Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1901-03-21
A WEEKS NEWS CONDENSED

voted down a resolution inviting Mrs.
Carrie Nation to visit Texas.
Lehigh university, at Bethlehem, Pa,
has 445 students, representing u states
and II foreign countries.
State Senator G.. L. Magee, leader of
the ''insurgent" Pennsylvania Repub-
licans, died in Harrisburg, aged So.
President Mckinley issued an execu-
tive order abolishing export duty on
tobacco from Cuba from April next.
The long deadlock in Montana's leg
islature ended by the election of Paris
Gibson, Democrat, as United States
senator.
Prominent sporting men of Boston
have selected Bermuda as the mecca
of boxers, and club house will be
opened there, to be managed by John
L. Sullivan.
The extraordinary session of thesna-
tional senate adjourned today until the
first Monday in December.
A jubilee convention of Young Mems
Christian Associations of North Ameri-
ca will open in Boston June IL.
The strike in Havana has been set
tied, the stevedores, lightermen and
cartmen returning to work at COM
promise.
The Delaware legislature adjourned
without electing United States sena-
tor, and the state is now without rep
resentation in the upper branch of con-
| gress.
Owing to German press opposition,
Lord Roberts has returned with
| thanks" the insignia of the Order of
Tho pIonly no oil CON Iu I'm pprOr
| William.
The physicians OF Lii Hung Chang
| declare that his life hangs by a thread.
| United States Consul Hay, of Pre-
toria, left London for New York Satur-
| day.
The British government has formally
| declined to accpet senate amendments
to y-Pauncefote treaty.
Gen. John Palmer, ex-commander-
in-chief of the G. A. R., may be ap-
| pointed commissioner of pensions.
| Ten thousand employees of the Ber-
wind-White Mining company in cen
trail Pennsylvania have been notified
that the 20 per cent. increase granted
in 1900 will be continued.
A furious storm of wind and rain
| did serious damage Saturday and Sun
| day in Arkansas, Texas, Illinois, 1ndi-
| ana, Kansas, Missouri and Michigan
| In Arkansas 16 were killed and in Tex
| as eight
/ President Mckinley and cabinet will
| start ON April 80 on a trip to Cali
| fornia
Lieutenant Commander Leonard
Chenery, U. S. N, retired, died in New
| York yesterday.
Boiler explosion in Chicago larn-
dry demolished the building, killed
nine people ard injured 40.
Rev. Elijah Kellogg, known in the
world of books as writer for boys,
is dying at his home in IIarpswell, Me.
Mrs. j. A. Jenkins, widow CT the first
private secretary Of President Abra-
ham Lincoln, was given lodging at
| Elmira IN. W police headquarters
Saturday night.
Enlistments in the regular army
have increased over 100 per cent. since
| Feb 8.
| Andrew Carnegie sailed from New
| York for Europe today on the steamer
| st. Louis.
The bill to disfranchise illiterates
| passed the lower house OF the Mary
land legislature.
| On her builders trial from Newport
News, Va, yesterday, the battleship
! Illinois more than measured up to ex-
oectations.
Joseph Currier, 16 years old, shot
| and killed 13-year-old Harry Franks,
in Philadelphia. He says it was acct
| dental
George Abbott, Jr., IL years old, is
under arrest in Brooklyn charged with
drugging and assaulting 16-year-old
Mary Paige.
Denver Democrats nominated Mrs.
Eliza M. Anderson for city clerk.
Missouri's legislature appropriated
| $1,000 900 for the Louisiana purchase
exposition.
| The estate of the late Senator Magee,
| of Pittsburg, is estimated at 81 500, 900
to 100000.
| The senatorial deadlock in Nebraska,
with adjournment only seven days off,
still seems hopeless.
| Miss Mary Bolton, beautiful young
girl, assistant postmaster at Stock
| vile, Tenn, has been arrested on the
charge of robbing the mails. She con-
| fessed.
During fire in Brooklyn last night
| Mrs. George Mackin jumped from a
third story window and was killed.
Mrs. Mary Burns and an unidentified
| child were suffocated.