The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1907-01-22

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I noon of next week.
: The family of Samuel A. Dobbins, Sr.
will soon remove from the Dobbins farm
to house on Madison avenue.
: Valentine Post Cards. Our assortmen
is large, strictly first class and up to-date
Our prices are right. L. 8. Boyce, sta
toner.
3 The usual services at the Burlington
County Hospital were omitted on Sunday
afternoon, because one of the patients
was seriously i'll with typhoid fever.
J Harold B. Allen has given an order fol
new and more modern soda water foun
tain to be constructed on hygienic plans
1t will be installed in his drug store IL
the spring.
, In the report of the Committee on Cour
House and Grounds, published in TIL
News last week, the item "Gasolene fol
January, $92.52" was wrong, the correct
amount being $62.52.
The Pennsylvania Iron Ore Company
of Palmyra, has been incorporated with q
capital of $3.50, 900, of which sum $103,-
, 500 has been paid in. The incorporators
are Davis j. NJ Stokes and Edward c.
Boutelle, of Philadelphia G. G. Hutchin.
son, of Palmyra.
The supper committee of Good Intent
Fire Company desire to thank the many
ladies who so willingly assisted at the re-
cent supper and also the public in general
for donations and liberal patronage, there
by making it one of the most successful
suppers ever held by the company.
About 5000 was cleared.
Adam Franich, of Riverside, was COM
mitted to the county jail, last week, on suit
brought by Tofila Kutchenska, to recov-
er $40, 900 damages for breach of promise.
The defendant was arrested on a capias
by Deputy Sheriff Joseph B. Fleetwood.
This is the second litigation between these
parties, the first arrest having been made
on warrant charging seduction.
The Presbytery of Monmouth is in ses-
sion to-day in the Mount Holly Presbyte-
rian Church. About fifty pastors and
ruling elders from the churches of Mon
mouth, Ocean and Burlington counties
are in attendance. The moderator is Rev.
III. K. Fulton, of Perrineville. Only rou-
tine business will be transacted, and the
meeting will close this afternoon.
The funeral of Ray s. Wright. son of
Lot NJ
Wright, who died at the home of his
mother, In Bordentown, on Thursday
night, took place yesterday. The services
were conducted by Rev. ID. G. Stevens,
Phi. D., pastor of the Baptist church. The
pallbearers were Edwin c. Pennock, ].
Holmes Longstreet, Edwin L. Thompson,
John P. Hutchinson, Thomas Gibson,
Robert G. Hutchinson. John B. Atkin and
Howard Davis. The interment was made
in the family plot in the Bordentown GEN.
etery.
The sensational trial of Frank Lingo
the negro who was tried in Camden on
the charge of numbering Annie Leconey,
in 1889, and subsequently acquitted. has
been recalled by the death of George H.
Taylor, who was associated with former
Judge John W. Wescott in Lingo's de-
fence Mr.. Taylor, who died on Satur-
day night, will be buried to-day. He was
member of the Camden bar. His studies
were pursued in the Office of Edmund B.
Leaning, Vice Chancellor. In the now
historic murder trial Mr.. Taylor showed
marked ability as criminal lawyer. The
mystery of the killing of Miss Leconey,
near Merchantville, has never been solved.
Fred Gaiser, of Trenton, has been en-
gagged to play with the Riverton- Palmyra
base ball team. Gaiser has also made ar
rangements to play with the Atlantic City
team during the week and has been given
a good guarantee. The local player went
to Philadelphia last Sunday and completed
arrangements with the manager of the
Atlantic City team for his service with
the seashore club during the summer
months. He also secured permission to
play with the Riverton-Palmyra team on
Saturdays Last summer Gaiser made
good in the professional league as pitcher
for the Riyerton team and his services
were in demand for the coming season.
Louisa Seeds, of Mount Holly, and
John Hendrickson, of Bordentown, OBJ
tanned accommodations as boarders at the
ton, late in December, and, after staying
there two weeks it is alleged, without
paying any board, suddenly decamped.
A new black velvet dress and other cloth
ing, valued at $65. belonging to Mrs. Pit
man, also disappeared. The police traced
the couple to Philadelphia, but there the
trail was lost and nothing was heard of
them until yesterday, when they were ar
rested in Bordentown by Detective An
derson Shinn. Magistrate Charles P.
Smith committed the prisoners to the
county jail in default of $500 bail each.
For several weeks at frequent times en-
ployes of the Pennsylvania Railroad sta
ton at Beverly have been missing small
amounts of money from the cash drawer.
Suspicion rested on Gordon Rossler, 10
years old, and Wednesday night an en-
ploYe of the company saw him in the act
of taking money from the drawer. in
which there were nearly hundred dol
lars. At the hearing before Justice of the
Peace Frank Jones, Rossler broke down
and confessed that he was guilty of the
pretty thefts at the station and begged for
mercy. A friend having made good the
defalcation the charge was withdrawn.
, The news of his arrest was a surprise
among his many friends, who held him in
high esteem. He had no excuse to offel
for his acts, only he had needed ready
money, as he was out of work and loved
to do little bit of sporting.
Two farm hands working for Samuel J
Evans. of Southampton township, recent
ly engaged In a quarrel while milking
q some cows. After coming to blows Jos
. eph Davis picked up stool, using it will
effect on Thomas Hetherington, who re
NAMED unconscious for several hours. AT
= ter being removed to the house, and Will,
receiving attention from Mr.. and Mrs
Davis, Evans appeared on the scene in hi
, pursuit of Hetherington, forced an en-
: trance into the dwelling, drew revolver
: and threatened to kill Hetherington a
he lay unconscious. A physician wa
summoned and it was found that the maj