Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1908-07-02
CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS
r hursday June rs.

E1tiWoou niCNuHul, tSH years 0iu,
while bathing in the Schuylkill river
Mt Norristown, Pa, got beyond his
depth and was drowned
During severe electrical storm
/ lightning struck a So. 000-barrel oil tank
near Oleans n. 3, and about $4,000
barrels Of oil were consumed.
On account Of trouble with the rail-
road companies relative to rates of
| fare, nearly all the lodges of Elks in
the western part of Pennsylvania and
In Ohio have Cancelled their trip to
Dallas. Tex, where the Elks' reunion
viii be held beginning July II.
Friday, June IS.
Two men blew the safe at Philip
Schmidt's grocery at Springfield. o.,
and secured $3.50 in money and checks
and notes valued at $4,000.
Charles Rench. aged forty-eight, for
| years a well-known circus clown, COM
mitted suicide by burning at Column
bus, o., while respondent from i'll
| health.
Thomas Burns, of Newark, N. J., was
sentenced to two years in the eastern
penitentiary for robbing house in.
Philadelphia, where he secured only
thirty cents.
It is estimated that about 5000 men
have been returned to work in differ
| ent capacities by the railroads of the
western part of Pennsylvania during
the past week.
Saturday, June 81.
Five persons were killed when a
| Chicago & Northwestern passenger
train struck a washout near Chadron,
Neb.
Charged with the ENLIGHTENMENT of
county funds, former County Treas
urer William I'll. Pettis was arrested at
Sac City, Ia.
Henry Miller, aged one hundred and
four years. grew tired of life at Har.I
rodsburg, Mercer county. KY. and com.
mitted suicide by taking paris green.
After being rescued from drowning
by two young men, William Kemp OF
IT'S Ferry avenue, Camden, N j.
went in to swim again and was drown
ed before aid could reach him.
Monday, June %.
Bishop Thomas f. Gailor. of Ten
nessee, has been elected chancellor OF
the University of the South, at Sc
vance. Tenn.
Because he was refused loan OF
eighty cents, John Lauf, of Egypt, Pa
tried to commit suicide by hanging and
nearly succeeded.
Falling from rock used for diving
at Derby, Conn, Herbert Moore, aged
eighteen years, and Clarence Smith
aged eight years. were drowned.
In stepping from one limb to an
other while picking cherries, Mrs. Cal
win Reddy, of North Jackson town
ship, Lebanon county, Pa, fell twenty
five feet and was paralyzed.
Tuesday, June 80.
Albert Brown, negro, twenty-three
| years old, was hanged at Washington
| for killing his brother in a quarrel
over a girl.
The receivers of the Seaboard All
| Line Railroad company have placed ar
| order for $4,000 tons of steel rails with
| the Maryland Steel company for deliy
cry within the next six months.
Andrew Fair, brother of the late
| James G. Fair, and uncle of Mrs. w
| X. Vanderbilt Jr., and Mrs. Hermann
Oelrichs, was probably fatally injured
in a street car accident at San Jose
| Cal.
While his companions on fishing
trip were digging bait, Frank Berger
| of Auburn, Pa, threw himself into the
pond, and when they came back his
| body was floating face upward on the
water
Wednesday, July I.
Admiral and Mrs Dewey will spend
| the summer at Buena Vista, Pa.
Charles Cleveland, piano player o..
considerable ability, had both hands
blown off by cannon firecracker in
New York.
One negro was shot and seriously
wounded as a result of a mutiny among
the negro convicts at a convict camI
| twenty miles from Atlanta, Ga.
David Bowman. the sixteen-year-ol0
colored boy who was shot at Eddy
| stone, near Chester, Pa. on Sunday
night by Deputy Sheriff Ford, died.
While working on the roof of build
| ing at Norristown, Pa. Henry Baldwin
a carpenter, was overcome by the heat
and died before a physician could be
| summoned.