The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1894-11-06

trampled to death by hogs on her farm
Thursday morning.
Seven persons were probably fatally
iniu, ed and over 100 others wounded by
the collapse of an awning during circus
parade at Terrell, Texas, on Saturday.
Samuel Moore and Jacob Warner
were killed and Jacob Enz was fatally in
iured In st. Louis, Thursday, by falling
from the seventh story of building in
course of erection.
-Four men held up a street car in Chi
cago on Thursday night, and robbed
George Hobbie, a passenger, of large
diamond pin. One of the robbers was
caught, but the pin was not recovered.
Two sons of John Brannon, aged 10
and 10 years, of Abbeville, Alabama, died
on Monday, their symptoms being those
of hydrophobia None of the family
knew of their having been bitten by any
animal
Frederick Wiel, 35 years old, mem
Der of the United States Marine Corps,
shot and fatally wounded Annie Grandy
in a disreputable resort in Washington,
D. c., Thursday night. and then commit
ted suicide.
THE Indian Medical College and the
Scottish Rite building, in Indianapolis,
were destroyed by fire on Saturday. The
loss is estimated at $4,000. There were
is cadavers in the college building and
they were burned to a crisp.
Twenty boys were celebrating Hal
low cen in front of Mr.. Haywood's house
in Independence, Missouri, on Wednes-
day night Haywood raised window
and fred both barrels of shot gun into
the crowd. Five boys were dangerously
wounded.
Levitt Hazelton and Frank Williams
are in Jail at Merrill, Wisconsin, charged
with wrecking $500" train near Hear
ford Junction, on October 7, and killing
the fireman. Hazelton has confessed that
he intended to kill every person on the
train. Williams protests his innocence.
IA Chicago dispatch says that Jules
Reese, the former steward of the Wash
ington Park Club, is charged with the en-
bezzlement of $4,000 from the club. 1t
is alleged that Reese destroyed all his
Office records and is now on his way to
Europe.
THE Chattanooga Board of Health
has denounced the practice of insuring
the lives of infants, and, in statement
made public on Thursday, says that sew
eral recent cases of child murder in that
city are indirectly traceable to these ope-
rations.
Edward J. Clark and Joseph w.
Bristor, prominent lawyers of Baltimore,
we're fined $50 each and sentenced to "a
hours imprisonment for contempt OF
court by Judge Phelps. The two young
men were opposing counsel in a case be-
fore Common Pleas Court, and on We'd
nesday last became involved in fstic
encounter in the court room.
William Glpp, aged 20 years, a car in
spector for the Lehigh Valley Railroad al
Buffalo, on Thursday shot and killed his
mother and seriously wounded his faith
err. There is no known motive for the
deed. The young man has always borne
good reputation, and the family say
there had been no quarrel between him
and his parents 1t is supposed that be
| has become insane. He is still at large
Secretary Carlisle has decided that j
]. Howard, ex.Vice President Morton'l
under coacbman, comes within the frs
proviso of section of the contract labol
law as a domestic servant" and, there
fore, ought not to be deported. He com
municated this decision to Herman
Stump, Superintendent of immigration
ON Saturday, and Howard was subse
quently released.
"A dispatch from Galesburg, Illinois
says that C. w. Williams, secretary of tn,
Galesburg District Fair Association, hal
been indicted for permitting wheel o
fortune to run at the race track during
the racing meet The evidence showed
that Williams received a large sum fo
the privilege, and the only objection t.
Indicting him was that the fine seemed
ridiculously small compared with what h'
received.
"A passenger train on the Kansas City
Memphis and birmingham Railroad wa
held up by three masked men at New AL
hany, Mississippi, early Thursday morn
ing. The engine men were forced t.
break open the express car and the rob
bers got off with the contents of the safe
The express officials say that the packages
secured by the robbers contained only
railroad way bills and cheap jewelry, and
that they got no money.
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