Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1903-10-29

bed and windows for several miles
around smashed The conclusion in
jured every house in Baycliestel No
one was killed, but several were in
jured.
Saturday night a section of rock for
ty.four feet long, weighing BOD tons,
fell from the roof of the New York
tunnel near Fort George, killing ten
laborers aud injuring five others. A
blast had been set off about a half
hour before, but the engineers believe
that the recent rains, not the blasting.
were responsible for Ioosening the
rock. The stratifcation at this point
is mainly vertical
The body of Frederick G. Tuffle the
treasurer of the Banner of Light Pub
fishing company, publishers of the
Spiritualist organ, with offices at 204
Dartmouth street, Boston, was on Fri
day found in Lake Pentucket at Hav-
erhill, Mass. Intentional suicide was
proved by letters left.
William Marks was instantly killed
and Patrick Hardy fatally injured at
Bethlehem, Pa, on Friday by an explo-
sion of nitroglyeerin. The men found
an empty can which they supposed had
contained maple strip. 1t blew up
while in the hands of one of the men.
The steamer South Portland, which
sailed from Portland, Ore, loaded with
wheat for San Francisco, struck on
Bianco reef during a heavy fog The
total number on board the steamer was
thirty mine. The survivors number
twenty -one.
Three bandits robbed the Burton
State bank at Burton, Kan, on Friday
morning. taking between $1,000 and
$1,000 in currency and several sacks of
coin from the safe, which they blew
open.
Robert e. Levin of Plainfeld, N H.,
right guard Of the Baltimore Medical
college, dropped dead in the first half
of the football game with the navy at
Annapolis, Md, Wednesday afternoon.
Two men were killed and eighteen
seriously injured by an explosion of
dynamite used for blasting on the con-
struction work of the White River road
in Stone county. Mo- Wednesday,
Four persons were killed and several
injured by the explosion of the boiler
of West Virginia Central railroad
freight locomotive in the yards at
Elkins, w Va, Wednesday.
William Connolly, aged eighteen
years. a student at the Elmira On. ".
Free academy, died on Sunday as the
result of ruptured intestine while
playing football
While temporarily deranged Mrs.
Louis Iverson murdered three of her
children at Pacific Grove. Cal, Sunday,
at the dictation, she said later, of SUI
preme power.
At Portland, Me-, Saturday night,
three men belonging on the United
States transport Fitzpatrick and a Port
land man were drowned in the outer
harbor.
Jesse Mcclure, a farm hand, muir
dered his two sons. aged five and seven
years, near Marion, Ind, leaving their
UUul6S LII d lclCE EOIll0Is
IN THE Great excitement has
E,E,n been caused in Butte,
or IARnp Mont, and vicinity by
the closing of the
Amalgamated Copper company's mines
because of a restraining order of the
court following a decision in the Min
ME Healy mine case The Amalgamat-
ed officials are reticent as to the prob
able length of the suspension, saying it
may be of six or eight months dura-
ton and perhaps a greater period 1t
is conservatively estimated that be-
tween $4,000 and 10000 men are made
idle.
The American Federation of Window
Glass Workers has signed the new
wage scale granting an advance of 10
per cent in wages, the highest in the
history of the trade. The Independent
Window Glass company is trying to
operate factory at Lancaster, o., at
a reduction of 3 1-3 per cent from last
years wages.
The president has committed. to ex-
pire Immediately. the sentences of Mar
ion Marshall Cyrus Raines and Burton
Harper. coal miners, who were convict
ed in West Virginia of resisting a Unit
ed States deputy marshal. They were
sentenced on June II. 1908.
The Cambridge (O) works of the
American Sheet Steel company have
been closed indefinitely With the idle
men from the tin mill there are at
least 1000 unemployed men in that
city.
The Joliet plant OF the Illinois Steel
company has resumed work in all de-
partments after a shutdown of three
weeks. The resumption gives employ
ment to 1000 men.
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re r,pr The Oswego (N.f W
Preserving company's