Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1897-11-11
A WEEKS NEWS CONDENSED.
Friday, Nov. 8.

| Martin Hart, aged 16 years, was
ground to pulp in large rollers used
for breaking coal in a mine at Ashland,
Pa
Martin Gerrity, a miner, and his la
borer, John Prozinski, were crushed to
death under falling rock in mine near
Carbonate, Pa.
A Chesapeake and Ohio railroad ex-
press jumped the track near Charlottes-
! vile, Va, owing to a broken axle. Four
were killed and II injured.
! Authority has been granted for the
organization of the Berlin National
bank, at Berlin, Pa, and the Citizens
National bank, of Meyersdale, Pa.
Saturday, Nov. 9.
Diphtheria still RACES in Forest City,
Lackawanna county, Pa, and has
Mills.
A train on the Cotton Belt line in
Texas killed four persons on the track
and carried one suicide on its trip yes
terday.
A Chinaman in the disguise of a wo-
man was arrested at Troy, N. Y, on
the charge of violating the Geary ex-
clusion act.
Joseph A. Iasigi, ex-Turkish consul at
Boston, was convicted of embezzlement
from an estate of which he was trus-
tee. and is in Jail awaiting sentence.
An attempt was made by soldier to
assassinate President Moraes, of Bra
zil, at Rio Janeiro. General Betten-
court, minister of war, was killed by
the assassin.
Mondav Nov 3
Valuable discoveries of iron ore have
been made on the Menomee range, near
the Mansfield mine, Michigan.
The steamer Idaho was wrecked near
Long Point, on Lake Erie, and 10 sailors
were drowned. Only two were rescued.
The explosion of a dualin cap which
S-year-old Clarence Weir, of Yorktown,
Pa, found and was trying to open, is
likely to cause his death.
It took only one day to convict Gu
seppe Diviva of murder in the second
degree for killing Michael Dudigan, at
Saratoga, N. Y.
BY the explosion of kerosene in a
lamp Mrs. Rudolph Vessels and her
child were burned to death at their
home in San Francisco.
Tuesday. Nov. 8.
Ex-United States Senator Dixon died
at Westerly, R. /.
The yellow fever at New Orleans is
now on the wane, cooler weather hav
ing appeared.
Benjamin and Roy Mum, father and
son. were sentenced at Gladwin, Mich,
| to life imprisonment for murder.
The president yesterday named w
Godfrey Hunter, of Kentucky, to be
minister to Guatemala and Honduras.
The United States supreme court de-
clined to interfere in the case of Dur-
rant, the California murderer, and he
must hang.
Judge Jackson, of Martinsburg, w.
Va, has decided that the transfer of a.
federal employee from the position to
which he was first appointed to another
of less salary is a violation of the civil
service law.
Wednesday. Nov. 10.
! A dispatch from Buenos Ayres says
that a general frost has severely in
| jured the wheat and fax crops.
| Game Warden Swan reports that in
his opinion the killing of the Uintah
Indians in Colorado was necessary.
John S. Runnells, of Chicago, is spoken
of as the probable successor of Assoc
ciate Justice Stephen J. Field on the SUI
preme court bench.
MILFORD Glover, 15-year-old boy Of
Tropico, Cal. confessed that he shot
DR.. R. P. Moore, of Los Angeles, for the
purpose of robbery.
The boiler of a Burlington engine ex-
| ploded near Crawford, Neb., instantly
killing Engineer H. c. Simpson and
Fireman E. M. Robinson.
Thursday, Nov. IL.
Mrs. Margaret Bougham died at
! Springfield, Mass, said to be 124 years
old
| Sam Wright, colored, who was hanged
! at Goldsboro, N. c., yesterday, con-
fessed three murders.
There is now talk of a combination of
tanning companies and glue manufac-
turers to control the glue output.
President Mckinley has decided on
the appointmentof Charles Page Bryan.
of Chicago, as minister to China.
James F. Hathaway. a wealthy resi-
/ dent of West SomerviIle, Mass, was
sent to jail for refusing to pay double
tax assessment.