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The Penn's Grove record., 1896-01-10
GROVE, N. J.. FRIDAY. JANUARY 10. 1896.

The Central Hotel at Altoona, Pa,
and the STREET. Block adjoining were
destroyed by fire entaiiing a loss of
$140, 900. Frank H~ouseman, a fire.
man, was caught by a falling wall and
killed.
Reports have reached Knoxville,
Tennessee, that in a battle between q
posse Of officers and m%oonshiners in
North Carolina, near the Tennessee
line, men were killed and several
others injured.
Amos Robertson, a prisoner, was
shot and killed while attempting to
escape f:om the Jail at Columbiana,
Alabama.
Mrs. N. Numberg, a widow, who
lived in the rear of a shop in Brooklyn
killed herself and her only child. She
was very poor and in i'll health.
A mob at B~eauharnois, Quebec,
broke into the jail in an attempt to
lynch Valentine Shorts, a murderer,
whose death sentence the Governor
General recently commuted to impris.
onment for life. The Sheriff saved
Shortis's life by a stratagem and took
him to Montreal.
At Lincoln, Nebraska, Judge Holmes
sentenced George w. Davis to the
~penitentiary for life for wrecklng a
Rock Island passenger train car in
Lincoln whereby II lives were lost
The President issued a proclamation
declaring the admission OF Utah, as a
State into the Union. The officers of
the new State will be installed and its
Legislature will meet in called session.
News reached Port Townsend, that a
lifeboat and buoy belonging to the
Canadian. Australian steamship Mio-
vera had been picked up on the beach
near Ozette, 15 miles south of Cape
Flattery. 1t is feared that the Mo
vera has been wrecked.
The yacht Talisman, rumored to
have been lost off Hatteras, arrived
safely at Wilmington, North Carolina.
The President signed the joint res
olution authorizing the acceptance of
the ram Katahdin, constructed by the
Bath Iron Works, Bath, Maine, and
rejected by the President and Secretary
of the Navy for failure to make the
speed required by the contract.
The contracts for the new battleships
Kearsarge and Kentucky were de-
livered to the Secretary of the Navy,
a d work IN the ships has already
been begun by the Newport News Com
pany. l
Stockman B. ]. Cloud froze to death
near Winchester, Ky.
Saloon men will unitedly revolt
against the brewers combine at Kan
sas City, Mo.
At his hotel in New York George
Law, the former street railroad presi-
dent, is dangerously Ill.
With a lance the wife Of DR.. f. o.
Baker, ex.Mayor of Menomine, Wis,
committed suicide.
New York dealers have combined in
q potato trust, to control'a all New York's
and Jerseys output.
Louis P. Davenport, a Lehigh Uni
versity student, was drowned at Balti-
more while skating.
While Abram Leonard and wife
were at church, near Dallas, Tex,
their two children were cremated in
their burning home.
Warden Fallon, of the Tombs pris-
on, New York city, has been re-
moved.
The Federal Supreme Court has
awarded New York State s131, 900, the
claim in full for interest ON a war loan
to the Government.
Aged Bookkeeper H. F. Williams,
shot himself and died, at Perry, Okla,
leaving q note saying he did not want
rich relatives at Pittsburs, Pa, to hear
of his fate. 2
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Pennsylvania
~ss<- Items.

Stockholders have ratified the new
Reading Traction combine.
DR.. Leonard Pearson, of Philadel-
| phia, was appointed State Veterinarian
at a salary OF $4,000.
Henry Gelvis and his wife, of Mertz-
town, died of fever the same day and
will be buried together.
Richard Stevens, of Hoboken, N. j.,
had a fne yacht, the Aileen, launched
at Roach's, Chester.
Two tramps fired on a locomotive
crew who tried TO drive them from the
railroad near Lebanon.
Joel M. Stritzler fell dead in the
treet at Shoemakersville.
Counterfeit half dollars are plentiful
at Pittston.
A train at Pittston ran down and
killed Thomas Bestford.
There were % fires in Pottstown last
year, with an aggregate loss of $685.
600.
A Chester County horse insurance
company last year paid an average of
s53 q head for 20 horses that died.
Cock fights are numerous in schuyl-
kill County.
All the State school funds but $4o,-
900 have been distributed.
DR.. Frank Lenahan was elected
Luzerne County Jail warden.
Wilkesbarre vii get its water supply
from the Snsqhehanna River, above
Pittston.
For a sprained ankle Anthony Rice
sued the Shamokin Street Railway, at
Shamokin, for $4,000.
Accused of a serious crime, Edward
J. Hughes, one of the Schuylkill
County Almshouse keepers, is under
arrest.
Pulling a bucket of hot water upon
herself, the little daughter of John
Hazleton, Uniontown, was scalded to
death.
A lighted match, which she dropped
to the floor, ignited the clothing and
fatally burned Miss Hannah Morgan,
ticket agent at Morning Side. on the
Allegheny Valley Railroad. s
A woman who smashes windows op-
crates at Altoona.
Four girls and their beaux, at
Schaefferstown, were arrested for dis
tnrbing = religious meeting,
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In ne OF bis astronomical lectures
Professor Proctor nee said that 300,-
900 worlds the size of our earth could
be put inside the sur.
The deepest place ever measured
in lake Michigan showed a depth Of
$40 feet, or about one-slxth Of a mile.
The near depth is 325 feet, Or n six
teenth of a mile.
China is soon to establish q foreign
university at Tientsin, where mechani-
cal and scieptitie instruction will he
given by foreign professors.
Marshall Pass, on the Denver aud
Rio Grande Railroad, is the highest
point yet attained by a railroad In the
United States; elevation, 10, S55 feet.
When clouds FRA heavy blessings
come,
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sub.titute.

IT tell you" said the pert young as
s~istant, "the editor ISN'T In and rufsuot
going to tell you again. II you have
anything for him you can leave 1t With
me-"
VERY well" said the caller, taking on
his coat. 81 came To- to give him a good,
sound thrashing, but I'll give it to you
instead."--Harpers'B Bazaar.
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Spanish Citizen-Ah, back. / seei
Spanish Military oficer-Yes, Just
ran back to look D.. a few thousand
re-enforcements.
"so7 How are then in Cubaf
"oh, we've got rascals. They
can't escape from islandp-Cleve.
land Plain DealertteA
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VEIL LikeIy,

Wife-The baby has a troubled look
wonder what hefs thinking about?
Husband-He,s probably wishing we
lived In Greenland, my dear. where the
nights are sir months tong.-Life.
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Mrs. Bargain--VVhy don't you charge
81 for these good4 instead of 90 cents?
salesman-Whys ma'am, you're al
ways sur to think Of something else
you want while waiting for your
changs!-Truth.
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PooE Papa.

Papa, where ale the most diamonds
foundg' asked Willie. I'm somebody
else's hand whep they are trump"
growIed papa, whb'd been having hard
luck at whist-HArpers Bazaar.
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A Man de Fashion.

Henry-pdi like 10 get yer ter cut three
o four inches on this scat fur me,
Sarah. Short cloats are goin' ter be
fashionable this winter.
sarah-In do ~ hen I'm not busy,
Henry.
Hsnry-And SAY, Sarah, yer better
save the cloth ye3 cut Oh, because next
year long coats 1lmay be the fashion
again. and I'll waAnt ter sew it on, SOS
I'll be able ter keep In the style.-Roz
bury Gazette.
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Maud-Prmros4, the poet, is an odd
chap; don't you think he's insane7
Amy-Goodnessl no; he isn't a great
enough poet for that-New York
World.
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JeaiSusy.

Old J~ealousboy (f~uriously) = Now,
madam, I demand Of you-who is that
young man? I saw him just sinking
out Of the back dobri
Wife-Ha! hal bal Why, that's the
new cook. in her bicycling costumei
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LOU had Y ~ y0ur play.
your debts. vs.. Ia
Bob. it's not 6sarT now. Ny
creditors keep all my notes for the sake
Of my autograph.-fFllegende Blaetter.
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TOP Bad.

Toto I'm tears}-kBoo-oooois
Papa-what's the matter with that
boy now7
Toto-oh, pal i've swallowed one of
the cartridges Of Jiour r~evolveri
Papa-You little wretchi And l
can't even give Ek5uu q thrashing for
fear Of explodinst the cartridge.--Lon.
don Globe.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-12-16
nNAR TO THE KNIFE"
QUOTH THE BOARD
Supervisors Will Bitterly
Contest the Last Elec-
tion.
Declare That the Law Was
Violated by Precinct
Registration.
Attorney George H. Francoeur at
Work on a Complaint-Suit to
Be Filed Soon
"IVar 20 the knife.

"IVar 70 the knife"
This is the cry of the present or "old"
Board of Supervisors against the new"
board. or those successful at the last cleo
ton. The battle will take the form OF a
suit to inyaiidate the whole of the last
election.
Some time ago THE CALL announced
that the present Board OF Supervisors
intended to contest the election OF the
new board. The grounds on which 1t was
intended to make this contest were that
the board is not exclusively a body to
govern the City, but the County as well,
and that under the County Government
act the nj m bers were entitled TO hold
over privileges along with the Sherln ana
other county officers.
But now the board has taken new
tack. Consideration brought them TO the
view that the position they had taken In
the matter was hardly tenable.
They have it at last. One OF the mem bers
dropped onto what seemed feasible cause
OF action, communicated 1t to the rest ana
i'm media;ely great excitement re1gneu.
II the grounds on which the board in
tends to bring suit are tenable the result
will be nothing more or less than an In
valuation of the whole of the last cleo
ton. 1t is simply the hypothesis that
precinct registration Is against the law,
and that by permitting it Registrar Hin
ton in effect caused the whole election to
be illegal. This might cause every one of
the City and County officers to hold over
for their respective terms.
About three weeks ago Attorney George
III. Francoeur was retained by the Super
visors to investigate the matter, and if in
his opinion he had good case to bring
suit. Francoeur has been at work on a
complaint for three weeks and in all prob
ability will have it completed to-day.
When seen yesterday he said:
Eyes, the Board of Supervisors is going
to contest on the ground that precinct
registration was illegal, thus invalidating
the whole election.
This is very important matter. mean
ing if we are successful that none of the
persons winning at the last election can
take office and we are accordingly WORK.
ing slowly and carefully.
81 expect to have my complaint finished
tomorrow. We shall probably file suit in
n few dayS
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-12-16
LONG GREEN'S REVENGE.
Contemplate Attempt OF the Ex-
aminer Man to Browbeat a Los
Angeles Baseball Club.

LOS ANGELES, CAL. Dec. 15.-"Long
Green" Lawrence of the Examiner has
found in the TuftsL Lyons baseball team
and their friends and counseIors of this
city an aggregation of gentlemen who can
neither be cajoled, inundated, coerced,
bulldozed nor bluffed into doing his bid.
ding. These gentlemen are fully satisfied
there are such characteristics as principle,
honor and truth among men, and having
asserted these things they have the cour-
age 10 MAINTAIN them.
Long Green, it seems, has been greatly
pIqued at the way he was fayed on the
evening of the banquet here soon after the
return of the local team, given in their
honor for their handsome victory over
Long Green, the AIerts of Alameda and
the Monograms of Portland. This Jour
nalisiic adventurer has never lost an OPP
portunity since the account of the banquet
was published in THE CALL to insinuate
that unless retraction were forthcoming
from the team ''they would get the worst
of it."
These threatening, insulting remarks
are now understood in base ball circles
here. 1t has been known fer some time
that negotiations were under way between
the Alerts and Tufts-Lyons to play
series of games in San Francisco during
the holiday season.
Yesterday message was received from
Long Green, signed by Mcneil OF the
park where the games were to be played,
saying that unless an apology was made
all arrangements for the games must be
considered off.
This contemplate effort of Long Green to
browbeat an organization of gentlemen of
honor and decency rnto stultifying them
selves for the doubtful honor of crossing
bats with the pets of the Examiner-the
Alerts has failed ANONYMOUSLY, and the
promised games will never be played, it
seems.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-12-16
MELODY AND LITIGATION
Miss Ellen Beach Yaw's Box
Receipts Were Gar
nisheed.
Her Attorney Makes a Statement
Showing That the Whole Mat.
ter Is a Mistake.

While Miss Ellen Beach Yaw was send
ing her voice skyward Monday night and
trilling like a hooking bird in rice
swamp. this all happening at the Baldwin
Theater, an unfeeiing garnishment was
filed against the box receipts. The amount
sought by the parties back of the process,
who are really the people connected with
the Musical Courier, was $1050 and this
was based on a claim for advertising Miss
Yaw In the East last year.
Miss Yaw was happily unconscious of
the presence OF minion of the law in the
house. Macmillan Dick drew music
TRANQUILITY from violin strings and Miss
Georgieila Lay, pianiste. attacked the
piano keys vigorously and with success
while the legal tormalities were proceed
ing at the box-office.
But yesterday Mr.. Andrew, attorney for
Miss Yaw and C. F. Humphrey, counsel
for F. f. Cooper, to whom the claim had
been assigned conferred, so that the heart
he anticipated that The money will be re-
leased to-day. He also anticipated that
the case will come up for trial in Los An
geles, which is Miss Yaw's home.
Last evening Mr.. Andrew made a state
ment OF the facts. which seemed to show
tuat MISS dW WAS only iuuOCeuLiy IN
volved in the matter.
1T is this way" said Mr.. Andrew:
Victor Thrane was Miss Yaw's manager
last year. Miss Yaw came over from
London under engagement and she had
the distinct understanding with Mr..
Thrane that she had no financial liability.
she had no money invested. had no finan-
cial interests in the receipts and was only
salaried. Mr.. Thrane caused advertise
ments to be given to the Musical Courier.
| do not know anything about the fact,
but suppose that advertisements were
placed in that paper to the amount
named. but Miss Yaw had nothing at all
to do with authorizing them.
81 want to have it clearly understood
that if it shall be determined that if Miss
Yaw owes anything she is not only
willing but anxious to pay the debt. But
she does not owe ANYTHING. The persons
mentioned in the writ are Victor Thrane,
who is in New York. and ii. w. Wachs,
in addition to Miss Yaw. | do not know
who Mr.. Wachs is. That is all there is to
the matter, except that I would like to
say that Mr.. Humphrey, the attorney, has
been very nice in The matter"
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is fighting foul fifteen or twenty times? "
mo. sir. Mr.. Groom came to me be-
tween rounds and said, Make them fight
fair; Sharkey is fouling.' | said FItzsim-
mons was doing the fouling and cautioned
him. Then | went over TO Sharkey ana
cautioned him, also"
Didn't Groom rush over to You ana
say, No, no, not that man; go over to
Sharkey? p -
The witness had not observed anything
of that kind. Needham called his atten-
ton to his claiming the foul. carp gave
his decision, put on his hat ana coat ana
walked out with the certificate IN his
pocket. Sharkey was III no condltion TO
receive it then.
The witness was asked as to whether he
had not called at the Baldwin Hotel and
asked to see Fitzsimmons, and whether
Clerk Clough had not informed him that
FitZsimmons was in the cafe, and that II
carp wished to see him he could send IN
his card. carp replied, with some feeling,
that nothing Of the kind ever happened,
that he had never asked for Fitzimmons,
and that Clerk CIough would not testify
to anything of the kind, and that the
statement was falsehood.
Mr.. Kowalsky objected to the defiant
manner of the witness, and said: "Ihere
may be good many people afraid OF this
man, but l don't believe that his threats
Will put anybody down.
Mr.. Barnes took a hand, and denied
that the witness had made any threats or
that his manner was threatening
Then came the expose of the Examiner s
fake journalism.
Have you made any statement to diff
ferent newspapers about this affair 2" asked
Mr.. Kowalsky.
mo, sir, not one" was the emphati C
reply. 1.-THE Examiner sent reporter
out few nights ago and | told him that l
had nothing to say. You let them GO oil
and do their talking and / will do mine
afterward. Lots of them tried to get in
terviews with me- but that was the only
time | was interviewed
Danny Needham gave his version of
the fight, which tailed with that OF
Sharkey.
Mr. Barnes announced that on to-mor-
row morning at 10 O'Clock ne would move
to dismiss the complaint and dissolve the
injunction on the ground that the courts
had no jurisdiction over the matter.
The case belongs to that class of sub
jects," he said, (which upon its face Is
contra bonos mores, the same as betting
on dog-fghting or cock-tighting. 1t
should be thrown out of court inconti-
nently."
Judge Sanderson said that he did not
grant the injunction without first reading
the complaint, and it disclosed nothing
upon its face except the affirmative alle-
cation that the exhibition was held in
conformity to law. and he could not take
into consideration any prize-fght or any
thing calculated to disturb the peace.
ut may be difficult thing to dissolve
that injunction on the face of the COM
plant ITSELF" added the Court. .'If Won
base ii upon the showing as to what kind
of contest it was you will have better
chance"
The counsel agreed that the official stem
ographer of the court. Mr.. Foley, should
be appointed as referee to ia Ike the re-
mainder of the dispositions. Judge San
derson will hear the arguments tomorrow
morning as to whether or not it was q
prize-fght
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of THE CALL upon the diphtheria question. l
never said TO representative of THE CALL
that diphtheria was epidemic. The article in
The CALL in which am quoted saying that
diphtheria is epidemic is simply q fake. There
Is no truth whatever in it. There is a repre-
sent alive OF The CALL at the City Hall who
visits the Health Office upon his rounds. /
have not spoken to him for six months. / do
not know whether he wrote the article or not
That Is immaterial. however for the whole
thing is false. The Board of Health has never
declared diphthera 10 be epidemic in this
City, and never told any one from THE CALL
that it was. Diphtheria is not epidemic in
San Francisco
From an interview which DR.. Lovelace
dictated to CALL reporter last ev ming
1t is evident that the Examiners inter-
view was strengthened" to say the least.
This is what DR.. Lovelace said to the
CALL reporter:
II never said the disease had been de-
clared epidemic. though / may have said,
and | think / did, that in my opinion
there were enough cases known in that
district to justify declaring the disease
epidemic. / never said 1t was beyond
the power of the board to declare the dis
ease epidemic, for / believe they have
perfect right to SO declare"
The CALL did not quote DR.. Lovelace as
saying that the disease had been declared
epidemic. 1t was his individual opinion,
and he admits that he was OF that opinion.
HE CALL did not say that he had stated
that it was beyond the power of the board
10 declare the disease epidemic.
Moreover, DR.. Lovelace declared yester-
day morning in the presence of witnesses
that the interview published in the Report
on last Thursday evening was practically
correct.
In that case he was quoted as saying
that diphtheria was undoubtedly
epidemic.
AS to the interview which the Examiner
strengthened, DR.. Lovelace was asked
if he had been interviewed by CALL
reporter on the subject OF Giphtheria. He
replied that he had nor.
They did not ask me as to the truth of
the diphtherla story" continued the
Health Officer. land | did not volunteer
any information. The story as published
in the Report was practically correct, but
did not give the story to any one from
HE CALL"
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ADMITTED BY L0VELAcE,
Thinks He Did Say That Diph.
liberia Was Epidemic in
This City.
An Examiner" Interview That Was
Strengthened" to Bear Out
Rank Fake.

The Examiner, in feeble effort to be.
little THE CALL in its endeavor to give the
public the news regarding the prevalence
of diphtneria in this City, and to divert
attention from the crooked transactions
of Long Green Andy Lawrence, the man.
aging editor, has resorted to absolute
falsehood.
When THE CALL stated that Health Off,
Ger Lovelace had declared diphtheria to
be epidemic it told the truth. The health
officers statement was that of individual
opinion, he having no right to make an
official declaration.
On the day following the publication Of
the article. Secretary Godchaux OF the
board, without having consulted his SUI
perior, told an Examiner reporter that the
Board of Health had not declared diph-
liberia epidemic.
On this frail basis the Examiner pub
lished sensational stories in which THE
CALL was accused of taking. Its supreme
effort was published yesterday morning,
when the following alleged interview with
DR.. Lovelace was published:
i was never interviewed by q representative
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-12-16
ART SALE TODAY.

Last Chance to Secure Some of the Gems
of the Sketch Club.
To-day will be the last day of the exhi-
bition of the Sketch Club, which has been
such feature OF interest among cultured
men and women during the past few days.
Many people have visited the rooms CT
the club, sos Montgomery street. out of
curiosity and have been surprised to find
on sale so many "bits" and bright canvases
ticketed at figures which would have been
double in some foreign gallery. The re-
suit has been that numerous canvases
have been sold, but enough remain to re-
of those still available are such as would
adorn the home walls OF any lover of ma
ture.
From 81 to $40 is an average figure and
critics are delighted with the bargains Of
fQrad