Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1897-05-27
A WEEKS NEWS CONDENSED
Icrlday. May ri.

United States Senator Joseph H.
Earle, OF South Carolina, died at Green
vile. s. c., aged 50.
The house passed the senate bill APP
propriating $4,000 to relieve distressed
Americans in Cuba.
The national senate passed the Cuban
recognition resolution by vote of Al to
IA. The house will delay the measure.
DIR. Sheldon Jackson was elected
moderator of the Presbyterian general
Ind.
Saturday, May 22.
The four cannon missing from West
Point have been traced to New York.
and the capture Of the thief is ex-
pected.
Secretary Shermans reply to Sir
Julian Pauncefotes note relative to the
Cretan blockade did not recognize the
powers authority in Crete.
The Society of Daughters Of the Con-
federacy have placed a silver star in
the spot where Jefferson Davis stood
when inaugurated president of the Con-
federacy 36 years ago.
Philadelphia harbor police have re-
covered the bodies of Eleanor and Jes-
sic Davis, who were drowned on Sat-
urday last when the launch David w.
Sellers went over the Paramount dam.
Monday, May "a.
Five boys, aged to II, were drowned
while padding in the Chicago river on
q piece of fence.
Mrs. Katharine Mossway, aged 80,
and her 4-year-old daughter were suf-
| located to death in New York fire.
| No credence is given in San Francisco
to the assertion of ex-Soldier Bryant
| duplicating Pastor Gibson in the muir
| der of Blanche Lamont.
The labor element of Missouri is urg-
| ing the attorney general to GUST Chief
| of Police Vallins, of Kansas City, be-
long when appointed.
Tuesday, May 25.
Governor Atkinson, of Georgia, has
broken the record in colonies, having
| 81 on his staff.
A Is pound wildcat and a Jamaica
negro fought to finish in a ring at
Tampa, Fla, Sunday. The negro won
after bloody battle.
The supreme court has decided that
| the president can remove Federal office
holders at his discretion, notwithstand-
ing the tenure of office.
Henry o. Havemeyer, the sugar king,
is on trial in Washington for refusal to
answer questions put by the senate's
sugar investigating committee.
Wednesday, May 90.
An inmate of the soldiers home at
Lafayette, Ind, made an attempt to
kill the commandant with knife. He
was subdued with croquet mallet.
Congressman McLaurin was today
appointed United States senator from
| South Carolina, to fill the vacancy
| caused by the death of Senator Earle.
The share of the lawyers in the
| struggle for the Blythe estate, settled
| in San Francisco, will be 50, $50, 900, or
| over two-thirds of the millionaire's es-
| tate.
The levee at Ell Paso, Tex, broke
yesterday and 120 homes were washed
away A large force of men are work
| ing at the break, and if the improvised
levee breaks the business portion of
the city will be flooded.
Thursday, May ct.
John D. Rockefeller has cancelled the
| deal whereby he obtained control of
the ore carrying traffic at Cleveland, O.
The president named Edwin H. Con-
ger, of Iowa, as minister to Brazil, a
! position he held under Harrison's ad-
ministration.
Police interfered with hallelujah
wedding at Salvation Army barracks
| in Bridgeport, Conn.,, and the Joyful
| event ended abruntIV