The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1902-02-04


William G.. Wise has purchased the late
Colonel Whitman property on the Colum-
bus road. The purchasing price was
$1,000. The place includes twenty five
acres of ground.
The heavy wind storm here yesterday
morning blew off the heavy $50 foot slate
roof of No. 8 Mill, United States Cast Iron
Pipe and Foundry Company, at East Bur
lington. The mill is obliged to close
down.
Roy Leighton Scott, who has been the
organist at St. Mary's hall and St. Barna-
bas' Church here, has resigned and has ac-
cepted position as organist and choir
master at st. Peters Episcopal Church,
at Hazelton, Pa.
Miss Elizabeth s. Jones, daughter of
Samuel Jones, of this city, received her
diploma from the State Normal School
Friday night From among forty eight
young lady graduates, Miss Jones was
selected to read the class essay
Samuel Allen Rogers. of West Broad
street, while out of town on Saturday,
was stricken with serious illness and
reached home with much difficulty. Med
ical aid was summoned but he expired
that evening. Death is attributed to an
gina pectoris. Deceased was thirty nine
years of age. He leaves wife and three
sons, two of whom are employed in the
Office of the International Steamship Com
pany, Philadelphia.
With her face cut and covered with
blood, her nose broken and her tongue
almost severed, Mrs William Rink, of
Locust avenue, was found by her husband
shortly after noon Saturday Mr.. Rink
was in the vestibule about to leave the
house when he heard noise as if some
one was falling. Hasteni' g to investigate,
he found his wife on the cellar stairs in
the condition above mentioned He as
sisted her to the upper floor and a doctor
was summoned. The physician found it
necessary to take ten stitches in the
wounds in her face Mrs. Rink could not
tell how she came to fall II is thought
that her foot slipped as she was about to
go down cellar.
The funeral of Ezra Budd Marter oc-
CURED on Tuesday. The services were
conducted by Rey. Mr.. Stryker of River
side, and Rev. Mr.. Gravatt. of Atlantic
City, formerly pastor of the Beverly NJ
E. Church. The active pail bearers were
Louis B. Struby, George Birkhead, E. F.
Woolston, William Ivans, Herbert Henry
and Clarence Adams, members of Beverly
Lodge, No. 95, 1. O. o. F., of which the
deceased was charter me mber. The
honorary pail bearers were Joseph S.
Fleetwood, Theodore B. Gaskill, Samuel
w. Beldon, Howard Flanders, Ephraim
Hildreth, John R. Dubell, Joshua Taylor
and James o. Glasgow.
Charged with stealing pocket book
from the house of Mrs. John Clark, man
giving the name of Ralph Brown, who
said he was from Liverpool, England, was
captured by officers on Friday afternoon.
The prisoner was taken before Justice
Smith, where he first denied the charge.
Witnesses appeared who saw the man
enter the house. when he finally broke
down and made a confession to having
entered the house. After he had taken a
sum of money he threw away the pocket
book. He said he was a sailor on the ship
Astecon, from England, and had missed
his boat when she sailed from Point
Breeze. Philadelphia. and was then on his
way to New York, where he expected to
join the crew. The prisoner was commit
ted to the Burlington county Jail