The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1902-01-07
State News

After Mrs. William Hulick, of Holly
wood, was buried, $1,000 was found hid
den under carpets and sofas in her house
Mrs Hulick was eccentric, but it was no
known she was in the habit of hidin,
money.
Captain Washington Yates, who wa
for twenty years Government pilot of Alb
secon Inlet, and father of Captain JESSE
Yates, the present pilot, died on Sunday
at his home in Atlantic City, aged z:
years Previous to coming here Captain
Yates was mariner He had been Ii
failing health for year.
Daniel McHugh, one-armed man
who keeps an oyster house on King street
near Market, Gloucester, distinguished
himself on Wednesday night when hs
rushed out into Market street and seized
a runaway horse just as it was within
about twenty feet of the river, into which
it would have plunged.
Residents of New Brunswick have
been greatly alarmed over a case of small.
pox, and physicians have been busy fol-
over week vaccinating the employees in
the various factories, and scores of school
children have been vaccinated. There are
about thirty cases at Sayreville and fifteen
at South River, and three cases have re.
suited fatally.
Mrs. Garrett A. Hobart, widow of the
late vice president, has given a plot OF
ground recently purchased on the north
east corner of Grand and Hamilton streets.
atersons to the managers of the Chill
ren's Day nursery. This is an institu-
Pm where the children of parents who
We to toll all day in the workshops can
We their little ones and call for them at
bit.
Edgar Mount, a young man of West
was found in an unconscious condi-
pm Thursday afternoon, lying on the
Near him lay his bicycle, and it
posed that he was thrown from the
while riding at high rate of speed
removed to his home, and an ex-
dati5n showed that be We suffering
from conclusion of the brain. 1rSts be-
lieved he will recover.
Mentally deranged from excessive use
Of liquor, David Still, colored man. so
years Of age, tried to hang himself in the
Atlantic City prison on Saturday. Turn
key Williams heard strange sounds, and,
Investigating, found that Still had caught
his head in his iron folding cot, and was
endeavoring to choke himself to death.
He was resuccitated and placed in q
straitjacket, pending his removal to the
county insane asylum.
4 -Haddonfeld's borough council on
Thursday night appropriated $25 as do
nation to the members of No. Engine
Company, of Camden, for the valuable as
sistance rendered at the fire on Saturday
morning before. The water committee
presented report on their Investigations
into the water pressure at the fire, and
recommended that Council insist that the
pressure be kept up at night and tele-
phone connection be established between
the borough and the pumping station.
When the Camden Board of Health
decided to appoint vaccine physicians the
members were overrun with applications;
as the position looked like finding money
Now, it's different. After weeks labor
nearly all the physicians are disguised
with the work, some have already resign
ed and no one wants the vacant places
The cause thereof is that the people will
not submit to being yaccinated, nine out
Eery ten foolishly informing the doc
ley preferred smallpox to teta-
Margaret Harms, 20 years
Sgas sitting at breakfast a
Etove into pail of alco-
kploded, setting fire to
ant she was a mass
husband attempted
come with fright,
chair helpless.
the floor below,
ae flames with a
Terely. Mrs.
Mems