The Monmouth inquirer., 1906-08-23
News Notes.

About fifty Millville people are at
camp at Fortescue. on Delaware
banks.
The annual reunion of Twelfth
Regiment, New Jersey Volunteers.
will be held in Millville on September
4.
Hilyard Rodman and David Miller,
Young men of Rancocas, are in the
county jail at Mt. Holly awaiting trial
upon the charge of stealing water
melons from farmers.
The rainfall in Salem county has
been exceptionally heavy the past
week. and in Lower Alloway amounts
to almost a flood. Farmers believe
the tomato fields are seriously daInag-
ed.
A washerwoman on the farm of Will
liam Powell, on the Marion pike.
East Camden, threw some boiling hot
suds out of the kitchen door Saturday
and severely scalded the farmers
Youngest son William who happened
to pass at that instant.
Louis J. Kaler, of Phillipsburg, ig-
nored warming to keep from under
a heavy casting that was being hoist
ed at the plant of the Ingersoll- Rand
Drill company and was crushed to
death when the casting Tell.
From an injury received two years
ago while arresrfng negro, when ne
was struck on the head with Ratchet
Policeman Thomas Brothers, OF 553
Chestnut street, Camden, is seriously
i'll, blood clot having formed.
After suffering intense agony for
seventeen hours, death came TO the
relief of Carl Egmont Hartung, son OF
Mr.. and, Mrs. Louis Hartung, OF
Wyckoff. who was terribly burned by
an explosion of gasoline. The acct
/ dent which caused the death OF Mr..
/ Hartung occurred ON Friday night.
While trying to stop leak near the
/ gas meter in his home Railway, Frank
! Fubr. an emplove OF the Pennsylvania
railroad. caused an explosion which
shattered the house. He held a lighted
candle near rhe pipe after he thought
4 be had made the connection. Then
| the explosion occurred Fuhr suffer
ed little bodily hurt, as all the dam
age was caused on the first and second
floors, while he was in the cellar.
large hole was blown out of the front
of the house and the ceilings fell.
valuable horse belonging to the
contractors OF the construction OF the
state sanitarium al Gardner was fatal
ly injured. aud Willis Sigler, a young
man. was badly hurt as the result OF
a collision at Annandale. Mr.. Sigler
had taken load of young people from
Glen Garden to picnic ar Iron Spring
Park. near Annandale, and was re-
turning to the hotel after unloading
his passengers at the park, when he
was run into by zig driven by one
of the foremen of the sanitariam, who
was turning II corner OF the rad.
Chief of Police Thomas Crothers, Of
East Rutherford, and State Detective
John ]. Dupuy, have been placed
under 81. 900 bail on the charge of as
sauit preferred by Marshal T. w. j ohn-'
son. of East Rutherford. on an order
of a suDreme court commissioner issu-
ed to Sheriff Mercer. The order was
handed over to Deputy Sheriff Biau-
Welt. who served the papers. This Is
a civil action growing out OF charge
that the chief and detective interfered
with the marshal while i'll the perfor-
nance Of his duties and also iInprison-
ing him against his protests.
Frightened by an automobile,
horse drawing conveyance frsm out
of town started to RIM way 10 Spring
street. in Newton, The driver and two
women in the rig made frantic efforts
to stop the ANNUAL, and succeeded IN
further frightening the horse. After
a wheel had been removed from a
grocery wagon, and Sheriff Judson K
Gum had succeeded in diverting the
course of the runaway up the court
house hill, in High street, the horse
was stopped easily. Beyond the dam
age to the grocery wagon there were
no other accidents.