The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1899-03-14

ing the early part of the sale, but it mar
rowed down to Mr.. Copeland, counsel for
the electric company, and Mr.. Levan, for
the Franklin Trust Company. Mr.. Cope
land bid to $50, $50 and quit. Mr.. Levan
Do sou better and obtained the plant.
AT a meeting of the Trustees of
Princeton University, on Thursday, Pres
ldent Patton announced gifts of 800, 900
for the academic department, and a gift
OF 500, 600 for the endowment of a chair
in English literature, with the proviso
that DIR. Henry Van Dyke be the first
incumbent.
Last Fall Mrs. Abram A. Emmons, So
years old of Freehold, eloped with Henry
Brown, a farmland, IS years old. Her
husband became insane from grief, and is
now in the State Asylum at Trenton. His
house was closed by his brothers. Last
month the runaway couple returned and
took possession of the house. Conover
Emmons has had the couple arrested on a
charge of adultery, and John B. Ireland,
Mr.. Emmons' half brother, has charged
her with bigamY, on the ground that her
true husband, John Lourey, is still living.
The Camden county board of free
holders, on Wednesday, decided to post.
pone for two weeks the question of accept
ance or rejection of the new bridge across
Cooper's creek, at State street, Camden.
The reason for this move, it was stated, is
the incompletion of the gate at the bridge
approaches. Superintendent Charles F.
Currie, of the county asylum at Black
wood, the model institution of the state,
told the board that with accommodations
for only 100 patients, there were now 1870,
which necessitated some expedients not
at all beneficial to the hapless inmates.
The board decided to have plans and spec
iications drawn at once for the addition
to the asylum.
With the buildings already under way
and the many more in contemplation, this
is to be a humming spring in Camden.
Besides the building operations, work on
the sheet asphalt paving will begin in
three weeks, and that means work for
several hundred men, besides a standing
advertisement for the city. Work is being
pushed on the new government building,
at Third and Arch streets. The first floor
girders are all in place, and the granite
coping laid. The walls of the new High
school, o. Haddon avenue, nave risen
above the second floor and that fine struct-
ure will ..soon be ready for roofing. The
big new pen factory, at Seventh and State
streets, is rapidly nearing completion, and
work will soon begin upon a large addi-
ton to the Reeve oilcloth plant, on Coop
er's creek, at Pine street.
AT the last term of the Camden county
court, Frank Weinstein, of the firm of
Weinstein Brothers, was acquitted of a
charge of passing a worthless check upon
the Camden National Bank. The evidence
was of such a nature that his acquittal
came by a very narrow margin, although
Weinstein was emphatic in his assertions
of innocence. When the three young
men now in Jail at Newark, on charges
of wholesale forgery and passing worth
less checks, confessed that they had been
swindling in all parts of the state, Vein
stein grew suspicious that one of them
might be the person who passed the check
on a charge of which he was suspected.
Weinstein vent to Newark on Tuesday
and obtained from one of the young pris-
oners an admission that he had passed the
check upon the Camden bank, on which
Weinstein had such a narrow escape of
conviction.
The New Jersey Grand Lodge of the
Ancient Order of United Workmen met at
Trenton IN Friday and elected the follow
ing Grand officers: Master Workman,
William H. Mccullough, Swedesboro;
Foreman, William S. Lambert, Newark;
Overseer, Frank W. Tussey, Camden;
Recorder, ]. H. Lippincott, Camden; Re
ceiver, Golsen Test, Camden; Guide, V.
o. Nash, Plainfield; Inside Waterman,
Edwin Cadmus. Bayonne; Outside Watch
man, A. N. Tomlinson, Elizabeth; Medi-
cal Examiner, Omar Barwis, Trenton;
Trustee, Thomas Harris Camden; Repre-
sentatives to the Supreme Lodge, E. H.
Colyer, Newark; E. c. Stahl, Trenton;
John Enright, Freehold.