The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1894-08-21
GENERAL NEWS.


GENERAL NEWS.
-Four of Deroits School Inspectors
have been arrested on charges of reeeiv-
ing brides, and are under $1,000 bail.
The Hawley silk mills, at Port Jervis,
New York, employing 800 operatives and
valued at 100000, were destroyed by fire
Friday night
The grand jury of Shelby county,
Tenn, has in two days found 59s indict
ments against persons for selling liquor
without a license
Walter Tribble, who WAS several days
ago convicted of setting fire to bridge
on the Rio Grand Railway, at Antlers,
Col, has confessed the crime.
Capt E. W. Nicholson, of Indiana
Superintendent of the United States
Treasury stables at Washington, D. c.,
committed suicide by shooting Sunday.
The ship General Knox, of Thomas
ton, Maine, with valuable cargo for San
Francisco. was burned nearly to the
waters edge at New York on Saturday
Loss about 100000.
During riot in church near Sykes
ton, Mo-, Wednesday night. growing out
of a family feud, Henry Albright and
Burd Pardon were killed, and seven
other men were seriously injured.
Herbert B. Hess lawyer, formerly
of Washington, committed suicide by
taking morphine, at Chicago, on Satur
day He had been respondent because of
the death of his wife and child.
"A freight train on the New York Cen
trail Railroad parted on the outskirts OF
Buffalo on Saturday, and the cars coming
together with great force, the oil tanks
caught fire and exploded, causing loss of
$75. 600.
Sub Collector Mccormick, of Peel
Island, has been suspended from duty by
the Canadian government because he or
dered the seizure of the American fish
ing steamer Louise, which it was found
had not violated the law.
"A coroner's jury at Lincoln, Nebras-
ka, has returned verdict that the wreck
ing of train ON the Rock Island road
which resulted in the death Of several
persons, was mslciously caused by Geo.
W. DAYS. colored, who is under arrest.
...Albans H. Snyder, formerly engaged |
in the dry goods trade in Philadelphia,
and lately representative of the "Dry |
Goods Economist" was found dead in a
hotel in New York city Wednesday, his
throat having been cut with razor.
lone hundred members of the Army |
of the Commonwesl" were released from
the House of Correction, near Baltimore, |
and given transportation to Cincinnati. |
The men agreed to leave Maryland soil If
given their liberty.
David E. Thompson. Treasurer of
the Sebatticook and Moosehead Railroad |
Company, disappeared from his home at
Hartland, Me-, on the Sd inst, and has
not been heard from since. His accounts
with the company and his private affairs
are badly tangled.
david Eaton attempted to drive his
horse through an assemblage of veterans
who were holding reunion at Oblong,
Illinois, Friday night, and when David
Mcdonald tried to stop him, he shot and
killed him. The officers had great diff
Guilty in preventing the crowd that pur-
sued Eaton from lyDching him.
The Supreme Court of Mexico has
the sentence of death imposed
on Edward T. Adams, for killing waiter
in restaurant in the city of Mexico, and
he will be shot in a few days. Adams
was formerly prominent citizen of San
Tex. United States Minister
Gray will ask President Diaz to commute
the sentence to imprisonment for life.
Edward Crosby, who was shot and
killed in bis brothers house at Merrimac,
Massachusetts, early Saturday morning
His brother and sster-inlaw had gone to
the house for assistance, and when he
went to their home he found three men
ransacking the rooms When he at
tempted to prevent their departure one of
them shot him, and all three escaped.
The Edward Bennett Pottery Com
pany, of Baltimore, and other firms in the
Potter's National Association have deter
mined to close their establishments, in
of the passage Of the Senate
Tariff bill, which reduces the tariff ON pot
terry from 60 per cent. to 35 per- cent. Re
Gently the employees of the Bennett Com
pany accepted reduction of l24 per cent
in their wages, and have refused to go any
lower.
AT Winona, Mimi, Wednesday night
4 mob of 500 Poles went to the county
Jail and demanded the release of Otto
Blachek, who had been arrested for in
citing TO riot. Firemen went to the Jail
and prepared to turn streams Of water
on the mob, when matters were quieted
by the release of Blachek on bail. The
trouble resulted from the resignation OF
the pastor of St. Stanislaus' Roman Catho-
lie church.
Mai. F. Worth, o. S. A., has been
by a court martial, at Fort
Omaha, Neb., of the charge of disobey-
ing an order that only work of strict
shall be done in the army on
Sunday. Major Worth had ordered
private to rife practice on Sunday. The
private refused to obey, was court mar
tailed and found guilty. The court held
that the Sunday order, which was made
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