The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1893-01-31
STATE NEWS.


Rev. P. Wiener, of the Reformed
church at Egg Harbor City, has resigned
the passionate of that church and accepted
a call in Baltimore.
Mrs. Joseph n. Reeves, Of Woodstown,
has piece of calico made in the days of
the Revolutionary war for which was paid
one dollar in gold.
Miss Lillian Durrel, daughter of Rev.
E. Fl. Durrell, of Woodbury., was severely
burned on Thursday night by her clothing
catching fire from stove.
Cape May county is famous for its
large families of children. N. Oscar
Candy, of Rio Grande, is the proud father
of twenty-five and Patrick Edmunds, of
Cape May, twenty-three.
Two hundred weavers employed in
the mill of Simpson & Co., broad silk and
ribbon manufacturers at Paterson, went
on strike on Friday afternoon, against q
reduction in their wages.
Henry Wilson. colored, has been sent
to Jail from East Orange. to await trial on
charge of practicing as a voudoo doctor.
The police have list of over twenty per-
sons whom he has feeced.
While at work in the Pompton Steel
Works on Friday, John Tasselbach was
caught in the shafting and drawn over a
pulley. An arm was broken, his ribs
were crushed. and his face and head were
badly cut
On Friday night. nine street letter
boxes in Bridgeton were broken open and
the contents taken by thieves. Post
master Hewitt telegraphed Chief Inspect
or Edgarton and there will be an official
investigation.
AT 6 o'clock Saturday night, an east
bound express on the Pennsylvania Rail-
road, struck a two-horse truck at the
Broad street crossing, Elizabeth, and de-
molished it. William Slatterer, the driv-
err. of Newark, was severely injured.
The building and loan associations of
the Greenville section of Jersey City
have adopted formal protest against the
passage of Assemblyman salinger's bill
for the appointment of county commits
sloners to supervise the work of the as
sociations.
John Harrington, a well-known resi-
dent of Montclair, was found lying dead
in pool of blood on THE Pompton turn
pike, beyond Montclair, late Thursday af-
ternoon. 1t is supposed his team ran
away and he was thrown out.
The Street and Water Board of New
ark have instructed their counsel to OPP
pose the bill now in the Legislature pro-
yiding for the granting to Jersey City the
privilege of using Newark's water supply,
which cost 100000.
Jimmie Page, ~ years old, was last
"Wednesday arrested at Brideeton for rob-
hing the money drawer OF Richard Lott
& Co. He was caught in the act by one
of the clerks. but escaped. He took over
SIS and spent it for candy and cigarettes,
treating all the boys he met. He is in
corrgible and his father has asked to
have him sent to the reform school.
AN action for breach of promise
was last Wednesday brought by Mrs.
Nellie Crane Van Nortwick, of Asbury
Park, daughter of the late Helen Peck
Crane, a prominent member of the
Women's Christian Temperance Union
against Robert Holbrook, wealthy con-
tractor and builder of Ocean Grove. Mrs.
Van Nortwick claims $4,000 damages.
She is a divorced woman.
Thomas Kennedy, a mechanic, was
last Tuesday seriously injured in the
Delaware, Lackawanna and Western rail-
road car shops at Dover. He was passing
through door where car was being
drilled, when he was caught by an iron
projection in the car. His arm and
shoulder were broken, and he received
some internal injuries, which 1t is feared
may terminate fatally.
Considerable alarm has been cca
stoned among the residents in the imme-
diate vicinity of the Camden water works
reservoir at Pavonia by report that the
reservoir was unsafe and was liable to give
away at any time. A leak discovered dur
ing the present thaw gave rise to this re-
port. An investigation. however, showed
that it was the result of defect in the
n~.1 l.
William Lloyd, of Long Branch, has
in his possession an interesting family
relic. 1t is petriied hone that was
marked by his grandfather in 1774. Mr..
Lloyd's grandfather cut piece of hickory
wood and cut his name and date on it,
and buried it in swamp, where it was
kept until it turned to stone. 1t took
seven years to petrfy the stone. 1t is an
excellent hone and highly priced by its
owner.
Samuel A. Whitley. railroad tele-
erapher at North Elizabeth station, be-
came violently insane on Saturday from
excessive cigarette smoking. He made
his own cigarettes out of the strongest Of
tobacco, and was rarely seen without one.
He fancied himself pile driver, and SO
violent were his antics that he had to be
put into straightjacket before being re-
moved to the asylum. The doctors don't
think he will live week. He Is As years
old, bachelor. and formerly was Master
Workman of the Telegraphers' Assembly
of the Knights of Labor. He took an
active part in the big strike Of 1888.
The will of Mrs. Catherine Dielman,
an old German woman, who was found
dead in corn field at Egg Harbor City
last summer. has just been found. The
will was made several years ago and left
in charge of Philadelphia lawyer. Mrs.
Dielman wrote to friends in Germany that
she had left the will with the lawyer.
Her death was unknown to them until a
few weeks ago. and they Immediately
communicated with the holder Of the
will. The old woman was worth at least
$4,000, all Of which she beqaeathes to
relatives in Germany. For years the
woman lived In an old tumbIeddown hut