The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1902-03-04


The Delaware and Raritan Canal will
reopen for navigation on March TO-
Turner Brakeley, who has been i'll with
typhoid fever the past six weeks, is report
ed to be somewhat better.
The brother and sister of James Birming.
ham, who was killed in the Nelly BLY,
wreck, have brought suit against the
Pennsylvania railroad for damages.
At an early hour Wednesday morning
the cable of the Bell Telephone company
at 8. E. Burr's hardware store was burned
out by being crossed by an electric light
circuit
American Star Council, No. so, Jr. o.
U. A M, have appointed committee con-
sisting of ]. Edward Parent, Carlton H.
Strang and George Schuyler, Jr, to make
arrangements to celebrate the twelfth an
niversary, which is to be held the latter
part of April.
Granville Beckett, the Swear son OF
Thomas Beckett, was hit in the eye with a
hard SNOWFALL, thrown by another boy
Thursday night. He was taken to the
office of DR.. L. D. Tebo, where his injuries
were attended to. 1t is feared conclusion
of the brain may result from it.
The wife of Augustus Tindall, farmer.
living near Crosswicks, has been taken to
the Pasteur institute, New York, to be
treated for hydrophobia, of being bitten
by dog few days ago. Mrs. Tindall
was in the act of tying the dog when it
turned on her and bit her on the wrist.
The dog was killed and the head and
shoulders were taken to the institute to be
analysed.
A public meeting was held in Trinity
Methodist Church on Friday night in the
interest of law and order and branch
league was formed. The meeting was
presided over by Asher Brakeley. An
address was made by Rev. S. H. Ham, of
Camden, secretary of the New Jersey
Law and Order League. The following
officers were elected: President, Asher
Brakeley; vice president, Rev. T. H.
Landon; secretary, Rev. Charles H. Whit
aker; treasurer, Rev. J. H. Payran. The
league has started with sixteen names en-
rolled as charter members.
The large store of the E. S. Burr Hard
ware Company had narrow escape from
destruction by fire last Tuesday night.
Some time during the night tree some
where about town had fallen SO as to cross
the Bell telephone and trolley wires. The
current set fire to the woodwork overhead
in Burr's telephone exchange office.
While the occupants of the dwelling ad-
joining slept. the blaze must have been
very lively one, as it damaged the mould
ing, the switch board and begrimed
with smoke the ceiling and wall paper
Fortunately lead waste pipe was in the
corner where the fire occurred, and this
pipe having been completely melted by
the flames acted as an engine in deluging
lhe blaze and conquering it. The dis
charge of water was copious as the store
floor showed.
The steamer Florence, which has piled
On the upper Delaware for some years,
was burned at its dock at Bordentown
Thursday evening. When the flames were
discovered the Bordentown fire depart
ment was at once notified, but when they
arrived upon the scene it was too late to
save the steamer. The fire was discovered
at $50 o'clock, and within an hour the
steamer was burned to the waters edge.
The origin of the fire is unknown, but it
is supposed to have been incendiary, as
there were no fires in the boilers The
boat belong to the Bordentown and Phila-
pelphia Transportation company, and was
run the past summer in connection with
the Delaware River Navigation company's
steamboat line between this city and Phil
adelphia. The steam yacht Sylvia was
moored alongside the Florence, but by the
aid of the fire department the smaller boat
was saved.