Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1908-06-25
CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS
Tnursday June H.


president of the Cresson Springs Brew
ing company, at Altoona Pa, commit
Ted suicide at his home at Gallitzin by
shooting.
Rather than go to jail for having
sent Mrs James Jones, of Wilkes
Barre, Pa, threatening letter,
Thomas Jones agreed to leave this
country and started for Wales.
Frank Smith, a negro ex-conviet. was
shot and mortally wounded by w. H.
Stewart. a newspaper editor when sur
prised in an attempt at burglary in
the editors home, Salisbury. II. G.
While her mother. was packing away
some clothing. Catherine Weiss. aged
three years, of Philadelphia, pushed a
camphor ball into her nostril. and it
was necessary to take her to a hospital
To have it removed.
Friday, June 10.
Charles Bixler, treasurer of the town
ship. committed suicide at Shamokin,
Pa. by hanging.
The 142d annual meeting of the
Medical Society Of New Jersey was
held at Cape May, with over 400 physi-
clans in attendance.
Daniel Jones. Frank Spikes and Hay
wood Lee. white, all of Raleigh, N. c.,
were killed at the Caraleigh Phosphate
works by the escape of sulphuric acid
gas in one of the rooms.
Ten Italian laborers who lived in a
car on a siding of the West Shore
railroad, at Fort Plain, n. Y. were
held up by armed robbers and forced
to hand over more than $500 which
they had received IN wages.
Saturday, June 20.
Twenty passengers were injured,
one fatally and several seriously, in
an accident on the Meadville & Cam
bridge Springs street car line, near
Bakertown, Pa.
Mrs. Julia Whitaker, wife of Bishop
lOzi w. Whitaker, of the Protestant
Episcopal diocese of Penns ylyania
died at Philadelphia after a long i'll
ness. aged seventy-three.
BY the explosion of a carload of
dynamite, near Sargent o., freight
train on the Denver & Rio Grande rail
road was blown to pieces, two tramps
were killed several trainmen were in
jured, and a hole forty feet deep was
blown in the ground
Monday, June %.
Meeting at Toronto, the Supreme
Council, Independent Order of Forest
ers. decided to raise rates 40 to 100
per cent.
While Harry Stehman, of Mannheim,
Pa. was picking cherries, the limb he
was on broke and he dropped twenty
feet, breaking his back.
Driven TO desperation because her
betrothed had told her that he would
| not marry her, Bessie Paruah, q ssatty
-year-old girl, at Greensburg,
Pa, shot herself through the heart
and Rudolf Bomboltiah, her lover, also
| tried to kill himself.
Tuesday, June %.
| Five men were seriously injured by
a scaffold collapsing at the National
Tube works, at Pittsburg
The international Sunday School
convention will hold their next conven
ton in San Francisco in 1911.
| ]. S. Bryant, a prominent pharma
cist, and Thomas Littleton, twenty-one
| years old, were drowned while swim
ming near Salisbury n. C.
| r. NJ. Sallier and Edward Jones
| wealthy cattlemen, were killed in q
| duel at Albuquerque, N. NJ, caused by
q quarrel over a cattle trade.
! After being idle for the last six
months the Plank Ridge colliery of the
| Thomas Coal company, at Shenandoah
Pa, resumed work, giving employment
TO 800 men and boys.
| Wednesday, June "a.
A hanging lamp fell upon Mrs. Mary
WorroI in her home at Nofristown
| Pa, and badly burned her.
The fourteenth annual meeting Of
the Pennsylvania State Bar association
was held at Cape May, n j.
The New jersey state fish and ganls
commission has received exhaustive re
ports showing that the shad season
this year was better by 100 per cent
than last year.
Mrs. Mary Cassidy, a widow. aged
| tairty-five years, was shot and killed
| at her home near Woodhayen. Z. l., by
Victor Henry, a rejected sutton, who
then turned the revolver on himself
dying instantly.