Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1897-09-02
A WEEKS NEWS CONDENSED.
Friday, Aug. 81.


Frank Johnson, colored, has confess
ed in Washington that he murdered
John d. Marshall, Maryland farmer.
Judge Acheson, in the United States
court at Pittsburg, declared the Penn
sylvania alien tax law unconstitutional.
]. p. S. Goblin, of Lebanon, Pa, was
elected commanders n-chief of the
Grand Army of the Republic at the
Buffalo encampment.
Frederick Bohm and his 12-year-old
son were struck by train at Patch
ogue, L. l. The father was killed and
the boy badly injured.
If it be found that the hides imported
from China caused the poisoning cases
at Dubois, Pa, hide imports from that
country will be stopped.
Saturday, Aug.2
A man was brought to a New York
hospital having lost the power of speech
through hunger.
The ball and chain remedy for the
tramp nuisance is to be tried in Mid
dlesex county, N. ].
John Hallenbeck shot Lizzie Hum
phreys in Williamsburg because she
refused to marry him.
The British sealing schooner Agnes
Mcdonald was lost in Behring sea, but
all her crew We're saved.
Pirates carried off the. captain and
four of the crew of the Portuguese
bark Rosita Faro, off the Morocco
coast.
Monday. Aug. 80.
Farmer Burton L. Hotchkiss, of
n 4
through the window of his home by an
unknown assassin.
Healer" Schlatter, who is in Chi
cago, Ills. denies the report that he
married Mrs. Ferris widow of the Fer
ris wheel inventor.
Sanders Richardson tough char
acter who tried to break up a colored
camp meeting at Lancaster, was given
severe thrashing by the preacher.
Fire from a mining lamp caught the
clothes of little child of John Archi-
bald, at Bagad, Westmoreland county.
Pa, and the infant was burned to a
crisp.
Tuesday, Aug. 81.
A West Hobollen woman is in danger
of losing her arm from a mosquitoes
bite.
George Steiz, a Williamsburg sexton,
was murdered by a thief at the church
door.
All the cotton mills of Lowell, Mass
are running on full time, with plenty of
orders.
The Behring sea sealing fleet has
captured this season 10000 skins, in
spite of it's reduced numbers.
Two children of Charles Page were
killed by a railroad train at ithaca.
The father had been drinking and
drove on the track.
In a fight with moonshiners in Pope
county Ark, B. F. Taylor, Joe Dodson
and Bud Snow, of the sheriff's posse,
were killed and two others fatally in
jured.
Wednesday, Sept !.
A wounded negro was found on the
top of train at Poughkeepsie. He is
supposed to have been shot at Haver-
straw.
Three robbers tortured Louis Simons.
a Chicago milk dealer, and then stole
all his savings, leaving him bound and
gagged.
The clews to the murderer of Sexton
George Stelz, in Brooklyn, are scarce.
Two men are under arrest, but there
is little evidence against them.
The contract for 20 of the 80 locomo-
tives to be built in this country for
the Japanese government has been
awarded to Brooks Locomotive works,
Dunkirk, N. Y.
Thursday, Sept. 2.
The body of Mrs. Drew, the actress,
will be buried in a Philadelphia ceme-
terry.
The oath annual convention of the
National Womens Christian Temper
ance union will be held at Buffalo, Oct.
20 to Nov. 8.
In quarter mile race between bicy-
clist and bicycle skater, at Chicago,
the skater won in SO AS seconds, being
oi,rAn 20 wards start
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