Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1900-09-13
4 WEEKS NEWS CONDENSED.
Friday, sept. 7.

The Republican plurality Ia the Ver-
mont election Is 81 .46S.
The population Of Atlantic City, ".
J., is 1883; in 1890. 1S,055.
A report that ex-President Cleveland
will support Bryan for president lacks
confirmation.
was burned to death yesterday In saw
ing her two baby boys.
Montana Republicans nominated Da-
vid e. Folsom for governor and A. j.
Bennett for lieutenant governor.
Mgr James Mcmahon yesterday
transferred property valued at $4,000
to the Catholic university at Washing
ton.
The shortage of the American cot
ton crop and its prospective delay are
causing fears Of a cotton crisis in Eng
land.
Saturday, Sept. s.
The population of the city Of Soran-
| ton, Pa, is 102,026; in 1890, 75,215.
Railroads south and west of the
Mississippi will hereafter charge presi-
Dental and vice presidential candidates
on their campaign tours.
An imperial degree, issued yester-
day, dissolves the lower house of the
Austrian reichsrath and directs new
election Immediately.
The tobacco growers of Cuba have
submitted petition to Governor Gen
eral Wood asking the removal of the
export duty on tobacco.
Powder explosion at the Sterling
colliery in Shamokin, Pa, set fire to
mine gas. Four men were terribly
burned, two perhaps fatally.
| Monday, Septic.
The voting population Of Baltimore
is 132. $50, of whom 20,494 are coloreds
The Republicans carried Maine by a
plurality of $4,000, Democratic gain
of % per cent.
DIR. Jacob NJ. Da Costa, noted Phil
adelphia physician, died at his country
home at villa Nova, Pa, aged Ct.
| Because he refused to marry her,
Matte Mash shot and fatally wounded
| William Foster at Des Moines. Ia.
Both are colored.
After being idle for ten weeks the
Illinois Steel company's plant Of Bay
| view, Mich, resumed operations today
with force of 900 men.
At noon today Gen. Joseph Wheeler,
commander of the department Of the
| lakes, ceased to be an officer Of the
United States army. having reached the
age limit Of GA years
Tuesday, Sept. II.
The population of Passaic. N j., Is
2T,77T; In 1890, 13,028
The wife of Pugflist Kid Mccoy,
who is suing for divorce. declares the
| Corbett- Mccoy fight was faxed"
Colombia reports indicate that bat
tie is inevitable there between the
rebels and the government troops.
As a result of fight between Ital-
ians, Caesaro Ceno is dead at Hoboken,
| ". j., and Zana and Michael Delmon-
| leo, brothers, are under arrest.
Zed Floyd, a negro, was taken from
! the Jail at Werumpka, Ala, late Sun
day night and hanged. Floyd attempt
ed to assault white woman
wednesday,, sept. IL.
A New York hospital is to have two
electric automobile ambulances for It's
street work.
| Owing to lack Of room, 1900 chill
dren are unable to attend the schools
| of Brooklyn.
State Senator Samuel A. Losch, of
| Schuylvill county, Pa, died at Atlantic
City yesterday. aged IS.
A bulldog killed the 4-months-old
babe Of Mrs. Johnston, at Prospect,
| KY. and the mother has become in
sane.
William S. Graham, Philadelphia
workingman. has fallen heir to the 3d.
900, 900 estate of his brother James, in
| Australia
Thursday, Sept. 10.
The population of Camden. N. j., Is
49, S5; In 1890, 58,313.
Over thousand deaths from the
plague are reported to have occurred
| in India last week.
James Higgins, miner, aged 40, was
killed yesterday by fall OF coal at the
Short Mountain coIElery, Lgkens. Pa.
/ Train Robber Terrell was indicted
for murder at MarysvilIe, o.. for kill
| ing Express Messenger Charles Lane.
| Emperor William has arranged to
visit the car at the Hunting Castle Of
Spala, in Poland, during the last days
Of September.
Burglars secured jewelry valued at
| about $4,000 from the Asbury Park
residence of E. D. Harrington, a
wealthy New York broker.