Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1900-08-16
a WEEKS NEWS CONDENSED.
rrsday. Aug. 10.

Friday AuG. 10.
The income OF 5onn D. Rockefeller.
the Standard OIL magnate. is S30.00O,-
900 year.
Henry hoffman died at East Butler,
Pa, Wednesday evening, aged 105. He
never used tobacco or liquor In any
form.
George Welsh ana William Roberts.
colored walters at the Hotel Imperial,
Atlantic City, We're found dead In bed
and the gas turned on
Governor Roosevelt wiz start on
Pacific coast stumping tour next
month going through West Virginia,
Ohio. Indiana and Kentucky.
Saturday, AUG. II.
Mabel Bouton. prominent actress.
was sent to an insane asylum IN New
York yesterday.
Miss Floasie SHETLAND. prominent
society belle OF F'redonia, N. Y, was
drowned yesterday at Put In Bay while
bathing.
Two train robbers were surrounded
In house near Goodland. Kan. and
killed Several of the pursuing party
were wounded
Lord Russell of Killowen, lord chief
justice of England, died yesterday at
his residence, Cromwell House. Ken
sington, aged 81.
Mr.. Herbert Putnam, librarian OF
the United States congress, is in Ber-
lin arranging connections for an ex-
change of books with European Ii
braries
Monday, Aug. IS.
Charles Lane, an express messenger,
was murdered In his car by Charles R.
Terrell, near Columbus, o.
Filipino Col Grassa has surrendered
1871 rebels and guns to Col. Freeman of
the Twenty-fourth infantry.
Chinese Minister WI Ting Fang, at
Washington, has expressed his inten-
ton Of never returning to China,
BIasTrujillo, one of the most promi
nent cigar manufacturers in Tampa,
Fla, committed suicide Saturday
evening.
During the maneuvers of the French
feet off Cape st. Vincent battleship
collided with a torpedo boat. Fifty per-
sons were drowned. 100
On Saturday Mrs. Sheng, wife Of the
first secretary of the Chinese legation,
gave birth to boy This is the first
matte class to be born in the United
States.
Tuesday, AuE. II.
President Mckinley returned to
Washington today.
BY railroad collision in Italy IS
persons were killed and 40 injured.
Chess Champion Steinitz died in a
New York insane hospital, aged &c.
Photographers ON the Baltimore and
Ohio system have been granted an adj
vance in wages.
It is said the home Of Count de Cas-
tellane, husband of Anna Gould, may
be sold for debt
The New FoundIand legislature has
been dissolved, a general election be-
ing ordered for October. and a bitter
campaign is expected
Lorenz Schweitz, of Breslau, has
been appointed to the post of public
executioner for Prussia. He is a re-
tired business man and well to do.
DR.. H. ]. Costello, a well known
physician of Philadelphia. suicided at
his hotel. at Eagles Mere, yesterday
afternoon by hanging himself to a.
water pipe With strap.
Wednesday,, Aug. is.
Senator Butler, the Populist chair
man, denies he will stump for McKin-
ley.
Senator Hanna will open the Re-
publican campaign at Asbury Park, N.
j., on Tuesday next.
Fire in India street, Boston, yester-
day caused loss Of $4,000, chiefly to
Timothy Gay & Co., wholesale grocers.
The Republicans in the Fourth
Maryland congressional district nomi
mated Charles R. Schrim, OF Baltimore.
The plant of Ness Brothers & Co..
wheel, spoke and rim manufacturers.
of York, Pa, was burned last night.
Probably a total loss.
Jacob Matthias, aged 70 years, a
prominent merchant of Northumber-
land. Pa, while gathering pears, slip
ped and fell to the ground and was
killed instantly
Thursday, Aug. IS.
Captain w L. Murphy, Thirty-ninth
infantry, was killed in the Philippines
yesterday.
Ex-Congressman Henry G. Burleigh.
Of New York, died last night at White
hall, y. Y.
The steamship Bermuda. of filibuster
fame, was sunk at her wharf in Phila-
delphia by an explosion.
Another first class battleship is
about to be added to our navy. 1t is
the Wisconsin, building at the Union
Iron workers, San Francisco.