Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1901-07-25
A WEEKS NEWS CONDENSED.
Friday, July 10.

william Farrell, known as the lum-
Der king, of Arkansas, died yester-
day
A syndicate of St. Louis capitalists
! has been formed for the purpose of de-
veloping the iron fields Of Kentucky.
An Australian fortune of $40, 000, 00G
is to be divided among the heirs of the
late Josiah Tyson, residing in Georgia
and Alabama.
Lord Russell, British peer pleaded
guilty yesterday to the charge of big
amy and was sentenced to three
months Imprisonment.
Daniel J. Lamont, vice president of
the Northern Pacific railroad, denies
the report that he is to be selected as
president of that road.
! Henry Alexander, colored, shot and
killed Phillip Bennett and Benjamin
| Carter, both white, at Dingess, w. Va,
| yesterday and then fed to the noun
tains.
Saturday, July 20.
Indiana has completed her annual
/ job of packing Trench" peas.
| B. J. t. Bosanquit has decided to
bring British cricket eleven here for
a short tour in the coming autumn.
Alfred Patti, the composer and vio-
lincellist, died yesterday at Bergamo,
| Italy He was born in 1922
William H. Reynolds, comptroller of
the state Of Florida, died at Tallahassee
yesterday.
DR.. Gustave A. Andreen, professor of
Scandinavian language at Yale univer-
sity, has accepted the presidency of Au-
gust college at Rock Island.
Marquis Malispina, the new Italian
ambassador to the United States, has
written from Rome to friend in
Washington that he will arrive her in
the early part of September
Dr. William H. Gobrecht died at
Washington yesterday aged u years.
He was the author of well known sur
gical works He served on Gen. Han
| cocks staff
Monday, July %.
Luther B. Richardson, former mayor
of Grand Forks, N. d., and formerly
territorial secretary, died last evening.
Nine passengers were seriously in
| iured and several others painfully
bruised at Chicago in the wreck of a
Madison street cable car yesterday
Bishop S. C. Breyfogel of Reading,
Pa, made the principal address at the
Pan-American Bible congress in Buff
falo last night.
The United States torpedoboat Ad-
der will be launched from the Crescent
shipyards at Elizabeth, N. J., this af,
! ternoon.
A. B. Cummins, Republican candi-
| date for governor of Iowa, had his
shoulder dislocated and body cut and
bruised, by being thrown from buggy
in runaway at Dubuque, last tight
The sinking of the sea level ON the
| North Sea coast has been confirmed
There has been a decrease in the depth
Of the water at the mouth of the Elbe
of from 16 feet to 18 feet since 1895.
Tuesday, July %.
The death of Signor francesca Girls
pi, of Italy, is feared.
Major Donaldson, prominent At
lantic City business man, died yester
| day.
General Rafael Tribe, the Colombian
revolutionary leader, has mysteriously
disappeared from New York city.
Mrs Kruger, wife of former Presi
dent Kruger of the South African Re
public, was buried at Pretoria Sun
day.
From four to six cars of vegetables
are now being shipped from Chicago
daily to drouth stricken sections il
Illinois and Missouri.
Secretary Hitchcock returned unex
pectedly to Washington yesterday il
order to supervise personally the fina
chapters of the Oklahoma land open
ing.
Wednesday, July "a.