Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1898-09-29
4 WEEKS NEWS CONDENSED
Friday. Sept. 23.

his power to the dowager empress.
Populist Governor Smith, of Arizona,
has formally returned to the Demo-
cratic fold.
New Jersey Republicans nominated
Foster M. Voorhees, for governor by
reclamation.
General King and detachment, now
at Honolulu, has been ordered to pro-
coed to Manila.
Santiago's revenue, according to a
report of General Lawton, will reach
$2,150000 annually.
The dismembered body found at
Bridgeport, Conn, has been fully iden-
titled as that of Miss Emma Gill, of
Southington.
Filipo Agoncillo and Jose Lopez,
representing Aguinaldo, arrived at San
Francisco en- route to Washington to
interview the president.
Saturday. Sept. ed.
Richard Malcolm Johnson, lecturer
and novelist, died in Baltimore, aged 76
About 500 applicants for pensions
arising from the late war have already
been presented.
Our government will demand of Spain
the immediate evacuation of Cuba No
delay will be tolerated.
General Garcia, of the Cuban army
received an enthusiastic welcome on
his return to Santiago, in which Ameri-
cans joined.
BY rush of coal in a Nanticoke
(Pa.) mine George HI. Morgan, aged "a,
John Shannon, aged 80, and John A.
Jones, aged IS, were killed.
Sickness is increasing among the
American troops in Porto Rico, there
being $500 under treatment.
Colonel Picquart, the French army
officer accused of selling state secrets,
is not permitted to see even his at
torney.
The Spanish government has per
fected arrangements for removing the
body of Christopher Columbus from
Havana to Spanish soil at once.
Colonel Bryan's visit to Washington
was wholly in the interest of sick SOL
diers of the Third Nebraska, whom he
wishes to have discharged at their re-
quest.
Monday. Sept. 26.
Ten thousand Spaniards in Porto
Rico refuse to live under our flag, and
demand transportation to Spain.
The lighter Monitor foundered in ST.
Mary's river, near Sault Ste. Marie,
Mich, and five men were drowned
The British steamer Rheubina was
sunk off Cape Villano by the Spanish
steamer Carthagena. Only two were
rescued.
Rev. Cyrus T. Brady, of Philadelphia,
chaplain of the First Pennsylvania
vigorously criticizes mismanagement
at Chickamauga.
Lieutenant Hobson has succeeded in
floating the sunken Spanish steamer
Maria Teresa, off Santiago, and she
will be added to our navy.
Tuesday, Sept. 81.
Colonel William Jennings BRYAN is
i'll with malarial fever in Washington.
Typhoid fever is spreading at Camp
Meade, Middletown Pa, and New York
regiments will be isolated.
Our peace commissioner have ar
rived in Paris. and will commence
business promptly.
A cyclone swept over ST. Catharines
and Merriton, Ont, destroying con-
siderable property AMI killing five rer-
sons.
Our troops occupy now fully four
fifths of Porto Rico, the Spaniards re-
firing upon San Juan fl ,ia all dircc-
tions
Fanny Davenport mrs Melbourne
McDowelD, the we'll known actress
died at her summer home in Duxbury,
Mass.
Wednesday Sept. IS.
Mrs. August Belmont died in Paris
Monday night, aged 36.
President Mckinley will visit St.
Louis on his approaching western trip.
The latest estimate places the native
population of Cuba at 745,000, of which
only 100000 are whites.
New Jersey Democrats, in convention
at Trenton today, nominated EIvin w.
Crane, prosecutor of Essex county, for
governor.
Felipe Agoncillo and Jose Lopez, the
agents of Aguinaldo, are in Washing
ton, and will go before the Paris peace
commission.
Robbers blew open the safe in the
Farmers bank, at Flora, Ind, and es-
capped with $4,000 after killing Cashier
Lemon. One suspect is under arrest.
Rev. G. e. Morrison, pastor of the
Methodist church at Pan Handle city.
Tex, who murdered his wife in order
to remarry, has been sentenced to
death.