The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1884-08-22

vention of the Prohibition Party of Salem
county to meet at McAllister's Hall i'll
| Woodstown on Tuesday, September I'd, at
2.30, z. M. to organize the party in the
| county, nominate a ticket for the county
| officers and other business. There will be
a mass meeting in the evening at Hunts
Hall to be addressed by Rev. Fl. ID. Opdyke
and Others
| Lindzey & Sickler, the enterpriSing deal
ers in farming implements and fertilizers
at Salem, are building on Boon's wharf on
| the creek, between Broadway and Griffith
streets, large frame structure 60by 4S
feet in size, with 30 feetiposts as a Storage
| warehouse for Orchilla guano, they being
now the agents for this fertilizer in this
| section. In order to afford a substantial
foundation for the building. piing has been
driven into the ground. The firm is ex-,
pecting about September 10th two large
vessels loaded with 300 to 100 tons each Of
the guano Az ~ &sAf SIS ~ 4
l. Aaron Cole q Bro, are to furnish the
lumber for the frame of the new barn on
! the Gloucester county aims house farm,
which replaces the one recently destroyed
by fire. The new building viii be thirty
| ysixty five feet inssize, with twenty feet
posts The Arm will also furnish the
frame for the new Deep Hollow school
house ON the road from Sharptown to
| Salem.
They have also furnished the lumber for
an addition to the canning house of Rich
man & Smith, at Sharptown, twenty by
thirty-eight feet in size to be used as engine
room and skinning room.
Our station agent and telegraph operator,
| Mr.. Stafford, kept the office open on fTues-
day night until 3.15 p'elockto acconimo-
| date the reporters of the Philadelphia and
| New York papers who were here to gather
particulars of the Watson murder The
| long reports in the Press and Record and
| New York Herald and other papers on
| Wednesday were telegraphed on Tuesday
night from the Woodstown office. The
| Ledger and Times had reporters on the
ground on Tuesday afternoon, who gather
| ed their information and left on the train,
| the Ledgef reporter, Mr. l.. W. Albright
| making arrangements with the MONITOR
local to telegraph anything of importance.
| Among the sad incidents attending the
murder of Ella Watson the following was
narrated to us: A gentleman was coming
down on the afternoon train to Salem, on
Tuesday and purchased on the way a
! Bridgeton paper containing an account of
| the tragedy with large head lines, giving
| the name of the victim. AS he untolded
the paper and the large type was exposed
to view, lady i'll seat behind him made
a frantic dash for the paper, and snatched
| it from his hands, maniiesting great excite
ment After she became calm it appeared
! that she was a sister of the murdered girl
| on her way to the house of mourning. She
had been telegraphed that Ella was dead,
but had no knowledge ofthe manner of her
n. L
| above stated. IVA
| On Wednesday afternoon jeremiah
| Tozer residing near Oliphant's Mill, saw a
man whom he took to be a tramp, along
! the road near his house. In the evening he
noticed in his paper an advertisement OF
| Steward Baker of the aims house, of an
escaped lunatc, the description answering
to the man he had noticed. Thursday morn
ing he was coming to Woodstown, and
saw the same man sitting on the fence near
| Laurel Hill school house He asked him
to ride to Woodstown. which the man did
| and on arriving. he was turned over to
| Esquire Goforth who then gave him in
charge of John II. virgins, Overseer of
| the Poor, by whom he was taken to the
aims house and proved to be the man adj
vertised for by the Steward. His name is
| George Wamsley, and he is considered
harmless. and inoifcnsiye. VI
| On Wednesday of last week Helms V.
Lieh, residing between Woodstown and
Wing Lane with his wife went to Bridge
ton on a visit, leaving daughter about
eighteen years of age, in charge OF the
house. On their return on Thursday after
ternoon they found the daughter gone, but.
surprising she was at some of the neighbors
were not alarmed. The next morning they
found note, stating that she intended to
make away with herself, and that the fami-
~ did not care for her. They found also,
that she had taken her clothing. Diligent
search failed to reveal her whereabouts, UNI
til Saturday afternoon, when she was seen
and recognized by several persons, crossing
the fields on the way to Yorktown, where
she was traced She arrived at Yorktown
and inquired for a train for Alloway, but
| finding she was too late, she engaged a con-
veyance at Yorktown to take her to Allo-
way, where her fathers neighbors found
her the next day and took her home. She
| gave no explanation of her freak except
| that she thought her folks were tired of
her and wanted her out of the way
Basc Hits.
| The Glassboro Base Ball Club will come
| to Woodstown this afternoon to play the
| Woodstown Club.
a Good Crop. ~ tr
Borton Somers. living on IRicllnan Coles
| farm, has gathered and marketed this sea-
| son from the farm 1900 baskets of early
I round potatoes.
$500. 90 Reward.
Sheriff Coles offers a reward of five hun
| dred dollars for the arrest and conviction of
the person or persons who murdered Ella
| Watson.
| OF the Track.
On Wednesday afternoon the engine of
the up train got off the track atlSalem and
i DELAYED the train so that it did not leave
our station until after the SO train down
had arrived.
| The Watch Clubs.
| In d. W. c! Whites club, No. 3, Harry
Webster of Woodstown, holding ticket No.
3. drew the fifth watch on Wednesday.
In the Massey gold watch club, on Satur-
| day No "a drew the 18th watch. In his