The Penn's Grove record., 1912-02-02
The annual rate Of the dividend on
the common stock of the Chicago, Mil
waukee & st. Paul railroad was re-
duced from z per cent. to 5.

The annual rate of the dividend on
the common stock of the Chicago, Mil
waukee & st. Paul railroad was re-
duced from z per cent. to 5.
Alton B Parker in an address to the
South Carolina Bar Association OPP
posed the proposal to recall Judges
and assaulted Col. Roosevelt.
Imposing ceremonies were held at
st. Patrick's Cathedral, New York, in
honor of Archbishop Farley's eleva-
ton to the Cardinalate.
Joseph M. Brown was ~inaugurated
Governor of Georgia, succeeding Hoke
Smith, who was also Browns success
sor.
Isaac H. Sweigard, former general
superintendent of the Philadelphia &
Reading railroad, died at San Lucie,
Fla, from the effects of an injury
from a catfish.
Promoters who obtained SIT, 900, 900
f~raudulently last year were put out of
business, the report of the chief post
office inspector stated; of 1876 persons
tried 1874 were convicted.
Rutherford Page, of New York, just
licensed as an aviator, fell and was
crushed to death under his airship,
while making a flight at the Los An
geles meet.
Albert w. Wolter, protesting his in
nocence to the last, was put to death
in the electric chair at Sing Sing
Prison for the murder of little Ruth
Wheeler.
Capt. Barton Cruikshank, long be.
lieved to be dead, but who was dis
covered to be alive and living in New
York City, returned from Porto Rico
and told the story of his ~wanderings
since his supposed drowning.
An employee of a New York import
ing company was held in $4,000 bail
and it was alleged that the Govern
ment had been swindled out of hun
dreds of thousands of dollars in the
importation of olive oil.
Clarence Darrow, the attorney for
the McNamaras in the Los Angeles
dynamite case, was twice indicted by
a Los Angeles Grand Jury, charged
with bribing and corrupting jurors in
the dynamite trial.
The Citizens Union made public a
report suggesting that instead of Gre
ating a new County of The Bronx the
four counties now in New York City
be abolished, and that new courts and
officials to take the places of the pres
ent county officials be appointed by
the Governor.
State Superintendent Of Insurance
Hotchkiss of New York, after invcsti-
eating the Columbia Life-Assuraace
Society, sent the evidence he obtained
to the Attorney-General, asking him to
determine if prosecution is warranted.
A 100000 check that passed through
many hands figured in the deal.
While Trinity Church bells were
ringing and the congregation was
thronging into the edifice in New
York, other persons, faces anxious,
hurried to the basement of the Equita
BILE ruins across the street and beggeu
at the entrance of the Mercantile Safe
Deposit vaults for the black tin boxes
in which they had kept money or Sc
curities.
The Duchess of Connaught and Prin-
cess Patricia, during the absence of
the Duke in Washington, spent the
day in social activities and attended
the opera for a brief while in the
afternoon and again at night, follow
ing a dinner in their honor at the
house of Mr.. and Mrs. Ogden Mills
Reid, at which President Hadley of
Yale University was one of the
guests.