The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1902-08-12

and Mrs. Harry McKenna, at Bradley
Beach, and left an eight and half
pound baby boy, which, curious to relate,
had one tooth when born.
st. Mary's Roman Catholic church at
Cape May is to have new stone edifice
located on the site of their present build
ing The structure is to cost about 1885,,
000 The parishioners and the summer
visitors of that faith are working hard to
raise the required amount.
The prospect of big cranberry
crop this year around Farmingdale is very
bad, because of late frosts. One grower,
who usually has crop of 5000 bushels,
estimates his crop this fall at not more
than 300 bushels. Ordinarily from 10,
600 to $1,000 bushels are picked from the
boys there, but the total yield from pre-
sent indications will be hardly fourth of
a crop.
During the heavy artillery practice at
Fort Mott recently the fruit trees in the
lower part of Salem county were rid of
the caterpillar plague. The conclusion of
the great guns killed them by the bucket
full. and, incidentally, smashed window
glass for several miles around. The new
mode of Kidding orchards of this pest is
not likely to grow popular.
William M. Lanning, of Trenton, was
nominated, on Tuesday, for congressman
from the Fourth district by one of the
most enthusiastic and representative Re-
publican conventions ever held in the
state of New Jersey. The convention
was held at Pennington, and there were
full delegations from the three counties
of Mercer, Somerset and Hunterdon COM
prising the new Fourth district.
"A man who hires boats to the pleas
ure seekers at Bridgeton's summer park
recently increased his fleet to bakers
dozen and numbered them consecutively
He soon had a problem to solve. Nobody
wanted No. 10, no matter if it was the
only boat available. 1t didn't take him
long to paint out the unpopular figures
and substitute the name Jersey Girl" on
the boat, and now it is the most popular
one in the bunch.
Joseph Hopkins, well known farmer
of near Hightstown, died at his home
there on Tuesday, death being caused by
misunderstanding. About three weeks ago
he scratched his hand with nail, but
thought nothing of the wound, as it panied
him but little and healed up quickly. In
few days. however, his arm began to
swell and he was seized was terrific pains
in the head. Gradually he grew worse
and on Thursday died, after two weeks of
great suffering
Joseph Goddard. the pugilist, who
was shot in the head in Pensauken town
ship, Camden county, during the recent
Republican primary elections, by Consta-
BILE Robert Washington, is still at Cooper
hospital, but is not yet out of danger, al
though at times he is conscious. The hos
pital surgeons have used the X-rays, but
haye been unable to locate the bullet, and
they say that if Goddard RECEIVERS there is
a strong probability that his mind will be
shattered, if he is not entirely insane.
Hanging by his hands to the edge of
the roof on the Boys club building at
Plainfeld, John Cose's tenacity, born of
his desperate situation, saved him from a
frightful fate. Cose, who was making
some repairs to the ridge of the roof, slip
ped and went sliding down the roof. By
sheer accident he grasped the gutter just
as he went over and hung on. Workmen
let one of their number down the roof to
him by rope, and he was held until res
cue could be effected. His hands were
almost paralyzed with hanging to the
gutter.
The North Jersey Railway Company
of Newark, paid on Friday a check for
$40, 900 to the parents of little Ida Her
bich, who had her right hand taken off by
a trolley car at Broad and Market streets,
that city, on July 6, 1885, When YER
dict for that sum was returned the com
pany appealed and had it set aside by the
Supreme Court. Counsel for the child
carried the case to the Court of Errors and
Appeals, which has sustained the verdict.
AS result the company handed over a
rhQok for ha amount Tho ~, 81 Oh ;II
is now years old
Fifty more girls of the American CT
gar Company at Trenton struck on We'd
nesday for an hour in which to eat their
dinner. They joined the same number,
who struck for the same cause the day
before. When the gong sounded at 1890
O'Clock, calling the employees back to
work, the strikers tried to prevent any of
the girls from returning to the factory.
Several of the girls got in exciting scraps,
in which there was some hair pulling, and
a policeman had to be called to restore
order. The police are under instructions
to see that the strikers do not interfere
with those who want to work.
"A fad has sprung up all over Blairs-
town neighborhood in the shape of rattle
snake belts, and the maiden that doesn't
possess one or more with buckles of gold
fore and aft, isn't counted as being up to-
date. If the fad continues to the end of
the season, there will be danger of the
rattlesnake family going out of business.
1t is well known fact that rattlesnakes
are nearly blind during dog days and the
wet season affects them seriously. so that
their capture now is by no means diff
cult task. The young lady boarders
about there and down as far as the Water
Gap and Delaware are all sporting fine
snake belts, and snake hunters and the
local jewellers who mount them are reap
ing harvest.
The elopement of Miss Ethel Small
wood, the daughter of Christopher Small
wood. farmer of Leeds Point, with
young farmer named German Smith,
caused all sorts of trouble in that section
of South Jersey. Miss. Smallwood retired
last Wednesday night as usual, but later,
by means of a rope in the hands of her
lover, escaped with her clothes and, in a