Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1903-10-29
News OF
A Week
photographic Photographs Of the
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States Shipbuilding companys hearing
in New York last week former Presi-
| dent Lewis Nixon sWore that the wreck
of the trust might have been avoided
had he not been hampered by Charles
M. Schwab. Mr.. Nixon testified at one
stage of the inquiry that Mr.. Schwab
had prevented meeting of the board
of directors after the prospectus of the
/ Shipbuilding company was issued. Just
before the hearing adjourned Mr.. Nix
on said that when he learned the true
state of affairs in the company he oh.
! jected to any more sales of the Ship
building securities He wanted the
truth made public in order to save
would be investors.
! There is grave concern in the depart.
ment of the interior over. certain avi-
dence just reaching Washington relai-
ing to land frauds of gigantic proper
tons in the western country. AS "A,
/ 100000 acres have been reserved for
forest purposes in the last five years,
the opportunities for fraud have been
enormous, but more convincing evil
/ dence than has been thus far presented
must be produced to establish the
/ validity of the sensational allegations
now being made.
William j. Bryan testified in the pro-
bate court at New Haven, Conn, on
| Wednesday, that the sealed letter re-
ferred to in the will of the late Philo
S. Bennett of this city and New York
l<7f,r 4xs a4rs y,
should accept $4,000, of which $4,000
was to go to Mrs. Bryan and $4,000
to their three children. Mrs. Bennett
will contest this part of the WILL alleg-
ing undue influence on the part of the
organs upon her husband.
Clarence H. Leonard, who ten days
ago disappeared at the same time that
his employers, Haskins & Sells Of
New York, discovered that checks
had been forged against them to the
amount of $10,075, was caught in Van
couyer, B. c., Sunday. Katherine Mil
Ter, who disappeared at the same time,
was with young Leonard. Nine thou
sand dollars of the stolen funds was
recovered.
Among the passengers on the North
German Lloyd steamship Princess
Irene, which sailed from New York on
Saturday for Naples and Genoa, were
Samuel L. Clemens mark Twain and
his wife and two daughters. Mr.. Glenn
ems said he expected to be abroad
about year and during his trip would
spend part of the time in working ON
two new novels. They will winter in
Florence.
The twenty ninth annual convention
of the American Bankers association
at San Francisco ended on Friday
with the installation Of the newly
chosen officers and the presentation to
the retiring president, H. Caldwell Har-
dy, of a beautiful silver punch bowl
Next years convention will be held
either in New York or Atlantic City,
N. =.
Extremely rich placer gold diggings
have been discovered on the head wa
tiers of Sushitna river, western Alaska.
The new strike is on the east side of
| that river, sixty-five miles from Slate
creek The work of two men for fif-
teen days shows that by the crudest
methods they washed out $50 per day
each.
The new battle ship Missouri in a
speed trial over the Cape Ann course
on Wednesday, with weather condi-
tons of a considerably handicapping
nature, steamed over a course of thir-
\ ty-three nautical miles and return at
an average speed of 1906 knots per
hour, breaking all records for its class.
An unknown woman on Sunday
walked ON cable of the new Will
liamsburg bridge, New York, travelling
from the point where the great rope
energies through the eastern approach
up to the top of the skeleton tower,
335 feet above the water, and thence
down to the center of the main span.
DR.. Henry H. Cate, a well known
! practitioner and proprietor of a large
sanitarium in Lakewood, N. j., who
disappeared from New York last April
while on business trip and whose
mind has been a blank ever since, due
to his having been struck on the head,
has just recovered his memory.
The Federal National bank of Pitts
burg suspended operations on Wednes-
day. The failure is attributed to heavy
investments in newly organized cor
4 poratons which have not been sue
cessful and also to heavy speculation
in Crucible steel, which has declined
slowly for weeks past.
Early on Wednesday morning the
large vault of the Superior Syis.) post
Office was rified of practically the en-
tire supply Of stamps. amounting to be-
tween $4,000 and S15500 About 500
in fractional silver was also secured.
At GAINESVILLE, Oh, Wednesday, Mrs
4 William Tate, eolored woman. TWEEN
ty-three years old, gave birth to four
girl babies. all Of normal size and
weighing slightly more than six and