Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1908-05-28
CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS
Thursday. MAY 21.


The comptroller of the currency is
sued a call for the condition of ma
tional banks at the close Of business
on May IA.
Percy G, Marling, aged ffty-five, of
Montreal, committed suicide by jump
ing from the window of a room in the
Hotel Manhattan, in New York city.
Twenty-one persons were injured,
many of them seriously, and hundreds
narrowly escaped death at perform
snce Of the Charity Circus in Chicago,
when all the seats in the tent sud
denly gave way.
Friday, May %.
Joe Cans and Battling Nelson have
signed articles for forty-fiye-round
battle, to take place in San Francisco
on the afternoon of July 4.
Mrs. Fred Grothe was killed and
several others more or less injured in
a tornado which struck Lincoln, a
small town northwest of Salina, Kan.
The business of the United States
Steel corporation during April has
shown an improvement over March
which, as officially announced by Pres
ident Gary when the annual report
was made public, was considerably
better than the business in February
or January.
Saturday, May %.
In the midst of an exciting game Of
base ball in Hardwood, near Pitts
burg, Ralph c. Barr, aged eleven, one
of the players, was struck over the
heart by hard hit line drive and died
almost Immediately
From the reports now in the posses
sion of G. NJ Day, president of the
Denver Convention league, it is evi-
dent that more than 100000 visitors
will attend the national Democratic
convention in July
Ira Oakley, young white man, has
been arrested in GAINESVILLE, Va,
charged with the murder of Mrs. ]. M.
Underwood and her young son and the
burning of their house at Fuquay
Springs, N. c., to conceal the crime on
Feb. last
Monday, May rs.
F'orty-eight per cent of the adult
Indians of Alaska are suffering from
tuberculosis, while practically all of
the children have some disease or
other.
Rev. William H. Connolly, for the
past three years rector of St. Ga
briefs Catholic church at Hazleton,
Pa, died from kidney trouble, aged
forty-four years.
Harry Russell. a ten-year-old boy,
has confessed to robbing a railroad
depot at Spokane, Wash, of $500, a
crime for which an aged section fore
man had been arrested.
Elmer Peterson, aged seventeen,
and his brother, Charles, aged six
teen, were killed in a mine of the
Pennsylvania Coal & Coke company
at Hastings, near Johnstown. Pa.
Tuesday, May 20.
Five persons lost their lives in the
foods in Oklahoma and many had mar
row escapes.
Thomas E. French Samuel K. Rob
bins and George ]. Bergen were ap-
pointed receivers for the State Mutual
Building & Loan association of New
Jersey.
Stanictos Rokwski, sixteen years OF
age, an inmate of the Boys Protectory
at Flatlands, near Norristown, Pa, was
drowned while bathing in the Perkio-
men creek.
Congressman Charles E. Littlefeld,
of Maine, who will retire from con
gress at the conclusion of his present
term. was admitted to practice law in
the federal courts by Judge Hough in
New York city.
Wednesday, May 27.
Peter Celop, an Austrian, was hang
ed at Harrisburg, Pa, for the murder
of Stefan Cosio, on Dec. last.
Alleged to have scolded four men
ana embarrassing them in public, Mrs.
Carrie Nation was arrested at Pitts
burg. Pa, charged with disorderly coD.
duct
Frank Stillweli, eighteen years old,
serving a sentence for burglary at the
indiana reformatory at Jeffersonyille,
Killed himself in his cell by hanging
himself with a towel.
vi ram NJ Simpson, a well-known
locomotive engineer. was shot and
killed at Roanoke Va, by Sadie But
Ter, formerly of Lynchburg, who i'm
mediately drank bottle of earbo1tc
acid and diod in q fcw Ynin11faS