The Penn's Grove record., 1886-03-27
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Secretary Bayard on the 10th trans
feITed to the New York 7Tant MonU-
ment Fund the sum OF 5000, covering
two ccntributions-S500 from the Pres-
ident of Mexico and 500 from Senior
Romero, the Mexican Minister sad
| ~steadfast friend of General Grant.
The total is now S119,5 S9,
Propositions submitted ty Vice
President Hoxie, of the Missouri Paci-
fc Railroad, after conferences with the
Governors of Kansas and Missouri,
were on the 20th under consideration
by the representatives. of the Knights
Of Labor in st. Louis.
"A serious overflow has been caused
by an Ice gorge in the Missouri river,
fifteen miles above Sioux City, Iowa.
North and west of Elk Point, Dakota,
as far as the eye can reach, only a vast
sheet of water is to lie seen. The farm
ers in flooded district have driven their
cattle to the ridges.
"A tornado passed north of Fort
Wayne, Indiana, on the Dist, doing
great damage. In the village Of Will
Transport, two churches and all the
barns were demolished. many houses
were damaged, and cattle were killed.
"A fall of top rock occurred early on
the Dist, in the Pottsville and MahanOy
Railroad turned at Horseshoe Curve,
neal Pottsville. Twenty workmen,
mostly Italians, were buried. Two of
them were killed, and about Fifteen
others injured, three peri apps fatally.
Meyers Patterson, an employe OF the
Electric Light Company at Lynchburg,
Virginia, while repairing a light on the
22d, was killed by a shock from the
electric current. He was on a pole
twenty feet from the ground.
The President on the 22d nom,
mated j. Richard Winfield, of Virginia:
to he Consul a San Jose, Costa Rica-
also John w. BTOpby, TO pe Postmaster
at Mount Carmel; Charles b. White
head, at Bradford, and Emmett W. Nc
Arthur. at MeadvIlle, in this State.
"A convention of delegates from all
the Irish societies in New Jersey was
held on the 22d in Newark to arrange
for a more thorough organization of the
Irish National League throughout the
State. IL was resolved that all moneys |
collected for the benefit of the League
pass through the hands of DR.. O'Reilly,
Of New York. The following perma-
nent officers were elected: President,
JOS. Atkinson, of Eewark. Secretary,
Horace j. Kenney, OF Newark; Trea-
surer. John Kennedy, Of Jersey City.
"A charter was granted at Harris
burg on the 22d to the New York
Bloomsbury and Western Railroad
Company TO build a new line from
Mauch Chunk to Newcastle, a distance
of $50 miles. The capital is $40, 000, 900
of which l,400, 000 has been subscribed.
The eighteenth game of the chest
Championship was played on tie 22d as
New Orleans, and was won by SteinitZ,
hls antagonist Tesigning on the fortleth
move. The score nov stands: SteinitZ
s; ZukeItort s. According to the orig
inal terms of the contract, If the game
should staLd 8 to 8, the match would
be a draw. In st. Louis the number
to make a draw was reduced by agree
ment to s. Steinitz, therefore, claims
that he cannot lose.
In the New Jersey House, on the
22d, the Chase bill was passed over the
Governors veto by a vote OF 80 to 10.
The War Department has received
no Information Of the reported surren-
der of Geronimo and his followers to
Lieutenant Maus, near San B%ernardino.
The report is c~ontradicted 10y a later
arrival at Tombstone |
The Secretary of the Treasury on
the 22d, issued the l35th call for the
redemption of bonds. The call is for
ten millions of the Three Per Cents Of
1882, to mature on the LIST of May.
The Supreme Court Of Indiana on
the 23d decided the last Of the Tele-
phone cases IN that State. The deci-
sion covers the constitutionality Of the
two laws passed by the last Legislature
for the regulation Of telephone affairs,
the points involved in the law reducing
rentals having previously been decided
in the cases of Hackett against the
State, and in these the Court reailirmed
its former opinion by simply calling at
tention to it. Regarding the non-diS-
act, the Court holds at
that the telephone company is a
common carrier, and, a such, is sub
ject to all the regulations which the
law imposes upon common carriers. 1t
cannot, therefore, refuse service to any
person who demands it and fu,lls the
legal requirements.
On the Esd the Cabinet meeting