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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-01-20

Mrs. William C. Beecher and Miss Gertrud
koxanna Beecher sailed yesterday on the Celtic
Ihey viii not return until April I.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-01-20

Invitations have been issued by Mr.. and Mrs
John Henry Benedict OF No. IL Cambridge Place.
for the marriage OF their daughter. Miss Nanette
Clark Benedict, to Archibald McLintock. I'm ST.
James's Church, Saturday. January % A
small reception will follow the ceremony.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-01-20

Mr.. and Mrs Russell Parker. OF No. Col st.
Marks avenue, announce the engagement of
their daughter. Miss Norma y. Parker. to Win
field Ray Mercer
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-01-20

Wednesday evening Mrs. Walter vey Gran
ford, of No. "a Linden Road. gave a reception
for her daughters, the Misses Margaret and
Helen Crawford. In the receiving party were
Mrs Frederick Crawford. Mrs. Frederick Lock-
mart. Mrs. Lawrence Durham. Miss Katherine
Chambers. Miss Gertrude Vanderveer Miss Ethel
Mackey and Miss Georgia Iurie. Mrs Crawford
was gowned In cream cOlored crepe de chino
and point lace. and the daughters wore frocISs OF
white null and princess lace
MIR. and Mrs. Alfred Trecartin Ogden the lat
ter before her marriage last fall Miss Sophie
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-01-20

MI and Mrs. Francis L. Games and Miss
Ethel Eames sailed on the same steamer. They
VIII spend some time In Egypt, Greecs and
4taly' and will not return home until July.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-01-20

Another recently announced engagement Is
that of Miss Florence II. Randall. daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Howard S Randall OF No 500
Washington avenue. to Glenworth SheDmoes
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-01-20

Cards are out for the marriage OF Miss Emma
Amelia Richardson. daughter OF Mr. and Mrs
Charles Torrey Richardson. formerly of Brook
Ign, and John Remsen Bennett son of Mr.. and
Mrs. W. r. Bennett. of the Shore Road and 10Th
street The ceremony will take place on Thurs
day. January 81 at the home Of the brides
parents, in Fayetteville. n. Y.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-01-20

An illuminating instance o: the Inconvenience
and expense caused by red tape method. has
5ust come 20 light The authorities OF the PEN
Just the plain, ordinary sort-and so they sent
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-01-20

Mr. and Mrs. John +. OltrOgge and Miss Reatrics
OltrOgge are now at the Alcazar. ST. Augustine
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-01-20

Receiving with Mrs. Sidney Ianier Smyth
and Miss Helen d. Smyth, of No. 81 Fifth ave-
nue.. Friday. January II, We're Miss F. Muriel
Goepel. Miss Marion Brooks Snow of BROOKLYN.
and Miss Ruth Eaton. of Manhattan. They We're
COrlies. Clement Meier and ]. Harold Kunlkle
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-01-20

Mr.. and Mrs. Lowell NJ. Palmer and Miss
Palmer. of No. FOG Clinton avenue. have issued
cards for Thursday evenings. January 81 and
February z.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-01-20

Although taking place in washington, the
wedding Of Miss Marion Dali. daughter Of DIT.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-01-20

Miss Jessie Sherman. who has been studying
music in Paris. is now visiting her sister. Mrs
Alexander b. Trowbridge. She expects to re.
main until after Eastern
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-01-20

n COIIIIIIs ItCepIIOM was mat giVen
for Miss Gladys B. Balch by her mother, Mrs
Horace Leland Balch, yesterday a week at their
home No. 3s Monroe place. The hotsess gowned
in white net with appliQued roses and her
daughter, frocked in white net and marquis lace
were assisted in receiving by Mrs. Balch's moth
er. Mrs. Mortimer G. Ogden, in black lace over
white satin; Miss Maude Y. Jones Miss Ma
thalie Johnson Miss Z. Eugene Alger and Miss
Mary McCabe, frocled IN white mad carrying
The Penn's Grove record., 1907-04-19
NATIONAL PEACE CONGRESS
Opening Session of the Confer
ence Held in New York City.
Roosevelt Urges International Arbi.
acknowledgements Between
Peace and Righteousness.

New York City.-The Peace Con-
gress got down to real business in the
great white-draped interior of Car
negie Hall under the joint auspices
of city, state and nation, with the
hand of Andrew Carnegie at the helm
to steer the movement for universal
peace along a safe and harmonious
course.
About two-thirds of the $500 who
crowded into the meeting were
women, and with these were about
1900 men delegates to the Congress,
each wearing the white badge of the
movement.
Carnegie Hall was filled from or
chestra to topmost gallery, the ma
jority of the audience being women
and elderly men. The platform was
occupied by the delegates and their
friends, as were the rows Of boxes.
Andrew Carnegie called the meeting
to order, and Immediately introduced
Mayor Mcclellan, who made a brief
address of welcome.
Andrew Carnegie, the little father
of the Peace Congress, anne on the
stage promptly at 8 p. m, the hour
set for the opening of the congress,
at the head of a tiny procession
made up of Mayor Mcclellan, repre-
senting the city; Gov. Hughes, the
State, and Secretary of State Elihu
Root, the NATIONAL Government. These
three made speeches, and the national
Government was further represented
by a long letter from President Roose-
welt.
A striking feature of the congress
was the tremendous reception given
Gov. Hughes when he rose to speak.
Though there had been much hearty
applause for the others, it was brief;
but when the Governor stood up there
was not only hand-clapping but
cheers which lasted for one minute
and thirty seconds.
President Roosevelt's sentiments
toward international peace were not
altogether in accord with those of
Andrew Carnegie. The Presidents
letter came out for peace, not at any
price, but with righteousness, and
later Mr.. Carnegie, in his speech, said
the two things were inseparable, and
asked the audience to imagine the
state of mind of a man who held
otherwise.
In his letter the President decried
disarmament as impractical, warned
against flamboyant ~utterances, re-
viewed the many achievements of this
country in the interests of peace, de-
clared that the second Hague Con-
ference could not accomplish all that
the peace advocates hoped for, though
it would be a step in the right di-
rection, and suggested the limiting
of the size of warships as a most
practical means of diminishing the
cost of naval ornaments.
At the evening session Mr.. Car
negie was still belligerent. He took
issue with Professor Hugo Munster
berg, who asserted that Germany's
army was not a burden on her people,
to the very apparent embarrassment
of the professor.
William J. Bryan spoke for a few
minutes in the evening.
Extra police were again necessary
to control the crowds that flocked to
the evening session. More than half
of the throng was made up of women,
many of them showing the white hair
of years.
The Penn's Grove record., 1907-04-19

NEW JERSEY STATE NEWS
Local Option Bill Beaten.

The Assembly at Trenton, by a
t of As to II, defeated Assembly
semblyman Bucks local option bill,
put before doing so Assemblyman
Archibald Alexander, of Hudson, and
Assemblyman Potter, of Cumberland,
made a bitter attack upon the meth
DDS employed by the New Jersey An
u-Saloon League in furthering the
measure. Not long ago Supt. j.
Frank Burke, of the league, was
barred from attendance in the House
on account of public charges he had
made against the committee which
had the local option bill under con
s~ideration. He accused the members
of conspiracy to defeat the measure.
When the bill came up Assistant Su-
p~erintendent John Wright occupied a
place in the chamber, and in speaking
against the bill Mr.. Alexander, in
stead of facing the chair, turned to-
ward Mr.. Wright and accused the
Anti-Saloon League of deliberate ly-
ing and misrepresentation of facts in
trying to pass the bill. He pointed
out that it was not in the true sense
a local option measure, and said it
was a vicious piece of attempted leg
islation designed solely to abolish sa-
looms. He said that while the bill
made a ward, municipality or county
a unit for prohibition, it failed to
recognize the State as a whole. Mr..
Potter added that the Anti-Saloon
League had deliberately misrepre-
scented the provision of the bill in his
county and challenged it's supporters
to come down there and oppose him
if he is a candidate for reelection
next fall.
The Penn's Grove record., 1907-04-19
Trne Holiness in Patient.

In proportion as the heart becomes
sanctifed, there is a diminished ten
dency to enthusiasm and fanaticism.
And this is undoubtedly one of the
leading tests of sanetiication.
One of the marks of an enthusiast
tic and fanatical state of mind is a
fiery and unrestrained impetuosity of
feeling, a rushing on sometimes very
blindly, as if the world were in dan
ger, or as if the great Creator were
not at the helm. 1t is not only feel
ing without a good degree of judg-
ment, but what is the corrupting and
fatal trait-it is feeling without a due
degree of confidence in God.
True holiness reflects the image of
Goa in this respect as well as in 9th
ers, that it is calm, thoughtful, delib-
crate, immutable. And how can it be
otherwise, since rejecting its wisdom
and strength, it incorporates into it.
self the wisdom and strength of the
Almighty.-Rev. Thomas c. Upham.
The Penn's Grove record., 1907-04-19
Had Twenty-Five Children.

Victor Monroe Durham, who died
suddenly at New Brunswick, aged
eighty-three years, was a man after
President R~oosevelt's WI heart. He
had twenty-one children, thirty-two
grandchildren, all of whom are liv-
ing but three, and fourteen great
grandchildren. Mr.. Durham, who
was born in E~nglishtown, went to
New Brunswick when a baby and
lived there ever since. He has been
a member of the First Presbyterian
Church for fifty-six years, and in all
that time had only missed two Sun
days. He was a witness of the great
tornado of 1886. He never had a
days illness in his life, and did the
family marketing every morning.
The Penn's Grove record., 1907-04-19
AL Through the State.

A horse at Belleville walked into a
candy shop and surfeited himself
with sweets.
Wenonah has but one ~unoccupied
house at present.
Two hundred Vineland Sons of
Veterans are about to organize a
camp of that organization.
Plans for a 5000 school building
for Florence having been completed,
the question of raising the money will
be submitted to the voters at a town
meeting.
The first sturgeon of the season
was landed at Bayside by j. J..
Holmes and Lewis Holton, of Penns-
vile, who received $65 for the fish.
This was the earliest catch at Bayside
in fifteen years.
Vineland tradesmen have agreed to
close their stores at $50 o'clock
every evening, except Saturdays.
The Ocean City Board of Trade is
endeavoring to have the State Ho-
meopathic Society hold its fall meet
ing there.
The Pitman Grove camp meeting
will begin a week earlier than usual
this year to accommodate the Grange
picnic.
The Penn's Grove record., 1907-04-19
Little Sins.

The little faults, the little sins, So
called, which may seem so incense
quential, may, nevertheless, hide
from US the vision of the Eternal.
You need not break the glasses of a
telescope, or coat them over with
paint, in order to prevent you from
seeing through them. Just breathe
upon them, and the dew of your
breath will shut out all the stars. So
1t does not require great crimes to
hide the light of Gods co~untenance.
Little faults can do it just as well.
Take a shield and cast a spear
upon it, and it will leave on it one
great dent. Prick it all over with a
million little needle shafts and they
will take the polish from it more than
the piercing of the spear. So it is
not SO much the great sins which take
the freshness from our conscience, as
the numberless petty faults which we
are all the time committing.
The Penn's Grove record., 1907-04-19
STANDARD OIL FOUND
GUILTY OF REBAT|NG
Could Be Fined S29,260,000
Under Chicago jury's Verdict.
ONLY ONE BALLOT WAS TAKEN
Judge Lands Charged That Company
Was Supposed to Know Rates
Strong Precedent Made-Other
Cases Can Now Be Pressed.

Cases Can Now Be Pressed.
Chicago.-Under a verdict Of guilty
brought in by a Federal jury in
Judge X. M. Lands court the Stand
ard OIL Company is liable to fines ag-
gregating $29,260,000. The verdict
was found in the rebating case which
has been on trial for six weeks, and
the company was found guilty on
1863 separate counts in the indict-
ment, each of which calls for a fine
of from $1,000 to 100000 under the
Elkins law. Only one ballot vas re-
quired to find the verdict.
This is the first time the Standard
Oil Company has been found guilty
on a rebate charge, although 1t has
often been accused of taking rebates
to stifle competition. The victory of
the Government is even greater than
appears at first. Upon the plan of
this prosecution will be based the
trials of the many other cases against
the oil trust already started in Illi-
nois, Tennessee, Louisiana, Ohio and
New York.
Judge Lands gave the case to the
jury at 6 o'clock p. M, after summing
up by counsel. Great interest cen
tired in his charge because of its bear
ing on the defense put in by the
Standard Oil attorneys. The prose-
cution was based on the acceptance
by the company from the Chicago &
Alton Railroad of a rate of six cents
per 100 pounds on oil shipments from
Whiting, Ind, to st. Louis, when the
regular rate was eighteen cents.
The defense sought to prove that
the company ives unaware of the fact
that the ~six-cent rate had not been
Commission as provided by the Ell
kins law. Evidence was offered by
the Government to show that it was
the duty of the company's officials
to know whether the rate was in
the hands of the Interstate Com
merce Commission.
District Attorney Sims, who has
the honor of gaining the conviction,
stepped over to shake hands with
the jurymen.
Assistant District Attorneys Will
kerson and Parkin Joined their chief.
1t was Mr.. Wilkerson who bore the
brunt of the fight in the trial, as it
vas Mr.. Parkin who gathered much
of the data.
The prosecution is n of those
growing out Of the Garfield report,
submitted to President Roosevelt last
May. The report showed in detail
the various methods employed by
Standard Oil to stamp out competi-
ton, and one of the chief ones proved
to be secret rates enjoyed on practi-
cally every big railroad of the coun-
try. The big refinery of the .ompany
is located at Whiting, and from it the
company has supplied the oil trade
throughout the Central States.
Even at the minimum fine fixed by
law tie amount to be assessed against
the company under the verdict would
be $1,463,0O0. Before the exact
amount k determined a motion in
arrest of Judgment will be presented
and argued by the attorneys for the
defense. 1t is their contention that
only n offense was committed, and
the maximum fine cannot be placed
at more than $4,000. In the motion
to Quash made before the trial Judge
Lands indicated an adverse ruling on
this point.
The Penn's Grove record., 1907-04-19
Put $50 in Kitchen Stove.

Mrs. Frederick c. Cobine, of Tren-
ton, imbued with the spring cleaning
motive, cleared odds and ends out of
dresser drawers and burned them in
the kitchen stove. She had the range
roaring with infammable stuff when
she suddenly remembered that there
had been an envelope containing $50
in one of the drawers. She gave one
hasty look. The money was gone.
Mrs. Cobine dashed to the stove, lift
ed the lid, and unfinchingly thrust
both hands into the flames to find the
envelope. She found it and recov-
cred the scorched bills, but burned
her hands badly. When the notes are
redeemed at the Treasury Depart
ment their value will just about pay
the doctors bill, but will not compen-
safe for the pain Mrs. Cobine suf-
farpd
The Penn's Grove record., 1907-04-19
JAMES I'll. ECKELS DIES.
Former Comptroller of Currency and
Identified With Western Banking.

Chicago.-James H. Eckels, Comp
troller of the Currency during Grover
Cleveland's second Presidential term,
and president of the Commercial Ma
tional Bank of this city, died sudden
ly of heart disease at his home here.
His death might not have been dis
covered for hours had not his brother
George M, sent a message to the
house to find out why he did not an
swer his private telephone.
Doctors summoned by the servants
said that Mr.. Eckels had expired
while asleep and had been dead sew
eral hours. He was born in 1858.
The former Comptroller passed
away on the v of a breakfast party
he was giving to Federal Judge K. M.
Lands, his brother-in-law and sew
eral other friends. Only recently his
father, James j. Eckels, died under
similar circumstances while his son
was dining with ex-President Cleve-
land here. Mr.. Eckles' wife and
daughter are in Paris.
The Penn's Grove record., 1907-04-19
Reoueatbs Children to Sisters.

The will of Mrs. Mary Abrams, adj
mitted to probate at Trenton, be-
queaths two of her four children to
her sisters, gives the children all of
her property, and ignores the surviv-
ing husband and father entirely. This
peculiar will adds interest to the kid
MAPPING of the two children following
the mothers death, which took place
two weeks ago, the day after the will
had been made. At the time the hus-
band and his wife's sisters, Mrs. Julia
Cartwright and Mrs. Catherine Mat
lack, were involved in a bitter feud,
and Abrams now claims that the sis
tiers Influenced his wife against him.
Following the funeral Abrams de-
manded the, return of his children,
and when this was refused he had the
sisters arrested on a charge of kid
mapping. They are now under bail.
The Penn's Grove record., 1907-04-19
EARTHQUAKES WRECK
MANY MEXICAN TOWNS
Great Damage and Loss of Life
in Southern Section.
SUBMERGED BY TIDAL WAVES
Part of Acapulco Under Water
Twelve Dead at Tixtla-Railroad
Communication, Mexico to Vera
Cruz, Cut Off.

Cruz, Cut Off.
Mexico City, Mexico.-Thirty-eight
persons were killed and ninety-three
injured in the earthquake shocks
near ~Chilpancingo and along the west
coast in southern Mexico. 1t is al
most certain now that later reports
will largely increase the number of
fatalities, and that the property dam
age and the earthquakes extent we're
even greater.
kilograms, delayed a day, show
that besides Chilpancingo and Chi
lapa, the towns of Ayutla, Ometepee
and Tixtla were partially destroyed
and that Hapa was badly damaged.
A dispatch from Chilpancingo
states that Acapulco was partially
submerged by tidal waves, and that
the whole west coast for 500 miles,
from Acapulco south to Salina Cruz,
the Pacific terminal of the Tehuante-
pee National Railway, was badly
damaged.
Long stretches of the roadbeds of
both the Mexican and I%nterocean
Railways have sunk, and traffic be-
tween this city and Vera Cruz, on
the Gulf, is suspended.
Twelve bodies have been taken
from the ruins at Tixtla, which is half
way between Chilpancingo and Chi
1apa, in the State of Guerrero. Twice
that number of injured are being
cared for in temporary structures in
the open country.
Ayulta, an historic town, is about
fifty miles south of Ch%ilpancingo and
some twenty miles west of Acapulco.
Ometepec, with 1000 inhabitants,
is further south than Aizutla, near
the border line of the State of OAK
AGA. Tlopa is sixty miles west of
Chilpancingo.
Although there was no wind az
Acapulco on the night of the first
shock when the earth began to trem-
BILE, the sea, was dashed into a fury,
and as the shocks continued the har-
Dor looked like a typhoon-swept
ocean. Just how much of the port
has been submerged is not known.
The houses as far as the church are
under water, but there are many
churches in the place. Several ships
were in the harbor, but these put out
to sea and. it is said, none of them
suffered.
A dispatch to Ell Pals, the organ of
the Catholic Church in this city, from
the Bishop of Chilapa, confirms the
report of the widespread destruction
in that vicinity. Fourteen persons
were killed in one house there; the
injured number tnrty-nine.
The renewed shocks at Chilpancin-
go levelled most of the important
public buildings. The new municipal
palace was badly shattered. Its pre-
decessor was levelled by an earth
quake four years ago. The hospitals,
schools and the Jail are in ruins.
The prisoners from the jail are
guarded by the rural guards and are
now located in a temporary structure
erected in the open court. The Cen
eral commanding the troops was bad
ly injured.
The Federal Government is helping
the people of Chilpancingo, but calm
cannot be restored there until the
shocks cease. Only one wire is work
ing spasmodically between this city
and Chilpancingo. At moo an OPP
orator there was questioned about
the number OF casualties. He said
he knew only that he had seen about
a dozen dead and about thirty in
iured persons.
The Penn's Grove record., 1907-04-19
FREED ON UNwR1TTEN LAW.
Louisiana Jury Ignores Bill Against
Slayer of Yife's Traducer.

Baton Rouge, La. = Congressman
George K. Favrot, who shot and killed
DR.. Harry Aldrich November Z last,
and who has been in the parish jail
ever since, has been released.
The first Grand Jury indicted Fav-
rot for murder in the first degree.
The indictment vas attacked, attor-
neys alleging the Grand Jury was lille.
gally drawn. The Supreme Court
quashed the Indictment and the new
Grand Jury, basing it's action on the
unwritten law, unanimously reported
mot a true bill"
Aldrich had circulated slanderous
reports about Favrot's wife.
The Penn's Grove record., 1907-04-19
TRAIN WRECKERs KILL THREE
Cars Catch Fire After Being Derailed
in Louisiana.

Alexandria, La.-Three men killed
and N probably fatally injured is
the result of what is believed to be
the work of train wreckers at Che
NEVILLE, thirty miles southeast of
here, ON the Texas & Pacific Rail-
road, when a w~estbound passenger
train plunged into an open switch at
a high rate of speed.
The w%reckage caught fire and the
mail car, baggage and express car,
and two passenger coaches were
burned. The dead are Engineer John
J. Covington, of New Orleans; Fire
man Michael Kass, of New Orleans,
and an unidentified man. Express
Messenger William Rough, of New
Orleans, badly burned, was the man
injured.
An investigation showed that the
switch lock had been broken and the
switch turned and the signal lantern
thrown away.
The Penn's Grove record., 1907-04-19

Feminine Notes.

Miss Rose L. Doonan, president of
the Wellesley College Rowing Asso-
cation, is the champion sculler among
students of American colleges for
women
The only Englishwoman admitted
by royal decree in recent years to Any
of the ancient orders of chivalry is
Queen Alexandra, who is a Lady Of
the Garter.
Luther Burbank has a rival in Miss
Nettie Metcalf, of Warren, Ohio, who
claims the distinction of being "the
only woman in America who has orig
mated q breeQ osuchickens-n
The Penn's Grove record., 1907-04-19
WOMAN KILLED AT TELEPHONE.
Cuff Button Closes Circuit Between
Telephone and Electric Currents.

Marlboro, Mass. - Miss Anna
Greenwood, aged twenty-nine, was
killed by electricity while using the
telephone at her home. An exam
nation showed a slight burn on the
wrist, indicating that a cuff button
had touched the switch as she turned
on the light, the current passing
through her body into the telephone
instrument which she was touching
with her other hand.
After dinner Miss Greenwood left
the table laughing at a remark made
by her father and stepped from the
dining room to the telephone to call
q friend. There is an electric light
directly over the telephone and she
reached to turn it on as she started
to ring for central.
Instantly all the lights in the house
were extinguished and Mr.. Green
wood heard his daughter fall. He
hurried to her, but she was dead.