Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1899-07-20

The British ships Carlisle Castle ana
City of York were lost off the West
Australian coast. All but Is of the
crew of the former and of the latter
persisted
Saturday. July Is.
F. M. Girard, of the Oregon volun-
teers, deserted his regiment to go to
his dying mother.
The Middlesex County bank. of Perth
Amboy. N. j.. has been looted of $125,-
600, and the cashier is in Jail.
Webb c. Hayes, son of the late presi-
dent, has been appointed lieutenant
colonel of volunteers, and will go to
Manila
The friends of Major General Shat
ter, who will reach the age limit in
few months. are working quietly for
his retention.
Roy Terry is at the hospital in James,
town, N. Y, as a result, he alleges, of
injuries received while being initiated
into a secret society
- - Monday. June II.
Captain Andrews, who tried to cross
the ocean in dory, was picked up
exhausted 700 miles from the Irish
coast.
Tin plate workers throughout the
country, to the number of $4,000, re-
sumed work today on a II per cent
advance in wages.
Mayor Harrison, of Chicago, refuses
to address a meeting of Democrats
called by Ex-Governor Altgeld and
other Obscure persons"
Annie and Mary Kinney, sisters, aged
II and IA. and their 15-year-old cousin,
Ella Kinney, were drowned while
bathing at Derby, Conn.
Joseph Hough killed Harry Chad
wick at Chester, Conn, and threw his
body in the river. They we're rival
lovers. Hough was arrested.
In battle between a sheriff's posse
and fleeing train robbers near Omar
ron, N NJ. Sheriff Ed Farr and Rob-
Der William McGinnis were killed.
Tuesday, July IS.
Rev. P. A. Jordan, Catholic priest
fell from Philadelphia streetcar and
was killed.
Ralph Sicily, years old, was beaten
to death by four little playmates at
Indianapolis.
01IS. WIN ueT 3
throat in New York recently, has been
sent to an asylum.
The contributions yesterday to the
Dewey home fund amounted to s149,
making $144S0 in all.
The dead from Fourth of July ac-
cidents throughout the country num-
Der 141, SO dying of lockjaw.
For executing Goings, the Indian
murderer, at Atlikchi, |. t., District
Attorney Clay, Clerk Tyler and Sheriff
Watson are under arrest for murder
Wednesday, July 10.
A regular Cuban revolutionary party
has been established, with headquar-
tiers in Havana
Angus NJ Cannon, the Mormon Of
fetal, pleaded guilty of polygamy at
Salt Lake. He has four wives.
Cashier George w Valentine, who
looted the Middlesex County bank of
Perth Amboy, N. j., of $4,000, was
sentenced to six years in Jail.
In the Western Iowa, near the Min
nesota state line, A. w. Bladen, his
wife and eight children were drowned
by sudden rise caused by cloud
burst.
Josie Mansfield, for whose sake Ed
ward S. Stokes shot and killed James
Fisk, Jr., in 1872. is lying at the home
of relatives in Philadelphia, paraIyzed
and speechless.
Twelve members of the steamer Elk
expedition to Kotzebue sound Alaska.
succumbed to scurvy, starvation and
frost Mrs. Bens, wife of the captain,
the only survivor, is at St. Michael's,
dying of scurvy.
Thursday, July go.
The strike of the Chicago breweries'
workingmen has been settled.
A schooner ran down canoe in Nor
folk harbor. and three men were
drowned
General Harrison Gray Otis believes
that the correspondents protest mis-.
represents General EIwell s. Otis.
In a race between Shamrock and
Britannia yesterday, off Cowes the
Shamrock again had an easy victory.
The president is considering The ad.
visibility of reducing the force ~
troops IN Cuba during the rainy season
Ralph Towner, 9-year-oId bow az
Middietown, NJ Y, was shot in the
eye with an arrow by a companion
Ehila PLAYING Indian.