The Penn's Grove record., 1885-12-05
NEWS OF THE WEEK


-. w. Dwight died on the Goth at
his home, in Dryden, New York, fr m
the effects OF a cold contracted at the
| installation OF Professor Adams as Pres
ident of Cornell University a week ago.
Mr.. Dwi4ht was 80 wears Of are.
The u. S. steamer Powbatan arriv-
ed at Key West, on the 25th. with the
rescued Laborers flom the Island of
Roucador, in the Caribbean Sea, which
the steamer was sent to bring away.
I'm uaIyestom on the 10Th, Mayor
Fulton and Colonel Robert G.. Lowe,
managing editor OF the NesUs, had .
s.persopai encounter II grsw out OF
the publication Of paragraphs from time
to time in the Neacs regarding u Ho-
race B. YaImer. who is described 10y
the Associated Press despatch as "a
| common tramp OF the most debased
character but .sknown all over Gal
weston. Mayor Fulton called at tie
Neacs Office on Wednesday and gave no
tice that he would hold the manage
Hsent personally responsible for fur
Their paragraphs. eve at the risk of his
iise.u On tllr 26lh the Ntars bad a two
line paragraph which provoked the as
sault. The Mayor waited on Colonel
Lowe. and Oh the latter assuming the
responsibility Of the publication. struck
him with q heavy cane. The cant
b-ok on Lowe's arm. and each, holding
half of the broken stick, belabored the
other on the head until they were sep
arated by the bystanders.
The eight Indians convicted of the
massacre at Frog Lake, in the North.
west Territory, were hanged on the 9th
at Battleford. Benjamin Simmonds,
convicted of the murder of Mary Ann
Stokes. was hanged in the jail yard at
London, Ontario, in the presence of one
hundred spectators. lie offered q pray
er on the scaffold, expressing a belief
that his sins had been pardoned and
asking a similar grace for all those pres
emit.
The Dominion ministry has ordered
a pamphlet to beprepared defending its
policy in regard to affairs in the North
west Territory.
In the general term of the SUI RENE
Court at Albany ON the 9th Judges
Learned, Rockies and Landon denied a
motion to set aside the Injunction gran
ted by Judge Kennedy to prevent the
sale of the West Shore Railroad to the
New York Central Company.
REV. DIR. smith. President of Trim
ity College, at Hartford, Connecticut,
on the 9th decided to decline the
position Of Bishop of the Protestant
Episcopal Diocese of Easton, Maryland,
10 which he was recently elected.
AL the members of the cabinet
were present at the meeting of that
body ON the 9th. The Presidents mes
sage, so far as completed, was read and
unanimously approved" 1t is said to
contain many new and valuable sug-
gestions.
lit is believed in Washington that a
Aiccessor 10 " s.. Marshal Kerns will
DE chosen before the end Of next week.
fbe President on The 9th appoint.
ed Jacob sboenhoF. Of New York, to be
Consul at Tunstall England.
"A freight train ran off the track at
Plymouth, New Hampshire, on the
9th, and the engineer, Worcester Dear
born, vas killed. A fast mail train on
the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad was
deTailed and partially wrecked at GLOW,
er's Gap, near Wheeling, West Vlr
gin1a, on the 25th. The engine, and the
mail, baggage and smoking cars were
badly damaged, yet, beyond a severe
shaking up, no person was injured,
There wal no renewal CT the trou
BILE in the Fourth Pool on the 2Sth.
The Sherif1s If Washington and Fay
ette counties massed their forces and
placed guards around each mine. They
arse notified tile strikers that s'any at
tempt at violence would be promptly
and vigorously metz This caused the
strikers to leave early in the morning
for their homes.
Three hundred Italian laborers
passed through Reading on the 18th for
Charleston, South Carolina. They arr
promised SI.25 to 50 per day, and it is
believed that Tie climate of the South
viii suit them better than that of the
North. The indications arr that a
great exodus If Italians, Poles and
H~ungarians will take place from East
ern Pennsylvania this winter and that
most Of them will go South.
p. Booker Reed, Mayor Of Louis
vile, Kentucky, and Charles KTemei.
Nhariniaster, had a street fight on the
29tn. The Mayor VAS knocked dowl
and considerably bruised ABOUT the face.
Tie men are supporting rival candi-
dates for aldermen. Kremer says Reed
tried to bride and intimidate HIM into
supporting the ADMINISTRATION eandi-
date. This Is the Mayors tblId encoun-
ter since his election
1T Is announced in Ottawa that the
Canadian Parliament will 3 convened
at The usual time in Jant Try, but thai
the session VIII be postponed until
March or April. The rel son assigned
is that the Ministry q sire to con
clnde reciprocity uegotiak ons with thf
United States before calling their sup
porters together.
Tile Third Assistant Postmaster
General. in his annual report, says that
the total postal revenue during the hs-
cal year, which ended June Both last,
was $42, soc, 643, while tie expenditures,
actual and estimated, including CON-
pensatlon to Pacific Railroads for mail
CAtAtN<Ss 8SAN %tts&1@44Vs A~SfAh1 WV
excess of estimated total cost of service
over gross receipts. 1891, 81.
William Butler. onA ~ thA nldAat
residents al Ws1KesbaTres daeu tlere on
the 29Ih, OF paralysis of the brain. He
was grandson OF Colonel Zebulon But
Ter, who commanded the patriot forces
at The battle Of Wyoming, on July 3D.,
IT'S.
President Cleveland on the 29th
decided not TO go to lq2 apolis to at
tend the funeral 9 President
Hendricks.
The remains OH ce President
Hendricks we're on II e9th removed
Ia the Court House IA indianapolis,
where they win lie in ttate until the
funeral. They were kwed by thous-
ands Of people. who Used through
haildina ia a stes stream from !
af until midnight
'ntermIssion