Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1900-04-05
1 WEEKS NEWS CONDENSED
Friday. March 80.

The mayor OF PittSbufg has pro-
hibited the advertised production Of
"The Degenerate" by Mrs. Langtry.
The daughter of ex-Speaker Reed
and Al other young women graduated
as lawyers at the University of New
York.
Mrs Cleary Hyland is dead at her
home in Orange. N. j., aged 103 years.
For the last year of her life she was
Totally blind.
Police Captain Andrew J. Thomas
has been indicted for permitting dis
loin district to remain open.
Premature explosion of dynamite in
Spokane, Wash, killed Salvatore Bruz-
zini, fatally wounded Michael Herman
and totally blinded Andrew Hadberg.
Saturday, March n.
John Hayslip, who murdered his
wife and Maud Mitchell, and tried to
kill Charles Barrier, was sentenced at
Kansas City to SO years in jail.
Should Leung Chi Tso, the Chinese
reformer, come to San Francisco he
may have the highbinders at his heels.
The value placed upon Leung's head is
$65, 900.
An Ohio legislative committee re-
commends the passage Of a bill pro-
hibiting the issuance of insurance poll
icies on the lives of children under IL
years.
A contract has been signed between
the Ontario government and j. Pier
pont Morgan, of New York, under
which millions of dollars are to be
spent in developing power from Nj
agara Falls on the Canadian side.
Harvard won the annual debate with
Yale last night at New Haven. Har-
ward had the affirmative of the ques-
ton: Puerto Rico should be in
cluded in our customs boundaries"
Monday, April 2.
The shortage of F. E. Bundy, the de-
fauIting city chamberlain of Elmira,
N. Y, will reach $4,000.
Webster Davis has resigned as as
sistant secretary of the interior, and
will lecture to aid the Beers cause.
The Hamburg American liner Phoe-
nicia arrived at New York from Ham
burg and Boulogne Saturday with 2,03S
steerage passengers.
The latest gift (s2O0,0O0 of Sir w.
C. Macdonald to McGill university,
Montreal, makes his total gifts over
$3,000.000.
Two negroes entered a store in Clin-
ton, Ala, cut the throat of Clerk Bum
tain and robbed the place. Two sus-
poets are IN jail. and lynching is
threatened.
Tuesday, April 3.
Our governments outlay for the
Paris exposition last year was $240, 634.
We will have 1000 exhibitors.
John Goly, negro, who was under
arrest for attempted murder, set fire
to the Jail at Richland, Ca, and was
burned with it.
Rev. Dwight Hills, of Plymouth
church, Brooklyn, retires from the
Presbyterian church because he cannot
accept its doctrines.
The total coinage at the minis of
the United States during March was
ST, 075. 688. Gold, 81, 1886, $40; silver,
$4,341, 375; minor coins, $13S.072.
Rev. Egidus Smulders, c. S. S. r.,
senior priest of the Redemptorist or
der of the United States, died sudden
ly yesterday in st. Louis, aged IS.
Republicans won generally in the
Ohio elections. Mayor Jones was de-
feated in Toledo. Julius Fleischman,
the mayor-elect of Cincinnati, is a
wealthy Hebrew, aged %.
Wednesday, April 4.
The Puerto RIGA tariff bill passed the
national senate by vote of 40 to 81.
The amount of bonds so far de-
posted in the treasury for exchange
for the new 2 per cents is $210, 1S5, 500.
During the heavy snow storms an
avalanche did great damage in the
Sudetian mountains, near Hirschberg,
Germany, killing several persons.
A delegation of G. A. r. members
from Springfield, Mass, are the
guests of A. P. Hill Camp, Confederate
Veterans, at Petersburg, Va.
Allen Brooks, the 19-year-old negro
who assaulted Mrs F. w. Hart, at
Bloomingdale, Ca, on Monday night,
was yesterday identified and lynched.
Pennsylvania Congressman John
Da1zel and W. H. Graham have been
renominated by Republicans. C. L.
Magee was renominated for state SEN
ator. Anti-Quay resolutions were
adopted.
Thursday, April 8.
Tampa, Fla, is to have 100000
sugar refinery.
Senator Lindsay, of Kentucky, Is to
practice law in New York
A national biblical congress will ba
held in Washington April II, Is and 10.
Ex-Congressman E. H. Moore, of the
Fifteenth Ohio district, died at Athens,
o., yesterday, aged SO.
Gen. John Bidwell, Prohibition can
didate for president in 1892. died yes
terday near Chico, Cal, aged so.
Maryland Republicans will meet in
Baltimore May to elect delegates-at-
large to the national convention.
The Ohio senate passed the Toledo
centennial bill, after cutting the ap-
preparation from 81, 200. 600 to s75O.0O0.