The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1895-09-24
GENERAL. NEWS.

| Line state Bank, newspaper once,
Methodist church and Is business houses,
at Alden. Minnesota, we're burned Thurs
day. The loss is $4,000.
| THE chair factory, paint shop and
/ boiler house of the Milwaukee House of
Correction were completely destroyed by
fire on Wednesday night. The loss will
not exceed $4,000.
The steamer Manomai sailed fron San
Francisco, for Australia via Honolulu
Thursday She took the United States
mail but no passengers for Honolulu, on
account of the cholera there.
"A despatch from Charleston, West
! Virginia, says an examination of the
county records shows a deficiency of
about $4,000 in the settlements of the
Sheriffs from 1881 to 1889 inclusive.
The barn of John D. Rockefeller, near
Tarrytown, New York, was destroyed by
an incendiary fire Thursday morning
Mr.. Rockefeller has offered a reward of
$4,000 for the capture of the cuIprits.
Frank Werkly's saw mill in Lawrence
county, Ohio. was wrecked by boiler ex-
plosion on Wednesday evening. Weekly
and George Matthews, an employee, were
killed, and William Turner, the engineer,
was fatally injured.
"A Chicago dispatch says that Ross c.
Van okelen, receiving teller of the Mer-
chants Loan and Trust Company, is miss
| ing, with about $4,000 of the money be-
| longing to the institution. He is sup
posed to be IN Mexico.
The San Francisco police have frus-
trated plot to kill DurTant. The plot
was concocted by well-known criminal,
while awaiting sentence. A knife was
found in his cell. The prisoner has since
been sentenced to 20 years in the peni-
Tertiary.
IA despatch from Halifax, Nova Scotia,
say that Captain Mcleod and the crew of
| the Halifax schooner Lady Aberdeen,
lost at Newfoundland a week ago, arrived
there Thursday. Several hundred fisher
men boarded and stripped his vessel, and
in spite of all protests, pillaged the
| schooner of everything movable.
Charles W. Hindley. steerage passen-
ger on the steamship Germanic, which
arrived at New York Thursday from
Queenstown, committed suicide by cut
ting his throat on the 18th inst, and was
! buried at sea. Hindley had been on a
protracted spree, and was on the way to
his home in New York from a visit to
| friends in England.
limited States Marshal w. E. Mason
succeeded in capturing, Thursday, at Mari
eta, Ohio, George Philabaum, a daring
/ and successful counterfeiter, whom he has
been hunting since last January. Phila-
baum makes an almost perfect counter
felt nickle, and has been putting them out
In large amounts in Ohio, West Virginia,
Kentucky and Western Pennsylvania for
the last two years.
John G. Stoner, Manager of the Fidel-
ity Loan and Trust Company, OF Harris
burg, Pa, was arrested in Washington
Thursday on requisition, charging
| Stoner with obtaining money under false
pretences. Stoner's attorney commended
that the papers did not sufficiently define
the offence. This was the view taken by
Judge Bradley, who dismissed the
prisoner.
AT the annual Convention of the Wo-
mans Christian Temperance Union of
Philadelphia, Thursday, Dr. Harriet S.
French was elected President Mrs. H.
H. Hubert, Vice President; Miss Mary
L. Irvine, Secretary, and Mrs. Susan G.
Mac Farland, Treasurer. A resolution
was adopted protesting against the placing
of liquor saloon signboards on Paramount
Park property.
"A Wichita (Kansas) despatch says
that Mrs. Maddox, who has made so long
and desperate struggle for the life of her
son, Clyde Maddox, sentenced to be hang
ed on October IL, has received the follow
ing note from President Cleveland:
Dear Madame: have not fully review
ed the case. but sufficiently so to assure
loving mother that her son will not be
executed October H."
Frank M. McVaugh, sub-contractor
on the new addition to the Government
Printing Office in Washington. was ar
rested Wednesday night. on a warrant
charging him with making his employees
work more than eight hours per day. in
violation of statute requiring eight
hours a day for work on all Government
buildings. The law was approved August
l, 1892, and this is said to be the first test
case