The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-01-12
STATE NEWS.

away in a bureau at his home, and
clothes bask etful of second-class matter.
He has been carrier for ten years.
Miss Cecilia Riccio, 10 years old, who
eloped with and married George Woods,
of Arlington, week ago, refuses to live
with her husband. She says he obtained
her consent to the marriage by represent
ing that he owned a store property.
Young Woods father has dismissed him
from his employ because he married
Catholic girl.
John Gardner, a member of the Mont
clair Fire Department, worried pet cat
until the animal scratched him. Gard
ner paid no attention to the injury until
that night, when the affected part became
swollen and he suffered great pain. DIR.
Butler pronounced the injury dangerous
one and fears blood poison.
-"Dr." Samuel Glnner, of Jersey City,
who was the candidate for Congress in
the Seventh district on the National Sill
yer ticket at the last election, has been
fined 500 for practising medicine without
license and without being registered at
the Office of the Board of Health. Gin
ner formerly resided at Camden.
John Risler, of Locktown, near Elem
ington, killed a COW, on Wednesday,
which had a good-sized country hard
ware store in Its stomach. Ninety-three
pieces of hardware were found, besides
two stones as large as a walnut. Among
the other things were paddock and key,
a file, thirty nine nails, two screws, three
pieces of wire, one hog ring and spike
two and half inches long. The COW
was in good health when killed.
Ebert Kane, IL years old, and John
OBfien, a companion of the same age,
were playing on Tuesday afternoon back
of Kane's house, at Newark, with a
Flobert rife, when O'Brien accidentally
shot Kane in the left eye. The boy was
taken by his parents to the Eye and Ear
Infrmary, where the doctors, after max
ing an examination, announced that the
sight of the eye had been totally destroy
ed by the bullet. O'Brien was committed
in the custody of his parents.
One of the sh ortest murder trials on
the records of the Camden courts was
that of James Tracy, who shot and kill
ed William CLARK on the night of No
vember last The trial began at 10 A.
M. and ended at 3.45 P M, on Wednes-
day, with an hours recess. In half an
hour after retiring the jury brought in a
verdict of acquittal. In his own defen ce
Tracy testified that he shot Clark purely
in self-defence, and that he was in great
fear of being killed himself, and the jury
believed his story.
Mrs. T. II. Forbes, of Forest Grove,
near Vineland, who attempted suicide
by taking laudanum on December 9th,
and who scolded the physician for saving
her life. died on Wednesday. When she
was first found unconscious the neigh
bors placed hot irons at her feet and
blistered them. The physicians ordered
lotion of lead water and laudauum for
bathing the burned feet. On Monday
evening Mrs. Forbes drank a portion oil
this lotion, which caused her death. Mrs
Forbes was bride of three months. This
was her third marriage.
Mrs. Mary Classen, a widow, commit
ted suicide on Tuesday night at her home
in Gutenberg, by inhaling gas through 6
rubber tube. Her husband died two
months ago and since she has been de
spondent. She left several letters saying
she had no desire to live any longer. The
body was found by the dead woman'l
brother and a liquor dealer named Brook
When they burst in the door and lighted
match the gas exploded and set fire tc
the room. Quickly pulling the woman'l
body from the room, Brook prevented il
from burning. The room was damaged
badly before the fremen extinguisheC
the flames.
George McNinnie was arrested or
Wednesday morning charged with settins
fire to the barn of Samuel r. Forman, a
Freehold. He was arraigned before
Judge Conover at once and held in So, 00t
bail to await the action of the Grand Jury
now in session. Bail was furnished by
James McNinnie, brother of the prison
err. The barn was burned some weeks
ago, and owing to the peculiar conduct O
McNinnie. suspicion rested upon him
He formerly resided In Freehold, but soor
after the fire went to South Amboy, where
he remained until Wednesday, when b,
returned to Freehold.
Hattie Price is eighteen years old anc
pretty. With several brothers and sisters
she lives with her mother and stepfathel
on the second floor of an apartment house
at Hoboken. She was left alone in the
house on Sunday morning when the fam.
lily went to church. When they return
ed, they found her gagged with an old
silk necktie and bound fast to the bed in
her room. She said she had been robbed,
but money she said had been stolen was
discovered under mattress. The police
are incredulous. Hattie was the heroine
of another robbery before Christmas,
they say, and they think she is romano
ing.
Jersey City society is in something Of
futter over the announcement that Miss
Carrie Ewald is shortly to be married to
Count Julian Charles Wilfred RADIO, oil
Buda-Pesth, Hungary. Miss Ewald is
the daughter of William Ewald a prom.
inent merchant. She is % years Old a
blonde. tall and prepossessing in appear.
ance. Her musical accomplishments and
charming manners have made her one Of
the most popular members of Jersey
City's younger society set. Count RADIO
is % years old. He is the second son Of
Prince RADIO, of Buda-Pesth. He came
to this country three years ago and was
for a time an attache of the Austrian
Legation at Washington. The couple
met at the Arion ball in New York in
1895.
An Anglesea family woke up one
morning recently and found that they
had been transported-moved,h house and
all, from one lot to an adjoining one. The
house in question is the Rhode Island
cottage, occupied by Mrs. Speakman
The lot is among those advertised to be
sold by ex-Sheriff Nichols, upon which
the title is questionable. Mrs. freezing
Hewitt, who has mortgage on the house,
had it moved to protect her interest
John Vance and freezing Hewitt supern.
tended the moving, beginning about
eleven o'clock on Thursday night, and by
daylight the next morning the task was
nearly completed.
The old futile mansion, in Paterson
was destroyed by fire Tuesday evening.
The house was valuable mainly for its
historical connections. Socrates futile
was for years one of the most prominent
Paterson Republicans and entertained
many distinguished persons under his
root Among them were General Grant,
General Fitzpatrick, General Sheridan,
Secretaries Delano, Frelinghuysen and
Robson, John Sherman, James G.
Blaine, James A. Garfield. William Wal
ter Phelps. and many others of equal re-
nown. 1t was in this house that Vice
President-elect Hobart studied, and there
he was married to Mr.. Tuttle's daughter.
Governor Griggs also studied law there,
and both he and Mr.. Hobart had their