Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1897-11-18
A WEEKS NEWS CONDENSED.
Friday, Nov. IL.

minister to China.
The degree of master of agriculture
has been conferred on Secretary Wilson
by the Iowa agricultural college.
Durrant, the murderer of Blanche La
mont and Minnie Williams, who was to
hang today, has been granted another
reprieve.
Miss Jessie Lincoln, daughter of Rob-
ert Lincoln and granddaughter of the
great emancipation. eloped with and
married Warren Beckwith, of Mount
Pleasant, Ia. Mr.. Lincoln is indig-
nant.
Saturday. Nov. ID.
More than two-thirds of the MEM
bers of the senate are said to favor
annexation Of Hawaii.
Henry A. Hicks, of New York, sue
ceeds James r. Sovereign as general
master workman of the Knights of
Labor.
Last night Edward s. Walk, of Wilkes
barre, Pa, fell from a streetcar at New
ark, N. j., and had his skull fractured.
He may die.
The engagement between George M.
Pullman and Miss Felicite Ogelsby,
daughter of Illinois ex-governor, has
been broken off.
John C. Built, Jr., brilliant law
yer. committed suicide in New York.
In letter he declared death matter
of trifling Importance.
Monday, Nov. 10.
Rev. w. N. McVickar, of Philadel-
phia, has accepted the call to become
Epicopal bishop coadjutor of Rhode
Island.
Through contributions and the police
relief fund the widow of murdered Po-
liceman Frederick Smith, of New York,
will receive $4,000.
Alexander Doner, hermit on the
mountains near Bellwood, Pa, was
thrown from a wagon and instantly
killed, his skull being fractured.
Alexander Coudot, Paul Holytrack
and Philip Ireland, charged with MUIR
dering six memers of the Spicer fam
lily, were taken from the county jail of
Emmons county, N. D., and lynched.
Tuesday, Nov. 10.
Seth Low will retain the presidency
of Columbia college.
Governor Jones, of Arkansas, urges
the prohibition of football.
DR.. Thomas w. Evans, the famous
American dentist of royalty, died in
Paris.
James R. Sovereign, ex-Knights of
Labor leader, will be candidate for
presidential nomination in 1900
Congressman John M. Langston
died in Washington, aged 6S. He was
the first colored man ever elected to
office in the United States.
The leaders of Tammany Hall are to
launch a presidential boom for Justice
Alton d. Parker, recently elected to the
New York court of appeals.
Wednesday, Nov. II.
The Indiana bank failures have caus-
ed great suffering among the small de-
positors.
Anton Koshlowszi has been appoint
ed bishop of the independent Catholic
church of America.
Lindsay Neighbert, who attempted to
kill Mrs. John Henry and to commit
suicide, jumped from a window at Gin
cinnati and was killed.
The grand jury at Newport, KY, in
stead of indicting a poverty stricken
17-year-old housebreaker, presented
him with new clothes and a purse.
Henry C. Ash, Of Philadelphia, with
some western capitalists, is establish
ing a tramway from Skaguay to Lake
Bennett. on the road to the Klondike
gold fields.
Thursday, Nov. 10.
Henry Sherry, the millionaire lumber
man of Wisconsin, has assigned for the
benefit of his creditors.
The vault of the Macmillan cellar
at Munich collapsed, burying II per-
sons, six of whom are probably dead.
President Mckinley yesterday ap-
pointed f. w. Mondell, of Wyoming,
assistant commissioner Of the general
land office.
The committee on organization of the
New York Citizens Union has decided
to continue the organization as a per-
manent political force.
Rev. DR., George H. Houghton, pastor
Of the Church of the TRANSPORTATION
New York, better known as the Little
Church Around the Corner. died last
night.