The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1902-09-09
State News.

William A. Eddy recently expert
mented at Bayonne with two new kinds of
parachutes, with rudders to enable para
chute jumpers to direct their course after
the parachutes drop from their balloons.
The important discovery was made that
parachutes of the balloon type, when fur
nished with rudders, Immediately revolve
instead of taking curved course. This
was demonstrated by more than twenty
flights, the parachutes being released in
midair by slow matches. Mr.. Eddy is
planning perpendicular partition fore
and aft for the parachute, which he be-
lieves will stop the revolving tendency.
Mrs Mary Swope, widow, living at
1926 Camden street. reported to the Cam
den police that she had been held up by
two men and robbed of 81, 1913, which she
had received for house which she sold
July II. She had been carrying the
money for several weeks when she met q
woman friend, near Gloucester City. The
two women went to a restaurant and there
made the acquaintance of two men, who
proposed that all take a carriage ride.
Mrs. Swope said she accompanied the
party as far as some point on the Haddon-
field turnpike, where she left the convey
ance. One of the men seized her from
behind and gagged her, while the other
took the 81, 1888. Then they knocked her
down and she lay unconscious until found.
Charging that the man to whom she
was married already had a wife living,
Miss Minnette s. VanKuren, of Hacken-
sack, has instituted action in the chancery
court to have the ceremony through
which she went three weeks ago annulled
She says she was married on August II,
to man who represented himself to be
John F. Hart, of Long Branch Rev H.
B. Leach, of the First Methodist church
of Hackensack, officiated. Two days
after the wedding, the bride says, the hus-
band disappeared, and Miss Van Kuren
started out to do little personal detective
work. She alleges in her petition that
John F. Hart was really Charles III. Koer-
ner, who on August ID, 1895, married
Mary Cromwell, in Belmar, and that the
bride of six years ago had now an unde-
termined action for divorce pending in
the courts.
William Ramsay, young man of
Clayton, was returning home from Hurff-
vile on his bicycle about O'Clock in the
morning, when he saw black bear come
out of the woods near the electric light
works and run up the road after him.
Ramsey pedaled as fast as he could, but
the bear followed at remarkable speed
After a race of mile or more the bicycle
rider outdistanced his pursuer. Near
Glassboro he got off at water fountain
to quench his thirst. Toshis horror, he
saw the bear approach and not twenty
feet away. 1t was too late to get on his
tag" around the fountain, the man,
IN, ha
bears eyes. Finally, he succeeded in
jumping on his wheel and getting away
A searching party, heavily armed, went
out and found the bear. 1t was an old
black goat, which is great pet in the
neighborhood
Mrs. Minnie Siler, eighteen years old,
wife of Frederick Siler, who is seventy
two, appeared as complainant in the Ho-
boken recorders court against Miss Kate
Baul0rt, neighbor whom she charged
with circulating stories detrimental to her
good name. She married Siler a month
ago and asserts that Miss Baulort and
other young women of her neighborhood
have been telling everybody that it was
the old mans money that induced her to
become his wife. "These stories are I'M
true said Mrs. Siler. 81 love my husband
dearly and would rather be his wife a
hundred times over than young mans
slave ] didn't give his property a thought
when he proposed to me. J" Recorder Stan
ton would not entertain the charge against
Miss Baulort, saying that he didn't knew
whether Mrs. Siler married for money or
not. 'I'm not clairvoyant, he said to
the complainant, land have no means of
reading your heart. If you want satisfac-
ton you'll have to seek it by civil pro-
cess.