Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1908-08-20
CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS
Thursday AUGUST rs.

SIepDeH E0cDGeK was Killed ana
Edo Haycock fatally injured by two
runaway freight cars on the Rsad-
ing railway at Coatesville. Pa, which
dashed into company of men on the
way to work
Edward Kaiser, of New York, was
killed, and James J. Johnson, of
Wilkes-Barre, Pa, painters was prob
ably fatally injured at Elmira, N. Y,
when scaffold on which they were
working gave way.
Levi Fannan, seventy-three years of
age, shot and fatally injured his WIFE
Margaret ffty-three years of age; Sc
verely injured his fifteen-year-old
daughter Effie and then ended his own
life at his home in Dallasburg, @.
Friday, August "A.
William H. Taft and William j..
Bryan are expected to attend the G.
4. E. encampment at Toledo, O., the
first week in September.
The delegates to the International
Typogra phical union convention at
Boston decided to hold the next con-
vention at St. Joseph. Mo.
Swimming off the beach at Mar
quette, Mich, Charles Foresman, six
teen years of age, and Harry Rose,
aged fourteen, were drowned
John Clouser, aged nine years, was
drowned in the Swatara creek, near
Middletown, Pa, within seventy-five
feet Of where his father was working.
Saturday, August IS.
The New York Democratic state
convention will be held at Rochester,
Sept. Is.
Rear Admiral James Kelsey Cogs-
well, U. S. N, retired, is dead at Jack
sonville, Fla.
Two men were killed and nearly a
dozen others were overcome in a man
hole of the Empire City Subway com
pany in New York by gas from leak
ing main.
Crazed with jealousy. Stephen Pc
,rik, twenty-five years of age. prob
ably fatally shot Marie Petrik, eigh-
teen years old, his bride of seven
weeks, at their home in Cleveland, O.,
and then committed suicide.
Monday, August IL.
Ten thousand Indiana coal miners
may strike over the discharge of a
mule driver. Several mines have sus-
pended
Told by her doctors she would die
of a cancer, Mrs. Robert Arthur killed
herself with a revolver at Sheepshead
Bay, R. /.
Lockjaw. caused by stepping on a
rusty nail, brought about the death of
Allen S. Miller, an undertaken, OF
Schaefferstown, Pa
A vanload of articles, believed te
have been stolen from the mails dur
ing three years. were found in the
room of Mail Wagon Driver AMOS C.
Nolan, under arrest at New York.
Tuesday, August 10.
The National Editorial association
met in its twenty-third annual con
vention at St. Paul, MINI.
Two men were killed and two fatal
ly injured BY the explosion of tae
boiler at William Reds sawmill near
Drace, Caldwell county, N. G.
The annual polo tournament for the
Brentons Reef and West Chester cups
began on the grounds of the West
Chester Country club at Newport, R. I.
William S. ST. Clair, an actor, died
in st. Vincent's hospital, New York.
where he had recently been operated
e.. 81 ef1y ooI, Nv
Clair, who was fifty years old, had ap-
peared frequently in productions in
many cities throughout the country.
Wednesday, August 10.
Stanley Ketchell knocked Joe Thorn
as out in the second round at SaE
Francisco.
The National Shorthand Reporters
association began its tenth annual con
vention at Milwaukee, Wis.
Billy Papke, of Illinois, had the
better of a rough six-round bout witt
Sailor Burke, of New York, at the
National Athletic club in New York
Seven hundred Italian track labor
ers on the Northern Pacific railroad
went on strike for higher wages. Near
ly the entire Pacific division is at
fected.
The home of Wofford Tweed, on
Laurel Mountain. near Greensboro. N.
c., was destroyed by fire, and his wife.
their three children and Mrs Murray
Tweed were burned to death and their
bodies cremated in the flames.