The Penn's Grove record., 1897-01-22
Domestic.

AyOLnebtlCs
It was reported at Chicago that the Englo.
wood and Chicago Electrical Road used
S106, 900 to bride Aldermen.
A movement to send grain to the starving
inhabitants of In lin has been started in Bos-
ton.
Detroit Common Council is trying to Gust
Mayor Pingree, who is acting In the dual
capacity OF Mayor of Detroit and Governor
Of Michigan.
Tom Rowe, aged twenty-six, was sentenced
to four years in the penitentiary at Sherman,
Texas, for disposing OF mortgaged property:
After sentence was passed Rowe confessed
to being the husband OF fifteen living wives.
The reason for making the confession was
that IL indicted and convicted OF bigamy he
could serve out all sentences at the same
time, as they would not be cumulative.
Miss Helen Musgrave, of Cameron town
ship, Pennsylvania. found death In n letter
to her lover. While moistening the flap OF
the envelope the girls tongue was slightly
laceratel, which r suited in blood poisoning,
from which she died.
The Bellevue Hospital Me Heal College
building, In New York City, was nearly de-
stroyel by fire.
washington Crossing the Delaware" the
| historical painting by Emanuel Leutze. was
purchased at the Roberts sale by John >.
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painting to the Metropolitan Museum o fArt,
New York City.
The Indian mail arriving at New York on
he Teutonic was taken off for disinfection
1t Quarantine, rs o precaution against tho
oubonic plague.
The New York Senate, after a protracte1
iebate. adopted the Lexow resolution for an
Investigation OF trusts.
Minister WILLIS body arrived In San Fran
cisco from Honolulu, ard was sent to the
home OF the family, Louisville. Ky.
Congressman Benton McMillin, OF Ten
lessee and Miss Lucille Foster, daughter OF
Captain James NJ. Foster, n prominent
PLANTER aud politician, were married at the
First Presbyterian Church. Shreveport, La.
Congressman Densmore, OF Arkansas, was
Mr.. McMiiliu's best man.
In splinter, Miss. old Aunt Funden has
lust died, aged 1870. leaving eighteen chill
tren, who. with their descendants, number
learly 700. Up to 40 years she would walk
several miles and do Il days washing.
Mira. Martha Maria Harris. wife OF United
States Senator Isham G. Harris, died at
Paris, Tenn.
The South atlantic and Gulf States Coast
and Harbor Defense and Improvement Con-
%rention met at Tampa, Fla. Delegates were
present from sixteen States. Lieutenant
General j. NJ. Schofleld was among the rep
.esentatives OF the Army present. Governor
8loxham, oil Florida, delivered the address
of welcome.
On ths same day 7. O. Plat was elected
Senator from New York; Boies Penrose, from
Pennsylvania; J. Fl. Gallinger, from New
Hampshire; Jster G. Prltchard. from North
Carolina; J. X. Jones, from Arkansas; H, NJ.
Teller, from Colorado; H. q: H~ansbrough,
from North Dakota; G. G. Vest. from Mis-
souri,; O. II. Platt, from Connecticut; ". f..
Mason, from Illinois; O. W. Fairbanks, from
Indiana.
For the first time steam was used on the
three boilers OF torpedo boat No. 6, which
was brought down from Bristol for her speed
trial over the measured mile course, New
port, r. /. TIE steam pressure was much
above what 1t had been on previous trials,
aud In consequence the speed was greater,
reaching 23.2 s knots, or within IS of a knot
of her guaranteed spesd OF 81. so knots.
The mining strike In Colorado is practi-
cally settled, Operators and miners In Lead
Vile have agreed upon a scale OF wages.
An antitrust bill was introduced in the
Minnesota Legislature.
Chicago packers aud provision dealers
took action towards securing Government
Intervention to prevent European embargoes
on American meats.
A magazine containing $4,000 pounds OF
powder exploded near Mobile, Ala, but no
one was killed.
The Court f Appeals has decided tho West
chester On. W Congressional case by declar-
ing that Benjamin L. Fairchild's name should
have been on the Republican ballots instead
OF that OF William L. Ward.
The steamship Alvena, leaving the port OF
New York, was run into by the incoming
British Queen, and so injured that she was
run on to the bar. where she lies, part OF her
deck under water. No persons were lost or
injured, but doubt is expressed OF the saving
OF the sunken vessel. A misunderstanding
of signals is supposed to have caused the
collision.
The Board OF Health OF New York City
ndopted an amendment TO the Sanitary
Code. declaring pulmonary tuberculosis to
be au infectious disease, and ordering re-
ports 10 be made by physicians as In cases Of
other infectious and contagious diseases.
The New York Court of Appeals sustained
The Fayerweather will, which gives S3,000,-
900 to twenty colleges.
AT pawtucket, r.. l., Patrick Ellsworth,
Ave years old, was drowned In SCOTS Pond
while skating. He was with a companion
about his own age, who WAS 80 frightened
that he did not tell OF Patrick's death until
next day.
W. A. Coles, OF Albany. N Y, blind for
five years, declared hopeless by physicians,
Is improving under A-ray treatment, used as
a tonlc and stimulant. He can discern OBJ
jecis dimly.
Postmaster General Wilson delivered the
twentieth anniversary address at the meet
ing Of the State Bar Association in Albany,
n. Y.
Adolph Meyer, a tailor, was detected in
the act OF firing Il five story tenement in New
York City, where he had his shop and where
he lived with his wife and three children.
BY the breaking OF ice at Marinette, Wis.,,
Eve fishermen persisted.
The Chicago Board of Health has smut on
the water supplies Of the public schools, OF
the ground that in its erude state the water
Is unit to drink
The Slate OF Illinois has stopped the pay
ment of debts and expense to some extcnt,
owing TO a shortage of funds.
Deputy Unitoi States Marshal William
Bird arrested a moonshiner in the upper
edge OF Breathitt County Kentucky and wher
eighteen miles above Jackson he was nj.
tackled by a gang OF the prisoners friends
He resisted, and Jacob Neace shot him
through the heart, killing him instantly.
Foreign Sotus.
Nine Carnot, mother OF the late President
Carnot Of France, die in Paris.