Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1900-04-26
A WEEKS NEWS CONDENSED
Eridnx. Arm 20.

rom BROOKLYN DrldBe IN vain eHofL
to commit suicide.
OF the Cuban population of 572,977,
| 443, 426 can read and write and 10 ,158
have superior education.
Cock fighting will be prohibited
throughout Cuba after June ! next.
under a penalty of $500
| A seat in New York's Stock Elk
change was sold yesterday for s40,500-
This is new record price.
The postmaster general has signed
a parcels post treaty with New Zea-
land, to go into effect July l.
Admiral Dewey declares he never
said Democrats were traitors in war
and damned fools in time of peace.
saturday, April FL.
Eight thousand Spanish miners have
gone on strike at Santa Pauline, near
| Santander.
Eighty Russian and Galician labor
ers have been expelled from Northern
SchIeswig, Prussia.
There is talk of stampeding the Re-
publican national convention for Gov
ernor Roosevelt, of New York, for
president.
|
up" two restaurants and saloon in
Kansas City. got % years imprison-
ment.
Col. David Colson, ex-congressman,
was acquitted at Frankfort, KY. OF
killing Lieut.. Scott and Luther w.
Demaree.
Sailors on the lighthouse steamer
j Madrone, at San Francisco, have struck
| against a reduction OF from $40 to $35
a month in wages.
The bubonic plague shows no signs
| Of abating at Sydney, N S. w, al
though the precautions taken by the
authorities appear to keep it somewhat
in check.
Monday. April 23.
New York had 5,393 fires last year,
with s7,155, 191 loss.
Catharine Bannon, SO years old, an
invalid, was burned to death during a
| fire in her Philadelphia home.
The late Samuel Howard, of Mill
waukee, left his fortune of $500, 900 for
the maintenance of orphans.
The total receipts of the Cuban
treasury for the month of March. 1900,
were s., 67S, 500, including 81, 472, 800 for
customs.
| Because workmen from other towns
we're employed $50 men and women
| struck at the Russell County COM
pany's shoe factory, at Woburn, Mass.
Lieut.. Herbert Whipple. Seventh cav
airy, while dining at New York, found
a pearl in an oyster patty which, be-
fore cooking, had been worth $4,000.
Tuesday, April "a.
George Douglas Campbell, Duke OF
Argyle, died yesterday at Argyllshire.
Scotland, aged ~.
| President and Mrs Mckinley arrived
at their Canton (O.) home today for a
short visit.
Rev. B. S. Small, so years old, oil
| Lickdale, Pa, was killed by train
while walking on the railroad track
Rear Admiral George c. Remey as
sumed formal command of the Asiatic
station, at Yokohama, last Friday, re-
| heving Rear Admiral Watson.
Count Otto Bissengen-Rippenburg
| major of the Thirteenth Austrian
HGssars. was shot and killed by Lieut.
Bokacsy, of his regiment, in duel at
| keskemet.
G. S. Rosenbaum, a Philadelphia
married man, and 18-year-old Florence
! Hunold, of Delonco, N. j., committed
suicide by gas asphyxiation in Rosen-
baum's pawn shop.
Wednesday, April 20.
Representative Cooney, of Missouri
has introduced bill to abrogate and
repeal the Clayton-Bulwer treaty.
Jockey Frank O'Leary, kicked by a
fallen horse in the fifth race at Aque-
duct IN. V track. died from his in
juries
Immigration Commissioner North
at San Francisco, refused permit to
/ land 81 Japanese. on the ground that
| they are contract laborers.
At Chicago potamine poisoning re-
sulting from eating canned meat caus-
ed the death of Albert Kork and
Frank Kork. aged 4 and years.
Senate committee on military affairs
| decided to report adversely the bill
| to provide for the employment of wo-
men nurses in military hospitals.
]. A. Smith is under arrest at Chi.
! cago charged with obtaining money
under false pretense at Berlin, Ont
He will return without rednisition.
Thursday, April 20.
The amount of bonds SO far ex-
changed at the treasury for the new
2 per cents is 1855, 101 $50.
| B. B. Weidner, a respondent business
man of Reading. Pa, committed sui
eide by jumping from a third story
| window
Maryland's Democratic state con-
vention to nominate delegates at large
| to the national convention will be held
| in Baltimore June 5.
Our consul at Frankfort, Germany
reports demand in that city for $780,
| 600 tons of American coal.
Lizzie De Kalb, the accomplice oil
| Charles o. Kaiser and James A. Glenn
been released from Norristown, Pa.
Jail, having served her term.
BY an explosion of dynamite al
Larimer, Pa, one man was blown to
atoms, two fatally hurt and eight men
and a girl seriously injured.
Queen Victoria Sails For Home.
Dublin, April 26-Queen Victoria
spent what was practically her last
day in Ireland very quietly. Though
she drove out yesterday afternoon, she
did not visit any institutions. Her
majesty left the vice regal lodge at
noon today, and after the short train
| journey to Kingstown embarked on
board the royal yacht and, escorted by
the channel fleet, sailed for England
| an hour later II is expected the
queen will arrive at Windsor tomor-
row morning.