The Penn's Grove record., 1897-09-17

Domestic.
RECORD OF THE LEAGUE CLUBS.

Fear OF yellow fever has practically de-
populated Jackson, Miss. There are sew
eral cases at Edwards near Jackson.
The overdue steamer Excelsior arrived In
San Francisco with $500, 900 In Klondike
gold.
Michael defeated Lesna by $50 yards In
the t~wenty-nile bicycle race at the SIring-
field (Mass.) Bicycle Clubs tournament,
lowering the American record. Arthur
Gardiner, Of Chicago, broke the worlds
record In the one-mile professional handi-
cap.
During the unloading at Glasgow. Scot
land, OF the Allan Line steamship Tower
Hill, the body of a young American was
found deep in the grain. 1t Is supposed
that the young man was shot In with he
grain when the vessel was being loaded In
New York.
There have been no disturbances In the
mining region about Hazleton, Penn, but
the strike is spreading rapidly.
United States Senator George L. well-
ington resigned the Craftsmanship of Thea
Maryland Republican State Central Com
mittee, thus relinquishing the leadership OF
the party In the State, which he has held
for the past three years.
"Joe" Farnsworth, who shot one Of the
young Hathelds and tried, to ksaa,I Miss Allie"
Ferguson in Lee -.y vrrsn.... ,.--
found hansllSt . > inthe Cumberland
that he was lyndhed, though an attempt
had boon made to make N appear that he
had committed 11ff the ID
George III. tuuu, a lawyer, was arrested
on a charge of having stolen S15, 900 from
the Title Guarantee and Trust Company, of
New York City, his former employers.
The Kings County (Brooklyn) Republican
Committee deposed jacob Worth as leader
and unqualidedly indorssd Seth Low.
Miners in Eekley Penn. were forced to
stop work by strikers before troops sent
from Hazleton to head item of reached
the place.
The public schools Of New York City
opened at the close OF the summer vaca-
tion. 1t Is estimated that 200, 900 children
out OF a total OF al, 900 applied for admis-
sion. The crowding was less thar usual.
The Rev. sc. +. B. Howard . a notorious
swlndier, escaped from the Ohio Peniten-
tiary.
Charles Gibson, a colored man, who had
murdered another colored man was lynched
by n Georgia mob near Macon, not for the
murder, but for an assault committed on a
white m
The second great drought of the season
Is being seriously felt In Indiana. It Is ae-
companied by unusually high temperature,
prevalent all over the state. Throughout
Central Indiana corn Is prematurely ripen-
ing, fields are burning brown, andfall seed
ing Ia seriously retarded. The same Is gen.
orally true throughout the State In many
localities the limited water supply is giving
much concern, farmers being put to great
embarrassment for needful supplies.
On her trial trip in New York Harbor the
machinery OF the new torpedo boat Rodgers
went to pieces N five men were seriously
scalded, among them Chief Engineer J. r.
Edwards.
Three prisoners on Blackwell's Island,
New York City. tried to escape by swim
ming the East River. A ferry-boat pursued
two, one OF whom was drowned obeying his
comrade, who ordered him not to touch 0
life-buoy under penalty Of death.
Judge Augustus H. Fem. of the Supreme
Court Of Connecticut, died In Winsted.
The Enchanted Mesa In New Mexico has
been climbed again, and evidences Of civ
ilization have been found on the summit by
+. W. Hodge, of the Smithsonian Institu-
ton. Professor Libbey, who made the as
cent In early summer, reported no signs Of
early occupancy.
Mark Hanna opened his Senatorial cam
paign in Ohio ut Burton5 asmaffSyillage
without a railroad or a telegraph line, mt9k-
ing his first stump speech. Senator ForaH q
also spoke.
DIR. E. Benjamin Andrews has withdrawn
his resignation from the president oi
Brown University.