The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-07-20

The neighbors saw the creeping breakers
at work before the owner realized the
danger and warned him, but the head of
the household was so deliberate about the
rescue work that his property sailed away
before his eyes just as he arrived with
coachman and ropes.
Two of the Holman friction-geared
locomotives arrived at Cape May and will
be tried on the South Jersey Railway
tracks Wednesday. The engines used
last year made SO miles an hour on sey-
eral occasions, and the new engines are
expected to bring the speed up tol00
miles. The engines were built at the
Baldwin works, Philadelphia, and stand
Is feet from the rail line.
j. D Foote, president of Kearney &
Foote Company, file makers at Paterson,
whose 500 operatives have been on strike
for three months, on Wednesday an
nounced that no attention would hereaf-
ter be paid to the demands of the strik-
ers. The company, he says, has selected
a town in Ohio to which the factory will
be removed Enough machinery has been
shipped to employ $50 hands.
SO much indignation has been dis
played in Montclair over the pranks of
some of the high school boys, who re-
Gently obtained keg of beer and drank
it's contents, that the Board of Education
has asked the Township Committee to
revoke the license granted to the liquor
dealer who sold the beer to the boys.
The offending dealer is Patrick Farrell,
who says that the beer was sold to man,
who turned it over to the boys.
Too much zeal in base ball and swim
after the game resulted in the death, at
Camden, on Thursday, of Dallas Hullings.
He was in demand by the amateur clubs,
and was on the field nearly every day.
On July 9th he played from 10 o'clock in
the morning to at night, and was i'll the
next day. He went to Philadelphia on
the 10th and played ball in the afternoon
when it was intensely hot. To cool off
he went in swimming. He came home.
was stricken with severe pains in the
head, which extended over his body. He
died in great agony.
The town of Elmer is to have a dog
catcher, that is, if any one applies for the
position. The council decided on the
matter, prompted by the recent nnmer-
GUS cases in other towns where people
were bitten by unmuzzled and unregis-
tered dogs, making the town liable to a
damage suit. The successful applicant for
the position is entitled to 81. 25 for each
dog he kills, and is also entitled to the
full redemption fee of the same amount
1t is expected that when the new Official
assumes his duties business in the Mayors
court will take jump.
George Schuster tainted at the Cooper
Hospital door, at Camden, Wednesday.
when he went TO get treated for three
broken ribs. Through his reception into
that institution the authorities discovered
that an entire family, including Schuster,
his wife and five children, was starving
in little house in the lower part of the
city. For days they had nothing to eat,
and would not ask for help Schuster
fell from sheer exhaustion and broke his
ribs, and then dragged himself to the
hospital. 1t is feared that he and one of
fhs obi lIr mill .Isa
-Gustave Young, a hard-working
plumber, living at Newark, has received
word from Denver, Col, which leads him
to believe that in the near future he will
come into a fortune of over 5000, 900.
Young had an uncle in Denver who died
recently. A few days ago the nephew re-
ceived letter from R. G. Smith, former
employee of the deceased relative, inform
ing him that the uncle had left fortune
of about $2S5,000, all of which, save
other requests amounting to $4,000, he
had left to Young. The latter is await
ing further information.
United States Revenue Agent Spald-
ing, of Philadelphia, and number of
deputies went to Trenton on Thursday
afternoon and made raid on the brew
cry of Franz Hill. There is suspicion
that the revenue laws were being violated
Attached to the brewery is a saloon, which
Hill operates, where beer is taken from
kegs which have not been properly stamp
ed. Lewis Schmidt, the bartender, was
taken into custody. Hill and his wife,
who are the proprietors, and Edward
Myers, collector, were obliged to 90 to
the Camden jail.
United States Marshal Thomas ].
Alcott has completed his quarterly returns
to be submitted to the government, for
the board of prisoners from the District of
Columbia who are now incarcerated in the
New Jersey state prison. Formerly pris-
oners from the District of Columbia were
sent to Auburn, New York, to serve their
terms, but some time ago New Jersey
made bid to board them for 80 cents
day. This was cut rate and the govern
ment at once accepted the offer. Since
the latter part of January seventy-eight
prisoners have been received, and the
state board bill against the government
to 81 $685..
AN item from Glassboro says that at
the meeting of the Gloucester County
Board of Assessors, on Tuesday, it was
that the property in the town
ship of Clayton INSIDE of the borough
had not been assessed for three years,
and that for the same period no township
officers whatever have been elected. This
is probably the only township in the state
of New Jersey where such state OF
things exists. The board appointed three
Of its members to assess the property.
The township outside the borough limits
only covers small area, and there are
probably not oyer fifteen voters within
its limits, hardly enough to fill the Offices
If every one had place.
"A neighbor stepped into the house of
Mrs. Harriet Ayars, at Bridgeton, We'd
nesday morning, and found her lying I'M