The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1894-11-06

tionally large.
The Freehold Telephone Company
will establish a local telephone exchange
and will run its lines through the back
yards of residents, where possible, In or
der not to deface the streets.
Il. Hurff Weatherby, of Swedesboro,
has stored 5000 barrels of sweet potatoes,
and will try the experiment of shipping
them to distant markets in heated cars.
South Jersey farmers are deeply interest
ed in the experiment.
-Ephraim Hillman. father of Joe Hill
man, who was hanged for numbering
Philadelphia peddler, occupies the same
cell at Woodbury. Jail in which his son
was confined. He will remain there Tor
thirty days for stealing corn.
ESQUIRE Holcombe, of Ringoes, ran
a harness buckle tongue into his finger
one day two weeks ago, and shortly the
whole hand showed quite evidences OF
blood poisoning. For several days seri-
GUS consequences were feared, but he is
now getting better
Andrew Demersman, commission
merchant of Hoboken, and residing In
New York, was run over by coal train
at the Someryille station Friday night,
and had his left leg cut off, He jumped
off while the train was in motion.
Augustus Mickens courted the wife
of Theodore H. Wilcox. both being resi-
dents of Butler, and Morris county jury
decided that he should pay $l,7O0 for his
fun. though some of the jury thought that
the husband should have had at least So
600 as salye for his injured affections.
The dangerous Atlantic City Railroad
grade crossing at Third and Mechanic
streets, Camden, scored another victim
Friday evening. While crossing the track
Morgan Manlove was struck by train.
His collar bone was broken, and he was
severely injured internally.
William Gillette, a twenty-year-old
colored boy, recently convicted of steal
ing Charles f. Browns bicycle at Asbury
PARK last summer, was sentenced to one
year in state prison at hard labor. Gill
lette has been in the Reform School for
two-and-a-half years and was released
last year.
At l O'Clock Saturday morning 49,
year-old Jennie Wittershine, of Hoboken,
was Waiting with Peter Macken. Of Jer-
sew City. Suddenly she fell dead in the
arms of her partner. The cause was
heart failure. The body was removed to
Speer's morgue, and the ball came to a
sudden stop.
There is fine chestnut orchard on
the estate of the late William Walter
Phelps, between Englewood and Hacken-
sack, in Bergen county. A number of
varieties, which have been propagated
by budding and grating, show much i'm
provement. The nuts are valuable as a
product while the timber is also very
valuable.
The barn of Wesley Kennedy, near
Regar's mill, at White House Station,
was burned few nights ago, All the
contents together with a very valuable
colt we're consumed. The fire started in
the southeast end, and is thought to be
the work of an lncendiary. The building
was an old-fashioned Dutch structure
Insured for $500, contents for 5000.
Ralph Marshall, the 10-year-old son
of William Marshall, living in the sub
urbs of Bridgeton, while gathering nuts
from hickory tree, on Friday, lost his
balance and fell a distance of twenty feet
to the ground. Both of the boys arms
we're broken by the fall. The bone OF
one of the fractured arms was driven sew
eral inches in the ground by the fall. 1t
is thought he will recover.
The Monmouth Battle Monument
damaged in August, has been examined
and partially repaired. The Statue Of
Liberty was damaged more than was sup.
posed, and it is thought that it will be
unsafe to leave it in position oyer year
Nothing can be done unless the state or
national government makes an appropria-
ton. The monument cost $4,000.
-Halstead H. wainwright, counsel for
the Ocean Beach Association, will bring
suit for damages against the persons at
whose instance the Riparian Commission
ers recently opened the Shark river inlet
The Ocean Beach Association claims as lis
property the land through which the
waters of Shark river now empty into the
sea. They lost their bathing houses and
pavilion by the opening.
The will of ex Governor Bedle was
probated on Saturday. One-half of the
estate is given to his widow and the other
half Is divided among his children. There
is proviso that any obligations which he
held in writing against any of the chill
dren at the time of his death shall be de-
Quoted from that child's share. The
widow and her son, Joseph d. Bedle, are
executors of the will.
The champion cyclist, Arthur ZIm-
norman, sailed from Genoa, Italy, on Sat
urday, for New York, on the Augusta
Victoria, of the Hamburg American line.
Zimmerman left America on May 9Th for
Paris. He has ridden in thirty races
abroad and has won $4,000 in the six
months, holding the championship Of
France and Italy. He will reach here the
18th inst. During the winter he will race
at Madison Square Garden.
While breakfast was being prepared
in the farm house of Paul Jones, near
Paulsboro, early Friday morning, the
clothing of nine-year-old Mary Jones,
the farmers daughter, caught fire from
the stove. She would have been burned
to death but for the presence of mind OF
her little brother, who seized table cloth
and wrapped it around her blazing gar
ments. The little girl was badly burned
and is in critical condition.
"A servant in the employ of Reune
Martin, of South Orange, courageously
grappled with burglar in her room early
Saturday morning. She found the burg
lar tying up a bundle of clothing and
seized him. He drew revolver, but be-
fore he could use 1t she had wrested it
from him. She screamed and he broke
away from her and down stairs into the
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