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Show RIOT AT AN ELECTION One Man Killed and Several Others Injured. JOE GODDARD FATALLY HURT Well-Known Heivy-Wclght ruglllst Shot by a Colored Constable Tiou-ble Tiou-ble OcCTUred at Primary Election for Delegates to the Itepubllcau Congressional Convention ln I'list New Jorsey District Contest tho Most Bitter Ever Held ln tho St.ilo Loudcnslnger Secuies Majority. Camden. N. I , Jul) IS The prlmarj election for ilelet.alis to the Itepiibllean convention of the Kirst CongTesslonnl district dis-trict of New Jersej wns held todnj In Camden, Olouoeatcr and Salem counties, which comprise Ihe district Ihe candidates candi-dates for the nomination are llenr) C Loudenslnger, the present Congressman, nnd J Millions Van Sant 'the contest ha, been one of the most hitler ever held In southern New Jersej The polls wero open from Mm i m nnd the three hours we.o marked with serious lighting uno mm was killed In this lis and loo flod elnnl, the well-known henv j-walkht pugilist pugi-list ot Philadelphia, was prohihlv totalis shot while electioneering In lviisaiiken township Anothei man was d .ngerouslj stubbed In this cltv nnd n fourth man le-colved le-colved stall wounds at Dog Cornel, near Mrrchaulsvllle JOB (lODPAltn TATALLY WOl'NDED rlodJird was nt a voting plnce In Pen-sauken Pen-sauken township when he was shot lie was with a number of men who were traveling from ono polling place to another an-other Tho pugilist got into a quarrel with a colored Cunstihlo named llnbert W ashlnutnn It la nllcLcd Hut Ooildard nssiulled the Constable with n has. ball bat and that (he Constable, In self do-feme, do-feme, shot (loldnrd III the bend The Constable suiremlered hlmsedf lo tho police po-lice nnd the liiju.ed prize lighter wis broiiLht hero to Cooper hospital, wluie the phjatctltlfl si) ho miv die Near a polling places I'onstnbln C A Tow lor. while In a tight wns stsbbed twice His wounds, though painful, are not considered serious llieie wns much trouble In Pcnsa.ikan township and at Merrhnntvllle. nnd a number of persona were tiuilli In mm MZHIOt'S APPItAY IN CAMDEN The n igt serious nffrnv occurred nt Third nnd Ileekett ,trrets In this clt) 1 uch side had a crowd nt the polling 1 lace at that point and n general riot wos slarti'd VMien It was all over It was found that John Morrlsse) of Phlla lei-I lei-I Ida nged .Y jenrs had be en shot through the heart bv some unknown pi rson nnl that a polleinnu not In uniform named Harry Miller bad received two cuts on the bend nnd n probubb fatal stab wound In tho left lung A number of oil,er persons were hurt In the nun, but nnl serious!) At midnight both si lea claimed tho el.c-linn el.c-linn but the returns up to that time from the three counties Indicate that Van Hint his secured a majority of the delegates 'Ihe ndheronts of liolh Loudenslnger nnd Vnn Hint nre charting each other with fnuil and with bringing lirge numbers of repeater, from 1 hll . lelphla Tho convention conven-tion will be held nt Woodbury on Wclncs-div Wclncs-div lam lmost complete returns nt this hour show that Ixnidenstiger will hove n mijorlty of ubout twentj-tlvo delegates. |