Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1904-01-07
4 WEEKS NEWS CONDENSED.
Erldav. January /.


on a reef off the coast of Borneo.
Pope Plus received in private au-
dience John F. Betz, of Philadelphia.
Paris, Ill. was shaken by an earth
quake, which was perceptible all over
the city. No damage was done.
Frank White, of Paterson, N. J., son
of wealthy lumber dealer, was SEN
fenced to % years imprisonment for
forgery.
BY the derailing of a Lake Shore ex-
press train at Ashtabula, O., three trains
men were killed and another fatally
injured.
Saturday, January 2.
The total deaths from typhoid fever
to date at Butler. Pa, number 81
Two business blocks in Ansonia,
Conn, were destroyed by fire, involv
ing a loss of $3.50
Daniel Edward Fiske, the famous
author and newspaper writer, died at
Upton, Mass. aged 81 years.
Charles Mason, a Newark, N. j.,
butcher, was stabbed to death during
a quarrel by Charles Schaub.
The fire department officials of New
York have been ordered to make
weekly inspections of the fire arrange
ments in all theatres.
The National rolling mills of the
United States Steel Corporation at
McKeesport, Pa, resumed operations.
giving employment to 5000 men.
Mnndav January a
The national convention of the So
cialist party will be held in Chicago,
H., May 1.
Fire in the business section of VIII
son, N. c., destroyed a dozen or more
buildings. entailing loss of $125.000.
Bryan Democrats of Lincoln, Neb.,
are arranging a dollar dinner as a well
come to their leader when he returns
home, January IS.
President Roosevelt declined to at
tend the quadrennial conference of the
African Methodist Episcopal Church
in Chicago in May.
Angered because he was ordered
from the home of his sister-in-law,
John Pollak, of Chicago, shot the wom-
an twice, killing her instantly, and
then killed himself.
Tuesday, January 5.
All collieries in the anthracite coal
district resumed work, after an idle
ness of 10 days.
Minneapolis mills have advanced the
price of -four 10 cents a barrel, as re-
suit of the advance in wheat.
James Pendegast. a miner living at
Upper Lehigh. Pa, was found frozen
to death on public road near his
home.
Martin Sheetz. Pennsylvania rail-
road mail carrier. of Harrisburg, Pa,
fell under the wheels of a train and
was instantly killed
j. M. Graham, chief engineer of the
Baltimore and Ohio railroad, has re-
signed, and win become one of the
vice presidents of the Erie railroad
Wednesday, January 6.
During the year 1903 there were 260
court-martials in the marine corps and
1855 in the navy.
Governor L. E. c. Garvin, of Rhode
Island. was inaugurated at Providence
for his second term.
Alfred Knapp, self-confessed muir
derer of five persons, has been granted
a new trial at Hamilton, o.
Burglars dynamited the safe of the
Ambridge, Pa, postoffice and got away
with $500 in cash and stamps
Brigadier General James Miller, re-
tired, has been detailed to duty with
the organized militia of New Hamp-
shire
President Roosevelt has pardoned
R. F. Ashley, serving a two-years
sentence for forgery in the Illinois
penitentiary.
Thursday, January z.
President Roosevelt has nominated
Captain Charles O'Neil to be a rear
admiral.
Fire in the educational building of
the worlds fair at st. Louis did $4,000
damage.
Following his retirement, Lieutenant
General Young will go to Cuba to
spend the winter.
Sergeant julius Frederick, Arctic
explorer and member of Greeley ex-
petition. died at Indianapolis.
The Mississippi state senate, by a
vote of 81 to i. Instructed their United
States senators to vote for the Panama
Canal treaty
General John r. Black, recently ap-
pointed civil service commissioner,
has been asked to become chairman
of the commission.