The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1895-07-30
GENERAL NEWS.

The Rev. Edward Beecher, brother of
the late Henry Ward Beecher, died Sum
day at his home In Brooklyn. He was
nearly go years old.
edward Knevin shot and fatally
wounded Mary Schneer, in Cincinnati, on
Saturday night, and then killed himself.
The girl had rejected his addresses.
The ringleaders in the Lakeside Park
election outrages were sentenced In Chi !
cago on Saturday, one to years impris-
onment and the others to fines ranging
from 800 to $4,000.
Mrs. William Pierce and her son.
Franklin, of Middleport, New York were
drowned at Ceredo, West Virginia, Sun
day. The woman fell into the water and
the son lost his life in trying to save her,
Henry Bradshaw, farmer, who lived
Is miles from Paris, Texas, on Friday
night shot and killed his wife, his 4-year-
old daughter and himself He had been
in ill-health for some time.
The body of Alberta Stuart. who had
been missing from her home in Boston
since Tuesday last, was found in the
Charles river Friday. An autopsy indi-
Gated that the girl had be en- criminally
assaulted.
Percy S. Taylor, who is alleged to
hoyo non, ro;tfad foroor;oS in Nou Vork
city amounting to $4,000, and who was
arrested in London several weeks ago,
was brought back to New York, on Sat-
urday, on the steamer Paris
...At Iona. Michigan, on Saturday, Case
Waterman, who pleaded guilty to the
charge of attempting to wreck an express
train on the Detroit. Grand Haven and
Milwaukee railroad, was sentenced to 80
years imprisonment.
| Charles Rlcksecker, aged "a years,
committed suicide on Thursday night in
Shore Grove. Canton, Ohio. by drinking
carbolic acid. His wife committed suicide
at the same spot at the same hour and by
| the same means last November.
White residents of Richmond, Vir-
GINA, have started a fund for the defence
of the negro women convicted for the
Lunenberg murder. The impression pre-
walls that the condemned women were
hastily convicted on inadequate testimony.
Charles L.. Davidson. an insurance
agent of Indianapolis, would have been
lynched, on Thursday night in West In
dianapolis, but for prompt police inter-
vention. He was accused of having Grim
inally assaulted Ida Hutchinson, a 7-year
old child
Hon. Thomas Davis died in Provi-
dence. Rhode Island, Friday He was a
member of Congress from 1858 to 1866,
and from that time down to 1889 was at
different times member of the Rhode
Island LEGISLATURE.
IA dispatch from Ford. KY, says it
developed Friday that the negro, Bob
Haggard. who was lynched there last
week, charged with having assaulted
Miss Elkin, was innocent of the crime
with which he was charged.
Tom johnson. negro, who was taken
from the Jail at Hattiesburg, Mississippi,
on Wednesday, and who escaped for a
time from the mob, was lynched on Fri
day. He was accused of assaulting a
white woman, and was identified by his
victim.
...As Frank Dickinson and Newton
Bowers were crossing Salt Creek bridge,
about IL miles east of GAINESVILLE, Ohio,
with traction engine, Friday night, one
span of the bridge broke down. Dickin
son was killed and Bowers seriously In
jured.
~. Waters BIundoD, aged 10; j. Guy
Brown, Is, and Charles E. Lynch, ID years
old, were killed on Saturday night near
Riverdale Park Station, seven miles from
Washington, on the Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad, by being struck by an express
train.
Maggie Craig, aged II years. of MIN
neapolis, was shot and killed on Tuesday
night on farm near Osseo, Minnesota,
where she was visiting. 1t was at first
supposed that tramps had killed the
child, but subsequently, 9-year-old boy
who lived on the place confessed that the
girl was killed by the accidental discharge
of gun with which he had been playing
IA despatch from Shreveport, Louis
lana, says that a cut has been made in the
Campobello Bend, about sixty miles by
river below that point. The river above
the cutoff declined two feet, a1d the
water is rushing through like a torrent.
threatening all low places below. At
Shreveport the river is rising steadily,
and will 90 to 81 feet gauge. All places
below. unprote cted by levees, are flooded.