Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1903-11-12
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the widow, to pay William ]. Bryan
$4,000 was not part of the will, The
effect Of this is to prevent Mr.. Bryan
from obtaining the money mentioned
in the letter unless fhe present decision
is reversed by higher court or unless
he should be successful in legal pro-
ceedings against Mrs. Bennett
The annual report of w S. Shallen-
berger, second assistant postmaster
general, sows that the annual rate of
expenditure for all classes Of mail
transportation service in the country
is 500. 594 ,542 and that the rate of cost
per mile travelled is S12.S9 There are
1,400 lines of travelling post offices,
railroad, steamboat and electric car,
covering 9,298 miles in length, with
1855 employees.
The report of the commissioner of
education for the last fiscal year places
the total number of pupils enrolled in
the common schools Of the United States
during the year at 1925, 1877, or over
20 per cent of the entire population.
The average daily attendance for 1902
was 10,999, 2T3, being So per cent of the
total number enrolled. This is the lar
gest average attendance ever reported.
The marriage was announced on
Tuesday Of Wallace d. Scott Of Sioux
Falls, S. d., and Blanche G. CHEESE
brough, formerly the wife of Roland
B. Molineux of New York. Wallace D.
Scott was Miss Chesebrough's counsel
in Sioux Falls when she secured her di-
vorce from Roland B. MoIineux
Postmaster General Payne in his esti-
mates of appropriations needed during
the fiscal year ending June 80, 1905,
calls for an aggregate of S168. 085. no
for the postal service as against $685.
511,550 for the preceding year. The
deficit for the year ending June &c.
1905, is estimated at $8.613, 100.
Miss Josephine Coffin, the seventeen
year-old girl who disappeared from her
home in East Orange, N. r., arrived in
Omaha, Neb., on Friday According to
the story told by Miss Coffin, she was
abducted while under hypnotic spell
by man and woman, both strangers.
Thomas Costello. alias Tom Murphy.
confederate of Pat Grove. was cap
tured at ST. Joseph, Mo-, on Friday by
the police after hard fight. Costello
confessed to Chief Of Police Frans to
participating in the kidnapping of young
Cudahy at Omaha and to other crimes.
General Greedy, chief signal officer of
the United States army, in his report
to the secretary of war shows that dur
ing the year system Of military tele-
graph and cable lines in Alaska author
lied by congress has been completed
and consists Of 1,740 miles.
After freezing nearly tight and abso-
lutely stopping navigation the Yukon
river was cleared of ice last week in
consequence Of the warm wave, and
navigation has been resumed. The
event is unparalleled in the history of
northern navigation.
Bayard Henry has been appointed
receiver for D. Landreth & Sons. seed
merchants, of Philadelphia. The house
is one of the oldest in the country, hav-
ing been founded in 1884 by David
Landreth, who came from England
For what was said to be the first time
in fifteen years a whale on Thursday
came inside Sandy Hook, n J. yari-
GUS observers estimated the visitors
length at anywhere from seventy-five
to $50 feet.
An epidemic of diphtheria has bro
ken out in the New York State re-
formatory at Elmira, and twenty in
mates are at present in the hospital
with the disease. One death has oc-
cured.
The New York state commission for
the Louisiana Purchase exposition at
st. Louis has fixed upon Oct. 4. 1904,
as New York state day at the exposi-
ton.
Detroit, Mich, and vicinity expert
enced on Friday a regular winter biz
zard. When the fall ceased nineteen
inches of snow lay on the ground
a slight earthquake shock was felt
in Tennessee, Kentucky and Illinois on
Wednesday In some places the win
dows ratified sharply.
Twenty-Five cases Of Asiatic cholera
occurred in Vigan, the capital of Ilocos
SUR. Luzou. last week. Twenty one
deaths are reported.
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NEWS or A revolution without
ottp bloodshed has been ac-
.,-,@,..o,e compIished in the 18TH
I = + : 8 80 mus of Panama. A
proclamation was issued Wednesday
announcing secession from the Colom-
biafl government. The governments of
Colon and Panama are now fully or
gained and are exercising all the Of
fetal duties. All nine provinces have
joined in the movement for independ-
ence, and perfect union and cordially
reign throughout the isthmus. No dis
turbances have been reported. and the
new government Is running smoothly.