Camden News Notes

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Camden News Notes
The police were yesterday asked to locate Johnson Webster, who is accused of having stolen $18 and an overcoat from Isaac Atkinson, a farmer, of Columbus, N. J.
The Williamson Motor Company was incorporated yesterday with a capital of $100,000, the incorporators being W. Wesley Swain, Bennett L. Johnson, H. C. Williamson, Thomas Williamson and Charles Swain.
Vice Chancellor Leaming yesterday granted a rule restraining Jeremiah H. Nixon from disposing of 490 shares of the stock of the Savoy Amusement Company of Atlantic City.
Circuit Court Judge Lloyd will hold a session of court in Camden on March 11. Since his appointment he has been in the upper end of the State.
John P. Weisler, 67 years old, of 47 North Third street, died suddenly at his home yesterday. Coroner Fithian gave a certificate of death from heart disease.
About a dozen property owners yesterday appeared before Circuit Court Judge Endicott in Camden and appealed from the assessment made against their holdings by the Sewer Commission. After hearing their testimony Judge Endicott dismissed their complaints and confirmed the report of the commission.
While chopping wood yesterday, Policeman James Ware, of Seventh and Florence streets, Camden, struck his left foot with the keen edge of the hatchet. Several arteries were severed and but for the policeman's presence of mind he might have bled to death. He made a tourniquet with his handkerchief and stopped the flow of blood until he reached the Cooper Hospital in the ambulance.
In a decision given in Camden yesterday Vice Chancellor Leaming refused the application of William B. M. Burrell to restrain Dr. M. F. Middleton from driving over two lots owned by the plaintiff in the rear of his home at 425 Market street. There has been considerable controversy over the matter since the purchase of the lot by Mr. Burrell, who is Dr. Middleton's neighbor.