The Penn's Grove record., 1897-01-08
ROVE, N. j., FRIDAY, JANUARY s, 1897
THE NEWS EFTToMlzeo.
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Washington items.
The Loud bill to amend the postal laws in
regard to ~second-elass matter was passed by
the House.
Former Judge Lawrence, Of Ohio, ap.
peared before the Committee on Ways and
Means and advocated the adoption OF q
prohibitory tariff of wool.
Representative Brosius, of Pennsylvania,
introduced a bill providing for the retire.
ment on pension of employees In the civil
service.
Leonas G. II. Schleman, OF New York, has
been appointed Consul at Cape Hayden,
Hayti.
The President sent to the Senate the cor
re~spondence In the case OF Charles Gown,
the American correspondent, who WINS re-
ported to have been put to death after hay
ing been captured bythe Spaniards.
Secretary Herbert, In a report, says that
armor steel Plates for war vessels should
cost only about s400 n ton, this allowing a
big profit to manufacturers.
Senator Hale, OF Maine, in an interview
says that Cuba has been remarkably pros
porous under Spanish rule, and gives Stats
tics 20 sustain his assertion. The island, he
adds, Is not taxei unusually high, and he
doubts II the leaders Of the present lnsurrec-
| ton could < We her as advantageous o gov
eminent as that which she has under Spain.
In the hearing before the Ways and Means
Committee the tobacco growers appealed for
q restrictive tariff on Sumatra wrappers.
The manufacturers asked for n uniform rate
on tobacco Of about ffty-lve cents u pound.
Secretary Herbert decided to have new
tests made OF the steel plates furnished for
the battleship Alabama.
Domestic.
Acolored man, who had been arrested for
burning a barn belonging to a Mr.. Waua-
maker, was lynched at Orangebrrg, 8. O.
In ft OF jealous rage Charles Acker,
stabbed Jennie H~nlienbeck, q servant in the
family OF ex-Supervlsor Samuel Meyers at
East ~Taghkanick, N. Y, In the mock, and
she died soon afterward.
The annual session OF the New York Leg
islature was opened in Albany. Mr.. O'Grady
was chosen Speaker and Governor Blacks
message was read in both houses.
The centennial OF Albany as the capital OF
New York State was deliberately celebrated.
Professor Achilles Errani, once famous as
a tenor on the operate stage, and later as a
prominent teacher, succumbed to heart dis
ease In New York City on hearing Of Michael
Winters attempt to kill a servant employed
10 his house.
Emma Spreckles. who married at San Fran
cisco Thomas Watson against the wish Of her
father, CLAUS Spreckles, turned over TO the
latter 81. 500, 600 in bonds because he had
tainted her with ingratitude.
Christian Sehauer, Jr., Treasurer OF the
Nations Bank for Savings OF Allegheny,
committed suicide at Pittsburg, Penn, by
hanging himself.
Six persons were injured, three probably
fatally. By a wreck on the Chicago. Burling.
ton and Quincy Railroad near Carson, Iowa.
The Smith Carpet Mills, in Yonkers, N. Y,
have resumed work, and 1000 hands are
employed.
In his annual message to the Legislature
81 Pennsylvania Governor Hastings depre-
cntes the corrupt use of money In elections.
He points out that voters are bribed by the
purchase for them by dishonest politicians
Of their tax receipts Bosstsm is also de-
bounced. The Governor suggests leglsla-
lion to restrict the privileges OF foreign cor
porations.
Frank Ellison, the former well-known
New York City club man. who assaulted tho
aged broker, William Henriques, In 1898,
was released from Sing Sing Prison, after
serving over three years Of his sentence.
There we're slight runs on a couple OF st.
Paul (Minn.) banks, but the excitement was
soon over. Business men there say that the
panic Is at an end.
The ocean-going tug Luckenbach came
1 lutO II L l vi NtW tOik nu tOpOAlCu pt~
ing chased by the United States cruiser Ra-
leigh in mistake for II Gu pan 1libuster.
Mayor Wurster, OF Broc klyn, sent his an
nual message 10 the Board OF Aldermen of
that city. 1t will probably be known az the
last message OF a Mayor Of Brooklyn. He
included In 1t correspondence with State
Engineer Adams on water supply for Greater
New York from the Adirondacks. He also
made recommendations on consolidation.
TI,a Na-no~akfaa ra,,nl "a Noxx UA~Ir Otk,x
has furnished Superintendent Constable with
bis construction OF that section Of the Con-
solidation act wherein 1t relates to buildings
altered to be occupied by hotels. He holds
that any alteration, however slight in the
building itself, in order to use 1t as a hotel.
brings 1t under the section applying to tho
construction.
Company near Greenwich, N. Y, Dennis
Sullivan, sixty-eight years old, and james
Slower were blown to pieces by the explo-
sion OF a dynamite cartridge. The cartridge
had been placed IN a drill hole and In pry-
ing around the hole 1t exploded. Both men
loave families.
Senator Raines has gathered figures which
he-claims show that 5000 persons are selling
liquor in New York State without State
licenses.
Major Mckinley is working on his In
augural Address at Mr.. Hanna's home, Cleve-
land, Ohio.
Charles Lyons. who was found with his
skull fractured in a road at Englewood, N.
j., died without regaining consciousness,
and is believed to have been murdered.
Le.ta May Mcconnell, fifteen years old.
committed suicide by taking ~strychnine, at
her home in Menlo, N. J. She had been re-
primanded by her father, that being the only
cause for the act.
- a. xnskan n-l 1tthr a..
dustrles appeared before the Ways and
Means Committee to plead for a higher
tariff.
President Cleveland has received assur.
ances from Spain that reforms will be put
into effect in Cuba as soon as the Province
of Pinar del Rio is paciaed.
County Treasurer A. J. Jernigan shot
himself in his Office at Austin, Texas. and
will die. He confessed that there was a
shortage OF $4,000 in his accounts.
Ar so~mersworth, N. H., Frank Bogard, OF
Berwick, Me-, while skating on Salmon
Falls River, broke through the Ice and was
drowned. AL Waltham, Mass, William
Murphy, ten years old, was drowned while
skating on the Charles River.
The Farmers and Merchants Bank, CHI
cago, a State institution, has gone into
voluntary liquidation. tits announced that
depositors will be paid In full.
Bank Angel closed the Whhe
Hall (A1ioh.) State Savings Bank. The bank
has made no stassment. The last report
showed: Deposits, $4,000; loans and dis
eount, So, 900; stocks. bonds and mort
cages, $500, n $4,000 on hand.
Captain Zalinski, OF dynamite-gun fame,
returned from England. Ho said the British
have made great strides in the perfection OF
h~igh-exploslve guns.
Count De Moitke-Huitfeldt and Louise
Eugenie Bonaparte were married at Wash
ington by Cardinal Gibbons.
The Citizens National Bank, Fargo, North
Dakota. fTtled, and is 10 hands OF the Ma
tional Bank Examiner. The capital is $780,
900. The President Is FL. +. Miller. The