Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1901-11-28
A WEEKS NEWS CONDENSED
Thursday. November q.

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Thursday, November Il.
Rev. Frederick Burgess, of Brook
iyn, was elected bishop Of the Protes-
tant Episcopal diocese of Long Island.
The vault of the Woodbury. Savings
Bank, Woodbury., Conn, was broken
into by burglars, who got away with
$500.
The National Grange, in session at
Lewiston, Me-, wants congress to put
tax of 10 cents pound on oleomar-
garine.
In trying to escape policeman,
Frank Gibson, Of Altoona, Pa, leaped
from the third-story window of hotel
and sustained slight injuries.
Friday, November %.
A Pretoria dispatch to The London !.
Standard says that a large number OF
ex.burghers are joining the British
forces.
The American Tobacco company has
absorbed the plants of D. H. McAlpin
& Co., OF New York. The price was
$2.5OO,o00.
The Jury in the case of John Consi-
dine, accused of the murder of Chief
Of Police Meredith, of Seattle, Wash,
returned verdict OF acquittal.
King Edward of England declares
that the audience at coronation cere-
mony must be exclusively British, and
that no Americans will be admitted.
Saturday, November %.
Senior Gamayo, SPANS former min
lister of finance. is dead.
The Bank of Liverpool (Eng) was
robbed by a trusted bookkeeper of
$850,000.
President Roosevelt and family left
yesterday for a two-days' cruise down
the Potomac.
The condition of Queen Wilhelmina
of Holland is said to be more serious
than has been reported.
The Union Traction Company of
Chicago was fined $40 for not provid-
ing enough cars to accommodate the
public.
George Zollinhoefer was indicted by
the grand jury in New York yesterday
for robbing the Williamsburg Saving
Bank of 100000.
Monday, November rs.
A son was born to Mr.. and Mrs. AL
fred Gwynne Vanderbilt, of New York,
last night.
Alexander X. Hamilton, aged go
years, of Lock Haven, Pa, was killed
by freight train.
Fire destroyed the felt plant of
julius De Long & Co., in Allegheny.
causing loss Of 100000.
The American Federation of Catho-
| lie Societies will hold their convention
| in Cincinnati December 10.
The winter wheat crop in Kansas
this year was 90,045,514 bushels,
breaking last years record by nearly
$4,000 bushels.
WI Ting Fang, Chinese minister to
the United States, will be the guest
of honor at the banquet of the Com
mercial club, Kansas City Mo-, De
cember 9.
Tuesday, November IS.
Border outlaws murdered Leamo
Elena, judge of the Alamo district, at
San Diego, Cal.
The convention of the International
Seamen's Union of America began in
! Buffalo yesterday.
/ The heavy gale continues undated
along the New England coast, but no
| disasters are reported.
The Bradley Fertilizer Works, at
North Weymouth, Mass, were de-
stroyed by fire. Loss, 100000.
John Best, proprietor of Best's
Boiler and Engine Works, of Lancas-
ter, Pa, died last evening, aged 81
years.
y General Arthur Macarthur will
speak at the annual banquet Of the
Kansas City Commercial Club on De
cember 10.
Wednesday, November ~.
Ex-President Cleveland, who is i'll
at his home at Princeton, N. g., will
be able to leave his room in few
days.
General Joseph Wheeler has pre-
scented to the state of Alabama the
first American flag that foated over
Santiago.
Senator Lodge, of Massachusetts,
says he favors the Chinese exclusion
act. and will introduce bill for it's
extension.
The switchmen's strike on the New
York, New Haven and Hartford rail-
road was officially declared off at
New York last night.
Captain Bennett, of the British ship
Vera, which arrived at Philadelphia,
rescued the shipwrecked crew of the
schooner Standard, owned at Manas-
guam, N. J.