Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1902-07-10
A WEEKS NEWS CONDENSED.
Saturday. July 5.

The Pennsylvania Railroad Company
has ordered 100000 tons of steel rails
for 1903.
The Texas Prohibitionists' state con.
vention met yesterday and named a
full ticket.
Joseph Merrifield, treasurer of the
Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore.
was struck by trolley car and killed.
One hundred workmen employed by
the Spedden Ship Building Company, at
Baltimore, struck for an increase in
wages.
General Lloyd Wheaton reached Chi
cago, H., from Manila, where he will
reside, his retirement for age being set
for July IS.
The keel of the battleship Nebraska
was laid in Moran Bros. & Company's
ship yards. at Seattle, Wash, yester-
day, before a great crowd
Monday, July 7.
The Goth national convention of the
North American Turnerbund opened
in Davenport, Ia, yesterday.
Canned salmon poisoned Henry
ARMS and seven children at Pittsburg,
Pa, and one child may die.
A cloudburst at Ellisport, Idaho,
swept away II or more houses and
flooded the country for miles.
Forty-eight passengers of the Ward
line steamer Eaperanza, from Havana,
were put in quarantine at New York
Saturday.
Laborers in the coal mines of the
Altoona district refuse to work less
than six days a week, claiming the
miners are disobeying the four.day
order
President Roosevelt has decided to
spend the greater part of the summer
at his home at Oyster Bay, N Y,
where he will transact all immediate
public business.
Tuesday, July 8.
Mary S. Knowlton, aged 70 years,
was killed in a runaway accident at Ar
lington, Mass, yesterday.
Walter Arnold and an unknown COM
panion were drowned while swimming
in the Maumee river at Toledo, o., yes
terday.
Louis Botha, the Boer general, will
spend the summer at Lapanne, Bel
GUM summer resort, where his wife
has taken house.
Richmond p. Hobson, hero of the
Merrimac, delivered the opening adj
dress at the Winona Chautauqua, at
Warsaw. Ind, yesterday.
Queen Alexandra yesterday enter
tanned 10000 London servants and pre-
scented to each guest a box of choco-
late and silver gilt brooch.
Vice Chancellor Grey of New Jersey,
issued an injunction restraining the
Glass Blowers Association from inter
fering with the operation of the G. w.
| Jonas glass works at Minetola.
Wednesday, July 9.
The mercury reached 105 degrees at
Metropolis, ILL.,, yesterday.
Philip Joseph Fitzalan- Howard, Earl
of Arundel and Surrey, died in London
yesterday.
The fifth annual convention of the
Luther League OF America opened last
evening at st. Paul, MINI.
In fight at church in Janold's Val
ley, w. Va, Peter Hendricks was killed
and several others fatally injured.
The fishing smack w. Young was
wrecked yesterday ten miles below At
lantic City. The crew was taken off.
The treasury department has begun
active preparations to erect the $50
public buildings throughout the coun-
try authorized by the late congress.
Thursday, July 10.
General Lord Methuen arrived in
London yesterday from South Africa.
Simon Freeman, of Wilkesbarre, Pa,
committed suicide by jumping from a
bridge into the Susquehanna river.
A mast ITO feet high, for the wireless
telegraph station at the Annapolis
Naval Academy, was placed in position
| yesterday.
Frank Burns, weigh boss at the
coal mines near Clearfeld, Pa, was
struck by lightning yesterday and in.
stantly killed.
Corporal Samuel Boyd, formerly or
derby to Admiral DeWay on the Olym.
pia at the battle of Manila Bay, was
killed by a train at Magruder, Md
]. c. Bentoyer, ranchman of Car
bon county, Montana, was given pat
ent for a flying machine yesterday. He
has challenged Santos-Dumont for a
race.