The Penn's Grove record., 1912-12-06
Col. D. M. Ransdsll, sergeant-at-

Joseph Eisenberg, a Milwaukee
newsboy, has saved enough in five
years to quit business and go to Yale.
Albert K. Smiley, father of the Lake
Mohonk conference on Indiana, is
dead in Redlands, Cal.
Bruce NJ. Priddy, secretary Of the
Real estate Board Of Kansas City, COM
mitted suicide.
Letters for Santa Claus are piling
into the postofice. One received in
New York was addressed to Heaven,
N. Y"
Crude oil advanced five cents a bar
rel in nearly all grades in Pittsburgh.
Pennsylvania crude was quoted at
$2.05 a barrel.
The constitutionality of the New
York state unk dealers law was up
held by the United States Supreme
Court.
Hugh S. Knox, son of the secretary
of state, has resigned his position as
private secretary to his father, to en-
gage in business in Pittsburgh.
The Board of Public Utilities of Los
Angeles is considering a measure to
force all women to do their Christmas
shopping before 4.30 p. m.
Mrs. Melville E. Ingalls,, of New
York, shot the largest deer ever bag
ged in Hot Springs, Va. 1t was a four
year old buck, weighing $50 pounds.
The town Of Washington, Texas,
uyhOrn tho nonJorofiAn re Tndanand
nee Of the Republic of Texas was
signed rs years ago, was wiped out by
fire.
Boston & Maine train employees
have been ordered to quit chewing
gum, wearing f1ashy neckties and tan
shoes. They must also stop talking
to women passengers.
Former United States Senator John
P. Jones, who represented Nevada
from 1873 to 1903, died in Los Angeles
after a long illness. He was born in
England in 1929.
Ross Reynolds, Of Scranton, Pa,
went skating on thin ice and broke in,
his aunt, Mrs. A. Reynolds and her 10
year old son following. All were
drowned.
David L. Short said he was ready to
swear again on behalf of Albert T.
Patrick that he saw William Marsh
Rice syn the will that has been pro-
nounced a forgery.
After being blind for % years, the
Rev. G. G. Rupert, of Oklahoma City,
had his sight restored when his grand
child struck him in the eye with a
piece of tin foil.
Two men known as "Gurke" and
the Candy Kid" were burned to
death when the Flora, the old side
wheeler, was burned in the Chicago
River.
Gov. Carey of Wyoming, at the
Brooklyn Navy Yard, presented a sill
yer service of 103 pieces to the bat
tleship named after his state, a gift of
the people of Wyoming.
The Wagner-Smith Factory Investi-
eating Commission announced that it
would soo present to the Legislature
thirty-three or more measures aimed
to improve the conditions of factory
employees throughout New York State.
Although fewer deer and moose
were killed in Maine this year, the
number of human casualties is far in
excess of the usual crop. At least IL
men have been killed and the season
is not over.
Former United States Senator,
James Gordon, died at Okolona, Miss,
aged 70. He served as a Confederate
captain in the war, and as Senator
from December 81, 1909, to February
%, 1910. In that time he became a
national figure.
The open season for hunters and
deer closed in Michigan, showing %
men were killed and Is wounded. Last
year the figures were 100 killed and
81 wounded. The woods were thick
with hunters and lumberajcks refused
to take a chance and enter them.