Gloucester County Democrat., 1901-04-25
A WEEKS NEWS CONDENSED.
Eridax. AnrfI Id.


Mr.. J. Pierpont Morgan arrived in
Paris last evening.
The Illinois supreme court decided
that good will, as an asset of a COM
mission house, has no value.
The threatened strike at all plants
of the big steel trust has been averted
by compromise in the McKeesport
(Pa.) strike.
The act aimed st cheap lodging
houses, in which it is claimed voters
were colonized, was declared uncon-
stitutional by Illinois supreme court.
Saturday, ApriI 20.
A combine of engine manufacturers,
with $25, 100000 capital, will soon be
launched.
Near Boulder, Colo. snowslide
hurled two locomotives into chasm,
killing four men.
At Duralt, /. t., five boys playing in
a sandbank weee buried by cavein.
Only one escaped.
Ohio, Indiana and Illinois have form
ed an alliance to suppress fraudulent
| insurance companies.
A Jew usurer named Serbian was re-
Gently lynched at Sobodol, Hungary,
by five of his ruined victims.
Monday, April 22.
The recent storm in Pittsburg did
damage amounting to fully 2,000, 900.
Three stitches in the heart of Philip
Gum, stabbed in a st. Louis saloon
brawl, will probably save his life.
Near Galesburg, N. D., Mrs. Hannah
| Kyoren, widow, and her two BOYS.
aged and 10, were burned to death in
their home.
Sir Thomas Lipton's Shamrock II
was launched at Dumbarton, Scotland
on Saturday, Lady Dufferin christening
the cup challenger.
United States Marshal Shine, at San
Francisco, on orders from Washington.
is making extra efforts to suppress traf-
fic in female Chinese slaves.
Tuesday, April 23.
The United States supreme court yes
terday denied the application of Capt.
Oberlin NJ Carter to be admitted to
BAIL
Rev. John ]. O'Connor, vicar general,
has been chosen to succeed the late
Bishop Wigger, of the Newark IN. J.)
diocese.
While catching driftwood in the Ohio
river at Legionville, Pa, w. Fl. Barn
hart and Thomas Holsinger were
drowned.
For starting fire in a New York
tenement, in which were 20 families,
Frederick Wagner, aged 21, was sent
to Jail for 25 years.
Wednesday, April 24.
Chief of Police Ripley, of Chicago,
has resigned.
Governor General Wood has arrived
in Washington to introduce the Cuban
commissioners.
DR.. Horatio Guzman, secretary of the
bureau of American republics, died in
Washington, aged SO.
Postmaster Harrison, of Havana, has
resigned and Carlos Hernandez, Gu
ban, has been appointed his successor.
The plow manufacturers of the Uni
ted States have practically completed
the formation of $5O,0O00O0 combina-
| tion.
Governor Stone fixed June for the
execution of Henry Ivory and Charles
Perry, of Philadelphia, who murdered
Prof. Roy Wilson last spring.
Executors of the estate of the late
Senator G. L. Magee, of Pittsburg, will
make legal fight against DIR. Brown
ings bill for $4,000 for professional
services.
Thursday, April rs.
Four New York Stock Exchange seats
were sold yesterday for s65, 900 each.
Count Arvid Posse, formerly premier
| Of Sweden, died at Stockholm yester-
day, aged 81.
The claims that Japan will make
upon China for indemnity amount to
e4,75O,00O sterling.
The federal grand jury at Baltimore
indicted the fraudulent census enumer-
ators of st. Marys county.
Tom Ketchum, who was to have been
hanged tomorrow at Clayton, N. M,
for train robbery, has been reprieyed
by the president until May 25.
In New York yesterday Antonio Tri-
ola, who killed 16-year-old Mamie
Cirolla, an Italian actress, because she
refused to marry him, was found guilty
of murder in the first degree.