The Penn's Grove record., 1911-02-24
GENERAL.

Richard Olney made public a state
ment giving his reasons for opposing
fertilization of the Panama Canal.
Gainesville, Ca, Feb. 18.-Southern
Railway train No. SO, the United States
fast mail, bound from New Orleans to
New York, vas held up by five masked
men at White Sulphur Springs, four
miles from here, at 3:15 CLOCK this
morning The express car safe was dy-
namited and the contents stolen. First
reports said more than 100000 was
taken, but Southern Railway officials
declare the amount was $500.
The Lehigh Valley Railroad an
nounced it would ask the New Jersey
Legislature for permission to abandon
the Morris Canal.
The Secretary of State, Mr.. Knox,
made a plea for Canadian reciprocity
before the Chamber of Commerce of
Pittsburg.
William Hurlinger, operator in a rail-
road tower at Wawa, Pa, the junction
of three branches of the Pennsylvania,
became suddenly insane and flashed
wrong signals to half a dozen trains.
He tagged two and passengers feared
a hold-up. The engineers seized him.
DR.. Emmett Densmore died in New
York of consumption which, he taught,
could be avoided by diet and outdoor
life.
Burglars blew open a safe in the
Savoy Theatre in New York and es-
capped with all the cash it contained,
$3.50. The explosion was not heard
outside the theatre.
The State Tax Commission has added
$18, 500, 900 to the value of special
franchises held by public service cor
porations in New York City. The total
valuation of such franchises in the
metropolitan district for 1911 is placed
at s483,90 800.
The constabulary, under Lieutenant
Preuss, has been rounding up bands
of outlaws in Mindanao, P. /. Twenty
of the outlaws were killed, and Lieu
tenant Preuss and three of the con-
stabulary were slightly wounded in the
actions.
DR.. Wiley, chief chemist of the De-
partment of Agriculture, attacked the
Demon Rum, and joined with others at
luncheon in New York to advocating a
National Department of Health.
A wireless dispatch received at Bos-
ton told of the rescue of a Gloucester
fishing schooner which had been eleven
days adrift by the venue cutter
Androscoggin, about three hundred
miles off Cape Ann.
Philadelphia artists models united
in a demand upon the Academy OF Fine
Arts for a higher rate Of pay for pos.
ing.
The Rev. DR.. Amory H. Bradford
dropped dead in Monclair, N. J.
John D. Rockefeller bought two
houses in West Fifty-third street, New
York, and it was said that this land
and more adjoining would be the site
of a new Fifth Avenue Baptist church.
Governor Wilson urged the New
Jersey Legislature to pass the direct
primary bill without delay.
Deputy Police Commissioner Flynn
directed four simultaneous raids on
gambling houses in New York, getting
so prisoners and many costly wheels.
Racing ended in California with the
closing of the Emeryville track.
Mrs. Eliza Buxton, aged IS. sister OF
Henry Gassaway Davis, former Demo
cratic vice-presidential nominee, Is
dead at her home in Keyster, w. va.
Sidewalk sale of theatre tickets Is 70
be stopped by an ordinance OF the
board of aldermen, New York, pre-
scribing a fine or Jail sentence for the
offense.
Charges of wholesale frauds IN the
registration of voters were maze IN
two Chicago newspapers.
-Four hundred Yale students fought
policemen of New Haven with 0
balls and fists and four were arrested.