Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1908-08-13
CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS.
THURSDAY. AUGUST 5.

George f. Larimer, seyenty-three
years old, who made the first Westing-
house airbrike, died in Pittsburg.
R. ]. Hume, wife and children, OF
Eau Claire. Wis, were drowned In
Lake Nabaganon. Wis, while attempt
ing to cross the lake in a duck boat
Continued brooding over the death
Of his fayorite daughter, Anna, who
died several years ago, it is believed,
led Robert S. Burr. aged seyenty-one,
farmer living at Farmingdale, N. T.,
to swallow laudanum, that caused his
death.
Friday, August Z.
While scuff1ing over the possession
of shotgun at Elgin, ILL.,. Victor
Swanson shot his friend, Regnow Mel
son. and then shot himself.
Unable to sleep because of the heat,
Henry Thiele. Of Jersey City, N. j..
tried to end his life by shooting him
self and is in critical condition.
Captain d. G. Purse, noted deyel-
oper, industrial writer and promoter,
and having connections in New York,
Pittsburg and other centers, commit
ted suicide at Savannah, Ga.
Governor Stuart approved Nov. II
as the date upon which the memorial
to Pennsylvania regiments at Freder-
icksburg, Nd. shall be dedicated, his
approval being required by law.
Saturday, August 8.
The bottling works of Thomas J..
Beck, at Harrisburg, Pa, was destroy
ed by fire. entailing loss Of several
thousand dollars.
Mrs. Eliza d. Stewart, the noted
temperance advocate, and known all
over the country as Mother Stewart.
died at her home in Hicksville, o.
Two negro children WERE killed, one
was fatally hurt and one seriously in
jured when double tenement at Cam
den. Ark. was blown up by dynamite.
Governor Stuart fixed Sept "a as
the date for the execution of Francis
NJ. Schuts, who killed his little daugh.
ter in Fairmount park, Philadei phia,
and then tried suicide. and Raphael
Peric, also of Philadelphia.
Monday, August 10.
For assaulting a three-year-old girl,
Henry Johnson, colored, was hanged
at Memphis. Tenn.
Smoke from a burning tobacco ware
house at New York oyercame thirteen
frenen, three seriously.
Six hundred men won a fight to save
the famous Calaveras grove of big
trees in California from a forest fire.
While cunning for groundhogs in
lower Lehigh county, Pa, Milton Dor
ney, of Centre Valley. was seriously
wounded BY the accidental discharge
of his gun.
While picking coal on the Pennsyl.
yania tracks near Gainesville. Pa,
Mrs Mike Gembarche, native of Pc.
land, vas struck by the Chicago lin,
tied and instantly killed.
Tuesday, August II.
G. G. Bantz was appointed assistant
treasurer OF the United States in the
place of the late ]. F. Meline
Mrs. Louise Chandler Moulton, the
welI-known authoress, died at her
home in Boston after an illness of
nearly nine months.
Charlie Lokie, colored, about eigh-
teen years of age, was lynched at Tiff
ton, O., for making insulting remarks
to a young white woman.
Secretary H. E. Van Norman, of the
Pennsylvania State college, announced
that the next convention of the Penn.
sylvania Dairy union will be held in
Harrisburg the same week as the
meeting of the state board Of agricul-
ture and the Live Stock Breeders as
ISOLATION. Jan. 1929, 1909
Wednesday, August II.
Judson B. Evans, forty-fiye years
old, a farmer of Gladwyn, near Norris.
town, Pa, while chasing several horses
out of cornfield dropped dead OF
heart failure
One man was killed and three were
badly injured as result of boiler
explosion at the plant of the Break
water Construction company at Sa-
caem's Head, Conn.
Three year-old Cornelius Morey,
who drank half pint of whiskey
which he found on the table of his
home, 5521 Sullivan street, in Phila-
delphia, died from commissions. de-
spite the efforts of two physicians.
While holding nozzle and direct
ing stream of water upon fire in
an abandoned building of the Consoli-
dated Ice company at Pittsburg, a
brick wall, twelve feet high, fell upon
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