Gloucester County Democrat., 1898-03-03
A WEEKS NEWS CONDENSED.
Friday, Feb. e6.

The Spanish cruiser vizcaya left
New York harbor for Havana direct.
Experiments will be made in rural
free mail delivery in Burlington county.
N. j.. and Bucks county, Pa.
Mrs. Daniel Manning was elected
president of the Daughters of the
American Revolution by the Washing
ton convention.
DR.. Gatling, who is experimenting
the construction of big gun at Cleve-
land. thinks the coast defenses are not
what they should be.
Saturday. Feb. 80.
The Kentucky house has passed the
sweeping anti-cigarette bill.
Acting President Cooper, of Hawaii,
advises caution at home, lest annexation
negotiations meet with failure.
The governments receipts from sale
of public lands during the past ten years
were upwards of $53,O0O.000, and the ex-
penses nearly $7,00000O.
Chairman Walker, of the house COM
mite on banking and currency, appears
to be antagonistic to the bill prepared
By the Indianapolis monetary convention
Monday, Feb. 80.
During a fire at Kalamazoo, Mich,
chemicals in a laboratory exploded,
killing six firemen and four others.
G. H. Lawrence, of Leominster,
Mass, is dead, the third victim of
boiler explosion on an ice harvesting
plant.
A bus containing a surprise party"
all under 20. was run down by a train
in Chicago suburb, and seven were
killed.
The British steamer Legislator was
burned at sea and seven lives lost. Sur
vivors were landed at Boston by the
steamer Flowergate.
The Cedar Rapids Qa.) postmaster
spent an anxious eight hours keeping
watch on $1.O00,OOo in gold, being trans
ferred from Japan to New York.
The French line passenger steamer
La Champagne, which is several days
overdue, was towed into the harbor of
Halifax, N. S., having been disabled
at sea.
Tuesday, March /.
Copper has been found in large guam
titles at Leithsville. Lehigh county, Pa.
1t is stated authoritatively that no
I1tGI dllQ 1ctA OOl OAA1 WILL OC lCPOIIEQ
at this session of congress.
General w. B. Taliaferro, who was
commander of the Virginia troops dur
ing John Browns raid, is dead.
Should the next California legisla-
ture be Democratic, Governor Budd
will be a candidate of United States
senator.
Cyrus E. Breeder, the defaulting
cashier of the Bethlehem (Pa.) bank,
was sentenced to seven years in the
penitentiary.
Wednesday, March 2.
The bodies of two men were found
frozen on the Skaguay trail on Feb. 49,
The Turkish press censors suppressed
the news of the attempted assassina-
ton of King George of Greece.
Sixteen men of the French bark
President Felix Faure were washed
overheard during a gale off the Aus
tralian coast.
A terrific hurricane has devastated
New Caledonia, doing great damage
to shipping. A French gunboat was
sunk off the Loyalty Islands.
Adam Weaver. who killed deputy
COASA1DlC oLo WO01ASlCO a COl1SIebDlS dl
Bursonville, Pa, spent Sunday night
as a lodger in the Portland, Pa, lookup
There will be no relief expedition
sent to the Klondike. The war depart
ment announces that the project has
been abandoned for the reason that
no necessity pow exists for such relief.
Thursday. March o.
Senator Johnson, at Trenton, intro
duced two bills to reform the election
law of New Jersey.
Captain G. E. D. Dimond, of San
Francisco, who on May 1 will be 1O2
years old, is about to start on a pedes-
trian trip to New York.
The senate foreign relations COM
mittee will meet ON Saturday to con-
slider what shall be done with the Ha-
waiian annexation project.
Six alleged widows have laid claim
to the estate of James Henry White
legge, formerly a well known lawyer
of New York, who left property valued
at about $50.00O