The Penn's Grove record., 1910-10-14
GENERAL NEWS.

A subpoena was issued by the Lor.
liner investigation in Chicago for
Speaker Shurtleff of the Illinois
house of representatives.
The Standard Oil company through
It's official publicity representative, j.
|. c. Clarke, has announced that the
company "has inaugurated a cam
paign to increase the worlds con
sumption of refined OIL" and is low.
sring prices of kerosene in Europe
and the far east. This action follows
that of August last, when the Stand
ard Oil company reduced refined oil
IN barrels 1 cent a gallon from az
to 81 cents at the refinery, and re.
ined oil in tanks from 6h to 5h
cents a gallon. In part the statement
teads: "The Standard Oil company
mas inaugurated a campaign to in.
,rease the worlds consumption of re-
fined oil. The level of prices for re-
ined oil today in the United States is
lower than at any time during recent
years, and as a direct result of these
prices the consumption of refined oil
n this country is increasing. The
same policy is now being actively pur-
,ued abroad"
w. A. Huppich, a business associa-
ate of Mr.. Dix, has been made chair
man of the New York Democratic
state committee.
Frank M. Lupton, publisher, Of No.
90 City Hall place, committed sui
eide by cutting his throat with a
pocket knife at his home in Brooklyn,
In a letter to Justice Moody, Presi-
dent Taft took what was considered
10 be an anti-Rooseveft view of the
functions of the United States Su-
preme court.
John S. Dougherty, the Nestor OF
American travelling statesmen, who is
said to have been on the road longer
than any other travelling man In the
country, died in Carlisle, Pa. He had
been selling shoes since May 1, 1855.
He was seventy-three years old.
The Massachusetts Republican
state convention renominated Gov,
Eben S. Draper and the greater part
of the state ticket and Endorsed Pres
Ident Taft and Senators Lodge and
Crane.
H. F. Zimmerlin, legislative agent
Of the Lyons Beet Sugar Refining
company, testified in New York that
he paid Senator Raines $4,000 for his
services in the matter of legislation.
Frank E. Elwell, the sculptor. ad'
vertised in New York that he hat
disowned his wife and two sons.
Resident physicians of Mercer hos
pital, Trenton, N. j., went on strike
declaring the superintendent, Mis-.
Marie Gimble, interfered with theil
work for patients.
A shortage of from $4,000 tt
$4,000 has been discovered on thu
books of the Atlas Tack company o.
Fairhaven, which is owned by thu
estate of the late Henry H. Rogers
The shortage is blamed on the lat'
George w. Weymouth.
After having rendered one keepe,
g~enseless with a hammer and bount
and gagged another, five convicts es
capped from Sing Sing IN. Y.) prison
The men who got away were confined
with about 125 other prisoners in tn,
chapel dormitory, which was in charg
of two keepers.
The plan for a bridge across tn
Hudson at New York has been aban
doned. as after numerous borings 4
the river-bed the engineers have bee
unable to find rock on which to bull
piers. Tubes are now favored as be
ing cheaper and more practicable.
The house of bishops of the Epis
cepal church at the convention l.
Cincinnati rejected by one vote tn
constitutional amendment for the az
pointment of suffragan bishops.
Ex-President Roosevelt started o
an eight-lay speaking tour of th
South aud IHdtlpa