stewartsville last Wednesday. They all died on the same day of scarlet fever. The oldest one was eleven years, and the other two much younger. Joseph Bell, of New Village, also died of the same disease.

Henry Straus, a colored man, who has had the local reputation of being the oldest man in the State, died at his home at Monroe Corners, a hamlet a few miles south of Newton, last Wednesday. The old fellow insisted that he was 109 years old and carried with him an old worn-out parchment said to be a certificate of his birth. He served as a private throughout the war of 1812, and was with General Jackson during his defense of New Orleans.

State Items

Monday night Kate Hallahan, a servant girl, was struck by a train at the Suydam street station, New Brunswick, and instantly killed. She was intoxicated.

Miss Daisy St. John, the tiny infant which was born to Mr. and Mrs. E. St. John, of Passaic, two weeks ago, has since died. It weighed a bare trifle over a pound at its birth.

City Missionary Silas E. Weir, of New Brunswick, dropped dead after rising from the breakfast table Tuesday. He was sixty-five years old, and has been for twenty-one years the head of the New Brunswick City Mission. Death was the result of heart disease.

Norman C. Mague, of Worcester, Mass., was removing, on Tuesday, to Plainfield with his wife and six children. When near their new home a thirteen-year-old daughter was taken sick and died in convulsions soon after having been removed from a New Jersey Central train to the Plainfield station.

John Donavin, aged 23 years, a boilermaker from Northumberland County, Pa., who was employed at the Steelton Works, near Baltimore, on Wednesday, went to the roof of the Stackhouse to make some repairs when he slipped and fell fifty feet and was killed.

Marriages

January 21, 1888, by Rev. William A. Smith, at the Baptist parsonage in Junction, Frank A. Bowlby and Eva Helms, both of Junction.

At Readington, Jan. 28, 1888, by the Rev. B. V. D. Wyckoff, Henry Staats, of Frankfort, Somerset County, to Anna J. Shafer.

In New York City, on Wednesday, Jan. 25, 1888, by Rev. J. Laubenheimer, N. B. K. Hoffman, of Readington, N.J., to Mattie A. Skinner, of New York City.

In Lambertville, Jan. 31, 1888, at the parsonage of the M. E. church, by Rev. John H. Boswell, Caleb F. Moore, of West Amwell, N.J., and Ella Shaffer, of Point Pleasant, Pa.

February 1, 1888, in the Presbyterian Church at Phillipsburg, by Rev. H. B. Townsend, Dr. Lucius T. Ingham, of Amityville, L.I., and Julia C., daughter of Dr. J. F. Sheppard.

At Lower Valley Manse, by Rev. James Richard Gibson, Jan. 31, 1888, Austin Beam and Belle Clawson, both of Middle Valley.

Deaths

Near Jutland, Jan. 30, 1888, Charles Emery, aged 72 years, 9 months and 22 days.

January 21, 1888, near Flemington, Joseph H. Baker, aged 86 years, 1 month and 9 days.

February 14, 1888, Fiftieth Volume, No. 27

“Mitch” Engel Dead

“Mitch” Engle died at the Alms House last Wednesday afternoon. He was found under the stairs in the hall was leading to the Odd Fellows rooms, corner of Greene and Hanover streets, suffering very much and removed to the Alms House, where he died shortly afterwards. Deceased was a very eccentric man and could be seen most any day on the streets, selling whips, parts of harness, “cure all” salve, &c. He came to this city about twenty-five years ago and built several houses in the lower part of the city. His death was due to exposure and want of proper care. Trenton Emporium.

A Speck of Humanity

Last Wednesday there was born to Mrs. Fred. Miller, at Rice Lake, Minnesota, a speck of humanity that barely tipped the beam at 1 ½ pounds. The parents are German. The child, when two days old, was as lively as a cricket and is perfectly formed and healthy.

On Thursday, January 19^th, Mrs. Mary Welsh, one of the oldest citizens of New Philadelphia, Ohio, departed this life. She was born June 4, 1790, at German Valley. She was a daughter of Judge Nicholas Neighbour, who died in Newcomerstown, Ohio, July 28, 1846. Judge Neighbour was born in Morris County, and served his country in the Revolutionary War. He was member of the New Jersey Legislature. Mary Neighbour was united in marriage to John Welsh in December, 1805, in Germany Valley. They moved to what is now Newcomerstown in 1813, and returned to New Jersey in about a year. Then they moved to New Philadelphia in 1843, and John Welsh died February 4, 1859. She was the mother of ten children, three of whom are still living in that place. The deceased was a member of the Presbyterian Church for sixty-five years.

Burned To Death

Four frame dwellings at Kutztown, near Reading, Pa., were totally destroyed by fire last Thursday morning, and John Hopp and his daughter, aged 15, and a son aged 9 years were burned to death. The houses were occupied by four families, comprising about twenty persons.

The late Silas Tuttle, of Whippany, married in 1820, Miss Loraina Baker, and in the spring of 1880 they celebrated the sixtieth anniversary of their marriage. She died soon after the event, and one of the many tokens of appreciation for the dead which lay on the casket of the husband at his recent funeral brought forcibly to the minds of many the happy married life of his couple: “Married 1820 – Reunited 1888.” Mr. Tuttle was a veteran of the war of 1812 and drew a pension from the Government.

Farmer John Janauschek, living near New Prague, Minn., whose wife on Wednesday filed a suit for divorce on account of ill-treatment that night shot and killed his wife, fatally wounded their 10 year-old daughter, and then blew out his own brains.

Matthew Busch cut his wife’s throat in the presence of their three children and the aunt of the victim at Chicago. The woman died almost instantly. Busch was arrested. He would make no statement, but there is no doubt that he deliberately planned to kill his wife, because she refused to deed to him about $10,000 worth of property left her by her mother.

A natural gas explosion, the third within a week, occ