Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1902-06-26
A WEEKS NEWS CONDENSED.
Friday. June 20.

Friday, June &c.
Lieutenant General Miles returned
to Washington yesterday from his visit
to Fort Riley Kan: West Point and
other places
The United States transport Kill
patrick, with $50 marines. 50 enlisted
men and 658 casuals. arrived at San
Francisco yesterday from Manila.
Miss Helen Gould has given Mt.
Holyoke College. Northampton, Mass.
$4,000 to endow chair in Biblical
literature. in memory of her mother.
William Crosby, of Warsaw. N. Y.
yesterday shot his wife and mother-in-
law. and then shot himself through
the temple The tragedy was caused
by domestic troubles.
Saturday, June p.
Frank Jones and John Johnson, ne
gro murderers of a Hebrew peddler
were hanged at Ellicott City. Md. yes
te-day.
The house committee on interstate
and foreign commerce authorized q
favorable report on the bill to pen
GlOA "a tlS iliC say IlE, SGlf
vice.
Ten-year-old Annie Reno was fatally
burned at a rubbish heap in Braddock
Pa, yesterday, and four others who
went to her assistance were seriously
burned.
The senate and house conferees
reached an agreement yesterday on
the military academy appropriation
bill. naming $5.50O,000 for new build.
ings at West Point.
Monday, June %.
Woodrow Wilson will be inaugu-
rated president of Princeton Univers.
ity, Princeton, N. j.. on October %.
President Roosevelt has decided to
attend the next convention of the
Spanish War Veterans at Indianapolis,
Ind.
Rev. Father Camillius o. F. NJ,
celebrated his 50th anniversary as a
priest yesterday in st. Joseph's
Church. Cleveland, o.
The round house and ~ locomotives
of the Southern Pacific Railroad at
Fresno, Cal, were destroyed by fire
yesterday. Loss, 100000.
The 300 coal miners who have been
on strike at the Sonman shaft near
Altoona. Pa, to force recognition of
the union, have won it and returned
to work
Tuesday, June "a.
Lord Kitchener and General French
frso
for England yesterday.
The trolley strike at Toronto, Ont,
was settled yesterday the men receiv.
ing an increase in wages.
Secretary of War Root attended the
commencement exercises of Hamilton
College. Clinton, N. Y, today.
During fit of dependency, J. R
Conkling. of Middletown, N. Y, shot
his wife dead and then committed sui
eide
C.. r. Walker and F. w. McElroy
were killed in collision during fog
on the Cleveland and Pittsburg Rail
road at Mingo Station, o., yesterday
Wednesday, June Is.
Civil government has been establish
ed in the Island of Mindoro and in the
Island of Paragua, Philippines
President Roosevelt accepted the in
vitation to lay the corner stone of the
new Dutch Reformed church ia Wash
ington on July 1.
The senate yesterday confirmed the
of John C. Bates and
George w. Davis to be major generals
in the United States army.
1t is rumored in PHILADELPHIA thatl
General Elkin, of Pennsylva-l
MIA, will succeed Justice Shiras as
United States supreme court justice.
The senate yesterday passed the Ap-
palachian Forest Reserve bill, which
provides for the purchase of "A, 00O. 900 /
acres of land at cost not to exceed
$40, 100000.
Thursday, June rs.
Henry King, colored, was sentenced
to life Imprisonment at Atlanta, Ca. /
yesterday for murder during a racel
riot.
BY an addition to the treaty between
Mexico and the United States thel
crime of bribery is added to the list
Of extraditable cases.
Frank P. Sargent. recently appointed
general of immigration,
yesterday took the oath of Office and
entered on his new duties.
Lady Pauncefote, widow of the latel
British ambassador to the United
States. and her three daughters sailed
'or England yesterday on the st. Paul.
The board of governors of the New
York stock exchange forwarded to the
London exchange message rendering