Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1903-12-10
News OF
a Week
photographic Photographs Of the
Worlds Doings


Dowie's Zion was on Tuesday placed
in the hands of receivers. Financial
difficulties which began during tile cru
SADIE of John Alexander Dowie. the
self styled Elijah III. and his res
toration host to New York a month ago
and which have been rapidly increas-
ing since Dowie's return have culmi-
mated in the federal court taking pos
session of all the property controlled
by Dowie in Zion City It is declared
to be a fact that the employees of the
manufacturing industries have not been
paid in from four to six weeks The
city contains about 10000 souls
The bodies of Franz Frehr and his
wife, an aged couple who disappeared
from their home in Buffalo, have been
found buried beneath a wood shed in
the back yard of their house. They
had been murdered. The skulls Of both
had been crushed. Charles Bonier. who
moved into the house of the Frehrs on
the day of their disappearance and for
whom a search was begun as soon as
it was known they were missing, has
been arrested at Erie, Pa. Bonier has
confessed to forging deeds by which
he obtained possession of the Frehr
home and house and lot.
One of the most important raids that
has ever taken place in the vicinity Of
Boston was on Friday night success
fully carried out in the little town of
u ~
be well known coHnterfeiters, We're ar
rested ard an extensive plant and an
enormous supply of paper for printing
notes We're confscated Simultaneous
~ seven men said to belong TO the
same gang We're arrested near New
York
In its final estimate of the cotton
crop for this year the government.
through the department of agriculture,
announced crop Of only 9,962, 039
bales. This estimate indicates crop
disaster. Immediately afterward pam
ic occurred on the New York Cotton
Exchange. Prices advanced in a sen
sational manner
Senior Rios. the fanatic Filipino lead
er and so called pope of the Tayabas,
has been hanged. He was captured
last May and was subsequently con-
victed of murder and sentenced to
death. Twenty seven of his followers
We're sentenced at the same time to
various terms of imprisonment
In her official trial over the Cape Ann
course OH Saturday the new cruiser
Des Moines, the first large warship
product Of the Fore River Ship and
Engine company of Quincy, Mass, ex-
ceeded her contract requirement of 1865
knots an hour
By petition filed in the probate
court in New Haven, Conn.,, it is in
Dictated that there has been settle
ment of the fight waged over the ST.
100000 estate Of the late steamship
magnate. Henry B. Plant
General Rafael Reyes, the special
minister from Colombia, practically in.
itiated his mission on Saturday by call
ing upon President Roosevelt at the
White House and telling him why he
had come to Washington.
BY a sudden change in the channel
of the Mississippi river near Selma.
Mo. tnirty-five miles below ST Louis,
three large upbound steamers were
caught in the old channel and left hard
aground
Announcement of the successful ae
complishment of grating the ear of
one man to the head of another is made
by DR. Andrew T. Nelden Of 10 East
Twenty-ninth street, New York.
Congress began its regular session al
noon on Monday, when the presidents
message was read in both branches
The Hay varilla Panama canal treaty
was transmitted to the senate.
A million and quarter pears, said
to be practically the worlds present
supply of the fruit, are stored in a
warehouse in Chicago.
On Wednesday Sir Henry Mortimer
Durand, the new British ambassador,
was formally presented to President
Roosevelt
Yale won the annual intercollegiate
debate in Woolsey hall, New Haven.
Conn, with Harvard on Friday night.
nEATHs In Roosevelt hospital
nr MoTEn New York, Wednes-
nrcn, day night, after d
- brief illness of pneu-
monia, DR. Cyrus Edison, leading
physician of that city. For many years
DR.. Edison served the city in the board
of health, rising ultimately to the post
of commissioner. His writings on
medical subjects have atfracfpd world.