The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1907-08-27
State Notes.

Mrs o. Benjamin, of Vineland, over
sixty years DID, worked in pain for week
after fall from porch step. AS the
pain did not cease she went to physician
who found that her arm had been broken,
There will be no more roller skating
in Cape May this summer at the Washing
ton street rink. So says Vice Chancellor
Leaning, of Camden, who visited the
place and decided that the pastor of the
First Methodist Episcopal church and the
members of the congregation were right
in their contention that the noise made by
the skaters in the rink hindered the meet
ings in the church.
Jonas II. Fox, visitor at Atlantic
City, got into an argument Wednesday
night with man as to the amount of
money that he brought with him to the
shore. The fellow offered to show So to
Fox's 81, and Fox put up $500 in the
hands of third man. The pair dis
appeared, leaving Fox without cent
The police captured Garfield Stebbins,
whom Fox accuses of being the one in
whose hands the cash was placed.
State officials on Thursday inspected
the new wing at the State Prison, Tren-
ton, and decided that it could be accepted
from the contractors and placed in SER
vice. The new wing contains three hun
dred cells and will enable the prison au-
thorities to obey the law which prohibits
the placing Of more than one convict in a
cell.
Thieves Thursday night broke into
passenger and freight stations of the Cen
trail Railroad Company, at Bridgeton, en-
trance being gained by means of windows.
In the passenger depot 81. 10 was secured
from the money drawer and trunkful of
clothing was carried off. At the freight
station sixteen bottles of beer and porter
were carried off and plenty of other plum
der was left untouched.
John G. Ford, one of the captains of
the Trenton Fire Department, narrowly
escaped with his life while driving hose
carriage to fire in place of the regular
driver, who is on vacation. A rut in the
Ford was hurled from his seat, landing
between the horses. In his fall he grasped
the whiff1e trees and was dragged for
fully block before comrades could check
the speed of the team. Then he resumed
his place at the reins, practically unhurt.
John Long, Kansas negro, beating
his way from New York, was sent to Jail at
Trenton Thursday morning after the most
thrilling ride across New Jersey that any
man has ever taken. He boarded the
Nellie BLY, Express in Jersey City, intend
ing to steal ride as far westward as the
train would take him, and managed to es-
cape detection by climbing to the roof of
one of the cars. There he chung while the
train made a mile-a-minute race across
the State. At Newark he was afraid to
show himself when the train stopped, lest
he be arrested. He was seen by tower
man at New Brunswick, however, and
Trenton was notified by telegraph. A po-
liceman awaited the arrival of the FLYER
and Long was arrested. He was almost
parlyzed from him cramped position and
he vise-like grip he was obliged to keep n
the car roof. And he was virtually blind
ed by flying cinders from the locomotive.
Had the train carried him a few miles
more he would doubtless haye been thrown
off and killed.
Half dozen paid lsborers and fifty
or more convicts stood by helpless at the
stone quarries of the Mercer county work
house farm. at Trenton, on Thursday, for
half an hour while John Hutchinson.
professional blaster, fought a spectacular
battle with huge mountain pilot snake,
of the poisonous breed, that had crawled
down rope ladder to attack him as he
was swinging half way to the bottom of
chasm $50 feet in depth, preparing to
place blast In position. No one was able
to render assistance, and Hutchinson was
Obliged to wage the terrible battle alone
until he had finally beaten off the reptile
with an iron drill gripped in one hand
Wnlle ne CHUNG 10 the rope WIFI Ine oJHeI
Hutchinson had been lowered about half
way to the bottom of the chasm preparing
to place blast of dynamite in the rocks
when his attention was attracted by pc
culiar gliding motion ON the rope above
his head. Looking up he beheld a mon
ster pilot snake coming stealthily upon
him. Never was man In such a position
before. He dared not drop the dynamite,
lest he cause an explosion. He was
obliged to keep tight grip on the rope or
be hurled to the bottom. He was unarmed
except for the little drill which
he carried to pry open the assures of the