Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1900-01-04
A WEEKS NEWS CONDENSED

Governor duuSI, VI 11ilAOiS, all
nounces that he is not candidate for
denomination.
There is a strong probability that
both Arizona and New Mexico will be
admitted to statehood.
Right Hon. Harry Escombe, EXPIRE
mier of Natal, dropped dead in the
street in Durham.
Hawaiian sugar planters welcome
American annexation, but not the in
flux of American labor, because it is
too costly.
1t is believed that the convention OF
United Mine Workers of America, at
indianapolis Jan. Is, will demand
higher. wages.
The bodies of the Names dead,
brought from Havana, were inferred
with impressive ceremonies at Airing
ton cemetery, Washington.
Saturday, Dec. 80.
Peruvians are urging the appoint
ment of an ambassador to Washington.
Rev. Sylvester Malone, a leading
priest of Brooklyn. died yesterday,
aged 70.
Lewis z. Goldsmith, fugitive assist
ant cashier of the Port Jervis IN. W
bank, surrendered in New York yes
terday.
Bradstreet's review for the year de-
clares 1899 a record breaker in bust
ness, and predicts another prosperous
year.
Two masked robbers tried to hold up
a street car in Seattle, Wash. One rob-
Der was killed, the other escaped. A
passenger was wounded.
Thomas MacKeller, Phi. D., senior
member of the American Type Found
ers company (MacKellar, Smiths &
Jordan, died in Philadelphia, aged 81.
Monday, Jan. 1.
Cars of American pattern have been
adopted for Paris underground cleo
trio road.
The bodies of General Lawton and
Major Logan are homeward bound
from Manila.
Emperor Francis Joseph has appoint
ed Prince Henry of Prussia an admiral
in the Austrian navy.
Two thousand new policemen will be
required to keep crooks in control at
Paris during the exposition.
1t is believed the government was
robbed of $4,000 to $4,000 daily by
the recent customs frauds in Havana.
1t is said that Pope Leo has express
ed the hope that Cardinal Gotti, the
famous Genoese monk, will succeed
him
The seizure of the German steamer
Bundesrath by the British steamer
Magicienne in Delagoa bay has inn
PEELED Germany to demand an explana-
ton
Tuesday, Jan. 2.
At President McKinleys New Years
reception the army preceded the navy.
General e. S. Osborne. ex-congress-
man from Pennsylvania, died in Wash
ington.
Richard Croker. the Tammany lead
er, is laid up with a broken leg in
Kent Inty, England.
In a prize fight at New York yes
terday kid" Mccoy knocked out Peter
Maher in the fifth round.
Fire in a New York tenement re-
suited in the death of 6-months-old
Loretta Lennart and injuries to IL
others.
The New Year reception given by
Emperor William and the empress at
Berlin was magnificent affair. Uni
ted States Ambassador White was
placed behind the Spanish ambassa-
dor in the procession.
Wednesday, Jan. 3.
Major General Zenas R. Bliss, U. S.
A., retired. died in Washington.
A coal famine is closing Industrial
establishments about Harrisburg.
The waes of $4,000 men in Pittsburg
have been raised from 5 to 10 per cent.
The strike of miners in Walker
county, Ala, ended in compromise.
Colonel A. L. Mcintyre, ex-congress-
man from Georgia, died at Thomas
vile, Ga.
Retiring Treasurer Wilson, of Shelby
county, Ills, cannot produce his books
It is said $125, 600 is unaccounted for.
The grand jury at Concord, N. H.,
refused to indict Senator GaIlinger for
alleged violation of civil service laws.
Kentucky's Democratic legislators
nominated j. C. S. Blackburn for Uni
ted States senator, insuring his cleo
ton.
Thursday, Jan. 4.
The death is announced in Rome of
Count de Benomar, Spanish ambas-
sador to Italy.
The bubonic plague, or something
resembling it closely, has made it's APP
pearance in Manila.
Ex-Governor Bradley is the choice
of Kentueky's Republican legislators
for United States senator.
II is officially stated in Paris that the
Newfoundland modus vivendi will be
extended for one year.
Fourteen soldiers made insane by
service in the Philippines have been
sent to the asylum at Washington.
Canada will make an effort by legis-
lation to secure some of the emoIu-
ments accruing from the granting of
charters to American companies.
All the oyster boats on the Potomac
river are tied up by ice. Hundreds of
men in Washington alone are thrown
out of work in consequence thereof.