The Penn's Grove record., 1885-10-31
NEWS OF WEEK

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The City Council of indianapolis
at a meeting on the 23d, passed al
ordinance raising the saloon License
from $50 to 500 a year. Only 10 o.
the rs members were present, and the
ordinance was adopted by a vote of Il
to l. Its adoption by the Board o.
Aldermen is considered certain.
The Governor Of Massachusetts
has designated November 26tb as a day
of Thanksgiving.
The President on the 23d appointed
Louis x. Church, of New York, to be
Associate Justice for Dakota; John G.
Shields, of Michigan, to be Chief Jus
tice for Arizona; William w. Porter, OF
California, and William II. Barnes, oil
Illinois, to be Associate Justices fol
Arizona, Z. Van Long, of Indiana.
Chief Justice for New Mckee; William
Hill, OF Illinois, to be Consul at Port
Sarnia; Robert p. Waring, Assayer al
Charlotte, North Carolina; George S.
Savage, to be Collector of Customs al
Cherrystone, Virginia: and S. J. And.
erson, Collector of Customsat Portland,
Maine.
The canvass of the vote of Hamil.
ton county, Ohio, was finished on the
23d, and shows a plurality of GAG fol
Hoadly, according to unofficial footings
Kennedy, the Republican candidate for
Lieutenant Governor, has a pleurality
Of 734. All the Democratic Senators
and Representatives h@ye plenralities
varying in size. AS soon as the foot
ings are officially declared certificates
will probably be issued to all except the
Senators against whom an injunction,
based on allegations of fraud, still holds
AN explosion occurred on the 23d
in the Raccoon Pits, In Chesterfield
county, Virginia. One hundred men
were in the mine at the time, but only
two were killed, the explosion being
confined to a remote corner of the mine.
1t is not known how the explosion oc-
CURED
The Republican Convention of
Dakota has nominated a ticket headed
by A. G. Millette for Governor.
The funeral of Malcolm Hay, ex-As-
sistant Postmaster General, took place
on the Odd in Allegheny City. MI. Ste
venson, First Assistant Postmaster
General, was among the mourners, and
conveyed to the family of deceased the
high appreciation of his qualities felt
by President Cleveland and Postmaster
General Villas.
Francis w. Hughes, the we'll
known lawyer and Democratic leader,
died on the 23d in Pottsville, aged SO
years. He was admitted to the Schuyl-
kill county bar in 1887, in 1889 he serv-
ed as Deputy Attorney General of the
State, and IN 1S43 represented Schuyl-
kill county in the State Senate. From
1851 to 1858 he held the office of Score.
tary of the Commonwealth. and in the
latter year was appointed Attorney
General, which office he filled until 1856.
The President on the 23d appointed
j. E. Dart Collector of Customs at
Brunswick, Georgia.
1t has been decided by the Domin-
ion Cabinet to postpone the execution
of Riel until the 18th of November.
The Toronto Globe says: ut now re.
mains with Sir John Macdonald to say
whether or not the sentence shall be
carried out.n The Mail is of the opin-
ion that Riel will be hanged.
-Archdeacon Farrar ON the 23d &C.
companied Cyrus w. Field to Irvington,
New York, where he will be the guest
Of Mi. Field for several days.
&C. S. West, ex-Justice Of the Su.
preme Court of Texas, died suddenly
of appoplexy in Austin, on the 23d.
He was 50 years of age.
One of the severest gales aver ex-
p~erienced on Lake Superior has ragged
there within a few days. For sixty
hours the wind blew with q velocity of
from forty to sixty miles per hour, and
furious snow storms prevailed. Dur
ing the storm on the 10Th two barges,
containing thirteen men, were separa.
ted from the steam tug S. g. Baldwin,
of Detroit, and have not been heard of
since. 1t is feared that they are lost.
i'm Cleveland, Ohio, on the 23d,
under q recent decision of the Police
Judge, the Chief of Police issued an
order closing saloons all day Sundays,
instead of until two O'Clock in the
afternoon, as heretofore.
Secretary Manning refused on the
I'D to say anything i'll regard to the
that Assistant Secretary Coon
has been notified that his resignation
viii be accepted in a few days. The
finds general credence at the
Treasury Department. Mr.. Coon said.
in New York last night. that he had
mailed his resignation to the Secretary.
-The anvas of the total official
vote for Governor in Ohio shows a plu-
rality for Foraker of 16, 1929. The vote
for Leonard, Prohibitionist, was 2S,-
034, and the total vote Of the State
72S, $3.50
The school tax in New York State
this year is n mill on the dollar. The
amount levied upon New York county
is 10,4l3,4l5, and upon Kings county
$50, 235.
"A large anti-C Chinese meeting, with
a torchlight procession, was held in
Seattle. Washington Territory, on the
oath. There were 1000 men in line.
OHe pdnHtI pore u picture OF 1aDOf,
with the inscription Free Labor on
his breast chained to a rock, on which
was engraved Monopoly on his head
stood a pyramid of ten Chinese, a SOL
der at n side and a policeman at the
other. Above this was This Is Free
Labor on the Coast Other notices
were, Strike for Liberty Chinese
Must and Shall Co. Arms for Tyrants,
Freedom for Men, Charity Begins at
Home Down with Monopolies, and
No Chinese Labor at New Castle After
the First.'p The procession marched
to the opera house, where speeches were
made by leading agitators.
Canon Farrar preached in Trinity
Church, New York, on the 25th, to a
large congregation. Hundreds were
unable to gam admission.
An unofficial footing made in Gin
cinnati of the official returns from all
the counties in Ohio shows that Foraker
has a plurality OF 1888 for Governor.
Leonard. the Prohibition candidate,
polled 2S,064 votes, and Northrop, the
Greenback candidate, 1858. The County
Clerk at Cincinnati has issued certi6c-