The Penn's Grove record., 1883-10-20
NEWS OF THE WEEK.

Hon. Samuel j. I1lden was electeu a
member of the American Yacht Club,
of New York.
Information has been received at
Montreal to the effect that G. J. Dewey,
the forger, has been arrested in San An
tonic, Texas.
A fire in the ive-story building No.
70 Water street, New York, occupied
by the Pacific Tea Company, damaged
the stock $1,000.
Memorial services in commemeration
of the uprising for liberty in Cuba were
held in Clarendon Hall, New York, the
fifteenth anniversary of that event.
An unknown man, believed to bee
stranger named Curran, was shot
killed at Paolo, Kansas, by Mol Black,
the mistress of a house of ill-repute.
A shifting engine az the Central
Railroad station at Augusta, Ga, ex
ploded, by which W. c. Starr, the en-
gineer, and Thomas Watkins, the fire.
man, we're badly scalded and otherwise
injured.
A cyclone struck Arcadia, Trempel-
eau county, Wis, causing the destruc-
ton of a number of barns and outbuild-
ings and the loss Of considerable live
stock. No serious casualties are re-
ported.
AT Fayetteville, Ark, United States
Deputy Marshalls Sperry and Weather
forth, while guarding some lndian prls-
oners, quarreled over a game of cards,
drew revolvers and killed each other,
Andrew Larson, r. A. Rhodes, Char
les Vim and another whose name is not
known, were killed near Moorhead
City, Mimi, by the fall of 400 bushels
of oats in the granary under which they
were sleeping,
The negro who murdered Policeman
Street, of Huntsville, Ala, by splitting
his head open with an ak, was taken
from jail by fifty masked men and
hanged. He refused to give his name.
The Treasurer of the Cape Cod Ship
Canal Company deposited with the State
Treasurer of Massachusetts 100000 in
United States bonds, the amount of the
guarantee required by the terms of the
company's charter.
John B. Griffin, Seneca B. Miller and
George Mulkins, charged with blowing
up a house at Pawling, N. Y, with
dynamite, causing the death of Samuel
Grover, were captured at Grey Court,
Orange county.
"Springhurst, (" the summer residence
of Thomas w. Pearsall, a New York
banker, situated at Growers Hill, near
the George Hotel, Black Rock, Conn.,,
was burned together with most of the
furniture. Loss, 1926, 600.
WASHINGTON.
Ex-Representative Butterworth, of
Ohio, it is strongly asserted, will
soon be. appointed Commissioner of Pat
ents, in place of Mr.. Marble.
1t is considered probable that DIR.
Jedediah H. Baxter, Chief Medical
Purveyor Uuited States Army, will be
the successor of Surgeon General
Crane, and that Chief Engineer Loring
will be the successor of Engineer in
Chief Shock of the Navy.
A general court-martial has been ap-
pointed, to meet at Fort Huachuca-
Arizona, on October 10, for the trial of
Lieutenant Colonel A. p. Marrow,
Sixth Cavalry, formerly on the staff of
General Sherman, on the charges of
drunkenness and conduct unbecom-
ing an officer and a gentleman, pre-
ferred by Brigadier General Crook.
DEATH OF SURGEON GENERAL
Brigadier General Charles II. Crane,
Surgeon General United States Army,
died suddenly at his residence in this
city, of hemorrhage of the throat. He
had been confined to his house for sew
eral weeks. but was not regarded as in
any immediate danger. General Crane
was appointed Assistant Surgeon, Feb
ruary IA, 184S promoted to be Major
and Surgeon, May q, 1861 promoted
to be Colonel and Assistant Surgeon
General, July IS. 1866, and promoted
to be Brigadier General, and Surgeon
General July -, 1892.
UNSUCCESSFUL STRIKE.
The street-car drivers strike ended in
the defeat of the strikers, and cars on
all the lines are running as usual. This
result was reached through employ
ment by the companies of enough new
men to convince the strikers that all
the lines could be fully operated, ever
if none of them went back to work.
Assoon as this fact became evident
there was a stampede of the strikers,
and the companies were enabled To
uldho tl0H OWN lcluuo VIII tuc ulOu.
DEAD BODY FOUND AND BURIED.
The Life-saving patrol at False Cape,
Va, found and buried the decomposed
dead body of a la on the beach. No
distinguishing marks were on the body,
but from fragments of clothing it is
supposed he was a sailor.
COTTON CROP REPORT.
The cotton returns of the Depart.
ment of Agriculture show that the con
dition of the crop on the LIST of October
was worse than on the LIST of Septem-
Der.
AMERICAN ACADEMY OF MEDICINE.
NEW YoRK.-The American Acade-
my Of Medicine held its session. The
election of officers resulted as follows
President, Benjamin Lee, NJ. D., OF