Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1908-08-27
CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS
Thursday, August 20.


End Dnblicist, died in Paris.
The Pennsylvania grand lodge,
knights of Pythias, met in annual con
vention at ConIellsyille
Two mines OF the Berwind-W
Coal company. at Windber. near Pitts
burg, were closed down for lack of
water.
The maehinists on the Gould rail-
road have voted to call a general
strike, but efforts will be made to set
lie the dispute
The tenyear-old daughter of John
Stoltz, living at Armour, S. D.. com
mitted suicide, using a double barreled
shotgun to commit the deed.
Friday, August II.
The Christian Missionary Alliance
Of Southern New York and Northern
Pennsylvania held a conference at
Binghamton n. Y.
Captain Charles K Jackson. sew
enty-one years old, a Great Lakes
sailor for more than half century,
died at his home in Algonac, Mich
A license was issued at EIicott City.
Md. for the marriage Of Rev. George
S. Fitzhugh. aged sixty seven years. to
Lulu V. Frazier, a girl ten years old.
Archbishop Falconio, apostolic dele
gate at Washington, has accepted an
invitation to dedicate the newly es-
tablisaed Francican seminary at Cats
kill, n. Y, on Sept. II.
Saturday, August q.
Seventy-six miners lost their lives
by an explosion in the AIaypole mine
at Wigan, England
Leslie A. Fields was fined $500 for
offering for sale obscene postal cards
on the Boardwalk at Atlantic City
n. J.
John V. Farwell. Chicagos pioneer
merchant and capitalist is dead He
had been head of the firm of j. Y. Far
well & Co. since 1862.
Joseph Nushura, aged twenty-one.
fell sixty feet down the Lackawanna
shaft in ELEPHANT, Pa, and every bone
IN his body was broken. He toppled
from the carriage while ascending.
Monday, August "a.
Thieves broke into John Figler's
hennery at South Bethlehem. Pa, and
stole 40 spring chickens.
Charles Jenkins. of Lehighton, Pa.
caught foot in a guard rail on the
railroad at Packerton, was run down
and killed.
To inaugurate a campaign of edu-
cation on the injunction question Chi
cago labor leaders formed the Injunc-
ton Reform League.
Saving her daughter. who had stop
ped on railroad crossing to play with
a dog. Mrs. Joseph Mackey was killed
by a train at Peoria, H.
Said to have secured s225 by falsely
representing that he had the financial
support of Russell A. Alger, Frank
lin /. Pishion. of Richmond, Va, was
arrested at Detroit
Tuesday, August rs.
George Pail, Hungarian, was
drowned in the Delaware river at Kin
kora. n j.. while bathing.
The Pacific fleet, under Rear Admit
raj Swinburn. sailed from San Fran
cisco for Honolulu, towing seven tor
pedo destroyers.
Rev. Thomas N Arnold, one of the
most prominent ministers Of the Chris.
tian church in the south, died while
en- route to Versailles, KY. to preach
at funeral
Three persons were badly hurt, one
woman probably fatally. while several
Others were terribly bruised in a panic
on a swiftly moving street car, which
caught fire. at Cleveland. O.
Wednesday, August 20.
Joseph Butcher, said to be the old
est member of the Odd Fellows lodge
in New Jersey, died at his. home in
Camden, aged SO years.
About 1000 men were given employ
ment at the mills of the Cherry River
Boom & Lumber company. located at
Redwood. near Clarksburg. w Va.
Clayton W. Williams, colored. who
murdered Mrs. L. B. Briggs recently.
by beating her over the head with a
chair. died of starvation and exhaus
ton in the county jail at Chicago.
Clifford Savage. a legless newsboy
who sold papers in New York, and
known among his fellows as the Fly
ing Dutchman committed suicide
here by inhaling Illuminating gas in
his home on the East Side