Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1897-12-30
OCTOBER.


/. Sporting: Star Pointer lowered the racing
record at Chicago by pacing a mile in 2:0O14.
2 Obituary: Gen. Neal Dow, a Federal vet
eran and the father of the Prohibition
movement, at Portland, Me-; aged 03. Jo-
seph Proctor. veteran actor, in Boston;
aged 81.
g. Fire: 100 buildings burned at Austin, Tex;
loss, $20O,O00.
Sporting: Starbuck defeated Michael in %
mile cycle race at Philadelphia.
T. Fire: Hotel Fayette, fine summer resort
at Minetonha Beach, Mimi, destroyed by
fire.
Disaster: deaths in railway crossing ac
cident at Willow Springs, Mo.
g. Obituary Sister Gonzaza, the oldest sis
ter of charity in the United States, in Phil
adelphia; aged IS.
Disaster: schoolgirls and teacher burned
to death at Plankinton, S. D.
G. Fires: The johnson block burned at Hen
derson, KY; loss, $750,000; l6 business
buildings burned at Medora, nls.; loss,
100000.
Obituary: William A. Stiles seditor of Forest
and Stream, in New York city. Sir John
@Gilbert, noted painter and illustrator, in
London; aged so. Chief Skenadore Of the
Oneida Indians, at Seymour, Ills; aged SO.
Disaster: Over 6,00O deaths in a typhoon in
the Philippine islands.
Z. Fire: buildings, including an opera house,
burned in Detroit; loss, 100000.
8. Fires: An $780, GOO fire at Portland, Or. The
Second Presbyterian church burned at La
fayette, Ind.
Obituary: Rear Admiral John Brady Clitz,
U. S. N, retired, in Washington; aged 76.
Q. General Pulger, noted Venezuelan warrior,
statesman and philanthropist, died at Ca
racas.
10. Obituary: Thomas Whiffen, actor, in Hert-
ford, England.
13- The jury in the famous Mrs Atkinson case
in West Virginia failed to agree. Senorita
Evangelina Cossio y Cisneros the Cuban
girl who escaped from prison in Havana,
arrived in New York.
IA. tobacco warehouses and dwellings burn
ed at Durham, N. c.. loss, $3.50, ,O0O
Is. Disasters: The dome of Robinsonis Opera
House in Cincinnati fell during perform
ance; persons killed, 60 injured.
II. Fires: The town of Windsor, N. S., wiped
out and 1000 people homeless; loss, So, COO,
0OO A 100000 factory fire in New York
Obituary; Charles A. Dana, editor of the
New York Sun, at Glen Cove, N. Y; aged
49,
Shipwreck: The coaster Triton wrecked off
the Cuban coast about $50 lives lost
Obituary: Admiral John l.. Worden, U. s.
N, retired, the Monitor hero. Washing
ton; aged 70. John W. Hague IL known
actor, in Boston; aged 58.
10. Obituary George Mortimer Pullman, the
palace ear magnate, in Chicago; aged IS.
o. P. Caylor, well known writer ON base
ball. died at Winona, Mimi.
20. A $780, 600 fire at Osceola, Ark,
81. Miscellaneous The hundredth anniversary
of the launching of the war frigate Old Iron
sides celebrated in Boston.
%. Business troubles: ". G. Hitchcock g Co.,
importers, assigned in New York city LA
bilities, 81 100000. The Fowler Cycle Co.
of Chicago, assigned; liabilities, s500,000
Obituary: Justin Winsor historian and libra
rian of Harvard university, in Cambridge; !;
aged 66.
Miscellaneous: Princeton university's me.
mortal day commemorated Uncle Charlie
Decker, an Indiana pioneer and the oldest
survivor of the civil war, died at Valparai-
SO; aged so.
%. Disaster: A Hudson River railroad express
plunged into the river near Garrisons, N.
Y; 20 killed, many injured.
Convention: The biennial meeting of the
worlds s W. G. T. U. opened in Toronto.
Shipwreck: Stea1a schooner Caspar wrecked
off Point Arena, CAL. ID sailors drowned.
"a. Obituary: Prof. Francis Turner Palgrave
of Oxford university; aged 70.
25 Destructive storm on the Atlantic coast
from Long Island to Hatteras.
Obituary: John Sartain, artist and engraver
of repute, in Philadelphia; aged SO.
u Fires: OthceS OF the wabash railroad burn-
ed in st. Louis; loss, $500 900. The Woelfel
Go. 8 immense tannery at Morris, Ills. de-
stroyed; loss, $225, 900.
Obituary. The Duchess Of Teck, Princess
Mary of Cambridge, at Richmond, Eng
land. Thomas G. Alvord, noted New York
politician, in Syracuse; aged 81
Reunion: The twenty ninth annual meeting
of the Society of the Army of the Ten
nessee begun in Milwaukee.
28. Fire: Sturgis grain elevator burned at Bdf
falo; loss over 100000
Conventions: The national convention of the
W. G. T. U. opened at Buffalo. Annual
meeting of the Association of Collegiate
Alumn@ opened at Detroit
20. Obituary: Henry George, social reformer
in New York city; aged 58. Sir Hercules
Robinson, former chief commissioner Of
Cape Colony, in London; aged 7S
30. Accident: miners suffocated in the Dia
mond shaft at Scranton. Pa.