The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1893-10-03
STATE NEWS.

Joseph Field, farmer. celebrated his
l0lst birthday on Tuesday at his residence
near Red Bank. He is in excellent health
and on several occasions this summer
went in the harvest field aud assisted the
farm hands.
Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Probasco, of
| Quakertown, recently celebrated the ex-
traordinary event of their sixtIeth we'd
ding anniversary. Many relatives and
friends assembled at their home to con-
graduate them.
Rev. A. J. Sullivan, D. D., who was
on Tuesday released from the pastorate of
the Third Church of Camden, has accepted
the call of the Trinity Presbyterian
Church, at Philadelphia, and will take
charge on October LIST.
-Ex-Assemblyman William S. Throck-
morton and Albert Cubberly have with
drawn from the contest for the Demo
cratic nomination for Sheriff in Mon
mouth county. This assures the nomina-
ton of Reuben G. Strahan, who is backed
by the race-track men.
Charles Meanan, years old, while
fishing off Second street wharf, Camden,
on Wednesday afternoon, lost his balance,
fell overheard. and was drowned before
assistance reached him. The body was
recovered shortly afterwards.
Onion growers ON the Vernon mead
ows are not very busy harvesting their
crop. 1t is not as large as in former years
but the present market price will balance
the deficiency. Thomas Campbell has
about 900 bushels ready for shipment,
c. NJ. Mott about ], ZOO and several others
have pulled from 500 to 900 bushels.
Margaret Bigler, SO years old, is dead
at Asbury, Warren county. Her father
was % years old also when he died IN
1850 Her mother died in 1856, when 81
years old. She had three sisters-Polly,
who died in 1891, having lived 100 years
Elizabeth, who died in 1885, when 81
years old, and Catherine, who was "a
years old when she died in 1879. The av-
erage age was SO. Margaret leaves an es-
tate valued at $4,000.
On Wednesday while laying the cor
ner-stone of the new st. Luke's Metho-
dist Church, which is to take the place of
the one that was burned recently at Long
Branch, the Rev. DR.. Thomas Hanlon,
President of Pennington Seminary, de-
nounced the legislature of last winter,
terming it the most damnable in the
states history. He also said that it would
be a blessing for New Jersey if the men
who voted for the race track bill were
smltten with lightning, thus clearing the
legislative halls of bad odor. He was
going, he said, to assist in wiping them
out.
The war between the Consolidated
Traction Company and the Delaware,
Lackawanna and Western Railroad broke
out again at Newark, Wednesday morn
ing. Two weeks ago the railroad COM
pany destroyed the electric power wires
which had been run across their tracks
at Clifton avenue. Wednesday morning
the railroad company had its gates closed
and the fagman refused to open them,
when one of the Traction Company's cars
came along. The motorman was instruct
ed to run the car through the gates and
he did SO, breaking them to pieces.
"A crazy man, whose identity has not
been established, created considerable ex-
element in Jersey City Monday night.
He ran shouting through Grand street
and jumped into the Morris canal. Sew
eral persons who had followed him got a
rope and threw it to him, but he would
not be helped. and after swimming about
for few minutes be clambered out and
started on a run to Van Worst street.
Seeing St. Peters Roman Catholic Church
open for vespers he entered and ran up
the aisle, shouting at the top of his voice.
The services were suspended until he
could be arrested. He was sent to the
City Hospital, and will be transferred to
the asylum at Snake Hill.
The remains of a man in a perfectly
nude state we're found ground to pieces
and strewn along the main track of the
Erie Railroad, on the west side of the
Hackensack river, in Bergen county,
early Wednesday morning. Evidently
the man had been run over by one or
more passing trains. AS much of the
body as could be found was gathered up
in heap, and the coroner at Rutherford
was notified. The train men who made
the discovery we're of the opinion that
the man was an escaped lunatic from the
asylum at Snake Hill, several miles from
the scene Of the occurrence, but so far
40 known no one is missing from that
institution. Others advance the theory
that the man may have been murdered,
stripped Of his clothing, and the body
placed on the track with the view of
having it mutilated beyond the POSSIBLE
| ity OF Identification.
GENERAL NEWS.