The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1894-08-21
STATE NEWS.

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son of Louis Gliding, of Hack ensack, was
drowned in the Hackensack river, Tues
day evening, while bathing. He diyed off
Kipp's dock and never came up.
While in church at Newport, Cum
berland county, on Sunday night, Frank
G. Richards was told that the barn in
which his horse was stabbed was on fire,
and in running to the scene he fell and
sustained injuries from which he died
The fire was merely hsystack.
DIR. Wilfred E. Harrison, veterinary
surgeon, of Bloomfield, is suffering from
blood poisoning caused by the bite of a
horse few weeks ago. The wound was
Immediately cauterized, and the marks
made by the horses teeth partly healed.
A few days ago the hand became swollen.
1t is in better condition now.
William B. Proud, who lives below
Glassborough, was Thursday morning ar
rested by detective II. c. Garrison, on
bench warrant, and lodged in Jail About
year ago it is charged Proud forged the
name of Judge Edmund Jones to a note
for SIS, but before he could be arrested
left the state.
Woodbury. residents are still looking
for China tea sets which they were to
receive after purchasing tea at sixty cents
a pound, from an agent who claimed to
represent a Philadelphia house. Two
weeks have passed since the agent left
town with numerous orders. and pur-
chasers are now of the opinion that they
have been swlndled.
Surveyors, who it is said are in the
service of the East Jersey Water Com
pany, are busilY engaged in the vicinity
of Split Rock Pond, near Boonton. A
dam is to be constructed near the Meri-
den road. 1t will be sixty feet high, 400
feet in length, and Will form a storage res
ervoir one mile wide and four miles long.
"A Hackettstown lady boarded Lacka-
wanna train the other day, and carried
small satchel containing about $4,000 in
notes, which she was carrying with her
for safe keeping. In changing cars at
Washington she left the satchel in her
seat. 1t was recovered, however, by the
prompt action of honest and intelligent
railroad men.
William Gaddis and wife, living at
Lambertville, have for some time been
living unhappily together, and Tuesday
evening they got into quarrel over some
household goods, which Mrs. Gaddis
stored at a neighbours by the name of
Mrs. William Fish Mrs. Gaddis fed
from her own home to the house of Mrs
William Fish for protection She was
closely followed by Gaddis, who shook his
fists under Mrs. Fish's nose, and frighten-
hands and dropped dead.
Maggie Grouse, the ifteen-year-old
daughter Of Herman Grouse, near Som
er's Point, is lying at her home in criti-
cal condition from the effects of joke
played on her by a brother who is two
years younger The lad caught large
blacksnake ON Monday, and after nearly
killing the reptile, placed it IN his sisters
bed. After Maggie retired she felt the
snake crawling over her body. Reaching
down she grasped the serpent, which
partially wrapped itself about her arm.
Her screams brought her father to her
room. The snake had left her and she
was lying on the floor in faint. She
has since been in a dangerous condition.
The attending physicians say she may
die from the effects of the shock.
John Little, an inmate of the aims
house at Snake Hill, Jersey City, was ar
rested by Deputy Warden Stewart Tues
day, for robbing William Holmes of fifty
cents. Holmes, who is cripple, cherish
ed the fifty-cent piece of which he was
robbed as souvenir. He says his moth
er gave it to him on her death bed, and
he determined never to part with 1t. He
often suffered the pangs of hunger and
cold before be was sent to the almshouse,
but he held on to the precious coin. He
was showing it to Little on Monday, and
telling the history of 1t, when Little took
it by force. Little denied the charge I'M
til the coin was found IN his possession.
He was committed to the county Jail.
Holmes is happy over the recovery of his
souvenir
AT Newark, early yesterday mornin
Thomas Hewitt, who had been i'll of ty-
phoid fever, became frenzied and attack
ed his wife with a knife, stabbing her in
the shoulder. As she grasped the knife
her hand was almost severed in two. Her
brother-in-law, who went to her assist
ance, was knocked down and stabbed in
the breast The fingers of one hand were
almost severed when he attempted to
ward off the knife. Hewitt then rushed
into the room where the children lay
sleeping, and cut frightful gasn in the
neck of the oldest one. Her screams
caused her father to abandon his evident
purpose to murder the other children,
and he jumped from an upper window to
the pavement, sustaining injuries that re-
suited in death. II is feared that his wife
and brother-in-law cannot live.
The people quickly recognize merit. and
this is the reason the sales Of Hoods Sar
saparilla are continually increasing.