Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1908-06-04
CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS
Wednesday. Nav 28.

A wage scale operative until March
81, 1909, affecting about 10000 miners
in the Pittsburg district. has been
signed.
John O'Donnell. of Newark. N. j.,
painter, was whirled to death by the
shafting in the factory Of the H. B
Virgins Son company at Bloomfield.
N. j.
In mine explosion at SaIinesville,
near Lisbon. o., three men, sYere killed
outright and one man was killed by a
falling pipe after he had been dragged
out of the mine by the rescuers.
Friday, May 90.
Victor Stanley, lawyer, was sen.
fenced in New York to serve not less
than five years and not more than ten
years in state prison for forgery.
W. G. Smith, former president of the
National Exchange bank, of Lexington
KY, committed suicide at his home
near Lexington by shooting himself in
the head.
Ralph J. Lehman, the ten-year-old
son of Mr.. and Mrs. Peter Lehman, of
Lebanon, Pa, was accidentally drown
ed in a pond in the Westenburger
stone quarry.
The trolley chain connecting Phila
delphia with Reading was made com
plete when the first car made the run
from Pottstown to Boyertown, dis
lance of eight miles, in forty minutes
Saturday, May 80.
Governor Stuart appointed Robert S
Conklin, of Columbia, Lancaster eoun.
ty, Pa, to be state commissioner OF
forestry.
Mrs. Harriet Belt Stevens, of Will
mington, Del, well known in society
and as an author, committed suicide at
Portland, Me, by shooting herself.
President Roosevelt has appointed
David F. Barry, of Providence, R. |.
and Herbert L. Satterlee. of New York
as members of the board of visitors to
the naval academy.
President Roosevelt issued an order
that in honor of the memory of the
late General Stephen d. Lee, com
mander-in-chief of the United Confed
crate Veterans. the flags in the Ma
tional Park cemetery at Vicksburs
should be half-masted
Monday, June I.
Winning approximately 100000
by his corn corner, James A. Patten
of Chicago. gave $4,000 for a gymna
SUM at Northwestern university
While snoozing in the Matchbox
James Kaser, a switchman in the
Pennsylvania railroad yard at Sun
bury, Pa, burst blood vessel i'll his
leg and lost two quarts of blood
During Memorial Day exercises al
Calvary cemetery at st. Paul. MINI.
Timothy F. Mccarthy, an aged rail
road man, fell dead of heart disease
while placing flowers on his wife's
grave.
Tuesday, June 2.
Charles w. Sharpe, Of Camden, N
J., alleged to be bann swindler, was
arrested at Newark, N J., on the re
quest of the police of Atlanta, Ga.
President Roosevelt pressed ar
electric button which gave the sigma
III hlIiSStOlls N. l. " otdiL lie pr1A aux
in celebration Of the 250th anniversary
of the founding of that town.
Leaving the side of his mother al
Pitman, N. J., George NJ Park, four
and-a-haIf years old, son of Mr.. an6
Mrs. Alexander Park, of Philadelphia
wandered to the shore of Tyler's lake
and was drowned.
1t is probable that several men
elected superintendent of schools il
boroughs throughout Pennsylvania
viii have to be elected over again be.
cause of failure to give advertised no.
tice of the election.
Wednesday, June 8.
Hildebrand Fitzgerald, one of the
proprietors and business manager Of
the Philadelphia Item, is dead. aged
ffty-nine.
Safe blowers blew the safe and rob
bed the postoffice at Maryville, Tenn.
securing $511.65 in cash and stamps
worth $500
Owing to a general decrease in the
demand for anthracite coal, the Read
ing company's Schuylkill collieries
closed for three days.
Frank Johnson, negro, who killed
a married woman at Clarksburg, w
Va, because she refused to elope with
him, was sentenced to be hanged on
July II.