Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1898-12-29
sINGLE.ooPY FIVE CENTS
NUMBER 2l

Havana by the Spaniards.
Tornado: At Tonawanda, N. r. much
property destroyed; several persons in
jured.
Obituary: Fanny Davenport, the well
known actress. at Dux bury. Mass.
rs Fire: AT North Weymouth. Mass.
loss. 5000. 900
Obituary: Thomas F. Bayard, statesman
and diplomat. at Dedham. Mass; aged
2S Obituary: Louise, queen Of Denmark
at Copenhagen; aged 81.
30. Sporting: Tod Sloane, noted Ameri-
can jockey won out of events at
the Newmarket races.
Personal; Col. John Hay was sworn into
Office as secretary of state.
OCTOBER.
i. Spanish War: First joint conference
OF the American and Spanish peace
commissioners
2. Cyclone: South Carolina and Georgia
coasts devastated and over 100 lives
lost; Brunswick. Ca, inundated.
Obituary: Caroline Miskel Hoyt. the
actress. in New York city; aged 25.
5. Fire: AT Clarksyille. Tenn. over
$500,0O0 loss by the burning of ware
houses and other buildings.
Indian Troubles: Maj. Wilkinson u. s.
A., and several soldiers killed near
Bear Island. Mimi. by Pillager Indians.
Convention: National meeting of the
United States opened in Washington.
s. Obituary: Rev. DIR. Cunningham Geike,
noted Bible commentator. in Lon
don; aged r.
Z. Obituary: Blanche Willis Howard
(yon TeuffeD. American author. in
Munich. Ex-Mayor A. Oakley Hall of
New York city. in that city; aged 72-
Foreign: Strike Of $1,000 workmen in
Paris.
s. Fire: At Atlantic city; block of build
ings destroyed. causing loss of $780,
00O
Il. Personal: The emperor and empress
Of Germany set out on their journey
to Palestine.
Strikers Riot: At Virden. Ills, 13 men
killed and 25 wounded in the trouble
over imported negro labor.
13. Fire: At Macon; loss. $125. 900.
Il. Shipwreck: The Mohegan of the At
lantic Transport line wrecked on the
Cornish coast off Falmouth; out of
200 passengers and crew only 81 es-
capped.
16. Obituary: E. j. HenIy. the actor. at
Lake Placide
Fire: In Dawson City: 40 buildings
burned loss. $5OO.0OO
II. Accident: On the Great Central rail-
way of England; killed and 10 in
jured at Barnet Junction
1S. Spanish War: Military occupation of
Porto Rico completed by the raising
of the United States flag over the pub
lie buildings at San Juan: peace jubi-
lee opened in Chicago
10. Obituary: Harold Frederic American
journalist and novelist. in London;
aged AZ.
20. Fire: At Dallas; loss. $500 900 by the
burning of the establishment of the
Texas Drug Co.
q. Accident: On the Rock Island rail-
road near Fort Worth Tex; deaths
Race Riot: IA negroes and l white kill
ed in conflict near Harperville, Miss.
"a Personal: Maj. Gen. Wesley Merritt,
U. S. A.. married in London to Miss
Laura Williams.
Spanish War: Porto Rico evacuated.
and the last Spanish troops sailed for
Spain.
Fire: In South Brooklyn flames caused
a loss of 100000 by the destruction of
city blocks, with docks. wharfs and
vessels.
%. Philadelphia peace jubilee opened.
Obituary: Chavannes. noted French
painter. in Paris; aged 70.
Political: Cabinet crisis in France; de-
feat of the government in the Dreyfus
case and resignation of the ministry.
&C. Shipwreck On Lake Michigan the
steamer l. f. Doty went down with
crew of is men.
2 Shipwreck: On Lake Ontario-s the
schooner st. Peters was lost and
persons drowned
Obituary: Silas Sadler Packard edu-
Gator founder of Packard's college, in
New York city; aged q.
| %. Obituary: Williams Kingsford. LII. D.,
f. r. s., noted as one of Canada's
great historians. in Ottawa; aged 70.
| Col. George E. Waring. the sanitary
expert, in New York city; aged 65.
Foreign: Court of cessation at Paris
granted a revision of the Dreyfus case.
| 30. Nine. Carnot. widow of President Car
= TIL az
in Paris.
II. Helen Faucit Lady MARTINI. noted
English actress. retired died in Lon
don.
NOVEMBER.
/. Shipwreck: The captive warship Ma
! ria Teresa found unseaworthy and
abandoned off the Bahamas.
4. Obituary: Jerome Hopkins. musical
composer, in Philadelphia; aged 60.
| 5. Accidents: Is workmen killed by the
falling of the roof in the New Won
derland theater at Detroit. Collision
| between the cage and a train of coal
cars crushed miners to death in the
Exeter shaft at Scranton.
q Obituary: David A Wells, the econ
omist, at Norwich, Conn.
| 4. Political: Cuban assembly organized
at Santa Cruz del Sur.
| 8. Fires: At Sacramento the railway
| shops of the Southern Pacific burned;
loss, 100000 40 buildings burned in
Pitkin, Colo: loss 800. 600.
Political: Theodore Roosevelt elected
governor of New York.
| Obituary: Max Alvary German tenor;
| aged 40.
Convention: General assembly Knights
of Labor met in Chicago.
| 10. Riot: s deaths in a race war between
negroes and whites at Wilmington
N. c.
II. Fires: Explosion at the burning of a
1 store at Hanover Corners. Mass. kill
| ed 4 men and injured several.
I Convention: The w. c. t. u national
body began it's annual session at ST.
| Paul
i2. Obituary: Virginia Dreher the actress
at Phenix, A T. Clara Fisher Mae
der, one of the old school players of
the American stage. at Metuehen. N. j
| Sporting: The Yale-Princeton annual
football game won by Princeton at
| Princeton: score. 6 to 0.
| Personal: Earl of Minto took the oath
as governor general of Canada.
| l6 Collision: On the Grand Trunk rail-
road near Murray Hill. Canada; II
persons killed.
| Is Obituary: Rev. DIR. Samuel Coicord
| Bartlett. former president of Dart
mouth college. at Hanover, ~ H.;
aged 81.
| Ethel Marlowe died while performing
on the stage of the Knickerbocker
theater in New York city.
! IL. Obituary: DR.. Stephen II. Tying. once
a prominent Episcopal divine and later
president of the American chamber of
commerce in Paris; aged So.
Shipwreck: The British ship Atalanta
wrecked off the Oregon coast; 25 sea-
men drowned
/ Convention: The National Fireman's as
sociation began its annual session in
Chicago
| 18 Herman Heinrich Meier. founder of
the North German Lloyd Steamship
company died in Bremen; aged 80.
John Ernst Worrell Keely, inventor of
the motor. died in Philadelphia; aged
61
10 Sporting: Yale defeated by Harvard in
] the annual football game at New Ha-
ven: score, II to 0.
Fire: Stafins shipyards at West
Brighton. n, Y. partly destroyed: loss,
500 ooQ.
Obituary: Gen. Don Carlos Buell., not
| ed Federal leader of the western army.
near Rockfort. KY: aged 50.
/ 20. Obituary; Sir John Fowler. noted civil
engineer in ,opdon
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