The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1893-11-07
STATE NEWS.

ished set of shoes for Nancy Hanks.
The family of Fred Laubsch, of Vine.
land, was nearly asphyxiated Tuesday
night by gas escaping from a stove
j E. Jackson, Woodbury. patent
medicine manufacturer, has made an as
signment for the benefit ofhis creditors.
-Three-year-old John Grimarino, of
Montclair, died on Wednesday from
burns received by falling headlong into
bonfire.
The total enrolment of Princeton
College this year is 1902. gain of 20 over
last year. Pennsylvania leads with 287,
New Jersey has 231 and New York 22l.
John R. Reed, of Boston, has leased
Taylor's Hotel, in Jersey City, for five
years. George B. Revere, the late mana
ger, Will take charge OF New York hos
telrie next month.
William Langley. aged 10 years. died
at Porchtown, on Monday night, in the
house in which be was born and where
he has always lived, except seven years
when he was youth and was employed
in Philadelphia.
Mrs Maggie Cottrell, widow, living
between Freehold and Jamesburg took
laudanum and afterwards cut her throat.
Some time ago her husband died and
later her only child. Since she has been
subject to dependency. She was about
so years old.
On Tuesday, Mrs. Smith, an old
lady residing at Megiltown, near Farm
ingdale, while disentangling two cows
that had been fastened with ropes, was
knocked down and trampled on by one
of them. She sustained injuries to her
left breast and died in a short time.
-Lillagore's Pavilion, at Ocean Grove,
which was damaged by the storms, is be-
ing replaced by new one. The work of
rebuilding has begun and the plans show
a decided improvement over the old one.
The floor on the ocean side will be five
feet higher than before.
chine of William Dubois, which is run by
p. H. Bennett as engineer, on Tuesday
afternoon broke through the bridge on
the Keyport turnpike, near Morganville.
Mr. Bennett was caught between the
engine and tender and teams had to be
brought from adjoining farms to pull the
tender out before he was released. His
arm was broken and it is feared he is in
iured internally.
Mrs Elizabeth Volk, of West New
York, Hudson county, became insane on
Tuesday night and tried to kill her two
children, boy of five years and a girl of
thirteen months. She had thrown the
boy into pond and was about to throw
the girl in also, when several neighbors,
attracted by the screams of the children,
rescued them. Mrs Volk was sent to the
county Jail. The aid of four men WAS
needed to restrain her.
Public school No. II, Of Paterson, in
the part of the first ward known as New
Holland, was closed on Wednesday by
the Commissioners of Education, at the
request of the Board of Health, on &C
count of the prevalence of diphthera in
that neighborhood. Health Inspector
Leal reports that twenty four out of forty
nine had proven fatal. and thirty-six of
the cases had occurred within the last Il n
days.
Rev. w. w. Case, the oldest Baptist
pastor in Monmouth county, closed his
pastorate in the Holmdel Baptist Church
last Sunday. lie labored in that charge
for nearly twelve years, during which
time l24 people have been baptized, a new
parsonage and a chapel erected and the
church remodeled. The enterprises cost
Sl4, 600 and besides this about $4,000 have
been expended for benevolence. The
members of Mr.. Cases congregation
rendered him a reception last week. at
which time they presented him with
purse of money. He began a new pas
torate in the First Baptist Church, in
West Hoboken, on the first Sunday in
November.
Annie and Mary Shrouds, of Lower
Alloway Creek, DESTROYS Of getting rid of
rats on the place, recently purchased
large patent rat trap with the latest patent
improvements. which they baited and set
one day last week In the barn. Before