The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1893-09-05
GENERAL NEWS.

Outlaws stopped and boarded the
Frisco train at Mound Valley, Kansas, on
Sunday morning, and shot and killed the
express messenger. Nothing was secured
from the express car, but not a passenger
escaped being robbed.
The Thornton Worsted Mill, In Prov
idence, which was to have resumed to-day,
after two weeks stoppage for repairs, was
burned on Friday morning. 1t employed
$50 hands. The loss is estimated at 1926.
600; insurance, 100000.
The city of Quincy. Mass, has broken
ground for seminary provided for by the
will of Dr. Ebenezer Woodward, who
died % years ago. The fund, which
amounts to $250,000, is also claimed by
Dartmouth College, and a litigation on
the question is in progress.
John 1. Davenport, United States Su-
pervisor of Elections, was on Saturday
eyicted from the Office in the Federal
Building, in New York, which he has oc-
cupied. This action was taken by Post
master Dayton on instructions from the
Treasury Department.
DIR. T. Thatcher Graves, the alleged
poisoner of Mrs. Josephine Barnaby,
committed suicide in his cell in the Jail in
Denver, Colorado. early Sunday morning
1t is supposed he took poison. Letters
that he had written show that he con-
templated suicide for some time.
The steamer China, which arrived at
San Francisco last week from Hong Kong,
via Yokohama, had quite number of
Jewish exiles on board. The Immigra-
ton Commissioner found that they were
nearly all very poor and wretchedly
dirty" and decided to send them back to
Japan on the same steamer
The brake of an electric car in Gin
cinnati refused to work, on Sunday even
ing, as the car was descending hill, and
it started down with fri0htful velocity.
1t soon left the track, and, smashing a
telegraph pole which stood in its path,
dashed into saloon, wrecking both the
car and the saloon. Two persons were
killed and over forty injured, six fatally
The Coroner's jury in the inquest on
the 13 victims of the accident on the Long
Island Railroad at Berlin, last Saturday
week, returned verdict on Friday that
the deaths were caused by the criminal
negligence of Robert J. Knott, the tower
man at Tower No. 5. The company was
censured for its practice of recalling a
brakeman who has gone back from train
stopped for any cause upon portion of
the road where trains are run under very
short Roadway, the safety of which trains
depends upon the watchfulness of single
tower man. Knott was committed to Jail
For few days past Anarchistic post
ers have been tackled on the dead walls
IN Racine, Wisconsin. These posters are
headed words from God" and told the
starving working people to dump the
millionaire Mayor, Jackson l. Case, into
the lake with the rest of the million
aires, and take their money and buy
bread" Mayor Case has received several
of such missives in his mail Several
labor meetings have recently been held
in Racine, at which Robert SchiIling, of
Milwaukee, made speeches.
The Equitable Mortgage Trust Com
pany of Missouri has been placed in the
hands OF Receivers by the United States
Circuit Courts at New York, Boston, Kan
sas City and Philadelphia. James NJ
Clifford, of New \ ork, and Charles N
Fowler, President of the Company. were
appointed. The capital of the corporation
is $1,000, 900, and surplus 100000. The
officers of the company say the suspension
is only temporary, and is owing to the
continued stringency of the money
market and the consequent inability to
dispose of securities or to collect interest
and maturing loans.