Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1899-05-04
A WEEKS NEWS CONDENSED.
FRIDAY. Aprll ~.

Friday. April ~.
The president issued proclamation
ratifiying the extradition treaty with
Mexico.
Twenty-Five customs inspectors have
been suspended at New York for ac-
ceptlng tips.
Robert GoeIet, the New York mil
lionaire. died on board of his yacht
at Naples.
IN the international Sunday school
convention at Atlanta (Ga.l separate
sections are provided for whites and
blacks.
The bill to prohibit acceptance Of
passes by public officials and political
convention delegates passed the Wis
consin legislature.
Ernest b. McNair, treasurer of the
Wilmington (Del1 Savings Fund So
ciety, confesses to embezzling $4,000.
He made the loss good.
Dead soldiers brought from Cuba
must all be inferred in Arlington
cemetery to prevent exposure of the
bodies and danger of infection.
saturday, April 80.
The Phoenix Bridge company, of
Phoenixyille. Pa, has contracted to
build IL steel bridges for use in Rus
STA.
Cyclone which swept Kirksville, Mo,
destroyed many houses. and made 200
homeless. Thirty-three dead bodies re-
covered.
Mrs. Anna E. George, charged with
killing George z. Saxton, Mrs Nc
Kinley's brother, at Canton, o., was
acquitted.
Mrs Adams witnessed the hanging
of Tom Robinson (colored) at Hills
boro, Tex, for assaulting Mrs. Adams
daughter Mary.
An explosion in Dupont's powder
works at Pennsgrove, N. J., killed six
men, including Captain Stuart, gov
eminent pes-der inspector.
Henry T. Sloane, the wealthy New
York society man, was granted an abb
solute divorce yesterday. Last night
Mrs. Sloane was married to Hon.
Perry Belmont
Monday, Nav 1.
President Kruger says the gold out
put of the Transvaal in 1898 was Etc.,
24O.630.
The bodies of Colonel Egbert and
Captain Gregg, killed at Manila, were
landed at San Francisco.
Our exports of manufactured goods
for March aggregated $36, OPS, 1893, a 25
per cent increase over any previous
month
Prairie fire, swept by cyclone, burn
ed strip of % miles, a mile wide. in
Nebraska. Two persons and many cat
tie burned to death.
An excursion train jumped the track
while speeding around a curve near
Rochester, N. Y. Two men were killed
and SO persons injured.
Hon. Lewis Baker, ex-minister to
Nicaragua. Costa RIGA and Salvador,
and a noted Democratic journalist,
died in Washington, aged 81.
Tuesday. May ?.
Liquor licenses have been granted to
the ten hotels applying at Cape May.
A sudden flood in a gold mine at
Kahnar, Russia, drowned 81 miners.
Ten of the Il Illinois congressman.
in caucus, voted to support Repre-
sentative Hopkins for speaker of the
national house.
The president has returned to Wash
ington after trip to New York sue
ceeding his participation in Philadel-
phia's Grant monument unwilling
In conflict between Canadian po-
lice and Iroquois Indians at st. Regis
Indian reservation. near Cornwall.
Ont, Jake Ice, an Indian, was killed
Major Gerardo Domenche. known as
the strongest man in the Cuban army,
was taken to Philadelphia for treat
ment, paralyzed from the waist down
Secretary Hay yesterday paid to
French Ambassador Cambon, acting
for the Spanish government, the s20,-
0000 900 promised for the cession of the
Philippines.
Wednesday, May 8.
Fifteen thousand textile workers are
on strike at Brunn, Austria
Not for years has there been so
many immigrants from Italy as at the
present time.
Representative Mark L. Davis, of
Delaware, was acquitted of charge of
attempted bribery
In a speech at Detroit General Wes-
ley Merritt declared Alger the best
war secretary the world has ever seen.
Should the Defender defeat the new
Columbia in the trial, she will again
defend the Americas cup in the races
against the Shamrock.
Henry B. Hyde, who had salary Of
100000 a year as president of the
Equitable Life Insurance association.
died in New York, aged S.
Baltimore's city election resulted in
sweeping Democratic victory. Thorn
as G. Hayes was elected mayor over
w. T. Malster, the present incumbent.