The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1906-04-10
Ocean County Notes.

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The club house at Peahala is being en-
larged. Capt. Moses Cranmer has charge
of the work.
Thomas W. Fisher, one of three men
charged with shooting from power boat
in Barnegat Bay last fall. was acquitted
by Justice Allen at Toms River on We'd
nesday.
A. J. Kelley, proprietor of the Ocean
House, Toms River, expects to make ex-
tensive alterations TO his hotel. The
sitting and dining rooms will exchange
locations. the barroom will have new fix
lures and the pool room will receive atten-
ton.
Charles Cox. years old, was nearly
poisoned to death yesterday with rat
poison, which his mother had warned him
not to touch. While she was absent the
boy ate some and she returned to find him
lying on the floor in agony. A stomach
pump somewhat revived him, but he is
still in critical condition.
Criminal Court will open for the term
to-day. The grand jury will makeinquiry
into the Brouwer mystery and hear the
report of Commissioner Hartshorn, who
has been making investigation into the
affairs of the Ocean County Board of
Freeholders. One of the cases that will
attract attention is that OF Lewis J. Gal
lagher, of the Albemarle Club, charged
with keeping disorderly house.
An engineer from the War Department
visited Point Pleasant last week and looked
over the proposed solid fill of the New
York and Long Branch Railroad Company.
which is intended to take the place
of their present bridge. The Manasquan
River Improvement Association, composed
of leading citizens, summer residents and
property owners on both sides of the river,
are endesvoring to have the fill stopped,
and the engineer was sent as the result
Of their complaint. He will report later.
Game Warden A. ]. Rider met with an
accident last week while engaged in over
hauling the Fish Commissions launch
Protector. When getting the gasoline
engine ready to try, and while he had
hold of the starting crank, the engine
suddenly began running. The crank
handle struck Mr.. Riders arm so violently
that his wrist bone was broken. He was
knocked down and the handle struck his
leg, but fortunately missed the bone and
saved a broken leg. Mr.. Rider was dazed
for some time but finally crawled to the
eompanionway and summoned help from
a dredge which was working near by.
He was removed to his home in Tucker
ton and given surgical attention.
Ocean county organization Republicans
are wondering what the visit of Senator
Everett Colby to this county last week
meant. They have conjured up all kinds
of dire happenings as the result of this
incident, and have in their minds outlined
dozen different alliances that ''thc Colby
crowd" might have made. Colby went to
Lakewood ''for rest"-they know that
for he said so himself. He also went to
Toms River, and it IL told that at the
county seat he had conference with one
of the men who have been active in the
work of probing Ocean county affairs,
and is a prominent figure on the Tax.
payers Committee.
! Miss Maggie Ravens, who is employed
In the Hoogenstyn store, Toms River,
; may lose the sight of Aefright eye as the
) result of an accident on Wednesday morn
ing. Miss Ravens was dressing one Of
the big windows in the front of the store
d She carried small pair of scissors, hang.
ing from loose ribbon or cord. As she
stepped down from a stepladder, the
scissors caught, and in some way fell Oh
few so that they struck her In the eye
One point caught full in the pupil, and
punctured the cornea. Mr. Hoogenstyr
t and DR.. Jones took the injured young
woman to Philadelphia on the afternoon
train, to consult Dr. Hansell, the eye
I specialist. 1t is believed the sight of the
e eye is lost.
|, Austin Mathis of Atlantic City, who has
!. been since last fall dredging the basin al
t Berkeley, Sea Side Park, for Charles w
Hopper, will move his plant to the Brown
! property on the south side of the river op
J. posite Island Heights, where he has soms
d three months dredging to do. Mathis hal
. both sand pump and bucket dredge
At Berkeley Mr.. Hopper has deepenet
!, the water in the basin, bulkheaded tn,
:, shores, and run two parallel bulkhead
300 feet out into the bay, and so fee
, apart, to hold the channel he has dredged
The bulkheads do not however reach t,
deep water, and there will be more dredg
= ing needed. At Riverbank, or Soutl
Island Heights, W. T. Brown has trie'
, various experiments with sandpumps
!. dredging out tidepond for harbor o
basin. Mathis will continue this work.
y A largely attended mass-meeting wa
= held at Toms River on Friday night ii
y the Town Hall, under the auspices Of tn
II local Board of Trade to demand the pas
sage of Senate bills Nos. 141 and IA, O
some similar measures, allowing tn
> damming of Toms River just above tn
town for water power. County Cler
George II. Holman, president of tn
Board of Trade. presided. Addresse
were made by 1. w. Carmichael, Pr,
= secutor Of the Pleas T. J. R. Brown
Rev. A. Lawrence, H. Hoogenstyn ant
o. E. Payne. Assemblyman Warren, VIII
was present, was instructed to use ever
: honorable means to secure the passage o
, the bills. which were put through the
= Senate some weeks ago