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The Penn's Grove record., 1897-05-21
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SALEM COUNTY.
0FFIcE-HEAD OF MARKET ST., SALEM.
FVNnIS old aud reliable Company Of so years
L standing continues to insure all kinds of
property, not extra hazardous, in town or coun-
try Tor any length OF time not exceeding five
years at as low rates as will pay losses and ex.
penses. 1t insures against IRE or lightning or
damage by either. Its losses are promptly ad.
lusted and paid. Us funds on hand are ample
to meet all probable loss, being larger than at
any previous time of its existence and steadily
increasing, while Its reserve assets are OF a
character and amount TO surely meet all losses
however, extraordinary, and cannot be FILTERED
away BY unfortunate Investment or defaulting
officers.
Directors-Jos. X. waddingtop. VIM. d. Car
penter, Charles Hires, Josiah Wistar, David Il.
Grier, O.. IL. Sinnicksnn. Woodruff Petit, Bar
clay Griseom, QuiDton 7. Harris, Charles w.
Casper, j. Howard Sinnicks0n, John y. Elwell,
Richard Bassett.
President; Joseph X. waddington, Woodruff
Petit, OF. Harris, Q. W. Casper, who meet
weekly, on Seyenth-day, at . z. NJ.
Secretary and TreaSurer-WOOdnutt Fettit
to whom applicants may be made In relation
10 any business connected with the Company,
at the Office Of the Company. lS3 broadway,
Ihead q Market street, or at his residence,
In addition to the above the following per-
sons have been elected Agents and Surveyors:
j. NJ, Hitchner, Elmer.
George 3. Grier, Woodstown.
Josiah SIiRlneFill, Upper PENIS Neck.
Asa q. Turner. pcnnfs Grove.
Daniel .. litchner. cohansey,
y. Forman SinniekSOR, L. T.. Neck.
John Hltchner, Ailoway.
Joseph u. Liyezey, Berkeley.
David u. GIiscons, Marlton, MI.
George r. Morrison, salem.
10 Acton.
Z.E. Siskler,
wa. b. CARPENTER, President.
RoopSvrF fErrir, see'y and Treasurer.
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Chicago has 10000 railroad employees.
London has 5000 union composltors.
Illinois convicts no ;;orger make cigars.
Cincinnati has a Women's 0Hsea Labor
League.
Belfast Qreland) compositors average
5000 a week.
Ametal trades section has been formed at
Cleveland, Ohio.
A new Colorado law prohibits blacklist
Ing and boyeotting.
Leeds (England) wooden operatives get
from 80 to 80 a week.
Leadville (Col.) unionists may start a CO.
operative department store.
silver City Qdaho) miners union talks Of
creating a hnSnital for tta memhau. 49,
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ATROCITIES IN AFRICA.
When the Natives Fail to Supply Rubb
Their Hands Are Cut on.

When the Natives Fall to Supply Rubber
Their Hands Are Cut on.
The Rev. MFR. sioblom, Of the American
Baptist Mission in the Upper Congo, Africa,
has just returned to London. He said in an
interview:
"When I left In February matters in the
Upper Congo were as bad as ever. The
Commission which the King Of the Belgians
appointed to inquire into the atrocities
committed, the victims being natives, has
had almost no result. The officials are in
disposed to act on missionary evidence,
and only q few cases Of barbarity were pun
ished. The Ubiquitous rubber traffic con-
tinues. When the natives are unable to OBJ
tain rubber the State troops burn the viii
lagos, murder the natives and cut off their
hands, which are afterward smoked and
sent to the State officials. Parts Of the
Equatorsyille district are In q state of open
warfare"
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THOUSANDS PICK BERRIES.


The strawberry picking season has
opened up at sarcoxie, Mo, with the great
est and in many respects the most pictur-
esque gathering of people ever assembled
in any community. Tn Sarcoxie Horti-
cultural Association, controlling a farm of
400 acres in strawberries, advertised for
5000 pickers.
Their circulars were responded to by
fully 10000 people, who are now besieging
the hotels and lodging houses Of Sarcoxie.
The overflow has been 50 great that thou
sands were forced to sleep upon the ground
and prepare their meals in hastily impro-
yised dugouts, or shanties, constructed Of
branches and leaves. The camps extend
for miles up and down on both sides Of
Spring River.
Some of the men have seen better days,
but poverty has forced them to leave the
ranks Of thousands of unemployed in large
cities. The weather is favorable now, and
the crop is being gathered very fast. The
first shipments are going now in carload
lots to st. Paul and other Northern points.
Train-load shipments will commence in q
few days.
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AN AMERICAN FACTORY IN CHINA.
A Cotton Mill Dedicated Amid Bunting
and Patriotic Airs.

The first American mandatory in China
is the International Cotton Mill, recently
established at Pootung. a small town. near
Shanghai, under the auspices of the Ameri-
can Trading Company Of New York. 1t is
the third cotton mill erected In China. 1t
has 40, 900 spindles and two engines of 1000
horsepower now in motion, and u, number
of looms will be added soon. The machinery
was started early In April with considerable
ceremony. The building was handsomely
decorated with American and Chinese flags,
the band played Hail Columbia, /" Yankee
Doodle and other patriotic airs, and Mrs.
james Jones and Mrs. Seamans, the wives
Of the managers, pulled the lever that
started the machinery for the first time. 1t
is an interesting fact that all the women
operatives of this mill are Roman Catholics
from the Pootung villages, where there are
about 40, 1000 native adherents OF tina church.
Many Of their ancestors were converted to
Christianity several centuries ago.
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BANK MESSENGER MISSING.
Nearly 10000 Cash and a $4,000 CertiH-
cate Disappear with Him.

Albert NJ. King, the nineteen-year-old
messenger of the Boylston National Bank,
at Washington and Essex streets, Boston,
Mass, is missing, together with nearly
500, 900 in cash and a ten-thousand-dollar
United States certificate, not negotiable ex-
eept between banks.
King started for the Clearing House at
oil a. m. to settle the balance existing
there against the bank, and on the way, ac-
cording to instructions, transacted other.
business involving something like S45, 900.
As he did not return to the bank by / O'Clock
the officials grew anxious and made a search
for the messenger, besides invoking the aid
of the police, but they were unable to as
certain his whereabouts.
King has been employed at the Boylston
Bank about two years, coming highly rec
commended, and his honesty was never qnes-
toned. He has carried as much as $780,
900 Of the banks money at q time on pre-
vious occasions, and has never lost a dol.
la-
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A DRAMATIC SCENE,
A Perjurer Falls Down Dead in a Call.
fornia Court.


A dramatic scene occurred In a court
room at HOLSTER, Cal, a few days ago. A
man had been murdered, and Joe Pincado,
an ignorant Portuguese, was suspected OF
the crime. He was taken before the Dis
trict Attorney for examination, and upon
being questioned made several damaging
admissions. When he saw that he was in
volving himself sweat poured from his
forehead and he sought relief in declaring
with great emphasis again and again that
he had not killed Asseuro. Finally he rose
from his chair, and, pale as death, lifting
his hands, he said solemnly: MAY God
strike me dead II / am guiltyl" Like an
answer to his appeal Pincado's frame shook
as from a spasm. He elutched the air for
a moment and then sank down at the Dis
trict Attorneys feet, dead. The doctor
said It was heart disease, aggravated by ex-
citement, but those who heard him cannot
be convinced that he was not killed by the
hand of God.
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FINEST oUNsoAT AFLoAT.
Nashville wins a Heavy Bonus for Spec,
for Her Builder,

Nashville Wins a Heavy Bonus for Speed
for Her Builder.
Fastest vessel of her class in the world"
was the verdict given by the officers of the
Trial Board at the end of the speed trial OF
the new United States gunboat Nashville on
Long Island Sound.
The speed required by the Government
was 1907 knots. TIL average speed made
by the vessel was 16. 706 knots, making an
excess of speed OF nearly three knots. With
q bonus of $40, 900 for each excess knot,
this means q total of eco, 900 for the build
ers. With the screws performing S07.0I a
minute, not the slightest jar was percepti-
BILE.
At the end of the run the Nashville start
ed for Newport News, w., where she was
built. The vessel will be commanded, after
her acceptance, by Commander Washburn
MAYNARD,
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The Morgan Cuban resolution was dis
cussed all day in the Senate, the principal
speakers being Messrs. Foraker, Cannon,
Lindsay and Hoar. During q sensational
part of the debate the fact was made public
that the names of United States Consuls
who have sent reports on the situation in
Cuba are withheld because the President
and Secretary of State fear they may be as
s~assinated. Mr.. Foraker declared himself
in favor OF action Of some kind, and said
direct intervention would be shorter and
more Christian-like than recognition. .
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News of a fortnight's armistice, instead
Of quieting Greece, caused a general feel
ing of uneasiness, and the continued move
ments of the Turkish troops caused panic
in many places. The Sultan was informed
by the head of the Mahometan Church that
1t is the will of Allah hat rhessaly be re-
united to Turkey. The Turks followed up
their victory at Domokos, attacked the
Greeks at the Othrys Mountains, dislodged
them from Aidinitza, and forced them to
fee toward Mount Oerta.
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A Little Girl Dies After an Assault,

Lizzie Buenti, the ~nine-year-old daugh-
ter of Henry Buenti, a farmer living 1--WE
miles from Evansville, Ind, was sent with
a younger brother to drive the COWS out OF
an oat field. When the brother returned he
said he had lost his sister. The father
found her later in a clump of woods in a
dying condition. She had been assaulted,
and died while her father was bending over
her. Suspicion is directed to q tramp who
was seen later to enter the woods where the
crime was committed,
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s6o,54i,o62 FIRE LOSSES.


Big Figures Presented at the Annual
Meeting of Fire
The thirty-frst annual meeting of the Ma
tional Board of Fire Underwriters was held
at the Board Rooms, New York City.
Reports of considerable Importance were
read and adopted from the various stand
ing and special committees, and resolutions
were acted upon concerning subjects ger
maine to the purpose of the organization.
William B. Clark, President Of the Board,
delivered an address to the members.
The number of Board companies, he said,
was now 1903. Tn capital of the eighty
three American companies on the roll ag-
gregate S42, $40, 1875, with assets footing up
Sl64, $40, 200, and the assets of the American
and foreign companies together amount to
S2ls, 693, 500, The premium receipts of the
100 Board member for 1896 were Sl1l ,6O3,-
1874 and their losses $50, 541 ,062.
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The Marlborough House, London, con-
tains a cycle room, where are kept the
cycles of the Prince and Princess of Wales
and the family.
An old man of seventy-hve and his wife
OF seventy, in an English home for the aged,
have petitioned the authorities to let them
have a tandem bicycle.
Mayor McKisson, of Cleveland, Ohio, has
vetoed the ordinance giving the wheelmen
Of that city the privilege OF riding on the
sidewalks OF the %unpayed streets.
General Hastings. the Governor Of Penn
s~ylvania, Is n ygheelman and a membe of
the League. He is enthusiastic. on the
benefits OF cycling and promises support
for the fraternity. -
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AN OCEAN TRAGEDY.


A Schooner Drifting at Sea with Corpse Mt
the Helm.
Tossing IN the stormy waters OF the
North Pacific is the schooner General Sig
lin, a battered, helpless wreck, with a
corpse for a helmsman. The vessel, dis
masted and waterlogged, was seen by the
sealing schooner Willard Atnsworth on the
morning OF May s, ITO miles west of the
Queen Charlotte Islands.
The body dashed to the wheel was that of
Harry Saunders, the schooner's mate. OF
the nine persons who sailed on the
schooner from San Francisco, Cal, not one
has escaped to tell the story. There were
no boats on the wreck, and 1t is thought
the captain, passengers and crew persisted
after leaving the vessel.
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A sawmill boiler blew up ut Reelfoot
River, thirty miles from %Tiptonville, Tenn,
killing Ed Patterson, Dink Hodges and two
colored men, Warden and French Dade.
Three other men were terribly mangled and
will die. They are the two Frederick boys
and a man whose name could not be
learned. The mill was blown to atoms, and
the bodies OF the victims were blown In
VnrdS
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Two small boys, aged Ave and six years,
respectively. sons Of John Paiunski and
George Fernando, Poles, were killed by a
were coasting down the asphalt In a toy ex-
press wagon. The tongae dropped from
thei1 hant5 and overturned the wagon,
throwing the boys on the track directly In
front Of the !. 1T was impossible for the
motorman to stop.
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Elverton R. Chapman. the Sugar Trust
witness who refused to answer a United
States Senate committees questions as to
whether he had acted as a broker for any
Senators In speculations in Sugar Trust,
occupies q cell ct the District jail, Wash
-ington, and will continue therein for
twenty-five days. Chapman surrendered
himself to United States Marshal Wilson,
In accordance with an understanding pre-.
viously reached.
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The court house at Lexington, Ky, was
burned, but the records were saved. Harris
beautiful statue Woman Triumphant
bought for $4,000 by Lexington women, was
in the rotunda, and was destroyed. The
court house was built ten years ago and
cost 1920, 900. The fire started in the Jury
room, which was vacant. The county
school superintendent was conducting an
examination of fifty school children In the
court room n they were all rescued.
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TRAIN ROBBED BY MASKED MEN.
Blew Up Two Safes and Secured Between
o and 6I1 o

The w~est-bound Southern Pacific passen-
ger train was held up by masked men and
robbed about two hundred and fifty miles
west of San Antonio, Texas. AS the train
pulled out OF the little town of Lozier three
men jumped aboard, and, pointing pistols
at the engineer and fireman, compelled the
former to stop the train about one and O
half miles west Of the town.
After forcing the doors of the express car
one Of the robbers entered the car and blew
up the two safes OF the Wells Fargo Express
Company with dynamite. One safe con-
tanned about $4,000 or $4,000, and the other,
1t is believed, about $1,000 or $4,000.
The express car was wrecked by the force
of the explosions. The top was blown off
and the sides and floor badly shattered.
The mail was not molested by the robbers,
but it was greatly damaged by the force Of
the explosion.
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A dispatch from Auxerre, the centre Of
the wine-growlng district Of the Depart
ment of yonne, France, says there has been
a general and sudden frost, destroying the
crops of vines, fruit and vegetables. The
amount of damage done in the Department
OF Yonne is estimated at $4,000, 900. The
Inhabitants are in a state Of CONSERVATION
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An official despatch from Manila, capital
Of the Philippine Islands, announces that
the Spanish troops have captured Tomato
Fifty-seyen insurgents and twenty-five
spaniards were killed. The Spaniards, In
addition, had 226 men wounded.
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Foreign.

A bill intended to divert German emf
grafton from the United States to.Soath
America passed the Reichstag.
Owing to a short coffee crop a financial
crisis has arisen In Venezuela, and the
banks refuse all commercial operations.
Laforce Langevin, the only son 4f Sir
Hector LaDgevin, ex-Minfster OF Public
Works in the Cabinet Of the late Sir John
Macdonald, committed suicide al his
fathers home In Quebec. Canads. He syas
a man OF peculiar disposition. He tooe an
active part in the labor agitation. andl OF
late has shown signs dependency lhd
III health, and to this bis suicide is att RI
buted.
Spanish Liberals, drew z giooIl< plep ure In
the Spanish Cortes OF spaih'4 q ALTON.
and broke the truce that be- led for
two years between the Lihet11f Nj the
Government he attaexed liey Of
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1t is thought there will be no further
damage done by the overflow of the South
ern rivers. The losses in Louisiana arc
estimated at 81 $50. 900, in Mississippi at
IS, 800 600 and in Arkansas at "a, 250, 900, or
a total of S13, 500, 900, not as serious a loss
as in many previous years OF overflow,
when the river was not nearly as high as it
is now.
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A riot took place among the poems on the
Mendez hacienda, in Mexico, and before it
could be stopped by the rural guards Ave
men had been killed and twelve wounded.
The trouble was caused by a peon refusing
to divide a bottle OF mescal with a COM
pa1a
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slaughterlng NATIVES 81 Africa.

An expedition, presumably French, as
French officers and men actively took part
In 1t. has captured and burned the town OF
Wa-Wa, in the Boussa country of Africa.
One hundred men were killed and 200 were
made prisoners.
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B~elleres In ArtIs,lc Adyer,lslng.

d. B. Martin, Manager of Passengel
Traffic of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad
Is q firm believer in artistic advertising To-
railroads, and is already taking steps t,
He is going to take full advantage OF thu
scenic beauties of the line, and an %entirel,
new series of photographs will be secured
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TRIED TO KILL MCPHERSON
A Blind Mar Attempted to Assassinate
the ex-senator,
HE DEMANDED RESTITUTION.

William u. Van AIKEN Arrested in New
York City on a Charge of Threatening
the Life of the Distinguished New
Observation-Disclosures Immediate set-
Element of a Lawsuit He Had Brought.
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Zealand, n of the largest lumber camps
In the White Mountain region, of New
Hampshire, has been completely destroyed
by ilre. The camp consisted of three large
dwelling houses, and was operated by Van
Dyke a Sons. The loss is estimated at
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Bubonic Plague increases.

The bubonic plague Is making fearful
ravages in the Cutchmandvl district of In
dia, where there nave been 1000 deaths In a
fortnight. Hall the population has fed.
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General weyler isnow turning his atten-
ton to American correspondents in Cuba.
He is determined, 1t is said, to stop the
publication of the news. A Cuban hospital
was recently burned and its Inmates per-
ished In the flames.
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A military train on the velk-D orjew Rail.
way in Russia was derailed. Sixteen cars
we're wrecked. One hundred of their oceu-
pants were killed and sixty were injured.
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state Treasurer Impeaonsd.

In the Florida House Of Representatives
q resolution tmpeaching sts-eFFrca4urer
G. b. Collins for malfeasance in office was
adopted by a vote OF As; nays, none. =
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HORRIBLE REVENGE OF TRAMPs.
They Burn to Death "A Farmer, His Wife
and Three Children.

and Three Children.
News has reached Monticello, Ky, of the
cremation of q farmer, Thomas Biddle, his
wife and three children, living on White
Oak Greek, across the line in Tennessee
Some tramps had asked permission of Bid
die to build a FIRE in his barn to keep them
warm during the night. Biddle refused to
allow them to do this and ordered them to
leave. III same night Biddle's house was
DESTROYED by fire, and Biddle, his wife and
three children were roasted alive. 1t Is
supposed the tramps applied the torch to
the house out Of revenge.
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To study oriental Finances.

Former Senator Dubois and Senators
Cannon and Pettigrew will sail July 2 for
China and Japan. 1t is understood they go
to study the financial question from the
Oriental standpoint.
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America ships corn to Egypt.
America has is, $50 lou mills.
Kentucky Is first In hemp output.
England has two electric railways.
a Switzerland has 557 savings banks.
: Britons eat 5000, 900 oranges daily.
Dsayer. Col. has a curfew ordinance.
Bost4s Mas raised sssOo for the Greeks,
Gas & s~eventy-fve cents per 1000 at
WheslinA W. Va.
The BAkin authorities decided to convert
al tho al horse-car lines into electric
The ,dian, %vernment is about to
send al -tfion TO explore Hudson's
Streets"
Hws& discovered thai the terrible fire Of
MEv Paris, was caused blythe careless
a Workman.
liz are rayaging the interior
aims @ArgentIna. and commercial
VI Y
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Eahem pacha Take. pomoko..

The special correspondents with the Turk
ish forces in Thessaly say: "Edhem Pacha
has moved m from point to point, and
finally occupied Domokos. The Greeks
have sustained a crushing defeat"
The Penn's Grove record., 1897-05-21
$4,000 Mon working on Louisiana Levee..

There are now more than $4,000 men at
work on the Mississippi leyees south Of Red
River putting them In condition.
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THoRNToN's WOUND FATAL.

He Shot Himself Because Miss Smith Re.
jected His Suit.
Preston Thornton. who shot himself In
the parlor OF Milton H. Smiths residence
In Louisville, KY, died from the effects OF
the wound. His father and mother, from
Lexington, were by his side when death
came.
Mr.. Thornton was a member of one Of the
leading families of Lexington. Milton II,
Smith Is President of the Louisville and
daughter, Nettie Belle Smith, had rejected
young Thornton.
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THE MARKETS,
Z Late wholesale Prices of Country Produee
Quoted In New York.
MILK n CREAM.

The average price paid for the surplus on
the platforms has been clio a can OF 40
quarts. Receipts OF milk and cream at the
different railroad distributing points in and
near the city for the week have been as
follows:
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A G. A. X. Colonization In Georgia.
A Grand Army colony has been estab-
lished upon $4,000 acres of land in southern
Georgia.
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1897-02-13
FILIBUsTER FIRED ON.

Dolphin Sent Two Shots at the Three
Friends-The Tug Finally Gave Heed.
Jacksonville, Feb. 12.-The United
States dispatch boat Dolphin this morn
ing fired on the filibuster Three Friends
which has been detained here.
The Three Friends was crossing the
bar and the Dolphin signalled her tc
lay to. She went on, and the dispatch
boat sent two shots at her bow
The tug was going out so as to watch
for some schooners expected in the
morning. AS she crossed the bar the
Dolphin's big search light soon found
her out and signalled her by whistle
The Three Friends replied. supposine
that that was sufficient, she continued
OIL her way. Suddenly a puff of smoke
burst from the Dolphin's side and q
solid shot came ricochetting across tie
waves. dashing up the spray one hun
dred feet behind the tug. A SECOND
later another shot came whistling along
passing a few yards from the vessels
prov.
The Three Friends then thought il
time to come about and she at once
went alongside. After some delay there
she was permitted to go on.
She was out for an hour and hall
and then came back and anchored 81
Mayport.