The Penn's Grove record., 1886-02-13
NEWS OF THE WEEK

a begun proceedings TOT Il ulNCICe'
Andrew Haight, an old and we
known circus man, is dangerously III
paralysis in Chicago.
Lieutenant Commander Richard
NJ. Cults, Of the navy died suddenly OF
internal hemOrrhage, in San Francisco,
on the ID. lie was forty years of age,
and leaves a wife and two children.
In Washington on the 9th an ex-
plosiou occurred in a Pullman car
standing on Virginia avenue. Some OF
the attendants were making a fire In
the car, when, the pipes being frozen,
the apparatus EMPLOYED, tearing out the
end Of the car and damaging the fronts
OF two houses opposite,
"A sleighing party of fourteen per
sons at EdgeTton, Ohio, attempted to
cross the railroad track on the 4th4 in
front of an approaching freight train.
Seeing that the attempt was likely to
fail, the party was thrown into con
fusion, some ~endeavoring to hold back
the horses, while others tried to urge
them forward" The engine struck the
sleigh. injuring six of the occupants,
one mOrtally.
The first anti Chinese State Con
vention in California met in San Jose
on the 4th. One hundred delegates.
representing anti. Chinese leagues and
trade organizations, were present.
Resolutions we're adopted deprecating
violence or threats; favoTlng boycott
ting ''as the quickest method of &C
complishing the desired end > and de-
manding the abrogating of the BuTling-
ton treaty.
The Senate has passed Mr.. Sewell's
bilIs providing for an annual appro-
priation of 5000, 900 for the purpose Of
providing arms and ordnance stores,
quartermaster's stores and camp equip
age for the militia, tie appropriation to
be apportIoned among the states and
Territories.
The Indians on the Red Lake
reservation in Minnesota are reported
to be Every uneasy" gathering up
arms, ammunition and horses. 1t is
supposed they have been stirred up by
emissaries from the British Northwest.
Mayor Smith, of Cincinnati, on the
9Th enclosed a copy of his proclamation,
taking charge of the Police Depart
ment, in a note to Chief OF Police Ed
| win Hudson, and directed the latter TO
appear before him at 2 o'clock for in.
structions. Hudson paid no attention
to the communication.
The Supreme Court of Utah Terri
tory has rendered o decision sustaining
the conviction of Apostle Lorenzo
Snow, of unlawful cohabitation. The
Court recites that "Snow, in Maui
VOC, first illegally married two women
at one ceremony, and the contract,
therefore was null and void. He then
married successfully seven other Wo-
men, all of whom he supports and
holds cut to the world as his wives.
This is shown by the testimony, while,
at the same time, he dwells regularly
with Minnie, his latest ~polygamous
wife, who. has a three months old
child" The Court says: This IS one
of the most fragrant cases of polygamy
in the Territory, and that no error was
made in convlcting Snow"
Geronimo and nine other Indian
captives were reported in camp on the
9th.
The casket containing the remains
of President Garfield vas on the 9th
placed in the heavy bronze sarco-
pnagus IN which 1t is to rest finally, at
Cleveland, Ohio. When the new monu-
ment in Lake View Cemetery is COM
pleted, the sarcophaguS will be placed
in the base of that structure.
The Senate Committee on Rules
on the 9th, by "a vote of four to Il de-
cided to report negatively the Platt
resolution requiring Executive nom
nations &c he considered in open SEES
sion. Messrs. Sherman, ingalls,, Harris
and Blackburn voted against the re-
solution, Mr.. Frye in support of it,
The Mayor of Cincinnati on the
9th appointed a new Superintendent OF
Police. The Police Commissioner
refused to recognize the appointment,
but suggested that the Mayor apply TO
the Supreme Court for a settlement OF
the matter.
"A dispatch from Portland, Oregon,
says that on the 9Th, a if by a pro-
gramme laid out, the Chinese were
being driven out of Seattle, Washing
ton Territory. 1t Is understood that
the knights OF Labor are at the head OF
the moAement.
The Senate of L. S. on the Sth,
confirmed various nominations, among
them Edward A. Stevenson to be Gov
ernor of Idaho d. Lynch Pringle
>ecretary of Legation to the Contra
American States, and Hamilton O..
| Jones, U. S. Attorney for Western
| North Carolina. The President on
the Sth, nominated Walter H. Miller
10 be Postmaster at Cape May, New
Jersey John NJ. Mudd, Postmaster
at Emporium, Penna., and A. X. Liu-
derman, Postmaster at Troy, Penna.
Senior Carlos Marti, the Oldest
Spanish merchant of New York, died
On the It'll, at his country seat OF Mari
anao, in Cuba, where he was spending
the winter. He was in his 10Th year.
He retired from active business a few
years ago.
The game of chess between Zuker-
tort and Steinitz, at st. Louis, resulted
in a draw, on the Sth.
A telegram from Harrisburg on
the 9Th, says that appeals to the Su-
preme Court of Pennsylvania from the
i~ecision of the Court of Common
Pleas OF Dauphln county nave 'Deen
dled in the cases of the Northern
Central Railroad, the Pennsylvania
Railroad, the Pennsylvania Company,
the Bedford and Bridgeport, and the
Southwestern Railroad Companies.
John X. Randall, Librarian of the
Mercantile Library in Baltimore, shot
himself through the heart on the Sth.
lie was about - years of age, appar-
emily exemplary in his habits, and no
cause IS assigned for the deed.
-Iu the Senate of New Jersey on
the Sth, the Local Option bill came up
on second reading as a special measure.
After debate between Messrs. Fish and
Youngblood for and against its con-
sideration, the bill was ordered to be
~engrossed and To have a third reading
by a vote of l6 to l.