The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1894-07-31

wheel.
Just at shutdown last Wednesday a
flock of wild ducks passed over Asbury
Park, going in the direction of Barnegat.
Either this means that cold weather is
coming, or the railroad company is try
ing to induce travel down the shore by
gunners.
While filling a gasoline stove on Sat
urday, without extinguishlng the fire, the
tank exploded, setting fire to the clothing
of Miss Idle Gibbs, OF Thoroughfare, and
burned her in a terrible manner. DR.. C.
q. Abbott, who attended her, says that
her recovery is very doubtful
There was a confusion of issues and
tickets at the school election in Bloom
field on Tuesday night. Women voted
for the first time under the new law and
scratched each candidate who drinks or
uses profane language. In many instances
the same person was named for the one
and two year terms. This was done to
confuse the women. Altogether there
were nine men in nomination and four
tickets in the field. What is known as
the reform ticket won.
By vote of to the Morris county
Board of Freeholders, at a special meet
ing, on Thursday, decided to bond the
county to the full amount allowed by
statute $3.50, 900, for the construction of a
system of Macadam roads. A map pre-
pared by Engineer King, showing the 1872
miles decided upon by the board, was &C
copied and filed with the county clerk.
The road committee of the board was au-
thorized to begin work upon any particu-
lar road at its discretion.
On Tuesday two little boys, Alfred
and Robert Haines, and 5 years old,
were playing in the yard of their parents
on North Broad street. Elizabeth, when
Alfred, seeing an old axe, said to his
brother: dob, see how close you can
come to hitting my finger with the axe on
this block" Alfred tried aud when the
blade descended one of Boobies fingers
was Topped off clean. Another finger was
so badly hacked that it will probably
have to come off,
Mrs. Frances D. Lorton. of Orange,
has had remarkable experience. -Four
months ago she contracted heavy cold,
which left her so that she could only
speak in whisper. She tried number
! of physicians, but got no relief. At last
she applied to a New York specialist
who introduced an electric spark from a
small battery into her throat by tube
extending about three inches down the
| larynx. The relief was instantaneous
and complete. Mrs. Lorton was able tc
speak without effort IN her natural voice
and since then she has had no return Of
her trouble.
An artillery company is being organ
lied at Plainfeld which, it is expected
will be one of the largest in the citizen
soldiery of the United States. 1t is to be
equipped with four modern guns, obtain
ed from the government through the
state. Horses will be employed to drag
the guns. Twenty horses will be kept
always ready to the call of the battery.
Lieutenant Bull is in charge of the or
ganization. Some of the members have
already enrolled. They are all above the
average height, and some of them are
over six feet tall.
The Clark Thread Company's mills al
Harrison were damaged in the course of a
strike of its employees in 1891, and after
the disturbance was quieted the company
brought suit before Judge Lippincott, in
the Supreme court at Jersey City, for $780,.
900 damages The suit has been on the
calendar ever since then. but never has
been tried. On Tuesday the matter was
settled by agreement, the company &C
cepting S1,97322, the amount actually
paid for repairs to the mill property, al
though bills were produced to show that
the actual damages amounted In all to
$4,000.
"A young man was, perhaps, fatally
stabbed and cut by his father, in Du-
nellen, Friday night. Gustave Marin
scheck, German farmer, and resident Of
the village, returned to his home from
an afternoon of drinking, and attempted
to kill his wife and two sons. A shot
gun, which he had. was taken away from
him. He then obtained a knife, and
stabbed his oldest son, man of 26, in
the breast The knife struck over the
heart, but rib DETECTED the blow. The
young man then fought with his father,
and the latter was finally subdued, but
not before he had inflicted cuts on the
young mans arms and body. Marin
scheck was taken to New Brunswick by
Constable Warden.
John Beatty, the young grocery clerk
of Elizabeth, and Miss Annie Sloan have
been married in spite of the opposition Of
/ the groom's mother. After Beatty had
got out of his room, in which his mother
so that the marriage could not take place
Thursday night at the appointed time, he
set to work to carry out his part of the
marriage agreement He did not want to
take any chances of having his mother in.
terfere again so he quietly got ont of town
with his intended bride Friday evening
and went to the house of Rev. G. S. Mettle-
ship, a Presbyterian minister at Osborn
Terrace, and requested him to perform
the ceremony. When the required wit
nesses were produced the minister mar
ried the couple and they went to Newark
Judge Henry, in the Newark Second
District court, on Saturday, decided that a
/ stakeholder must return wager to bet
tor if the latter makes a demand for it.
The case was decided in the suit of Geo
Mag against Ferdinand Figuero. Mag
and John Kurtz made bet on June 18th
that involved the swiftness of their re-
spectiye trotters. A race was decided
upon and each man placed S25 in the
hands of FIguero. There was a dispute
regarding the winner of the race, and
Mag asked the stakeholder for his S25
and upon the Shareholders refusal to
give it up, Mag warned him not to give
the money to any enc else. Figuero did
not heed the warning, however, and
turned the money over to Kurtz. The
judge gave verdict against the stake
holder of S25 and costs.
Much Ill feeling has been engendereG
at South Amboy by the school election
The election was the first held under the