Gloucester County Democrat., 1909-01-07

committed suicide in Newton hotel.
2S-TRe Jr. o. U. A. M. at Cross
Keys presented the school at that
place with an American flag amid ap-
propriate exercises. Mrs. E. Wagner,
| of Woodbury., was attacked by man
as she was returning to her home on
Davis street Her assailant was
frightened away by her screams s.-Fred
| Richardette, of Swedesboro. had his
team stolen from the NJ. E.. Church
sheds, but it was found later in field
near Salem.
3-The house occupied by Thomas
May, on Pitman Pike, near Glassboro,
| was totally destroyed by fire.
1.-THE post Office robbers confined
| In Woodbury. Jailfor some time were
sentenced to eight years in prison at
Athens, GAVIN. Gamer, of Pauls-
boro, was robbed of his pocketbook
containing SIG while boarding train
at Woodbury..
12-Miss Jessie Brown, of Swedes-
| boro, was killed at Mickleton while
attempting to board a moving train
| 15-Fire totally destroyed one SQf
the buildings at DuPont's powder
works, Gibbstown. Origin unknown.
20-J v. Smith, brakeman on a
| freight train, came iii contact with
Hunter tsreet bridge at Woodbury. and
was sent to Cooper hospital--Jeff
| Williams, of Williamstown, lost three
horses from being poisoned in some
mysterious manner.
| 21-Miss Maize Mooney, of Wood
bury, was mysteriously drowned in
| Big Timber creek.
| 22-The body of John Holloway, of
Monclair, N. j., was found in the river
| by James Thomson and Chas. Jordan,
of Paulsboro.
31-A Philadelphia lad fell in Tylers
Lake, nearPitman, and was drowned
JUNE.
3-Miss Nellie Higginbotham, of N.
| Woodbury., was brutally assaulted by
| a negro as she alighted from trolley
8-Clarence Savage, a negro attack
ed young lady on Maple street in
Woodbury. He was captured and held
under $500 bail.
10 Douglas Hanson, of Woodbury.,
was. aceid;sltalEy sliof by his Own
hands fIe was taken to Hahnemann
Hospital where the bullet was re-
moved.
13-Nirs c. w. Wood, of Newbold,
while attempting to shut off water
spigot, met with painful accident,
and required the services of DR. Hun
| ter.
| 1.-THE first of a series of Sunday
concerts was held in the Woodbury.
city park-James Anderson, of Phila.,
was drowned while bathing in the
river near Washington Park.-George
Mill Park, a -year-old lad of
Phila, was drowned in lake near
| Sewell.
15-Mrs Annie Zane, of Swedesboro
fell in the yard and fractured her arm.
Frank Ballinger, a farmer near Null
lica Hill, was struck by lightning and
instantly killed.-The barn belonging
to Charles Lloyd, of Mulliea Hill, was
struck by lightning, but very strangely
was not burned.
20-Luther IIHooken, of Paulsboro,
was killed in an explosion at Dupont s
powder works.
22-An attempt was made to wreck
train below Woodbury., but the keen
| eye of Motorman Greener detected the
| obstruction in time to avoid disaster.
| 1t was supposed to be the work of a
| discharged Italian labOrer.
2S-James Boody, of Phila., was
drowned in the creek at Westville
while in bathing. A small girl about
13 years, unknown, was also drowned.
| 30-Thirty thousand poor children
from Phila- picnicked at Washington
at Washington Park as guests of W..
j. Thompson-A small child belong
| ing to Isaac Murphy, of Cross Keys,
cut its finger off in a moving machine,
and it was replaced by DR.. Halsey.
JULY.
3-Two large barns, and contents,
consisting of eight head of horses and
| farming implements, etc, on the farm
| of Thomas Costello, near Mullica Hill,
were burned.
| IA fourteen foot python escaped
from circus in this city and aroused
the inhabitants to high pitch of ex-
citement-John Glover, a farmer near
Paradise Station, was drowned in the
creek while trying to get a wagon
out of the water. Two horses were
also drowned.
S-Robbers entered the home of
David Winner, of Clayton, chlorformed
his two daughters and carried away
several articles of jewelry.
Benjamin White, of Westville,
while bathing in the river, stepped on
some sharp obstacle and almost cut
off his toe.
19-Lightning struck the barn on
| the farm of Fred. Sleeter, near Black
wood, and burned it to the ground
| 20-During severe electric storm
the barns at the Aims House were
burned, causing loss of $4,000.
22-The barn belonging to Horace
Nixon, at Woodbury., was struck by
lightning, burning contents which con-
sisted of carriage, harness and beauti-
full pony. The barn belonging to
John Pool, of Mickleton, was burned
down. All the live stock was saved,
but quite quantity of grain and hay
was consumed Cause of fire was
lightning The house of Daniel Eew-
let's, of Cross Keys, was struck by
lightning. Mr.. Hew1etts and children
received slight shocks.
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