The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1893-02-14

.Collingswood & Co., lumber manu-
facturers and dealers, of Honesdale, Pa.
failed last Friday. Their liabilities are
placed at 100000 and their assets at
$S5,OOO
THE Huntingdon Car and Wheel
Works, at Huntingdon, Pa, were sold
by the sheriff last Friday under fore
closure proceedings, and were bought in
by the bondholders, secured by the
mortgage.
"A Wilkesbarre despatch says there is
reason to suspect that Mr.. Rockafellow,
the banker who suspended few days
ago, is mentally deranged. The bank
did not resume last Saturday, as was
anticipated.
The President has accepted the resig-
nation of General 7. ]. Morgan. Commits
sioner of Indian Affairs, to take effect
March 4th, and has granted him leave
of absence from February 18th until the
end of his term.
Harry G. Wilson, the defauIting
Superintendent of the Bellair, Ohio, Water
Works, who disappeared November Is,
was found on Saturday in thicket II
miles east of Wheeling. West Virginia,
where he had killed himself
The new cruiser Detroit was given a
trial trip at Baltimore on Saturday for the
purpose of testing her machinery. 1t is
said that her builders anticipate from her
performance that her speed will far ex-
coed the specified rate of IL knots.
Lieut.. Vance, Company G, Sixteenth
Infantry, lately court-martialed and dis
missed from the service for making an as
sault on the wife of Lieutenant tombstone,
of the same regiment, shot himself through
the head at Fort Douglas, Utah, on Satur-
day. He cannot survive.
IA deal has been made at Springfield,
Illinois. by which the Columbia Straw
Paper Co. became the owner of the plants
of the Sangamon Paper Co., at Riverton,
and the Springfield Paper Co., in Spring
field. Both are large concerns. the San
CANON Company's mill ranking among the
half dozen largest in the West.
"a Baltimore and Ohio freight train
ran into rock, which had been washed
on the track. near Toll-gate, West Vir-
ginia, on Thursday night. Ten loaded
cars and the engine were wrecked. Will
liam SPOTS, engineer, was killed, and
Bruce Watkins, fireman, fatally injured.
A brakeman named Foley was so badly
GU and bruised that his recovery is doubt
full
AN empty engine on the Lehigh Valley
Railroad ran into gravel train at Espy
Run, Penna., and caused serious wreck
There were 10 or II workmen in the ca
boose of the gravel train and all were
more or less seriously injured, Michael
O'Malley and Isaiah Dando probably
fatally. The accident was eau sed by dis
obedience of orders by the engineer of the
light engine.
...Norvin Green, president of the West
ern Union Telegraph Company, died at
his home in Louisville, KY, at 740 O'Clock
Sunday morning. His death was caused
by bowel complaint. from which he had
been an acute sufferer for one week. DR..
Green had not been well for several years.
Six weeks ago he sought rest in the seclu-
sion of his Louisville home. One week
ago he was taken suddenly i'll with diar-
rhea and failed steadily.
...Advices received.at Montreal from the
Northwest Territories show that the cold
during the past two weeks has been un
Temperatures of. so and so
degrees below zero are reported from
Assinboin. MANY people are missing
and the mounted police are out searching |
for them, and coal famine exists all
along the line of the Canadian Pacific
Railroad. Grist mills and other establish
ments are compelled to close down on
of the lack of fuel. The facts
have been hitherto suppressed as much as
possible on account of the injury it is
feared it would do to the country as a
field for immigration"