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The Penn's Grove record., 1896-06-05
PENIS GROVE, N. }. FRIDAY. JUNE 5. 1896.

A mob at Columbus, Ga, entered
the courthouse at that place, seized
Jesse Stayton, a negro who was being
tried for assaulting u white woman. and
dragged HIM into the street and rid
died him with bnllets. The crowd
then went to the Jail and compelled the
jail to surrender to them Will Miles,
a negro who vas await his fourth trial
for a criminal assault, and lyched him
also.
Children on the way to Sunday
school, in the Cole Brook Hills, Lam
caster county, Penna,, found in a
deeply wooded spot, the mutilated
body eff a child, z or s years of 10
The hands aud feet had been chop
ped off and the head was missing.
The Rev. Francis Hermans, the Salt
Lake minister, charged with the MUIR
der and cremation of Henrietta Clau-
sen, is supposed TO be in hiding'i in the
mountain Businesses of Idaho.
Mint Director Preston has dismissed
Weigh Cierk Chanlrau, Of the New
Orleans Mint, for embezzlement, and
directed that he be prosecuted. The
present extent of his known pecula-
tons is $50 IN gold. 2
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Foreign Briefs.

Nicholas ii, Emperor of Russia, was
crowned in the Cathedral of the AS
sumption in the Kremlin, at Mos
COW. .
A despatch from Havana says Span
iards there are elated oyer the decision
in the Horsa case. Senior de LONE,
the Spanish Minister at Washington,
cabled that The United States Govern
ment, acceding to the demand OF the
Spanish Legation, made real efforts to
obtain the result arrived at by the
Court, 4
The number of persons killed by the
stampede of the great multitude of
people on the Hodynsky Plains at
Moscow is officially stated 10 he
1888. No mention is made OF the in
jured. II was during the progress OF
The great free feast given at the ex-
pense of the CIR to whoever desired
10 partake.
The release OF all the members Oh
the Reform Committee, with the *
ception of Rhodes. Hammond, Farrar
and Phillips, the leaders. who we're
originally condemned to death, has
caused widespread rejoicing in the
Transvaal.
Private advices received in Key West
state that small pox is raging at the
Moro Castle, Havana. On the 24th
sixteen cases were removed from Moro
10 the hospital. !
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The Central American States, Saliva,
dor, Nicaragua, and Honduras, have al
last united under n flag, and will
henceforth be known as the "Republica
Major de Centre America" The con.
solidated republic will have an area Of
1903, S45 square miles (Honduras Al, 900
Nicaragua 1880, and Salvador 1853
and n total population Of about 1871.
900, In round numbers as follows: Hon.
duras, 10000; Nicaragua, 100000; and
Salvador, 777,0O0. The new republic
would have been still stronger had II
included Guatemala on the north and
Costa Rica on the south. In that case
the total area would have been 100, 24c
square miles COSTA Rica $4,000 and
Guatemala 6 8 5000, and the total popu-
lation about 1920 COSTA Rica $50,
600 and Guatemala 1,250,00W. with
such a union, embracing all the Central
American States, they would have had
a stronger credit, an increase of inter
state commerce, and a speedy develop.
ment Of railroads. as well as Of their ma
tive resources. Guatemala, however,
has always been hostile to the consolf.
dalton scheme, being much the most
powerful OF all the States. Indeed, the
present union may be regarded as one
of mutual defense against their war
like and powerful neighbor.
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Prof. Lugser, ~entomologist of the
State Experiment Station Of Mime.
sofa. submits a report Of the variety OF
ways In which the word "chinch bugr
was spelled by his various correspond.
ents. Here is the list as published In
the New York Critic: "Chingsboe,
chinch buck. chinsh bug, chingebugg,
c~hingh-bug. %chingebug. chintch bug,
chick bug, chine bug. chings bug,
chince bug, chinge bug. chints bug,
ching bug, chincebug. chickbug, chins
bug, ginge buck, chidgbuck, chlnsbug,
clnch bug, chinsee bug, chinz bug,
chinge-bug, chlnck bug, chinzbug,
chlnsch bug, chinee bug. chintz bug,
chich bug, chlnck bug. chinche bug,
schinsbok, chin bug. clnche bug, cinsh
bug, cinge bug, shinge-bog. chlnt bug,
chIntx bug, chInth bug, chInchbug,
c~hinchebug, chinxh bug, cb,neh bug,
chinthbug, chincsbug, ching DOG, ching
buga chInch-buck chink bug, cklnck
bug, c%hInckbug, chlngsbox. chintg bug,
chitz bug As an Illustration OF the
marvellous truth that no two minds are
alike, and, also, as a presentation OF
the most misspeiled word on record,
tho list deserves inspection. The chInch
bug, 1t seems. not emily works havoc
with the crops. but plays the mischief
with photography He Is an etymologi-
cal freak, at best, for ''chineh' from the
Spanish .chinche." Latin, "cimex," Is
bug" and the insects real name.
therefore, Is "bpg-bug"-an override
scrIption Of his Ubiquitous bugsiness.
Let the Minnesota officials make haste
to exterminate this nuisance before 1t
has made further inroads on the Ian
Ruage.
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Prof. Dyche, of the Kansas Univer-
sity. gives some interesting facts con-
corning Greenland, which he has twice
visited. II have never known an ex-
plorer who went to that country" he
says, 'twho did not have the desire to
so again, because of its peculiar, but
tndefinable, fascination" 1t is nj true,
he affirms, that the Esluimaux live en-
tirely upon blubber. They eat some Of
1t, but their principal diet Is meat, and
they are among the healthiest people
In the world, having no contagious dis
eases, and living to very old ages. The
married women all wear blue ribbon
III their hair, the single 'ones red, and
the widows black, to which white Is
added when they wish to marry again.
Eat one place." he remarks, there
were just eleven widows, and they
were all wearing the white with ths
black all the time"
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Pennsylvania
items

A two-year-old child Of John Opling-
er was fatally mangled by a trolley car
at Reading.
The President appointed James Nc.
Closkey as postmaster Of Johnsonburg,
Pa.
Eight.year-old Francis Shapick was
decapitated by a car at Eleanor mines,
neal Dubois.
]. A. Dinsmore, a travelling man OF
either Bloomsbury or Plymouth,
dropped dead in the street, at Pitts
burg.
Tcirty-six mules were burned IN a
fire which destroyed the stables at the
Greenwood breaker near Scranton.
The loss is $15, 600.
Mrs. Thomas Grady and Mary Bro
ply, her granddaughter, who were
badly burned in their home at Scran-
ton, have died from their injuries.
The Secretary of the Interior at
Washington has disbarred Attorney
Edwin Bookmyer, of Lancaster, from
practicing before the Interior Depart
ment for receiving illegal pension
fees. 8
The Pennsylvania cherry crop prom
ises to be large.
An old well at Quarryvilie has
caused many cases of typhoid fever
and two deaths. The we'll has been
closed.
Fifty colored men were brought from
Virginia to Minersville TO work on a
new water reservoir for the Philadel-
phia q Reading Company.
New warrants were served upon four
Reading men accused of illegal fishing
at Norristown, as they escaped trial
before.
The jury in the case of Jacob May
ers, who shot and killed his wife, while
returning from a dance. near Ligonier.
returned q verdict of acquittal.
Miss Maud Kelly was appointed No
tary Public at Butler.
Aged Ellis Artly was crushed lifeless
under a load of bark at Pennsdale, Ly-
coming county.
While in a barber shop at Canton,
Bradford county, Benjamin Iandon
committed suicide by cutting his throat
When logging on Mill Creek, near
Williamsport, Moore Simpler was struck
by a wild log, f~racturing his skull. 5
John Bottom, one of Readings mos
efficient fremen, is a deaf mute.
A Reading Alderman fined a young
man 81 for swearing on the street,
A Pittsburg preacher said, The BIZ
cycle is a good thing, a blessed thing"
Mine Inspector j.. NJ. Roderick, of
the Fifth anthracite district, H~azleton,
has resigned. 1
q. E. Whistler was appointed fourth
class postmaster at Scott Haven.
On his way home from the mine, at
Plymouth, James Britt suddenly cx-
PRED.
Postmaster e. F. Bogert assumed
charged of the Wilkesbarre mail dis
pensary.
After a prolonged fight, w. Ellis
Wise was appointed Chief of Police at
WilIiamsport.
Judge Clayton astonished a Media
grand jury by saying he had heard
that recently Thai jurors had been APP
preached by those interested in cases.
Remonstrances were filed in the
SchuIkill Court against the incorpora-
ton of a portion of Kline township
into a borough, TO be designated
Macadoo, the ~objectors being mainly
saloon keepers.
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The Bcston public library contains a
total Of 628,2 a7 books, OF which 15S,425
are In ten branches scattered through
ont the city. The number of persons
with registration cards is 34,S42, an In
crease OF nearly 5000 since the library
moved Into Its imposing new quarters
about a year ago. The Hub has put a
great deal of money into the institution,
but has the greatest and most active
public library in the country to SHOW
FOR n
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Those who accuse President Cleve-
land OF un-Americanism. because of his
felicitous letter to the Birmingham ORA
matte Club acknowledging the literary
supremacy of the Bard Of Avon, should
pause and reflect. Doubtless shak'
spears might have preferred to have
been born in this country. IL 1t had only
been OF ened up a little earlier, and they
should pity him as the victim of cir
eumstances rather than quarrel with
the praise which the verdict of cen
turtles las decided to be his due. More.
over, they should remember that ever
the Savior of the world was not a Yam
Gan
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There must be something wrong In
Che reported remark of Paderewski,
that his receipts were smaller In Bos-
ton than in the other great cities Of the
country. Some envious Jade hath doni
thisI
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John Jacob Astor has just paid ST.
800 for a single rose bush. Good! Per-
haps some of this money may help to
clothe and feed the poor who are starry
ing and suffering almost within a
stones throw from the Astor mansion
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The New Hampshire clergyman who
declares that he doesn't believe that a
respectable man would ride a bicycle
on Sunday will have to be brought up
to the bull ring for heresy.
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fhe x ray investigator who discovers
,omething deadly In Ice cream will en-
dear himself forever to the popular but
impccunious young a
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Poor. zee Woman

Iayk about poor, weak womanr'
There's Miss Helen Gould stopping a
s3O,OO0,000 elevated railroad deal with
q nod OF her pretty hsad.1Philadelphia
Press.
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A trolley car at Reading struck and
badly injured aged Daniel L, Strause.
The Penn's Grove record., 1896-06-05

John Hayes Hammond has been re-
leased OF parole to visit his wife, who
is seriously i'll at Johannesburg,
AT a Masonic Congress of all the
lodges in Italy, at Rome, Ernest Ma
than was elected grand master.
A falling stairway caused a panic at
Lockhart's American circus, at Ant
werp, in which 20 people were badly
hurt.
Fritz friedman, the abscondIng
Berlin lawyer, wal returned to that
city after several months in the Bor-
deaux Jail.
Cuthbert Cooper arrested at Shelf
field, charged with embezzling funds of
the Prudential Insurance Company, of
Erie, Pa. was discharged by the Judge
at the Bow Street police station, the
evidence being too weak to hold him. 2
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1896-01-23

An Australian paper, the Sydney Bull.
Ietin, after reinarking that Arthur A.
Zimmerman's great success az n cyclist
was generally attributed TO his large
heart, concluded as follows: lit Is strange
no mention " made Of another not unim.
portsnt feature Ia Zim's successive, his
largo ond faDlise ears. Whom Ziia was
racing In Adelaide, tho writer was parslcu-
larry struck with this PECULIARLY and cal
culstes thst tho American is at least two
teconas ~ tho mile quicker. owing solely
10 the Ingenious way he asslsts his ma
chine by working hIs ears windmill fash
,nr."
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1896-01-23
TELEPHONE ,
ReLIca OF BOOTHS THeAreH.
Decorations Used to Advertise y Dealer In
Secondhand Building Materials.

Almost all that il left of Booths old
theater, which stood ut tho corner OF TWEEN.
ty-th.Td street and Sixth avenue, IL part OF
Its outside figure decoration, now incon-
gruously ornaincnting n little two story
brick cfllce building In Avenue Is. The
Office Is that OF q dealer IN secondhand
building materials, and the zinc figures
that once were familiar to half the town
were placed on tho front OF tho little struc-
ture as q sort Of advertisement. The brown
painted zinc mednllions Of Tragedy and
Comedy hang at either extremity Of the
house Just beneath the caves, while on the
roof stands the enormous piece that SO
many thousands recall, the gildoe harp
symbolizing the lyric Stage and the two
oupidlikc figures blowing great trumpets.
The little Office building is dwarfed 10y Its
elaborate decoration, but tho desired effect
Is obtained, for every unaocustomed passer-
by pauses to stare at tho odd combination.
This Interesting relic is the preface 10
many others less significantly curious,
slowed away behind the little Office build
Ing.
Here ore hundreds Of those tombliko
marble mantols that respectable New York
ers OF 40 years ago felt themselves impelled
to erect about their frcEiaccs. Since fire.
places have glvan way to furnace registers,
there could DO nothing moro appropriate
than an inscription on the surviving tor,b.
like structures TO tho memory OF the spirit
Of cheer now vanished from SO many
hcarths. Along with the secondhand mar
BILE manteis are some thousands of doors
and windows, some cascd and ready IN put
into new houses, every sort Of movable In
terror decoration, mahogany stair rails
elaborate church pevs, pulpits, lectorns
and chandeliers All these things are
classified and arranged so that they may
be taken out with ease when a customsi
comes. The wnolo collection is eloquent
of the perpetual dissolution that overtakes
this town, tho uninterrupted process of re-
building that makes 1t a new city every
half century. The onlooker who sees great
10 story structures reared, as 10 were. In n
night catches himself wondering how soon
tho ruins of these ms yet untricd monu.
ments OF iron frames, brick filling and
stone facing will be- offered piecomoal by
dealers In secondhand building material.
New York Sun.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1896-01-23

MOTIFS.
"a Lead same as in the next shorter suit.
(2) II X falls to "A, lead q. otherwise orig
inal r.
@ II Q falls to A., lead X. otherwise F re-
naming.
"a II T wins. lead +: II Q falls. lead X to
show four. J 10 show five: IL A falls and q
does not, lead X.
90 II A falls, lead X, otherwise L.
t6) IL A or X falls, lead q, otherwise L.
90 IL or L, according TO fall Of cards.
REMARKS.
In the first combination. 20 indicate six cards
An suit, lead the J. then the x; TO indicate Z,
tho J, then the q.
In the second combination. to indicate or z,
lead the Q. then the X.
In the combination X. q, J. 10 and X. o, J,
10 indicate 0 or Z lead the J. then the q.
In all other combinations, with 9 and Z or
more In suit, lead the cards as for 5.
IL trumps ere out, the more conservative
method Of leading Fourth Best can be adopt
Cd for plain suits also.
This table OF American Lends Is 20 whist
what the multiplication table is to arith.
metic. The novice should study II in all
Its suggested relations. Not one lead is
there but 10 Is founded upon both natural
logic and practical convention. III they
are modihod-and every beginner should
look forward TO the time when, as an ex
pert, he can criticise and improve the con
ventions from the results OF his own ex-
perienoe in whist strategy-it will be from
the artificial rather than the natural side.
In short, every lead in whist has both n
seductive or mathematical and inductiye
or strategical justification. The logic OF
the former will DO taken up in the next
article. DIEDRIcH.
Knlckerbocker Whist Club, New York.
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New Punching DaK.

A big sporting goods house in New
York has on exhibition a new punching
bag which ought 20 be popular with men
who want something Of hat kind just for
exercise. II wouldn't do for professionals,
but for amateurs IL Is likely TO be quSe
satisfactory. Instead OF being suspended
from the ceiling the bag Is supported by n
stout hickory pole. The pole rests In n
coiled steel spring, which is set I'm a big
circular iron base which weighs about 100
pounds. The return Of the bag after n
blow Is more forceful than that OF a bag
suspended under n wooden disk, but it Is
not quite so thick. In other respects, the
bag acts just like one suspended from tho
ceiling. The beauty q the new contriv-
ance Is that II can be used anywhere. Il
ran he set up Ia any room. or In the hall
Of ever a small Cat. whore thoro would
never Dc room for the big striking board
Il tho old Kind
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1896-01-23
SPORTS or ALL SORTS.

Yale and Harvard will hold n whist
tournament some time In March.
Harvard has 151 candidates for the in
ter~collegiate field and track team.
Tom Lansing, q Louisville pugilist, is
said to nave fallen heir to o ESQ, 900 estate.
1t is stated that John Morrill, will be
engaged to coach the Harvard baseball
candidates.
Jack Glasscock, the veteran shortstop,
will manage the Quincy Oils. team the
coming season.
The Ministerial association Of st. Jo-
seph, Mo, has decided to inaugurate a cru
SADIE against Sunday baseball.
A running circuit, to include ~Indianap-
oils, Terro Haute and Ekhart, Ind. !;
Toledo and Columbus, o., and Saginaw,
Mich, Is being organized.
Forty young ladies In the State Normal
school at Warrensburg, Mo-, bave organ
lied an athletic association and will wear
boomers and sweaters.
A. Wiborn, captain Of tho crack athletic
team Of tho University of Pennsylvania,
has resigned, and George w. Orion, the
champion runner, has been elected to the
position.
The handsome b-year-old mare Quiz,
2:19L, by Wilkemont, which won first
prize in her class at tho New York Horse
show, belongs to James Gordon Bennett
and will be shipped to Europe,
The guarantee money, amounting ito
$3.50, which Harvard returned to West
Point, was used by the West Point foot
ball management In purchasing n silver
cup. which was presented to the Harvard
football eleven.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1896-01-23

tests. The challenge was open to oil bowl
ers in Rochester, Buffalo, Cleveland, Gin
%cinnati, Detroit, Chicago and N lwaukce,
or In citios in their immediate vicinity.
Rochester and Buffalo bowlers have al
ready agreed TO moet the Linden Groves,
and the Brooklynites expect to leave New
York March 22, playing Rochester March
23, Buffalo "a, Cleveland 20, Detroit 26,
Chicago ca and Milwaukee 90. In case
Cincinnati, Cleveland or Detroit bowlers
fail to accept the challenge the Brooklyn
ties will then play two nights in Chicago
and two nights In Milwaukee with sepa-
rate teams.
There are any number OF older bowling
organizations In New York and vicinity
than the Linden Groves, but N of them
boasts of such q large aggregation of stars
as the Brooklyn club. The Linden Groves
were organized In Brooklyn during the
season of 1890 and 1891, with a member
ship of IS. AT that time all who were con-
nected with the club knew little about the
game, to say nothing whatever Of entering
tournaments or even playing match
games, but they nave since become won
d~erfully proficient in making strikes and
ennreg
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1896-01-23

Tho effort to provide Ivy legislative on
actment for the puniahmgnt OF boys nirt-
ing with schoolgirls socrns 60 have been
unsuccessful In Virginia. About two
years q u law was passed making ~ n
misdcnoanor. punishable uron conviction
by hnc, f0r ny man 20 loitor about u fo-
male school The president 81 n prominent
RichmOnd female collcgc was the first Co
attempt n prosecution uuder the law
Later a similar attempt vH- made In =
VI tho border citlns to convict q young ban
~ Oglinr the girls Its tOptfol bOvoyor.
promptly ggye Notice that De would sub
sua Ail ~ the lady tsnobcrs add many 81
tie girls and brlHg fhsH two coivi ~
yitBcs.s iiathei than sgbiFi the Ihdin
- ihls Humiliation fts tfil opal ainr
8oDfd ihs tf3serBt.on Ilis iDs n de
isbss Indicates tbc lstuiE ~ cOnvlctiLs
eIrtsrs under ths lev s1d 10 will b. 20
pssl6d
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1896-01-23
A G BOWLER.
Nick Thyme and His Wonderful Team, the
Linden Groves of Brooklyn.

One OF tho best known bowling teams In
the country Is the Linden Grove aggrcga-
ton OF Brooklyn, which Is captainod by
the famous bowler Nick Thyme, the hero
of many a hard fought battle on the alleys.
Thyme Is an old hand at the sport, having
been through many bitter campaigns, and
naturally understands every point OF the
game. His II letrouble lies In the fact
that he cannot control his temper when
At comes down 10 a tight pace. He has
made many high scores In bis day, and
one member OF his team, Abort Silver,
claims q record score OF 800 pins. Not
long ago the LINDEN Groves announced
that they were ready TO play any team OF
three or five men for $3.50 n side or more.
Individual contests would also be made q
feature IL IL were desired. The style of
game was 60 be the American ten frame
tenpin, and the rules of the American
bowling congress were to govern all con-
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1896-01-23
LATEST THING IN CYCLES.
A Novel Wheel Lately Brought Out by an
English Inventor.

Over In London thoy have a new cycle
whether TO give IL the prefix Of uni or bi
has not yet boon determined. IL Is some
what more than M Cycle and less than
two and Is altogether different from any
genius Of the inventors OF wheeling novel
ties. Instead Of being on the wheel the
rider is inside IL. There IL practically "a
wheel within q wheel"
The inner wheel maintains q stationary
position, which Il Necessary because 10 has
fastened 20 IL the riders scat. Around 1t
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1896-01-23

rovolvos the outer wheel, with which IL
has three points of contact, three grD0yed
wheels that form a runway.
The power Is obtained by the simple
action Of a spring attached 10 the troadles.
nnd " Is promised that great speed will be-
made when the wheel IS properly used.
Ilghtnoss and simplicity Of construction
seem 10 bee It's best points. The rider, be
ing suspended below the machines center
OF gravity. maintains a level snaI-
Experts who have seen this new device
are not inclined 90 regard IL as practical.
IL may, however, catch the fancy OF that
element in the cycling world which is
looking for something unique and novel.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1896-01-23

Two and halt million dollars ls given
annually Tor charity in Chicago. An I'm.
vestigntion how In progress shows that 4C
per cent Of this vast sam Il consumed b,
oharitable Organisations ia ~dislribuAns
Tie other co poE osnk
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1896-01-23

In the following table, adapted from
"Multum In Parvo," an excellent con-
densation from The Gist of Whist - by
Charles K. Coffin, the capitals are the in
itials Of the names of cards-A for acc, Il
for Fourth Best, etc. The table Is in
tended for leads in both trump and plain
suits. The leads In starred combinations,
however, are for plain suits alone. For
trumps in these cases lead Fourth Best,
except you have seven or more in suit,
when you lead rs in table.
AMERICAN LEADS-FIRsT AND SECOND
ROUNDS.
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The Trarsvaal, Venezuela ard C.t,f 10
serve sympathy, but Armenis rsq strss
help sad protection. San Franchise Cslk