Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1900-11-22
A WEEKS NEWS CONDENSED
Friday, Noy. 10.

Friday, NOV. 10.
The population Of Michigan Is 2. 400
1882; in 1890, 1903, 889.
The population of Kentucky is o.
147174; In 1880, ], 658, 635.
Three negroes were Iynched at JEFF
ferson, Tex, for attempting to kill a
white man.
The voters Of New Hampshire decid-
ed at the recent election to hold con-
vention for the revision of the consti-
tuition Of the state.
The dead bodies Of Dr. Christopher
Ahlstrom, a widower, and Mrs. Henry
Gardner were found In a New York
hotel bedroom. Accidentally asphyxi-
ated.
Saturday, Nov. N.
The population of Iowa is 1921, 1853;
in 1890, 1911 1896.
The population of Louisiana is f,381.-
625; in 1890, 1.11S,5S7.
Richard Croker left New York on the
steamer Lucania for London today.
The yellow fever situation il Havana
has improved. Sixty-fiye cases are
now under treatment, including seven
Americans.
Robert E. Hamill, general attorney
of the Baltimore and Ohio Southwest
ern railway, died Thursday night at
Phoenix, Ariz
Mrs. Elizabeth Wilbur, aged 80 years.
persisted in the flames which destroyed
her home near Dunkirk, N Y, yester-
day. She lived alone.
Monday, Nov. 10.
During the past year and a half gifts
to Yale university have exceeded ST.
100000
Postmaster General Smith has con-
cluded a parcel post convention with
Venezuela.
Two little children of Rupert Fisher
we're burned to death in their fathers
house at Manton, Mich
The crusade against Sabbath VIOLA
tions in New York opened in earnest
yesterday, and many arrests were
made
Machinists all over the United States
started today on 91a-hour workday,
which viii be reduced to nine hours
May 49,
Robert J. Stell, secretary treasurer
OF the Monadnocz Loan and Invest
ment company. of Chicago, has disap-
peared. 1t is said his books show S25,.
900 shortage.
Tuesday, Soy. 20.
The population of Minnesota is l.
Isl 1884; in 1890. 1901 ,826.
Nine. Sarah Bernhard and NJ. Co
quelin, with their company of actors,
arrived in New York.
Gen. Fitzhugh Lee has arrived from
Cuba and will go to Omaha to assume
his new command, the department of
Missouri.
Brooks Story, a well known express
robber, escaped from the Mississippi
penitentiary yesterday. This is his
fourth escape.
A. J. Duff and George Fuller, speak
easy" proprietors, were each sentenced
in Philadelphia to Is months impris-
onment and $1,000 fine.
DR.. Adelbert Swartz, convicted at La
Porte, Ind, of numbering his brother
in-law, and sentenced to life impris-
onment, will be released, his innocence
being proven.
Wednesday, Nov. II.
The population of Florida is SIS, 542;
in 1890, 391, 422.
The population of Illinois is 1921, $50;
in 1890, 3,S26.351
The population of Rhode Island is
42S, 556; in 1890, 345, 500.
The Duke and Duchess of York have
definitely decided to visit Canada.
Magnetic iron ores have been dis
covered at Elizabethpol, in the Cau-
easus.
Republican leaders have decided that
the tax of ten cents pound on tea
must remain.
Selma Schnapke, the woman who
threw an ak at Emperor William, has
been sent to an insane asylum.
BY marrying farm hand, Mrs Lii
Ian S. Edgerton, Of Marietta. o., for
feited $50, 600 left by her husband.
Collections of internal revenue for
October aggregated $27, 464, 1875. against
SIC. 147, 446 for the same month last
year.
Thursday, Nov. ~.
The population of New York state is
7,268,012; in 1890, 5,997 ,853.
Howard S. Shade, of Lancaster, Pa,
is dead from lockjaw, caused by a new
shoe rubbing his heel.
Governor Beckham, of Kentucky,
was married last night at greensboro
to Miss Jean Raphael Fuqua
A report that Gen. Schalkburger,
who succeeded Kruger as acting presi-
dent of the Transvaal republic, is dead
is discredited in London
Mrs. Nancy Hollifeld, said to have
been the oldest woman in North Caro-
lima, died in EIlenboTo Tuesday. Her
age is given as from 10 to 121 years.
A meeting of the senate committee
on postoffices and post roads, of which
Senator Wolcott, of Colorado, is chair
man, is being held in New York today.
ANOTHER AMERICAN DUCHESS.
Duke of Manchester Wants Nc Dow
ry With His Bride.
London, Nov. 20.-An inspection of