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The Penn's Grove record., 1893-12-22
THE NEWS
Eastern and Middle

A fire which started in a business
block at Buffalo, New YORK, known as
the Arcade, destroyed that property,
ami also Robinson's Musee Theatre and
Shea's concert hall. and the Yerxa
Building. 1t is estimated that the total
loss will reach 81, 900, 90.
During a fire in d tenement in New
ark, New Jersey, Mrs. Lena Pfaff
jumped from a third-story window and
sustained fatal iniuries.
Col. s. Y. X. Crugcr's country res
idence, at Bayville, Long Island, was
destroyed by fire. 1t was completed
less than a year ago at a cost of Sl4O,-
900. The loss will probably reach
5000, 900. 8
Suspicion grows that J. D. Hallen,
the missing New York lawyer, has alb
seconded with $4,000.
Diamond jcwelry worth $1,000 was
stolen from the hotel of Actress
Marie Jansen at Providence, r /.
The lumber schooner Abby Bentley,
from St, John. n. B., to Norwich,
Conn has probably foundared with its
crew of five.
The body of Valentine Bauer, burned
to death in Thoesen's furniture factory
in New York city. has been found bur
led in the debris.
The dwelling house of John G. Rora.
bask, in Sheffield, Massachusetts,, was
burned, and Mr.. Roraback, who was
rs years of age, persisted in the flames.
His daughter, Ida, was probably fatally
injured by jumping from a second
story window.
A large portion of the Ogdensburg,
New York, gas works was wrecked by
an explosion. Two workmen were prob.
ably fatally wounded l
A six-inch perch, choking the power
house supply pipe, stopped, Morris
Cove electric cars, near New Haven,
The schooner Jennie G. Pillsbury,
from New York to Rockland. with coal,
is a wreck in the harbor at New Lon
don, Connecticut.
Miss Clara Barton, of the Red Cross,
has asked that the Columbian c~aravels
be turned owe to her for exhibition
purposes, the proceeds to be devoted to
the relief work among the Sea Island
sufferers 2
Five thousand dollars was given by
Mrs, Josiah NJ. FIske to Barnard Col
legc of New York.
L. II. Boyce, Of San Francisco, trav-
eled to Bridgeport, Conn, to shoot
himself, unknown to his friends.
The grinding mill at the DUPONT
powder works, at Wilmington, Della
ware, exploded, killing Edward Gala
CHER, a workman, He was the only
man in the building, but the explosion
occurred just before eight men were
about to go on duty.
The Penn's Grove record., 1893-12-22
PENIS GROVE. N. j. FRIDAY. DECEMBER %. 1893

Fire in the Kansas City Times build
ing gave compositors and editors a baG
scare, and Jesse Calvert wa hurt by
jumping from the second story.
L. P. Ryan and his wife, aged re.
spectively 81 and rs years, were muir
dered in their home near Winchester,
O., for purposes of robbery.
A number of the policemen of Iron
Wood, Michigan, are under arrest,
charged with the theft OF goods sent to
that city for the starving miners of the
Gogebic range. The prisoners mar
rowly escaped violence from a mob.
Three men, including ]. Homer
Houston, a Baltimore contractor, we're
killed at Hendricks. West Virginia, by
the explosion of some dynamite which
was being thawed.
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MY BOYS.

BE seems to be several boys in one.
30 much Ia he constantly eyerywherei
And the miscbievous things that boy has dom
No mind can rsmember nor mouth declare.
He flls the whole Of his share OF space
With bis strong, straight form and bis merry
face.
He is very cowardly, very brave.
Re is kind and cruel, ie good and bad,
A brute md a herct Who will save
The best from the worst Of my neighbor'B lad
Tho mean and the noble strive to-day.
Which of the powers will have its way?
Tho world 10 needing his strength and skill,
He will make hearts happy, or make then
ache;
What pover lie in him for good or ill
Which of lies paths will his swift feet take
viii he rise and draw others up to him..
Or the light that Is in him burn low and dim?
ut what is my neighbor's boy to me
More than q nnisanceP My nelghbor's boy,
fEocgh / have some fears for what he may be
Ia Il source Of sol'citude, hope, aud JOY.
; nd q constant pleasure because / pray
That the best that Is in him may rnis SOME daI
Je pasaes me with a smile and q nod.
He knows l have hore of him, gnesses, too,
fhst / whispeF his name when ! ask Of God
That psn may be righteous, his will to do.
and ktbink hat many would have more joy
I th@V layed and prayed for q neighbours boy.
Z hri Auap Advocate.
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the matter. He saw it was a moonlight night
and there were no obstacles III the wav. He
went to the pilot and said "Why did YOU
ring the bell In that way Why do you want
10 stop7 There's nothing the matter" And
the pilot said to him, "There is a mist gath
airing on the river don't you see that and
there Is night gathering darker and darker,
and I can't see the way"
Then the engineer, looking around and
seeing it was a bright moonlight, looked
into the face of the pilot and saw that he
was dyirg &, and then that he was dead. God
grant that when our last moment comes we
may be found at our post doing our whole
duty. And when the mists OF the river of
death gather OF u eyelids may the good
Pilot take the wheel from our hands and
guide US into the calm harbor of eternal
rest
Drop the anchor, fuEl the saa,
lam safe within theRale.
The Penn's Grove record., 1893-12-22
-Four Lives for Love and Gold.
Startling Dual Theory in thu Koss-
ter Poisoning Case.

INDIANAPOLIS, IND.-Love for and a
desire to marry Charles Rooster, was
alleged against Annie Wagner, on trial
for poisoning four of the Rooster fam
lily. But Charles Boden, a notary,
testified that while he WAS there to fix
up the grandfather's will, a few months
before tho poisoning, the brothers,
Frank and Charles, quarreled in the
old mans room oyer his will. Neither
Of them liked it; and the head mem
bers of the family stood in the way Of
the brothers getting what they wanted
out of the estate. Charles Rooster is
the chief witness against the girl. .
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Pennsylvania Items

| llICC AOOtDduS ilC4h up l.. M JIiCSi
OF Carlisle. and robbed him Of $50
Weary Of life's burden. Michael
Mangen, Pittston cut his throat, and
will die.
Seven cents rewarded burglars who
broke into the Philadelphia and Rcad.
ing Station at Cressona,
Conductor Milton Gackenbach tum.
bled from a trolley car at Catasauqua
and met instant death.
For alleged false arrest, W. A. Dren.
nan, Lancaster. has sued Elwood Rea
for $4,000 damages.
Children Of Mrs. David McKeown,
of Greensburg, found her body roasted
black, lying by the stoue.
George Hill and Richard Evans were
dangerously injured by an explosion
in a Pittston colliery.
There are 993 applicants for liquor
licenses in Sehuylkill county, an in
crease of 40 over last year,
In a freight train wreck on the Le-
high Valley road at Mauch Chunk, two
locomotives and five EARS we're smashed.
For the death of his son, Nicolas
| Madara, of Pottsyllle, recovered $3.50
from the Pottsyille Iron and Steel Com
pany.
All children in Timaqua who shall not
have been ~vaccinated prior to January
18th next, will be turned out of school
that day.
Two men working at the garbage
dump, Pottsville, were overcome by the
gas and heat, and barely escaped Gre
nation. .
In a explosion Of gas that occurred
while they were monding Il broken pipe
at Huntingdon, Henry Houston and
his sol were badly injured.
Among the articles sold at a benefit
for the poor children of Carlisle was a
tiny bureau made by Charles Salyard,
soon to be hanged for murder.
While Rev. j. i. Pfuhl, of st.
Michael's Luthern Church, Harris
burg, was.in the pulpit a thief looted
the parsonage TO the extent OF $1,000.
Thomas Shannon, ex-cashier Of the
Pittsburg and Western Railrod at New
Castle, was CONNECTED of forgery and
the embezzlement Of $500. l
Harvey Matthews, who shot james
McAllister fatally nj Pottsville, is out
IF Jail under bail.
AS he was returning from a funeral
at Miners Mills, Lancaster County,
Michael Dougherty was cut to pieces
by a train.
The Philadelphia and Reading ex-
press train, from Philadelphia, was de-
rallied nea Locust Gap, but no n was
hurt.
The first passenger train over the
new Central Railroad of Pennsylvania
was wrecked near Bellefonte, but all
persons escaped injury.
Two hundred unemployed men were
set at work on the'streets in PIttsburg
at the expense of the contributors OF a
considerable sum of money. :
Farmer George Wilt, worth $4,000
hanged himself at NJ echanicsburg.
The body of Thomas Cleary, of Ply
mouth, was found in the woods near
Sandy Run.
James Zehr, who stabbed to death
Joseph Zehr, al Hazleton, last week,
has been captured,
F. S. Smith. wanted in Bangor for
forging a check for s435, has been
captured at Richmond, Ind.
There will be a skating tournament
on Christmas on the Neshaminy Creek
under the auspices of the Doylestown
Athletic Club.
Plans for the State Industrial School
were discussed at a meeting of the Sol
diers' Orphans Commission, held at
Harrisburg.
Attorneys for Henry Heist, SEN
fenced at Gettysburg to be hanged on
January II, will ask the Pardon Board
to commute his sentence to life I'M
prisonment. D
The Penn's Grove record., 1893-12-22
NEWS IN BRIEF.

No kissing yer occurs IN japan ex-
even between . mother and child, no
shaking of hands in salutation. If one
were to offer a kiss to a Japanese mall
den she would probably think she was
going to be bitten.
"A coon, with a leather strap around
its neck, which was lost by a young
woman at Chester, W. Va, about if
teen years ago, was found the other day
by o hunter in the woods near Chester.
The animal still had the leather collar
around Its neck.
The young dandies of the Latin
Quarter of Paris wear tall stovepipe
hats whose brims have an exaggerated
downward drOop, and whose high
crown has what an artist would call an
"entasis," or decided convex curve.
The Grass Valley (Csl,) Telegraph
says: ga mining location notice was
recently recorded which reads: 81
hereby claim 1850 feet OF this ground
up big Squaw Ravine in a wobbly di-
rcction."
An apple tree, which is claimed to
have borhe fruit for the last century
and q quarter, is still in bearing in an
orchard near Lenoir. n G.
bicycles for military couriers and
ig dogs for sentries and ambulance
service are curious features Of the tent.
ed field.
Some insurance companies will al
low the use OF none but the old-fashlon-
ed sulphur matches in the houses they
insure.
The superiority of the soldiers of
the French Revolution was partly due
to the introduction of a lighter musket
with q stock shaped like that now in
use.
The Navajo Indians are great shep-
herds, unlike most redmen, and are
said to have herds of a million sheep
near Flagstaff, IN Arizona.
The leaf OF the pineapple plant can
be wrought into a serviceable cloth.
A saint is a man OF convictions who
has been dead hundred years canon
lied now, but cannonaded while living.
Much of the trouble in this world
happens because men take too much
time to make money and too little to
enjoy it'll
1t is astonishing how soon the whole
conscience begins to unravel If a single
stitch drops; n little sin INDUCED
makes a hole you could put your head
through.
To be Of noble parentage and not to
be endowed with noble qualities is ra-
Their a defamation than q glOrv.
-Camphor is cultivated at Hioga,
Japan. About one-fourth of the pro.
ct comes to the United States.
1t is easier not TO speak at all than
1t is to keep from saying too much.
The great man is great in knowing
how to make others make him great.
All truth Is nonsense TO the man who
has taken a lie into his heart
The shortest names mentioned in
the Bible r Al, Ar, Ed, Og, On, SO,
Or, and Uz.
Men resemble the gods in nothing
so much as In doing good to their fell
low creatures.
The wild strawberry is found v
almost all the Northern Hemisphere
above the thirty, eight parallel of lati-
tude.
You, who forget your own friends,
merely to follow after those Of a higher
degree, are q snob.
II you want to please an ordinary man
call him good-looking, if you want to
please Q very homely man call him hand
some.
Every dellay some men get widens
the gull between them and heaven.
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1893-04-19
GRESHAM AND THE EAGLE.
Indications that This Will Be An Ameri-
can Administration.

WASHINGTON, April 9.-Secretary
Gresham is mettlesome man, with
out being in the least obstreperous. His
attitude is straight, without being in
any manner disfgured by inharmon-
ious perpendicularity. His head is
level on all occasions. When shot
down on the field of battle be still had
the pluck to enforce the threat to use
his pistol to kill the surgeon who pro-
posed at once to cut off his leg; there
fore be has two pretty good legs left to-
day. He doesn't swagger, but acts.
He is never offensive; nevertheless, he
makes himself understood. He did it
when in everyday life, on the bench,
and is doing it in the Department of
State. The sultan of Turkey knows
that. The exceptions TO the rule will
be rare indeed. He is an American,
born on the stump on the Indiana
border, where men stand on their feet
naturally. These few remarks are peril
nent to what is ahead, whether as to
results in the Atlantic or the Pacific
ocean, or in any other part Of the
world. Gresham esteems highly the
American eagle, and lives up to Uncle
Sans teachings, in or out of the Cabi-
net
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1893-04-19

sters of power that come laundering
down the rails" Not long ago an At
lanta jury gave $500 damages to an en-
gineer, because he sprained his ankle in
stepping down from the locomotive
that he ran. The step had gotten loose
and turned with him as he descended.
Last year the Western and Atlantic
railroad settled with negro woman
for the death of her husband. She
had lived with him for sixteen years
and was the mother of his childen, but
another woman has brought suit be-
cause she twas his just wife and he
took and left her." Anything is sufi-
cient for case against railroad.
When will this prosecution stop or be
mitigated? What peculiar or exclusive
rights or privileges have railroads that
other corporations or other people have
not got. There was time when COM
mon carriers had>some exclusive privi-
leges, but now-anybody can transport
freight or passengers, anybody can
build q railroad anywhere and can en-
croach upon another road and take part
of its rlght-of-way. john Anderson
keeps good horses and carriages and
sends the drummers to and fro, but if
his team should be frightened and spill
the drummer in the road and break his
leg, is the drummer going to sue John
Anderson? No! Where does the diff
ference come in? Both Anderson and
the railroads use all foresight and all
the diligence they can. If any differ
ence should be made by the law, it
should be made in favor of the rail-
roads, for the public can't possibly get
along without them. If stock law is
right to protect farmers and save fenc-
ing, how much more is it right to pro-
tect the lives of passengers on train
from being derailed and killed by rea-
son of cattle on the track. John An
derson should drive round the cow, but
the COW should keep off the railroad.
This is common sense and common
justice.
The wonder of it all is that anybody
would take stock in a Georgia railroad,
considering the limitations and perse-
cutions that surround them. The won
der is that some of them do not throw
up the sponge and surrender their char
tiers, and this thing will happen some
of these days. Then what howl there
would be among the people along the
line. Just Imagine it. The cars stopped
running. No more riding to Atlanta
or Augusta or Macon. Everybody
penned up at home. Have to hire
horse and buggy and pay 10 cents
mile and lose two whole days to go 80
miles. Oh, my. country, from sucha
calamity, may the good Lord deliver
US. BILL ARP.
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1893-04-19
When Edison Was Young.
From Practical E1ectricity.1

From Practical Electricity.l
II was an operator in the Memphis
Office when Thomas A. Edison applied
to the manager for a position" said A.
G. Rockefeller, q member Of the Remi-
niscence Club, ST.. Louis. "He came
walking into the Office one morning
looking like veritable hayseed. He
wore a hickory shirt, pair of butter
nut pants tucked into the tops of boots
size too large and guiltless of black
ing.
"'Where's the boss?' was his query,
as he glanced round the Office. No one
replied at once and be repeated the
question.
''The manager asked him what he
could do for him, and the fdture-great
man proceeded to strike him for a job.
Business was rushing and the Office
was two men short; so almost any kind
of lightning singer was welcome. He
was assigned to desk and fusiiIade
of winks went the rounds of the office,
for the Jay was on the st. Louis wire,
the hardest in the Office.
"At this end of the line was an op-
orator who was chain-lightning and be
knew it. Edison had hardly got seated
before st. Louis called. The new conner
responded and St. Louis started in on
long report, and he pumped it in like
house afire. Edison threw his leg over
|'the arm of his chair, leisurely trans
ferred a wad of spruce gum from his
pocket to his mouth, picked up pen,
examined it critically and started in,
about two hundred words behind. He
didn't stay there long, though. st.
Louis let out another link Of speed, and
still another, and the instrument on
Edlson's table hummed like an old
style Singer sewing machine.
EVERY man in the Office left his
desk and gathered round the Jay to
see what he was doing with that elec-
trio cyclone. Well, sir, he was righ5 on
the word, and was putting it down in
the prettiest copper-plate hand you
ever saw, even crossing his t's, dotting
his is and punctuatiug with as much
care as man editing telegraph for rat
printers.
st. Louis got tired by and by and
began to slow down. Edison opened
the key and said, Here, here! this is
no primer class! Get hustle on you"
Well, sir, that broke st. Louis all up.
He had been raw hiding Memphis for
long time, and we were terribly sore,
and to have a man in our Office that
could walk all over him made US feel
like a man whose horse had wor: the
Derby.
''I saw the wizard not .vDg ago. He
doesn't wear a hickory shirt nor put
his pants in his boots, but he is very
far from being dude yet"
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1893-04-19

poets to disappoint some with certain
appointments, he nevertheless intends
that his side of all such matters shall
not be weak; and that though now and
then there will be fight, he will stand
justified and finally be sustained by the
people; he does not say by the Demo
Gratis always, and obviously is not act
ing specially for applause from that
quarter in all or even in majority of
cases. At the END Of six weeks in the
Presidency, be is content both with
what be has done and what he has re-
fused to do. He is buoyant except as
to the pressure from office seekers; and
they will hear something drop before
long.
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1893-04-19
TILLMAN's UNIQUE MISSION.
he Might Have Escaped e Good Deal OF
Shenanagan by Sampling New York
Whiskey.
New York SUM-

Rarely has Governor of any State
of the Union undertaken a mission of
greater interest than that in which the
Democratic-P -Populist Governor ofSouth
Carolina is engaged at this time. Gov
ernor Tillman has left the State to lay
in stock of liquors for the consump-
ton of South Carolinians under the
new law by which the State Govern
ment is empowered to conduct and
control the liquor traffic of the State.
He has been in Pittsburgh upon that
business for the past few days; but we
cannot believe that he will make his
purchases in any such place; or at least
we do not believe that be will get any
thing else than his Monongahela whis-
key there. For all kinds of liquors of
the first quality, even for choice whis-
key, he must come here to New York.
It is to this market that he must come
at last; and we are sure that, when he
arrives at The Grand Central Station,
with the money in his pocket 1--WE re-
gret to say that the credit of his State
is vague in Wall street), the principal
distillers, brewers, wine makers, and
liquor-shop keepers of the city, will do
him honor, furnish hum with an escort,
march behind his carriage in procession
up Broadway, and show him all around
their places of business. Give US cir
Gus like that, headed by the biggest
liquor dealer in all creation, the Gov
ernor Of the old Palmetto State. The
Columbia parade, that's an old story:
the naval review, that has not come Oh
yet. The Carolina march, the Tillman
procession, with truck loads Of barrels,
demijohns, and bottles in the rear, dec
Grated with the flags of all the distil-
leries and breweries-there's thought
for the Governor.
Tillman will have to lay in tre-
mendous stock for the supply Of the
State, during the year beginning with
July, when the new law goes into effect.
At the time Of the last census, there
were 1851, ,149 people in South Caro-
lima; and when we consider the amount
ofstrong and malt and vinous beverages
which these people drink every month
Of the year, it may be possible to
form an estimate Of the amount of
trade that will be brought here by Gov
ernor Tiliman.
We must suppose that, in justice to
the Government and people Of the State,
the Governor will sample the liquors
before be buys them. He cannot trust
implicitly in the representations OF
brewers, distillers, and other dealers.
There are men among them, we are
sorry to say, who would not scruple to
give him good deal of shenanagan
trying to get his custem. He must test
things for himself, even though he may
have to stay good while in New York
to do it. There are plenty Of men in
the Palmetto State who know liquors
when they taste them, or at sight, or
by smell; and they will not allow any
Governor to palm off poor stuff upon
them. If he tries that sort of game be
can never be reelected.
The anxious eyes of the trade here
will now be turned to the Grand Cen.
trail Station, lightened with the hope Of
catching sight Of the best customer ever
seen in New York.
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1893-04-19

five houses and thir y barns were de-
stroyed. One woman was killed and
number of people badly hurt. At
Royal Oak, Michigan, among the
houses wrecked was one belonging to
Christian Brick. Brick and his wife
were caught in the wreck, which took
fire and they were burned to death.
At Clarksvi le, Mich, one woman was
killed.
KILLED BY THE CYCLONE IN MISSOURI.
ST. LOUIS, April 13.-Latest reports
from the cyclone in Missouri show
eight persons killed at Hawkins Bank
and thirty-one seriously injured, of
whom five will die; at Lexington i've
dead and three fatally injured; at STAN
bury three dead and two fatally injured;
at Steelton seven dead; at Page City
one dead and five fatally injured.
FATAL RESULTS NEAR HIGGINsvILLE,
MISSOURI.
H1cGINsvILLE, Mo-, April 13.-In
the path of the storm between May
view and Lexington eight persons were
killed outright, and three more will
probably die from their wounds, and
twenty-five were wounded.
SEVEN KILLED AT COUDSAY.
SALE, Mo-, April 13.-Seven persons
were killed and seven seriously injured d
at Coudsay in Wednesdays cyclone.
THE STORM IN LOUISIANA.
NEW ORLEANS. La, April ia
cyclone struck Tensus Parish, in North
Louisiana last evening and did great
damage, destroying many houses,
barns, gins and negro quarters. One
negro was killed in the neighborhood
of st. Joseph, and several women were
severely Injured. Reports are slowly
reaching points of communication and
are to the effect that there has been
much less of property.