Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1902-07-31
A WEEKS NEWS CONDENSED.
Friday, July Is.

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Friday, July rs.
Admiral and Mrs. Dewey left Wash
ington today for visit to Mount Pc
como, Pa.
1t is announced that dedication of
the ST. Louis Worlds Fair will take
place in the Palace of Liberal Arts,
April 80. 1898.
Secretary of the Navy Moody left
Washington today on his summer va
cation, and will not resume his duties
before September /.
The barn of Jacob Zook, at Eden,
Lancaster county, Pa, was struck by
lightning yesterday and totally de-
stroyed- Loss, $4,000.
The United States cruiser Des Moines,
which is being built by the Forey Ship
and Engine Company, of Boston, Mass,
will be launched on September 20.
Saturday, July &c.
Arthur A. Schneider, of Chicago, was
shot and killed yesterday by an I'M
known negro, after a quarrel over a
trivial matter
Lieutenant General Miles has select
ed Colonel John B. Babcock as his
chief of staff, to succeed General
Thomas Ward, retired
Under a ruling of the treasury de-
partment Americans returning from
Europe can import free of duty $500
worth of merchandise for personal use.
The war department announced yes
terday that the bodies of the four
school teachers murdered in the Phil
ippines will be sent to the United
States.
Monday, July %.
The Scranton Free Press, the oldest
Sunday newspaper in Pennsylvania,
has suspended publication.
Populists of Kansas will put a
straight ticket In the field against the
recently named fusion slate.
The latest reports from Manila
state that the epidemic of cholera has
not abated any in the Philippines.
Sherman Dyer was shot and killed
by Berry Donahue, a justice of the
peace, of Luttrell, Tenn, during an ar
SunSnI OfCl d Id Nv OuIL.
While repairing steam pipe at Dy-
ersburg, Tenn, Saturday, Will Young
and Dan McAuliffe were cooked to
death by falling into boiler.
Tuesday, July %.
Elliott S. Dow, aged Z years, while
gathering water lilies at Glenmere
Lake, N. Y, fell overheard and was
drowned.
Colonel R. B. Weddle, of Ardmore,
/. T., was killed in a runaway accident
yesterday. He was formerly a we'll
known New York politician.
John Wise, negro. was hanged by
mob at Pembroke, Ca, yesterday,
for committing an assault on Mrs.
John Smith, young white woman.
William J. White, cashier of the
board of public works Of San Fran
cisco, has disappeared, and it is given
out that he is short in his accounts.
Wednesday, July 80.
Paul Vandervoort, past commander
in-chief of the G. A. R., died at Puerto
Principe, Cuba. yesterday.
The new United States battleship
Maine will be given her official trial
August Is off Cape Cod, Mass.
Four men were seriously hurt by a
premature blast in the rapid transit
subway in New York yesterday.
Vincento Arena, prominent Span
lard of Tucson, Ariz., was beaten to
death yesterday by five Mexicans.
De Noon Bros paint store at Pitts.
burg, Pa, and two other buildings
we're destroyed by fire yesterday. caus.
ing loss of 100000.
President Roosevelt has offered a
prize of $25 in gold to be contested for
by the gun crews on the United States
war yacht Mayfower at target prac-
tice.
Thursday, July 81.
Boer Generals Botha DeWet and De-
larey sailed from Cape Town, South
Africa, for England yesterday.
Three Berks county, Pa, postmasters
have been removed for conducting their
offices in bar rooms of hotels.
In the Sayreton mines near Birming-
ham, Ala, break in the roof caused a
great mass of rocks to fall and two
miners were instantly killed.
James Ruddy, a brakeman of Palo
Alto, Pa, was killed in a wreck of a
coal train on the Reading railroad near
Pottsville yesterday.
Postmaster L. D. Zimmerman, Of
Linnville, Warwick county, Ind, was
fatally shot by two robbers, who secur-
ed $500 in money and made their es-
cane.