Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1899-06-15
A WEEKS NEWS CONDENSED.



Senator Hanna and family will sail
for France June Ii.
Ten Thousand miners are on strike
in the central Pennsylvania coal re-
gion.
A monument to the late Fred Doug
lass, the famous cOlored orator, was
unveiled yesterday at Rochester.
During the past three days there
have been 35 deaths and nearly hum
dred proatratiors from heat in and
about New York.
Saturday. June 10.
General Otis has decided not to enlist
Filipinos as an auxiliary force for the
reason that they cannot be trusted.
American products are already find
ing an enlarged market in Cuba, Ha-
waii. Porto Rico and the Philippines.
A. j. Cassatt was elected president
of the Pennsylvania Railroad COM
pany to succeed the late Frank Thorn
son.
Jim Jeffries, the 24-year-old Cali
fornia giant, at Coney Island, defeated
Bob Fitzsimmons for the heavyweight
pugilistic championship.
Monday June IL.
Near Salix, Ia, tornado killed three
persons and caused heavy property
damage.
Admiral Dewey arrived at Singapore.
whence he will continue his homeward
journey on June Is,
Mrs Ray Higgins, who had just been
married, was shot and killed by one of
a party of serenaders at Watonga, o. I.
The survey for the German-Ameri-
can cable, from Baden to Coney Island.
has been completed. 1t will cost S.
OO0,O
Sailors of the cruiser Brooklyn are
perfecting arrangements to celebrate
"Schley day July g. Admiral Samp-
son will be invited
Tuesday, June ID.
Plans are perfecting for $50, 900 900
tunnel, under IS fathoms of water,
from England to Ireland.
Exploding nitro glycerine at Mari
eta, o., killed Cal Harte, aged As, and
Clyde Porter. 81
The municipality of Havana has
presented General Gomez certificate
naming him an adopted son of the
city.
Brigadier General Charles King was
overcome by exhaustion while making
a speech at Tacoma His condition is
not serious.
Governors Tanner of Illinois, Shaw
of Iowa, Bushnell of Ohio, Pingree of
Michigan, Thomas of Colorado, Poyn-
ter of Nebraska, Bradley of Kentucky
and Sayres of Texas will attend the
antitrust convention in st. Louis
Sept 20.
Wednesday, June IA.
Wyoming militiamen have been or
dered to assist in the hunt for Union
Pacific train robbers.
Italian General Gilletta was arrested
in Nice, France, with plans of the for
tifications upon him.
| A report from Manila that Luna, the
insurgent general, had been killed by
Aguinaldo's guard lacks confirmation.
The Old Dominion steamer Hamil-
ton ran down and sunk the German
steamer Macedonia off Long Branch.
All rescued.
Constable Hotalen, of Newton, N j.,
tried to arrest Jason Campbell and
was attacked by Jason and his brother
James He shot both, Jason dying.
In Jerusalem township, o., Holman
Sheffield, 60-year-old hermit, was
shot dead by James B. Bodi an escaped
lunatic from the Toledo insane asylum.
Thursday. June Ii.
There are fully $500 men on strike
along the Buffalo docks.
Flag day was generally celebrated
in all parts of the country yesterday.
In the third race between the Domin-
| ion and the Yankee, for the Ross cup,
the Canadian boat won.
Edward Gray, a negro charged with
burglaries in st. John Parish, La, was
lynched after acQuittal by the court.
Alaska Indians, starving because the
prospectors have frightened away the
game that was their natural food, now
threaten to massacre the whites.
The wage scale committees of the
Association of Iron and Steel Manufac-
turers and the Amalgamated Associa-
ton are in joint session at Pittsbnrg.