The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1893-09-26

At its meeting on Tuesday night coun-
Gil decided to put eight electric arc lights
on Main street for 81 nights as an expert
mental test.
For demanding dollar loaned to a
man named Johnson, Theodore r. Clair
was assaulted by the debtor. Johnson
was committed to Jail.
In game of base ball two weeks ago.
Eugene Brotherton was hit on the arm by
ball On Friday he was examined by
DR.. Lansing, who found that one of the
small bones in the arm had been broken
The case of Harry Fasick vs.. Harriet
Douglass, to determine the acreage Of
farm on the Rancocas road, rented by
Fasick from Mrs. Douglass, which has
been pending in the courts of Justices
Baker and Smith for some weeks, was
settled by arbitration on Saturday. Sam
uel H. Greedy and William H. Mayor
acted as arbitrators, and the land was
measured. There was found to be just
five and three. quarters acres, instead of
seven as claimed by Mrs. Douglass, and
Fasick paid rent for that amount.
Alfred A. Deacon and wife met with an
accident on Thursday afternoon near
Wood Lane. They were driving from the
Fair towards this city, and their horse
became frightened at train of cars, and
ran away. The carriage was upset, Mr.
and Mrs. Deacon being thrown out. Both
we're pick up insensible and were carried
to the residence of William R. Porter.
near by. Mrs. Deacon soon recovered
and was found to be slightly bruised on
one shoulder. Mr.. Deacon was badly in
jured, and this. together with the paral-
| ysis with which he has been suffering for
some time past, caused his death on Sun
day evening. He was in the 9th year of
his age.
John DeCamp, of Washington avenue,
was accidentally stabbed in the calf of the
right leg on Thursday afternoon by Hal.
Meyers. The boys were watching game
of ball at the Burlington Ball Park, and
Meyers was engaged In whiting piece
of Wood. DeCamp playfully struck him
with stick, and Meyers in return thrust
his open knife toward the young man.
He was closer to him than he thought
and the sharp blade sank deep in the
under side of DeCamp's leg, below the
knee, making an extensive wound, and
severing some of the small veins, frt m
which the blood flowed copiously. The
young man was removed to his home
where he tainted from sheer weakness
DR.. E. S. Lansing was summoned and
ligatured the severed veins and sewed up
the wound.
Testimony IN the Wells license cass
was taken before Supreme Court Com
missioner Vroom. in Camden, on Satur-
day. Wells was represented by ex-Judge
Westcott and James H. Hays; McNeal
was represented by Howard Flanders and
Grey and Grey, and the interests of the
city were look ed after by George Rey-
nolds Councilman Carter testified as
to the proceedings at the time the writ
vi CeIIAoIdii was oClfOu anu SOUhSh
man Gauntt testified similarly.
Clark Chambers gave evidence as to how
he received the writ, and Wells testi-
fed that he did not know of its exist
ence at the time of the proceedings that
followed. Ex-Judge Wescott also testified
that he was not aware of the existence
of writ of certiorari. Counsel for Nc
Neal claimed that Common Council grant
ed William NJ Wells an inn and tavern
license illegally, and, therefore, Wells
was guilty of contempt of court in con
tinulng to sell, the writ of certiorari
served on Common Council having the
effect of stopping all further proceedings
on the application OF Wells for a license.