The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1894-10-23
GENERAL NEWS.

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Carl Browne, of Coxey Army" noto-
riety, was arrested in New York on Sat
urday for obstructing Wall street by col
Letting a crowd.
Five laborers were killed and three
fatally injured by two premature explo-
sions of giant powder in the drainage
canal near Joliet, Illinois, on Saturday
night.
The father of Smith Welsh, one of
the mob at Washington Court House,
Ohio, killed by the militia on Wednes-
day last has made an affidavit charging
Colonel A. B. Colt and Major John c.
spinks, who was in command, with MUIR
der.
Charles j. Searcey, who was arrested
at Cumberland, Maryland, suspected of
completely In the Aqua Creek train rob-
berry, was taken to Fredericksburg, Vir-
ginia. whence he will be taken to Stafford
Court House.
Benjamin Ward, negro and ex-con-
vict, is in Jail at Newark, Ohio, for GRIM
inal assault upon Mrs. Catharine Neib-
ling, widow. nearly go years of age. A
mob surrounded the Jail on Saturday
night, and there we're threats of lynch
ing.
William Scharp, Gustavus F. Nelson,
Carl and Josephine Herlitz and Caroline
Nelson, members of gang of Anarchist
fire bugs, were convicted in Chicago on
Saturday, and sentenced by Judge Bren-
tano to terms ranging from two to seven
years.
"A large part of the plant of the ia
nous Tredegar Irons Works of Rich
mond, Va, was destroyed by fire early on
Thursday morning The loss is about
$3.50, 1000. The company made most of the
cannon for the Confederacy. Since the
war it made freight cars and railroad
axles, etc.
For the fifth time in as many years the
business portion of the village of Latham,
east of Springfield, ILL.,, was destroyed by
fire Wednesday night. The depot, bank,
hotel IA business houses and two resi-
dences were consumed. The losses are
estimated at $4,000.
Charles Etzler has surrendered him
self at Phoenix, Arizona, as an accessory
to the robbery of the Southern Pabifc ex-
press car at Roscoe, near Los Angeles,
last spring. He says the criminals were
a merchant in Los Angeles named john
son, and a well known criminal, kid
Thompson.
"A dispatch from Chihuahua, Mexico,
says that Clarence Rollings and John
Wassring, two Mormons, recently arrived
from Salt Lake, Utah, were shot and
killed from ambush while on visit to a
mining camp near Santa Rosalie last
Thursday. It is supposed rowing band
of Yaquis committed the deed.
William Lake, the Albion, N. Y, farm
hand. who murdered Emma Hunt, sever
al days ago, was aptured on Sunday in a
barn seven miles from the scene of the
tragedy. Lake left in his room paper,
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which was stated his intention to kill the
woman, and intimated that he also meant
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Proposals for the construction of E
protected sea wall at the League Island
Navy Yard were opened at the Bureau OF
J Yards and Docks, Navy Department, on
Saturday. Seven proposals were received,
that of Joseph S. Allen, OF Philadelphia,
being the lowest, $l2,949, and that of W.
A. Mundy next. at $1S,3S9. Congress
made an appropriation of $4,000 for the
J work.
Charles Haver and Henry Lion
Brown, arrested in New York on Thurs.
day night on a charge of being confede-
rates of w. A. Smith and George Long
street. the men who are charged with
stealing 81, 900 two-cent stamps from the
postoffice department In Washington
were arraigned before Commissioner
Shields and held in $500 bail for exam
ination next Tuesday.
The steamer Australian, at San Fran
cisco on Saturday, brought news of heavy
rains and a terrible food in China. The
waters covered space of the best agri-
cultural land $50 miles long by from 10 to
30 miles wide. The loss was enormous.
How great the loss of life was will never
be known. Many were drowned, many
were killed by falling houses, and num-
bers persisted in attempting to save their
household effects.
There are now pending before the
United Stated Court of Claims about 10, :
600 claims arising from the depredations
committed by the various Indian tribes
on the property of the pioneer settlers Of
the west. The claims aggregate nearly
$l1 100000 Claims amounting to $780,
600 have been allowed, to meet which
Congress has only appropriated $l75, 600,
and no payments have been made, owing
to difference "a to the construction of
the law. and to the inadequacy of the
clerical force IN the Indian Bureau.
The grand jury at New York has re-
Turned indictments charging bribery
against OK Police Captain Michael Doher-
ty, his former ward men, John Hook and
Bernard Meehan, and ex Sergeants OF
Police George G. Liebers, Hugh Clark,
Felix McKenna. James w. Jordan and
Charles j Parkerson, all of whom were
dismissed from the force several weeks
ago. The men we're arraigned, on Satur-
day, and bail was fixed at $500 in the
case of Doherty and 5000 each in the
other cases.
Indictments have been found by the
J Federal Grand Jury at Chicago. in con-
nection with the recent investigation OF