The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1894-09-04
GENERAL NEWS.

%. G. Klock, farmer of Vernon,
Texas, on Friday, shot and killed his
wife and then committed suicide.
The American Academy of Medicine,
at Jefferson, New Hampshire, has elected
]. McFadden CASTOR, of Atlanta. Presi-
dent.
DIR. Oliver Wendell Holmes cele-
brated his eighty-ffth birthday at his
summer home, on Beverly Farm, on
Wednesday.
The City Health Commissioners of
Milwaukee have formally asked the State
Board of Health to take control of the
small -pox epidemic there.
e. S. Dean, retired business man of
Cleveland, o., shot and killed himself on
Friday. He had suffered for several
years from painful illness.
John s. Eaton, for 20 years General
Passenger and Ticket Agent Of the Boston
and Maine railroad, died at Wakefield,
Mass, on Wednesday, aged Y years
AT the reunion of the famous Buck
tail Regiment, at Kane, Penna., the title
of Mother of the Regiment was con-
ferred upon the widow of the late General
Kand.
"A dispatch from San Francisco says
that the will of J. V. Lavagu provides for
the erection of hospital for the deaf,
dumb and blind, at Santa Cruz, to cost
almost one million dollars
Timothy Dacey, an assistant engineer
in the Hyde Park Water Works, Chicago,
was found dead in grove on Wednes-
day, with deep wound over his heart.
His friends think he was murdered.
John King and George Cook fought a
duel with knives, near Boonesborough,
KY, on Wednesday, and Cook was fatally
stabbed. The men quarreled over the
Breckenridge case.
james Cain, Jr., at Lochland, Ohio,
on Saturday, shot and fatally wounded
his wife and little girl and shattered his
fathers arm. 1t is supposed he was
crazed by whiskey.
Mrs. Johanna Hoffman, Sc years old,
was murdered early on Saturday morning
in New York City by laborer named
Carl Fergenbahn, who had boarded with
her for three days. The motive for the
crime is not known.
The Pennsylvania Steel Company, a
Baltimore dispatch says, saved $l4,7O0
on an importation of iron ore, which had
been in bond at Sparrows' Point, and
which had been Withdrawn since the new
tariff went into effect.
The steamer Saginaw, which arrived
at New Y ork Saturday night from Azua,
San Domingo, brings no news of any dis
turbance in Hayt. President HIppolyte
is said to be MORALLY Ill, and when he
dies it is thought a revolution will be
among the possibilities.
Walter Miller and Samuel Singleton,
colored crooks, are under arrest at Ali
ance Ohio, for robbing penny-in-the-slot
weighing machine, securing few dollars.
They boosted that they hsd.robbed nearly
all of this class of machines between Pitts
burg and Chicago.
THE laying of the cornerstone of the
armory of the Second Regiment, Ohio
/ National Guard, at Kenton. on Friday,
was made the occasion of a military and
civic procession, and fireworks display
in the evening. Governor Mckinley and
staff were present.
Smoke from forest fires settled over
Seattle, Wash, on Friday like pail. 1t
was impossible to see clear for more than
block Navigation in the sound was
dangerous, and steamers had to feel their
way, blowing whistles continually to
avoid collisions.
"A dispatch from Perry, Oklahoma,
says that Town Marshal Nolan, of Ponca
in a fight with some cowboys. shot and
killed Isaac Baker, one of the cowboys
Nolan gave himself up, but, owing to the
fury of the cowboys, he was taken to Jail
in another county. He is still in immi-
nent danger of lynching.
Six negroes who had been arrested
on suspicion of being concerned in series
of incendiary crimes near Millington,
Tennessee, were ambushed on Friday
night, while being taken to Jail. and shot
to death. The Deputy Sheriff in whose
custody they were was subsequently ar
rested as an accessory of the lynching
Stanley F. Dawson. of Columbus, o.,
who was arrested while walking on the
strand at Bath Beach. and who, although
he had money, was sent to the penitenti-
airy as vagrant, August 49, was released
by Justice Gaynor, in Brooklyn, on Fri
day. The judge was very indignant at
the treatment Dawson had received.
The authorities of Lincoln county
w. Va, Wednesday evening, arrested
John Peyton. his son Elisha and Wilton
Gross, on the charge of assassinatIng AL
bert Keyser, Saturday night While the
prisoners were under guard at the house
of a constable a mob appeared to lynch
them The three men were turned loose
and ran for their lives into the noun
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