Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1902-07-03
AWEEK'S NEWS CONDENSED.
Friday. June q.


ington this morning from his New
England trip.
The navy department has ordered ex-
tensive repairs to the torpedo boat
f1otilla, now at Norfolk
DIR. William N. Fisher, of Washing
ton, was killed by falling down an ele-
vator shaft at the Columbia hospital. 1
John Archer, the negro, who assault
ed Mrs. Cora Wanner, of West Chester,
Pa, last Tuesday, was captured by
armed men near Green Hill.
The records of the courtmartial pro-
ceedings in the case of Major Waller
was received at the war department
yesterday.
Saturday, June %.
About 1900 Canadian troops sailed
from South Africa for home yesterday.
The tenth annual session of the In
ternational Sunday School convention
was held at Denver, Colo.
The new tube mill of the Sharon
(Pa.) Steel Co. will start September /
and give employment to 1000 men.
OOAdCOi 4IdAAd Will lAtlOuuC6 d T6S-
olution in the senate, providing for a
congressional investigation of the Gu
ban postal frauds.
A caucus of Democratic congress-
men last night condemned the Repub-
lican party for not providing a reci-
procity treaty with Cuba
Monday, June 80.
President Roosevelt Saturday night
signed the isthmian canal bill.
Her dress igniting from lamp, g.
year-old Mary Voniski, of Mahanoy
City, Pa, was burned to death.
Rev. J. Wilbur Chapman opened the
National Young Peoples Bible Confer
ence at Warsaw, Ind, yesterday.
Frightened into jumping from a fast
running trolley car at Peekskill, N. Y,
Arthur Dulin was instantly KILLED.
The annual convention of the Penn
sylvania Christian Endeavor Societies
will be held in Pittsburg, July 8, 9
and 10.
Miss Leila Jenkins, of Norristown,
Pa. was admitted to the Montgomery
county. Pa, bar Saturday. She is the
second woman to be admitted.
Tuesday, July I.
Congress passed 1851 private pen
sion bills during the present session.
The Dawes Indian commission made
2.757 allotments of lands to the Semi
mole Nation in Indian territory.
The senate yesterday passed the bill
giving Rear Admiral Schley the pay
and allowance of a rear admiral on the
active list of the navy.
Mrs. Emma Powell, of Cleveland. O..
shot and instantly killed her husband,
John H. Powell. Jealousy over a Sec
ond woman was the cause.
Wednesday, July 2.
1t Is reported in st. Louis that King
Menelik, of Abyssinia, desires to visit
the Worlds Fair to be held at st. Louis
In 1904
Thirty-five chair manufacturers met
in Greensboro, N. c., yesterday and
formed an association for mutual pro-
lection"
Forty-one new cases of cholera were
reported in Manila, p l., yesterday, the
largest number in one day since the
outbreak.
Congress passed a resolution pro-
viding for the erection of monuments
at Washington to Generals Francis
Nash and William Lee Davidson,
heroes of the Revolution.
Thursday, July 8.
According to the United States GEN.
sus report there are 279,719 farms in
Ohio, valued at $1,036, SIS, $50, of which
20 per cent. is in land.
A. B. busch shot and killed Will
Woods at Metropolis, ILL.,, during a |
quarrel. Woods accused busch of in |
sulting his sweetheart.
Captain G. w. King, of the Min |
neapolis detective force, was sentenced |
to three years in the penitentiary for |
being an accessory to felony.
The Photo Engravers' Union has
been expelled from the American Fed
GRAFTON of Labor for breaking faith |
with the International Typographical
Union.
Mrs. Harriet Avent, cook for A. M.
Clary. of Jacksonville, Va, was found
wiwth her skull fractured.
Her husband is charged with the
crime.