Gloucester County Democrat., 1908-07-16
CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS
Thursday. .Iuiy 9.

Two hotels and twenty cottages wera
destroyed by fire at College Point, /.
L, entailing loss of 100000.
John D. Rockefeller celebrated the
sixty ninth year Of his Birth Wednes
day at his residence in Cleveland.
During the electrical storm lightning
struck a tent at Ocean View, near At
Iantic Highlands, n. J., and its six oc
cupants were severely shocked.
Mrs. Lydia Runyon, ninety-two years
old, widow of D. c. Runyon, of New
ark. N. j., is being treated at the Pas
tour institute in New York as the re
suit of being bitten by a supposedly
rabid dog.
Friday, July 10.
EIr. and Mrs. Edmund Smith, eacl
eighty years old, who lived on farm
near Rochester, N. Y, were burned tt
death in fire which destroyed theil
homo
In g'p l.i,.a fg9st It pro
tracted n near Backusburg, KY.
Wayne Lawrence shot and killed An
ME Bannister and was himself perhaps
fatally stabbed.
Governor Fort, of New Jersey, an
nounced that it would not be necessary
to call special session of the legisla
ture to provide extra appropriation:
for state departments that did not re
ceive the full amount asked by then
last winter.
Saturday, July II.
Clarence Yeager, a Camden. N. J.
youth. lost his life while bathing il
Ocean City.
A hot coal from North Penn trair
fell on leaky valve of the United
Pipe Line company's line. near Allen
town Pa. causing an explosion ant
letting 2SS barrels of oil flow away.
Governor Stuart. respited Mike
Holka, of Venango county, Pa, under
sentence to be hanged next Tuesday
until Aag. IS. in order to allow the
case to be taken before the supreme
court.
Rather than face her landlord wher
she had no money to pay the rent oi
a boarding house in which she lost the
savings of lifetime. Mrs. Henrietta
Scadder killed herself in New York BY
inhaling illuminating gas.
Monday, July f3.
BY court decree the name of tbs
Western University OF Pennsylvania
was changed to University of Pitts
burg.
Chicago city council has votel $40,
600 to employ 100 physicians to looE
after children of the sIums during the
hot weather.
Proceedings have been begun in Sar
Francisco by Mr. and Mrs. James
Stead, Of Philadelphia, to break an al
legged false will by which the late ia
cob q. Davis disposed of s2,O00000
d. S. Serer, employed at the Stand
ard Steel works, Lewistown, Pa, was
struck in the right eye by piece oi
flying metal and his sight so badly in
jured that he will lose the eye.
Tuesday, July IA.
Rear Admiral Charles NJ. Thomas
u. S. N, who died in California, was
buried at Newport, r. l., with full
naval honors.
The Carpenter Steel works and the
pudding departments Of the Reading
Iron company, at Reading, Pa, resum
ed after an idleness of some weeks.
Thomas NJ. Allen, postmaster at Cass
vile. near Joplzin Mo-. was arrested
by a postoffice inspector charged with
opening mail addressed to S. R. Rey
nolds
A nervous wreck, Thomas R. Martin
once a prominent real estate dealer OF
Washington, pleaded guilty to charges
of embezzlement and forgery and was
sentenced to two years in the peniten
tiary at Moundsyille, W. Va.
Wednesday, July IS.
Fiye-year-old Clara Hoffman, while
playing with matches. was fatally
burned at the home of her parents in
Philadelphia.
Peleg Barker, for several years the
owner of the Washington Post. died at
his home at Portland, Me-, at the age
of eighty-four years.
Rosario Serge, eighteen years old
was hanged at New Castle, Pa, for
the murder of Antonio Bonti, which oc-
cured at Hillsville, June s, 1907.
Despondent from i'll health, Mrs. T,
Mandall Chadwick, of Lakemont, N
Y, committed suicide by drowning her
self in five feet of water in a cistern
in the cellar.