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

manga National Park, while crossing
railway trestle near Chattanooga Tenn,
on Thursday was struck by the rear end
of freight train, and was very seriously
injured.
The insurance underwriters have sus-
pended indefinitely the increase of 25 per
cent on the rates for insurance on proper
ty in Brooklyn, New York. The increase
may be restored, the underwriters state
if the Brooklyn Fire Department contin-
ues its unsatisfactory and inefficient hand
ling of fires.
Thirteen houses, including the Star
Hotel, at Walnut Ridge, Ark. were
burned last Friday night, and man
and child were burned to death. An
other man was probably fatally injured,
and two others sustained broken ribs by
jumping from the windows of the hotel.
The loss will aggregate 100000.
IAN explosion of gas occurred in the
Nelson shaft, at Shamokin, Pa, on Sat
urday, caused by miners lamp. fire
resulted, and ten men who were at work
in another part of the mine were suffo-
Gated. The fire is still raging and it is
thought it will take month to food the
mine. One thousand hands are thrown
out of work
AT Chicago, Friday, William Blunck,
aged IA, and Thomas Luvienne, aged Is
were sentenced to 40 years in the peniten
tiary for the murder of Albert Eckroth.
The crime was committed on the night of
May Is, 1892, when the youthful criminals
held up Eckroth on Western avenue, shot
him through the heart and robbed the
body of watch.
The liabilities of the suspended bank
ing firm of McManus & Son, of chihuahua,
Mexico, are placed at $1,200,O00 The
firm speculated heavily in mines. and
were very unfortunate in their invest
ments. The Government has ordered
that strict investigation be made into
the cause of the failure and the present
condition of the institution.
Joseph Dumas IA years of age. was
run over by six box cars at Putnam, Con-
necticut, on Sunday. Being small and
keeping his presence of mind, he man
aged to avoid the wheels, but the last car
broke his leg. He was also quite badly
bruised about the body and face, being
rolled over by the cars. 1t is expected
that he will recover.
EA6a Cla~b GOOD 10 vaoru ~ c~ofrara
Wash, member of the Northwestern
University freshman class, at Chicago,
was shot and instantly killed Saturday
evening, by F. Ross Smith, of Evanston.
Smith then shot himself and will die
The cause of the tragedy was Miss Clark's
rejection of Smith as sutton.
Three engines and twenty-nine freight
cars were wrecked on the Allegheny
mountains, near Allegrippus, on the
Pennsylvania Railroad on Sunday morn
ing. P. B. Hull, brakeman, of New
Florence, was instantly killed. The
wreck was caused by coupling breaking,
and before the train could be checked the
cars descended the mountain several
rods, where it crashed into another train
The summer residence of Joseph
jefferson. the actor, at Buzzard's Bay,
Mass, was destroyed by fire last Satur-
day afternoon. and Helen McGrath, the
cook, persisted in the flames. The fire
was caused by an explosion of gasoline,
and Mrs. Jefferson and the other mem
bers of the family who escaped were I'M
able to save any thing. The loss, which
includes the actors costly collection of
curios and paintings, is estimated at
$25O,OOO
Judge Lacombe, in the United States
thorized William g. Lane, as permanent
receiver of the United States Rolling
Stock Company. to sell all the securities,
land and patent rights belonging to the
company and now in his possession. The
value of the securities set forth in the APP
plication of the receiver is $578, $3.50,
besides 10 patents, several lots of real es-
tate in Heeewisch, Ills, 1,5444 acres of
land at Ball Play, Ala, and cars and
barges
THE Higgins Hotel, the Buffalo,
Rochester and Pittsburg railroad station,
the Higgins cigar factory and J. Leroy's
grocery store, at Bradford, Penna., were
destroyed by fire on Saturday morning.
The hotel was full of guests and the fire
hod oainad anch haadwav whan tha
alarm was given that number persisted
in the flames. and many were obliged to
jump from the windows. Thomas Colen,
Miss Georgia Bond and George Parks, of
Bradford F. Havelin, of Sunbury. and a
two-year-old child of Mrs. Tucker,
drowned in the creek adjoining the hotel,
are known to dead, and others are miss
ing. Twenty-Five or thirty persons were
either burned or injured by jumping from
the windows. The total loss Is estimated
at 500, 900.