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The Penn's Grove record., 1899-04-28
GOMEZ FOR FREE CUBA.
Sets at Rest Contrary Rumors in 0
Proclamation.


HAVANA (By Cable).-General Gomez has
issued O proclamation announcing the
formation Of a Junta OF Cuban Generals to
advise him. He says that he will consult
the Junta on all the details regarding the
d~lsbandment Of the Cuban army, and also
concerning the question OF retaining the
arms with which the Cubans fought for
liberty as sa>red testimonials OF the strug-
gle for Independence and for the defence
OF the noble interests which have not been
abandoned because the army is to disband.
He adds that these interests now demand
the help OF oil Cubans, and that they should
sosk to achieve their highest aspiration,
which Is the establishment of an independ-
emit democratic republic.
The proclamation causes no surprise
amongthose who know that General Gomez
has never made any declaration favorable
to q postponement of the formation of @
Cuban republic or indirectly favoring an
nexation to the United States. Reports
that he had done so were cabled to the
United States some time ago, but they were
absolute falsehoods.
TIL instructions received by Governor
General Brooke from Washington to de-
clare applicable to Cuba the immigration
laws Of the United States are certain to
give general fatisfaction here. For one
thing, the new regulations will prevent the
ingress OF any more Chinese laborers, who,
though useful / certain employments,
notably truck gardening, are from
their habits a constant menace to the
public health. The Sanitary Bureau has
been forced to burr out the filthy quarters
In which the various Chinese colonies here
have been living, there being no other way
to purify those centres Of contaglon. The
immigration laws will also keep out Of the
island all other undesirable people who
may become public charges. While the
present conditions Of agricultural p~rostra-
tion last there will be little or no room
here for additional labor OF the unskilled
nlaca
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TWO KILLED IN AN EXPLOSION.
T~wenty-three Injured and Many Build
ings Wrecked in Philadelphia.

PHILADELPHIA (Special). by the explo-
sion of seventy-fve gallons OF benzol In the
laboratory Of Frank H. Fleer & Co., manu-
facturers OF chewing gum, on Tuesday,
Walter Manwaring, assistant superintend-
ent, and Charles Mckinley, engineer, were
killed, and Harry Randall, an employee, and
Mrs. division and her one-year-old child
were seriously injured. Twenty others
we're hurt by flying debris. The explosion
was terrific and for a time caused the Wild
est excitement. One hundred buildings in
the vicinity, most OF them very small dwell
iDgs, were damaged.
The laboratory building was q two-story
structure. At the time of the explosion four
men were working In the building, prepar-
ing q mixture for the making of v%aniltne.
The doors of the room in which they were
working were closed, but the fumes from
the benzol In some manner reached tho
furnace IN the next room and the explosion
followed. Walter Manwaring was instantly
killed, and Charles Mckinley was SO badly
hurt that he died several hours later in a
hospital.
Mrs. Givison, with her child on her arm,
was hurriedly leaving her home, which was
directly opposite the laboratory, when her
dress caught FIRE from o flying ember and
she and the child were badly burned.
The buildings adjoining each side OF the
laboratory were completely demolished.
Windows were broken, fixtures smashed
and walls cracked. Fire broke out in a
number Of the places, but was quickly eX-
tinguished.
The score OF persons injured were ten
ants Of the many dwellings and were In no
way connected with the laboratory. Some
were severely cut by the glass, while many
were struck by the flying debris.
1.-THE money loss is; estimated to be con-
siderably over S100, 900.
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The trustees TO whom Mr.. George Pea.
body entrusted 50, 500, 900 for the purposes
OF building dwellings for London artisans
have guided the scheme with marked ability
and success, and there are now between
1000 and 5000 dwellings accommodating q
population of 20,009. Although these peo-
pie are so thick OIL the ground that they
number 1875 to tho acre "a mean density
nearly thirteen times that OF London gem
erally), the death rate is nearly three to
1000 below that of London, while the infant
mortality is twenty-five per 1000 births be-
low that of London. The birth rate, too,
Is nearly five in the thousand above that OF
all London. As for the financial success Of
the scheme, 1t is sufficient to say that the
profits last year were 9lG0, 900, even after
deductinG $50, 900 voted to the Prince OF
Wales Hospital Fund.
The secret Of this remarkable success is
undoubtedly due largely to the fact that
the trustees have vigorously excluded
licensed drinking saloons from this COM
munity.
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ARMY BEEF INQUIRY.


government Held ResponsIbie For Loss
Of 800, 900 Pounds.
WASHINGTON, D. G. (Special).-The board
convened by a special order to examine
into and report upon the responsibility for
the loss of 500. 900 pounds Of refrigerated
beef sent to Porto Rico last summer has
submitted its report findings. The
beef was shipped on the transport Mani
toba, from Swift & Co., of Chicago and
Kansas City. The board hnds:
''That the beef was good and ut for
issue upon its arrival at the port OF Ponce
August 10, 1898, and was reported to the
proper military authorities. That not
w~lthstanding the time and labor involved
in unloading troops and animals from the
Manitoba and in cleaning the ship, up to
and including August l6, 1898, due and
proper effort was not made to issue this
beef to the accessible troops be,wee that
date and August 25, 1898, the date OF the
depe rture of the Manitoba from May
aguez.
,.That this lack OF effort was In the ma
ture OF an aequlescence in the arrange
ment already IDEALLY sanctioned for the
purchase of native beef, but lay primarily
In tho lack OF controlling authority and a
responsible head OF the subsistence De-
partment In Ponce. That the meat had
not been subjected to any chemical pro-
cess whatever for its preservation. That
the loss OF this beef was due to several
causes: Possible deterioration while the
refrigerating plant was interrupted
or disturbed, August 10 to August Il;
exposure to high temperature from the
time of loading on the transport to the date
Of issue at Mayaguez and after; improper
handling and faulty protection after issue;
deficient transport 20 troops; prejudice
AGAINST it's appearance under unfapiliar
conditions, and desy. That Swift Il Co.
be reimbursed for TIE beef" Secretary
Alger has approved the findings of the
Board and directed that payment be made
to Swift 4 Co., In accordance with the re-
port.
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CAPTAIN COOK DEFENDS SCHLE1,
The Order "Hard Aport" Was Given by
Cook and Was Right.

NORTHAMPTON, Mass. (Special).-Captaln
Francis A. Cook, OF the cruiser Brooklyn,
who is on an indefinite leave of absence
from his ship, Is making a brief visit to
his father, General B. E. Cook, in this city,
his native place.
Replying to an inquiry about the eele-
brated "loop" OF the brooklyn
at the very beginning of the Santiago bat
tie, Captain Cook said that it hardly need
ed explanation.
"The discussion Of that movement Is
confined to newspaper columns" said the
Captain. Its correctness has never been
questioned by naval officers. 1t was the
only thing to do, and was not a marvel OF
s%eamanshlp, as some have described II.
1.-THE Brooklyn was rushing ahead into
the fight, the first to start for the Spanish
ships. and when we found out which way
they were going / ordered the helm nara
aport to turn tho vessel quickly and to get
Into line with the enemy. For a few min
utes we seemed to be going away from the
enemy. but to have put the helm star.
board would have retarded the progress OF
the ship. The movement was a great sue
cess. and that is the only criterion. To say
afterward thai 1t might have been done
another way is begging the question, and
there Is no means of proving that the
other way would have been as suceesslul.
Admiral Sehley did not give the order
helm hard aport' until after had giyeni'
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WHOLE FAMILY MURDERED.
stepson Accused of killing Mrs. Jane
Tettaton and Her -Four Children.

Tettaton and Her tour Chlturehs
DEXTER, Mo. (SpecIaD.-Mrs. Jane Tet-
taton, a widow, and four small children
were murdered a few days ago in their
home near Maiden, seventeen miles south
OF here, and to hide the deed the dwelling
was act on fire, J. H.. Tettaton, her step
SOD, Is under arrest, and the circumstances
point to his guilt.
Neighbors were attracted to the burning
house and found the bodies. Tettaton was
found In the yard with thirteen knife
wounds on his head and face. The
wounds are trifing. Those who dis
covered him say that he slammed I'M
consciousness. He has told many conflict
ing stories, but now adheres to the state
ment that two unknown men committed the
murders and inflicted the wounds on him.
He says he went to the home OF his step
mother to pay her $3.50 in settlement OF her
claim for some land belonging to the estate
In his pocketbook was found a blood
! stained receipt from Mrs. Tettaton for this
mount, but dated q month ago. A pistol
and knife lave been found near the house,
and thew have been identified as the prop
erty of Teftaton. A strong guard has been
placed over Tettaton to protect him from
the indignant citizens. Z
Wash Tettaton, the husband and father,
died a few years ago, leaving a large es-
tate. His son, j. II. Tettaton, was made
administrator. The murdered woman was
the second wife. Ill feeling developed be-
tween her and young Tettaton in settling
the estate. and law suits followed. This is
advanced as the motive for the crime. The
murdered children, two girls and two boys,
ranged in age from six to twelve years.
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The excavations now going on in
che Theatre of Dugga, in Tunis, show
that the Romans possessed for their
theatres a system Of stage carpentry
equal if not superior to the appliances
now in use. An ingenious contrivaace
enabled those who stood underneath
the stage to see what was proceeding
above. A number Of trapdoors opened
in the centre of the stage, and grooves
have been discovered showing the
way u which scenery and stage fur
nitur4 were lowered and raised Eight
large holes led to several dry wells
three yards deep under the stage,
while a large receptacle served to store
the curtain during the performance.
The floor of the stage was covered
with mosaics. Rome Correspondence
of the London Post.
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The aristocracy have had to step down
and out of the county governing business.
The elections that have placed the people
n command have wrought strange changes
n all parts of the Green Isle. Laborers
On the estates OF the landlords are In many
Eases their official superiors to-day. Men,
oers OF old titled families had to witness
:he election to office OF men, and Women
:oo-for they also had the privilege OF the
oallot-whom these titled ones had here
sofore ruled with a rod Of iron.
Stranger still-thls upheaval, this victory
&ftha masses over the classes~ was due
almost entirely to Arthur j. Balfour, the
Chief Secretary, who had to that moment,
been regarded as a ooercionist. But the
measure he introduced in the House OF
Commons to replace the Government by
Grand Juries by one OF County District
Councils, proved that he had been making
a close study of conditions IN Ireland He
made an eloquent appeal in behalf oil he
measure, and representatives from all 'c-
tions of ireland bowed in acquiescence.
The bill passed, and the first step toward
Home Rule for Ireland had been taken 1t
was the first NOV toward the abolition OF
landlord ~ascendencv.
As a sample OF the sweeping victories
everywhere of the labor party, William
Shaw, one OF the wealthiest millers In Ire
land, was defeated for Alderman by a dray-
men in his W employ whose weekly wage
was $3.50. Maurice Leonard, agent OF the
Earl of Kenmore, q landlord and formerly
q dictator OF the town, was obliged to yield
the first place on the ticket to one Of his
day laborers, earr'" S2.25 a week..
Several women were elected to Office In
Limerick, including Miss Charlotte Bar
vlngton, daughter Of a laborer.
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FARMERS
MUTUAL FIRE ms. co. OF
SALEM COUNTY.
OFFIcE-HEAD OF MARKET ST., SALEM

THIS old and reliable Company of 30 years
l. standing continues to insure all kinds OF
property, not extra hazardous, in town or coun'
try for any length of time not exceedlng. five
years at as low rates as will pay losses and eX'
penses. 1t insureS against fire or lightning or
damage by either. It's losses are promptly adj
justed and paid. Its funds on hand are ample
to meet all probable loss, being larger than at
any previous time of its existenfe and steadily
increasing, while its reserve assets are OF a
character and amount to surely meet al losses
however extraordinary, and cannot be FILTERED
away by unfortunate Investment or defaulting
officers.
Directors-Jos. X. waddington, VIM. B. Car
penter, Charles Hires, Josiah Wistar, David +.
Grier, G. II. SiDnickson, Woodruff Petit, Bar
Casper, j. Howard Sinnickson, John S. Elwell,
Richard Bassett.
Executive Committee-w. B. Carpenter,
President; Joseph X. Waddington, Woodruff
Petit, q. P. Harris, 9. W. Casper, who meet
weekly, on Seyenth-day, at 8 Z. NJ.
Secretary and MISUNDERSTANDING Petit,
to whom applicants may be made In relation
TO any business connected with the Company,
at the Office of the Company, 1888 Broadway,
lhead of Market %street,l or at his residence,
$50 Z. Broadway, Salem.
In addition to the above the following per
sons have been elected Agents and Surveyors
Il. Nj. Hitchner, Elmer.
George b. Grier, Woodstown.
Josiah Summerill, Upper Penn' Neck.
Asa G. Turner, Penn's Grove.
Daniel d. Hitchner, Cohansey.
j. Forman Sinnicksop, L. r. Neck.
John Hitchner, Alloway.
Joseph Ii. Livezey, Berkeley.
David ID. Griseom, Marion, NJ.
George II. Morrison, Salem.
L. Acton,
z b Sickler,
WIN. b. CARPENTER, President.
WoopruTr PETTIT, Sec'y and Treasurer.
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HOME RULE FOR IRELAND
(he People, Not the Aristocracy, Now
Govern the Emerald Isle.
W0RKINGMEN ELECTED TOOFFICE

John f. Redmond Wins a Great Victory
For the Irish People - Transfer of
Power From the Grand Jurles to the
District and County Councils-one
Woman Elected in Limerick.
DUBLIN (By oablc),-Home Rnle began
,n Wednesday In Ireland. Not the Home
Rule that Gladstone so CALAMITY fought
or in the House Of Commons In
1886, but the nearest approach to 1t that
las ever been seen in the history Of the
Emerald Isle. In a word, the County and
District Councils elected by the votes Of
The people-not tho aristocracy-have as
mmed their %oficesa
The Grand J~uries-bodies nominated ex-
ilusiyely by the landlords which formerly
governed the counties OF Ireland-are In
ititutions OF the past. The counties are to
10 governed from now on by officers elected
~ the people and taken from the rank and
lie
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The crew OF United States steamship
Raleigh has presented to Helen Gould a
standard, ensign and Jack"
Reports from Cayenne, French Guiana,
and Surinam, utch Guiana, say that a
destructive earthquake has visited those
colonies.
The Government sale OF mules at Chlcka-
manga Park, Ca, has been a remarkaolo
success, more than 300 animals having oe .
sold, netting in the nelghborhood of s22''
900.
On the allegation that he contracted
tuberculosis owing to the filthy condition
OF the jail, Amos Kroetyer has begun sun
for $50, 900 against tho Commissioners OIL
Woods County, Ohio.
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MURDERS HIS WIFE AND CHILD.
New Jersey Man Slabs Them to Death ant
Then Cuts His Throat.

CAMDEN, N. J. (special).-Edward os-
wald, an instrument maker, aged twenty
FIVE years. early Tuesday morning stabbed
to death his wife Mary. aged twenty-six
years, and their six-year-old daughter,
Gussie, at their home in Centreville, o SUI
burb OF this city. He then cut his own
throat and was taken to the Cooper Hospi-
tai. He will die.
A neighbor heard Mrs. Oswald scream
about two O'Clock. She was hanging half
way out OF a window with blood flowing
from a wound in her breast, She said her
husband had attacked her and her two
children with a bread knife, but that one
Of the latter had escaped. The door was
broken open and Mrs. 0s valid ran out with
her dead child in her arm and fell dead as
she reached the sidewalk.
Upon entering the house Oswald was
found unde the bed with q wound in
his throat. He resisted arrest and was
beaten into submission. 1t is believed he
became suddenly insane during the night.
The Penn's Grove record., 1899-04-28

The coke production is still close to the
maximum.
A ~cotton-mIll company, with a ca tai OF
800, 900 has been organized in shreveport,
La.
The California wheat crop will be heaYy
one, and wheat charters are in increasing
demand.
The safe and lock manufacturers OF the
United States are about TO ioril a com
bination, with a capital stock oil 9lf'9oO,-
900.
Westward of the Mississippi corn plant
Ing is now in ~progressA AS Jar notta as
Southern Nebraska and eastward " 'As
Mississippi.
The Penn's Grove record., 1899-04-28
Gin and Handouts Go Together.

When Sir William Branforth Griffith was
Governor OF the Gold Coasts Africa, he paid
a visit to King Quamin Fort. and that
monarch preferred one request, namely,
struct the merchants OF Addah to pay for
palm oil in cash instead OF In gin, to which
the Governor replied that he could not In
terfere with the course OF trade. King after
King preferred the same request, but each
in turn received the same answer, and one
OF the native chiefs, with sore heart over
flowing with the bitter irony which bafled
purpose speaks, replied: "Send US, with
your gin, a plentiful supply Of handouts;
they both so together"
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HAWAIIAN TRADE GROWS.
Large Increase in Customs Receipts
Noted Since the Annexation.

WASHINGTON, D. C, (SpecIaD.-The State
Department has received from former Con-
sul-General Haywood, at Honolulu, a com
parison of the annual customs reyenues OF
the Hawaiian Islands for 1898 with those Of
the year preceding. An increase is shown
in almost everything imported, and some
of the gains are significant.
A large decrease in the importation OF
gunpowder and firearms. says tho Consul
General, was undoubtedly caused by the
islands becoming part Of the United States.
The total receipts from customs we're
1906, 975. 10, as against SOS, 1895, an in
crease OF $1s8, 4S2.G5. Many new planta-
tions nave been promoted, capitalized for
from 81, o00, 900 to IS, 500, 900.
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Anglo-AmerIcan Concession in China.
Valuable mining rights have been grant
ed by the Empire i-1owager to British IN d
Americans In Gu ma.


A catalogue of tnoE9tican library in
eleven volumes has been presented by the
Pope to the Germanic Museum In Nurem-
berg.
The Salvation Army has just dedicated a
~yorkingmen's hotel In Boston. The insti-
tuition has accommodations FOR three hun
dred men.
Public opinion in Havana, CUBA, does
element Of the proposed legal reforms IN
the island.
The French Ambassador at Tangler has
succeeded, in view ofthe danger OF import
Ing the plague, in enforcing an edlct that
no ship with pilgrims from Mecca shall en-
ter q Moroccan port.
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U NOT KING.
Admiral Writes That He is Simply Boss
of the Ranch at Samoa.

OF the IKancH Ut bHHHUHs
CINCINNATI, Ohio (Special).-Mrs. G. N.
Lindley. living at the Hotel Aims, Walnut
Hills, received q letter a few days ago
from her cousin, Admiral Kautz, at present
the central figure In the! Samoan trouble.
The Admiral writes undertake Of March ~.
and does not appear to anttcipate any SER
ious difficulties in Samoa. He writes IN
a ~jocular way about his king-making, anu
saws: "I am not King here, but Just
plain boss OF the ranch. The German
Consul had that position up to my arrival:
Since then he has been a very silent
partner. I am very much afraid he does
not like me; in fact. I am not popular here
with the Germans, but I am all right with
the English and hope to pull through win
them. I have no doubt OF being sustained
BY the Government in all l have done"
The Penn's Grove record., 1899-04-28
OUR CONTROL OF CHINESE TRADE.
Only the Partition of the Empire Car
Prevent This Result.

LONDON (By Cable).-Mr. John Barrett,
former United States Minister to Siam, who
has been studying the trade situation in
China more thoroughly than Lord Charles
Beresford, states that the United states
should insist upon the "opcn door, in the
Far East for the sake of American inter.
ests. The lions share Of the trade is al
ready fast changing from Great Britain to
America. and nothing but the partition OF
China can prevent American control OF al
most all the Asiatic markets,
This Is |instanced in the principal port OF
Manchuria, where the imports have
changed from ninety per cent British to
seventy per cent. American within sever
YelrS.
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Henry Brunot and Frederick Slbley, who,
with runot' mother, were arrested at
Pana. ILL.,, charged with the murder of Miss
Jane Brunot, a wealthy maiden woman,
the sister of Mrs. Brunot's late husband,
have confessed that they killed Miss Bru-
not. They exonerated Mrs. Brunot, and
she has been released from custody. The
murder occurred on tho night of March 80.
Young Brunot admits that he killed his
aunt, after which Sibley threw ths body
into tho old we'll where 1t was found.
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Cotton planting is now general over the
northern portions Of the cotton region, ex-
cept in Oklahoma and Northern Iexas,
where IL has been DELAYED by wet weather,
and IL we'll advanced In the central portion.
In Southern Texas it is coming up 10 good
stands, except in localities, and ehopplng
is general In Northern and Central Florida.
Scarcity of seed is reported from Georgia
and TOuiaiana.
The Penn's Grove record., 1899-04-28

AUCKLAND. N. z. (By Cable),-Advices
lust received here from Apia, Samoan
islands, dated April IS, report that severe
bodies Of friendly natives and the rebels.
The Penn's Grove record., 1899-04-28

Nationalist elected 5A officials as
against ITO elected by the Unionists.
County Councils control rent collecting
inc expenditures.
There are now six county boroughs, five
municipal b%oroughs and sixty-three urban
districts.
Property qualifications abolished and
brlcklayer, II elected, can now sit as Lord
Mayor of Dublin.
Chairman of County Councils are ex-of-
6cio Magistrates,
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Ralph voorhees,, Of .Clinton, n. J.. an
uncle of Governor Foster NJ. VOORHEES,, has
given $40. 900 to the American Bible So
ciety.of New York City, SIC, 600 more to the
Board OF Foreign Missions Of the Reformed
Church, and $4,000 to the Board of Educa-
ton. Mr.. Voorhees, is President OF the
Hunterdon County Bible Society.
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Cuban Crop Prospects bright.

The g crop OF Cuba for 1899 Is om-
cially estimated at 9O7, eO3 English tons,
against a total for 1898 of 222,OS2 tons, me
and more abundant thai for two years
past. The planters In the Province OF
Pinar del Rio are very cheerful as to the
ouflnok
The Penn's Grove record., 1899-04-28

Secretary Coburn, Of the Kansas Agricul-
tural Department of Topeka, makes a re-
port on the wheat conditions showing only
twenty per cent. OF full crop. me total
acreage In the State is 5,50O,OOO, with the
most favorable conditions not more than
%, OOO, 900 bushels will be grown in Kansas.
The Penn's Grove record., 1899-04-28
where Moliere Died.

For many years it has been a much
disputed point whether Moliere died
at No. "a or No. 40 Rue de Richelieu,
Paris, France, and whether "a or 40
should bear the bronze tablet. Both
houses had their pa~rtisans, which
caused many quarrels. At last it has
1ecided it was in No. 40 that the
a. of comedies died.
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James and Joseph Caldwell, brothers,
who lived on a ranch near Williamsport. N,
D., quarreled a few days ago and James
shot his brother to death with n rifle. He
then committed suicide by drinking car
bollc acid.