Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1897-06-24
A WEEKS NEWS CONDENSED.
Friday. June IS.

the Hawaiian treaty in the senate at
this session.
The Illinois supreme court has Ce-
cided that the governor Is not required
to work on Sunday.
Three fishermen on the Hudson river.
opposite Yonkers, found the body of a
young girl in their nets. She had APP
parently been strangled.
The state department is co-operat-
ing with Secretary Wilson in enforc-
ing demand to secure a cessation of
the foreign war on our meat.
Saturday, June 10.
The state council of Switzerland has
decided to present a bill for govern
ment ownership of railroads.
Edward Bruin and John Rosengrave,
trackmen on Brooklyn's elevated road,
were run down by an engine and killed
Engineer Rockafellow was arrested.
On a $1,000 wager, Robert Cook, of
Boston, is about to undertake to walk
from Pittsburg to Cincinnati. 400 miles,
on the water in pair of shoes of his
own invention.
John S. Shriver and E. J. Edwards
charged with contempt in declining to
answer questions of the senate sugar
investigating committee, were acquit-
ted at Washington yesterday.
Monday, June FL.
A decided industrial revival is re-
ported along the Monongahela valley.
BY the terms of peace between Tur-
key and Greece. the latter must pay
$50, 900, 600 indemnity.
Standard Oil liquidating certificates
sold UP to S26 in New York Saturday,
the highest price yet recorded.
The enticing of young white girls
into Chinese opium dens is made the
subject of a special report by the San
Francisco grand jury.
B. Frank Bannister, assistant teller
of the Home National bank, Holyoke,
Mass, has confessed a shortage of
about $1,000. The loss will be made
good.
Tuesday. June go.
Ex-President Cleveland and family
are at Gray Gables for the summer.
Ex-Governor e. c. Burleigh, of Au-
congress to succeed the late Seth L.
Milliken.
The walls of crowded saloon at
WATERFOWL, S. D., fell. burying num-
Der of people. Philip Patterson was
taken out dead,
George P. Powell, once wealthy
merchant, died in the Bowery, New
York, yesterday. He was ruined by
the race track and drink.
In a head end collision on the In
ternational and Great Northern rail-
way, near Conroe, Tex, three white
and three negro tramps were killed.
Wednesday, June 23.
The great suburban handicap, one
mile and quarter, was won by Mike
Dryers Ben Brush, with The Winner
second and Havoc third. Time, 207 1-5.
Sentence on Commander Booth-Tuck-
er, of the Salvation Army, convicted
of maintaining nuisance in the New
York barracks, was yesterday sus-
pended.
Roman Catholic priests in Chicago
celebrated jubilee day by celebrating
dead masses for Irishmen whose deaths
are charged against British misrule in
Ireland.
Japan has formerly protested against
the annexation of Hawaii by the United
States, and this government is now on
the eve of a serious diplomatic con-
troversy with the Japanese emperor.
Thursday, June "a.
Two California farmers have written
to Mayor Strong, of New York, asking
him to use his kind offices in securing
them wives.
c. N. Stauffer was run away with
while driving at Lancaster, Pa, and he
was dead from heart disease when the
horse was stopped.
Mabel Gemble saved an express train
on the Fall Brook line from crashing
over a 80 foot embankment near Cedar
Run, Pa, by tagging it with her red
petticoat.
Two little girls were seriously injured
at Cleveland by a fall over a precipice
in Brooklyn park. The eldest endeav-
ored to save her companion and may
die from her injuries.