Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1897-10-07
A WEEKS NEWS CONDENSED.
FrIdnx. OCT. i.

The Tammany Democrats OF New
York nominated City Judge Robert A.
vanWyck for mayor.
Peter Champion, tramp pauper In
st. Louis. has been informed that he
Ii an heir to large estate In Germany.
A Chicago syndicate will erect a
mammoth hotel In Dawson City upon q
plot OF ground donated by Joseph La
due.
Premier Rail- and the Greek min
lstry has resigned M. zalmis, q former
adherent OF Delyannis, has formed a
new ministry. He is opposed by Dell
yannis and supported by Rail-.
saturday, Oct. 9.
Joseph Proctor, the veteran actor, Is
dead In Boston, aged 81.
The total coinage by the United
States mints during September amount
ed 10 si0,o44, 449.
Star Pointer, the famous PAGER, COW
cred the third mile heat Of his race
with Joe Patchen, at Springfield, Ills,
In 2,o01s, new worlds record.
A band of Benton county MOI farm
ers demolished the printing office from
which IL issued the organ Of religious
sect known as the Brethren OF the
Church of Christ In Love and Union.
Monday. Oct. A.
The orange crop OF Florida promises
to yield for the year about 100000 boxes.
Mrs Brownlee and her two sons were
burned to death in their home at East
Long Meadow. Mass.
Near Schuyler, Neb., Mrs. Frank Da-
Wis put strychnine in the coffee, and she
and four of her children died.
Nothing has been heard for nearly a
year Of the British ship Lord Dufferin.
which sailed from New York from Mon
tevideo.
Jimmie Michael. the wonderful Welsh
cyclist, met his first defeat Saturday at
Philadelphia, when Starbuck led him by
one-fifth of a second in a rs mile race,
Tuesday, Oct 5.
Recent floods in China destroyed sc
villages, and the death list is placed at
$4,000 to 10000.
Samuel r. Mcmillan, ex-United
States senator from Minnesota, died in
st. Paul, aged H.
William r. Finch, a Republican ed
itor of Wisconsin, has been appointed
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Near Willow Springs, Mo-, a wagon
containing seven persons was run down
by a train. Six were killed and one
fatally hurt.
Joseph Herth, Adolph Pierson, A.
Hendrickson and George Robbins, pound
fishermen, were drowned by the upset
ting of their boat off Long Branch.
Wednesday, Oct. 6.
Professor L. S. Swanson, of Mime
sofa, has been appointed minister to
Denmark.
waiian annexation treaty cannot now
be defeated.
Ex-Congressman Godfrey Hunter OF
Kentucky, has been appointed min
lister to Guatemala, and will probably
accept.
Romero Weisenberg, an 11-year- old
boy of New York, is said to have gone
insane because he was not given the
opportunity to study.
Henry George last night accepted the
various nominations rendered him for
mayor of greater New York at an en-
thusiastic meeting in Cooper Union.
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Lindsay park, near Charlevoix, Mich.
collapsed, burying 40 workmen. Two
were killed, nine seriously injured.
Thursday. Oct. z.
The president has appointed Angus
tus G. Seyfert, of Pennsylvania, con-
sui at Stratford, Ont.
The proposed forest reserve in the
Turtle mountains, N. D., has been
stripped Of timber by premature set
tiers.
The postoffice department is expert
menting with a machine which regis
tiers mail automatically when a dime
is dropped into it.
Marines have been put on guard at
st. Michaels, Alaska, to keep order
among the desperate characters who
have drifted towards the Klondike.
During the absence of Miss Ann Pot
ter from her residence in New York
robbers enjoyed her hospitable home
unbidden and carried off many articles
of value.