The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1894-02-06
GENERAL NEWS.


Transport, Pa, are preparing to resume
operations.
The Rock Mills, at Rockville, Connec-
ticut, are to close indefinitely, throwing
400 hands out of work.
Theodore S. Barton. prominent
broker of New Orleans. died on Friday
night Of an overdose of morphine.
William Henry Kirk, an ex-State
Senator and well known builder, of
Newark, died Sunday. aged 81 years.
The Old Town WoolIen Company, of
Bangor, Maine, shut down its mills on
Saturday on account of lack of orders.
THE Ayondale Street Railway car
sheds and machine shops at Cincinnati
were burned Friday morning; loss $l75,-
900.
John E. Brewster, Secretary of the
Washington Park Club and prominent
turfman, died at Chicago, Sunday, aged
81 years.
The Rev. Joseph Vincentini has been
sent from Rome to this country to look af-
ter the interests of Italian Roman Catho-
lie immigrants.
Henry Newman, who carried on a
missionary and reforming work in Jersey
City among drunkards and fallen women,
died Sunday, aged 40 years.
John Saunders, aged % years, was
stabbed in the stomach in Chester, Pa, on
Saturday night, during an alteration with
James Lynn. and died Sunday. Lynn
was arrested.
"A Fall River, Massachusetts, dispatch
says that the print cloth market there Is
in a very favorable condition and there
are good prospects that most mills will
continue running until April.
The Pioneer Pottery Company, of
Wellsville, Ohio, has acceded to the de-
mands of the striking potters, and work
will be resumed at the old wages imme-
diately; $50 men are employed.
"A rock weighing 10 tons fell on the
Reading tracks in the Phenixville tunnel
Friday morning. The obstruction was
discovered by track walker just in time
to stop passenger train from crashing
into it.
"A man named Ballew, of Willford,
South Carolina, was shot and killed, and
Perry Moore. was wounded, on Saturday
night, by constables engaged in serving
warrants for violations of the liquor dis
pensary laws.
THE Rev. Dr. Arthur C. A. Hall was
consecrated at Burlington, Vermont, Fri
day, to be Bishop of the Episcopal Do
cese of Vermont. The ConsecIators were
the Bishops of Maine, New Hampshire
and Massachusetts. Bishop Coleman, of
Delaware, preached.
st Patrick's Roman Catholic Church,
at Carlisle. Pa, was consecrated Sunday.
Bishop Haid. of North Carolina; Bishop
McGovern, of Harrisburg, and Arch-Ab-
bot Leander, o. S. B., of st. Vincents
Abbey, Latrobe, took part in the exerci-
ses.
"A Providence dispatch says that the
inmates of the State prison are making
boots for the Brazilian soldiers. The con-
tract was awarded to Frank A. Page, of
Boston, for 5000 pairs of "half-leg" boots,
and he made arrangements for their con-
struction at the Rhode Island state prison.
Ennis A. Kunkel, the Philadelphia
and Reading station agent at Valley
Forge, on Friday night, shot and killed
Amos Huen, negro, who waylaid him
on the way home from the station with
the evident intention of robbing him.
Kunkel surrendered himself to the au-
thorities, but he was yesterday released.
...Grand Secretary G. H. Lyman, of the
Ohio Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows, has
received letter from Mrs. Jennie Heck,
Albany, Indiana, prominent member of
the Rebekah Degree, in which the latter
calls on the Odd Fellows of the Buckeye
State to lead in the effort to make the
widow of the late Vice President Colfax
comfortable in her declining years The
writer explains that by reason of the
failure of an indianapolis bank a judg-
ment has been rendered against Mrs Col
fax for $685. 600, which will leave her prac-
tically penniless Mr.. Colfax was a prom
inent Odd Fellow, and the founder of the
degree of Rebekah, to which women are
eligible.