The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1902-04-15

Butterine % cents pound at Allinson's.
Clean and sweet, and better than cheap
butter.
To settle the question raised by the tie
vote on freebooter in Tabernacle town.
ship, the township committee has ap-
pointed Arthur Haines to the position.
Ex-Judge B. P. Wills met with an &C
cident while driving In Burlington ON
Sunday. His horse got scared at troll
ley car and became unmanageable. 1t
jumped on to some sewer pipes, which
threw Mr.. Wills from the carriage. He
received a cut on the face and mum Der
of bruises. The horse was al so consider
ably cut and bruised. The carriage was
badly damaged.
The people of Mount Holly felt the
effect of the ''beef trust" last week, when
an advance of two cents per pound was
made in the retail price of all meats.
While the best steaks command 25c h.,
the price is below what most other towns
sell for. just how long this condition of
affairs will last cannot be stated, but 1t is
safe to predict that drop is not looked
for very soon in the wholesale prices of
meats.
The Thomas Devlin Manufacturing
Company, of Burlington, has filed articles
of incorporation in the county clerk s
office. The objects of this concern are to
manufacture and sell iron, nickel, brass
and other metals; to build, construct.
maintain and operate water, gas or electri-
cal works, tunnels, bridges etc. The
total authorized capital is 81, OO0,0 600. The
incorporators are Thomas Devlin, Louis J.
McGrath, William ]. Devlin, of Philadel
phia; Richard Mott and William D'Olier,
of Burlington.
Oscar W. Schafer was buried in Lum
berton on Saturday. He committed sui
eide in New York on Wednesday. The
the Office of Schafer, and he was found
with cigar stub between the fingers of
one hand and a revolver in the other
That death was intentional was shown by
slip of paper on the desk with these
words; please notify my father-in-law,
Joseph W. Robinson" The latter is we'll
| known about here He has q summer
residence at Lumberton.
At the meeting of the officers and d.
rectors of the Mercer County Mutual
Fire Insurance Company last week, Ma
thsniel s. Rue. of Cream Ridge, was alb
sent He has been director of the COM
pany for fifty years and very rarely miss
ed meeting. Recalling the fact that Mr.
Rue had been identified with the company
for half a century, substantial present
was directed to be sent to him and appro
pirate resolutions were adopted. Mr.. Rue
is 80 years old, but active for one of his
age. Illness kept him away from the
meeting, the first he has missed in many
years.
Raymond w. Sprow, who is employed
in The News Office, learned lesson on
Saturday afternoon while engaged in the
yard at his home on Shreve street. Ray
mond has heretofore had considerable
sport in breaking empty bottles with a
cannon, and it was while thus engaged
that the accident occurred He had load
ed the weapon with powder and shot, and
having no fuse he folded paper funnel,
partly filed it with powder, and after in
serting the end in the firing hole applied
match. The powder in the funnel ex-
ploded before the young man had got
away, the powder entering his face and
chest, disfguring him quite badly. in
consequence of which he is not serving
his papers to-day.
Watson d. Cramer, of New Gretna,
journeyed all the way to Mount Holly,
yesterday, to get warrant from Justice
Laumaster for the arrest of Elizabeth
Loveland, Lavinia Gerew, William T.
Loveland, ST., and Arthur T. Loveland,
charged with assault and battery Cramer
says that after attending lodge on Sat-
urday evening. he went into the restaur-
ant of Joseph B. Lamson, when the de-
PENDANTS entered and charged him with
having uttered defamatory remarks about
them. They demanded he should retract
them, but he said he had not said any
thing that should be taken back. so the
men held him while the women proceeded
to beat him Cramer explained his reason
for coming to Mount Holly to get the war
rant was that nobody down at New Gretna
had sense enough to issue one.