The Penn's Grove record., 1912-02-23
:. FRIDAY. FEBRUARY %. 1912.
Colonel Roosevelt agreed to address


the Ohio constitutional convention.
George F. Parson, a rich lawyer,
estranged from his wife, shot himself
dead in New York.
Trotting horses brought fair prices
at Lexington, KY, rs head selling fer
a total of $18,475, an average of $243.
According to the annual report of
the state commission in lunacy there
are 1881 insane persons in New
York state.
Letters referring to "jobs" written
by the officers of the Iron-Workers'
Union and quoted in the dynamite in
dictments were made public.
Five men held up and beat two bank
messengers who were riding in a taxi
cab in Trinity Place, New York, and
got away with $25, 900 in cash.
A feature of the 46th annual banquet
of the Yale Alumni Association of Chi
cago will be a speech by President
Hadley by telephone from New Haven.
Lieut.. Fickel, army aviator, and Miss
Marion Allison, daughter of Col. ALI
son, were married Thursday in the lit
tie church on Governors Island.
Washington Seligman, son of the
founder of a we'll known banking
house, committed suicide in New York
by shooting.
Governor Wilson of New Jersey
formally opened his Presidential COM
paign at Chicago, addressing the Iro-
quois Club.
Testifying in the ~so-called Florida
land frauds" investigation, Engineer
Wright admitted that most of the Ever
glades land is incapable of cultivation.
A report from Oswego, N. Y, stated
that drifts were thirty feet high and
snow forty inches on the level in the
st. Lawrence Valley.
Parents of the school children in
the Hyde Park district of Chicago are
demanding separate schools for the
white children and the negroes.
Terry A. Converse of Buffalo and
Charles w. Getman of Richfeld
Springs, students at Cornell, were
drowned in Cayuga Lake, Ithaca, N.
Y, while skating.
President Taft signed a proclama-
ton admitting Arizona to the Union,
and the Governor and other officials of
the new state were inaugurated at
Phoenix.
Senator La Toilette in a telegram
to the Minnesota progressive Republi-
can League declared he would not
withdraw from tie Republican Presi-
dent contest.
General Baden-Powell, head of the
Boy Scout movement, delivered a
speech in Albany on, Scouting III
Peace and War;" under the auspices
of the Boy Scout organizations.
Two deaths from diphtheria and sew
eral cases of illness caused the closing
of Public School No. 3 in the best
residential part of Passaic, New Jer-
sey.
The price of artificial ice will be ad-
vanced so cents a ton in New York on
March l and natural prices are ex-
pected to follow, although the crop
this year exceeds all previous ones.
An ore train jumped the track at
Bingham, Utah, rolled down a hill and
crashed through the roof of the Bing-
ham State Bank. Six men were, killed
and several others injured.
Ice "a inches thick locks the Starn-
ford, Conn, harbor for the first time
in the history of the town. It is pos
sible to ride a bicycle around the light
house.
Gov. Hunt of Arizona refused to &C.
cupy a reviewing stand built by non
union labor for the Inauguration par
ade. He and his party retired while
a stand was built by union men.
After a meeting of steel-makers and
railroad men in New York a manufac-
turer said many train wrecks were due
to the companies demands for harder
rails. Such rails are more likely to
break.
H. a. Russell, manager for Armour
& Co., testified at the trial of packers
in Chicago that he ordered fat in
creases and reductions in the prices of
dressed meats, irrespective of the
quality or grade.
The Directors of the Equitable Life
Assurance Society authorized the
Finance Committee to offer the fire
ruined site of the company at No. 120
Broadway, New York, for sale. The
plot is valued at from $13, 900, 900 to
SIG, 600, 600.
Ex-senator Gardner, arrested in
Brooklyn IN a charge of having plot
ted with George Decker to rob dying
Samuel E. Haslett by means of a will
and power of attorney, was released on
bail. Decker in his confession said
the aged man was incompetent to
make a will.