The Penn's Grove record., 1895-09-13
NEWS OF THE WEEK,
Eastern ana
fiddle States

Twenty thousand acres of land along
the Mobile and Ohio Railroad, about
60 miles north of Mobile, have been
sold to a colonization company organ
zed at Sioux City, Iowa.
The Camden and Atlantic Railroad
has decided to double track the entire
sixty miles of the line from Camden to
Atlantic City.
In the Federal Court, at Seattle,
Washington, District Judge Hanford
read and concurred with the decision
of Circuit Judge Gilbert, of Portland,
in the case Of the Northern Pacific
Railroad Company against Receivers
Oates, Payne and Rouse. The Court
decides that the Receivers must appear
in that district and answer the charges
recently filed by President Brayton
Ives, and it also holds that the $1,000
600 of certificates issued by the Receiv-
ers are not valid and not liens, unless
confirmed by the courts of jurisdiction.
Senator Calvin S. Brice has bought
the Cleveland, Akron and Columbus
Railway. By the deal made 100, 900
shares of stock in the road go to Brice
for $500, 900. Brice has been elected
President of the road, This gives HIM
a lake and eastern outlet for the Akron
and Western.
Secretary Herbert ordered the United
States Marine Band to participate in
the dedication of the Chickamauga
National Park.
The State Department has received
no news from Minister DENLY oil any
other source confirming the reported
attacks on native Christians and their
mission buildings in China. The re-
ports are therefore regarded as false. 8
In the Court of General Sessions, in
New York, a number of milk dealers
were fined from S25 to $75 each, with
an alternative of from ten to thirty
days imprisonment, for selling impure
milk. Nearly all paid the fines.
The Treasury circulation statemen
issued shows a net decrease of money
of all kinds in circulation in the United
States on September l, of $40, $50, 1853,
making the total circulation $685.
5SS, 02S, or $22.S7 per capita, based
on 70, 127, 900 population. AS compared
with September 1, 1894, there is a de-
crease in circulation of $43, 600, 600.
The Secretary of War signed an order
permitting the city of Philadelphia to
improve the delaware and Schuylklll
rivers. A portion of the Schooner
Ledge, on the Delaware, will be re-
moved and the channe deepened
along that range. On the Schuylkill
the channel will be deepened by dredg-
ing mort of its mouth.
Five laborers we're s~uffocated by the
bursting Of a gas main in Providence,
Rhode Island. 4
Bishop Mcdonnell, who arrived al
Brooklyn from Rome, announced thai
the Pope has made P. ]. McNamar,
the Vicar General of Brooklyn, a Mon.
signor.
A story was published in Columbus,
Ohio, to the effect that a coalition is
being made between Foraker and Quay
in behalf of Reed, of Maine, for the
Presidency. G
The Treasury Department has decid-
ed that importers must furnish pro
forma invoices to collectors of customs
even if the value of the merchandise
is less than 800.
Collectors of Customs at Buffalo,
New York, have been instructed that
no entry of any animals must be per.
mitted without the deposit by the I'M
porter of q sum sufficient to defray the
expenses incident to quarantine.
Flora Macarthur, 81 years of age,
Jumped from the Brooklyn Bridge.
She was picked up near the bridge dock
in an unconscious condition. She
wore a life preserver and an American
flag was wrapped around her body
She was arrested.
Secret Service men have r~ecaptured
DIR. o. E. Bradford, who escaped while
in custody a month ago. Bradford is
one of the famous Brockway gang oil
counterfeiters.
A transfer boat of the New York,
New Haven and Hartford Railroad ran
down a sailboat in the East river, and
a Mrs. Marsh was drowned.
John Lynch, aged 16, was killed and
several persons were injured at Staple
ton, Staten Island, by the o%verturning
of a tally-ho.
Mrs. Clara Macarthur, the woman
who jumped from the Brooklyn bridge,
was fined IS and dismissed.