The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-09-07

Burlington.
William q. Page and family are at Cape

: Burlington.
0 William q. Page and family are at Cape
May.
Mayor McNeal has arrived home from
} his European trip.
The standpipe at the city water works
is being renovated and painted inside and
out.
George Clayton, Dunn's handy man, is
spending his vacation at Belvidere with
his mother
The sntiphonal choir service was re-
peated at the Union street NJ. E. Church
on Sunday night to large and spprecia-
tive audience.
Edward Lane and Prof Needles start
for Richmond, Va, on Saturday to attend
the annual session of the Supreme Lodge
of Colored knights of Py thas.
Joseph R. Cheeseman Is now a duly
qualified pension agent, having received
his commission from the Secretary of the
Interior at Washington last week.
A peach festival will be given on the
lawn at the Home for Aged Women, cor
ner of Broad and York streets, next Satur-
day, for the benefit of that worthy institu-
tion.
Mock Len has leased the premises late
ly occupied by Richard Hepworth, the
plumber. Mock's business took a jump
With dollar wheat and more room became
a necessity.
A ten days lawn fete is in progress I'M
der the auspices of Pearl street A. NJ. Z.
Zion Church. The star attraction Is Billy
Deworth's steam power merry -go-round
with narrowing orche stral effects
A sad circumstance in connection with
the death OF Deputy Sheriff Whomsley's
father at Graniteville, Ga. last week is
the fact that he was contemplating visit
to Burlington this month to see his son
after separation of Is years.
The bicycle demonstrates its usefulness
in some way every day in the week. One
morning recently, young woman aliRhted
from her wheel at Anthony's, thumped a
big watermelon, inquired the price and
bought it. The clerk was about to in'
quirs where she would have it de-
livered when she produced pillow case
and placing the melon in it swung the
bundle over the handlebars, mounted in
good style, and pedaled of down Union
street, while the clerk stood and marveIed
at the ease with which she accomplished
the feat.
Samuel II. Lippincott, who is employed
at McNeal's foundry and resides on the
Bordentown road, went out for a walk
with his wife on Friday evening and up
on returning found that some one had
broken into the house through q window
and stole $50 and a gold watch from a bu-
reau drawer in their sleeping room. The
loss is heavy one for the couple and
represented their combined savings for a
long time. There is much to them in the
manner in which the theft was committed
to indicate that it was perpetrated by
some one familiar with the premises and
even the hiding place of the treasure
The police are working on the case.
Lawyer Flanders claims that his rela-
tons to the negro Wallace as guardian
only apply to his estate, and that he is in
no wise responsible for the man person
ally. The statement in last weeks News
on this point, was based on the form used
by the Surrogate. which plainly says
guardian of the person and property"
Perhaps the paper given Mr.. Flanders
read differently. There was no intention
Of criticising Mr.. Flanders In connection
with the recent case. The point intended
to be conveyed was that if Mr. Flanders
was guardian of the 'persoD," Wallace's
release from the asylum should have been
only after consulting with the guardian,
who we understood was never spoken to
on the subject. ED. News
Coroner Fisher is causing considerable
unfavorable criticism and indignant COM
ment by his refusal to act in the Miller
case. Because the Board of Freeholders
has seen 6t to hold some of his bills over
for investigation is no warrant for his &C.
ton in this case. This death was due to
circumstances fully warranting investiga-
ton and ahould have had immediate at
\ tention. Miller was found dead or in a
dying condition in an out-ofthe-way
place on the outskirts of the city, and it
was known that he was one of party en-
gagged in drunken carousal, and be was
left by his companions alone when death
was near. This act on their part causes
suspicion of guilty knowledge of certain
acts on their part making them amenable
| to criminal action. Witnesses would
have been produced at an inquest who
saw Miller's companions reck lessly tossing
him in the air from a horse blanket.
Taken altogether these circumstances
warrant an investigation. The conduct of
the party was in violation of law, and
they we're desecrating the Sabbath day.
Their treatment of companion in their
debauch, was, to put it mildly, the indi-
rect cause of bis death If there was
no murAer committed or no intent to com
NIT crime, their conduct was deplor-
able, and an investigation would have
doubtless developed the fact that they
we're all criminally liable for immortality
and Sabbath breaking. SHch conduct re-
peatedly persisted in brings a community
into disrepute and Burlington has enough
of such burdens without having them
augmented by official indifference. The
cases in which Coroner Fishers action is
| 4uC6hlOACQ ny bnO DOhIQ Vi EEt6uOiUFfS
| are not to be considered in connect N
with the Miller case and furnish no ar
gument for a stay of proceedings. The
mans death is not generally believed to
have resulted from natural causes direct
ly, but rather from rough treatment at The
hands of his friends (?) who, realiz ng
what they had done. left him alone, away
from all human aid, TO die. The better
element of the people desire the case in
vestigated, in the hope that it will break
up the Sunday carousals if no other good
end is attained. The Coroner should
have proceeded with this case and he
would have had the people with him if
the Freeholders should have seen fit to
question his judgment.
STATE OF f GHl0; Cory e1TsS OF T0lHDO' SIS
j FRANK ]. CHENEY makes oath that he
is the senior partner of the firm of F. J.
CHENEY Il Co doing huaineaa in the (Jfv