The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1893-07-25
GENERAL NEWS.

Five cases of smallpox were found
last Friday in one room in Pell street
tenement in New York City.
Part of the Elliot Silk Mill. at Man
chester, New Hampshire, shut down on
Saturday indefinitely, throwing 100 hands
out of work.
Burglars broke into the post office
at Ovid, n. Y, last Wednesday. j. X.
Thomas, cashier Of bank, met the
men on the street and ordered them
to throw up their hands. The burglars
shot him twice, but not dangerously.
Thomas returned the fire and one bur-
glar was killed.
The Hydraulic Press Brick Company,
of St. Louis, has notified its employees and
officers of 10 per cent. reduction in sal
aries and wages, beginning August 18th.
IA despatch from Huron, South Da-
kota, says that the heat was so intense on
Saturday, that work in the barley and rye
harvest fields was abandoned. The Their
mometer has ranged from 96 to l06 during
the last five days.
THE temperature at Fort Mckinney,
Buffalo, Wyoming, for some days, has
been l12 in the shade. Not a drop of rain
has fallen for nine weeks, and the range
is completely destroyed. Buffalo is sur
rounded by forest fires.
The business portion of the town Of
Even, Minnesota, was entirely destroyed
on Thursday by fire. which is believed to
have been started by an incendiary. One
man has been arrested for the CRIME
The loss is about $3.50, 900.
-. B. K. Plan, a wealthy lumber
merchant, of Washington, District of Col
umbia, while suffering from hallucination
on Wednesday, climbed to the roof of his
house and made running jump to the
street. apparently under the belief that
he was diving into a pool of water
Death was instantaneous.
The Jail in Memphis, Tennessee, was
broken into by a mob on Saturday night
and Lee Walker, colored, % years old
was taken out and hanged to telegraph
pole. Afterward his body was cremated
He made four attempts to commit rape
within week, two being successful, one
victim being colored girl 81 years OLD
and the other q married woman of his
own color.
Patrick Gallagher, who is serving {
term In the Western Penitentiary fol
his connection with the Homestead poi
soning cases. last Thursday sent for Dis
trict Attorney Burleigh and declared un
der oath that his statement regarding thu
innocence of Dempsey and Beatty wa
false in every particular, and he. Demp
sey, Beatty and Dawson are guilty a
indicted.
r. W. Little, cashier of the First Ma
tional Bank of Kansas City, Missouri. sho
and killed Benjamin E. johnson, promi
nent yonng lawyer of that city Wednes
day night. After johnson fell dead Oh
the sidewalk Little jumped upon the bod,
and beat it about the head with the but
of his revolver. Little is in Jail. 1t
said the men had qusrrelled about
woman.
"A telegram from Topeka says that tn
Santa Fe management have just unearth
ed extensive frauds on that division c
the road included between Topeka an
Chicago. The frauds, it is said, have re
suited in loss to the road Of $4,000
month. Fictitious pay rolls were used.
4 AT Metropolis, Illinois, on Frida
night, Richard Shoemaker shot and XII
ed his step-daughter's husband, Richar
Lukens, Jr, George Lukens, his brother
and dangerously wounded Richard Lu
kens, Sr, the father. Shoemaker, wher
pursued by crowd, committed suicid
by shooting himself in the abdomen. ii
had become incensed at the Lukens fami
ly because he had been summoned t
give statement of his account as guar
dian of his step-daughter.