Gloucester County Democrat., 1897-04-29
A WEEKS NEWS CONDENSED
Friday. April 90.

Congressman William S. Holman
("the great objector"), of Indiana, died
in Washington yesterday, aged IA.
Telegraphic advices from the south
state that every class of fruit and
truck has been much injured by the
frost.
has broken out at Davis, I. T., and the
negroes have appealed to territorial au-
thorities for protection.
Minnie Buckley, years old, climbed
a dwarf pear tree at her home in Des
Moines, Ia, and was hanged by her
bonnet strings catching in a limb.
Saturday, April "a.
Mrs. Bean, the actress, secured ver-
dict of $4,000 against a Chicago hotel
for injuries received by folding bed
falling on her.
Mrs. Bach, a jewelers. wife in New
York, was seriously injured in a fierce
fight with a burglar, and it is expected
that she will die.
Samuel Scoville, Jr., grandson of
Rev. Henry Ward Beecher, and a New
York lawyer, was shot by burglar at
the residence of his father, Rev. Sam
uel Scoville, at Stamford, Conn.
Monday, April 26.
Rev. Thomas Sherman, son of Gen
eral Sherman, is a close invalid at the
Mercy hospital, st. Louis.
Mintner Brothers, New York jewell
ers, have caused the arrest of Sales
man Abraham Schoenfield for stealing
diamonds worth $4,000.
Charles Mahoney, government de-
tective, was shot and fatally wounded
while attempting to capture a pair of
negro robbers at Belle River, Ont.
Colonel Chailli-Long, Robert Hatcher
and William A. Brow have been ap-
pointed secretaries to the United States
delegation to the international postal
congress.
Tuesday, April 81.
Confederate Memorial day was gen
orally observed in the south yesterday.
Theodore A. Havemeyer, vice presi-
dent of the American Sugar Refining
company, died in New York aged 5S.
General Gomez has defeated the
Spaniards under General Ruiz in long
battle near Remedies, in Santa Clara
province.
Burglars blew open the safe in the
postoffice at Lewisburg, w. Va, and
secured between 5000 and 500 in stamps
and money.
DR.. John Watson Gan Maclaren) is
answering charges of heresy before
the annual synod Of the Presbyterian
church of England.
Detectives in Benton Harbor, Mich,
unearthed an extensive counterfeiting
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Of dies, mou1ds and acids.
Wednesday. April IS.
Emperor Francis Joseph and his suite
arrived in st. Petersburg yesterday,
where they were received by the czar.
The Constantinople authorities have
condemned to death the murderers of
the agent who was distributing British
and American relief funds at Diar-
bekir, Armenia.
A number of Southern Pacific rail-
road officials have been charged by the
interstate commerce commission in
New Orleans with giving illegal re-
bates to shippers.
The commander of the Spanish war
ship Maria Theresa was afraid to re-
new his coal supply in New York, ap-
pretending that the Cubans might put
some dynamite in along with the coal.
Thursday, April 90.
Secretary of the Interior Bliss denies
the report of his intended resignation.
Frank Linn. one of the five men
charged with originating the fire that
swept Portsmouth, Va, March 2S. has
confessed.
According to dispatch from Cape
Town the British cape squadron will
remain in Delagoa bay until the mid
die of June.
The committee having the question
in charge has selected Denver as the
place of meeting of the Y. M. G. A. in
1892 London, Ont. gets the confer
ence of secretaries.