Trenton Evening Times
Monday, December 31, 1906
YEAR’S RECORD OF INTERESTING EVENTS IN TRENTON
1906
JANUARY
- Dr.
E. H. Ginnelley elected president of Common Council and new Common Council
organized, together with all city boards.
- Thirty
first annual meeting New Jersey Horticultural Society. Charles E. Fort elected president of Fire
Commissioners.
- High
School students launch plan to purchase athletic field. Mrs. Louise Cooper died in St. Francis
Hospital from the effects of burns. Edwin A. Fischer elected president
of Park Commission. Hamilton Avenue
M. E. Church called the Rev. Sandford M. Nichols.
- Biscuit
kilnmen at Trent Tile Company strike for uniform pay.
- Ensign
Joplin, Salvation Army, transferred to Portland Me. Trenton Ministerial Union week of prayer
services opens. F. W. Roebling
chosen president of Library Commission.
- One
hundred and thirtieth session of the New Jersey Legislature opened. Governor Stokes sent message to Legislature
advocating taxation of main stem railroad property, limitation of public
utility franchises and increase of trolley tax.
- Governor
Stokes granted reprieves to Antoinette Tolla and Jerry Rossa, Bergen county
murderers. Formal opening of Second
Regiment Armory.
- Elmer
H. Loedom, Southampton, Pa., killed by trolley at Yardley.
- Charles
Long, murderer of Matthew Cunningham, hanged. George O. Vanderbilt filed $2,500,000 mortgage to raise money
for Trenton & Lakewood trolley road.
- Charles
Long buried.
- Legislature
passes equal tax, limited franchise, pure election and insurance and bank
investigation bills. Annual meeting
of the New Jersey Retail Merchants’ Association.
- Col.
Edward D. Fox completed 40 years of service in state executive department.
Justice Alfred Reed rebuked grand jury for failure to indict gamblers
and condemned police department for Sunday selling violation.
Windsor postoffice robbed.
- George
N. Van Doran lost $10,000 slander suit against Gen. James F. Rusling. Dr. Isaac Cooper died. Thirty-third annual meeting of New Jersey
State Board of Agriculture. Charles P. Green and Apollo Grooms plead not guilty to murder
of James McCrossen.
- Reading
Railroad employees of Trenton division receive increase in pay. Annual convention of Red Men.
- Chief
Hiner orders all saloons closed on Sundays.
- Frelinghuysen
Automobile bill introduced in Legislature. Morris canal bill introduced in Legislature.
- William
H. Dill of Philadelphia found dead in bed at 124 North Stockton street.
- Police
ordered social clubs to obey Sunday liquor law.
- Catholic
and Protestant clergymen met and formulated the revised liquor laws now
known as Bishops’ bill. Hamilton
Township sues to prevent erection of Municipal Hospital in township, (Suit
failed).
- State
schools closed because of scarlet fever.
Republican Club reception to Governor and United States Senators.
- Wreck
on Pennsylvania Railroad near Lawrence Station tied up all traffic for
two hours, 20 cars wrecked. Walter
Automobile Company decided to build big plant in Trenton. Margaret A. Wilson of this city and Arthur
B. Reeve of Brooklyn married. Miss
Julia C. Stull and Maxwell G. Rockhill married.
FEBRUARY
- Neary
and Schwarz re-open Wilson Woolen Mill
- Trenton
Postoffice carriers get increase of pay.
Judge Dill sworn in as Judge of the Court of Errors and Appeals.
Annual dinner of Lotus Club.
- Judge
Robert S. Woodruff removed to Mercer Hospital. Miss Ray Fineberg and Samuel Zorn married. Governor Stokes receives monster petition
to commute sentence of Antoinette Tolla.
- Brewers
fight local option and automobile reformers advocate Frelinghuysen law
in legislative hearings. Common
Council adopted resolution of removal of Freight Station.
- Court
of Pardons reprieved Antoinette Tolla.
Miss Susanna Campbell Bell and Hebert H. Butler married. Hamilton township committee gave Trenton
Street Railway Company franchise. Hillery
tax law introduced in Legislature.
- Mrs.
Eliza Holden of Lamberton street killed by Pennsylvania Railroad train
at Lamberton street crossing. Common
Council Freight Station removal resolution sent to President Cassett.
- Col.
Washington A. Roebling gave $500 to High School athletic field. Governor Stokes denied reprieve for Jerry
Rossa.
- Ministerial
Union denounced License Inspector Cassedy for alleged failure of duty.
Miss Ada Carmody and John C. Mordaunt married.
Trenton Lawrenceville and Princeton trolley mail service inaugurated.
- Attorney
General McCarter declared the Perkins equal tax bill constitutions.
- Henry
Keeler committed suicide at his home near Wilburtha. Mrs. Kate A. Houghtaling and William A.
Holcombe married.
- Miss
Agnes May Billar and Dr. Lloyd Russell Mace married. Anna Stiles and Russell Atchley married.
Miss Ida May Fisher and Edward T. Comley married.
- $12,000
fire on the Oliphant farm at Lawrenceville.
- Miss
Lena Marty of Philadelphia and George Hartman of Trenton married.
- The
Rev. C. J. Keevil accepts First Baptist Church call.
- Bill
providing disfranchisement of election bribers introduced in Senate.
- Gov.
Stokes reprieved Rufus Johnson, Mt. Holly murderer. Annual convention of Knights of Pythias.
- Trinity
Episcopal Church dedicated tablet to memory of William Trent. High School students dedicated historical
tablet on South Broad street near Assanpink creek.
- Trenton
won $40,000 paving suit from Trenton Street Railway Company. National convention of St. Patrick’s Alliance
opened. Miss Leonie L. Monnier
and William L. Howard married.
- County
anti-fee bill passed by Legislature.
MARCH
- Gustav
Amburg Crosson of Morrisville sentenced at Doylestown to death after 90
minutes trial for murder of son at Morrisville (later commuted to life
imprisonment).
- Mayor
Gnichtel signed Stuyvesant avenue trolley ordinance of Trenton Street
Railway Company.
- House
of Assembly defeated local option bill by vote of 39 to 14.
- Bill
in Senate to make Trenton execution place of capital criminals defeated.
Miss Amanda Kramer and David W. R. Brown married.
- Charles
P. Green and Apollo Grooms acquitted of McCrossan murder.
- Court
of Pardons commuted death sentence of Antoinette Tolla to seven years
imprisonment.
- Sixteenth
annual dinner of New Jersey Legislative Correspondence Club.
- Miss
Rose Thompson of New York and Joseph H. Wright of Trenton married.
- Mrs.
Florence Siegel killed jumping from her burning home at 143 South Broad
street. House of Assembly defeated
insurance inquiry bill and passed anti-fee bill for county officers. Bishop Goodsell announced New Jersey Methodist
Episcopal ministerial appointments for the year.
- House
of Assembly passed bill limiting public utility franchises to twenty years.
- Senate
passed Perkins equal taxation bill.
- Contracts
let for $50,000 school for Immaculate Conception parish.
- Governor
Stokes signed county salary and Prison Keeper’s residence bills.
APRIL
- Senate
defeated High License bill.
- City
Assessors decided to increase all property valuations 50 percent to carry
out provisions of equal tax law. Senate
began investigation of bribery charges against Senators Shinn and Martens,
decision of the Senate was acquittal. Perkins assembly re-districting bill defeated
in the Assembly.
- Trenton
Times bought site on South Stockton street for office building and started
erection of its new home. Governor
Stokes signed equal taxation bill.
- D.
Wiley Baker named School Commissioner.
House passed Frelinghuysen automobile bill.
- Trenton
Street Railway Company let contracts for Trenton Junction extension and
rebuilding of suburban lines. Miss
Clara May Hendrickson, of Trenton, and John William Sage of New York married.
Frelinghuysen military bill passed Senate.
High School celebrated fifth anniversary and received deed for
athletic field.
- Senate
passed resolution to investigate all insurance companies. Bricklayers and Masons granted increase
in wages to take effect May1.
- One
hundred and thirtieth session of Legislature adjourned sine die.
- Trenton
House sold by Katzenbach estate to Kuser interests. Eureka Flint and Spar Company decided
to erect $50,000 addition to plant.
- Miss
Kate Mott, deceased, executors announce gift of $5,000 to Mercer Hospital.
- Miss
Eleanor H. Larson and William Simpson Clark married.
- Colonel
Lewis Perrine paid $84,000 for seat on New York Stock Exchange.
- Roebling’s
Sons Company received report of $300,000 loss in San Francisco earthquake.
Mayor Gnitchtel issued call for financial aid for San Francisco.
- Miss
Anna Kelly and Phillip Curry married.
Miss Florence Phillips Hill and P. Ralph Thatcher married.
- Miss
Mamie Tully and August W. Endebrock married.
MAY
- May
day among labor unions and only trouble here was minor strike of hod carriers.
- Annual
meeting state organization of Knights of Malta. Charles T. Davenport and Laura Davenport arrested on charge
of sending poisoned candy to their children in Titusville. Reading Railroad Company increased pay
and decreased hours of Trenton employees.
- Charles
Getsinger’s storage house at East State street and Bainbridge avenue destroyed
by fire.
- Plumbers
granted $2 a week increase in wages.
- Bell
Telephone Company decides to build new home on East Sate street.
- Miss
Katherine T. Chambers and Charles Gropp married.
- Montgomery
Moses named manager of Trent Theatre.
- Miss
Eleanore B. Green and John M. Davis married.
- Mr.
and Mrs. J. K. I. Cody awarded $11,000 damages against the N J & Penna.
Traction Company.
- Independent
Brick Company announced plans for $100,000 plant near Broad Street Park.
Sidney L. Shelby, 246 Academy street, killed by train at Stelton
Station. Frank C. Riley and Charles A. Howell,
firemen, buried in ruins and killed in fire at New Jersey Pulp and Plaster
Company. Miss Ethel Weeks and
Dr. John V. Jones married at Skillman.
- Court
of Pardons commuted to life imprisonment the death sentence of Anna Valentina.
- George
A. Powers indicted by grand jury for forging name of Bishop McFaul.
- Orders
issued for brigade encampment at Sea Girt.
- Miss
Lily May Goodwin and Charles L. Klein married.
- Miss
Bessie Clinton and Harry E. Wood married.
- George
Karrier, State Schools student, drowned while swimming in water power.
Miss Bessie Lawton and George C. McGuire married.
- James
F. Bruther died from fractured skull sustained in fall down stairs at
his home.
- Miss
Florence West and Joseph Robbins, Jr., married. Trenton ice dealers decided to increase price of ice beginning
June 1.
- Memorial
Day observed here. Miss Mary E.
Berry and Joseph S. Martin married.
JUNE
- Senatorial
insurance investigation committee began its work. Louis and Dwossey Kleinermann acquitted
of arson after notable trial in Mercer Court.
- Saggermakers
of Trenton potteries struck because of dispute concerning preparation
of clay. Miss Constance Morgan
Raymond of Lawrenceville and Julius T. Harrah of Havana married.
- Davenports
plead not guilty to sending poisoned candy to children.
- Miss
Hattie A. Gibson and Peter W. Applegate married. Miss Emily Hays Farr and Robert Earle Anderson married at Lawrenceville.
Miss Catherine Betz and William Zanger married.
- Silver
jubilee of Monsignor John H. Fox. Miss
Florence Fleetwood and Raymond Hill Thompson married. Carpenters won strike for advance in wages
from 41 to 51 cents an hour.
- Miss
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- Miss
Bertha Hurtbut and the Rev. George P. Dougherty married.
- Margaret
Keating, two and a half years old, killed by _________ on North Clinton
avenue.
- Corner
stone of new Immaculate Conception School laid.
- Body of Lambert Riley, drowned in the Delaware
river, found at ________.
- Frank
_________ chosen director of Art School. __________________________________________________________________________.
- Turners
of Mercer Pottery struck because of dispute as to apprentice question.
Miss Georgetta Poulson and Anthony Van Hise married. Miss
Catherine C. Kerwin and Patrick A. Solan married.
- Miss
Ann Cooney and Michael A. Welch married.
JULY
- Charles
Davenport, of Mercerville, placed on trial in Mercer court on the charge
of sending poisoned candy to his child. Erick Tippner, aged five years,
of Hamilton Square, accidentally shot by Ernest Busse. He died later.
- During
severe hail and rain storm lightning struck store of William L. Waldron,
Warren and Fall streets. Driver
was hurled from wagon seat by bolt. Bell
telephone linemen strike for more pay. Trenton ministers plan to enforce Sunday
closing law. John Jacob Burgner
of 577 Perry street buried. Dr.
Frank G. Harker named by the Health Board as meat inspector.
- Freight
train collided with cars of Trenton Street Railway at Pennington avenue
crossing. No one seriously injured.
Mott Iron Company purchased tract of land on Davies street.
- Davenport
found guilty of attempting to cause the death of his child by sending
poisoned candy. Announced that
Y. M. C. A. will receive from $150,000 to $200,000 by will of Henry Cook.
- The
Rev. F. E. Gardner of Allentown Pa. and the Rev. John C. Mattes injured
in a runaway on the Bordentown road.
- The
Rev. E. C. Cloud, of Hopewell, found at the home of the Rev. Charles H.
Elder to be suffering seriously with blood poisoning, was removed to home
of his father-in-law at Spottswood (recovered).
- Alfred
Sheenan, aged eight years, died from lockjaw as the result of a Fourth
of July accident. Court of Errors
and Appeals declared unconstitutional the Assembly redistricting bill
passed by the last Legislature.
- Miss
Caroline Olga Niedt, daughter of former Councilman Oscar Niedt, married
to the Rev. John C. Mattes pastor of Lutheran Church of the Savior. Julia Van Lieu, aged sixteen, drowned
in the feeder at Titusville. Mrs.
Bridget Moran, of 222 Breunig avenue, who nursed her sister, Mrs. William
Reddan, while the latter was ill of typhoid fever, died of the same disease.
- Allen
S. Williamson, ten years of age, drowned in the Delaware river. Harold Wagner, aged twelve years, impaled
on meat hook in his father’s slaughterhouse, Chestnut and Roebling avenues.
Edward Marcini_k, aged six years, of 180 Houghton avenue, found
drowned in the canal at foot of Mead street.
- Charles
T. Davenport sentenced to prison for fifteen years.
- Mrs.
William Reddan, 447 Emory avenue, died while mass was being said over
the body of her sister, Mrs. Bridget Moran.
- Harry
Machin, of 118 Taylor street, died of injuries received on railroad. Annual meeting of the Grand Tribe of the
Independent Order of Red Men.
- Elmer
Horton, of Thompson street, struck by locomotive at Monmouth and East
State streets and seriously injured.
- Frederick
H. McGuire, of Trenton, and Miss Lillian A. Allen, of Wyckoff, married.
State riparian investigation begun by the Special Legislative Committee.
- James
McKelvey, of Tom’s River, Trenton’s “clam man,” struck by freight train
at Yardville crossing. Mules killed,
but McKelvey escaped uninjured.
- Trenton
Battalion, N. G. N. J. returned from Sea Girt encampment.
- Broad
Street Hotel sold to A. Klinkowstein and Kahn Brothers for $50,000.
- Annual
convention of the Orthodox Rabbis of the United States begun. S. P. Dunham & Company incorporated.
- Watson
H. Linburg purchased Green building at 135 East State street for $65,000.
- Joseph
Hickman, of 839 Beatty street, found dead on Lalor street with his throat
cut. Developments showed he had
committed suicide. Mrs. Anna M.
Carling began suit for divorce from her husband Dr. William Monroe Carling.
Rose Stahl, Trenton’s famous actress, returned from Europe.
- H.
H. Howard preferred serious charges against Constable Harry M. Potts. Richard VanSickel, fake telephone inspector,
sentenced to seven years in the State Prison.
- Mrs.
Hettie S. Novinger sued her husband, Dr. Walter J. Novinger, for alimony.
- The
Silver Jubilee of ordination of the Most Rev. Dominick Rueter, general
of the Franciscan Order, celebrated at Immaculate Conception Church.
- Miss
Katherine Stanley and Joseph Harrison, Jr., married.
AUGUST
- Thirty
employees of Rosenthal & Goldberg trouser makers, strike for more
wages.
- Mrs.
Aaron W. Mann, of 936 West State street, committed suicide by taking carbolic
acid. William Thompson, of 141
Cleveland avenue, attempted suicide by shooting himself while delirious
from typhoid fever. Charles Thompson,
of North Clinton avenue, prostrated by the heat.
Decision announced in favor of New Jersey State Council Jr. O.
U. A. M., in suit against National Council of the same order.
Bishop James A. McFaul sailed for Europe.
- The
Rev. J. C. Killian, of Clarksburg West Virginia, accepted call to Grace
Baptist Church. Announcement made
of the secret marriage several months before of Miss Lillian Mae Barlow
and Elmer A. Clayton.
- John
J. Thompson and Charles Zwirlein each fined $100 on the charge of selling
liquor to minors. Hamilton Rubber
Manufacturing Company interests purchased combination rubber mill at ____________________
Unreadable. __________________________________________________
___ Nineteen tests on the new
West Hanover street asphalt pavement showed that much pavement failed to
meet the specifications.
- State
Federation endorses proposition to form a labor political party. Common council decides to test all asphalt
pavements laid within two years.
- Announcement
made that Rev. Alfred W. Wishart, pastor of Central Baptist Church, had
received a call to the Fountain Street Church, Grand Rapids Michigan. He accepted later.
- Forti
Fortunato and Carman Compania held under $2,000 bail on the charge of
sending threatening letters through the mail.
- Frank
Gedlinski, aged 17, of 319 Liberty street, drowned in the Delaware river.
- Charles
D. Covert, Assistant City Treasurer, resigned. Thomas H. Prior, of T. H. Prior & Sons, stone cutters and
contractors, retired after being forty years in the business. William Peabody, Pennsylvania Railroad
engineer, retired after fifty years service.
SEPTEMBER
- Frank
Forrest Frederick, new director of Trenton School of Industrial Arts,
entered upon his duties.
- Labor
Day observed. Frank Zalisky, aged
10 years, of 601 Beatty street, drowned in the canal.
- Common
Councilman William F. Burk resigned to become Assistant Street Commissioner.
- Arthur
Moon, of 33 Model avenue, had both ankles broken in a runaway accident.
Miss Anna Horan, of 428 Lamberton street, and John J. Constant, of South
Clinton avenue, married. Miss
Arabella Watson Banes, 763 East State street, and Elwood Burton Lee, married.
- Mrs.
Bridget Murray, 242 Hewitt street, fell down stairs and was fatally hurt.
- Charles
T. Lee, of 904 South Broad street, dropped dead while at work in the Roebling
mills.
- John
H. Heaton, son of Mr. and Mrs. William Heaton, 88 Hart avenue, fatally
burned by bonfire.
- Public
schools opened for fall term with 11,000 pupils enrolled.
- Charles
U. Hushwood, of 44 Bond street, found drowned in Weller’s basin.
- Stack
at crematory collapsed, slightly injuring Mrs. Patrick McGurk and crushing
in the side of her house.
- Announcement
made that the owners of the Trenton Street Railway Company had purchased
the Philadelphia & Bristol trolley line.
- Statement
made that new city tax rate would be $1.56 on the $100.
- Mills
Whittlesey, of Stuyvesant avenue, shot and killed himself in his office
in the First National Bank building.
- Inter-State
Fair opened.
- Primary
election held.
- Hall
Katzenbach, of North Clinton avenue, and Miss Sarah A. Buckman, of West
State street, married.
- Mrs.
Mary Connell, of 28 Edwards avenue, killed in wreck on Pennsylvania Railroad
at Eddington, Pa. One other passenger
was killed and several injured. Among the latter were a number of Trentonians. Miss Emma Carter Stevenson and Lendrum
LaRue Lee married. Alfred N. Barber,
William F. Burk and Harry D. Thompson renominated for the Assembly by
the Mercer county Republicans.
OCTOBER
- Miss
Mary McQuire and Frank J. Carlin married.
- National
Council, Daughters of America, began its annual meeting.
- Congressman
Ira W. Wood renominated by the Republicans.
- Robert
Purdy of 76 Bellevue avenue found dead in a wagon on Frazier street.
- J.
Allan Southwick nominated for Congress in Masonic Temple by the Democrats.
- John
Demmons, aged 79 years, of Bordentown, killed by train at South Broad
street crossing of the P. R. R.
- Harry
F. Lippincott, of Dolton’s Block, committed suicide by drinking laudanum.
- Trenton
Times celebrated the twenty-fourth anniversary of its establishment. Members of Washington Fire Company of
Wilmington, Del., visited Trenton Exempt Fireman’s Association.
- Oscar
F. Niedt and John Bruther of this city and Henry Yetter of Hamilton Township
named as Democratic candidates for the Assembly. Mayor Gnitchtel sent to Common Council
a special message notifying it that the State Sewerage Commission had
served notice that the city must show cause October 22 why it should not
be restrained from further sewering into the Delaware river.
- Miss
Kathryn McManus and Leo F. Hughes and Miss Margaret McManus and Raymond
Smith married at double wedding in Sacred Heart Church. American Hungarian Reform Federation held
annual convention.
- Summonses
issued by City Solicitor Bird in eight suits against the Barber Asphalt
Paving Company for alleged defective pavements. City asked $85,216.48 damages.
- In
hearing before the State Sewerage Commission, City Solicitor Bird asked
for five more years time, the full limit under the law in which to consider
the notice of the Commission that the city should stop polluting the Delaware
river. Young Men’s Catholic Total
Abstinence League of Sacred Heart Church celebrated its thirty-third anniversary.
- Great
Council Degree of Pocahontas I. O. R. M., opened ninth annual session.
New Jersey Funeral Benefit Association Jr. O. U. A. M, held annual
meeting.
- Miss
Sarah Mount, daughter of County Collector E. P. Mount, and Dr. William
Buchanan married. Wedding of Arthur
Elliot Crook and Miss Minnie Josephine Peplow.
- Dr.
Alfred Woodhouse and Miss Helen L. Prince married.
- Liederkranz
Singing Society celebrated its twenty-fifth anniversary. Mrs. Bridget Burke, of Slackwood, fatally
hurt by trolley car at Harney’s Corner. Courtland Cain, of Hopewell, fatally injured by a trolley car
near Hopewell.
- Levi
Ackers, of Trenton Junction, died at McKinley Hospital from injuries sustained
in a fall from a barn on his farm. Miss Bella C. Dungan, of Philadelphia, and Fred Margerum married.
NOVEMBER
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until Nov. 20
- Hewitt
Training School held commencement exercises.
- Mrs.
James Lane, 152 North Broad street, committed suicide by drinking carbolic
acid. Grand Lodge of New Jersey
I. O. O. F. began annual session. Governor
Edward C. Stokes, Congressman Ira W. Wood, State Treasurer Frank O. Briggs,
and Mayor Frederick W. Gnichtel made member of Trenton Lodge No. 3, I.
O. O. F.
- Professor
B. C. Gregory, formerly supervising principal of Trenton public schools,
and Miss Hannah Russell Benson, of Philadelphia, married at home of Clayton
L. _raver.
- Twenty-fifth
anniversary of the Catholic Diocese of Trenton observed. Robert V. C. Whitehead, of this city,
and Miss Mary C. McGlathery, of Norristown, married.
- Thanksgiving
day observed. Hoseman Frank Rover
died of grief over death of Mrs. Siegel, who leaped from the second story
of her home and was killed, of which accident he was a witness.
DECEMBER
- Miss
Melvina R. Hibbert and James Schultz married.
- Announcement
made that the Trenton Street Railway Company would increases wages five
percent. Miss Josephine McLeod,
of Media Pa., and Hugh H. Hilson, of this city, married.
- Michael
Elko, aged nine years, drowned in Trenton Iron Co. basin.
- Edward
Balderson, of 54 Pennington avenue, died at St. Francis Hospital of injuries
received by a fall between the cars on the P. R. R.
- Trenton
Council No. 355 tendered banquet to Bishop McFaul in honor of his return
from Europe. Body of Henry E.
Grice, of 130 South Broad street, found in canal at South Broad street
crossing. William H. McKean, of
Titusville, dropped dead on Perry street of heart failure. Miss Anna Elizabeth Raub and George P.
Smith married.
- James
Murphy, of 504 Emory avenue, committed suicide by running into a trolley
car while temporarily deranged. Common
Council appointed a committee to investigate the quality of the light
in the city.
- Mayor
Gnichtel signed the new salary ordinances passed by Common Council.
- Christmas
observed in the city. Miss Blanche
A. Sines, of this city, and James H. Williams, Philadelphia, married.
- The
130th anniversary of the Battle of Trenton celebrated by the
Princes of Caliphs. James Frate,
of Fernwood, killed on the Reading Railroad at the Fernwood crossing.
- James
T. Pullen, aged 55 years, of 229 Perry street, killed on the Pennsylvania
Railroad at the Delaware River bridge.
- Daniel
Settier, Jr., of this city, and Mae Agnes Choyce, of Asbury Park, married.
Joseph Gorczynski, aged five years, of 27 New York avenue, drowned
in the canal at the Anchor Pottery.
- Miss
Catherine Perrine Harned and Dr. Frederick Elmer Bird married.
LOCAL NECROLOGY FOR 1906
JANUARY
- John
K. Bunting, Alfred Mayer, Harry P. Davison.
- Mary
Ann Hill, Anna S. Phares.
- Victor
M. Caulkins, Emily Power, Sarah A. South, Helen M. Stryker, Annie C. Wright.
- Catherine
Cooper.
- Addie
H. Cubberly.
- Albert
E. Boorer, Richard Murphy, Katherine Urban.
- John
L. Chapman.
- Isaac
Hammond Nichols, Sarah Hizer Schroth, Leota S. Gloeckner, John B. Warner.
- Theresa
Farrell.
- Robert
Bayard Heath, Mary Flanagan.
- Margaret
McGarry, John Conlin.
- Isaac
F. Moffett.
- Peter
Katzenbach, David H. Marshall, Joseph Bennett.
- Charles
F. Taylor, Emma Hammersley, Mary J. Wood.
- Thomas
N. Murphy, May A. Whitehouse.
- Dr.
Isaac Cooper, Otto W. Wagner.
- Cecelia
Parker Brook, Helen Doran, Charlotte A. Lanning, Isabella Van Syckel.
- Mary
J. Locke, Peter Minch, Rebecca J. Stevenson.
- Henry
F. Kuhn, Frank O. Lanning, Katherine Smith.
- Frank
Joyce.
- Margaret
S. Halderman.
- Sarah
E. Newborn.
- Henrietta
Norton.
- Samuel
A. Brouse, George Hart of Pennington, Barbara Messerschmidt.
- Henry
Moorehouse.
- Mary
Parsons Wilson.
- Isabella
Stetson.
- Charles
Coxon, Martha J. Morris.
FEBRUARY
- Elizabeth
Stevens.
- Elizabeth
Wharton, Cornelia Cook.
- Ellen
Knox Macpherson.
- James
Smyth, Lewis H. Furman.
- Margaret
King, Frank Moffett, of Morrisville.
- John
H. Phillips, Abagail D. Stites.
- Marla
Middleton.
- Charles
Zahner.
- Hannah
A. Howell, Elizabeth Haman, of Lawrenceville.
- Elizabeth
Pittman, James Dunn.
- Dr.
Florence De Hart, of the State Home for Girls.
- Rose
Bellon.
- A.
Rebecca Fabian.
- Charles
H. Wood.
- Annie
L. Gowdy.
- Thomas
S. Ayres.
- Ezekiel
R. Rogers.
- Margaret
Idell, Paul Bender, of Lawrenceville, in Denver, Col.
- Edmund
Wright, at Morrisville, Ann Updyke.
- David
L. Lewis.
- Mary
Reeder.
- Anna
Jammer, James J. Hartigan, John V. Snedeker, Lewis F. Garretson.
- John
J. Cullen.
- William
Chumar, William Woodhouse, Sr.
MARCH
- William
B. Allen, Orlando P. Connor, Martha Roff.
- Judge
Robert S. Woodruff.
- Nelson
E. Hart, W. Clifford Valentine, Charles G. Lawton.
- William
Billings, Parmelia Jefferies.
- Lewis
B. Coleman, Andrew Harcker, Joseph Matthias.
- Martha
B. Wilson.
- Mary
Dougherty, Ella Jacobs.
- Elias
S. Black at Mercerville.
- Mary
E. Curtis, Joseph Dillon, Samuel Tomlinson, at Morrisville.
- Ephriam
Phillips.
- Morris
L. Norgan, Joseph W. Dye, at Pennington.
- Percy
K. Rawlins, Bridget Jacques, John A. Conover, William H. Gulick, at Pennington.
- Emily
C. R. Fowe, T. Raymond Holcomb.
- Patrick
Martin, Beulah M. Yates, Margaret T. Bowers.
- Ann
Ginder.
- Harry
Bailey, Levi M. Honsel, at Rocky Hill.
- Joseph
Gabriel, Colonel Phillip Basner, at Harlingen.
- Louisa
Leikam, Lelia A. Dilatush.
- Rose
Ely, Charles Lange, John K. LeBon, Louisa Titus, at Pennington, Susanna
M. Vaughn.
- Sarah
Gorden, Hannah Rice.
- Catherine
Rulon.
- Patrick
Berry, John Woolverton, at Pennington, Sarah G. Boyd.
- Abraham
Holt, Carline R. Zimmer.
- Charlotte
Zickhur, Annie Yelland.
- George
Beatty, Louis P. Shreve, George H. Whorton.
- Jane
Tighe, Eliza Wright, at Morrisville, Maggie Kalisch.
- Thomas
F. Bell, at Bordentown, Mahalah Kise, at Hopewell, John C. Kafer, at Dumont,
N.J.
- Ramsey
Raike, John Woodward, Sarah G. Coleman.
APRIL
- Margaret
A. Waydell.
- Charles
A. Bertele.
- Harriet
A. Authouse, Helen Machin.
- Mary
E. Cook, at Lawrenceville, Mary C. Buck.
- Elizabeth
Vanderbilt, at Princeton, Samuel Hendrickson, William T. Carman.
- Lewis
Pahre, Thomas P. Donoher.
- William
Ball, Robert Wall.
- Edward
J. Smith.
- Emily
R. Johnson.
- Adam
Comp, at Yardville, Croasdale Warner, at Trenton Junction.
- George
A. Rainbow, Bridget Scullion.
- William
P. Bullock, Fannie Salter, James H. Stites.
- Ella
M. Coakley, Oscar F. Moore.
- John
W. Crawford, John H. Van Hise.
- Louis
Zuccarelli, William Brian.
- Gertrude
Melrose, Mary Lanning, John Vosselman.
- Henry
M. Lewis, Annie M. Upsprung.
- Theodore
A. Johnson, Hannah J. Fell.
- Maggie
C. Mount.
- Hiram
Kressler, Rose Hannah Williams, John C. Taylor.
- Phebe
Harbourt.
- Sister
Mary Hilda, Ann Bowers, George J. Schwartz.
- Ann
Copeland, Sarah Beatty, William Donnelly.
- Eva
Rowland, Richard Kiley.
- Hannah
Murray.
- John
Tyrell, Edwin Satterthwaite.
- Rachel
A. Covert, Sarah Donnelly.
MAY
- Ann
H. Creed.
- Frank
A. Terry.
- Minor
H. Davis.
- Agnes
J. McCune.
- Margaret
Brennan.
- Laura
M. Van Dyke.
- Joseph
Keuper, Sr.
- Mary
Flynn.
- Alfred
Ball.
- William
Wettengel.
- Charles
A. Howell.
- Johanna
Desmond, Joseph Weber, Cornelia Temple.
- Charles
A. Ehret, Catherine Smith.
- John
Clancy, Clarence H. Moore, Emeline Blackford, Phoebe Newman.
- Claudia
V. Hendrickson.
- John
Krumholz, Charles Scales.
- Leila
E. Dunlap.
- Sarah
Brister.
- Mary
Agnes Blackfan, Anna M. Furman, Charles Lambert, Kate Newhart.
- Mary
E. Burke, Margaret Ryan, Anna F. Ashmore, Mary A. Conover.
- Daniel
Hind, Elisabeth Thompson, Mathilda Werneke.
- Emerson
W. Ford, Richard O’Hearn.
- James
F. Bruther, Peter F. Lane, Allison F. Reece, William H. Simpson.
- Hazel
B. Mount.
- Clara
May Allibone, Samuel Van Horn.
- William
J. Chamberlain.
JUNE
- Carrie
E. Branin, John Kaiser.
- Christian
Gahr.
- Frances
C. Hawkins.
- William
Mabey.
- Phillip
Robert Remmele, Martin J. Ryan.
- Sarah
Shaffer, William W. Rogers, of Hamilton Square.
- Palaski
M. Church, Sophia Rittenhouse.
- Lydia
A. Cubberley, Jane Whittaker, James Shelby, at Hopewell.
- Jeremiah
J. Heenan.
- John
Elias.
- Mary
Livingston Green.
- Elizabeth
Warren Arnel.
- Henry
A. Tonne, Sarah H. Heitz, Henry Momberg.
- Phoebe
Ann Tindell.
- William
H. Walker.
- William
H. Thorn, Caleb Shreve Mershon.
- John
Martin MacNichol, Lewis Parker.
- Frank
Goodwin.
- Harry
H. Taylor.
- Margaret
Hartpence, Margie Watson Cutter.
- John
S. Booz.
- Henry
C. Walters.
- Charles
C. Cassidy.
- Isaac
A. Wilson, Joseph Stokes, of Allenhurst.
- John
Jacob Burgner.
JULY
- Mrs.
Emma J. Hawkyard.
- Mrs.
Anna M. Moser, Mrs. Dora Schinkel, William S. Simpson.
- William
T. Bailey.
- Thomas
Chadwick, Jr., Mrs. Emily Klein.
- Edward
Murphy, Sr., Edward Sandhoff.
- Mrs.
Bridget Moran, Mrs. Bertha H. Hindley.
- George
Walter.
- Isaac
Rabold.
- Mayer
Kahn.
- Harry
Egner, Mary T. Wilhelm, William Harry Machin.
- Mrs.
Martha S. Joynes, Mrs. Anna M. Rust, Bridget Campbell, Joseph J. Naylor.
- Mrs.
Rebecca G. Comfort.
- Henry
Kane.
- Mrs.
Anna E. Lovett, George Mehlberger, Mrs. Mary E. Atherholt, Joseph Hickman.
- Mrs.
Caroline Schults.
- Mrs.
Carrie D. Daniels.
- Mrs.
Amelia Schmid, Charles J. Wolf.
- Mrs.
Jane A. Skirm, Mrs. Caroline Sterling.
- John
Basak, Michael Smith.
- Bernard
Baler, Mrs. Emma S. Tompkins, Mrs. Josephine Adrian, Joseph Neumann.
AUGUST
- Mrs.
Hannah McLain, Mrs. Mary Weaver.
- Peter
C. Smith.
- Mrs.
Elizabeth Thiel, Mrs. Mamie B. Mann.
- Mrs.
Ella D. Jones.
- Mrs.
Rachel Potent.
- William
D. Sinclair.
- Mrs.
Emma Carr.
- Thomas
Kearns, Mrs. Mary Blurton.
- John
A. Braithwait, James J. Dermody, Frederick Johnson.
- William
Humphrey, Sr.
- John
Exton.
- Joseph
Dillon.
- J.
Frank Heath.
- Bernard
Dooner.
- Barclay
Behan, John L. Burroughs.
SEPTEMBER
- Joseph
H. Yates.
- Mrs.
Bridget Murray.
- Charles
T. Lee.
- Thomas
J. Murphy.
- George
Keeler, Mrs. Mary H. Carver.
- Mrs.
Ella E. Robbins.
- John
J. Weelans.
- William
R. Lutz, Mrs. Harriet Jones.
- Mrs.
Nellie A. Lanning.
- Mrs.
Anne Bird, Charles J. Hartley.
- John
W. Rose.
- Andrew
J. Wilkinson, Michael Dugan.
- Lewis
B. McNeal.
- Miss
Ella A. Higgins.
- Henry
C. Hutchinson.
OCTOBER
- James
A. Wood.
- Patrick
B. Burns, Robert Purdy.
- William
H. Metting.
- Mrs.
Sarah E. Hoff, Peter Skady, Joseph Groh.
- John
MacKay.
- Harry
S. Lippincott.
- Mrs.
Anna Royal Murphy
- Mrs.
Sarah J. Messler, Mrs. Sarah E. Udy.
- Mrs.
Bridget Reedy, William McQuillen.
- Mrs.
Jesse W. Wood, Peter P. Anderson, Lydia Dorsett Ely.
- Mrs.
James Brindley.
- Thomas
A. Crawford, Mrs. Elizabeth H. Davis.
- Mrs.
Eva M. Hartman.
- Sadie
Swetnam.
- Mrs.
Bethelia Teabout.
- Mrs.
Mary McInerney, Charles G. Moore.
- Mrs.
Eliza Prior.
- Mrs.
Mary West, Frank Furman.
- Mrs.
Mary C. Compton, Levi Akers, Mrs. Bridget Burke.
- William
J. Riseley, Isaac A. Shreve.
NOVEMBER
- Mrs.
Elizabeth Cody.
- Mrs.
Mary E. Danser, Michael Bushler, Joseph McClanen, John P. Quinn.
- Mrs.
Mary Dod Minor.
- Anthony
T. Hartman.
- Mrs.
Anna M. Boyer, Mrs. Joseph C. Claflen, Charles V. McDermott, Helen P.
Whitaker.
- Mrs.
Jane W. Myers, Karl Herrgen.
- John
Joseph Hunt.
- Samuel
B. Gaston.
- Mrs.
Amy B. Buchanan, Mrs. Margaret Douglas, Mrs. Mary Smeltzer.
- William
Norton.
- Burrough
Brister.
- William
A. Humphrey, Jr., Thomas Morgan.
- Mrs.
Kate L. Vanness.
- Mrs.
Tenney H. Austin, Mrs. Hannah W. Rulon.
- Jacob
N. Frevel.
- James
Hilton, Mrs. Rebecca Parr.
- George
E. Pauck, George Pine.
- Mrs.
Martha A. Cobine, James Ronan.
- Frank
Royer, William Krebs, Joseph V. Arrison.
DECEMBER
- Mrs.
Margaret M. Kashner, Mrs. Sarah A. Meserol.
- Mrs.
Tacy Reinhart, Mrs. Mary Dowling.
- William
J. Minton.
- Mrs.
Elizabeth Flynn.
- William
Dwyer.
- Edward
R. Balderston, Jr., Mrs. Margaret L. Truman.
- Mrs.
Mary Grosch.
- John
G. Box.
- George
Armstrong.
- Mrs.
Annie A. Robbins.
- Mrs.
Wilhelmina Kiessel.
- Thomas
Kelly, Alfred Foster, James Murphy.
- Michael
Weaver.
- Aaron
Tunsall, Mrs. Rebecca McClanen.
- Mrs.
Maria T. Brosch, Mrs. Sarah Ann Lampard.
- B.
Frank Everett, Joshua V. Terry.
- Mrs.
Matilda P. Blackwell.
- Charles
B. VanHorn, Mary Fagella.
- Thomas
O’Brian, Mrs. Margaret Eisele, William M. Titus, George H. Pugh.
- James
S. Pullen, Jacob C. Walz.
- Mrs.
Jane B. Lanning.
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