Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1905-05-11
A WEEKS NEWS CONDENSED
Friday. May 5.


Three men were burned to death
in a fire which destroyed the Fifth
Avenue hotel at Duluth, Mimi.
Martin Rasmus was hanged at
Wilkesbarre. Pa, for the murder of
Henry Ortwine, an aged German
The boiler of B. & o. engine blew
up near Youngstown, o., instantly
killing the fireman and fatally injuring
the engineer.
The PENNSYLVANIA State Council,
Order of United American Mechanics,
will hold their convention next year
at Chester, Pa.
Thomas A. Neal, clerk of the court
of the First Judicial District of Okla
homa, is under arrest at Guthrie,
charged With embezzling $4,000.
Saturday, May s.
Cuba has signed treaty Of friend
ship and commerce with Great Britain.
Captain Lewis L. Roney, adjutant CT
the 4th regiment, National Guard Of
Pennsylvania, died at Allentown of
consumption.
The appearance of yellow fever on
the Isthmus of Panama VIII result it
is feared, in delaying progress on the
canal operations this summer
Charged with being. implicated in
graft in connection with teachers
appointments, Joseph Bernstein, of the
Shenandoah school board, has been
held in bail for court at Pottsville, Pa.
Isaac N. Perry, of Chicago, formerly
president of the National Bank of
America, was acquitted of the charge
of setting fire to the Chicago Car anu
Locomotive company's plant at Hege-
wisch, Ill.
Monday, May 8.
DR.. l.. III. Adler, Jr., of Philadelphia.
was elected president of the Procto-
logical Society of American, In conven-
ton at Pittsburg, Pa.
William Chapman, retired farmer,
of Lincoln City, Del, committed sui
eide by lying face downward in
stream of water 10 inches deep.
Fred Schlichter, 10 years old, found
gold watch worth $500 while playing
in a pile of scrap paper at the Perkio-
men Paper Mills at Hereford, Pa.
Mayor Yost, of Allentown, Pa, has
sent to Jail for 80 days Rupert Grit
fifth, the defiant Dowieite, who insist
ed on preaching in the public square.
Tuesday, May 9.
Jose )h Cancillian was shot to death
on the street at Pittston, Pa, and the
murderer, who is unknown, escaped.
Superintendent w H. Brownson, of
the Annapolis, Nd, naval academy, has
been promoted to be rear admiral
The case of Mrs. Chadwick was set
for hearing by the Ohio United States
court of appeals for October 8 in Gin
cinnati.
Frank H. Clarkson. former letter
carrier of Plainfeld, N. j., was SEN
fenced to a years imprisonment for
stealing letters.
Charles Pease, Richard Meade and
Charles Chappelle were drowned in the
Connecticut river at Hartford by the
capsizing of their canoe
Wednesday, May 10.
The Pennsylvania Democratic state
convention will be held at Harrisburg
on May "a.
The Grand Castle of the Knights OF
Golden Eagles of Pennsylvania held its
annual session at York
Ignace Paderewski, the pianist, who
has been i'll for several weeks, sailed
from New York for his home.
J. Thompson Baird, for 20 years
mayor of Portsmouth, Va, and a vet
eran of the Confederacy, died of para
lysis
Thursday, May II.
The 18th annual meeting of the
American Tract Society was held in
New York
Victor w. Priest, clerk in the post
office at Hudson, N. Y, was sent to
Jail for one year for stealing letters.
The cruiser Minneapolis has been
ordered to the New England coast to
destroy number of dangerous dere-
licts.
The 18th annual convention of the
supreme council of the Catholic
Knights of America was held at ST.
Louis
First Lieutenant Alphonse STROLLER,
47th Company of Coast Artillery, who
disappeared from his station at Fort
Hunt. Va, three months ago, has been
dropped from the army register as a
| deserter.
General Davis Sails For Home.