The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1892-02-16
STATE NEWS.
Adjourned for the week.


"A Board of Trade has been organized
at Egg Harbor City.
Grip cured Woodstown man of
rheumatism of go years standing.
The Camden Prohibitionists have
nominated ticket to be voted at the mu-
nicipal election In March.
Gen. Richard A. Donnelly, of Tren-
ton. was on Friday elected department
commander of the G. A. R. of this state.
John Shay, a brakemen. died in
Muhlenberg Hospital at Plainfield on
Saturday of Injuries received on the Jer-
sey Central Railroad at Bound Brook
Friday night
John J. Carlock unearthed two dens
of black snakes while working ON the
new road leading from Saddle river to
Chestnut Ridge, in Bergen county. He
killed eighteen fine specimens from three
to five feet long.
Children in the public schools at
Woodbridge, Bergen county, were Thought
to have vermin about them. Though
sent home, the pupils returned, and a
trustee appeared with a fine tooth comb.
It was found to be unnecessary, and now
the mothers of the suspected children
threaten suits for SANDER.
Dick Gerry. seven years old, yentur-
ed out on the ice of pond at South
Plainfeld on Friday and fell into the
water. George Arrowsmith, only eight
years old, crept out on the frail ice to the
edge. When the drowning boy came up
George grasped him and succeeded in
dragging him out. The pond is ten feet
deep.
-Anglesea residents are alarmed for
the safety of Captain John Apologize. q
well known fisherman. On Friday morn
ing he started on cunning trip in dory
and has not been seen nor heard from since.
It is feared his little craft was either upset
or blown to sea by the northwest gale and
that he was lost in attempting to cross
Herford inlet.
George Rockledge. of Teaneck, Ber-
gen county, came near loosing his son on
Friday. While Mrs. Rockledge was out
the son upset the stove. The fam les
spread rapidly, and the boy was badly
burned. Neighbors arrived in time to
save the little one and the house. DR..
McFadden, of Hackensock, thinks the
child will recover.
When the ship Lydia, having 1900
barrels of petroleum on board, caught
fire while at dock at Bayonne, on Janu-
airy 2lst, nine tugs helped put the fire
out though the crews were in danger
from an explosion. The tugs were owned
mostly by the Easton and Amboy Rail-
road company. The tugs all put in sal
wage claims. Judge Brown, of the Unit
ed States District court, divided $4,000
salvage among them.
jackson Carey, colored, quarreled
with John Forsyth and John Morris,
white, at Freehold, last Sunday evening.
Carey drew a razor, and seizing Forsyth
by the collar, cut deep cash in his face,
the wound extending from the scalp down
through the cheek, around the chin and
through the lip. 1t was nearly nine
inches long. Forsyth came near bleeding
to death before his wounds could be
dressed. Carey was arrested and held
for trial.
The Plainfeld common council has
adopted an ordinance compelling auction
GERS to take out license at an annual
fee of 500, and prohibiting them, under
heavy penalties, from selling without a
license. The ordinance is aimed at trav-
cling auctioneers, who food the town
with cheap goods, but is received as a
hardship by resident auctioneers, who
feel that they ought to be exempt from
paying the fee.
james Richie, SO years old, of Hobo
ken, is an employee in the Hoboken gas
works. Saturday afternoon waste pipe
leading from a dripping tank at the
works became frozen, and Richie was
sent to thaw it out. He thrust q red-hot
iron into the pipe, ana the next instant
there was an explosion. The tank was
blown to pieces, and Richie was hurled a
considerable distance and made uncon-
scious. He was very badly injured about
the head and body, and was removed to
st. Mary's hospital.
The house of Julia Clements and
Timothy Boyland, of Waterford, wood
choppers was totally destroyed by fire
Friday night. Both families we're asleep
when the flames broke out, and they
barely escaped with their lives, The wind
at the time blew gale, and the sparks
from the fire were blown a considerable
distance and Sc. the woods on fire in sew
eral places, but through the efforts of the
citizens of the nelghborhood the fires in
the woods were extinguished. The build
ings were owned by Robert Briest. Of
Philadelphia. The loss in $4,000.
Norman Williams was arrested on
Friday, on a charge of getting fire to the
house which be occupied at Newton. His
landlord, Henry Hollbocker, went there
in the morning to dispossess him on ac'
count of his failure to pay bis rent. lie
f....a tt,a bnu.a IN fire and vaQant. The