Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1897-05-20
A WEEKS NEWS CONDENSED.
Friday, May ID.


Julio sanguilly landed in Cuba on
May g. and Roloff is said to have met
him with 1000 men at San Juan de Las
Playas.
Advices from Honolulu say that the
arrival there of the long expected Jap
anese cruiser Niniwa caused no UNI
usual excitement.
The supreme court of Missouri is in
a deadlock over a partnership estate
involving over 81, 900, 900, and a special
judge is asked for to settle the point.
Saturday. May 10.
Official reports show a large decrease
in immigration for the past year.
Richard Coke, ex- United States sena-
tor from Texas, died at Waco, Tex,
yesterday, aged 6S.
Three masked men held up train in
western Texas, dynamited the express
car and escaped with $4,000.
Judge John Lowell. the distinguished
jurist, died at his home in Brookline,
Mass, yesterday, aged 70 years.
A great sensation has been caused
in Knoxville, Tenn, by the arrest of a
man and women who employed 20 men
on salary as burglars.
Monday, May II.
The new gunboat Vicksburg, built at
Bath, Me-, made 1888 knots in trial
test.
tary to Secretary Gage, was named by
the president as assistant secretary OF
the treasury.
Governor Black, of New York, has
signed the civil service bill, which, it
is claimed, practically abrogates the
civil service laws.
Charles Brown, a cook, and negro
employe are under arrest at Deadwood,
S. D., for the murder of Mrs. Emma
Brown, restaurant keeper.
Unknown miscreants amuse them
selves by mutilating the dresses of wo-
men crossing the North river ferry at
Twenty third street. New York city.
Tuesday, May IS.
Adolph l.. Leutgert, Chicago sau-
sage manufacturer, is in jail, charged
with killing his wife and destroying
her body in a sausage vat, using chem
icals
William Van AIKEN made an attempt
to shoot former United States Senator
J. R. Mcpherson, of New Jersey, at his
office in New York today. He was pre-
vented doing so by Edward F. Low
Mr.. McPherson's secretary.
Edward Langtry ridicules the power
of the California court in granting a
divorce to his wife, the actress Lily
Langtry, and says if Mrs. Langtry re-
marries and goes to England she may
be prosecuted for bigamy.
Wednesday, May 10.
The opening of the strawberry pick
ing season has drawn thousands to the
Spring river valley in Missouri.
Great pressure is being brought to
bear on President Mckinley for a
change in certain of the civil service
regulations.
The tobacco trust will appeal from
the Illinois decision declaring it Illegal.
and counsel says a final decision can
not be reached for several years to
come.
Private Allen, Ninth United States
infantry, who. it is understood, has
been indicted for the murder of Mary
Crouch and Mary DAILY at Sackett' $
Harbor, has been placed in Jail.
Thursday, May 90.
President Mckinley may go away
for an outing on the dispatch boat Dol
phin in June
The senate naval committee unani=
mously recommends that the price Of
armor plate be, fixed at $40O per ton,
The new policy in the postoffice de-
partment is to establish as many post
offices as possible whenever any rea-
sonable amount of business can be Sc
cured.
It is thought In New Orleans that
there will be no further damage done
by the overflow. The loss, while
amounting to millions, is not so serious
as in many previous years of overflow.