The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1893-10-24
STATE NEWS.

Fourteen burglaries have occurred at
Dunellen and New Market within the
past week.
Captain Edwin S. Smith has resigned
as commander Of the crack Morris
Guards, of Atlantic City.
The Prohibition club, of Atlantic
City, has endorsed the Democratic nomi-
nee for Assembly in Atlantic County.
The Rev. DR.. Armory H. Bradford,
pastor of the Montclair Congregational
Church, has decided not to accept the call
to the Westminster Chapel, London, Eng
land.
Robert Adrain, Jr., son of Senator
Adrain, had. his right arm broken on Fri
day, at New Brunswick, by being kicked
by horse. The boy was playing around
the animal when he was injured.
The Hopper homestead, on Terrace
avenue, Hackensack, has been in possess
sion of the Hopper family since 1894 and
is now occupied by John Hopper, son OF
the late Jacob l. Hopper.
"A team stolen from Elmer Pedrick,
living near Quinton's Bridge Salem coun-
ty, on Monday night, vas found on Satur
day in the woods between Glassboro and
Clayton. The buggy was wedged between
two trees, and the horse had eaten all the
foliage within reach.
About two weeks ago Isaac B. Ge-
nung, poormaster at Chatham, who is
about IS years old and wheelwright,
was entering his shop, when scythe fell
from a beam and the blade struck him
with sufficient force to make hole in his
skull. For several days the wound APP
peared healthy, but on Tuesday it got
worse. and blood poisoning set in.
Six mysterious fires in the vicinity of
New Brunswick within few days has
given rise to the theory that an organized
gang of tirebugs is at work. The store
house of Bernard Hammel was burned,
then the Lederer tannery, followed by
the barn OF Mrs. Mcdonald The next
big fire was the residence of Lawyer j.
d. Hallen, of New York. On Friday
evening an attempt was made to burn the
club house of the New Brunswick Gun
Club.
The nominations in Camden county
were completed on Saturday, when the
Democrats held their three Assembly
conventions. The First Assembly con-
vention nominated Charles F. Eastlack, a
Camden grocer. In the Second district
the Democrats nominated Councilman
Henry M. letters. The Republicans have
endorsed William Watson, an anti-rAce
track Democrat who was nominated by
the Citizens League. The Third district,
which was gerrymandered so as to be
surely Democratic, will be again repre-
sented by William j. Thompson, the Glou-
cester race track owner.
The Egg Harbor authorities are puz-
zled over another case of mysterious dis
appearance In the same neighborhood
where Mrs Catharine Geltzer recently
dropped out OF sight. Henry Henze, a
tailor, living with his son William, about
three miles from the city, is now among
the missing. He disappeared at noon on
Friday and thorough search has failed
to reveal his whereabouts The last seen
or heard of Mr.. Henze was when he
stopped at the house Of Mrs. LAUDER,
from which place Mrs. Geltzer disappear
ed Mrs. LAUDER informed the officials
that he walked down the street, the same
road Mrs. Geltzer is reported to have
taken.
James Robinson, aged % years, prom
inent business man of Trenton, and pro-
prietor of the Morrisville Tile works, was
struck by an eastbound limited express
train on the Pennsylvania Railroad at
Morrisville Pa. on Sunday and was in
stantly killed Mr. Robinson was riding
bicycle and had stopped at the crossing
to allow freight train to pass. AS the
rear car of the train rolled by he started
across. The express train had been run
ming alongside the freight train in an
opposite direction and was not seen by
Robinson until it was too late to escape.
The father of the unfortunate man was
standing within few teet of his son and
was witness to the accident.