The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1894-03-27
STATE NEWS.

-InG Odptl5J lOuilb L SOpiO OnlOh VI
New Jersey will hold Its fourth annual
convention at Bridgeton on May Is and
II.
Jesse Brown, lad employed by John
Benezet, of Cape May, was badly burned
on Saturday by an explosion Of naptha
gas Brown, however. succeeded in ex-
tinguishing the blaze before much dam
age was done.
Mrs. Maria Herring, aged IA, and her
husband, Jacob Herring, few years her
senior, were buried together on Sunday,
at Westwood. They died within a few
hours of each other from the effects of a
severe attack of the grip.
Mrs. Dora Walter. an aged lady, fell
down stairs Friday night at the home of
her daughter in Newark. She was dead
when her relatives reached her, but it is
not known whether her death was due to
the fall or to apoplexy.
The body of man, horribly mangled,
was found on the tracks of the Pennsyl
vania Railroad, in Elizabeth, on Friday.
1t is thought he was railroad brakeman,
who fell from the top of car to the
tracks, between two cars.
While carrying boiler of hot water
from the kitchen range to her shed.
Mrs. Clinton L. Dilks, of Bridgeton, on
Friday, tripped and fell, the hot water
splashing over her arms and chest, scald-
ing her in fearful manner.
-Ex-Mayor George Wynkoop, of Glou-
cester City, on Saturday swore out a war
rant for the arrest of John H. Boylen,
Anthony Dempsey, Martin Coyle, Ed
ward Bowe and John Lafferty, on a
charge of conspiracy to murder him.
Wynkoop alleges that the men beat him
numerically.
Benjamin Ellison, a seventy-five-year-
old farmer, of Metuchen, lies at the point
of death as the result of injuries infict-
ed by John Kent, who was employed by
him as a farm hand. A dispute between
the two men arose at the breakfast table.
Kent threw cup at his employer and
then beat him numerically. Kent is in
jail
twenty-five more Democratic police
men of Camden on Friday formally pre-
sented their designations to Mayor West
colt, take effect on April LIST. A number
of other designations were ready later in
the day, but owing to the absence Of the
Mayor, we're not handed in. Before the
end of next week it is probable that every
Democrat on the force will have resigned
Judge Reed has appointed April gath
as the date for recounting the votes cast
at the charter election for Cape May
Forty three ballots were rejected by the
election board on the ground that they
were marked, because the names of can
didates had been written thereon in
black ink. The point raised is a novel
one, and the decision will be interesting.
Two prisoners, Harry Laire and
Charles Dorsey, escaped from the War
rem county jail at Belvidere Friday night.
They cut their way through the ceiling
and went out through the court room
Both we're burglars and were considered
desperate characters. The night watch |
man was locked in cell with George
Andrews, the murderer, and was help
less. He had to be released by the jani-
tor.
The Rev. Dr. Horace S. Bishop |
preached his farewell sermon to the con-
gregation of Christ Episcopal Church, |
East Orange, Sunday morning. DR.. |
Bishop has been compelled by i'll health |
to resign. He has been active in the
church ever since its foundation. His
successor will be the Rev. w w. Davis,
formerly assistant rector to the Rev. DIR.
Ralnsford, of st. Georges Church, New
York.
Gen. ]. Madison Drake, commander
of the Veteran Zouaves, Elizabeth, cele-
brated his fifty-seventh birthday on Sat-
urday, and gave reception to his COM
mand in the evening at his home. Gen
eral Drake has published newspaper
thrty-six years, and spent four years in
the Union Army. He is one of the oldest |
newspaper publishers In the State, and !
sets up in type the news which he gathers
without writing any copy.