The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1899-03-07
STATE NOTES.

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persons from a soup kitchen, putting out
1920 gallons of soup, at a cost of $1O1. O5.
John W. Edwards, of Ridgewood,
has offered a site for proposed water
works. Municipal ownership is consid.
cred by him the only way to manage the
matter.
-Bridgeton City Council has adopted
resolutions endorsing the attempt of Con
gresham Loudenslager to have one OF
the new battleships named after the state
of New Jersey.
A woman of means has contributed
$500 cash to the Unitarian society of
Hackensack, and it is one of the proba-
bilities that the body will build a church
before many months.
The finance committee of Merchant.
vile borough council has recommended
appropriations aggregating $1S,2 75 fol
the coming year, and the tax rate viii
probably be $2.61, a decrease of four cent
from last year.
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neighborhood of Pleasant Mills that deer
are yet plentiful in South Jersey forests.
Simon Vangrift, a farmer, saw a herd Of
at least nine, running not more than 200
feet apart, coming from the dense Nescc
swamps and sheltering in the highlands.
Charles Stokes, a hunchback, while
picking coal on the tracks of the Camden
and Atlantic Railroad near Atco on Wed
nesday, was struck by the New York ex-
press and hurled over twenty feet. He
had an arm broken and received some
other injuries, but how he escaped in.
slant death is a mystery. He was taken
to Cooper Hospital, Camden.
John Cooper, an inmate of the Cum
berland comfy almshouse, became vic.
lently insane IN Tuesday. He tore w
his bed and clothes and mashed window
lights. He attacked Steward Rory when
he entered his room, but the steward
overpowered him. Cooper is the man who
was murderously assaulted at Port Eliz-
abeth by White Caps recently. The beat
ing he received no doubt affected his
mind.
The borough council of Haddonfield
has declined to pay the $3.50 due Treas
urer and Collector Charles S. Braddock
for the six months he was off duty. Mr..
Braddock was one of the first men to vol
unteer with the Naval Reserves for the
war with Spain. He was commissioned
Lieutenant, and on the auxiliary cruiser
Resolute saw active service at Santiago,
where the American gunners got such ex-
cellent aim on Cervera's ships. The claim
was refused on the ground that the treas
urer virtually resigned when he went off
to war. Mr.. Braddock will, however, le-
gally contest the claim.
The citizens of Monroe township,
Gloucester county, are greatly excited
over the electric lights and water works
from the town of Williamstown. The
township is the largest in Gloucester
county, and should the proposed improve
ments be made the outlying districts
would have to pay their part of the taxes,
and would derive no direct benefit. A
public meeting was held in the Town
Hall on Tuesday night to discuss the mat
ter, and there was a very large attend
ance, and a lively debate ensued. The
outcome of the meeting was the appoint
ment of a committee of ten citizens to in
vestigate and formulate plans and report
at a future meeting.
The mystery surrounding the disap-
pearance of Rae Hague, the young daugh-
ter of Captain Jacob Hague, of Green
was cleared on Tuesday afternoon,
when her body was found in the Conan
sey river, not one hundred yards from the
point to which she was traced when, on
4 last, she left home in pique,
declaring she would drown herself. The
stream was dragged day after day; ex-
were used, and the girls parents
believed she had been carried away. De-
secured the country and rewards
we're offered for the recovery of the girl.
The body was easily identified on Tues
lay afternoon, and Coroner P. j. Davis
will conduct al inquest.
A mammoth pier will soon grace the
boardwalk at Ocean City and provide a
place of recreation and amusement for the
lrmy Of summer visitors. The projectors
IRE R. w. Edwards, of Philadelphia, and
W. E. Massey, of Ocean City. The pier
will be 200 feet long, the approach be-
ng through a covered pavilion slightly
elevated. From here a covered approach
IS feet wide will lead to a building to be
lsed for amusement purposes. This
structure will be so by so feet in the clear,
of pillar or partition. A band
stand and a fine promenade floor will be
IN attraction. An uncovered pier will ex-
END seward 500 feet from this point.
The promenade will be 35 feet wide, pro-
5ected by an ornamental railing.
Peter MacCarty Wright, SO years old,
an eccentric, died on February 18th, at
Freehold, without having an opportunity
to tell where he had hidden three 81, 900
Morris and Essex Railroad bonds. The
house was searched from garnet to cellar
without the discovery of the bonds and
were given up for lost. Miss Wright,
the dead mans aged sister, disposed of Ger
tain pieces of furniture to her n~eighbors
before leaving town. In moving a large
the shelf fell out, and the pres
emit owner, one of the Wrights' nearest
.neighbors, noticed what she thought was a
in it. She felt of it and a piece of
slipped back and revealed a drawer
in which were the missing bonds. Mr..
had fashioned the secret hiding
place himself.
Detective William Carney, of Salem,
on Wednesday captured the man who is
supposed to have raided the dwellings of
V. Ogden and Prosecutor J. w.
on Saturday night week. Carney
was lettering about the Ridgway Hotel,
Philadelphia, on Wednesday afternoon,
he was approached by a colored
nan who asked him if he would not like
to buy some silver spoons. The officer
identified the spoons as some of those
by last Saturday nights burglar.
I'D like to buy them" said Carney, ''Dut
have no money. If you will go over to
to my office I'll pay you" The
unsuspectingly boarded the boat
md when they had reached the Jersey
'hore Carney put the man under arrest,
The suspect says his name is George
Washington and that his home is in Pitts