Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1906-05-03
4 WEEKS NEWS CONDENSED
Friday. AprII 27.

Friday, April ~.
Two men were burned to death and
| four others were injured in fire
| which destroyed hotel at Franken-
! muth, Mich.
Spencer Eddy, secretary of the Amer
| lean embassy at st. Petersburg, and
! Miss Lurline Spreckels, of San Fran.
cisco, were married in Paris,
Joaquin Alvarez, Spaniard, who on
February &c shot and killed two men
in a Philadelphia boarding house, was
sentenced to 20 years in prison.
! H. H. Sinclair, aged SO years, an
employe of the p, w. & B. railroad.
was struck by fast freight train near
Wilmington, Del, and instantly killed.
! Saturday, April %.
John DAILY, said to be one of the
wealthiest gamblers in the country
| died in New York after a seven-months'
illness.
William A. Brewer, formerly presi-
dent of the Washington Life Insurance
company, was indicted in New York
for perjury
A runaway horse. frightened by ar
auto, at Atlantic City, N. T.. leaped
over the go-cart of Miles Barnett's
baby without injuring the child
The mutilated body of Selee Houk,
the missing deputy game and fish war
den, was found heavily weighted with
stones, in the Mahoning river, near
Hillsville, Pa.
|, Christian Lipp, wealthy retired
| farmer, near New Danville, Lancaster
county, Pa. died in great agony from
| lockjaw caused by a pitchfork pene-
trating his foot.
Monday, April 80.
Three children were burned to death
when the Presbyterian mission school
at Lawson, w Va, was destroyed.
Pennsylvania state authorities will
experiment in the culture of tobacco
under cover at the Tocalico station. in
Lawrence county.
Falling beneath his horse in the sta
BILE, Adam Brilliant, wealthy York
county, Pa, farmer, so years of age
was trod upon so that he died.
Thirty-one indictments have been
returned against former Clerk of the
Circuit Court John A. Cooke, at Chi
cago, % of them relating to forgery.
Lloyd, son of Jacob Roth, of West
Coplay, Pa, was run over by stone
train in quarry of the Lehigh Port.
land Cement plant and sustained In
juries that caused his death.
Tuesday, May I.
The hearing in the bankruptcy case
of John Alexander Dowie in Chicago
has been postponed until May IS.
Two laborers were killed and five
seriously injured by the explosion Of
cupola at the Illinois Steel company
in Chicago.
Governor Pennypacker, Of Pennsyl-
vania, reappointed David Martin, of
Philadelphia, commissioner of insur-
ance for a term of three years
The body of Albert Schubert, New
York plasterer, with throat cut and
arteries severed, was found in the an
cient well st. Romans, at Corona,
Queens county, n. Y.
wednesday, way <
Former Governor James E. Boyd, the
only Democrat ever elected to the office
in Nebraska, died at Omaha.
Joseph Pasquale, Italian cook, OF
Philadelphia, was fatally burned by
the explosion Of a gasoline stove.
The battleship New Hampshire will be
launched at the plant of the New York
Shipbuilding company in Camden, N. j.,
some time during June
Captain R. P. Hobson, Of Alabama,
the much-kissed hero of Santiago Har-
boris bottling experiment, it is said is
In the field for the presidential nomi-
nation
Thursday, May 8.
Leander Hart, of Girard, Pa, shot
and killed his wife and himself
Governor E. w. Hoch, of Kansas,
was renominated by the Republican
state convention at Topeka.
Gertrude Bendel, years old, was
burned to death while playing with
matches in her home in Philadelphia.
The new six-story building and stock
of the Aaron Furniture company at
ConnelIsville. Pa, were damaged by
fire to the extent Of $4,000.
The Glen Ellyn Springs Hotel, the
100000 building used last summer as
sanitarium for poor children of Chi.
cago, was struck by lightning and
burned to the ground.
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