The Penn's Grove record., 1885-08-22
NEWSOf TIE EEK

| SAYS the Central Pacific Land Office,
while making up a map of the railroad
lands in Idaho and Utah, made the
strange discovery that Idaho claimed
one boundary line and Utah another,
an that a strip of land two and a half
miles wide, extending across the north
ern part of Utah. was left, which by
the survey does not belong to either.
The surveys used are those filed at Salt
Lake City and Boise City.
Two train loads of cattle from the
Indian Territory, numbering 900 head,
passed through Fort Scott, Kansas, on
the 14th on the way to Chicago. They
are the first cattle removed from the
Indian Territory under the Presidents
recent order, and came from the Aus
tin Cattle COmpany's rancho.
One section of Forepaugh's circus
train on the Chicago, Rock Island and
Pacific Railway ran into another near
Abba, Iowa, before daylight on the
18th. Several cars were crushed and
a number of persons injured, several
dangerously
There was a cloud burst in Green
witch township, Berks county, Penna.,
on the 14Jh, which washed out fields
and swelled the tributaries of the
Schuylklll.
Commissioners Wright, of the La
Dor Bureau, on the 18th. had the APP
pointment of c. f. Judd as Special
Agent of the Bureau revoked. ''because
of his recent arrest in Colorado on the
charge of horse stealing, and his adj
hitting his guilt. and also that ne had
served two terms in a penitentiary for
the same offence.n
The Prohibition State Convention
of Massachusetts, will meet in Spring
field on September 10th. A full State
ticket will be nominated.
1t is unoficlally announced that
General Luther NJ. Meiley, OF Lima,
Ohio, has been appointed Assistant
Commissioner of the General Land Of
fee to succeed Luther Harrison, whose
resignation will take effect September
LIST.
Acting Uommlssloner Walker, of the
Land Office, has declined to issue any
more patents to the Northern Pacific
Railroad, pending a decision fixing the
legal status of the road.
1t is understood i'll Washington
that the newly appointed Assistant
Treasurer at San Francisco has been
instructed by Acting Secretary Fair
: child''to take possession of the Sub Treas
ury there, and to continue the count of
the moneys and securities in such man
ner as may be deemed to the best inter-
ests of the service"
-Four thousand people met on the
10Th, at AuTiesville, in Montgomery
county, New York, to witness the de-
dictation Of a shrine to the memory of
Rev. Isaac Joques, S. j., who was
martyred by the Indians on the spot
where the shrine is erected, IN a bluff
overlooking the Mohawk Valley. The
site was located by General Clark, of
Auburn, with the aid of local histOrI-
ans. The Fathers of the society of
Jesus have purchased ten acres of land
here, and a permanent church and re-
treat Will bs built.
Postmaster General Villas has ar
rived at his home in Madison, Wiscon-
sin.
Mrs. Bayard, wife of the Secretary
of State, has recovered sufficiently to
be able to go to a seaside resort uear
Gloucester, Massachusetts.
The Democratic State Committee
of Massachusetts met on the 10Th and
decided to hold the State Convention
in Worcester, on October 7th. John
f. Russell. of the State Board of Agri-
culture, was chosen to preside.
General S. S. Burdett, Commander
in. Chief of the Grand Army of the Re
public, has returned TO Washington
from the encampments at Gettysburg
and Springfield. He says that at each
of these places he spoke to the veterans
regarding the erection of a monument
to General Grant, and they were unani-
mously in favor of its location at Wash
ingtCn, ID. &.
AT Anderson, neaT Huntington,
Penna., on the 14th. Thomas Crepps,
while walking on the track, was as
saulted by two tramps and knocked
down and gagged. After stealing his
watch and a check for his months sala-
ry, which he had just received. they
tied him to the track and left him to
his fate. BY frantic efforts be worked
himself partially free, but a passing
freight train cut off one of the fingers
VI mo lCAN AiuAAAs III Nv "No dAioDA
to release from the rail,
j. G. CASTOR, a lawyer of Chester,
South Carolina, blew out his brains in
Atlanta on Saturday. He was several
times Solicitor General, and once a
candidate for Congress.
The Attorney General has been
urged to discontinue the criminal pros
ecutiOns against the Oklahoma boom
ars," but has declined until he shall
receive assurance that they have per-
manently and in good faith abandoned
their attempts to enter the forbidden
Territory.
Secretary Endicott left Washington
on the 10th for Salem, Massachusetts,.
The Roman Catholic church in
Unionville, Connecticut, was destroyed
by fire on the 18th, The loss is about
SIS, 900, insurance $4,000.
"A despatch from Fort Reno says
news has been received of a fight be-
tween a number of cowboys, at the
ranch of Frank Murray, 80 miles south
west in the Chicasaw nation. A party
Of 25 cowboys rode up to the ranch and
fired about n hundred shots at the
boys inside the ranch cabin, with whom
they had a quarrel over burned stock.
The boys inside returned the fire, killing
"Dick" Coyart and seriously woundIng
"Dick' Jones and "Bob" Woods OF
the attacking party.
The New York Board of Alder
men on the 18th, fixed the rate of tax.
alton for the fiscal year at 2.40 per
eentum, as against 2,25 per eentum
last year. The aggregate assessment
was 81, 37l, III ,003.
Chief Clerk, John Tweedale, of
the War Department, will act as Sec
rotary of War during the absence of
Secretary Endicott. The Secretary
will be absent from Washington until
October list.
The resignation of Henry j. Arm
strong as agent for the Crow Indians
in Montana has been accepted.
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