The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1894-08-14
STATE NEWS.

; election officers.
Z Warren county is agitated over the
e proposition to remove the county sea-
] from Belvidere to some more accessible
point. Hackettstown, Phillipsburg Wash
ington and Calno would like to have the
seat of government, and the question o
5 removal is likely to be an issue in the As
, sembly election this fall
Albert Sigler, an employee of the
Montclair Gas and Water Company, tied
about four feet high, Wednesday morn
ing He was called away from the job Of
cleaning the animal, and when he return
ed it had disappeared. He found that the
bank had given way under the horses
feet, and 1t had fallen down the bank, and
had been strangled to death by the rope
about its neck.
Senator Smith said on Tuesday, when
asked whether he would write letter to
the Consolidated Stock Exchange brokers,
who addressed memorial to him urging
him to support the Wilson bill, and the
MontclaIr petition to the same effect, that
he should not write any more replies, as
his letter to the Englewood petitioners
had covered the matter. If he acknowl-
edges any further communications he wi
probably do so by referring them TO his
Englewood letter
John Banks, an old farmer, living
near Cedarvile, disappeared from his
home on July 4th and nothing has been
heard from him since. His wife on that
day took horse and carriage and drove
to Millville to spend the day. On her re-
turn home she found that her husband
had taken another horse and open wagon
and gone away and no trace of him
has been discovered since. No cause is
known for his going away, only that he
has been acting queerly for three or four
years past. He was about 20 years old
and highly respectable.
"A gang of tramps, about $50 in num-
Der, took possession of freight train
after it left Railway, Tuesday night. The
train crew were overawed by their num-
bers and were obliged to let them ride to
New Brunswick unmolested. The oper
ator at Railway wired the operator at
New Brunswick, and Detectives Allen
and Reed, with posse, awaited the ar
rival of the train. The engineer was sig
nailed to stop. and the gang of tramps
we're routed out after hard struggle, dur
ing which the officers were compelled to
draw their revolvers The tramps were
driven to the woods, but no arrests we're
made, as the freight hands refused to
make any complaint.
Pound fishermen between Sandy Hook
haus recently. 1t is estimated that at
Elberon and Sea Bright alone, in two
days last week. between 100000 and 400,-
600 pounds of blue and weakfish were
caught = principally the latter. The
weakfish brought from three to seven
cents per pound. The pound managed
by Hennessey Brothers in two days
shipped 800 barrels weighing $50 pounds
|
fish would ordinarily net the fishermen
50 1000, but the abundant supply probably
cut that sum in half. The Monmouth
Beach pound caught 5000 pounds of blue
fish. Another captured 5000 pounds of
mossbunkers.
A religious war has broken out in the
Camden board of education. Recently
the board elected Miss Kate Oman as
principal and Miss Mary Walsh as one of
[ the teachers of the new Lincoln school.
They are Catholics, and since their APP
pointment members of the A. P. A. have
been working to have them displaced.
At the boards meeting Wednesday even
! ing the board by a vote of to reconsid-
cred its action, despite the strong protests
of the minority. City Solicitor Morgan
has given an opinion that since the ladies
were elected teachers they have rights
that can be revoked by the beard only
for cause and after trial of charges. The
ladies will engage counsel and contest the
matter in the courts. Both are expert
enced teachers and are said to he in sym
pathy with everything that will tend to
promote the public school interests
About week since Richard Johnson,
farmer living near Willismstown, was
called upon by stranger who said his
name was Hamlin and that he was New
York lawyer. Hamlin said he was look
ing for the heirs of Benjamin Hebbs, who
had recently died in England, leaving an
estate valued at $4,000 He heard that
Mrs. Johnson's maiden name was Mary
Hebbs and thought she must be an heir
to the estate. Mrs. Johnson had cousin
of that name whom she had not heard
| from for many years. The lawyer was
certain that he must be the man who had
left the fortune and asked the Johnsons
| to advance $25 to cover the expense OF
cabling to London for particulars. The
farmer and his wife managed to scrape to-
gether $l8, and the stranger departed,
promising to return in few days with the
necessary documents for their signatures
He has not returned, and the neighbors
think the Johnsons have been swindled,
and they are of the same opinion.
Calvin Curtis, the twelve-year-old son
of Captain John Curtis, of Manasquan,
was shot at the State rifle range, Sea Girt,
on Thursday, by one of the riAemen
while practicing. The ball entered the
forehead and was taken out of the back
of his head and the wound, while serious,
is not necessarily fatal. The boy was
walking along the beach with a party of
| friends and came to the blind where a
man was stationed to warn people not to
pass up the beach in line with the range.
The little fellow needed the warning and
sat down on the beach to dry his feet.
Detachments from the Second Regiment
we're practicing at skirmish drill on the
range, 500 yards away, and the boy had
hardly seated himself on the sand when
he was struck by the ball. He was at
once removed to the hospital at the range
headquarters and Surgeons Leavitt and
Curry extracted the ball from his head.
Later he was removed to his home It is
said he was some distance outside of the
danger line when shot
GENERAL NEWS.