History of Newton, New Jersey, USA

Newton, a post-township of Sussex co., New Jersey, on the Paulinskill creek, about 05 miles N. from Trenton. Population, 3279.

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Orange, N.J., Sept. 17. – Some members of a local band that went with Morristown fire company on an outing to Newton, in Sussex County, yesterday, bring news of an accident at Newton that cost at least two lives.

The members of Washington Engine Company, No. 1, of Morristown had spent the day in enjoyment with their friends, and at evening formed in line to march to the station.

While they were marching, a man named WARD drove a team and wagon recklessly through the crowd.

Paul STROBLE, a Morristown livery keeper, was knocked down and so badly hurt that he died in half an hour. Foreman TOWNLEY of Kittatinny Hose Company was hurled twenty-five feet, and died two hours later of his injuries. John MARKWITH, a member of the band, had two ribs broken. Editor John BROWN and several others were badly injured.

Newton, a post-town, capital of Sussex co., N.J., is on the Sussex Railroad, about 25 miles N.N.W. of Morristown, and 60 miles N. of Trenton. By railroad it is 67 miles from New York, to which several trains run daily. The Sussex Railroad connects with the Morris & Essex Railroad *Waterloo, 11 miles S. of Newton. Newton has 5 churches, * Collegiate institute, a court-house, 2 national banks, a public library, 2 newspaper offices, and a fine public build "g containing a town hall, lecture-room, reading-room, &c.; also a foundry, machine-shop, and a large manufactory of shoes. The town is lighted with gas, and contains many elegant residences. It is the central market of a populous agricultural and mineral county. Pop. in 1890, 3003

Newton, a banking post-town, capital of Sussex co., N.J., is on the Lackawanna R., 25 miles NNW. of Morris- town. It is the central market of a populous agricultural region and has important manufactures of shoes, silk, hay forks, cigars, etc. Here is the Newton Collegiate Institute. Pop. in 1900, 4376.

NEWTON, N. J., Aug. 8. - JAMES JOHNSON, 21 of Jersey City; HARRIET SLINKARD, 16, and HELEN BLOOMER, 18, both of Brooklyn, were drowned while bathing in the lake here. With a girl on either arm Johnson was clinging to a raft moored near the shore in what was supposed to be water reaching to their waists. Suddenly one of the girls screamed and the three bathers sand together. The bodies were recovered.

Newton, N.J., Aug. 25 (AP) - Six U.S. Air Force enlisted men, en route to a religious conference, and three crew members of a C-47 transport were killed yesterday after the big plane swooped out of a cloud bank and collided with a B-25.

The disabled C-47 plummeted to the ground near this northwest New Jersey community, crashed and burned. The B-25, a wing-tip sheared and its three-man crew unaware of the disaster, returned safely to its Stewart Field, N.Y. airbase.

Crewmen of the B-25 said they had been cruising at an altitude of about 7,000 feet when the transport zoomed out of a cloud. They reported a "not too severe jolt."

Eyewitnesses said the C-47, in apparent trouble, flew over the farmland area at about 400 to 500 feet before going into a tailspin and crashing in a "ball of smoke."

Wreckage and the charred, mangled bodies of the victims were strewn over several hundred yards.

"Pieces of the plane like silver flew in all directions," said MRS. ELIZABETH SNOVER who ...