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The Penn's Grove record., 1901-03-01
Twice HANGED BY A MOB
An Alleged Firebug is Roughly Han
died at Matawan, N. }.
FINALLY TAKEN TO COUNTY JAIL

Town Goes wild Over a Succession of
1~ncendiary Blazes - Rope Fails to Ex-
tort q Confession From Charles Her
bert, and He is Turned Over to tho
Authoritie.-Held For the Grand Jury
Matawan, N. J.-Charles Herbert, n
resident of this town, was twice hanged
by the neck by excited citizens because
he was suspected of having set an in
cendiary fire. He persisted in assert
ing his innocence on being let down
the second time, and the crowd CON
tented itself with having him locked
up in Jail.
The business portion of the town was
swept by an incendiary fire on Janu-
airy 81. The firebug had not been dis
covered. There was IN alarm of fire
while services were being held in the
churches Sunday evening. The Wor-
shippers poured out upon the streets
and several Of the churches were emp
tied of their congregations, services
being discontinued.
The blaze was in the stairway OF a
building occupied as a dwelling by
Mrs. Herbert, mother of Charles Her
bert. After 1t was put cut the stair
way was examined and found to have
been soaked with kerosene. The
streets were by this time full of citi-
zens, who stood about in excited
groups, vowing Vengeance on the in
cendiary If he could be caught.
Certain persons began a little detec-
tive work on their own accoun ana
discovered, as they thought, circum-
stantial evidence against Charles Her
bert. He is the father Of a family and
lives on the outskirts of the town.
A vigilance committee was appoint
ed and sent for Herbert. He was
found and dragged to n nearby barn.
A pair of plow-lines vas procured,
and with cries of Lynch him!'
Stirring him up!' Hang the firebug!'
the crowd put a moose about the mans
neck, threw the line over a beam, and
hauled Herbert off the floor.
After he had hung a moment he was
let down and asked what he haG to
say.
II am as innocent as an unborn
child" he cried,
Again he was jerked from the floor
and suspended three feet in h air.
After he had been nearly s%trangled he
| was again lowered and still stoutly
maintained his innocence.
Herbert was so earnest in declaring
that he had had nothing TO do with
| the fire that the mob cooled down and
the moose was removed from his neck.
Followed by an excited and yelling
crowd Herbert was taken TO the Town
Hall. There is no direct proof Of the
mans guilt, although there is said to
be strong circumstantial evidence
against him.
Herbert's hearing was waived, and
he was committed TO the county jail
at Freehold. The authorities here
feared for his safety in the town Jail.
He will now be held for the action of
the Grand Jury. Residents breathe
more freely, believing that the irebug
has been clught,
The Penn's Grove record., 1901-03-01

Minnesota is one of he State which
are constructing new capitol buildings
of elaborate design and large cost. The
Minnesota capitol is to be built of
white marble, to be ornamented with
sculpture and to cost 50, 0OO. ZOO. When
completed it will bear some resem-
blance to the Treasury Department
building at Washington. but will have
a very much finer approach and be-
sides a picturesque dome with six sup
porting figures of marble, each nine
feet high. The State capital of Mime
sofa Is st. Paul.
The Penn's Grove record., 1901-03-01
" AGRICULTURAL. 81
nAAAAnANAAANNANNeK


Good Breeding Depends or Care.
In order to be successful in breeding
stock one of the most important re-
quirements is care. Without care, and
lots of it, good blood or good feeding
will soon lose nearly all Of their value,
and the stock will gradually but sure
ly decline. The value of care is shown
by the breeder who makes it point
to see that not evtn n of his animals
lacks the proper food, or water, or
shelter, or good blood. Such a breed
er is the one whose animals increase
in value with each new generation.
What better proof could be wanted
that the stock pay well for any care or
attention bestowed upon them?
The Penn's Grove record., 1901-03-01
A CHUTE FOR LOADING HOGS.

should be made of as light material
as stability will allow, for it is often
convenient to change its location. The
rest of the arrangement is two sec
tons of slat fencing, to be used as
wings. On end of each section is
fastened to a side of the chute and IN
rolled. When set up the two wings
will make a large V, Of which the
point is the chute. The hogs can be
easily driven inside the V; then the
two end of the Stating can be
brought together. The hogs will thus
he confined in a small pen to be loaded.
i. L. Irwin, in American Agricultur-
list.
The Penn's Grove record., 1901-03-01
INDIANA RIVAL TO SUGAR TRUST,
Formed by Chicago Capitalists With q
New Jersey Charter.

Chicago.-Capltalists here have Or
ganized a 100000 corporation known
as the Central Sugar Company. TO
compete with the American Company
in the home supply. The concern will
erect a beet sugar factory at Shelby,
Ind, where it has 10000 acres.
The factory will be in full operation
in time for this years crop. 1t will
cut 900 tons of beets. and produce
100000 pounds of sugar daily, en-
ploying 300 men. The charter of in
corporation was granted in New Jer-
The Penn's Grove record., 1901-03-01

1t is evident that the fast selling
books of no particular literary merit,
but with the elements of popularity,
have changed the standards of ac-
eeptance in the leading publishing
houses. Most of the new novels that
are being put On the market now could
not have secured a second reading two
years ago. They are simply the pub
fishers dice, thrown in the hope that
a luck number will be turned.
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poings Of State Legi.latures.

The Colorado House has passed q
bill to restore the death penalty, its in.
Fiction to be by electricity.
The Idaho House has tabled a resolu-
ton asking the Governor to substitute
civil for martial law in the Occur
d'Alene District.
A bill has passed the North Caro-
lima Legislature restoring to the Gov
ernor the power to appoint a Board of
Public Improvements.
Petitions bearing 5000 names have
been presented to the Maine Legisla-
ture, asking a resubmission of the pro.
hihition clause of the Constitution
The Penn's Grove record., 1901-03-01

Australian papers are offering prizes
for the best designs for a national
flag to commemorate the new era in
augurated by the Commonwealth. The
most valuable is a check for $3.50, of
fered by the Australian Review of Re-
views, and in this competition the six
Australian Premiers are to be the
iudnnS
The Penn's Grove record., 1901-03-01

The footpad business has been re-
duced to a science in Chicago. Two
members of the fraternity in that city.
having despoiled a helpless woman Of
her purse, fed, pursued by n dozen
citizens. When the highwaymen had
lured the pursuers to a comparatively
deserted street they turned at bay and
held up the entire dozen, not leaving
a nickel in any of their pockets.
The Penn's Grove record., 1901-03-01

The statement that pepper is an elk
IT. of life is much strengthened by the
fact that in Mexico, where pepper is
the main condiment, people more than
frequently live to be ITO to 100 years
old. The great objection, however,
to the elixir is that the people while
alive have not much life in them.
The Penn's Grove record., 1901-03-01

The scarcity of chalk still continues,
and the various consuming Industries
are hard pressed for supplies, especial
ly since n fair demand has sprung up
for whiting. Although there are limit
less quantities of chalk in many of the
Western States. the excessive trans
portation charges prohibit its use on
the eastern seaboard, and all chalk
used here comes from England.
The Penn's Grove record., 1901-03-01
Labor World.

Striking moulders at Cleveland, Ohio,
have reached an agreement.
Longshoremen on the Great Lakes
viii probably ask increased wages this
spring.
In the United States about 1900
persons are engaged in making lamp
chlmneys.
Fifty per cent. of the men formerly
employed in the building trades In
Berlin, Germany, are Idle.
The scarcity Of labor in some sec
tlons of the South is a matter of seri-
ous concern with those who employ
colored labor. u
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Homo Mixing of Fertilizers.


l have no doubt nat there is a good
field for intelligent farmers to make a
good profit in mixing fertilizers at
home, but there are certain things
that should be borne in mind. First,
the raw materials which the farmer
purchases are just as liable to be of
poor quality as are the mixed goods
which he buys. No farmer can distin-
| gnish the difference between an acid
phosphate containing eight per cent.
and one containing sixteen per cent.
available phosphoric acid. He could
not distinguish between the sample of
| genuine muriate of potash and one
which is adulterated with seventy-five
per cent. of common salt. He could
not tell a sample of tankage contain
ing ten per Cd Vt. ammonia from one
containing five per cent, and so on
with the other ingredients.
One sample of tankage which we
examined was sold under a claim of
twenty-five per cent. p~hosphoric acid
and seven per cent ammonia, which
actually contained seven and a quar-
ter per cent. phosphoric acid and six
per cent. ammonia. 1t will therefore
be seen that while home mixing will
enable the intelligent farmer to mix
materials in such proportions as he de-
sires, he must still depend upon the
safeguards provided by the State, IL
he is to obtain materials of good quail
ity. Some of the materials which have
been offered for sale for the purpose
of home mixing have been offered at
prices very much above the market.
am the producer of them obtained a
very much greater profit on them than
he would If he made mixed goods and
sold the mixed goods at the usual mar
gin of proft.-Professor FL. A. Huston,
in Orange Judd Farmer.
The Penn's Grove record., 1901-03-01
PENIS GROVE, N. j., FRIDAY, MARCH ], 1901.
HER IDEAL.

She wouldn't marry one who smoked,
She wouldn't wed with one who sworei
She wouldn't have a man whose heart
Had ever leaped for love before.
She wouldn't marry one whose height
Was less than FIVE feet nine or ten;
The man who came to win her heart
Must have command Ger other meni
The man that she was looking for
Came by, one day. and claimed her hand
She spent her honeymoon in tears;
The fellow snored to beat the band.
Chicago Times-H Herald.
The Penn's Grove record., 1901-03-01
RoTTEN.EccEp MEDICAL STUDENT
Revenge Upon the Youth Who Objected
to Removal of His Mustache.

oPol thV u '"o
to Removal of His Mustaehe.
Baltimore. Md.-After waiting more
than a week for the Ill feeling engen-
dered by the arrest and finlng of sew.
eral colleagues for cutting off his mus
tache to subside, Harry Schurman,
the hazed medical student Of the Uni
versity of Maryland, put ! an appear
ance at the medical schoof with the
avowed intention of resuming his stu
dies.
His stay was an unpleasant one. In
less than an hour after entering the
building Schurman was pelted with
eggs, mathematical, scoffed, hooted
Missed and groaned at. To further en-
phasize their dislike of the mustache-
less student two-thirds of the fresh
men left the assembly room in a body
and refused to listen to Dean Coale's
lecture on chemistry while Schurman
was in the audience.
The Penn's Grove record., 1901-03-01

The will of Hugh Kerr, father
of George j.. Kerr, who was
SEN to State prison for fifteen years
for the Bosschieter crime, was adj
mitted to probate at Paterson. By it
the convict falls heir to w $4,000.
The will was made on January 26 last
three days before George was sem
fenced. The estate is estimated to be
worth $4,000.
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st.,.,on. round in a Texas Cave.

w. Van Sickle, a Texas LEGISLATOR. has
returned from a visit to Western Texas
With lie report of the discovery in the
Cnb;sos Mountains OF a cave in which were
found the skeletons Of twenty;six human
beings. An examination proved that they
81, If .Indge Van Sickle and others that
fbe homes are those OF members OF the ex.
ned;t;on Of Cabeza de Vaca, which started
mt To find an FL Dorado in the sixteenth
century. Their route was across Texas
from east to west.
The Penn's Grove record., 1901-03-01
Murder Witness Under Bond.

A third witness in connection with
the Mondalto murder case, Luigi Fer
rara, of A%vondale, has been placed I'M
der bail Of $1,000. Ferrara was with
Giuseppe Mondalto and Luigi Grocio
when they were waylaid on a lonely
road in Avondale and Mondalto was
beaten to death. Angelo and Michael
Cofono are in Jail in Newark as the
alleged assailants.
The Penn's Grove record., 1901-03-01

Captain A. Casio, an Inlet yachts
man, reports that the whistling buoy
off Brigantine Shoals is partly sunk
and all frozen up. This buoy is fifteen
miles off Atlantic City and serves to
warn mariners from one ST the most
dangerous points on the Jersey coast.
In its present condition 1t is of little
or no use.
The Penn's Grove record., 1901-03-01

Perhaps the next step of tie big
trans-continental railway syndicate
will be to arrange a transfer system
that will enable a traveller to ride any,
where on the map for n fare.
The Penn's Grove record., 1901-03-01
Would Ee an Unjust Law.

A law mas been proposed in the Min.
nesota Legislature %forbidding a wom-
an to marry after she is forty-hve
years old, under penalty Of $1,000 fine.
Isn't this an unJ-st scrimination
against the poor? 1t is the woman
without the $1,000 who most needs a
husband to ca"4 f9r per Lewiston
(sfe,l Journal
The Penn's Grove record., 1901-03-01

The legal rate of interest in Canada
has been reduced by act of the Domin-
ion Parliament from - to five per
cent. Gilt-edged paper in the United
States has no difficulty in commanding
money at from three and a half to four
1a1. napt
The Penn's Grove record., 1901-03-01
WELSH TIN PLATE TRADE.
American Competition Admitted In tho
House of Commons.

London.-The President of the Board
of Trade, Mr.. Gerald Balfour, in the
House of Commons, while admitting
the competition of the United States
In the tin plate trade, thought h
trade was. nevertheless, in a satisfac-
tory condition. While the Welsh ex-
ports of tins to the United States IA
declined, exports elsewhere had in
creased of recent years. /
Mr.. Balfour had no reason TO sup
pose that representations to the United
States, suggesting a reduction of the
duty on tin plate, would have any ef'
feet.
The Penn's Grove record., 1901-03-01

A new feature has been developed in
the game of golf. A player on a West
ern link drove a ball square against
the back of a caddy's head, and out of
the unfortunate boys mouth came a
baw1
The Penn's Grove record., 1901-03-01
Russian Peasants Starving to Death.
Thousands of peasants are said to be
dying of starvation in Russia.
Girls E.clnde All Tipplers.

AT a meeting of the Circle of Kings
Daughters of st. Luke's Reformed
Episcopal Church. at Wilmington, Del,
each member pledged herself not to as
sociate with any drinking young man.
The question of cigarette smoking was
also discussed, but the young women
took no definite action about it.
The Penn's Grove record., 1901-03-01

Tie Needmore Coal Co, composed
of Chattanooga capitalists, purchased
5000 acres OF rich coal land near South
Pittsburg, Tenn. upon which mines
will be opened at once and developed
extensively. The vein is Il of the
richest in the section.
The Penn's Grove record., 1901-03-01
c.n.a.,. rnor,nn u. rrnae Mitn us

The following are the figures of
.Canada's trade with the United States
for 1900 and the previous year; Elk,
ports, 1900. SOS, Gl9,023; 1899, $45,133.-
521: Increase, $23. 4s5. o02. Imports,
1000, $109, S44.5IS; 1899, 1907, 1856
increase, S~16.S37,212.
The Penn's Grove record., 1901-03-01

The Township Committee Of Mays
Landing has recommended the appro-
priation of $1,000 for good roads, to be
voted for at the coming spring cleo
ton. The total amount of appropria-
tions asked for amount to $1,000.
The Penn's Grove record., 1901-03-01
Alabama. Coal output For 1900.

From partial returns Mine Inspector
Hooper reports a total of s, 100000 ions
of coal mined in Alabama last year,
When the full returns are in. the total
will reach S,500,000 tons. This VIII
be an increase over the preceding year
of nearly 1.0O0,0 900 tons.
The Penn's Grove record., 1901-03-01
spring business Improving.

Spring business is improving rapidly
in the central West and in the South
west, and reports from other sections
indicate a generally favorable outlook
for trade.
The Penn's Grove record., 1901-03-01
A Good reneh CROP Inaioaten.

Estimates of the possible peach crop
are being made. 1t is most too early
TO- that, but 1t may be well to note
that experts who have examined the
trees in all producing sections say the
buds indicate as good a crop as last
The Penn's Grove record., 1901-03-01
TOBACCO.

Reports from Louisville tell of large
sales at high prices. In his city, low
ever. Western tobacco is quiet but firm.
Sumatra tobacco is dull, Havana tobacco
is fairly active. Domestic cigar leaf Is
nuigt
The Penn's Grove record., 1901-03-01

A canning company at Williams
town has contracted for 800 acres of
tomatoes the coming season, at the
same price as last ~year-S6.o0 per ton.
The Penn's Grove record., 1901-03-01

A remarkable discovery of gold is re-
ported from the Samoan Islands.
Black sand running Is high as S940 a
ton is said to have been found on the
Island of Upola.
The Penn's Grove record., 1901-03-01

60 furnish the people of the world
with bread, more than 2,300,000,000
bushels of wheat are consumed each
The Penn's Grove record., 1901-03-01

The United States battleship kear-
sarge must have a new thirteen-ineh
gun to take the place Of the weapon
Injured in the recent explosion.
The Penn's Grove record., 1901-03-01

Small farms are in great demand in
Gloucester and Salem Counties, and to
meet this several large plantations
have been divided.
The Penn's Grove record., 1901-03-01
An Opportunity For Philanthropists.

Ahh II $50
There is no way in which benevo-
lence can be better applied. without
injury to any one and with greater ad
vantage to society, than in provision
made for the housing Of men and
women who are rich only in youth,
hope and an eager desire to learn
something worth learning and TO dc
something worth doing. In every city
there are thousands of them. They
are poor IN money. but they are rich
in the stuff of life out of which vir
tuous society is made. Some of them
are beginners in business, trying tc
earn a livelihood without much hope
of getting beyond a decent provision
for their daily wants. But many OF
them are the youth who, getting theiI
feet now rightly placed, viii make the
noble men and women of the future
All the friendly forces in society ought
to be brought to their aid. Provision
should be made for them on a large
scale. as now on a small scale it is
made by humane and friendly churches,
clubs. fraternities and associations.
Modern loding-houses, where, under
friendly superintendent, real social
intercourse could be enjoyed by young
men and women, car be made to pay,
and should invite the attention of rich
men and women who love their Fellow
men.-Christian Register.
The Penn's Grove record., 1901-03-01
rramps Take Chickens and Cioths

IIHfHPs IHkt
Tramps are causing much trouble
In Brldgeton robbing hen $ and
stealing laundry from clothes lines.
The Penn's Grove record., 1901-03-01
advertisements
THE MARKETS..

Late Wholesale Prices Of Country
Produce Quoted in New York.
= MILK.
The Milk Exchange price for standard
quality is 2%c. per quart.
The Penn's Grove record., 1901-03-01

Some n has discovered that the
grip is no respector Of persons-like
govt and appendicitis.
The Penn's Grove record., 1901-03-01
PlTH AND POINT.

Blobbs-"Has she given you any
encouragement Slobbs-"Well, she
asked me IL / liked sugar and cream
in my coffee"
""That's right, my boy, 1 am glad you
have thrashed the miller's son. But
what had he done TO you?" HE said
/ looked like you, father.'-Tit-Bits.
Engagements never should be long,
Ye SWANS who go to court
Take heedl The long engagements wrong
1t keeps a fellow short.
Philadelphia Press.
II shall make a fortune out of my
new musical box. You put a penny in
the slot and" "And the thing plays
a popular ARP mo, it stops playing
one."-Tit-Bits.
81 hear a lot of the rich young men
in town have organized a suicide
club" Yes. They're killing them
selves with late hours and high liv-
ing."-Philadelphla Bulletin.
Men are examples; hurrying through
This world because they've got to.
A very few show what to do,
But more show us what not to.
Washington Star.
Come, children" said Mr.. Widwer,
introducing the second Mrs. Widwer,
come and kiss your new mamma
"Gracious!'' exclaimed little Elsie, III
you took her for new they stuck you
pa."-Phlladelphia Press.
SIS it q fact that Mrs. Van Upanup's
ball was a larger affair that Mrs. De
Paster-Stone's:' "Oh, decidedly. Mrs.
Van Upanup had fully 5000 detectives
at her ball, whereas Mrs. De Faster.
Stone had but a scant 2500."-Detroit
Free Press.
well, Borus," said Naggus, the EN-
inent literary critic, Il see you began
the new century right" Flows
that?" asked Borus, the struggling au'
thor. Il don't understand" "You
didn't write any poem about it."-Chi'
cago Tribune.
"And l want to say TO my husband,
in an appropriate place. said the
widow, in conclusion, to Slab, the
gravestone man. "Yessum," sai6
Slab. And the inscription went on
ITO my husband. In an appropriate
place."-Tit-B Bits.
Il don't know who first said figures
couldn't lie,' said the young woman
''but I would bet any old sum that the
person was a man" Then, for the
fourth time. she tried to make hei
personal account book balance. - In
dianapolis Press.
Cant you afford to wear better
clothes than those" asked the sympa-
thetic woman of the street beggar, as
she eyed his tattered garments. NO
ma'am. l really can't" was the mendi
cant's reply; these toys is what bee
in."-Yonkers Statesman.
Sick Man-'Is this the Western San
itarium?' New Girl (mystified)-"Thi:
is DR.. Blanks house." "Yes, but
doesn't he take sick persons to nurse
sometimes?' ooh! Maybe he does
There's two or three skeletons in the
back office."-Christian Register.
Mistress - Remember, Bridget, we
want dinner served promptly at 8
What time is it now?" Bridget-+"'Ti
3 O'Clock, %joost." Mistress-"Well
you'd better begin TO make the frozeI
custard for dessert in that five-minut'
ice-cream Observation-Disclosures Press
The Penn's Grove record., 1901-03-01

The smallest maE-ever dispatched
was Que recently MtJss mp for Buenos
Ayres. the official elt Of which was:
Letters, il newspapf , MIL"
The Penn's Grove record., 1901-03-01

:peaf Mute. in the coun%.
The number of deaf-muses in &e United
States is over lll,eo,
Holbrook argus. (Holbrook, Ariz.) 1900-1913, 1901-01-26
NEIGHBORING NEWS
Snowflake.

Wallace Ellsworth and Ezra West
Gin town Wednesday.
Mr.. James NJ. Flake returned
home Tuesday from ElPaso, Texas,
where he has been on a pleasure
outing.
NJ. E. Kartetner, of Provo, Utah,
and James Pearce, of this place,
have gone to Mexico to see the
country.
Mrs. j. A. Freeman departed this
life on. Sunday, January 13, 1901,
after ten weeks of extreme suffering.
The bereaved ones have the SYM
pathy of the entire community.
A justice of the peace trial was
held here Wednesday and James
Hanson, of Woodland, was put un-
der $500 bond to await the action OF
the grand jury for killing a calf be-
longing to Mr.. Abe Amos. -7-''
Mr.. Marble was over from Concho
last week, the Misses Edna and
Ruth Frost returned home with him
which necessitated a visit from
Messrs. Ralph Ramsay and John
sPearce to- that city, and since their
return we notice the weather is as
cold as before.
We'were=g =grieved to read froEa the
last issue of TEE ARGUS that Mr.. E.
P. Woods is so ,indisposed and fear
that his trouble lies in his digestive
organs around his heart, but would
prescribe that certain culinary
artist be Immediately sent back to
Whiteriver: and we predict his cure
would be certain. However, if our
prescription cannot be filed, he will
have to depend on the castor oil.