The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1893-03-28
STATE NEWS.

be Public Printer under the admlnistra-
ton of President Cleveland. He has
named his youngest son Cleveland.
The directors of the Camden Y. M.
c. A. have secured an option on the mar
ket house property ON Federal street,
above Fourth, site for the proposed
100000 building.
Assistant Postmaster William Utter,
of Newark, has sent in his resignation to
the Postmaster. He has been employed
in the Office for fifteen years, and was ap-
pointed assistant in 1889.
One of the tallest men in Hunterdon
county died a pauper in Delaware town
| ship recently. His name was David Har-
don. He was over 80 years old, and
measured six feet and seven inches.
The Sixth Holland Church. on Good
win street. Paterson, and the carpenter
shop of Andrew Dickinson, adjoining,
were totally destroyed by fire Saturday
afternoon. The loss is about $4,000.
Miss Fannie Scaletski, of Newark,
caused the arrest, Saturday evening, of
Abram Sablisky, of New York, because
he continued to make love to her despite
her expressed wish that he should not.
Thomas Kennedy, a wealthy resident
of Belmar, has secured writ of certio-
rari to test the legality of the incorpora-
ton election. He doesn't want his prop
erty included in the incorporation limits.
Professor 7. F. Hascall, principal of
the public schools at Rutherford, has re-
signed his position. At the recent school
meeting the professor was severely criti-
cised, and ex-Mayo. Cooper remarked
that the professor was not worth the sal
airy paid him, as he had no executive abil-
ity. He received $1,000 year.
E-Small pox has broken out in the Old
Mems Pavilion at Snake Hill, Hudson
county, and it is feared that the disease
will become epidemic in the almshouse
and to her county institutions. There
are over 100 cases in the Pest Hospital. in
consequence of which tents have been
erected for convalescents. The peniten-
tiary and lunatc asylum are under spe-
cial guard.
Peter O'Connor, a laborer, employed
by the Havell Manufacturing Company, of
Newark, sat on an empty barrel which at
one time contained benzine, to rest him
self during noon hour, on Saturday. Sud-
lax.lxv &ha~a moe m Lord raporf ond fho
oaken top of the barrel was blown out. A
piece struck O'Connor in the face. He
was gashed badly about the face. 1t is
thought ashes from his pipe ignited the
benzine.
-On Friday afternoon. Rosa Carroll, a
young woman employed in one of the
Paterson silk mills, while in temporary
fit of insanity wandered to the river just
above Lincoln Bridge and attempted to
end her life. The girl plunged into the
water, but evidently changed her mind
about dying, for she scrambled out to the
river bank and stood there until she was
observed by Patrolman Dougherty, who
took her into custody.
Late on Thursday afternoon the body
of a middle-aged man was found hanging
in the hay loft of Lewis Mach's barn.
near Pole Tavern, Salem county. The
man was identified as Philip Kaufman,
the brother-in-law of Mr.. Mach. He had
evidently hanged himself sometime dur
ing Wednesday night as his body was
cold and rigid when found. No motive
for the mans act can be assigned by the
relatives. except that he was suffering
from dementia.
The colored population of Woodbury.,
including the First School district, are re-
ioicing over the election of John Dicker-
son to the Board of School Trustees.
They have agltated the question of hav-
ing representative of their race in the
Board for several years. and at the cleo
ton on Tuesday they went to work with
will, there being a large number of
colored women who visited the polls and
voted for him. He received the heaviest
vote cast for the unexpired term.
-One of the bitterest political fights in
Essex county for years terminated at four
o'clock Wednesday morning, when the
Republican Convention for the Ninth dis
trict adjourned. The district comprises
the old Third, Ninth and Fourteenth
wards of Newark and part of Clinton
township, all Republican strongholds.
DIR. Ripley,a veterinary surgeon, was nom
mated for Freebooter on the 2S7th ballot.
He was once bookmaker at the Grave
send race track, but is now said to be OPP
posed to horse racing.
Abraham Lincoln Worth, a colored
man, was nearly buried alive in pit Of
quicksand at Elizabeth on Tuesday. He
was making an excavation for sewer
connection when the bank of the hole
cayed in on him. burying him over his
knees. He felt himself being slowly
drawn downward and shouted for help.
He was sunk In the earth so that only his
head and arms were visible when assist
ance reached him, and it took six men
nearly half an hour. with block and
| fall, to extricate him.
-Haddonfield residents, on Wednes-
day, were greatly shocked at the unusual
spectacle of an undertaker's team, at
tached to a hearse containing casket and
corpse. dashing through the streets at a
mad pace. The hearse contained the re-
mains Of Mrs. Joseph Fish, OF Green
land, and was on its way to the cemetery.
The horses became frightened at the cars,
and getting beyond the control of the
driver. ran all the way to the graveyard
before they we're stopped by two men.
Strange to say not the least damage was
done to the hearse or casket
-Efigies of man and woman, back
to back, dangled from cross arm of a
telegraph pole in front of the First Pres
byterian Church at Springfield. Union
county, on Saturday. caused many citi-
zens to publicly express their displeasure
at the course being pursued by young
married man OF the town. who is living
away from his wife, and who, it is assert
ed, pays considerable attention to the
oldest daughter of one of his neighbors.
The effgies were discovered at daylight,
but no one seems to know by whom they
were erected.
"A novel suit was heard in the Dis
trict Court at Jersey City, ON Thursday.
| August Wilson, who did chores about the