The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1907-07-02
TUESDAY, JULY 2, 1907
State Notes.


ne night before commencement. Twenty
light kegs of beer were consumed in a |
ecluded part of the campus on the fateful
light.
After surprising the physicians by his
remarkable vitality, Joseph Easter, a |
negro, IA years old, of Camden, through
whose body 1900 volts of electricity passed |
last Wednesday, when he grasped an |
electric light wire at East and Berkley
streets, had his left arm amputated at the
Homeopathic Hospital, Camden, on Sun.
lay, to save his life. He has good chances
Tor recovery. When Easter was admitted
70 the hospital it was thought he would
surely die. The high voltage was suf
hcient to kill a strong man.
Justice Fort and Judge Blais, sitting
IN Jersey City on Saturday, quashed a
number of indictments found from IS
months to four years ago, none of which
has ever been tried. The most notable are
the indictments against Corporation
Counsel George L. Record and Police JUS
tice Frank ]. Higgins for libeling Samue,
u. Dickinson, Secretary of State, in
speech made by Mr.. Record and circulated
by Mr.. Higgins during the campaign of
1910, charging Mr.. Dickinson with being
the agent of several corporations.
Within "a hours freight trains twice
Jumped the tracks of the Amboy Division
OF the Pennsylvania Railroad east of
Cooper's Creek, Camden, and all day SUM-
uay workmen were busy making repairs
10 automatic signals that were wrecked
aIter one of the freight trains left the
tracks late Saturday night. Shafts were
Dent In such manner during one of the
wrecks that the railroad company's draw
Dridge across Cooper's Greek could not be
turned and the stream was closed tonaviea-
ton. East bound passenger trains were
delayed for nearly two hours when a
freight train jumped the track near 18th
street, and passengers were compelled to
walk to the ferries to reach Philadelphia.
There is mystery and romance attach
ed to await. 2 years old, bearing the name
OF Carl Boyd Livingston, now In charge
OF the Rev. Martin T. Lamb, superinten-
dent of the New Jersey Children's Home
Society. The managers are informed that
ne is heir to vast estates in the West In
dies. They withheld the mothers name,
but say that the boy was born in a Phila-
delphia institution in 1900 The mother
and father disappeared, and the boy was
taken care of by DR.. ]. D. Boyd. Phila-
delphia physician, who died In 1902 leay-
ing the little fellow to the care of his
daughter, Mrs. r. n Livingston, at that
time society woman in Philadelphia.
Officials of the New Jersey society allege
that Mrs. Livingston went to Atlantic
City and died there two months ago. The
Atlantic City authorities sent the child
here.
In deciding last week that the Voor.
bees franchise tax law, which compels
utility corporations to pay per cent Of
their gross receipts to municipalities, the
Court of Errors and Appeals last week
confirmed the contention of Senator Colby
OF Essex, and Mayor Pagan, of Jersey
City, that franchises of these corporations
are not taxed. The decision adds a point
to the campaign cry of the Colbyites and
suggests legislation which will bring adj
ditional tax moneys to the State. The
Court decided that the Voorhees, law was
not tax on franchises, but license fee
The Court went further by saying that
franchise value was property, thus bring
ing this class of railroad and public utility
company assets directly under the con.
stitutional mandate, that all property
shall be assessed at full value by uniform
rules. Already bills are being drafted fol
Introduction into the Legislature taxing
the franchise value of these corporations.
1t Is expected that the State Board oil
Pardons will decline to show any clemency
to Joseph Frank Cordorva, the former
Methodist minister, who is serving term
in the State prison for deserving his wife
and children and clipping with Miss julia
BOVINE, member of the choir in his
church at South River. A determined eff
fort to bring about pardon or parole is
being made by the former clergyman and
his brother, p F. Cordova, of Ell Paso
Tex. The fact that the petition does moi
contain the name of a single resident in
Middlesex County, from which place he
was sentenced, will work against Cordova
All the signers are living In Texas, the
former home of the degraded clergyman
Cordova has broken silence for the first
time since his term of imprisonment be-
gan, and has spoken bitterly against what
he calls injustice in his trial and convic
ton. He is also particularly bitter against
the wife whom he deserted, declaring that
there are always two sides to story. and
that in this case only her side has beer
told. He also condemns Prosecutor
George Berdine for rushing his trial
through so quickly.
The hum of the glass bottle factories
was stilled throughout South Jersey on
Saturday, afternoon after the greatest sea-
son in the history of the industry. Never
before were such shipments of ware made
as have been seen every week since the
beginning of the blast last September, and
never before have been left untitled at the
close of the season so many orders as are
now filed away for the summer. The
great increase in the market price
of both green and flint ware did not seem
to affect In the least the influx of orders
from both domestic and foreign dealers,
and the companies were forced to call from
the road their agents before the first of
May, and turn down all orders except
those which came from their steady Gus
toners In Millville the 1900 men and
boys drew their last pay and back money
and have sufficient to enjoy the two
months shut down as never before. The
large plants of Whitall- Tatum Company,
Millville Bottle Works and the factories
of T. G. Wheaton Company have been
running to their fullest capacity since the
season began last September, and all state
that they will resume as early as they may
get in readiness in the fall. At Vineland,
Bridgeton and Salem the hundreds of EN-
ployes have received steady work and
good pay throughout the blast. and there
have been very few hours lost at Clay ton,
Swedesboro, Fairton, Glassboro and Will
Jamestown. The chief source of trouble
has been the scarcity of help, especially
of boys. This Kept the Taylor Sites fac
tory at Cape May Court House from run