Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1903-11-12

that the Americans at Boston resisted
the tea duty and urged a revolt
a sensation has been created ii New
foundland by the forma&Sn by former
Premier Sir William Whiteway and
former Attorney General Donald MORT
son Of political party which will APP
peal to the country next year on d pol
fey having Ia view union with Canada
In Havana, Monday. an omnibus flied
with passengers was struck BY train
on the Mariana railroad at the In
fanta avenue crossing. Five persons
were killed and several were injured.
DEATHS At his residence, ASH
~ Mnrrn bourne, near Ellsins
nrar,- Park, Pa, after an i'll
: ness of more than d
month, William e. Elkins, the well
known street railway magnate. Death
was directly due to heart failure caus-
ed by hardening of the arteries. Mr..
Elkins was born on May 2, 1882, in
western Virginia of Quaker parentage.
The death Of Mrs. Mary E. Schenley.
Pittsburg's great benefactress for
many years, at her home In Hyde
Park, London, was announced Thurs
day. That her residence abroad had
not prevented her having the welfare
of her old home at heart had been evil
denced by her many donations of land
and money to worthy charities and 10
cal enterprises in Pittsburg.
At his home in Rochester, N. T., Fri
day, Franklin Smith, former edito-
rial writer on the New York Evening
Post and associate editor on the Union
and Advertiser and Post Express OF
Rochester for the past fifteen years.
Mr.. Smith was born in South Gran
vile, Washington county, N. r, Oct. 8,
1858.
In Buffalo. Sunday, DR.. Cornelius
Cox Wyckoff. who at the time of his
death was one of the oldest and best
known practicing physicians in west
ern New York He was charter
member Of the New York Medical as
ISOLATION and a life member of the
American Medical society.
At his home in Coyington, N. r,
Monday, William N Greed, for eight
or ten years cashier of the Farmers
National bank Of Malone, N X, and
later for several years connected with
the banking house of r. r. Flower s.
Co. of New York city, aged fifty-eight
years.
rug E,RE For the third time
pEcopn within a few months
fire on Sunday morn
ing devastated the yiIGge of Milton,
N. X, destroying three story hotel.
a jeWelry store and foundry. The
loss on the hotel is $13. 900 and on the
other property $4,000. This fire, fol
lowing closely on two others, has prac-
ticafly wiped out the business portion
of the village
Several of the largest business houses
in Troy, N. X, were burned Tuesday
night by fire which began in the Cit
liens line pier; loss, 100000.
ArctnEMre Eight men lost their
lives as a result Of a
an fire in the Kearsarge
CASUALTIES. mine at Summit,
Mont, Friday All Of the victims were
suffocated. The origin Of the fire is as
yet unsettled The financial loss will
not exceed 100000
At Iona island, in the Hudson river,
opposite Peekskill, N. e, Wednesday,
six men were killed and ten slightly in
jured by an explosion at the United
States naval arsenal at that place, one
of the largest magazines in the coun-
try. The explosion occurred while
men were drawing the explosive charges
from a consignment of old shells re-
Gently sent there from the battle ship
Massachusetts and destroyed complete
" three massive shell houses, hurting
rain of fragments of projectiles Of
all sizes up to ID INCH shells in every
direction.
Three miners were killed and two
others fatally injured by the breaking
of cable on an incline at the mines
of the Glen Ferris Mining company at
Kanawha Falls, W. Va, Monday.
Three men were killed BY dyna-
mite explosion at Harrisonburg, Va.
-Four others were injured. The men
attempted to thaw out frozen dyna-
mite
.
FOREIGN The Chinese are more
NOTES enFagea az the Rus
nEIMrrprcr sian proceedings at
s Mukden than they have
been by any event since the capture
Of Picking. Some Of the hotheaaed
members Of the council have advised
the dowager empress to declare war
on Russia and send troops to release
the Tartar general, whose detention at
Mukden, growing out Of the deeapita-
ton Of the Chinese bandit who had en-
listed IN fhQ RuSSia17 snrvion hr4f who