Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1903-11-05

Schwab Colonel J. ] AIcCOok and 0th-
er we'll known financiers are arraigned
severely By Receiver James Smith, Jr.,
in his report on the United States Ships
building conapany's affairs, which has
been completed for fling with United
States Circuit Judge Kirkpatrick in
Trenton, n. j. His report charges that
Sehwab and Morgan alone received
$20.00O,000 preferred and common
stock for which they rendered absolute
" no equivalent. He also charaeterizes
as reprehensible the secret Morgan
Schwab- Harris Gates & Co. agreement
by which the $4,000 900 of Morgan
and Schwab preferred and common
Shipbuilaing stock was to be marketed
in advance of other outside securities.
More than 1000 members of John
Alexander Dowie's Zion host left New
York on s.oIrday for home. There are
now only 100 of Dowfe's followers in
the city. OF these sevfnty-fiye are mem
bers of the choir. and the others are eId-
ers and suboverseers. At the last sery-
ice in Madison Square Garden the big
tank III front of the platform was un-
covered. and the Dowie converts were
baptized. irifty-six offered. themselves
for baptism OF this number not more
than dozen were New York recruits
The mystery of mail box robberies
at Spanish Fork Utah, which has
been puzzling the post Office authori-
ties for months, has been solved at
last The robber has been caught,
tried and convicted. 1t was raven,
and in crotch of big tree. where
the bird had secreted its plumber, was
found all the contents of the pilfered
letters. There Were drafts, money or
ders, samples of dress goods and scraps
of love letters
There was an unusual display of the
aurora borealis early Saturday morn
ing, and coincident with it the lines of
the telegraph and cable companies in
this and foreign countries were seri-
ously affected The disturbance of the
electrical communication lasted until a
late hour in the afternoon.
The latest adyices from the Volcano
of Mauna Loa, in Hawaii, indicate
that the eruption, which began fifteen
days ago, is increasing steadily. 1t is
believed by seafaring men that the
present eruption of the volcano is re-
sponsible for the remarkable action Of
Hawaiian waters
The arrival at San Francisco is re-
ported of the whaling bark Gayhead
from the Okhotsk sea with 800 barrels
of sperm oil, 300 barrels of whale oil
and 300 pounds Of whalebone. This
catch will net, it is stated, $4,000 to
Captain Fisher. who is native of
Edgartown, Mass.
George Jaggers has been arrested at
his home in Laytons, n j., charged
with the murder Of Mrs Victor Bevans
and the attempted assassination of her
husband, and placed in Jail. The crime
was committed while the Bevanses
were at the dinner table on Oct 16.
The president has made the following
appointments: Sanford B. Dole, to be
United States district judge for Ha-
wall, to succeed the late Judge Morris
NJ. Estee; George r. Carter, secretary
of Hawaii, to be governor of the same,
to succeed Governor Dole
On Wednesday morning the Their
mometer registered 5 degrees below re-
70 at Lake Placid, n. Y, and at other
Adirondack points even lower temper
atures were reported.
Nine. Patti arrived in New York on
Saturday on the Etruria for her CON
cert tour, accompanied by her husband,
the Baron Cedarstron.
ACCIDENTS on Wednesday night
ANN Mrs Emma Booth
CASUALTIES Tucker, consult in Amer
S7o lea of the Salvation Ar
my, wife of Commander Booth Tucker
and second daughter of William Booth.
founder of the Army, was killed in the
wreck of the east bound California
train No. near Dean Lake, Mo-.
eighty-fiye miles east of Kansas City,
Mo Colonel Thomas G. Holland, in
charge of the Salvation Army at Ami
ty, Colo, was badly injured The re-
mains were brought to Chicago, where
they lay in state for day, and thence
to New York, where funeral services
and interment took place on Sunday.
While awaiting investigation Of the
murder of his sister, Mabel Bechtei, at
their home in Allentown, Pa, few
days ago Thomas BechteI on Thursday
took his own life in the police station.
This act is looked upon as a practical
acknowledgment of BechteIs guilt.
The verdict of the coroner's jury was
that the young woman's death was
due to a fractured skull from a blow
inflicted at her home by some person
unknown to the jury.
Grestline, O., and vicinity was thrown
into panic on Sunday evening by the