Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1906-07-12

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Riverside lies in critical condition from
blood poisoning.
From slight scratch on his hand, caused
! by the peck Of setting hen at his home, on
South Thirty-sixth street, East Camden,
Isaac Shreeye, hall officer at the Third Dis
trIcs Station House, is suffering from blood
poisoning.
The tomato market is brisk at Swedes-
boro station, this years. shipment amount
ing to 81, ,412 crates up TO Friday night.
This is couple hudred short Of last season
at this time. The past weeks prices have
ranged from 81. so to 81. .92 crate.
Anthrax is alarmingly prevalent in the
rural districts about Bridgeton, and the
State Board Of Health has taken vigorous
measures to stamp out the disease. Will
lam Dubois on Sunday lost four cows and a
mule, and Fenwick Smick lost two COWS.
! A temporary trestle erected oyer deep
raYine at Shire Oaks, collapsed on Thursday
last carrying six men and carload of
dirt to the ground, a distance Of forty-fye
feet. One man was killed outright and the
others were all dangerously injured. The
men were foreign laborers.
Mayor Joseph North, Of Pleasantville,
was fined $3.50 on Friday last by a justice,
because he drove team across Pleasant
Yille sidewalk The complainant was FL
mer Adams, whom the Mayor recently
fined ST. so for riding his bicycle on the
sidewalk The Mayor paid his fine.
A severe electrical storm, accompanied
by high wind and hail, passed over Hunter
don County Monday afternoon, doing con-
siderable damage. John V. Dalrymple's
barn, near Quakertown, was burned by
lightning. In Pennington large hailstones
fell until the streets were nearly covered
It is rumored that where the w. J. & S.
is. r. R. into BridgetOn is electrified all
passenger trains will run into the old Iry-
ing avenue station, which has not been
used for Is years. The old station is over
| mile from The centre Of the city, and the
Icisizen sze Indignant over the proposed
na0seipent
Frank Biggs, Of MillviHe, driver Of a
baker wagon, was badly bitten BY mad
dog on Friday last while delivering bread
to one of his customers. Biggs was enter
ing yard when the dog, frothing at the
mouth, rushed for the man and before he
could escape, had bitten him in the fleshy
part Of the right leg.
The negro who died at Cooper Hospital,
Camden, Thursday, from injuries received
while riding in car on the gravity road at
Washington Park, July A, was identified as
Daniel Pervard, farm hand The identi-
fcation was made by his wife. She would
not claim the body. and it was buried in
Potter's Field.
The trolley car OF the Camden, Glouces-
ter and Woodbury. line, which carries the
morning newspapers to Gloucester and
Woodbury., was discovered to be on fire as
it reached the yard Of the New York Ship
building Company, in Camden. Sunday
morning. 1t was stopped and the crew
tried to extinguish the blaze, but four large
bundles of papers were burned.
The Pennsy flyer, leaving Camden at 5
p. m. on Monday, loaded with several hun
dred Philadelphians, on their way to At
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head-on collision in the yards Of Atlantic
City, and many passengers were seriously
bruised and shaken up by being thrown
from their seats. misunderstanding o.
orders by the engineer Of a shifting engine
was the cause Of the trouble.
Every farmer in New Jersey will be in
vited to meet with the State Board Of Agri-
culture at special summer session OF the
board to be held on the farm connected
with the State Agriculture College at New
Brunswick, August II. The purpose Of
the gathering will be to get the farmers Of
the State thoroughly acquainted with the
extension Of the work Of the State college
under the appropriation made blythe Legls-
lature last winter.
The readiustment Of tax valuations Of
properties, real and personal, to conform to
the new State law, is causing no end Of
trouble to the assessors in the boroughs and
townships Of Camden County who appear
at sea as TO what is required Of them. They
met with the new county board yesterday
to receive instructions, and were informed
that their duties were very plain, as all
that was required was for shem TO assess
all real estate at full value.
Judge Booraem announced this morning
that the Middlesex Common Pleas Court
will not order places where liquor is sold
to remove screens on Sundays and electionf
days. The Judge declared that after 9
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