Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1898-01-06
A WEEKS NEWS CONDENSED
FRIDAY. Dec. 81.


The census recently made shows that
there are 196,375 children of school age
in Phila ielphia.
Representative Hinrichsen, Of Illinois,
is likely to be chosen chairman of the
Democratic congressional committee.
Hugh Mclaughlin has retired from
the leadership of the Democratic party
of Brooklyn, and Bernard J. York will
succeed him.
Trustees of Princeton university have
passed a resolution forbidding students
to drink or have in their possession
any intoxicating liquors.
The saloons at Juneau, Alaska, were
busy at last accounts exchanging whis-
ky for gold dust, a large party of Yukon
miners having come to town.
Saturday, Jan. /.
A snowstorm in Pittsburg and Allie
gheny did $S5, 900 damage.
During this years game season in
Maine 1900 deer, ESQ moose and 100
caribou were shot.
Nathan B. Scott, of West Virginia,
took the oath of Office as Internal reve-
nue. commissioner, vice w. S. Forman.
Mail box robberies aggregating $50
900 have been discovered in Cleveland.
Richard o. Davis, under arrest in New
York, is suspected.
j. H Ashmore was killed by falling
from train near Trenton last night
He was en- route to spend New Years
day with his mother in Trenton.
Monday. Jan. 3.
Farmer John Fitzgerald of Ogdens-
NJ HID @H00 II, h; i
thieves carried it off.
Murderer Martin Thorn's New Years
gift at Sing Sing IN. Y.) prison was a
stay of execution, set for the week be-
ginning Jan. 10.
James Kirkley, the Benton county
Qnd.) treasurer who was found dead
in his office. committed suicide because
his accounts were short.
Mrs. Nellie Peterl1in, of New York,
has been convicted at Boston of man
slaughter for causing the death of
Mrs. Caroline F. Murphy.
Tuesday. Jan. A.
Unfavorable news comes from Fried
richsruhe regarding the health of Prince
Bismarck.
Secretary Gage approves the recon-
mendations made in the monetary
commissions report on currency re-
form.
The deaths of three students at the
University of Chicago are traceable to
starvation. said to be due to poor food
furnished in the district near the insti-
tuition.
Senior Rodriguez will not return to
Washington as the minister of the
greater republic of Central America,
limitations having been given that he
would not be acceptable.
Wednesday, Jan. 5.
John D. Rockefeller has donated $780,
600 to the University of Chicago to aid
in carrying out work already planned.
The old Fort Mckinney reservation
at Sheridan, Wyo., has been surveyed
and will now be offered for SALE
The trial of Eli Shaw, at Camden, N.
j., for the alleged murder of his grand
mother, has been postponed until April
Mrs. Jessie Mulligan, widow of rail-
road conductor is working as brake
man on Northern Pacific freight train.
A too rapid physical growth caused
the death Of Edwin r. Mason, aged 1S,
of BROOKLYN. He was six feet two
inches high.
A party of men ere searching in
quicksands near Clearmont, Mo-, for
gold supposed to have been left in that
vicinity by Indians years ago.
Thursday, Jan. 6.
DR.. Zaccharin, the famous physician
Of Car Alexander III, is dead
The president named Francis C. Low
ell as United States district judge for
Massachusetts,.
A company has offered to the govern
ment Gig Harbor, Washington state,
for fresh water naval station
A freight locomotive exploded near
Knoxville, Tenn, killing the engineer
and fireman and wrecking Il cars
A fist fight between two esquires in
the Hamilton county (Tenn.) court
caused a riot among the spectators.
Samuel Fleming and Mrs. Sebastian
Koch were killed by Lebanon Valley
railroad train near South Mountain, Pa
A gun trap loaded with salt was
sprung by Joseph Dowd, at Orange,
N. T.. and he received the charge in
his hand.
Adolph Stroller, a hermit and miser,
who died recently in shanty near
Superior, Wis, is supposed to have
left 100000.