The Penn's Grove record., 1911-01-27

David Graham Phillips, the author,
was shot six times outside the Prince
ton club, New York, by Fitzhugh
Goldsborough, who was a violinbt with
Emile Paur. Goldsborough vas a
fanatical Socialist, and a fancied at
tack upon his family in n of Phil
lips books is supposed to have in.
spired the attack. He committed sui.
eide.
Mrs. Caroline B. Martin, accused of
having killed her daughter, Ocey
Snead, was sentenced at Newark, N.
TO even years Ia prison.
Fines aggregating s51,50O and peni-
Tertiary sentences ranging from Is
months to two and a half years were
imposed on liquor dealers by Judge
Lands in the federal court. Chicago.
The defendants are charged with vio-
lating the internal revenue law.
The legislature at Albany, N. Y,
adopted a concurrent resolution asking
congress to name San Francisco as
the place for holding the Panama
Canal exposition.
Luke Lea, the youngest man elected
to the United States senate in many
years, as well as the possessor of one
of the shortest names that w fig
ured in that body, was chosen by the
Tennessee legislature.
Representative Carter Glass of
Lynchburg, Va, formally announced
his candidacy for the United States
senate to succeed Senator Swanson,
now filling the unexpired term of the
late Senator John W. Daniel.
Mayor Gaynor of New York named
three members of the board of esti-
mate to hold conferences with the
public service commission to deter
mine the subway question. Final ac-
ton will be taken by the board as a
whole.
BartoIo Minitella was arrested in his
room in New York charged with hav-
ing a dynamite bomb in his possession,
with trying to extort $3.50 from a
neighbor and to bride the detectives
who caught him.
The grand jury at Danvile, Ill, be-
gan an investigation of vote-buying.
The manager of Speaker Cannon's last
campaign was M of the witnesses.
Twelve men in the New York Gus
tom house, one a high official, are
slated for dismissal for connection
with the underweighing frauds. The
federal grand jury is also considering
evidence in their cases.
The Republican Progressive league,
organized in Washington, composed of
progressive senators, representatives
and governors, issued a declaration of
principles.
Governor Dix sent to the senate at
Albany the nomination of William w.
Farley of Binghamton for state excise
commissioner to succeed Maynard N,
Clement of Canandaigua, a Repub.
lican, whose term expires in May.
Government losses of from s3,000,0 00
to 5,000,0 900 yearly might be shown,
it was said, by an inquiry Collector
Loeb of New York began into Ha'
vana tobacco imports, although the
loss was attributed to trade custom
rather than fraud.
George Strube of Union Hill. N. J..
went about for three weeks ignorant
that his neck is broken.
The New York, New Haven & Hart.
ford railroad issued orders to it's con.
ductors to stop all card playing on the
trains of the system. Another order is
that children shall not ride in tue
smoking cars.
The Grand Central trotting circuit
announces dates and $4,000 prize
money.
Van w. Welsh, a prominent oil man
and capitalist, was found dead in the
electric light plant at Beverly, o. He
owned the plant, and was caught in
the machinery during the engineers
absence.
The Union of American Hebrew
Congregations asked President Taft
and congress 10 take strong measures
to enforce rights of American Jews
once residents Of Russia, when h q
revisit the latter country.
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