Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1899-12-28
A WEEKS NEWS CONDENSED
Friday, Dec. 20.

is now at the rate of 100000 tons a
year.
Democratic National Chairman Jones
declares his party's chances for sue
cess better than in 1896.
The Georgia Central railroad refused
to sell sleeping car berth to Bishop
Turner, because of his color.
]. D. Taylor, secretary treasurer of
the Wagner Palace Car company, cut
his throat in Washington, dying in
stantly.
One hundred penniless men who
came over on the steamer Hanover are
detained at Baltimore on suspicion of
being contract laborers bound for
Pennsylvania.
Saturday, Dec. %.
Charles Smith, better known as "Sil-
yer Dollar" Smith, of New York, is
dead.
Over 40 school children, skating on
the river Lys at Brussels, were drown
ed by the ice breaking.
Mrs. Sanderson, charged at Marshall,
Mich, with killing her aged husband by
feeding him ground glass. was acquitted
There is talk of nominating Cor
nelIus N Bliss, former secretary of the
interior, for vice president on the Re-
publican ticket.
The law prohibiting sleeping car
companies in Georgia from furnishing
berths to negro passengers was signed
by Governor Gambler
While rehearsing for a Christmas
entertainment, dressed in f1imsy cos
I xs,-1r. hot 4 4
years old were burned to death at
Quincy, Ills, by one brushing against
gas jet and setting fire to others.
Monday, Dec. rs.
The coal trade in western Germany
has been stopped by a car famine.
1t is proposed to establish a ministry
of commerce and industry in Russia.
Reduced to membership of IL, by
deaths, the Grand Army post of Alb
bottstown, Pa, has dissolved.
At Akron, o., Albert Barnes dropped
dead when he heard of the death, by
consumption, OF his partner, Samuel
Wall.
Harriet Johnson, mother of Chair
man Johnson, of the Democratic ma
tional executive committee, was fatally
burned at Peoria, Ills.
The British steamer Ariosto went
ashore on Ocracoke Beach, near the
Hatteras IN. CT life saving station
Twenty-one were drowned and nine
rescued, including Captain Baines.
Tuesday, Dec. 26.
The celebrated Pinnacle rock at
Cumberland Gap, Tenn, fell, doing
considerable damage.
There was Christmas dinner for
everybody in New York. The Saliva
ton Army alone fed 10000.
In Christmas football game at San
Francisco Carlisle (Pa.) Indians de-
feated University of California to 0.
Four men were killed and several in
jured In a wreck on the Northern Pa
cif1c railroad, near Bear Mouth, Mont.
Mrs. Mary Garrett, who was SEN
fenced in 1888 to life imprisonment in
Ohio for killing her imbecile step
children, has been pardoned.
AS train on the Pennsylvania rail-
road was passing Middletown. Pa,
passenger was severely wounded on
the head by stone hurled through
window.
SNeOAeSuatS OCcs
Professor Elliott Coues, noted orni-
biologist and scientist, died in Balti-
more, aged 81.
Franklin B. Livingston, blind vet
eran of Baltimore, choked his wife to
death. He claims self defense.
There is talk of a Fenian invasion
of Canada, but British Ambassador
Pauncefote is not worrying about it.
While his death watch slept, Wal
ter Cotton, a negro murderer who was
to be hanged Dec ~, escaped from Jail
at Norfolk, Va.
Trainmen of the Great Northern
railroad who have been employed by
the company for a certain number of
years are to become stockholders in
February next.
Over a hundred witnesses have been
summoned by the senate elections
committee to testify in the Montana
senatorial contest, and sensational tes-
timony is expected
Thursday, Dee. %.
Dr. Thomas O'Callaghan, a Jersey
City physician, dropped dead at the
bedside of a patient
A blizzard was raging in the Klon-
dixie on Dec. %, when the steamer
Rosalie sailed for Port Townsend.
The proposed combine of British CO.
lumbia salmon canneries has fallen
through 1t is now proposed to form
a score of smaller combines.
The body of Title Mechler who dis
appeared from her home at Carlsbad.
N. J., was found near the river bank at
Rutherford Probably a suicide.
A strange Christmas gift was receiv-
ed by Robert McBee, of Knoxville.
Tenn, in the shape of $4,000 in notes
which had been stolen from him over
two years ago.
The Methodist mission church in
the Chinatown of Victoria, B. c., was
blown up while 60 or 10 Chinese con-
verts and white people were in the
building, but all escaped serious in
jury. Chinese Highbinders are SUE
Dected
! woulin't be without Dewitrs witch II azeI
ealye for any consideration" writes Thos. b