Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1898-02-24
A WEEKS NEWS CONDENSED.
SATURDAY, Feb. ~

William j. Seaman, the popular sing
! ing actor, died in New York, of paresis
aged AZ.
A movement has been started for the
/ erection of a statue of General Lafay-
cite by this government in Paris dur
| ing the coming exposition.
! Ex-Auditor Moore, of Lincoln, Neb.,
has been set free of a conviction for al
legged embezzlement on the ground that
the statute is unconstitutional.
A panic was created in a West Sew
enty-second street (New York; house
by a large piece of rock blown through
the walls from a nearby quarry.
Monday. Feb. FL.
On Saturday in Chicago May wheat
sold at $1.09.
A London dispatch announces that
the condition of Mr.. Gladstone's health
is very grave.
| The health department of Chicago re-
ports 10000 persons suffering from the
grip in that city.
Thieves hauled away $500 worth of
clothing from the store of Philip Cof-
| fee, at Tamaqua, Pa.
| All the Merchandising (Pa.) indus
trial establishments are running full
time with their complement of hands
Miss Frances E. Willard bequeathed
her estate to the Temple fund, after the
life interests of her secretary and her
sister-in-law have expired.
Tuesday, Feb. 22.
The people Of Switzerland have voted
| in favor of the government purchase of
the railroads.
A cave. said to rival the Mammoth,
Of Kentucky, has been discovered in
Centre county, Pa.
Great Britain has made an arrange
ment which win open all Chinese ports
to foreign commerce.
| The Transvaal government is increas-
| ing the defences of johannesburg by
mounting a number of new guns.
The new wharf at Tampico, Mex, just
constructed by the Central railroad,
| was destroyed by fire, involving a loss
Of nearly s2,O00,0O0.
Mrs. William G. Whitney, wife Of the
ex-secretary of the navy, was thrown
from her horse yesterday, while follow
ing the deer hounds at Aiken. S. c., and
seriously injured.
Wednesday, Feb. SO.
Senator White. of California, will de-
engagements.
/ Three members of James Arthur's
family, who lived near Orillia, Ont,
were burned to death.
A number of Ohio coal companies
have combined to sell its entire product
to the combination and the profits to be
pooled.
Ignatius Donnelly, the veteran north
western journalist and politician, was
married at Minneapolis to Miss Marion
Hansen, aged %.
The Congregational ministers of KAN
sas City, Mo-, criticized General Booth
and his Salvation Army, one of them
characterizing it as ''the most absolute
despot;sm on earth"
The house of Postmaster Baker coll
ored, at Lake City, S. c., was fired by
a mob, who killed the postmaster and
his infant child and dangerously in
Jured his wife and two daughters.
Wednesday, Feb. "a.
/ Seven women have persisted in forest
fires near Ridgeway, s. C.
Gilbert P. Lepford, noted outlaw Of
johnson county, Tenn, was probably
fatally wounded by deputy sheriff
| Richard Allen, robber. and Tom
| Holmes, murderer, both negroes, were
| lynehed by q mob at Mayfeld, Ky.
| Henry Williams, a. negro, shot and
killed Ethel Gray, a white girl. at Oak
land. Cal, and then committed suicide.
| Ex-Mayor w J. Piero, Of MassiIon.
/ o., is under arrest for alleged compile
| ity in the robbery of the MassiIon post
office.
! An avalanche at South Quebec, Can
/ ada, engu1fed two houses under cliff.
Lewis Anglers and two children ana
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