The Monitor-register., 1897-07-09

| yesterday at the home of relatives in
Kearney N. j., as the result of an ac-
cident at the display of fireworks at
Newark Monday night, when a rocket
| struck her,
Atlantic City, July 7.-Lewis Smith,
a blacksmith, was killed yesterday at
| English Creek, this county, in a runa-
way accident. He was driving 46ad
of iron to his shop, when the horse be-
came unmanageable. He fell beneath
I 1he wheels, and his head was crushed
Passaic, July 3.-John Smith Rice, a
wealthy broker, who was stopping with
his wife at the house of his sister-in-
law, Mrs. ]. P. Hardenberg, in this
city, disappeared on May 4 last, and
has not since been heard from. Rice
| drew $1,000 from his banker on the day
| he vanished. Today Surrogate Fitz-
gerald appointed Mrs. Eloise Rice ad-
ministrator of the estate of her hus-
| band. She furnished bond for
5000, 900.
New Brunswick, July 3.-While a Sc
we're electric storm was in progress at
| Cranbury yesterday afternoon the par
sonage of the Presbyterian church was
struck, and Mrs. Joseph e. Curry, the
wife of the minister, was stunned. It
Yas two hours before she recovered.
+ Asclothes line in the back yard was
| twisted in all sorts of shapes. Build
ings on the property of Frank Cham
berlain and Mrs. Ellen Jobs were
struck by lightning. A COW on the
! farm of Edward Peter was killed in
stantly.
| Mt. Holly, N. J., July Henry Lem
on, who was recently discharged from
state prison, fatally stabbed his broth
| er Charles Monday night at Medford.
| The latter had stolen the affections of
his best girl during Henry's sojourn
| in prison. When the men met a quar-
| rel ensued, during which Henry drew
a knife and stabbed his brother seven
times about the body, and then fled.
| He has not yet been recaptured. The
| injured man cannot recover, as any one
| of the wounds is sufficient to cause
death.
Atlantic City. July 6.-While bathing
in the surf at Longport yesterday STAN
ley Barkhouse. aged 16 years, a son of
Julius Barkhouse, a wealthy retired
merchant of Louisville, KY, was
drowned. The young man had gone
Jackson, and went beyond his depth,
and although Jackson went to his res
cue he sank and was drowned. The
drowning youth grabbed Jackson about
the waist, who had to shake him off
to save himself. The Barkhouse fam
lily had just arrived to spend the sum-
mer.
Railway. n. j., July 7.-Conrad Davis
corpse was picked up on the Pennsyl-
vania railroad tracks here yesterday
morning. Monday night Davis, who
was a New York cobbler, visited his
sister, Mrs. Henry Warneke, whom he
had not seen for a year. He was in
| truculent mood all day, and in the
! evening, without any apparent provo
| cation, attempted to kill his sister and
her daughter, the latter 19 years of age,
| firing several shots from revolver at
them. He then fed, and it is supposed
threw himself beneath the wheels of
railway train.
Glassboro, n. j., July 3.-The glass
factories throughout South Jersey, with
very few exceptions, closed down on
| Wednesday for the summer vacation.
! The season has been very prosperous
| one as a whole, and the trade is in
very satisfactory condition. At the big
Whitney plant, in this place, all four
| of the factories have been running al
most continuously during the season,
| and a good portion of the time a night
force has been kept busy on two of the
big continuous tank furnaces. This
company will keep one of it's factories
| for some time yet, probably all Of July.
Extensive improvements will be made
to the works during the summer,
Glassboro, July S.-The trial of about
a dozen citizens of Glassboro, charged
with disorderly conduct, which was to
have taken place before Justice Paulin
yesterday morning failed to material
ize. The complaint was made by John
Kirchner some days ago, and the trial
was set for last Tuesday. The cyclers
were on hand, but the complainant In
the case failed to appear. The trial
was again fixed for Tuesday, but
Kirchner could not be found. The
wheelmen claim that they are being
prosecuted, and there is talk of bring
! ing Kirschner to account by having
him brought to trial under a charge of
| false arrest by the cyclers.
LambertviIe, July 3-On June 10
/ Mrs. Mary a. Phllllps, the Vile OF a
| wel-to-do farmer living about four
| miles south of this city, left her home,
ostensibly to go to dentist in Trenton.
She did not return, and her husband
searched the country and cities, but
| found no trace of her. Today she ap-
peared at her brothers home, a short
distance from her husbands house,
saying she had been working as a SER
want and had returned to nurse her
aged mother, who in her absence had
fallen and broken her hip. Her mother
was hurt at the Phillips home, and
could not be removed. Mrs. Phillips re-
fused to return to her husbands hom6
saying she was not happy there. Mr.
| Phillips says their is years of married
life had always been happy, and he
| cannot account for his wife's actions
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