The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-09-28
TIE MOUNT HOLLY NEWS
LOCAL NEWS.

from sprained leg.
The special election to-day is not ex.
pected to poll heavy vote.
E. S. Mathis has received the contract
to lay the water mains at Marlton.
Samuel N. Haines and Joseph Akin
son, masons, are working at Palmyra.
County Superintendent Stees is to have
an Office on the second floor of the Court
House.
Clifford Nesbitt has resumed his duties
as baggage master at the East Burlington
station.
Sig. Sautelle gave very good circus
performance on Tuesday evening to large
audience.
Workmen have been laying a new
plank drive over the railroad above the
fair grounds.
Thomas Ridgway, of Jacobstown, re.
Gently had rib broken by being thrown
from his horse.
B. Frank Richardson, who has been
surveying for new railroad in Vermont
has returned home.
John R. Howell has gathered all his
cranberries. His crop this year amounted
to about 14O0 bushels.
The residence of Judge Charles E. Hem
Erickson has been freshly painted by
artist Robert L. Nixon.
W. K. Morris, farmer at Jacobstown,
denies the statement that hog cholera 10
prevalent in his section.
Reading N. Stillwell was pretty roughly
used by mad bull belonging to Charles
ii. Wisham, a few days since.
The store next to E. Holeman & Son
has been opened for the sale of fruit and
vegetables by Thomas Dolan, Jr.
A picture of the players composing the
Mount Holly base ball club appeared in
the Philadelphia Press on Sunday.
Fitz Selland was arrested at Riverton
Friday for destroying watermelons on the
farm of Mr.. Shay, of Cinnaminson.
Fred M. 6hemeley, who has been con-
fined to the house the past eight weeks
with typhoid fever. has recovered sufi-
GENTLY to walk out.
Local hunters are getting ready to un-
leash their pointers after woodcock the
first of October, when the season opens
for shooting these birds.
George Loveland, who was recently ar
rested for committing an assault on
Michael Chubaroff, has been liberated
from jail under $500 bail.
Edwin R. Semple leaves this week for
McAlester, Indian Territory, where he
will be employed by the Choctaw, Okla
homa and Gulf Railroad.
The Board of Assessors was in session
at the court house on Friday, to rectify a
mistake made by one of the assessors, in
volvirg a matter of $15, 900.
Ralph Shinn. aged hye years. is suffer-
ing from broken collar bone, resulting
from fall caused by his fathers dog strik-
ing him while jumping over the fence.
On charge of having made an assault
on Mary A. Lucas, young girl living at
Juliustown. James Stevenson, of Lemon
town, has been held under 500 bail for
court.
A post-mortem examination revealed.
the fact that the death of COW belonging
to James Casey, was due to a piece of
wire that had become coiled about her
heart.
Officers Denness and Branson went
down the creek on Friday. After tramp
ing over the marshes and getting wet to
the skin, they came home with only one
rail bird.
Mrs. Wallace, of New Egypt, is training
the children who are to take part in the
entertainment to be given in the Opera
House for the benefit of the Burlington
County hospital on October 7.
Charles T. Haines, of Medford, had an
Undated wire rat trap in bis shop for over
a month. Hearing an unusual noise he
made an investigation and found that the
trap contained seventeen rats
DIR. ]. w. Branln attended banquet at
the Hotel Walton, Philadelphia, on We'd
nesday evening, which was given by the
Metropolitan Insurance Company to the
members of its board of medical exami-
ners.
DR.. q. w. Van Derveer has slight at
tack of poisoning. He recently cut an ar
terry in his wrist with the edge of chisel.
nd Inflammation ensued, making an un-
comfortable sensation, but nothing Sc
rious.
Last week thieves ransacke ed the tenant
house on the Hulme farm on the Rance
cas- road. A box of tools, which the rob-
bers hid in the bushes near the creek,
were found by Joseph S. Hulme, Jr., Of
Mount Holly.
James Hunt, colored, of Riverside,
VIII ose mind became unbalanced over re-
ligious matters, is now confined in q pad
ded cell at the Trenton insane asylum. He
is raving maniac and his case is pro-
nounced hopeless.
Charles. son of Samuel Clapper, was
kicked in the head by horse on Wed
nesday, rendering him unconscious and
cutting an ugly cash in his scalp. He
suffered from concussion of the brain for
some time, but is all right again now.
The Good Intent engine and hose ear
riage have been placed in Judson Gaskills
carriage factory and will remain there
until Thursday, the engine house being
used Tor the entertainment of delegates to
the meetings of the Camden Baptist AS
ISOLATION.
Motor car No. 2, on the Burlington
trolley road, was returned, last week,
from the Pavonia car shops, where it had
been renovated and repainted. The cleo
trical apparatus was overhauled and the
motor newly wired under the direction of
Electrician Walter Oliphant
Constable Richard Lamb, of New Han
over. arrested Peter Donnelly, of Bir-
mingham, in Mount Holly on Tuesday,
for passing worthless check ON George
A. Smith, of Bordentown. The check
was drawn on the Freehold Banking
Company, and the representation that
Donnelly had money on deposit there
was false.
Some of the hands at E. L. Prickett
& Co.'S leather factory went out on