Gloucester County Democrat., 1899-10-05
A WEEKS NEWS CONDENSED.



Mrs. Michael Walsh. OF Piainfield,
N. j.. was terribly gored by cow.
Daniel Tracey. of Nyack, N. Y, was
bitten by a copperhead snake, and had
a narrow escape from death.
1t is reported that fully thousand
people were killed by the earthquake
around Smyrna, Asia Minor. Two
thousand houses and two villages were
also destroyed
The steamer Scotsman was wrecked
in the Straits of Belle Isle, N. F., and
nine women and an infant were drown
ed from a capsized boat Fifty-one sail
ors who robbed passengers are under
arrest in Montreal.
Saturday, Sept. so.
The admissions to the National Ex-
port exposition at Philadelphia yester-
day numbered 1904.
w. F. McGaughey, 10 years old, died
in Muscatine, Ills. from injuries re-
ceived while playing football.
Soldiers in the Philippines will be
permitted to send packages as mail
matter without extra charge.
w. C. Lynn, first cousin of Presi-
OCuI NuCAluiCIE W 0S AAtACO Dy CAplOA-
ing giant powder near Deadwood, S. D.
At Paterson. N. j.. 19-year-old Will
lam Badabad was killed while fencing
with knives with Richard Growney.
Henry Lubin, formerly a wealthy
Chicago druggist, committed suicide to
provide $1,000 life insurance for his
mother.
Monday, Oct. 2.
FL. Cowden, a student of the East
man college at Poughkeepsie, N. Y.
died from injuries received in football
game.
Senator Hanna says the booming of
Admiral Dewey for the presidency is
an insult to the naval hero.
President Mckinley will be appealed
to in behalf of Cour d'Alene miners
imprisoned at Wardner for rioting. 1t
is alleged they are brutally treated.
Twelve masked men robbed the
Meade homestead, II miles from Ports
mouth, o., and after fatally beating
one of the family tied the rest in their
beds and took $500.
Captain Watkins, ex-captain of the
American liner Paris, will make legal
fight against our government inspec-
tors, who suspended him for two years
an account of the Manacle shoaI wreck.
Tuesday, Oct. 3.
At Pierrepont Manor, N. Y. Mrs. Lu-
cinda Clark and her aged mother were
burned to death.
1t is now estimated that ] 800 persons
perished in the recent earthquakes near
Adm, Asia Minor.
John Grouix, a Chicago balloonist,
became entangled in the ropes of his
balloon and fell 100 feet. being terribly
mangled.
The buoy marked "Andree Polar ex-
pedition" found at King Charles ISL
and is the one which the explorer said
he would drop if he passed the North
Pole.
Charles Lehban. of Springfield, Ills.
13 years old. set fire to paper bunt-
ing, with which 12-year-old Carrie
Cartwright adorned herself. She died
and he was held for murder.
Wednesday, Oct. A.
General VeIutini has left New York
with party of 500 men to join the
revolutionists in Venezuela.
NJ. Grosjean, judge of the Versailles
(France) court. has been arrested in
connection with the Deroulede con-
spiracy.
Two masked men held up a stage
near Ouray, Colo. but failed to find
$4,000 in gold which was secreted in
the vehicle.
Mrs. Lucy Shea, of Brooklyn, cap
tured a burglar in the cellar of her
house after hard fight and turned
him over to the police
John O'Melveny, chief engineer of
the Oregon Short Line railway, was
shot dead at Salt Lake City by Captain
j. F. Mills. ex-lieutenant governor of
Idaho.
Thursday, Oct. S.
The Dewey home fund to date
amounts to $40. 1881.
The enlistments Tuesday were 772,
making a total of 1855.
Reports from Caracas say that Presi-
dent Andrade is preparing to fee from
Venezuela.
Ex-President Harrison's fee as chief
counsel for Venezuela before the Paris
tribunal is said to be $3.50, 900.
An armistice of five days has been
arranged between the Venezuelan in
surgents and the government.
James Colquhoun, former city treas
urer of Glasgow, was sentenced to five
years penal servitude for embezzling
e160,00O.