Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1901-08-29
A WEEKS NEWS CONDENSED.
Friday, August 20.

Isaac Whitback Won Shock, former
Wisconsin congressman, died yester-
day at Baltimore.
The Virginia constitutional eonven-
ton resumed its lahors yesterday. af-
ter recess of three weeks.
The post office at Petersburg. Tenn,
was robbed of $500 in cash and the
entire supply of stamps.
President Loubet, of France, has
conferred upon President w. R. Har-
per, of the University of Chicago, the
decoration of the French Order of the
Legion of Honor
Saturday, August "a.
The Pittsburg Baseball Club, which
now leads in the National League race.
has signed all of its players for next
season.
Kansas will try to collect from the
Federal government 100000 which
the state has paid on account of the
Quantrill raid claims.
John Orr, former sheriff of Blair
county, Pa, died yesterday at Al
toona of spinal meningitis, aged SO
years.
The Texas House has refused to i'm
peach State Treasurer Robbins for
having large amount of money on
deposit in the Austin Bank, which
failed.
Monday, August rs.
Colonel John Motter died last even
| ing at his country home near Harris
burg, in his 18th year.
Preparations are being made for the
49th annual convention of American
Pharmacists at St. Louis.
David Simon, father of United States
Senator Simon, died at Portland, Ore,
yesterday of old age. He was 50.
Emperor William has ordered that
the late Empress Frederick's hussar
regiment shall henceforth bear the IT,
| tie of Queen Augusta Victoria's regi-
ment
Tuesday, August ~.
| Lewis Dewart, one of the leading
members of the Northumberland coun-
| ty bar died at Sunbury, Pa, last night,
aged So years.
Steam fitting pipe has advanced from
| 25 to 100 per cent. in value in Chicago
during the last two weeks as a result
of the steel strike.
| Mr.. Lawson, owner of the Independ-
ence, reiterates the statement that the
yacht will be broken up after Septem-
Der 8.
Mrs. Louise Sheridan, better known
as Louise Davenport, the actress, died
in San Francisco last night from cir
| rhosis of the liver.
Wednesday, August %.
The Russian beet crop has been
| seriously damaged by plague of cat
erpillars.
| The Cologne Volks Zeitung of Berlin
| reports the massacre of six Christians
| at Ku-Ja, China.
The first session of the reunion of
Porto Rican veterans was opened at
| Buffalo yesterday by General Miles.
The Chicago and Great Western
railroad has purchased the Winona
and Western.
The American Forestry Association
yesterday began a three days session
at Denver
Funeral services were held at Oak
land, Cal, yesterday over the remains
of Mrs. Susan Field, widow of the late
Justice Field.
The heat at Ardmore, 1. T., yester-
day was record breaking, the govern
ment thermometer registering ITO in
the shade.
Thursday, August go.
Orlando Harvey, the famous tenor
singer, is dead at Margate, near Lon
don.
1t now seems that November Is will
| be selected for the Jeffries- Rubin
fight.
The transport Hancock arrived at
San Francisco from Manila yesterday
with the Fourth Cavalry.
George Howard, a member of a
lynching mob in Wetumpha, Ala, was
sentenced to life Imprisonment yes
| terday.
The committee on the revision of the
Westminster Confess on of Faith, rep
resenting the general assembly Of the
Presbyterian church, convened at Sar-
atoga.
The engagement is officially an
nounced of Helen, daughter of former
Governor Levi p Morton, of New
York, to Count Bosom de Perigord, Sec
ond son of the Due de Talleyrand.