The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-09-21

All ABOUT the DurSiarleS, ana was allowed
to go under suspended sentence. Freder-
lex McDaniels and Raymond Pendle. each
II years old, were sentenced to pay fine
of $25 and costs.
The Lunacy Committee of the Board |
of Freeholders of Essex county has exon
Grated the officials of the county asylum |
from any blame in connection with the
killing of William Green, who was kicked |
to death by Joseph Haun another inmate.
1t was also practically decided that, in the
future, dangerous patients shall be sup
piled with felt slippers. Green's body
has been removed to the home of his sis
ter at Irvington.
AS Mrs. George Siger was about to
drive across the New Jersey Southern Rail-
road tracks, at Cedarville. on Thursday
morning, flying train suddenly doomed
up. She had not time to cross nor to
back off the tracks, so with marked pres
ence of mind she pulled her horse sharply
around, just in time to save her life. The
carriage was overturned, Mrs. Siger was
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home. Mr.. Siger drove back expecting
to find his wife dead, but met her walking
home ward unh armed.
William c. Baldwin, the night super
intendent of the Wells-Fargo Express
in Jersey City, was probably fatally injured
Wednesday morning by colliding with a
trolley car while riding his bicycle. The
car came flying up behind him as he at
tempted to cross the tracks to avoid
team. The car was fenderless and Bald
win was dragged thirty feet before it was
stopped. His skull was fractured and he
has but small chance of recovery.
Erwin Fostner and Charles Shoppel
were lodged in the Warren county Jail on
Wednesday, on the charge of wholesale
robberies of farmers in Warren and Hun
terdon counties, New Jersey, and North
ampton and Bucks counties in Pennsyl-
vania during several months past In an
old house in the woods near Springtown,
where the men have been living the life of
hermits, wagon load of plumber was
found, including bicycle, two buggy
wagons and several pounds of -four
William Dunphy retired merchant
tailor, of Paterson, was found unconscious
with fractured skull in front of his home.
and is dying in hospital. 1t is believed
that he jumped out of a second story win
dow while laboring under an hallucination.
Dunphy took deal of interest in the
murder of Mamie Sullivan year and a
half ago, and Gust for JOKE friends
suggested that he must know something
about it. This so preyed upon his mind
that he became melancholy and thought
officers were after him
Thomas Brown, who is employed in
the enameling works, in Passaic, was on
his way home Thursday night along a
lonely road, when he was stopped by a
tall man who demanded his money
Brown resisted and there was a hard fight,
in which Brown, after receiving several
severe bruises and cuts, managed to throw
his assailant. Another man came up, and
on learning the facts, aided Brown in Civ
ing the man drubbing. They hammered
and kicked him until he was insensible.
then left him lying by the roadside.
The one time prosperous Jewish set
tlement called Halberton, on the line of
the West Jersey and Seashore Railroad,
sixteen miles below Millville. is expe-
riencing a boom. The settlement has
been deserted for several years, and $50
new houses are to be erected and the old
ones rebuilt. New industries, comprising
shirt, wrapper, cotton and towel factories,
will be erected. An electric light plant
will also be built. The syndicate back of
the enterprise are capitalists from New
York, Philadelphia and Millville.
Thomas Rudolph, a telegraph opera
tor in the employ of the Pennsylvania
Railroad, at Long Branch Junction town,
received letter from Paris last Monday
informing him that an aunt had died
there, and her entire estate, amounting to
to $4,000, was left to him in her will
Rudolph went to New York on Tuesday
with letters and papers of Identification
which were placed in the hands of the
French Consul in that city. AS soon as
the legal proceedings are completed the
money will be turned over to him.
-Three-year- old Albert Olesea, of Jer-
sey City, died in the City Hospital on
Thursday from burns received the pre-
vious day. During the absence of his
mother the boy got hold of box of
matches and began scraping them against
the wall. He lit match at time and
some of them fell on the floor, setting fire
to his clothes. Neighbors heard his
screams and went to his assistance. They
extinguished the flames, but not before
the little fellow had been frightfully
burned. He died in great agony.
Rev ]. H. Washington, the six-foot-
three-inch colored pastor of ST. Paul's
African United Methodist Church in Pas
sale, who has wife and seven children.
has resigned. He goes to Port Jervis and
Boy Preacher" Johnson takes his place.
A few weeks ago Mr.. Washington wrote
to Miss Georgia Edwards, one of his flock
a letter which he acknowledged later was
''full of sociability." Georgia showed the
letter to an admirer named Finch, who
retained it in his possession. Justice Ross
was appealed to and the letter was made
public. The congregation was not at all
pleased with the "sociability" explana-
ton the pastor gave the letter, and when
he rendered his resignation the trustees
accepted it without a dissenting vote.
An OK roast was the attraction for
hundreds of colored people of both sexes
and all ages at Roseville Park, on Thurs
day. 1t was the third annual barbecue of
St James African Methodist Episcopal
Church, of which the Rev. J. v. Peyton is
pastor. The latter had pc rsonal charge of
the roast, which was cooked with much
skill and was done to turn when served.
The OK for the roast was slaughtered and
dressed at Burlington, and reached New
ark early in the morning. 1t was cooked
over fireplace twelve feet wide and six
feet high, the fuel being hard COAL HALF
dozen steel skewers kept the parts to-
gether as the carcass swung from a gam
brel over the fire. The pastors assistants
did the basting. Sweet corn, potatoes,
tomatoes and other vegetables were cooked
Ill another part of the park BY Mrs. Marv