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Newspaper
Cranbury Press
Location
Cranbury, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Oct 01, 1886
Page
2
The passage reports on changes at the post office with Air Morphy named for oversight and Air Jeremiah Seesetias taking new duties. It notes public expectations, debates over the appointment, and political context including the Democratic convention and Governor race speculation.
Tatsey College graduate and lawyer served as Surrogate of Union County and presiding judge of Common Pleas. He was elected to Congress in 1884 representing the Third District, defeating John Keener.
In New Jersey on September 27 Miss Booth of Doddtown converted to Baptist faith at North Orange Baptist Church on Main Street. Her father and brother loudly protested. police were summoned but not needed as Dr. Richards and Mr. Laryvey reconciled the family, and the baptism proceeded by immersion.
Vice Chancellor Bird renders decision in a suit by Omar A Jeudas administrator of the Ver Duin estate. He holds money found in the store belonged to the Ver Duin heirs rather than to Mrs Ver Duin’s debts. Debts total about 700 dollars at death with stock valued around 500 dollars. Mrs Ver Duin died in 1884 leaving debts, and Peter Breen acted as executor. The court notes Mrs Ver Duin used store stock but did not own it. the money found was in a bell in the Ver Duin residence.
Judge Wales ruled in the Frederick Frelinghuysen case that Oscar Baldwin, former cashier of Mechanics National Bank of Newark, must pay the entire bank indebtedness of 1.919 million dollars plus interest. Expert Isaiah Lewis testified drafts drawn by Nugent Co. and other bankers were paid by Baldwin without bank records, while Baldwin serves his state prison sentence.
James Titus, janitor of the Methodist Collegiate Institute at Hacketstown, stands trial for the death of Tillie Smith on April 8, as Warren County residents attend court. The proceedings question counts and definitions, with state counsel insisting the indictment stands. Ex-Senator J Henry Stone dies in Rahway. his career marked by legal and political service. A separate case involves Santamania alias Ange Tea Nock, with crowds and cross-examination marking the start of trial. A fire at Blakeley's Canning Factory in Bordentown destroys one building, with $500 loss and full insurance.
Winchester druggist reports Mrs. Louisa Pike Burtonia Randolph County Indiana, once given up by physicians for consumption, used King’s New Discovery and in six months walked six miles to town, now improved and off the medicine. Free trial bottles at S A French’s Drug Store.
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