Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1898-01-20
A WEEKS NEWS CONDENSER
Friday. Ian. IA

Red Cloud, the last of the great Sioux
chiefs. is dying in a shack on the Ogal-
lala reservation.
Schlatter, the healer" is said to
have restored the sight of blind girl
at GAINESVILLE, o.
The body of Theodore Durrant, muir
derer of Blanche Lamont, was cremated
at Altadena, Cal.
The diamond back terrapin, for which
Maryland has long been famous, Is
threatened with extinction.
The French government will prose-
cute M. lola. the novelist, for charges
of perjury against government officials.
Saturday. Jan. 15.
Forty-five persons were killed in
typhoon which struck Fort Smith, Ark,
Tuesday night.
Five men are entombed in tunnel of
the upper smelling works at Anaconda,
Mont. There is no hope of saving them.
The operators of the Pittsburg coal
district will appoint commission to
enforce the true uniformity agree
ment.
The senate committee on election, by
a vote of to 8, reported against the
seating of Corbett, appointed senator
from Oregon.
While Mrs. Mary Curtin, a young
New York widow, was romping with
her child she fell downstairs and was
instantly killed.
Monday. Jan. II.
John K. Valentine, ex-United States
district attorney of Philadelphia, died
in that city yesterday.
Logan Carlisle, son of the ex-secre-
tary and ex-chief clerk of the treasury
department, died in New York, aged 81.
The mining towns of Dillonville and
Long Run, O., have been looted by
tramps, and the miners are on the war
path.
Hon. Charles Villiers died in London,
aged &c. He had served continuously in
the British house of commons for So
years.
Ex-Congressman Benjamin Butter
worth, United States commissioner of
patents, died yesterday at Thomasville
Ca, aged so.
Tuesday, Jan IS.
Ex-Congressman Benjamin S. Hooper
died suddenly yesterday at Farmville,
Va.
Circuit Court Judge w. S. Barton, of
the Fredericksburg (Va.) circuit, is
dead.
A New York policeman named Gard
ner has fallen heir to $4,000, but is de-
termined to stay on the force.
w. w. Ashby, our consul at Colon,
Colombia, with six others, was drown
ed while boating in Colon harbor.
By Drawing a temperature of 80 de-
grees below zero George Graham secured
placer claim on French creek, Alaska,
worth 100000.
A committee of Ohio's senate is at
work investigating charges of alleged
bribery against Senator Hanna's man
ayers in the late senatorial contest
Wednesdas, Jan. 10.
Bread riots in various parts of Italy
continue daily, and there is great dis
order.
Signor Nicolini, husband of Madame
Adelini Patti-Nicolini, died yesterday
at Pau, France.
The national senate yesterday con-
firmed I'll. d. Saylor, of Pennsylvania,
to be consul at Matanzas, Cuba.
An ice gorge rs feet high is stretched
across the Hudson river five miles be-
low Albany, and the city fears an mum
dalton.
Sanford B. Dole, president of Hawaii,
left San Francisco for Washington this
afternoon. He goes by way of Chicago
and New York.
Levi Poindexter, negro convict,
stabbed F. A. Dieffenbaoh, deputy war
den Of the Maryland penitentiary, with
table knife, and Dieffenbach may die.
Thursday, Dec. 20.
The curfew ordinance went into ef-
feet at Indianapolis Tuesday night.
On Monday next will begin the cele-
bration of the 5Oth anniversary of the
discovery Of gold in California.
Fred and Edward Mere and Mrs.
Woerther have been arrested in ST.
Louis. charged with the murder of the
latter's husband
The Japanese government again de-
clares that that country is prepared
to act vigorously, if necessary, for the
maintenance of the peace
Citizens Of Texas, southern Kansas.
northeast Oklahoma and Indian Terri
tory are building with their own labor
a shorter railroad to ST Louis.