The Penn's Grove record., 1883-04-21
NEWS OF THE WEEK.

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of insanity, for which reason the SEN
tence upon him has not been pro-
nouneed. The bill authorizes a com
mission to pass upon the insanity of
such criminals, and provides that IT
found insane they shall be confined in a
jail or asylum, according to the grade
of crime. Should they their
sanity they win be liable to trial or
sentence.
In the Senate of Connecticut, a bill
was passed, allowing railroads incorpo-
rated under the general railroad law OF
that State. to consolidate stock, fran
chises and property with the stock, ETC.,
of railroads outside of the State,
when such Zines form a continuous
line from some point in that
State to some point in an adjoining
State.-In the House the proposed
Trohibitory amendment to the State
Constitution was lost for want of two
thirds in the affirmative, the vote being
12S yeas to 81 nays.
The Supreme Court at Montgomery,
Alabama, holds the revenue law passed
by the late Legislature void, because OF
the omission from the bill as enrolled
and signed of certain words in the bill
when passed. The new law reduced the
tax to five and a half mills.
The Government work under General
Ransom, on the Trent river, in North
Carolina, has enabled large steamers to
90 80 miles up the stream.
A meeting of local agents of East
bound trunk lines was held in Chicago
to consider the question of reducing
grain rates to the seaboard. 1t was
| decided to refer it to the general freight
agents before taking action.
The steamship Marlborough, from
New York for Bermuda, carried out
1000 barrels of whisky from Pennsyl-
vania and Ohio distilleries, to avoid
payment of internal revenue tax due
after the whisky is five years in bond.
The Cincinnati National Bank, of
| Cincinnati, has been authorized to
/ begin business with a capital of $780,
900.
There arrived in the Dominion Of
| Canada during March 1898 immigrants,
and during the first three months of
this year 2o,646, against 20,191 during
the first quarter of last year. There re-
NAMED in the Dominion during the first
quarter of this year 11,690 immigrants
against 9S44 in the first quarter of 1882.
The rolling and sheet mills of the
Reading Iron Works, at Reading, will
be shut down for an indefinite period,
on account of the dizziness of trade,
This will throw more than 400 men out
of work. The pipe mill is running on
half time. 1t is said the Company has
refused large orders ''at prices which
would lose them money. ALL but
three of the strikers at the Mellert foun-
dry in Reading resumed work at a com
promise increase of 5 per cent.
The Swift Greek Cotton Mills, nea
Petersburg, Virginia, which originally
cost $1I0,00 were sold at auction for
S56, 200. A joint stock company will
be organized to operate them in future.
The cigar manufacturers of Cincin-
natl proposed to the strikers to pay 80
cents per thousand advance and give the
remaining 10 cents to packers and
| others" The strikers COMPATIBILITY"
refused, and made an additional demand
that hereafter the charge of 30 cents
per month for extra gas burned during
the winter be abolished. One factory
employing 20 hands was granted the
demand.
John Walsh, the Irish agitator, arrived
in New York by the steamship France,
from Havre.
Owing to the prevalence of yellow
fever in Cuba and other localities, the
National Board of Health has decided
to establish quarantine stations on the
Southern coast earlier than usual this
year.
The steamer City Of Media, from
Vera Cruz for New York, with 100
passengers and a general cargo, ran
into an unknown schooner, off Hat
teras. The steamers bow wa carried
away and she put into Hampton Roads,
leaking. She tried to reach Norfolk
but was forced to beach at night off
Lambert's Point Light, where she lies
half under water. Her passengers
were taken to Old Point without acct
dent, and her mails will be forwarded
from Norfolk. 1t is expected that the
vessel will be ioated and most of the
cargo saved.-The steamer Wylly, in
going down the Chattahoochee river.
Georgia, was sunk by collision with the
bridge, at Fort Gaines III. L. Palmer. |
the purser, w. j.. Rivers, the clerk, and
eight colored deck hands were drowned.
The boat and cargo are a total loss.
A Reading Railroad train from New
York for Philadelphia was run into, |
at Bound Brook junction, by a special
locomotive of the Lehigh Valley Rail-
road. The rear coach of the train was
overturned and caught fire, but the
passengers were got out before the
flames reached them. Thirteen persons.
were injured, two of them dangerously.
The Lehigh Valley locomotive was
ditched and wrecked, and the car ahead
of the one run into by the locomotive
was badly damaped-One freight |