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The Penn's Grove record., 1901-08-16

The outlook in the financial situa-
ton in England is a gloomy n
The peach crop of the country will
amount to 75,00n,000 bushels this
year.
New York promoters are forming
n trust of the pea canneries in the
country.
Twenty leading hat manufacturers
of the country are ~endeavoring to
form a trust.
Reports from Arizona say that the
largest alfalfa crop ever known is now
being gathered.
A shortage of &C. 900, 900 bushels Is
expected in the French wheat crop.
The steel strike has caused a scarcity
of some products, which has resulted
in higher prices.
The drought in Indiana will kill of
two-thirds of the cor crop, -and ap,
pies and grapes are a failure.
A revival of the Southern iron trade
has just begun, a large European
order having been received by an Ala.
bama firm.
The eheapness of ocean transporta
ton has stimulated the export move,
ment of wheat, for which there Is a
good foreign demand.
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The Pacific Cable bill passed its
third reading in the British House of
Commons.
In spite of the discriminating duty
against the United States, n shipload
of rosin arrived at st Petersburg,
Russia, from Pensacola, Fla.
Edmund Z. Brodowski, United States
Consul at Solingen, Germany, died
suddenly.
Insurgent activity continued along
the line of the railroad on the Isthmus
of Panama, A French warship ar
rived at Colon.
Adylces from London showed that
the Beers had apparently reached
the end of their supplies of ammuni-
ton.
Seven We're killed and twenty-three
wounded in n vendetta battle in a
church in Obotti, Austria.
Servia's new Parliament consists of
40 Ministeralists and twenty indie
%pendents and Liberals.
Yin Chang, former Director of the
Tien-Tsin Naval School, was appointed
Chinese Minister to Germany.
The Peruvian Chamber of Deputies
adopted Il resolution c%ensuring the
Cabinet.
American claims for damages for
being thrust out of South Africa
We're presented to the British Com
pensation Committee.
The Porte declined to accede to the
demands Of France in regard to the
transfer of the quays at Constantine,
pie.
American travel 10 Europe is stated
in London to be greater in volume this
year than even during the Paris $500
Exposition,
Gonzalez del Campillo, the Spanish
Minister to Venezuela, is dead.
A waiter gave himself up to the
London police, confessing hat he had
robbed a concern in Portland, Ore,
last December.
A bomb exploded in a church at
Troyes, France: 100 children and a
priest who was present at the time
escaped injury
General Kitchener reported the cap.
ture of a blockhouse In the Orange
River Colony by the Beers,
A terrible heat wave prevailed
throughout Italy; vineyards in whole
districts were ruined.
Two Of the latest French war ships,
h Jeanne dare and the Chateau.
Renault, broke down so completely
that they must be refitted with new
engines at great cost
The Penn's Grove record., 1901-08-16

Dexter s. Caster, Chief Of Police of
New Orleans, La, and one Of h best
detectives in the country, is dead.
The money realized by the Federal
Government from Oklahoma land
sales will be used to erect municipal
buildings at county seats.
Burglars robbed the Michigan City,
Ind, postoffice of $500 in stamps and
500 in cash.
Burglars broke a safe in the post
office at NARROW, Ind. Ter, and n
was captured.
Judge Sanford NJ. Green died at Bay
City, Mich, aged n~inety-four years.
In 1S43 Judge Green revised the Mich
igan State statutes, and his work
stands unchanged to-day.
H. Charles Ballard, inventor of the
famous Ballard rife of Civil War
times, died at Worcester, Mass. He
was seventy-nine years old.
A $4,000 monument erected to the
memory of MissOuri's Confederate
dead was unveiled Mt Springfield, Mo.
The transport Sumner arrived in
San Francisco from Manila with $50
convalescent soldiers.
An attempt was made to sink a Brit
ish transport at New Orleans with ex-
plosives.
Thousands of farmers from Ocean and
Monmouth Counties, New Jersey, met
at Wreck Pond, near Spring Lake,
md celebrated great salt water day
w. Barry, a striker, was sentenced
- I On -, ,r-~1v+h TEntn 10 fD4ft. rlnnthS'
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS,
Two HighwaymeH Shoot Two Horses
to Make the Driver Stop.
RELIEVE TRAVELLERS OF MONEY

The Male Passengers Take to Their Heels
But Robbers Get Women's Naluables
and Cash in tho Mail and Expres'
Packages and Escape Hold-Up DC
curred in Blue Mountain Lake Region,
Albany, N. "a ~ coach rob-
berry In the Adirondack something
new, but it occurred in<tOad day,
light two miles north of Dunlap's Ho-
tel. at North River, on the road TO
Blue Mountain Lake.
The stage coach had left Dunlap's
| at Ii o'clock Il. m. on its daily trip up
the mountain, and had reached a piece
of woods through which the road
winds at Il heavy grade. The coach
was drawn by four horses, and the
hlghwnymen shot and killed the lead
ers and thus stopped its progress
The mail pouches were ripped open,
and registered letters Inc express
packages containing money were Sto-
len.
Serious though the affair was, ii
was not without u humorous incident.
As soon as the coach was brought 10
n stop three of the men passengers
Jumped of and took to the woods.
The fourth male passenger had his
wife with him. and he likewise would
have sought shelter had 1t not been
that his wife seized his coat tails,
There were seven passengers In the
coach, four men and three women.
The highwaymcn treated the ladies
with courtesy. and one of them re-
marked considerably that no harm
would befall them If they simply kept
quiet and handed over what available
cash they possessed, along with their
rings, watches and jewelry. The
women were frightened, and n of
them was seized with Mysteries, as a
masked h%ighwayman invited them to
step out.
When the coach was stopped by the
death Of the leading horses, the sud
den Jolt caused the driver, BIZ Ell
bridge, an "old timer In those regions
to fail from his seat and drop beneath
the horses. He was injured. The
highwaymen did not search him, al
though he had a roll Of bills in his
pocket.
While one highwayInaa covered the
passengers with his rifle the other
collected quite a sum of money, The
mail pouches then were ripped open
and the highwaymen rifed the letters.
They then turned their attention TO
the express packages which were piled
upon the coach. These were opened
and several containing bills were
taken away.
When the h~ighwaymen had con
cluded that there was 10 more booty
they retreated to the woods, keeping
the passengers covered until they We're
Il of sight. The driver. Bill FL
bridge, cut the harness from the Gead
horses, and, with his scared party.
drove back to Dunlap's Hotel, where
the story of the hold up was related.
The three men who had fed from the
stage coach appeared later at the hotel.
They had been hiding in the brush,
A party of ten men was organized
at Dunlap's and went In pursuit Of
the highwaymen. 1t is believed the
highwaymen obtained $1,000.
The stage line is operated by VII
liam K. Waddle, and the coach that
was held up connects with trains on
the Adirondack branch Of the Della
ware and Hudson Railroad.
The Penn's Grove record., 1901-08-16
TGE MARAEES
.oALbp
ate Wholesale Prices OF Country
Produce Quoted in New York.

MILK.
The Milk Exchange price for standard
quality is &c. per quart.
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EXPORTS OF BREADsTUFFs.
Great Increase Over a Year Ago, Partic.
ularly at New York City.

Washington, d. C.-The total ex-
ports of breadstuffs from the United
States in the month of July last
were about thirty per cent. greater
than in the same month of last year.
According TO the Treasury statistics
on the subject the breadstufts are
barley, corn, corn meal, oats. oatmeal,
rye, wheat and wheat flour. The
gain in July exports of this class IA
most notable at New York City, at
Superior and at Puget Sound. there
being a decided falling off at Norfolk
and Portsmouth. There was also a
small decline in foreign shipments
from San Francisco, due in part 10
the sharp rivalry of Seattle and
Tacoma.
The exports of breadstuffs from New
York City in July We're S6,062, $50, as
against 81, 6,05S in the same month
of last year, and from Puget Sound,
1868, 14S. as against $366,640.
The Penn's Grove record., 1901-08-16

The Male Passengers Take to Their Heels
nut Robbers Get Women's N~aluables
and Cash in tho Mail and Express
Packages and Escape - Hold-Up DC
curred in Blue Mountain Lake Region.
The Penn's Grove record., 1901-08-16

Stella and Gertrude Ambrose, of
Savannah, Ca, were drowned while
bathing in the surf at Tybee Island
Stella was nineteen and Gertrude was
twenty years old. The sisters and
several others were bathing and the
party had gone out further than was
safe. A cry for help came from
Gertrude and Stella caught her hand
to save her. Both were then swept
away before aid could reach them.
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a Scarcity of Horses.

New York horA dealers note an rn-
usual scarcity Is the horse market at
the present time. Prices in general
have advanced, according to a proml-
nent firm Of dealers, at least 100 per
cent. The Increase in prices Is noted
In all kinds Of horse stock, and fine
coach horses are hardly obtainable
at any figure.
The Penn's Grove record., 1901-08-16

In Paris during the early part OF the
last decade there fiourished a small
Boulevard, owned by a lady whose
husband took a small role In the pro-
auctions of the house. This perform
err received his salary as did the other
actors, and figured on the pay-list as
an ordinary wGe-earner. However
he was so unmeeafully chaied ny ms
friends regardidg\ The queerness OF inc
situation that he abandoned MS wile ,
service and obtained an engagement
q anothe- SxESggt-Rits
The Penn's Grove record., 1901-08-16
ORDERS HIS WEALTH BURNED.


ST. Paul, Minn.-Harry Scott, an &C.
centric r%ecluse, who died at F%aribault,
left a will In which he stipulates that
all his cash, amounting TO $4,000,
shall he burned by his executors.
Scott was worth about 100000. To
his servant girl he left 5000, but his
nephew, his only relative, does not
get a cent. The bequest Of money to
the servant was in return for the care
she gave TO Scott during his last ILL.,
ness.
Scott's nephew will probably contest
the will OIL the ground that his uncle
was OF unsound mind. 1t is not be-.
lieved that any court will permit the
money to be burned, but will find that
Scott was insane, The money would
then revert to the nephew.
Scott was eighty-six years old. Two
years ago he became cstranged from
his wife, who died a few months
later, and he then declared that no one
should profit by his money.
The Penn's Grove record., 1901-08-16

1t has been positively ascertained
by expert chemical analysis that rice
contains more nutritive elements than
any other grain. 1t will sustain life
better and longer than any other &C.
real, a fact well known throughout
the Eastern countries from time i'm
memorial.
The Penn's Grove record., 1901-08-16

Mrs. Arthur Croker, of Mantle,
Conn, who recently Inherited about
$4,000, committed suicide by firing a
loaded shotgun into her side. TN.
powder set fire to the woman's cloth
ing. Mrs, Crocker had acted aueerll
for several days, but no alarm had
been caused Her husband could no
explain why his wife had taken he.
life.
The Penn's Grove record., 1901-08-16
Thirty salmon canneries Combine,

The work of consolidating thirty
salmon canneries on Puget Sound and
in Alaska has been completed, and
the Pacific Packing and Navigation
Company have paid $5,0O0,000 in cash
and distributed stock to various can
merry men who have come into the
combination.
The Penn's Grove record., 1901-08-16

The readers of this paper will be pleased to
learn that there is at least II dreaded dis
ease that science has been able to cure in all
its stages, and that is Catarrh. Halls Catarrh
Cure is the only positive cure now known to
the medical fraternity. Catarrh being a con-
stitutional disease, requires a constitutional
treatment. Halls Catarrh Cure is taken inter
nally, acting directly upon the blood and mu-
cous surfaces of the system, thereby destroy
ing the foundation of the disease, and giving
the patient strength by building up the CON
s%titution and assisting nature in doing its
work. TIL proprietors have so much faithin
its curative powers that they offer One Hun
bred Dollars for any case that it fails to cure.
Send for list of testimonials. Address
F. J.. CHENEY & Co., Toledo, o.
Sold by Druggists, 75c.
Halls Family Pills are the pest.
The Penn's Grove record., 1901-08-16
The Size of Wnman,s Hend.

According to a female phrenologist,
women's heads are growing larger.
She does not mean that women have
got the "big head" but just what
she says.-Boston Transcript.
The Penn's Grove record., 1901-08-16
HALF AN AVERAGE OF APPLE CROP
Estimates Made at a Meeting of Ameri-
can and Canadian Growers in Toronto.

lean and Canadian apple men met
here and talked of the average crop
Of the different parts of the country.
Their reports estimated the crop of
Ontario to be fifty per cent. of an
average crop, New England, thirty
five per cent; New Jersey, forty per
cent; Pennsylvania, forty per cent;
New York, twenty per cent; Mary
land, fifty per cent; Virginia. sixty
five per cent; West Virginia, sixty
five per cent; Kentucky, thirty-fve
per cent; Tennessee, thirty-five per
cent; Ohio, forty per cent; Michigan.
thirty per cent; Illinois, forty per
cent; Missouri, fifty per cent.
The Penn's Grove record., 1901-08-16
Texas Close. State Treasury.

The State Treasury of Texas has
been closed by order of the Legisla-
trre while a committee is counting
the money placed there. This action
is due to the failure Of the First Ma
tional Bank of Austin, where State
funds We're on deposit.
The Penn's Grove record., 1901-08-16

The body of the late Empress Fred
erick was Inferred in the mausoleum
at Potsdam, Germany, amid impress
sive ceremonies, which were attended
by Emperor William and King Ed
ward
The Penn's Grove record., 1901-08-16
TALLEsT COUPLE TO WE'D,
Nan is Nine Feet Two Inches High and
the Girl Eight Feet Three Inches.

Paris, France.-An attempt to ex-
pertinent with the human species by
selecting something In the nature of
4 stud is attracting the attention Of
the curious. 1t takes the form of q
giant competition at Rouen and al
ready shows a startling number of
abnormal statures in France.
From the south there has arrived
Paris On his way to Rouen a young
man, not yet twenty-five years old.
who is nine feet two inches tall and
Is still growing, He weighs AS
pounds and measures ninety-eight
inches around the chest. 1t has been
arranged that he marry an English
girl who is eight feet three inches IN
height.
The Penn's Grove record., 1901-08-16
Treat Natives Win clemnnrr

The Philippines Commission has left
Manila on Its northern trip. Civil
Governor Taft has addressed a letter
to the new justices, urging that the
courts create a good impression and
that natives first offenses should be
treated with paternal clemency.
The Penn's Grove record., 1901-08-16

John Winters, who looted the vault
of the Selby Smelling Works at San
francisco, Cal, secured as his booty
gold bullion to the value Of 100000.
or nearly $4,000 more than the sum
originally given out. An error was
made in compiling the list Of stolen
bars.
The Penn's Grove record., 1901-08-16

Auto cars are to be utilized by the
police in Paris to overtake cars driven
at excessive speed. Several police
men are now being trained to drive
the motor cars.
The Penn's Grove record., 1901-08-16

No matter what ais you, headache to a
cancer, you will never get well until your
bowels are put right. CAscARETs help nature,
cure You without a grippe or pain, produce
easy natural movements, cost you just 10
cents to start getting your health back. Cas-
cARETs Candy Cathartic, the genuine, put up
in metal boxes, every tablet has G.. G G.
stamped on it. Beware of limitations.
The Penn's Grove record., 1901-08-16

We want intelligent Men and Women as
travelling Representatives CT Local Managers
salary $500 to $500 a year and all expenses,
according to experience and ability. We also
want local representatives. salary So to SIS a
week and com mission depending upon the time
devoted. Send stamp for full particulars and
tate position preferred. Address, Dept. B.
THE BEL PHILADELPHIA. Pa.
The Penn's Grove record., 1901-08-16
The weekly Crop Bulletin

The weekly crop repport Of w
-NreatheE~-isdreau IAt washing'sT
showed Improvement in some regions
but deterioration in Others, particu-
larlv In the Ohio Valley.
The Penn's Grove record., 1901-08-16

A dispatch from Sir1la, India, says
200 Mahsuds surprised and looted the
British militia post at Kashmirkar,
killing q native officer and six soldiers
The Penn's Grove record., 1901-08-16

In a duel over a young woman Rob
ert Groin shot Frederick Westbrook
and then killed himself at Jackson.
Miss. The shooting began when Groin
met Westbrook taking the girl to
church.
The Penn's Grove record., 1901-08-16

The British Board of Trade state
ment for the month of July shows an
increase of $13, S23, 500 in imports and
n decrease of $S24,000 in exports.
The Penn's Grove record., 1901-08-16

Mrs. II. V Mealey and Joel pierson
were killed and three other persons in
Injured in Il gale which dalaag ed tho
Portsmouth IN, H Navy Yard.
The Penn's Grove record., 1901-08-16

Earthquake shocks lasting many
hours have been recorded in Victoria,
E. c.. and are supposed to have shaken
Alaska.
The Penn's Grove record., 1901-08-16
VcToRlA's STATUE DlsEIcURED.
Discomfort in Island of Malta Leads 20
Ugly Demonstrations.

Valetta. Island of Malta.-The dis
content here arising from the Ian
guage question and other grievances
Is growing more acute. The Union
Jack was torn to pieces in the streets
by a large body of demonstrators.
This was followed by the dlsfigur-
ing of Queen Victoria's Jubilee statute.
The marble was deluged with damag-
ing acid.
The Penn's Grove record., 1901-08-16

Mayor Hinchlife, Of Paterson, n.
j., announced that the Anarchists
there will not be allowed to give their
play, The Assassination of King
Humbert."
The Penn's Grove record., 1901-08-16

A. B. Cummins was nominated for
Governor of Iowa by the Republican
State Convention held at Cedar Rapids.
The Penn's Grove record., 1901-08-16
: Airship ~ColIapses.

Santos-Dumout's airshlp collapsHG
IN Paris, and he barely escaped a tta
rible death. A new balloon will H.
constructed for him
The Penn's Grove record., 1901-08-16

Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup for children
t%eething, soften the guns reduces iniamma-
ton allays pain, cures wind collie. 25c a bottla
The Penn's Grove record., 1901-08-16

F1TSpermanently cured. No fits ornervous-
ness after first days use of DIR. Kline's Great
Nerve Restorer. S2trlal bottle and treatise free
Dr.. r. III. KLINE, Ltd. 931 Arch St, Phila. Pa
The Penn's Grove record., 1901-08-16

Umbrellas were in use in America be-
fore they were in England.
The Penn's Grove record., 1901-08-16

There has been a great fire at Far
sund ON the North Sea. Twelve nun
bred persons have beer rendered home
Ln-.
The Penn's Grove record., 1901-08-16

The coffee plant is a variety of the Gin
chona family.
The Penn's Grove record., 1901-08-16

Coral, both white and red, is found
on the Florida coast.
The Penn's Grove record., 1901-08-16

Egypt was the first country to have a
military organization.
The Penn's Grove record., 1901-08-16

Skating was a sport of the Mortimer
in prehistoric times.
The Penn's Grove record., 1901-08-16

Alvin Seaton, aged ten years, OF
Glenmore, N. Y. was murdered hy
his mother while she was temporarily
insane.
The Penn's Grove record., 1901-08-16

OF the 196, 0 1000 Mohammedans in the
world, only IS, 900. 900 live in Turkey.
The Penn's Grove record., 1901-08-16

n Sir William Laird, the iron,uastei
died at Glasgow. Scotland. ne ""'
born iDr-iS30.
The Penn's Grove record., 1901-08-16
5000 TO $500 A YEAR

In ancient times black inks were made
of SCOT and ivory black.
The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1901-02-09
Story of a Rejected Manuscr,n+

A remarkable story of a rejected
manuscript. which has the merit also
OF being true, is told in a Western
State 4 youthful and ambitious poet
handed a poem that lie considered as
nothing snort oT an epic to the editor
or prosperous journal IN the mctrop-
OILS OF the sfate. 1he editor, after
feadlhS TIE nfst three stanZas, fell
back unconscious IN his chair. The
chair overturned. Ieli against a table
on which was a Kerosene lamp. The
lamp crashed to the floor and con
Migration ehsGtd which destroyed
half the toNl. The author of ,he
catastrophe. shocked into desertiDy
the muse. is now the governor Of the
state.-New York Sun.
The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1901-02-09
THE IRkUTsK PRISON
Account OF Visit to Russlas Famo
Place OF Detention.

OF course l visited the great prison
OF 1rkItsk. and was most courteously
allowed to spend several hours there,
and to examine it closely and converse
freely, through my own interpreter,
with any OF the prisoners. 1t Is a
struggling mass Of buildings, many Of
wood, and all old and in need OF re-
pair. These are surrounded by pail
SADIE Of great posts 20 feet high, with
pointed ends. l went into every part
of the prison that l could see, includ-
ing the hospital, the workshops, the
laundr.. and the kitchen, and visited
every one of the large rooms and al
most every cell. In all these l saw
but two things to find fault with-the
practice of herding together criminals
Of all ages, tried and untried, and the
long time-in some cases amounting to
two years-which many Of the prison
ers spend there before their cases are
finally judged. This latter evil is
caused partly by the great difficulty
Of collecting evidence from many parts
of Siberia, but chiefly because the GEN.
trail authorities do not supply magis-
trates enough to cope with the num-
bers of those arrested. An additional
difficulty is the variety of languages
spoken by the criminals themselves.
Three times during my visit was the
governor, who accompanied me most
of the time, obliged to send to another
part Of the prison for a prisoner to
interpret request mLde to him as
we passed. The prison is supposed to
hold only 7GO criminals, but it con
tanned 1924 men on the day of my
visit, - women and 10 Children ac-
companyinS their mothers. OF these
no fewer than Cpl were awaiting trial,
1873 We're condemned for definite peri
DDS not exceeding three years which
they will serve in this prison. and 2S6
were lin transit mostly either to the
great convict prison of AlexandrOfsk,
as miles from Irkutsl. or to the Island
of Sakhalin. The convicts condemned
to long periods or to Saklalin hai fhe
the head shaved. and n numl1s. The
worst characters We're i,s were there
majority of the pr' with violence: a
for theft and natural Offenses. and
number f~olitary confinement, either
severns forged passports or for hay
l>fg no passport and refusing any in
about themselves.-Heury
Norman in Scribncr'S.