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Gloucester County Democrat., 1908-12-31
Red Cross Italian Earthquake Relief.

The American National Red Cross Issues
an immediate appeal for money contrihu-
tions, for the relief Of sufferers OF the earth
quake in Italy. Asking all who will give,
70 do so quickly, and generously.
Contributions will be received BY she
Treasurer Of the New Jersey State Branch.
Hon. Daniel S. yoorhies, Trenton. N.
VIM. E sPEAKMAN, seo'y
New Jersey State Branch American Nasion-
al Red Gross.
Gloucester County Democrat., 1908-12-31

BILLS PAID
j. w. Davis, relief orders. - 00
E. j. Blatherwick, printing -. II IS
Quaker City Stamping Works 5 20
j. S. Jsssup, special service. IL 81
Riggs Bros, sundries .... 3 10
S. Fl. Ladd, heating Mayors office 2 80
F. B Davis, salary as solicitor 100 90
w A. Fisher, coal, etc ...... 3 Is
]. D. Carpenter, advertising So. Is 95
Gloucester County Democrat., 1908-12-31

It I "A u "a I1zSi K5SSI o1tRl
Woodbury., N. J. Dec. 81, 1908.
Gloucester County Democrat., 1908-12-31

Annual meeting Of the State Board OF
Agriculture, January 18th, 14th and 15th,
1909.
PREMIUMS.
The following premiums will be offered
by the horticultural Society at shis meet
ing:
For all kinds Of apples raised in this
State BY exhibitors, for each variety,
specimens TO plate, leach exhibitor linn
tied 70 10 premiums,) first premium, 81;
second, so cents.
For all kinds Of pears raised in this State
by exhibitors, for each variety, specimens
TO plate, Teach exhibitor limited 70 6
premiums, first premium, 81; second, SO
GENTS.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1908-12-03
NEWS OF THE WEEK IN fPITOMt
mp0rtant Events at Home and Oh
Foreign Shores Briefly
Told.
From Washington.

Marley Lawton, a son of the late
Maj. Gen. Henry w. Lawton, who was
titled in the Philippine islands in 1900,
has been appointed second lieutenant
f the Philippine scouts and ordered
10 Fort Thomas, KY.
Because he barely avoided running
Town the president of the United
States with his bicycle while the lat
ter was walking to church last Sun
lay, Gilbert Boyer, a negro youth, was
arrested on the charge of mo- having
I suitable bell on his bicycle"
Paper is to be manufactured from
cotton stalks, a heretofore useless by
product, according to a report of the
bureau Of manufactures. A company
capitalized at 100000 has been or
ganized at Atlanta, Ga, for the pur-
pose. 1t is claimed that paper can be
made from cotton stalks at a cost of
about SIS per ton.
With the announcement by Chair
man Hitchcock of the Republican ma
tional committee of the appointment
Of Edward j. Stellwagen of Washing
ton as chairman of the inaugural COM
mittee, the first step was taken In the
work Of preparing for the Inaugural
tion of Mr.. Taft and Mr.. Sherman as
president and vice president on March
next.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1908-12-03
From Other Shores.

Sixteen Chinese were killed and
several seriously injured in a wreck
on the Chinanfu e. Using Tau railroad.
Nah Fong, a Chinaman, was found
! guilty at MacLecd, Alberta, of murder
ing his brother and sentenced to be
hanged Jar. 5.
The king and queen of Sweden, who
have been in England as the guests of
King Edward, left for Stockholm, via
Portsmouth and Cherbourg.
The grand lodge of the knights Of
PythiasN has invited William Jennings
Bryan ITO address the grand lodge Of
Western Canada when in session in
Winnipeg in June. He has accepted.
In memory of the late emperor of
China and the empress dowager, serv-
ices of mourning were held at the Chi
nese legation at Tokyo. Similar serv-
ices were held at the Chinese con-
sulate at Seoul.
A special dispatch from Vienna says
that a band of Servians, whole cross
ing the Bosnian frontier near Zornick,
was repulsed by Austrian troops. The
Servians lost seventeen men killed and
the Austrians three killed.
A special dispatch received from
Berne, Switzerland, says that Count
Rhener, second secretary of the Ger
man legation there, jumped from a
window while suffering from an at
tack of fever and was killed.
R%eassured by the reports that the
cholera has completely disappeared
from Manila, Rear Admiral Sperry has
altered his determination not to per-
NIT the men of the Atlantic battle
ship feet to land. and has notified
Gov. Gen. Smith that the fleet is pre-
pared to enact the program originally
planned by the city.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1908-12-03
Accidental Happenings.

The freight car shops OF Rhodes.
Curry e. Co., manufacturers of rail.
road equipment at Amherst, N. s.,
were destroyed by fire. Loss, $780,
BOO.
Five men. including Capt. Obed
Knowiton of the British schooner
Hugh g., lost their lives in a collision
In Broad sound and the schooner sank.
Three men were saved.
William Henry Harrison Corey of
Dunlap, Iowa, on his way to Pierre, s.
d., to file on a land claim, was
asphyxiated by Illuminating gas in a
hotel at Sioux City last night and died.
Eugene Campbell, aged forty years,
was instantly killed and five others in
jured, one fatally, in an explosion o,
dynamite which wrecked the main
shaft of the Stimson mine near
Brownsville, Pa.
Three workmen were killed by gas
generated by a dynamite blast in the
tunnel which is being built for the
Springfield municipal waterworks I'M
der Cobble mountain, a few miles
from Westfield, Mass.
Sidney B. Tremble, a bond broker
Of Chicago, was accidentally shot and
killed by Frank Stuart while hunting
near Ellsworth, Kan. The dead man
was a member of the firm of Dewitt,
Tremble & Co. of Chicago.
A platform bearing over n hun
dred girls employed at the Mercantile
corporations plant in Dayton, Ohio,
collapsed while the young women
were being photographed. Fourteen
were more or less injured.
Two persons were drowned and six
others rescued from the water in Chi
cago when an automobile 1swerved
n rom its course at the approach to the
Terrence avenue bridge W the Calu-
met river. The occupants of the ma
chine were four chaffeurs and -four
young women. All were thrown into
the river.
Vincenzia Sarata was cut in two by
q Pandle switch engine, making the
third man killed at Logensport, Ind,
In this manner within a week. He
could not speak English, and when
several of his co%untrymen were
brought to the dying man to learn his
name they believed themselves ac-
cused of murder and fed in terror.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1908-12-03
Sins and Sinners.

]. e. McElroy, a construction engi-
gerry, was arrested at Los Angeles.
Joe Kofranek, a barber, is under
arrest at Sioux City on a charge of ar
son preferred by his wife, who says
he tried to burn down the house after
a quarrel.
j. A. Northcutt, a prominent citizen
of Henry Ellen, Jefferson county,
Alabama, was shot and killed by ]. w.
Dement,. Dement, viii say nothing as
to the cause of the tragedy.
Burglars robbed the Kirkwood, War
rem county. Illinois. p~ostofice of s35
In cash. This is the seventh post
Office robbery in the Fourth congress
sional district In the past three
months.
George B. Gascoigns, a plate printer
employed I'm the bureau of engraving
and printing in Washington, was shot
and killed by Thomas r. Griffith, a
blacksmith. who was arrested. The
shooting was the result of a quarrel.
Judge Munger, In the United States
court at Omaha, sentenced j. II. Ed
misten, a former state oil inspector
and chairman of the Populist state
committee, TO pay a fine of 81 900 and
serve -four months in jail for illegal
fencing of government lands. Edmis-
ten has been prominent in Nebraska
politics for many years.
Daring safeSlowers blew the safe In
the bank at Clark's Hill, Ind. but were
apprehended before completing their
work The little town was thrown
into a state Of wild excitement and a
revolver battle with the robbers fol-
lowed the attempt to rob the bank.
William Herman, assistant chief
clerk OF the municipal court in Chica-
60, and Samuel b. Panama. a we'll
known local politician, were indicted
N connection with the alleged frauds
IN the primaries OF Aug. 8. Twenty
eight other indictments were re.
turned.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1908-12-03
Domestic.

William III. Taft carried Missouri by
n plurality of 1,026, according to the
tabulation of official returns made by
Gov. Folk.
Otto BRAKEMAN Grimm, a lieutenant
in the United States signal corps, died
suddenly in a drug store at Long
Beach. Cal, of hemorrhage. Grimm
was on sick leave.
Thirty-four members of the junior
class in the Grand Rapids Veterinary
college walked out of a class room
when two colored students entered to
resume their studies.
Col. John c. Babcock, who was one
Of the principal scouts for the army OF
the Potomac during the Civil war,
died at his home at Mount Vernon, N,
Y. Col. Babcock was seventy-two
years of age.
Lying side by side on the floor OF
their apartment in New York, the
bodies Of Charles A. Walters, an aged
veteran of the Civil war. and his
daughter Emma, forty years old. were
found. The room was filled with gas
and all the cocks of a gas stove were
turned on.
Herman de Lagercrantz, Swedish
minister to the United States, and his
secretary narrowly escaped injury in
an automobile accident in Pittsburg.
The front axle of the automobile
broke and the party received a severe
jolting.
A higher divorce rate in the United
States than in any Of the foreign coun.
tries where statistics are available is
announced by the census bureau.
which In a bulletin just issued says
that at least n marriage in twelve
in this country ultimately terminates
II divorce.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1908-12-03
People Talked About.

Edward Harris Coy, fullback for
two years on the Yale team, has
been elected captain of the eleven
for the coming year.
H.. f. Hansen, an explorer in the
service of the American department
of agriculture, has gone to Central
Asia, where he will collect plants,
seeds, etc.
The Peruvian government will pre-
sent a gold medal to Miss Anrie
Peck, the American mountain climber
who last August succeeded In reach
ing the summit of Mount Huascaran
Brig. Gen. John Greene, u. s. A., re-
tired, died suddenly at Boise, Idaho,
of neuralgia of the heart, IT. his
eighty.fourth year. Gen. Greene was
a veteran of the Mexican and Civil
wars.
Capt. Patrick Henry, who spent
much time in Washington for twenty
years as the official representative of
the levee board Of the Mississippi
river, died at his home in Clarksyille,
Tenn.
Miss Bertha Duppler, secretary to
four Chicago ~postmasters and at the
time of her resignation said to have
been the highest salaried woman in
the postal service, has been married
to Jacob Baur, a prominent Chicago
business man.
Frank Melville, n of the best
known circus men In the United
States and for a number of years
equestrian director of the Hippodrome
In New York, succumbed to heart fail
ure in the general Offices of the Hip
podrome company in New York.
Daniel Gardener, a millionaire mine
owner of Wallace, Idaho, announces
that he has purchased and will oper
ate under modern methods the mines
in the vicinity OF Barcelona, Spain,
from which it Is the belief that the
Romans derived .--.. lead supply. 1t
will be the first time the mines have
been touched for centuries.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1908-12-03
HAlTPs BLOCKADE DOESN'T GO.
United States Refuses to Recognize
Closing of Ports.

Washington, Nov. 29.-Haiti's pa
per" blockade of the ports of Aquin
and Jeremio, which the government
admits its inability to make effective
by force of arms, will not be recog-
nized by the state department. This
is in accord with the traditional policy
of the American government. Notice
to this effect has been sent to Ameri-
can minister Furniss at Port au
Prince, who cabled that he had been
notified hat the ports declared block
AIDED also had been declared closed to
commerce by the Haitien authorities,
who also had notified the local steam
ship agents that merchandise for
them must be landed at the capital.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1908-12-03
OVER 100 PERISH IN FIRE AT SEA.
Shore onlookers RS1erIess to Aid
British Steamer Of Island Of Malta.

shore O~niookers R0Aerless to Aid
British Steamer Of Island Of Malta.
Veletta, Island OF Malta, Nov. Is
A terrible disaster, in which more
than a hundred persons lost their
lives, occurred at the entrance to this
port, within sight of the whole pop
ulation OF the city, who were power
less to give aid. The British steamer
Sardinia of the Elierman line, hailing
andria with a crew of forty-four Eng
lishmen, eleven first and six second
cabin English passengers, and nearly
two hundred Arab pilgrims aboard,
caught fire and within a few minutes
We" a roaring furnace surrounded by
clouds of black smoke, through which
flames burst upward to a height of 200
feet, from frequent explosions in the
hold.
ships Boats Burn.
So rapidly did the fire spread that
the frantic efforts of the crew TO OPP
crate the fire apparatus proved use
less, for 1t seemed but a moment be-
Tor the upper works and masts
crashed down upon the deck, while
the ships boats were crushed by the
falling debris or set on fire and quick
ly burned.
Safety lay only in the sea-, for no
one could save himself except by
jumping overheard and taking chances
of being picked up. Assistance was
hurried to the burning vessel from all
the warships in the harbor and from
the shore, but the work of rescue was
greatly impeded by the strong tide
hat was running. Even the naval
launches, which came as fast as they
could be driven, were unable to go
alongside. Among the Arabs there
was a panic that could not be con-
trolled. Many of them were too ter
riied to jump and they were burned
r. death. Others, casting themselves
into the waves, were drowned.
Heroic Sacrifice by Crew.
The crew behaved with admirable
courage, serving out life pr%eservers to
the last, and working the pumps.
When the pumps became useless, Capt.
Charles Littler, commander of the
Sardinia, took the helm and directed
his ship toward the shore. so long as
it could be n%avigated. He persisted at
his post. First officer Frank Watson,
all three engineers, Seagraves, Bishop
and Neil, eli hteen of the ships com
pany and two first class passengers.
one of them a boy named Grant, are
missing. Fifty or more bodies have
been recovered and seventy persons
rescued.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1908-12-03
JAIL EIGHT MooNSHINERs.
Revenue Officers Raid Their AIabam;
STRONGHOLD,

Admission, Ala, Dec. l. - The ia,
nous home of moonshine whisky in
the Turkey Haven mountains of Ala.
bama vas conquered, at least for the
present, by United States revenue of.
ticers when they brought to Jail here
Jim Floyd, for a decade the leader
of the Floyd gang, and eight alleged
members of his band.
Five bullet wounds in Floyd's body
attested to a desperate all-night fight
with the alleged moonshiners.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1908-12-03
GIRLS ADMIT SETTING FIRE.
Two Inmates OF Ohio Industrial Schoo
Make Confession.

Columbus, Dec. 1. - Two girls at
the state industrial home at Delaware.
whose names the authorities refuse
to give. confessed that they set fire to
the main building at the home early
Saturday. The loss will amount tc
$4,000. lightweight girls were res.
cued by the Waterman. Joseph Spir.
row. A number of the girls were
more or less injured.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1908-12-03
wife Shot; Husband Arrested.

Meadville, Pa, Nov. 20. - Alton
Hoover, twenty-three years old, of At
lantic, surrendered himself last night,
two hours after three shots had been
fired at his wife, two Of them taking
effect and inficting probably fatal
wounds.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1908-12-03
1884 DOLLAR BRINGS $3.50.
Copper Cent Dated 1899 Sells for
$62.5O at Chicago Auction

Chicago. Nov. 20. - At an auction
sale al the Chicago Numismatic so
ciety last hight a silver dollar of the
date of 1854 was sold for $3.50. Only
FIVE OF the coinage are in existence SO
far as known. A copper cent of the
date of 1899 was sold for $3.50. Two
other cents of the year 1856. with a
flying eagle design. one copper and
the other nickel, were sold for $S1 and
$37. so. respectively.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1908-12-03
WOODRUFF OUT OF RACE.
Eliminates Himself From Senatorial
Contest in Favor of Root,

Hot Springs, Va, Dec. l. After a
protracted conference yesterday be.
tween President-elect Taft and limo
thy l.. Woodruff. New York state
chairman, announcement was made
that Mr.. Woodruff had eliminated him.
self from the New York senatorial
race, in favor of Secretary Root.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1908-12-03
HUNDRED LIVES
SWALLOWED BY SEA
Coasting Steamer in Philippines
Strikes Rock and Sinks
During Storm.
FEAR TRANSPORT MAY Be LOST
War Department Alarmed for Safety at
the Dix, Which Is Six Days
Overdue.

Manila, Nov. 90. - The coasting
steamer Pointing, carrying a large
number of laborers from Narvacan to
The rice fields in Pangasinan province,
struck a rock and sank last night dur
ing a storm off the town OF San Fer
nan, in Union province. 1t is said
a hundred of the passengers and
crew were drowned. The steamer Wig
caya rescued fifty-five.
A patrol of constabulary, which was
established Immediately after the &C.
cident, picked up fifteen bodies, and
many more were coming ashore. 1t is
act known whether any Americans or
Europeans were aboard the wrecked
steamer.
The storm last night kept the liber-
ty men from the Atlantic fleet ashore
all night. The waters of the bay were
Sperry sent a wireless message
ashore to the effect that they should
not attempt to return TO their ships
lntil weather conditions were more
favorable,
Fear Ship Is Lost.
Washington, Nov. 29.-Considerable
alarm is felt at the war department
over the fact that the army transport
Dix, en- route from Seattle to Manila
with a cargo of 200 soldiers and $50
mules, is six days overdue.
1t is feared here that the Dix was
caught in the same typhoon which
disabled the hospital ship Relief while
proceeding from Manila to the island
Of Guam.
Adjt. Gen. Ainsworth yesterday sem
a cablegram to Manila requesting that
a vessel be sent out from that port TO
locate the Dix.
The Dix is the largest of the army
transports. She sailed from Seattle
Oct. Is and left Honolulu for Manila
Oct. 80. She should have arrived ut
Manila about Nov. 81.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1908-12-03
AGED Woman Arrested.

New York. Nov. 20. - Mrs. Ellen
X. Peck, seventy-fve years old, was
arrested last night charged with
grand larceny, in securing money on
worthless titles to land In Kentucky.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1908-12-03
Little Gift for sheriff.

Houghton. Mich, Nov. 29.-George
T. Hamilton, accused Of sending Sher-
if Beck an Internal machine last July,
was yesterday found guilty and sem
fenced to ten years Imprisonment.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1908-12-03
STEAMER IS SUNK
IN A COLLISION
Big Freighter Looms Up Out OF
Fog and Crashes Into
Liner Finance.
-FOUR Ct"RIED DOWN TO DEATH
Passengers Thrown Into Panic, but
Rescuers Work Qnickly-WOman
Refuses Rescue.

New York, Nov. 2s.-In the thick OF
a fog off Sandy Hook yesterday the
steel freighter Georgia of the White
Star line rammed and sank the lightly
laden Panama line steamer Finance,
outward bound, with eighty-ive pas
sengers. The Finance went down
within ten minutes after the collision,
carrying to their death three of her
passengers and one of the crew. The
rest of the passengers, who included
nineteen women ard fourteen chill
dren, as well as others of the crew,
were rescued by the boats of the
George. The freighter was not dam
aged.
Looms Out of Fog.
The disaster occurred in the main
ship channel off Sandy Hook at 8
o'clock yesterday morning. The
Finance was picking her way down
the channel when Capt. Mowbray,
who was on the bridge, heard the
whistle of an approaching liner. The
Finance was Immediately ordered
astern and was slowly backing when
the Georgia, inbound from Liverpool,
loomed out of the fog and a moment
later crashed into the port side of the
Finance. The prov of the f~reighter
penetrated the side of the Finance
nearly ten feet, leaving a ragged hole
through which the water rushed in.
The Panama steamer heeled far over
to starboard, while men and women,
many of whom had been awakened
from a sound sleep, were thrown from
their berths.
Passengers in Panic.
Hastily covering themselves with
bed clothing and making little attempt
to dress, these rushed in a panic to
the main deck. Many of the passen-
gers jumped overheard before they
could be restra aimed by the crew of the
injured steamer.
Immediately after the accident the
freighter backed off and anchored, her
commander, Capt. Clark, in the mean
time having ordered the life boats
lowered. The boats of the Finance
we're also cut away as quickly as posi-
BILE. Attention was first given to those
who had jumped overheard. and a
score or more were picked up by the
small boats. Probably half of the
passengers, with the crew, stood by
the ship, awaiting rescue, and these
were gotten off with remarkable eX-
petition.
Refuses to Be Rescued.
When it was believed that all had
left the vessel and the water had
reached the rail, Miss Irene Campbell
was discovered holding ~tenaciously to
a post in the rail. Appeals to her to
throw herself into the water or allow
herself to be taken into a small boat
failed. Then two sailors clambered
onto the half submerged deck and
seizing the terror-stricken woman, oue
at either arm, struggled to force er
from her position. Neither reason
nor force could break her hold. The
men abandoned her only in time 10
save themselves.
With a ~despairing cry the woman
disappeared.
The s~hipwrecked passengers and
crew were brought to this city last
night and placed aboard the Panama
steamer Alliance, where the won III
and children were provided with cloth
Ing.