Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1900-05-03
A WEEKS NEWS CONDENSED
Friday, April 81.

Friday, April 27.
Nathan B. Scott was awarded seat
in the national senate from West Vir-
ginia.
The house committee on labor
unanimously agreed to report favor
ably the new eight hour law.
A series of cloudbursts transformed
streets in Waco, Tex, into raging
rivers. Eight persons were drowned in
the city limits.
Col. w. D. Holder, auditor of .Missis-
sippi under the McLaurin adnAlistra-
ton and past commander of the Missis-
sippi Division of United Confederate
Veterans, died at his home in Jackson
last night, aged u.
Saturday, April IS.
Charles H. Allen, Puerto Rico's new
governor, surprised the natives by his
modest appearance and lack of display.
The rush of gold seekers for Cape
Nome is overtaxing the capacity of the
steamers. In May 5000 will leave
Seattle.
The Union Pacific Railway company
has begun suit at st. Paul against the
Montana Union Railway company to
collect 100000 alleged to be due as
rental under lease.
John Allison, alias Ike Wood, coll
ored. aged "a, is under arrest at New
Haven. 1t is thought that he is an es-
capped murderer who broke jail in
Quincy, Fla, two years ago.
Mrs. y. S. Grant, widow of the great
general, was the guest of honor at the
banquet of the Americas Republican
club of Pittsburg last night in COM
memoration of Grants birth.
Monday, April 30.
A bridge leading to a theater at the
Paris exposition collapsed yesterday,
killing nine and injuring nine persons.
The steamer Chateau YyueR from
Marseilles and Naples, arrived at New
York Saturday with 1,1S9 steerage pas
seagers.
Charlotte, N. c., will invite the
president to attend the celebration of
the Mechlenburg declaration of indie
pendence, on May 20.
By the transactions of Capt. O. NJ
Carter, now serving sentence in the
military prison at Leayenworth, Kan,
the government lost $2,000,000.
Gunmaker Krupp, who charged the
German government S1,145 each for
certain field guns, reduced the price to
1854 when met by competitors.
Alfred Gwynn Vanderbilt, who in
herited the greater part of Cornelius
Vanderbilt's millions, is to marry
Miss Elsie French, who has 17,000,- |
600 of her own.
Tuesday, May L.
Edward 0. Leech, ex-director of the
mint, died in New York hospital.
Illinois Populist convention, at Chi |
cago, instructed delegates for Bryan.
Sixty thousand people cheered Adj
miral Dewey in Chicago's celebration
and parade in his honor.
Because he brutality beat Plantation |
Manager Skinner George Gordon tool !
ored) was lynched at Albin, Miss.
Charles Herbert Allen was formally |
inaugurated as governor of Porto Rico |
at San Juan today, with impressive
ceremonies.
Shag Rock, long menace to navi- |
cation in the harbor of San Francisco. |
was destroyed by nine tons Of nitro |
glycerine yesterday.
Mrs. Buenavista Hunter, daughter OF
the late United States Senator Burns, |
of Missouri, committed suicide by |
shooting at Platte City.
By the giving way of a scaffold in |
Albany yesterday Hugh McDade and |
Newton Lovejoy, painters, were dashed
to the pavement, 35 feet below, and in
stantly killed.
Samuel G. Seely. sentenced in 1895 |
to eight years Imprisonment for rob- |
In I,
bank of 1854 600, has been released, |
Communication for good behavior reduo-
ing his term.
Wednesday. May 2.
1t is estimated that American visit
ors to the Paris exposition will spend /
s40,000,000 abroad this year.
NJ Dupuy de LONE, the former Span
ish minister at Washington, has been |
appointed ambassador to Italy
The ecumenical conference held its
final meeting in New York last night |
Ex-President Harrison presided.
The United States supreme court
has recessed until the 14th inst, when /
a decision is expected in the Ken
lucky contest.
The jury in the case of B. H. Rob-
erts, on trial in Salt Lake City for
unlawful cohabitation, disagreed and /
was discharged.
At the close of business April 80, |
the public debt, less cash in the treas
ury, amounted to 81, 120, 1902, 0S5, which
is an increase of $12,545, 1877.
Gen. Won Steuben, who visited the
United States at the time of the York
town centennial celebration, when he
represented the Steuben family, is
dead in Berlin.
Thursday, May 3.
The amount of bonds so far exchange
ed at the treasury for new per cents
is 1851 500, $50.
Henry barley, negro, charged with
assaulting young white woman, was
lynched in the Jail yard at Liberty, Mo.
North Carolina Republicans nomi-
mated Spencer B. Adams for governor
and Cladius Dockery for lieutenant
governor.
The strike of the carpenters of Bos-
ton and vicinity practically ended yes
terday by nearly all firms signing the
new wage schedule.
A Winnipeg, Man., dispatch says:
Four Italians, while charging hole
with dynamite on Murdock's section
81 the Rainy River railway. were
bloWn to atolus.