Gloucester County Democrat., 1902-09-04
A WEEKS NEWS CONDENSED.
Friday, August %.

FFiQdyy Au9uSt GSs
The torpedo boat destroyer Barry
made 2S.12 knots an hour in her OFF,
cial trial yesterday.
Frank Smith, colored lad, aged II
years, was drowned at Atlantic City,
N. j., yesterday while bathing.
Engineer Dan Carey and Fireman
Lee were killed yesterday in wreck
on the Chicago and Eastern Illinois
Railway near Terre Haute, Ind.
Ex-Secretary of the Treasury John
G. Carlisle delivered the annual ad-
dress before the American Bar Asso-
citation at Saratoga, N. Y. yesterday.
Secretary OF State Hay has ap-
pointed Thomas r. Dawley, of New
York, a United States delegate to the
International Coffee Conference, to be
held in New York in October.
Saturday, August 80.
Congressman r. G. De Graffenreid,
of Texas, died of apoplexy last night
at hotel in Washington, D. c.
Masked robbers held up street car
at Spokane, Wash, yesterday and
robbed the passengers, one of whom
was Chief of Police Reddy.
1t was announced at Havana yester-
day that letters had been received
from Greece, Austria and Brazil. recog-
nizing the Cuban Republic.
Statistics published by the Russian
minister of justice show that 1851
murders were committed in European
Russia last year, an average of over
20 day.
Monday, September I.
Over 10000 men participated in the
Labor Day parade at Kansas City, Mo-,
today
A trolley car at Kansas City last
killing two men.
The annual convention of the Ma
tional Letter Carriers Association was
held at Denver, Colo, today. -.
Murdered by robbers. the bodies of
Mr.. and Mrs Britton Lewis were found
in their hQSac at Gainesville. Fla,
Saturday.
The bark City of Papeta, loaded with
217, 900 Goldfish. was badly damaged by
fire while lying at her dock at San
Francisco.
Tuesday, September 2.
W. ]. Bryan was the principal
orator in the Labor Day celebration
at Lincoln, Neb., yesterday.
The 18th annual convention of the
Polish Singers Alliance of America
was held in Chicago yesterday
A steam launch containing ten young
men capsized yesterday in the Hudson
river near Albany, N. Y, and two men
were drowned.
The customs receipts at Havana for
the month of August amounted to
| $735, 1856, a decrease of $133,84 for the
same month last year.
While alone in his office, Alyer E.
Ives, manager of an ice company at
Rivere, Masss., was fatally shot by
thieves, who ransacked the safe.
Wednesday, September 8.
The Wisconsin Democratic state
convention was held today at Milwaq-
kee and full state ticket named.
Over $1,000,000 worth OF opium was
brought to San Francisco yesterday
! by the Japanese liner Hong Kong
\ Maru.
In a collision on the Rock Island
Railroad yesterday near Birmingham,
Mo-, four trainmen were killed and
three seriously injured.
Fire early yesterday morning eem-
pletely gifted st. Luke's Hospital, at
Jersey City. N. j., and all the inmates
escaped in their night clothes.
The torpedo boat destroyer Paul
Jones, built by the Union Iron Works.
of San Francisco, was accepted by
the navy department yesterday.
Thursday, September 4.
| Queen Wilhemina, of Holland, will
open the States General at The Hague
on the 18th inst.
Paris has raised $1,7OO,0O0 for the
relief of the volcanic sufferers on the
Island Of Martinique
John A. Schmitt, a prominent builder
of Wilkesbarre, Pa, died yesterday of
\ injuries received in mine accident at
l Plyn outf
The PennsyiwaKia Republican state
committee yesterday appointed cow-
mittee to endeayor to settle the coal
! strike
The enlisted men of the United
| States ship Dolphin presented Secre
tary of the Navy Moody with beauti
full silk flag duriaz his visit to the
vessel