The Penn's Grove record., 1897-01-15
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Lue oeattle (NRSD,l savings BANK IalleO
10 open Is doors, and when the Superior
Court convened ii, o. Suey was appointed
receiver. The liabilities are s70.0 900 and the
assets more than $3.50, 600. 1t Is understood
that the direct cause OF the bank closing is
due to the attempted withdrawal Of county
funds, as the County Treasurer requested
hat the amount due be paidin cash.
AT Sacramento both Houses of the Cali
tornla Legislature met In joint session and
.ast the formal ballot electing George @.
Perkins United States Senator.
AT Madison, Wis, the Republican Legisla-
i've caucus named John c. Spooner for the
United States Senate.
At 0swego. N. Y, a jury in Justice
Wright's Trial Term of the Supreme Court,
returned n verdict for S15, 600 against the
New York. Ontario and Western Railway
Company in u suit brought by Mrs. Emma
Cooper for $25, 900 damages. Mrs. Cooper's
husband was Il fireman employed on the
road. In August. 1885 he was killed near
Bernhard's Bay, N. Y.
Senator Cantor introduced in tho Senate
at Albany, N. Y, his bill reducing the pr.ee
Of gas in New York City to 81 per 1000 feet,
fixing IFS minimum c~andle-power ut "a, and
providing penalties for infractions.
Tho Rev. DR.. Charles Cuthbert Hall, OF
Brooklyn, was nominated for President of
the Union Theological Seminary, to succeed
hip IttNs Dr. 1lOIlhS y. ufslluES, WIN q
signed on account of ill-health.
The National Monetary Convention at In
d%ianapolis, Ind, declared for maintenapce
ofthe gold standard and created q peH1.
nent Executive Committee to urge upon0
gress next March the creation of a monetntS
commission, and, falling in that, to name a
commission itself.
The Republican joint legislative caucus
was held at Concord. N. II. James 0. Ly-
f-NN -. o.
cord, as United States Senator for six yeara,
20 succeed himself, and he was nominated
unanimously.
The United States cruiser Montgomery was
damaged by striking IN obstruction or
Castle William, Governors Island, New
York harbor.
TIL first prize of 5000 for the best design
Tor mural decorations at the Cincinnati
(Obio) City Hall was awarded to Otto W.
Beck. OF Cincinnati, and the second prize
of 500 went TO r. y. Sheefer, of Philadel-
phia.
About 1900 saloon keepers in Chicago are
to he arrested for failure to make the Iasr
payment on their years license, which has
been due since January 10.
The policemen of Asbury PARK, N. j.,
have been instructed to arrest all ,perscss,
who may be found drunk on the streets of
that town.
Mayor Strong, in his annual message.
iealt almost entirely with tho city's financial
condition, showing New York's credit to be
Of the best.
New Workers rejoice over the signing OF
.he Anglo-American arbitration treaty, The
opinion of many representative citizens pre-
rails th't the treaty is the beginning of con-
inuous peace, and that 1t may result in the
adoption of arbitration by all civilized Ma
lions. Many ara in favor Of celebrating tie
ratification of the treaty in some lifting
tanner.
There was a rush OF place hunters an
others to Canton, Ohio, to see Major McKin-
ley.
George C. Perkins was reelected Unite
States Senator from California.
Thirty cadets were discharged from the
Military Academy. at West Point, because Of
deficiency in the January mental examina-
lions.
John WARTS killed his brother, David, Ia
the presence OF and at the request OF the
latter's bride, in a duel near CrawfordvilIe,
Fla.
The General Trust Company has been in
.orporated in Illinois. with a capital of
10000 goo. Its object is to carry on a gem
srai banking business in Chicago.
Mrs. Hattie F. McCioud, of Shelbournc
Falls. Mass was murdered on a lonely road,
FtON""'S ~ tit'hPS-
Carnegie and Westinghouse employees
formed a -, 000, geo cooperative stock com-
pany to establish an iron and steel plant on
Puget Sound, Washington.
At Bryn Mawr. Penn, the Postofice,
which is in the railroad station, was robbed
0fE-G0 in cash and SIS worth OF stamps.
The work was done Ey some one familiar
with the Office, us the combination was
worked and the safe opened In the regular
way,
At Bismarck in the Republican caucus par
dcipated in by all tho Republicans OF the
Legislative Assembly, Senator Hansbrough
was nominated as the party candidate for re-
election to the United States Senate from
North Dakota. fhe nomination was practi-
ealiy unanimous. This action has been ex.
peeted since the call for u caucus was made
by the Republican Committee.
j., F. Costello. who disappeared from Biug-
hamtoD, n. Y, several years ago and has
been mournel as dead, was found in an ln-
diam jail.
At Brooksville, KY, Robert Laughlin was
banged. On February "a, 1895, Laughlin,
a tenant md farm iaborer, assaulted his
niece. then murdered her and his wife and
fred the house. He confessed.
At Canton, Ohio, President elect MoKin-
ley promised Il colored committee to devote
a part OF his first message to the subject OF
Southern lynchings.