The Penn's Grove record., 1886-02-27
NEWS OF HI WEEK

A delegation or Chiricahua Apa-
ches has just called on the Territorial
officers of New Mexico and Senate Re
and expressed the desire OF the tribe 20
abandon their present life on the re
s~eryation and own their lands IN sever
atty, ''for the purpose of farmin 2 and
raising stock like white people" They
are willing togive up the contributions
they receive from the Government II
allowed their lands in s%everalty. Ger
onimo Is a member of this tribe. but
is disIiked and d~istrusted by the ma
joTity.
Some of the Cinnamon having pro-
perty in SnOhowrish City, Washington
Territory, refuse to obey the notice to
quit that place, and have eutrenched
themselves in a building. Two inetfect-
ual efforts to dislodge them have been
made, the first having been the blowing
up Of part of the building with dyna-
mite.
-Workmen on the 10Th replaced the
iron railing around the Andre monu-
ment at Tappau, New York. 1t IS
said the stone will soon ne reset, and
t e present inscription efaced.
The amount paid by the Dominion
Government to the Hudson Bay Tom
pauy for supplies, transports, CON-
missions, etc, during the Northwest
rebellion, was $4,000 900. This IS eX-
elusive of claims by the company for
losses.
"A telegram from Toronto says the
Government has decided to fix the fol-
lowing scale of liquor licenses: In
cities Of more than 10000 inhabitants,
$3.50, and under 10000, 5000; in towns,
$50: villages, Sl30; and townships,
500. Saloon licenses Will be $500 in
cit Is. and $3.50 in towns.
The Senate on the 10Th confirmed
J. e. Franks to be L. ). Marshal for
California, and w. NJ. Campbell U. 5.
Marshal for Minnesota, The President
on the 10Th nominated Charles b. Har-
mon 10 be L. S. Marshal for Maine.
Secretary Endicott has been con-
fined to his house in Washington for
several days by a severe cold. Henry
WattersOn was reported natter on the
18th, and his friends and p&g1Tor.no be-
ggin to hope for his ultimate recovery.
The two thousand men employed
III the Philadelphia and Reading Rail-
road Company's shops at Reading,
Penna., were on the 10Th notified of an
increase of wages Ia all departments, to
begin March LIST, The amount OF the
increase was not announced.
AT Los Angeles, California, on the
10Th, the breach of promise suit of
Louise L. Perkins against Z. j. Bald
win, millionaire, resulted in a verdict
or the plaintiff for $4,000.
"A fire in Wilmington, North Car
DINA, on the 2lst destroyed two
steamers, a schooner, the wharf and
sheds of the Clyde Steamship Line,
three blocks Of stores on Water street,
many residences on Front and Second
streets, the First Methodist Church,
two railroad freight depots, two grain
mills, a cotton compress, etc. The loss
is estimated at more than $1,000, 900.
Nine buildings in EdenbuTg, Clar-
ion county, Penna., were burned at
one O'Clock on the goth, and a young
man named Groves, who slept over the
post office, persisted in the flames. The
fire Is attributed to an explosion of nat
ural gas, and the loss is estimated at
nearly $4,000.
Mr.. Bland, chairman Of the House
! Committee on Coinage, has prepared a
minority report in favCr of his bill for
the free coinage of silver, reported
adversely by that committee. The
minority report is signed by Messrs.
Rlapd Tanham and BYnum.
Judge Ingraham of the Superior
Court in New York, has issued an in
junction restraining the Broadway and
Seventh Avenue Railroad Company
from selling, leasing, or in any manner
disposing of its interestjn the ~Rr"adwav
Surface Railroad Company.
The Supreme Court of Indiana on
the Goth affirmed the constitutionality
of a law of that State reducing the
charge OF local telephone companies
from S. to So per month.
Colonel w. p. Smedburg was on
the 10Th, elected Commander on the
California Department of the Grand
Army of the Republic. Among the
candidates for the position was Cover
nor Stoneman.
1t is said that the Chinese Consul
General at San Francisco has already
presented to the State Department
claims a~ggregating more than 5000, 600
for damages resulting from TIE anti
Chinese riots and explosions on the
Pacific coast.
The Secretary of the Treasury on
the Goth. issued the l34th call for the
redemption of bonds-for ten millions
of the three per cents, on which inter
est will cease on April list,
Rev. Chauncey c. Williams, of
Augusta, Georgia, who was elected
Bishop Of the Protestant Episcopal
Diocese of Easton, Maryland, in De-
cember last, has declined the office.
The convention to elect a successor to
Bishop Lay will reassemble in June
next.
The improvement ia Henry Wat
terson's condition continued on the 2lst,
and his friends and physicians hope that
the crisis is past, and that rest and
quiet will restore him to health.
All the Chinese residents of Ore
gon City, thirteen miles from Port
land, Oregon, were driven out about
two O'Clock on the 22d by a mob of
nearly fifty whites. The mob ''kn0cked
the Cinnamon about, twisted their
queues, and stole all the money found
on their persons" The Cinnamon wer
then escorted to the steamboat Latonia,
which was lying at the wharf, placed
aboard of her ard conveyed to Port
land, "tneir fares being paid out Of the
money stolen from them" FOrty-two
Cinnamon in all were driven out. With
the exception of three or four, all were
employees of the Oregon City Wooden
Mills, which also employ about eighty
white men. ''It is understood that a
prominent Portland agitator was at the
head of the movement"
"A train on the Buffalo, New York
and Philadelphia Railroad Iun off the
track at Mount Morris, New York, on
the 22d. The forward coach tipped
over and vas burned, Eighteen persons
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