The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1894-02-27
GENERAL NEWS.

IN. B. Plant, the leading merchant o.
Oxford, Nebraska, was attacked by bull
and killed on the street on Saturday.
...Erastus Wiman, was arrested last
week in New York on the charge of for
gerry, preferred by the mercantile agency
of r. G. Dun & Co.
IA fire in Mcdonald, 20 miles west Of
Pttsburg, on Saturday morning, destroy.
ed 20 buildings in the business section,
causing loss estimated at 100000.
The dome of the Agricultural build
ing in the Worlds Fair grounds at Chi
cago was destroyed by fire on Saturday
morning Incendiarism is expected.
Benjamin Low, a lshipping merchant
of Gloucester. Massachusetts, was found
dead IN the streets in New York, on Sat
urday evening. He had evidently been
robbed, but an autopsy showed that the
immediate cause of death was conges-
tive chill, inducing heart failure.
Jacob A. Moore, aged So, farmer, OF
Bushville, Sullivan county, N. Y, and his
housekeeper, Mrs. Jane Raymond, aged
80, were found murdered in their home
Friday morning. The old man was shot
and beaten with club, and the woman
was killed with shovel. There is no
clue to the murder.
The American Publishers Associa-
ton, in convention in New York, has
elected president James w Scott, of the
Chicago Herald; vice president, E. H.
Wood, Boston Herold secretary, w. C.
Bryant, Brooklyn Times; treasurer. H. F.
Gunnison, Brooklyn Eagle.
The extensive hardware house of P.
Walsh, at Halifax, Nova Scotia, has made
an assignment. Assets and liabilities not
stated Many preferences are made to
firms in Canada, the United States, Eng
land and Scotland.
The steamer Oceanic which arrived
at San Francisco on Thursday, brought
advices from Hong Kong, China, stating
that during January four men on the
United States steamer Concord were
stricken with smallpox, one case result
ing fatally.
Matthew Johnson, who killed Emil
Kuckelhorn, died in the electric chair at
Sing Sing, New York, Monday morning.
He seemed to be perfectly free from fear.
He acknowledged his guilt. He also adj
mitted that he had committed two other
murders for which he was never tried,
nor, so far as he knew, even suspected.
Judge Grosscup, in the United States
District Court in Chicago, has made
decision which will make the Interstate
Commerce law practically imperative.
He discharged rule requiring certain
railroad officials to answer questions put
to them by the Grand Jury. They had
refused to answer on the ground that the
Fifth Amendment to the Constitution of
the United States provides that no person
shall be compelled In any criminal case
to be witness against himself"
In private conversation President
Cleveland has expressed his dissatisfac-
ton with the present aspect of affairs in
Congress and elsewhere. and his desire to
get away for time from his disagreeabe
environments, and to go where no tele-
grams could reach him and no reporters
follow him. Sunday afternoon, accom-
panied by Secretary Gresham and Cap
tain Evans, he started on the lighthouse
tender Violet, for duck shooting trip
along the North Carolina coast 1t is the
intention of the party to proceed by way
of the Dismal swamp, where they may
get shot at some big game.