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

Joseph Herzog, formerly a promi-
nent business man of Lancaster, Pa,
committed suicide by hanging in
stable.
A bill was passed by the house of
representatives providing for the pro-
lection of owners of United States pat
ents appropriated by the government
Seyenty-five ovens of the Pennsyl-
vania. Beech Creek and Eastern Coal
G Coke company, at Gallitzin. Pa
which had been idle, have resumed OPP
erations
Three foreigners, alleged members
of Black Hand organization, recently
convicted in the circuit court of CON
spring to take property not their own
were sentenced at Morgantown. w.
Va. to ten years Imprisonment.
Friday. May is,
The cornerstone Of the new $4,000
naval Y. NJ. c. A. building at Norfolk
Va. given by John d. Rockefeller. was
laid Thursday
Rear Admiral Robley D. Evans. ac-
companied by his wife and daughter
arrived in Washington Thursday even.
ing from San Francisco
David Daniels, of Philadelphia, a
freight conductor, was instantly killed
by draft of cars in the Harrisburg
yards of the Pennsylvania railroad.
Michael Mulcahy, sixty-eight years
old. the last survivor of the three
aides who accompanied General Phil
Sheridan on his famous ride to Win
chester, died at Cleveland, o.. after a
two-weeks' Illness from apoplexy.
Saturday, May 16.
Walter Augustus Wyckoff, A. NJ, as
sistant professor of political economy
in Princeton university, died at Prince
ton, N. j., aged fifty years.
Edward Boeck, who pleaded guilty
| 100000 worth of jewelry. was sen
fenced to Sing Sing for not less than
six years or more than seven years.
Smith w. Ketchum, prominent De
troit business man, died at hospital
in, Buffalo, N Y, from stroke of apo
plexy, superinduced by being struck
by cab as he was boarding street
car.
Monday, May 1s.
Fifty masked might riders invaded
the Hinton section of Scott county.
KY. and destroyed many tobacco beds.
Conrad Pfromm, miner, was in
stantly killed in the Cranberry col
iiery, near Hazleton, Pa. by fall Of
coal
Sailing from Boston for Europe for
his health, accompanied by his wife,
Senator Tillman prophesied a Demo
cratic victory should the Republicans
nominate Secretary Taft.
In hiring crews at Superior, Wis.
for the approaching ore shipping sea
son, the United States Steel corpor-
alton is sticking to the open-shop plan.
unions being disregarded.
Tuesday, May 10.
Edward B. Deacon, a well-to-do
farmer. committed suicide by shooting
at his home, near Mount Holly, N. j.
John p Palmer, a farmer, living
near Dyersburg, Tenn, stabbed and
fatally wounded his son during a fam
lily quarrel.
Secretary Metcalf has detailed Rear
Admiral D. Evans, late commandment,
chief of the Atlantic feet, to duty with
the general board of the navy, which
has to do with the preparation OF
plans for the naval campaigns, for
use in time of war.
Jennie Blunt, who shot and wounded
Charles NJ. Sanford, a Brooklyn law.
yer, in his Office, last February, after
he had refused to give her money, was
sentenced to serve not less than three
nor more than four years in the state
prison at Auburn. N. Y.
Wednesday, May 20.
United States Senator Samuel Doug
las MeEnery was elected by the Louis
lana legislature to succeed himself
Frank E. Ferguson, of Hagerstown,
Mo-, was appointed assistant director
of the bureau of engraving and print
ing by Secretary Cortelyou.
Five persons were hurt in a wreck
of a Lehigh Valley passenger train at
the junction of the Lehigh Valley and
Buffalo, Rochester & Pittsburg rail
ways, near Caledonia, n. Y.
John E. McGaughey, a former mem.
Der of the board of county commits
sioners. at indianapolis, Ind., shot and
killed himself because of the connec-
ton of his name with the scandal
which has developed in the office of