Gloucester County Democrat., 1908-07-23
CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS
Thursday, July is.

Thursday, July is.
During an electric storm at Marietta,
Pa, William Fraim was eIectrocuted
by coming in contact with a live wire
Charles Hetzel and August Keller
were crushed and badly injured under
heavy iron pipe at the March pork
packing establishment at Bridgeport,
Pa.
The Pennsylvania state live stock
Bennett, of Tyrone, to attend the Ma
tional Guard encampment as inspector
Of animals, 1t being his work to pre-
vent the spread of any diseases among
the horses, mules and other animals at
the camp.
Friday, July II.
George Mattocks, a steeplechase
jockey, was killed by the kick from a
horse at Oakville, near Toronto, Ont.
Topping from a second-story win
dow of her home at York. Pa, Lizzie
Linebaugh. five years old, was in
stantly killed.
Miss Marguerite Armstrong, OF
Wayne, Pa, was killed in a railroad
wreck at Greenwich, Conn. when an
express train was derailed upon a
bridge.
Mrs. Edith M. league, wife of Wal
ter C. Teagle, of Cleveland, o., an Off
cial of the Standard Oil company. is
dying at Paeadena, Cal. from self
inflicted pistol wound.
Saturday, July f8.
M. P. Johnson, one of the largest
hotel owners of Harrisburg, Pa, made
an assignment for the benefit of his
creditors
The comptroller of the currency is
sued a call on the national banks
throughout the country for a report Oh
their condition on July Is.
One man was fatally burned an3
property valued at $4,000 was de,
stroyed by fire which started in the
feed storehouse and elevator of Grew
& Williams. at Ossining, N. Y
Governor Stuart has fixed Sept 15
as the date. for the execution of Saliva
tore Garrito, the Berks county Italian.
who murdered State Policeman Timo-
thy Kelleher near Reading. Pa.
Monday, July 20.
The big knitting mill owners at New
vile, Pa. who shut down early in ths'
year, resumed operations.
: The body of Rev. ARENAS j. Haynes.
of the United Congregational church
of New Haven, Conn, was found in
Nantucket sound, he having drowned
while fishing from a canoe.
Playing with a revolver which she
thought was empty, Susie Koscavage
shot Elizabeth Gettins, seventeen years
old, in the left knee at Mahanoy City.
Pa.
Casper H. Ritter, twenty-eight years
old a lineman in the employ of the
Pennsylvania Telephone company, was
electrocuted at Allentown. Pa, by com
ing in contact with an electric light
wire while he was working on cable.
Tuesday, July 2f.
Captain Henry McCrea, fifty-seyen
years old, of the United States navy.
died in the naval hospital, Brooklyn
from Bright's disease.
The Pennsylvania state department
of public instruction will issue war.
rants for the payment of over $4,000
900 of the state school appropriation.
Rev. Dennis p O'Sullivan, S. j.,
president of st. Joseph's college, Phila-
delphia, died suddenly of heart failure
at Holy Cross college, at Worcester,
Mass.
The Ansonia Clock factory, in Brook
lyn, N. Y, which employs more than
1000 hands, resumed operations with a
full force after shutdown of several
weeks.
Wednesday, July %.
Samuel Edmerson and Michael Colo
bar, miners, were crushed to death by
a fall of rock in coal mine at Scran-
ton, Pa.
More than 1900 men have been sent
to the country districts by the free
labor bureau of New York in response
to the appeals of farmers for field la
borers.
John Gustav Dahlstert, Swede. IN
able to stand the torture of seasick-
ness. jumped overheard from the liner
Merton, which arrived in Philadelphia
while she was in mid-ocean
DIR. e. b. McGraw, well-known ply
sician, was instantly killed, and An
drew S. McSwigan, manager of the
Duquesne garden and the Traction
company parks of Pittsburg, was Sc
verely shocked when their automobile
dashed oyer an embanlment.