The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1905-03-07
State Notes.

The Rev. Lewis Il. Jones, for the pas
five years pastor of Mt. Nebo Baptist
Church, Atlantic City, the congregation
of which has increased from 10 to more
than $50 members, has accepted a call to
the Second Baptist Church, Carnegie, Pa.
1t was announced on Thursday that
new recitation building, to be known as
McCosh Hall, will soon be erected behind
University Chapel, at Princeton, at a cest
of 100000. 1t will be of gothic archi-
lecture and will be ready for occupancy
during the next academic year. The
names of the donors are withheld.
Camden is to be made dangerous terri
tory for drivers who abuse their horses.
The ninety nine members of the police
force are to be made honorary members of
the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty
to Animals, with power to make arrests at
any time and the privilege of receiving
one-half of any penalty imposed.
Removing bunch of bananas from q
barrel in his store, Anthony Campbell, of
Pitman lodged just in time to escape a
tarantula which dropped from the bunch.
The ugly insect made jumps of three
feet at time and kept Campbell moving.
1t was finally captured alive, however,
and placed in glass jar. 1t measured five
inches across
John p. Haines, president of the
American Society for the Prevention of
Cruelty to Animals, and who has large
tract of woodland near Toms River, has
scattered bushels of wheat, buckwheat
and peanuts over his property for quail,
rabbits and squirrels. Mr.. Haines never
allows any one to shoot game on his
property.
DIR. Paul I. Murrill, of Woodbury.,
who has been chemist at the Dupont pow
der works at Gibbstown, has been appoint
ed by the powder trust to take charge of
its investigations in Europe. DR.. Murrill
win sail the latter part of March, and will
make his home in London. He is grad
uate of Kentucky State College and of the
University of Michigan, and formerly
lived at Hickory, N. C.
Stephen 10th, 45 years old. was in
stantly killed by milk train No. 40, ON the
LackawanEa railroad at Oxford. He and
companion were walking on the tracks
toward Pequest Blast Furnace and, the
long switches being blocked with coal
trains, the men did not see the train ap-
preaching. Toth's leg was cut off and he
was disembowelled. His companion
jumped and escaped injury.
Federal officials have written Cover
or Stokes asking to beheard in the effort
being made by various labor unions to Sc
cure the pardon of William MacQueen,
sent to state prison for five years from
Paterson for melting to riot. The Gov
eminent authorities declare that Mac
Queen should not be released, as he is an
an archist. The Rev. A. W. Wishart, of
renton, is one of the leaders in securing
influence for McQueen's pardon.
Papers in divorce case suit have
been served on James Palmer, a prisoner
in the Passaic county Jail, by Sheriff
Bergen. Palmer's wife, resident of
Jersey City. charges desertion, and in her
bill of particulars sets forth that she and
the defendant were married six years ago
this month. Palmer's incarceration came
about through charge of robbing Patrick
Coleman. driver for the New York
parcel delivery firm, of about $25 belong
Ing to his employers.
Franz Prof, % years old, who says he
lives at 17S Fulton street, Brooklyn, at
tempted last January 10 to commit suicide
in Jersey City by gashing his throat three
times with a sharp penknife. He was
taken to the City hospital. His determi-
nation to end his life has been continually
expressed that the hospital authorizes have
strapped his hands to his cot. He says:
I'm finish the job when l get out of
here" His attempt to end his life, so far
as the physicians can discover, is due to
dependency.
Living in retirement at Pleasantville.
is the original Dockstader, of minstrel
fame. He is G. r. Dockstader, brother of
Lew" Dockstader. Born at Cleveland,
o., in 1S49, he was only6 years old when
he first appeared in burnt cork, with Sells
Brothers circus Afterward he and his
brother performed together. Dockstader's
cottage, on Washington avenue, is filed
with souv enirs of his stage career His
health is not of the best, but he still does
some professional writing. He has writ
ten the lines for many minstrel perform
ances, some of which attained wide pop
ularity.
The funeral of General Richard A.
Donnelly, Quartermaster General of New
Jersey, took place from his home in Tren-
ton, on Thursday afternoon. and was at
tended by Governor Stokes, former Gov
ernor Murphy and practically all New
Jersey state officials. The funeral was in
charge of Aaron Wilkes Post, G. A. r.,
of which General Donnelly was a mem
Der and past commander. The Second
Regiment, N G. N. j., took part in the
funeral ceremonies. acting as an escort
from Trinity P. E. Church, where the ser
vices were held, to Greenwood cemetery,
where the interment was made.
The first SANDER suit in many years
in the Gloucester county courts was call
ed on Thursday. 1t was that of Irene
Weatherby against George Kier and his
wife Gertrude. At Alcyon Park, last May,
the plaintiff said she accused Mrs Kier of
writing letter concerning herself to a
young man. Mrs Kier, she averred, re
piled by telling her that she was of ''low
character" Since that time, Miss Wealth
erby says, there has been a marked fall |
ing off in the calls of male friends Be-
fore the episode she had received offers of
marriage and many invitations to parties.
Mrs. Kier denied using the words quoted
by the plaintiff and writing the letter.
The court readily granted the request of
the lawyers on both sides to end the case
and dismiss the jury. The suit was for
5000 damages.
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