The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-02-09
STATE NEWS.

1t is thought that John Drury dis
obeyed one of the hall rules of St. 10
seph's Parochial school. At any rate he
has been unconscious at the German Hos
pital for several days, and may die. The
boy is II years old and slid down the bal
ustrade.
-Assemb1yman D. o. Watkins, OF
Woodbury., has procured from the State
Fish and Game Commissioner 1000 year
ling trout, which will be placed in the
Lebanon stream. This is the first invoice
of these fish that has ever been placed in
Gloucester county stream.
| The new public school house at We
nonah was discovered to be on fire We'd
nesday morning when the children were
assembling. One of the pupils saw smoke
coming from the wainscoting and gave
the alarm The fremen saved the build
ing. The fire caught from the heater.
Director Bogart. of the Bergen county
Board of Freeholders, is in trouble with
the Woman's Christian Temperance Union
on account of his refusal to allow the in
mates of the county almshouse to receive
as gifts some very good underwear which
the ladies of that society thought would
be acceptable to them.
An accident occurred on Wednesday
afternoon of last week, in Lafayette, in
which William Best, of that village, was
almost instantly killed. A horse he was
driving ran away, throwing him out of
the wagon on the main street of the vii
lage, in front of Garrett VanBlarcon's
residence. crushing in his skull.
The action of DIR. Theodore S. Schind-
eler, of Hoboken, in certifying to the
death OF his third wife from apoplexy
and then preparing to cremate her, aroused
suspicion and the authorities will investi-
gate. A gypsy foretold the date of her
death. Adele SCHNEIDER alleges that her
stepmother tried to poison her.
The Atlantic City Water Department
six months ago adopted the meter system
of charging for water. Bills are now being
prepared, and some of them amount to
enormous sums, a result of care1essness
or leaky plumbing on the part of the
property owners. Six of the beach front
hotels have put down artesian wells to es-
cape the heavy water tax.
The report of paying silver mine on
the Carmen farm, near Brigantine Junc-
ton, is again interesting residents of At
lantic county. The property is owned BY
Mrs Mary Glade, William Jefferies, John
Carmen and Benjamin Jarvis, who, it is
said, are working steadily in the hope
that richer deposits of the precious metal
will soon reward their labor and invest
ment.
"A wel1-known and handsome Engle-
wood woman has deserted her husband
and chosen the company of a negro
named Samuel Mann. The couple are
living together in the country back of
Sloatburg, known as Forne Hollow. The
negro is married, his wife living at Tall
mans. The handsome white woman and
the negro are the talk of the people in the
vicinity of Sloatburg.
Burglars early on Tuesday entered
the houses of Sixtus Heindel and lanes
Wicks. both wealthy residents of Hudson
Heights. Both houses front on the Pals
AIDES, overlooking the Hudson Heindel
has a number of Newfoundland dogs.
These were chloroformed by sponges tied
to long poker. Every piece of silver in
both houses was taken by the burglars,
who evidently came in light wagon.
Several valuable clocks and pieces of
bric-a-brac were also carried away Helm
del's trousers, which were thrown over a
chair at the foot of the bed where he slept.
were rifled and $50 taken.
Edison Fitch, young man of Bridge
ton, met with peculiar accident Thurs
day afternoon, while snowballing a friend.
The two young men we're having battle
royal. Fitch threw particularly hard
ball at his companion. AS he did so his
arm gave loud crack and dropped to his
side, limp and helpless. 81 have broken
my ARM" said Fitch, and he screamed
with pain. His companion at first thought
he was joking, but finally took him to the
office of DIR. ]. G. Streets, who found that
the bone in the upper part of the arm had
been broken in two.
Joseph Bergenski and his son Charles,
living on a little farm at Hardingville,
were before Justice Paulin, in Glassboro,
Tuesday night, on charge of desecrat-
ing the Sabbath. Six witnesses, living in
the vicinity, testified that the Bergenskis
entirely ignored Sunday and continued
with their work as though there was no
such day. The accused men said that
they are Hebrews, that their Sabbath is
Saturday, and that they are not amena-
Bile to the law. The witnesses, however,
declared that they did not stop work on
Saturday, and Justice Paulin imposed
fine of 81 and the costs upon the elder Ber-
genski. As Charles is a minor he was dis
charged.
"A sensation was caused in the Essex
Circuit court Thursday, when lawyer Sam
uel Kalisch made application to Judge
Child to set aside the verdict of the jury
in the suit of John Perry, Jr., against the
Consolidated Traction Company. The
lawyer accused the jury of gross stupidity |
and with willful misconception of the
charges of the court. Perry brought suit !
to recover $4,000 damages for injuries
received on March 10 last by being thrown
from his wagon in Kearny. The jury re-
turned a verdict placing the damages at
$500. Lawyer Kalish's contention is that
the jury was guilty of undue and improper
conduct in making such an absurd award.