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The Penn's Grove record., 1897-06-04
SNOW AND ICE IN JUNE.
A Summer Month Ushered in With a
Semblance Of Winter.
FIERCE BLIZZARD IN THE WEST.

The Weather Unlike Anything Known
Before-New York State Undergoes
the Novel Experience of Winter in the
Month of Roses-Heavy Frosts XIII
All chances for the Fruit Farmers.
New YORK Cry observation-disclosures
from n wide urea throughout the country
tell Of frosts and snow on the FIRST day Of
june. Throughout Minnesota, Wisconsin
and Illinois In the West, and stretching
eastward through Ohio and Pennsylvania
and into New York State, there Is a great
belt Of country in which the frost has
worked ~incalculable damage. Vegetables
and fruits are nipped and frozen, and
blackened stalks and buds cover countless
acres Of farm land.
Crops Of many kinds will thus be delayed
for many weeks or months, and some are q
total loss for the entire year. The loss to
farmers will be enormous, and the loss to
the cities, the great centres of consumption,
can only be coDjectured.
From C~annndaigua, N. Y, comes the news
Of a snowstorm in the early morning of
Juns that lasted for an hour and covered
the ground with q mantle of white. At
Middletown, N. Y, the temperature was
very low, with nipping frost.
At Niagara Falls there was n heavy white
frost on Monday night, and fruits and
sprouting grains were destroyed. A light
ice formed, and the damage will be very
great. some of the farmers, however, ex-
press a hope that the loss will not, In that
locality, be total.
Northern Pennsylvania and Ohio suffered
very severely. There have been several
late frosts there this year and this last one
put the finishing touches on vegetables.
The enormous grape crop of Southern
Ohio aud Northwestern New York will suf-
fer heavily, although the full result cannot
yet be told.
Southern Michigan suffered from the
same white blight. while In Northern ILL.,
nois the cold wave of the past few days Gull
minated in IN unprecedentedly severe frost.
Ice formed On pools, corn was "cut" by the
cold, tobacco Is severely injured and FRUITS
and vegetables are killed. Adyices from
many towns near Chicago give uniformly
disastrous reports.
In Wisconsin there was o snowstorm near
Hurley and iurries ofsnow at many points,
including Green Bay n Fond Du Lac.
Farmers are heartbroken and deem them
selves ruined. Throughout Iowa the frosts
OF Monday night were also terribly severe
and turnips, corn young grain were
destroyed.
Minnesota and South Dakota also suffered
from the killing frosts. and also were visit
ed by the jun snowstorm that Is such q
remarkable feature of the cold spell. In
North Dakota ponds froze and the damage
20 crops Of all kinds will be incalculable.
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TO IMPROVE TRADE.
President Formally Opens the Intcrna-
tional Congress.

President Formally Opens the Intcrna-
tional Congress.
The International Commercial Congress,
which had its inception In the Philadelphia
Commercial Museum, under the auspices of
which institution the conference is held,
was formally opened in the Academy of
Music, Philadelphia, with an address by
President Mckinley.
On the stage OF the Academy sat the dele
gates to the conference, members Of Presi-
dent McKinley's Cabinet and several Minis
tiers and other representatives OF foreign
countries. OF the delegates themselves
about fifty were representatives of foreign
commercial bodies, principally of Mexico
and Central and South America. There were
also about $50 representatives from com
mercial and trade organizations of almost
every city OF importance in the United
States.
Mayor Warwick extended a cordial well
come to the delegates and officials, and
then introduced President Mckinley, who
was given a tremendous ovation. He well
coined the foreign and domestic delegates,
and expressed the hope that more intimate
commercial relations would soon grow out
of the work of the conference. In the
course his speech, while dwelling on the
business depression, Mr.. Mckinley said:
But let me tell you, my countrymen, a
resuscitation will not be promoted by re-
elimination. The distrust of the present
will not be removed by distrust of the fu-
ture. A patriot makes a better citizen than
a pessimist, and we have got to be patient,
FOR, much as we may want to move out OF
the old house, We cannot do it until the new
one Is finished.
"a tariff law half made Is OF no practical
use except to indicate that In q little while
a whole tariff law will be gdone, and 1t is
making progress. II IS reaching the end,
and when the end comes we will have bust
ness confidence and industrial activity. Let
Us keep stout hearts and steady heads.
"The country is not going backward, but
forward. American energy has not been
destroyed by the storms Of the past. 1t will
yet triumph through wise and benetieent
legislation"
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Newsy Gleaninss.

Des Moines. Iowa, Is to haze q municipal
electric plant.
Convicts are to be used to build New
Mexico's capitol.
A San Diego (Cal.) man has started o
pineapple plantation.
A salmon four feet Ave inches long was
caught near Astoria, Oregon, recently.
In the graduating class at Cobb County
School, Lewiston, Maine, Is an African
king.
A party OF students from the University
Of Pennsylvania has gone to explore
BorAeo. ,
Thb Attorney-General Of California has
decided that O San Francisco street railway
earpA carry freight.
r.. kles sent to President Mckinley
dun Strfes campaign and by him given
tot Va (ohio) Park have been set
befin Yalkalists nave perfected orange
IA wllaff 10 CgwsfetSa8 osa cotton compress
ihAnecsy. H., which will W a capacity
Rfskr day.
IA 3in)an Official report ,225 foreign
" &tsxpelled from Germany this
W 10 month Of May. 0fthis mum
x were Americans.
u bf Chicago has appropriated
5000, 600 to be spent In public i'm
ents this year. OF the amount e5,1
"a 70 be expended toE labor.
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SPANISH CABINET FALLS.
Prime Minister anovas and Colleagues
Have Resigned.
CUBAN FAILURE THE CAUSE.

Grave situation Created Nominaliy ~
Tetuan's Box on Comas's Ear, But Real.
Iy by the Failure to Settle the CUBIC
Question-wheels of the Government
Blocked by the Attitude of the Liberals.
MADRID, Spain (By Cable).-The Spanish
Premier, Senior Canovas del Castillo, has
offered to the Queen Regentth resignation
Of the Cabinet. This step has been ow-
ing to the difficulty the Ministers expert
enced in carrying on the Government, in
view of the Parliamentary situation caused
by the refusal OF the Liberals to take part
in the deliberations of the Cortes,
The attitude of the Liberals is due to the
personal encounter between the Duke o
Tetuan. the Minister for Foreign Affairs,
and Professor Comas, a Liberal Senator, on
May 81, when the Duke slapped the face OF
the Senator after a heated debate on the
Morgan belligerency resolution adafe ed by
the United States Senate.
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The real reason OF the fall of the Cabinet
was the failure Of the Canovas Government
to settle the Cuban difficulty. RESPONSE
bility for the safe conduct OF the Govern
ment now falls upon the Queen Regent,
whose dilemma is distressing. Like the
majority OF her subjects, the Queen fully
comprehends that any change in policy and
Government must be dictated chiefly by
colonial and international considerations.
Her Majesty knows beforehand that the
gravest significance will be attached at
home and abroad to her decision.
One OF two things she must do.
She may keep Senior Canovas as Premier
with his Conservative Cabinet, intact or
modified, and keep Gcn. Weyler in Cuba to
persevere In his present policy, with the
ample means recently voted by the Cortes.
, Or she MAJ call upon Senior Sagasta to
form o Liberal Cabinet, In which Senior
Moret probably would be Minister OF
Foreign Affairs, with opportunity to fol-
low his ~well-known inclination to come
to an understanding with the limited
States; Senior Mauca, the great doinsi
ruler, Minister of the Colonies; Marshal
Lopez Dominguez, War Minister; SPANS
best fnancier, Senior Gamazo, Minister Of
Finance, and which Cabinet probably would
send Marshal Campos to Cuba with full
power to conciliate the insurgents and
loyalists by establishing more radical home
rule than Senior Canoyas contemplated and
thus disarm the United States.
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SPANS BUDGET STATEMENT.
Revenue and Expenditures, and Plans II
Meet War Expenses.

Revenue and Expenditures, and Plans IL
Meet Wal Expenses.
Senior j. Navarro Reyerter, Spanish Min
ister OF Finance, in the budget statement
to the Cortes, estimates the revenue al
$780, 73 ,sO2 and the expenditures at $685.
CSC, ia.
In order to provide q revenue to meet
tho extraordinary budget the Minister oil
Finance proposes to raise a loan with Alma
den quicksilver mines as security and to
obtain navigation dues to tho amount Of
twelve millions.
In order to meet the Increased expendi-
lures and the ninety-two millions required
TO meet the interest and for tho redemp-
ton OF the late loans guaranteed by the
customs, a temporary surtax OF ten per
cent. on all taxes except land has been
proposed.
By this means 1t is expected that twenty
millions will be obtained. The Colonial
Department will contribute thirty-two
millions of the balance and forty millions
will be raised by a loan on the proposed
petroleum monopoly, giving the exclusive
privilege OF dealing In this product during
the next twenty years.
should tho Colonial Department be un-
able to pay its share OF the increased ex-
penditures It Is calculated that q portion
Of another loan can be obtained by q
proposed monopoly on explosives.
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PENIS GROVE, n. J., FRIDAY. JoNE 4. 1897
THE NEWS


Special advices from Havana, Cuba, state
that Mr., Calhoun will report to President
Mckinley that every means, even the most
extreme, should be used to stop the war In
the island.
Senators are said to have decided to
oppose the Tillman resolution for an In
vestigation Of tho charges that Senators
have speculated in sugar stock.
Senator Aldrich is III from work and worry
over the Tariff bill. In his absence Senator
Allison had charge of the measure in the
Senate.
Speaker Reed has received q series of
letters threatening to tax his life. The
last one shows that the writer has arrived
In Washington. He is not amenable to
law, as tho threats were made In an in
closed letter and not on IN envelope or q
postal card.
The President nominated Miguel A. Otero
for Governor OF New Mexico and George
W. Wallace, q relative OF his wife, for
Secretary OF the Territory.
The President sent the following nomina-
tlons to the Senate: William Haywood. of
the District of Columbia, to be Secretary
OF the Legation and Consul-General at
Honolulu, II. L.; William l.. Penaeld, Of In
diana, to be Solicitor for the Department
OF State; John X. Thompson, to be Marshal
for the District OF West Virginia; John Dc
Haven, to be United States District Judge
for the Northern District of California.
The Sultan has withdrawn his objections
20 the appointment Of DR.. James D. Angel
as Minister to Turkey.
President Mckinley parioned Frederick
E. Edgar, who robbed the Tradesmen's Ma
tional Bank, New York City, in 1894 of sl7,-
900.
Special Treasury Inspector Hampton has
reported to Washington that he was dis
armed md driven OF the steamer Biseayne
on the Florida coast, as she was transfer
ring arms and ammunition to the flibuster
Dauntless. The arm were successfully
transferred.
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Temperance News and Notes.

The devil has a mortgage on the man
who forms the drink habit.
Man Is liable to commit any sin when in
famed with Intoxicating drinks.
Some men, II they prayed at all, would
say: ''Give us this day our daily grog."
The Missouri Senate has passed a bill
making it a misdemeanor to sell or give
liquors to a minor without the writes on
sent Of a parent or guardian.
The drunkard leaves behind him a ruined
character. a wretehed example, a memory
that soon rots. He b~equeaths poverty, ig-
norance, n the memory of q life OF
w~retehedness and shame.
The editor OF the Commercial Journal OF
Chicago says: .'The certifying OF wines in
Europe with beet root and potato spirit
has ruined the wine trade there, and made
wine-growing countries, which used to bo
the most temperate and sober on earth, tho
most drunken."
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Miss Frances r.. willard.

Few women are in less need of an intro
duction to the people of any part of the
United States han Frances L. Willard, the
temperance worker. For nearly a quarter
OF a century she has been an active worker,
and for most of the time a prominent leader
in the cause of Prohibition. To her more
than to any other person Is credited tho
powerful organization known as the
Woman's Christian Temperance Union,
which has grown up since 1874 and now
has a branch in nearly every town of any
considerable size In the United States, and
has extended itself over a large part Of the
world. 1t is said that in the early days Of
the MO Miss Willard visited n spoke
in every town in the United States having q
population Of more than ten thousand. and
Tor ten years averaged one public meeting o
day.
She was born in the village OF Church.
vile near Rochester, N. Y, in September,
1889, but since 1858 has lived in Evanston,
ILL.,, u pretty suburb Of Chicago. Before
she devoted her life to reform movements
she was president OF the Woman's College
at Evanston, and afterward its dean when
1t became a part of the Northwestern Uni
versity. Her writings attracted the atten-
ton of Lady Henry Somerset, who wrote:
my first visit to America was as much to
see and know Miss Willard as for any 9TH
er purpose and to understand from her the
principle upon which she had worked the
marvellous organization of which she has
long been president"
In 1892 Miss Willard visited England by
Invitation of Lady Henry Somerset and re-
ceived in Exeter Hall an enthusiastic well
come from the united philanthropic socie-
ties of Great Britain. Upon her return she
was greeted warmly by immense crowds Of
her friends In all the large cities of her
native country.-New York Tribune.
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UNITED STATES NOT AFFECTED.
Secretary Sherman Thinks Our Relation
with Spain Will Not BE Changed.

WAsHINoToN, D. G. (Special).-0fieial
and diplomatic circles in Washington were
greatly interested in the news from Madrid
that the Canovas Ministry has at last
fallen.
It Is accepted as a foregone conclusion
that Senior Sagasta, the great Liberal lead
er, will be called upon to form a new Cab.
met and to assume the responsibility Of un.
dertaking the settlement OF the Cuban ques.
tion, involved as 1t is with possible compli-
cations with the United States.
Secretary Of State Sherman voiced what
undoubtedly Is the general opinion when
he said that the relations between the Gov.
eminent Of Spain and the United States
would not be changed by the retirement Of
Canovas.
The general opinion Of public men and
officials Is that any change In the Spanish
Government must make for peace, Its oc-
c%urrence being directly consequent upon
the disastrous failure OF the attempt to
keep Cuba by war. Canovas has submitted
a new scheme Of home rule for Cuba SO
liberal as to meet Secretary Sherman's ap-
proval. Minister De Lome's recall from
Washington Is confidently expected. A
change Of ministry probably would be
urged by Spain as a reason for delay In
pending negotiations with America.
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August Belmont, the New York ~flnancier,
has ordered a $4,000 statue Of his favorite
horse, Henry Of Navarro.
It was recently found that Representa-
tive Bricker, of Michigan, is in very much
the same predicament as Governor Pingree.
He is Mayor of Bedding, and at the same
time represents his district In the Legisla-
ture. As yet nothing has been done In the
matter.
Mayor /. V. Williams, of 0~aksdaie,
Wash. has resigned his office rather than
sign al ordinance eondemning a man to
jail for neglecting to license his dog. The
Mayor, who has served for two or three
years, considers Il cruel and unjust to son
nne a man If he has 40 money to pay o dog
tax.
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sEARLEs coEs FREE.


Judge Bradley Rules That senat Cues
lions Were Not Pertinent.
John E. Searles, the Secretary and
Treasurer of the Sugar Trust, is free.
Judge Bradley took the same course in
this case as he did in hat of the President
OF the Trust, Mr.. Havemeyer, who was like
wise charged with contempt of the senate
by refusing to answer such questions re-
speeding the money that that corporation
had given in 1898 to political parties in
various States.
The Judge ended the trial which vas in
progress in Washington City by directing
the jury to return a verdict Of not guilty.
The defendant was promptly discharged
from custody and further liability under
the Indictment.
The questions asked by the Senate were
not pertinent, Judge Bradley said, and 1t
was not within the Jurisdiction Of that body
to ask them.
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SOLID SHOT AT THE VALENCIA.
The Ward Line Steamer Fired on by .
Spanish Cruiser.

me ward Line steamer Fired on by Q
Spanish Cruiser.
The Ward Line steamer Valencia, which
has arrived at Cienfuegos. Cuba, reports
IN exciting experience while of Guanta.
namo Bay.
The Spanish cruiser Reina Mercedes sig
nailed to the Valencia to display her colors,
As the Valencia did not Immediately COM
ply, the Reina Mercedes fred a blank shot,
which was followed almost Immediately by
a solid shot, falling out CT range. The Va.
lencia then displayed her colors.
1t Is understood that the United States
Vice-Consul at Santiago de Cuba haslodged
a formal protest against the act of the
cruiser. Captain Quesada left Havana to
investigate tho affair, which has serious
aspects.
The Spanish Government has disavowed
responsibility for the action OF the cruiser
Reina Mercedes in firing upon. the Ward
line steamer Valencia.
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Stage one In the drinking OF spirituous
liquor. says a recent writer, is that gentle
stimulation called moderate excitement or
support. Stage two Is elevation; whatever
that may mean 1t is not elevation Of char-
acter, of that l am satisfied. Stage three
Is confusion of mind, action and decd with
sad var of elevation. Stage four is COM
plete confederation Of circumstances; all
the stages perfectly matured; the journey
completed, with the lying down, absolutely
Frustrated In mind and body. The destina-
tion is reached and found to be--a human
being dead drunk and incapable. The
knotty question then is this, ought a per-
son to start on the remarkable journey OF
alcoholic progress at all?
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1t is proposed, by an Austrian measure,
to treat all persons addicted to the drink
ing habit as victims of a disease, instead of
as wilful criminals, Every person convicted
of drunkenness will, therefore, instead Of
being sentenced to prison as a common
criminal. be confined in some asylum, much
as the insane nov are in the United
States. Here he will remain for a term OF
months or years, as may be deemed neces-
sary to complete his cure. He will be IN
der the charge of competent men and sub.
iect to sufficiently rigid rules to retain him
In custody and prevent his escape; and he
will only be released upon examination OF
a medical board, which shall pronounce
him cured Of the alcoholic habit.
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MONEY PLENTY IN CHICAGO.

Offer to Loan q Million Dollars mt Three
Per Cent. Reported.
An indication of the strong effort idle
money is making to secure employment is
found in an offer made in Board Of Trade
circles in Chicago, H., within the last few
days.
1t is reported that the representative OF a
certain bank made known to several firms
his willingness to make call loans in
amounts of $50, 900 and upward to the ex-
tent of 81 100000 on provision warehouse
receipts at the rate Of three per cent. This
is o rate lower than has been in force even
In special cases. Heretofore ga per cent.
rate reported.
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Douglass Archibald, who was formerly
employed IN india in the British meteor
illogical service and who visited San Fran
cisco recently en- route to the East, where
he Is now located. forecasts another hot
summer for the Northern hemisphere,
great masses of ice In the Atlantic indieat.
ing an early polar spring. The abnormal
heat Is attributed by him to solar condi-
lions, which he represents have been un-
settled since the maximum period Of sun
snots in 1893
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cycling Notes.

, To improve the appearance Of enamel on
an old wheel, wash it with q large, soft
wooden cloth ard lukewarm water. Dry
thoroughly with a saftl cloth and aI1:k
wards polish with a solution csS
In spirits OF turpentine. Never use o brush.
hot water or soap, as they will iniure the,
enamel. J
To ride o bicycle that Is not properly ads,
justed is to unnecessarily handicap ones
rider to have perfect control OF the ma
chine 1t Is imperative that the saddle. han
die bar and pedals must all be In pT.aer
position. II you are not comfort y
your wheel you may bo cutie
not suitably adjusted.
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A young man Of wealth and high social
position died recently in London unques-
the following reports of the quantity of IL
quor put down to this young mans daily
account. On the day of his death he was
said to have had ten glasses of whisky, half
a bottle of Pommery, a glass Of Benedic-
tine, a glass of sherry, and two bottles of
Marcobrunner. This rate OF consumption
was exceeded oil other days, and alcoholism
clearly had marked this misguided young
man for its own. The doctors gave a terri
BILE account OF his condition.
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Foreign.

The English BimetaIlic League opened its
annual meeting In Manchester.
Emperor Francis Joseph OF Austria has
closed the session of the lower house OF the
Austrian Diet on account Of the violent OBJ
struction to legislation.
At the trial of Herr Won Tausch, former
Chief OF the Secret Police In Berlin, a news
paper man testified that Won Tausch said he
heard through spies every word spoken I'M
the Emperor's palace.
Austria proposes to enact a stringent an
d-trust law.
A discharged stable hand at the Vatican.
Rome, shot Commander MartinuM and at
;erward tried to commit suicide, 49,
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Alcohol is not more necessary to health
than any other chemical or medicinal
agent. 1t exeites the heart, binders diges-
tion, disturbs the liver, and stupefies the
braG. 1t gives a momentary glow and
stimulus, but you have to pay for them
afterwards by an inevitable lessening of
vital heat and animal power and mental
force. Even In so-called moderate quanti-
ties it acts as an irritant and a poison.
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A t%wo-dollar bill came into the hands Of
a relative of mine, writes a lady in Boston,
which speaks volumes on the horrors OF
strong drink or the traffic in it. There was
written In red ink on the back of 1t the fol-
$4,000 all gone; 1 alone am responsible.
All has gone down my throat. When Twas
twenty-one / had a fortune. I am not yet
thirty-flve years DID. I have killed my
beautiful wife, who died of a broken heart;
have murdered my children with neglect.
When this bill is gone do not know how l
can get my next meal. 1 shall die a drunken
pauper. This is my last money and my
history. II this bill comes into the hands
of any man who drinks, let him take warn
ing from my life's ruin"
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nrlderroom. 10, Bride. II.

T. d. Lufkin, of Sacramento, Cal, aged
seventy-nine, and Mrs. A. A, Lufkin, aged
seventy-seven, were married In Hartford.
Conn, by the Rev. W. W. Ranny. The bride
Is mother of Mrs. E. J. Hoadley and widow
of q brother OF the bridegroom.