Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1897-10-21
A WEEKS NEWS CONDENSED.
Friday. Oct. Is,

Four lives were lO5L III a railroad
wreck near Stillsville, Ontario, yester-
day.
Corporation counsel of Chicago has
decided that street cars cannot carry
mail
A Dalton, Ca, merchant has been
convicted of train robbery and sent to
the chain gang.
The correspondence announcing the
resignation of Associate Justice Field,
of the supreme court, was made public
yesterday.
Ex-Congressman McCreary, of Ken
lucky, announces himself as a United
States senatorial candidate on the sill
yer ticket
Saturday, Oct. 10.
The man who set fire to large barns
near Mt. Holly, N. j., is supposed to
have persisted in the flames.
The infant son of the Duke and
Duchess of Marlborough (nee Consuelo
Wanderbilt) was christened John AL
bert Edward William.
John A. Barnes, of Illinois, has been
appointed consul to Cologne, in place of
Ferdinand w. Neumann, to whose APP
pointment Germany objected
During the progress of the play
Dangers of a Great City, at Gin
cinnati theater the great dome fell.
Three people were killed instantly, and
OF the rs injured two have since died.
Monday, Oct. IS.
Sir Edwin Arnold, author of 1.-THE
Light of ASIA" married a Japanese
lady in London Saturday
Uu-1 rxrs..I.-...
100000 to 100000 damage, four people
were cremated and 5000 made homeless.
Little George Carr, only years old,
was found unconscious In the street ia
New York, from the effect of .iptoxi-
cants.
It transpres that in the recent de-
struction by fire of Farmer Beisel's
barn, near Nazareth, Pa, three tramps
were cremated
Miss Wimpleberg, of Poughkeepsie
N. Y, found a snake coiled up in the
window of her room, and her screams
brought friend, who killed the reptile.
Tuesday. Oct. 10.
Newton /. Bates, recently appointed
surgeon general of the navy, died in
Washington yesterday.
The will Of the late Josephine L. Sam
ford, of San Francisco, is to be con-
tested, she having left her fortune to
strangers.
Fire in the great oil fields of European
Russia, on the west coast of the Cas-
plan sea, destroyed millions of barrels
of oil and caused great money loss
Admiral John Worden, who COM
manded the ironclad Monitor in her
famous battle with the Merrimac dur
ing the civil war. died IN Washington
yesterday, aged 50.
Wednesday, Oct. 90.
The rate of wages in Japan is 30 per
cent higher this year than in 1895.
Isaac Dietrich, a mine expert of Cali
fornia, predicts great future for the
gold production of Alaska.
Mrs. Langtry's lawyer says she paid
Mr.. Langtry regular allowance from
the time of their separation.
Lady Tatton Sykes was acquitted at
London of the charge of forging her
husbands name to bill of exchange
for 1000
Ex-senator Tabor, Of Colorado. has
received from Winfield Scott Stratton
the Cripple Creek mining king, a pres
ent Of $4,000 wherewith to begin life
anew.
Thursday, Oct. 2l,
President Mckinley will not consider
any new consular appointments until
after congress meets.
Benjamin F. Hunt. aged 81 years,
and Mrs. Julia Ann Sherman. aged 80,
We're married yesterday at WATERFOWL,
Conn.
John Murphy, a convict in the Au-
burn prison, has fallen heir to a large
amount of property left by his grand
father.
To give up enough of his skin to re-
place what he scaided from another
boy. or be prosecuted, is the alternative
offered to a Chicago lad.
The jury in the trial of Luetgert, the
alleged Chicago wife murderer. has
been out since Monday evening. A dis
O nrraanent is expected