Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1903-12-03

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Thursday night. The loss viii amount
to about SIC. 600. The fire department
Of Rutland, four miles away, saved the
town.
At Ogdensburg, n. X, Friday, Fl G.
Chandeliers cold storage plant. which
contained large quantities Of butter.
cheese, eggs and fruit, was burned
The loss is estimated at $4,000.
A car on the Missouri Pacific fast
mail train from ST Louis caught fire
en- route, and the car and its contents,
twenty tons Of second and third class
mail matter, were consumed.
BY the burning of the Central hotel
at Tower, Mimi, Friday, Thomas
Gheen was cremated Frank Thomas
was probably fatally burned and three
other persons are missing
The plant of the New Freedom (Pa.l
Wire Cloth company has been de-
stroyed; loss, SIS 900, partly insured.
spopr,Mc On Franklin field,
nrrA,pe Philadelphia, on Sat
s. 1''s urday, the army elev-
en- riddled the ranks Of the midship-
men in the annual game Of football. It
was expected that the West Point ca
diets would win the game, and they
fulfilled expectations with venge-
ance. Annapolis scored first, but only
once. This was few moments after
the conflict was begun When it end
ed the score was 40 to 5 in favor of the
army cadets the worst drubbing Ell
Their team has ever administered to the
other.
In San Francisco, Wednesday night.
before large gathering of sporting
men Bob Fitzsimmons outboxed and
outgeneraled George Gardner and was
given the decision at the end of the
twenty round fight Gardner received
a hard drubbing, but, though repeated
" sent to the floor was always on his
feet before the time limit expired The
gate receipts We're $4,000.
1t is announced that f. D. Colson Of
Cornell, for four years cockswain of
the varsity crew there, will coach the
Harvard crew for the annual race with
Yale in june It is expected that a
radical change will be made III the
methods of rowing at Harvard
Thanksgiving day football games re.
suited as follows Pennsylvania, ~;
Cornell, 0. Carlisle, IS; Northwestern,
o. Dartmouth, 60; Brown, 0. Holy
Cross, 80; Tufts, O. Michigan, %; Chi
cago, O. Minnesota, II; Wisconsin, 0.
Lehigh, Il; Georgetown, g.
Young Corbett and Eddie Hanlon
have been matched to fight in San
Francisco on Dec 30. The men viii
meet at 129 pounds for the feather
weight championship of the world, the
battle to be twenty rounds.
DEATHS At his home in New
or MorEn ark, N j., on Friday,
a-a5, Elisha B. Gaddis, a di-
rector Of the Pennsyl-
yania railroad and a multimillionaire,
aged fifty-seven years. While eating he
was seized with an attack of heart fail
ure and died before the doctors who
had been summoned could revive him.
At Northampton, Mass, on Monday,
George I'll. Ray. aged sixty, treasurer
of the Monotuck Silk company of Flor
ence. He served during the civil war
in the Eighteenth Connecticut volun-
teers and was an inmate of Libby pris-
on for a long period. He was promi-
r,o,,+ ", Grand A,.,,,-- sr,d aJ,15v,.I, .,s,s
cles.
At her home in New York, Wednes-
day. Mrs. Harriet Hubbard Aver the
well known newspaper woman, Of
pneumonia after a weeks illness. She
was the widow of Herbert Aver, once
one of Chicago's leading business men.
For the past seven years she had been
on the staff Of the New York World
In Philadelphia, Wednesday, DR..
William Shaw Stewart, one of the
founders and former dean of the Med
-Chirurgical college in that city, OF
heart disease. aged seventy mine years.
In Chicago, on Saturday, Jules Levy
the world famous cornetist
EonE,cN The worst food since
Mars 1924 has visited st. Pc.
1850 tersburg The Neva
; - : : = rose to great height
causing heavy loss The intense cold
following caused much distress among
the homeless and the jewellers in eel
lars. In the factory quarter 10000
persons were driven into the streets.
many of them losing their ALL
An epoch making discovery in the
field of chemical research is. announced
by Sir William Ramsay with regard to
that mysterious substance radium
which for two years past has been puz.
cling men of science. Sir William
Ramsay, whose name is associated with
that of Lord RaVleigh in the study Of