The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1907-03-05
State Notes.

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land county. Mr.. Osborne and Baxter
are both residents of Trenton and each is
reappointed to the office. Their names
will be considered in executive session and
will doubtless be confirmed.
-Assemblyman Taylor has introduced a
bill to compel Boards of Freeholders to
pay the actual travelling expenses of
County Boards of Taxation, furnish
them with a meeting place, place
to keep the books and records of
their office and with such books and
stationery as they may need. Mr..
Taylor prepared the bill and will father it
at the request of the Governor who says
that 1t was an oversight in not including
these provisions in the Avis bill, creating
the Tax Boards last year.
Senator Frelinghuysen introduced in
the Senate last week supplement to the
automobile bill of last year, increasing the
number of automobile inspectors in the
State from seven to twenty five and also
providing for twenty-five civilian inspect.
ors-the latter to serve without pay. The
work of the automobile department has
increased to such an extent that more in
spectors are necessary, Senator Freling-
huysen claims. The department, although
in existence less than year, has already
collected $50, 900 for licenses.
Announcement is made in Asbury
Park that William A. Brady and A. Err
LANCER, of the theatrical firm of Klaw &
Erlanger, of New York, are at the head
OF syndicate to build $500, 900 amuse-
ment pier on the beach 'front.' 1t is ex.
pected that the proposition will be made
officially at the next meeting of the Public
Grounds Commission. The pier as plan
ned will be 800 feet long and will cost for
the structure alone $500, 900. Mr.. Brady
has already leased the Casino Theatre on
the beach for the ensuing season.
-Sixty-fiv forms of sweatshop work
have been found in New Jersey by Miss
Elizabeth Butler, executive secretary of
the New Jersey Consumers league. She
made report at the leagues annual meet
ing in the Free Public library in Jersey
City. The causes operative elsewhere
changes in machinery which tend to throw
men out of work, the influx of immigra-
ton, the increase in the cost of living
without corresponding increase in the
cost OF wages-all these have acted d.
rectly as causes of sweated work in New
Jersey, she said.
-Asphyxiation by gas has been the fate
of more than one snow bird and sparrow
at the Dover gas works since the cold
weather set in. The birds seek shelter
from the cold in the latticed vents of the
gas house roof, and there in the warm air,
heavily laden with gas, they are soon
overcome and topple from their perches to
the floor below. When the workmen find
them they set them out on the window
sill and they are generally revived by the
fresh air. Sometimes they are not found
Immediately and fail to come to when put
outdoors.
The bill introduced in the legislature
by Senator Jacob G. Price. of Branchville,
providing for the incorporating of a COM
pany to build and maintain a bridge over
the Delaware river, which will connect
with the Pennsylvania side near Bushkill,
is measure the passage of which is
| greatly desired by the residents of that
section of the country. Only the print
tive ferries exist at this point in the river,
and on such times when these cannot be
used, farmers are obliged in many cases to
drive from fifteen to twenty miles out OF
their way to the nearest bridge in order to
cross.
Thirty promissory notes representing
$41 200, assigned Rev. DR.. Thomas O'Han-
Ion, formerly president of Pennington
Seminary, to the Trenton Trust & Safe
Deposit Company. were sold at auction
at Trenton on Friday by Mrs. Hannah M
O'Hanlon. DR.. O'Hanlon's wife, for $500
The notes were accepted by DIR. O'Hanlor
from divinity students as payment fol
their courses of study at the seminary
during O'Hanlon's administration. Wher
| O'HanloD retired the notes were assigned
to the trust company in liquidation of &
financial obligation. Some of the makers
of the notes are now ministers and are try
ing to pay off his debt
| Mrs Mary Rickley, of Bayonne, who
had her husband arrested on a charge oil
non support, told Recorder Lazarus thai
the man for twenty FIVE years has gone OF
sprees and neglected her. The climax was
reached one night last week, when
according to her story, he chased her out
of the house with a butchers knife. 90
will permit you to be judge and pronounce
any sentence you like; you know more
about the case than do, the court said
''That suits me to a dot" Mrs. Rickley
answered, as she turned to the culprit
1T is no use asking me to be lenient, OF
for you to make any more promises, fol
you never keep them. think thirty
days in the county Jail will do lot Of
good" "Your decision is sustained, /" the
recorder remarked, and Rickley was taker
away.
| One of the heaviest fines ever imposed
for cruelty to animals was inflicted OF
Friday by Justice Schmitz, of Camden
on A. w. Fuller, of 341 South Broadway
Gloucester City, who had been arrested by
William ]. McNeir, special agent for the
Camden Society for the Prevention OF
Cruelty to Animals. Fuller was charged
with taking sick horse out of a stable al
Gloucester City and dragging it to re-
fuse pit to die Officials of the Philadel
phia society reported the case to Agent
McNeir and the latter took Doctor Hew
lit, a veterinarian, to Gloucester City
| They found the horse in the pit, and after
examining the animal Doctor Hewitt said
| it could not live and he then killed it with
cyanide of potassium. Fuller, when con.
fronted with the charge of cruelty, denied
ownership of the horse, but when he ap.
peared before Justice Schmitz he put in
no defense and was fined $780, This he
paid
The Somerville board of town com
missioners has declared war against the
New York and New Jersey Telephone
company, which is charged by the Off
cials with using high-handed methods
in an attempt to erect a line of poles
through the town. Incensed by the acts
of the company's employes in erecting