The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1899-01-03
STATE NOTES.

George Holzworth, aged 80, while
walking on the Pennsylvania Railroad, at
New Brunswick, Tuesday evening, was
struck by the fast Virginia express, run
ming at fifty miles an hour. He was pick
ed up unconscious and removed to Wells
Memorial Hospital His injuries are Sc
rious, but hopes are entertained for his
recovery.
granted an order making Abram Emmons,
of Englishtown, ward of the county at
the Trenton Insane Asylum. Last Octo-
Der Emmons was living on farm with
his wife, when the latter eloped with
boy about IS years old, who worked about
the farm. They took most of Emmons'
clothes and about 800 of his money.
About two weeks ago Emmons, after act
ing strangely at times, became violently
insane, and his relatives attribute his
mental condition to grief at the desertion
of his wife.
Before Vice Chancellor Reed, in Cam
den, on Tuesday, counsel for the Grand
Lodge of the Ancient Order of United
Workmen of New Jersey made applica-
ton to file bill of intcrpleader in the
case of Sarah Connolly VS.. the Grand
Lodge 1t appears that Joseph Connolly,
who was member of subordinate lodge
at Atlantic City, had his wife made the
beneficiary of his death benefit certificate.
His wife died, and he desired to have his
children made the benefciaries. He was
was not necessary, as his children would
be entitled to the benefits under the GER
tiicate. Connolly, it appears, married
again, and, after a short time, he died,
and wife No. 2 made application for the
So, 900 death benefits. The children con-
tested the payment of the same on the
ground that the certificate was issued in
the name of the first wife, and that the
stepmother had no right or interest in the
matter. As counsel on the other side had
not filed an answer to the bill, the matter
went over.
Bloomfield station of the Delaware,
Lackawanna and Western Railroad took
fire Wednesday afternoon, presumably
from an overheated stove and before the
flames were extinguished the building was
Quilted. 1t was about 3.15 o'clock when
the fire started. The ticket agent got all
the money and what tickets he could save
and made for place of safety. Above
the waiting room lived the family of John
Smith, an employee of the United States
Express Company. Mr.. Smiths wife and
three children were rescued and given
temporary shelter in the freight house.
1t is reported in Paterson labor cir
cles that Samuel Bullock, the labor agitat-
or, who was twice elected to the Assem-
bly, from Passaic county, has taken the
place of a striking twister in the Bridge
port Silk Company's mill at Bridgeport,
Conn. According to the story from
Bridgeport after Bullock took the posi-
ton in the mill he asserted that he did not
know strike was on When asked by
liquidation of strikers to leave the mill,
Bullock refused, it is said, declaring that
his pecuniary condition was such that he
could not afford to be without employ
ment. The union offered to make endeav-
ors to secure work for Bullock, and to aid
him financially, but, it is said, he refused
to quit his place in the mill. Bullock.
since his election to the Legislature, had
not worked at his trade as a twister until
he took the place at Bridgeport a week or
more ago. He recently started saloon
at Paterson, but it is said that the venture
was not a success.