The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1894-12-04
GENERAL NEWS.

NEARLY the entire business portion of
lockwood, Tenn, was burned Friday
night.
The Charity Hospital at Birming-
ham. Ala, was destroyed by an incen-
diary fire Saturday night.
...During a fire IN tenement house in
Boston, Sunday night. Luigi Roma, and
his daughter. Concetta, aged nine years.
were burned to death.
Ed Halpin, notorious burglar, was
captured by the Chicago police on Thurs
day, and nearly $1,000 worth of stolen
property was discovered.
"A ''moonshine" still. having capac-
ity of 12O gallons per day, was captured
by revenue officers near New Albany,
Mississippi. on Thursday night.
The only strictly Russo-Greek Church
in the United States, except the Cathe-
dral at Sitka, Alaska, was formally dedi-
Gated in Streator, Illinois, Sunday, by
Bishop Nicholas, of the Greek Church in
Alaska and the Aleutian Islands.
...A
pied by Mrs. Mebrea and her two chill
dren. was Quilted by fire on Saturday.
One of the children, an infant, was
burned to death. In attempting to res
cue the infant Mrs. Mebrea and an elder
child wereIbadly burned.
Frederick Freisch and his son-in-law,
Theodore Ekhardt, had fight in Chicago
Thursday. Freisch's daughter, Lena, see
ing that her husband was getting the
worst of the encounter, drew revolver
and fred at her father. The latter
snatched the revolver from her hands,
and shot both his daughter and her hus-
band in the head, infiicting fatal injuries.
He then finally shot himself in the head.
"A letter protesting against the disor-
derby conduct of the students after the
foot ball match Thanksgiving Day has
been forwarded to the presidents of the
University of California and the Stanford
University by the saloon keepers of San
city, breaking chairs and glasses in beer
halls and saloons and terrorizing saloon
men. The police were unable to control
them.
During a fire in the boarding house
of Mrs. Clement B. Reeves, in Philadel-
phia, between and o'clock on Satur-
day morning, Miss Agnes Cullinan, AZ
years old, and Mrs. Ella May Smith, who
occupied fourth floor rooms, were suffo-
Gated. Other boarders narrowly escaped
with their lives The loss on the build
ing is estimated at $1,000, and Mrs. Reeves
places her loss in household goods at
$4,000. During the excitement following
the ire jewelry was stolen from several
rooms.
The full bench of the Supreme Court
at Boston has sent down a decision sus-
tanning the exceptions of the defendant
in the famous Van Houton Morse breach
of promise case, in which Miss Van
Houton secured a verdict of $4,000
against Asa P. Morse, of Cambridge The
Court ruled "that false representations by
olluoI parry VI 4nCtc w thC COh
tract are to be considered by the jury in
making up its verdict" A new trial was
ordered.
"A Topeka despatch says that Attor-
ney General Olney has ordered the Dis
trict Attorney for the Northern District
of Texas to bring the five men convicted
of the murder of Sheriff Cross and his
posse at the Hay Meadows, in No Mans
Land, near the Kansas boarder, in 1888,
to trial again. This case was supposed to
have been finally settled when the Su-
preme Court reversed the decision of the
District Court three years ago, and the
condemned men were released on bail.
The crime was the outcome of county
seat war in Stevens county, Kansas. in
which Woodsdale and Hugoton were
rivals.