The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1893-04-11

ing ana sewing.
A Brooklyn housekeeper came over
to Keyport the other day and bought $500
worth of household furniture. He found
that he could buy cheaper in Keyport,
pay the freight and save more money
than buying in the city.
Matthias Woodruff, farmer near
Madison, was cutting wood with circu-
lar saw run by horse power, on Thursday
morning, when he slipped and fell on the
saw. His left arm was taken off near the
shoulder and he died few hours later.
-Ex-Congressman Pidcock has been
elected President of recently construct
ed railroad in Georgia. A road of 81 miles
in length is running from the town OF
Pidcock to Moultrie. His son, Charles w.
Pidcock, is Superintendent and Treasurer.
Colonel Jesse E. Peyton. of Ha ddon
field, who proposed the celebration at
Jerusalem during the year 1900, has re-
ceived letter from the chairman of the
Columbian Liberty Bell committee ten
dering the use of that bell for the centen-
NAL.
A company of Atlantic City physi-
clans and druggists will establish sani-
tarium in that city for the cure of the
liquor and morphine habit. The COM
pany has been incorporated with $4,000
capital.
The owners of the Hurdtown iron
mine have decided to suspend operations.
The mine has been worked for fifty years,
and is 500 feet deep. Ninety men and q
number of boys will be thrown out of en-
ployment.
George Conrad Kern, aged 68, who
has been living with his son George, at
Bayonne, committed suicide on Friday
morning by hanging himself with har-
ness rein in his sons barn. He had be-
come low spirited owing to increased
blindness.
Hundreds of acres of ground at Great
Meadows, Warren county, are being pre-
pared for onion and celery crops. The
onion seed will be sown in few days
From four hundred to six hundred BUSH
els per acre are raised on the reclaimed
rich swamp land.
The bondsmen of Harry Schlipf, who
was accused of the murder of Mary An
derson, near New Brunswick, have been
released from the bond by the Supreme
Court Schlipf was arrested on purely
circumstantial evidence, and afterward
proved an abb. The guilty party has
never been found.
The Singer Company is about to COM
mence the erection of large addition to
It's Elizabethport plant. The new build.
ing will be of brick, 300x100 feet, and will
be on the south side of Trimbull street,
the rest of the plant being on the north
side. The new portion when completed
will furnish employment to several hun
dred more operatives
With the appointment of Sharon Cor
son to be postmaster at Pedricktown, Sa-
lem county, comes the information from
Washington that the appointment was
recorded "yice w. P. Somers, removed
It is also learned that Captain w. P
Somers, the postmaster, was being borne
to the cemetery when the appointment
was being made at Washington, but the
news of his death was not known to the
post Office officials.
The hopes of Camden Republicans
that they would be able to get rid of the
Democratic Police Commissioners by hav.
ing the voters on Tuesday accept the pro-
visions of the act of 1885, which calls for
a bipartisan Police and Fire Commits
sion, were crushed on Saturday by Judge
Garrison, who decided that the writ Of
certiorari the Democrats had secured to
prevent vote being taken on the ques-
ton, acted as supercedeas.
The new residence being erected at
Convent Station. Morris county, for John
0. Pitney, of Newark, was destroyed by
fire Friday night. The building was al
most completed and was valued at $40,-
600. The fire was caused by defective
furnace. A resident of the neighborhood
who entered the cellar, found that the
furnace had fallen apart, releasing the
burning Goals. The carpenters and work
men lost all their tools.
A barn belonging to George Strobeck,
on Cedar Lane, Teaneck, situated on the
estate of William Walter Phelps, was
burned Wednesday night. Three valua-
BILE horses, eight COWS and watchdog
were burned. The origin of the fire is
unknown, but many persons are inclined
to believe that the blaze was started by
tramps. Bergen county is full of them
and the fire at haywood, on Monday,
wnen five of them lost their lives, was
the result of their own carelessness.
Residents along the Raritan river
have discovered that the new game law
passed by the recent Legislature prohibits
shad fishing in the Raritan. 1t prohibits
fishing with nets in all fresh water
streams. The Fish and Game Commits
sioners of the State prepared the law, but
the prohibition 80 far as it affects Raritan
river shad fisheries was an oversight, and
the Commissioners will shut their eyes to
violations this year and amend the law
next winter.
The Red Bank Board of Health re.
ported Is cases of smallpox on Friday
Out of the Is cases only three are more
than varioloid. An italian with an or.
gan, small boy and monkey, was in
town on Friday. Among other places, the
organ grinder played few times in front
of Freeman Gray's house where there is
case of smallpox. The monkey went
up to Mr.. Gray's window and got money
and the Board of Health sent an officer
after the organ grinder, and the outfit
was fumigated from the old man to the
monkey.
-Awaking suddenly at one o'clock in
the morning, to find strange young man
holding her hand was the startling expe-
rience of Miss Rachel Peterson, the Is.
year-old daughter of C. A. Peterson, Of
East Orange, on Friday. She was lying
on lounge in the sitting room, and had
fallen asleep. She says that she awoke
suddenly to find strange young man
standing before her holding her hand in
his. When she screamed he vanished
through window opening on the piazza,
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