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

THE Bankers Exchange Bank of Min
neapolis, which suspended several days
ago, has resumed business.
"A shortage of over $500 has been
found in the accounts of w. w. Degge,
postmaster at Norfolk, Virginia.
1.-The residence of William L. o. Jones,
near PIckens, South Carolina. was burned
Tuesday night, and his two children per-
ish ed
The American National Bank of Den
yer, Colorado, which suspended April 81,
1896, was on Thursday permitted to re-
open its doors for business.
The farm house of Ole Della, SIX
miles from Babcock, Wisconsin, was
burned to the ground on Wednesday, and
three children were burned to death.
BY the explosion of boiler of the
West Virginia, Wednesday, two men
were killed and two seriously injured.
miss Ida V. Hoagland. private secre-
tary to Miss Mary Garrett, of Baltimore,
was killed Thursday by a fall down an
elevator shaft at Miss CARROTS mansion.
The farm residence of VIM. Belhke,
of the town of Newton, Wisconsin, was
destroyed by fire Tuesday night, and four
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age, persisted in the flames.
The British schooner NJ L. Bonnell,
bound from New York to New Zealand,
was burned in Long Island Sound. off
Norwalk Light, on Tuesday night. Her
crew of seven men were saved.
"A wreck occurred or the Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad near Terra Alta, W. Va, on
Wednesday night Worthington Smith.
fireman of freight, was killed. and John
Gllbaugh was seriously injured.
"A fire, which started in the chapel of
an Ursuline convent and school at kober-
val, Quebec, destroyed the building Wed
nesday morning. The Mother Superior
and six nuns were smothered to death.
The Commercial Bank, of Eau Claire,
Wisconsin, capital $50 900, closed on Thurs
day. The failure is due to the suspension
of the Allemania Bank of St. Paul. 1t ie
claimed that the depusitors will be paid in
full.
IL. F. Brown and Stephen Mazyck were
shot and killed by John Pappenheim at
Otranto. South Carolina, on Tuesday. The
men we're hunting and, it is said, attempt
ed to follow a deer into Pappenheim's
property.
Captain George Irving died at Wind
sor, Ontario, on Tuesday, aged 81 years.
He was one of the oldest masters of the
Great Lakes and assisted in the construc-
tion of many of the vessels of half CEN
fury ago.
The Bank of Canton, at Canton, Min
nesota, with capital of $4,000, and the
Citizens Bank, of Lanesboro, small in
stitution. both owned and operated by
Field Kelsey & Co., suspended business
on Wednesday.
The steamer Howard, from Boston,
collided with the tug JOB Wilson, of Rich
mond, Virginia, in the Patapsco river, at
Baltimore, Wednesday. The tug sank,
and two men were drowned. The cap
tain and five others were picked up by
the Howard.
The members of the Bradley Guards,
who put on their uniforms and terrorized
the town of Barboursville, Kentucky, on
Christmas eve, by firing ball cartridges in
the streets, were placed on trial Wednes-
day, and many were bound over to the
criminal courts.
The Governor of Illinois, Wednes-
day, committed the sentence of Charles ]
and Frank R. Meadowcroft, convicted of
receiving deposits up to the time their
bank in Chicago was placed in the hands
of receiver, from one year in the penl-
Tertiary to sixty days in Jail.
Mrs. Emma Spreckels- Watson, daugh-
ter of millionaire Claus Spreckels, who
was secretly welded to Thomas Watson
recently, has returned to her father all
property, bonds, etc., which he had
placed in her name. These gifts amount
ed to nearly 100000, and were, it is
said, relinquished by a single stroke of
the pen by Mrs. Watson after her mar
riage. 1t is reported that Mr. Spreckels
was opposed to his daughters union with
Watson, and that upon his Gliding her
for her seeming ingratitude in marrying
against his wishes. she decided to give up
her fortune, and did SO, 1t is understood,
upon the advice of her husband