Camden News Notes

Camden News Notes Ill for three weeks with a complication of diseases, John Kennedy, a widely known grocer at Twenty-eighth and High streets, East Camden, is dead. The East Side Patriotic Association is endeavoring to secure an orator of national fame to make the principal address at the Independence Day celebration. The observance this year will be on a more elaborate scale than ever before. Catching his hand in an ice cream machine Freeholder Fred Gercke severed the main arteries in his wrist, and but for timely medical attention he would have bled to death. Accused of permitting his horse to stand on the street for several hours without food or drink, John Carter was fined $8.30 by Justice Huyett, on complaint of an agent of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. Charged by Giuseppe Torpolioo with the embezzlement of $169, Giuseppe Ventrersca was held under $200 bail by Justice Thompson. The complainant alleges that he gave Ventresca the money to invest, and that the accused failed to live up to the agreement. Pleading guilty to breaking into Centenary M. E. Church and the city dispensary and robbing the slot phone meters, George W. Scott, a boy, was yesterday sentenced to two months in the county jail.