Bridgeton pioneer., 1903-03-12
THE LATEST NEWS IN SHORT ORDER
Domestic.

Nellie Fletcher, who was found dead
in a New York clearinghouse, it wa:
| found. was a New Haven girl, who hao
gone to Chicago with Yale graduate
but had returned East
! President Buchanan, OF the Interna-
tional Association OF Ironworkers
stated that the strike was ordered be-
cause the American Bridge Company
had violated its agreement.
The cry of Fire" in Proctor's Fifth
| Avenue Theater, New York, nearly
caused a panic. Five women tainted,
| There was no fire and the engines were
only passing.
The ferryboat Neptune, plying be-
tween Allegheny, Pa, and the West
End. was sunk by the steamer Marga-
ret and all on board were forced TO
swim to the shore.
In head-on collision between pas
senger trains on the Burlington Rail
road, John Peterson was fatally crush
ed and three other passengers injured.
David w Bucklin, who was arrest
ed in the raid on Canfeld,s, in New
York, sued the Trenton IN. j. CHIEF
OF police for $4,000 damages.
The Porto Rico House OF Delegates
passed the Million-Dollar Insular
Loan Bill All the American members
OF the House opposed it.
The plant OF the Franklin Baker
Company. importers of cocoanuts, in
Philadelphia, was partially destroyed
by fire.
The federal grand jury at Chicago
returned several indictments against
get-rick-quick turf investment CON
Germs.
The officers and joint committees OF
the Brotherhoods of Firemen and Train
men sent a circular to their respective
lodges advising them not to strike pend
ing decision by the court, on the injunc-
ton proceedings instituted.
Mrs Albert Zorn. who died of strych-
nine poisoning in Chicago, according to
her husbands statement, committed sui
eide after reading Tolstois ''Resurrec-
ton and comparing her life with that of
the heroine
Charles 7. Molony, general superin-
tendent of the Pennsylvania Warehous-
ing and Safe Deposit Company, secured
5000 from the Girard National Bank
on an alleged forged check and disap-
peared.
During discussion of the reciprocity
treaty in the Cuban Senate Senor San
gully denounced it as scheme on the
part OF the United States to keep Euro
pean commerce out of Cuba
A general strike has been ordered by
the International Association of Bridge
and Structural Ironworkers against the
American Bridge Company
Rev. ]. NJ. Caldwell. at one time a
presiding elder in the Methodist Episco-
pal Church, was declared insane by a
Chicago jury.
The Convention of Negro Presidents
of Agricultural Colleges in an address
urges members of their race to take up
farm life.
Judge Cantrill, in Versailles, KY. de-
cided that Governor Beckham is eligible
for reelection as governor of Kentucky.
Cornell University professors are 10
be retired after attaining the age of 70
years on pension of .SI,5oo year.
Charles E. L. Henderson was executed
in Duluth, Mimi, for the murder # Ida
Mccormick, his mistress.
A conference of Sunday school mis-
sionaries, at which II states are repre-
sented. was begun in Chicago.
Rufus Cantrell, the resurrectionist.
made a full confession to the grand jury
in Noblesville, Ind.
District Attorney Coatesworth, of
Buffalo, declares himself to be satisfied
that he knows who committed the
Burdick murder, but has rot yet suf-
flciently strong evidence to convict.
A negro Wednesday night entered
the house of white man at Cordova,
Ala, for robbery, and in fight that
followed killed the white man and
murdered his wife and child.