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The Penn's Grove record., 1912-08-02
MESSENGERS of Liqht.

The things which give US most evil
dence of God are Just the dark things
of life. This was the experience OF
the man who, of all others, knew most
of life's dark things. My
soul, do not despise the shadows OF
life; do not exclaim when they are
passing over thee that thy way is
hid from the Lord" These shadows
are sem to thee, not as hidings, but as
revelations of the face Of God; they
come to thee as messengers of light
They tell thee what thou couldst not
know without them: that there is a
life stronger than the natural life.
How couldst thou learn that, If the
natural life never failed thee? How
could faith be stronger than the natu-
raj life? How couldst trust exist II
there were no darkness? 1t is the
darkness that lights thee, it is from
the shadow that thy spiritual nature
is illuminated. From the sense OF
human emptiness thou reachest that
prophetic hunger which is certain to
be filled: thy life rises, phoenix-like'
from the ashes of thy dying, and out
of thy deepest darkness God says.
Let there be light."-Rev. George
Matheson.
The Penn's Grove record., 1912-08-02
Sale for Taxes Set Aside.

The Supreme Court has set aside
the sale of certain property in the
Township of Shrewsbury, Monmouth
County, for taxes and in doing so held
that the description in the advertise
ment of the sale of land for unpaid
assessments should be such as to warn
the owner for what property he is as
sessed and such as to procure a fair
sale by showing to the purchaser what
property is to be sold. When it ap-
pears that the requisites have not
been complied with, the sale, accord
ing to the court, will be set aside. The
action was instituted against the town
ship by George O. Waterman, trustee
and executor for the estate of William
w. Conner. Part of the estate was
sold for unpaid taxes and the litiga-
ton was instituted to have the sale
set aside. 1t appeared that the prop
erty had not been fully described and
the court held that this defect alone
was sufficient to ~invalidate the sale.
The advertisement was injurious and
misleading to the owner as we'll as
the buyers.
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WOULD REDUCE ASSESSORS,
Wants Appointment of Six BY Civil
Service Commission Instead
of Election.

When the Tax Investigation Com.
mission, appointed as the result OF the
passage of the Pierce tax bill by the
Legislature and the Governor, meets
the Merer County Board of Taxation
| will make recommendations that will
change the personnel OF the ASSESSOR
in the different townships and boz
oughs of the county. The county
board will suggest the introduction OF
a bill abolishing the election of ases-
sors throughout the county, and place
the appointments in the hands OF the
Civil Service Commission. The board
will also recommend that maps be pro-
vided by the townships and boroughs
and filed in the county clerks office.
The abolishion of the election OF as
essors will be urged for the purpose
of equalization in assessments. An
investigation by the board revealed
that an assessor who is dependent up
on the votes of the property owners
is naturally timid about mourning
their hostility by increasing their as
essments. Believing that the only
remedy to cure this evil lies in the ap-
pointment of assessors by the Civil
Service Commission, the board plans
to have about six, selected through
competitive examination, to do the
work that is now being done by twelve
assessors. The appointees would be
compelled to give all their time to the
work, for which they would receive
fair compensation. Inquiry made by
the board, shows that in some of the
townships and boroughs properties
have been greatly undervalued, and
that this city heretofore has been pay
ing more than its fair share of the
state school and county tax.
The Penn's Grove record., 1912-08-02
Heroes.

We have come to the age when ma
lions respect more their intellectual
leaders than their war generals. The
man who leads an army over the bat
tlefeld and VIGOROUSLY marches into
the enemy's camp is not the hero Of
our age. We no more respect a per-
son whose sword has shaver many
a neck off the shoulder, nor delight
in the records of massacres where
human blood stained the ground. Our
hero Is the man who, like Victor
Hugo, takes the side of the poor and
tries to tighten their burden of life
and misery. Our hero is like Lincoln.
who espouses the cause of the af-
Hicted, and raises his voice against
human wrong to help the poor and
abused.-Rev. E. T. Baroody. PresAy-
terrain. Savanna. II.
The Penn's Grove record., 1912-08-02
Railroads Drinking Cups.

Some practical conclusion regarding
the use of drinking water on the rail-
road trains will be reached at a meet
ing of State Public Utility Commits
sion. The commissioners feel that
some arrangement should be made on
the trains to supply drinking water
for the passengers at this time of the
year. The companies have denied pas
sengers the privilege, claiming that
the law regarding sanitary precau-
tions as to public drinking cups for
babe them to furnish the water. This
is now before the courts. The com
mission thinks that every requirement
of health can be met if the railroads
will use a little care in providing good
water and keeping cups clean, or fur
nishing the individual drink cups
which cost only a small fraction of a
cent apiece. The real danger from the
water on cars has been shown to be
carelessness in the water provided
and lack of cleanliness in keeping the
water tanks.
The Penn's Grove record., 1912-08-02
FOrei6n

English, German and French labor
leaders are planning to check the race
for naval supremacy by a concerted
workmen's movement, probably a gen.
eral strike, in the three countries.
While flying in a fog, Aviator j.
Fischer fell to the ground at Munich
and was killed, as were also his me-
chanic and a passenger.
England will spend $225, 000, 900 on
her navy this year and more next,
Churchill told the House of Commons,
and the personnel is to be raised to
LAG, 900 in 1914.
A Korean conspiracy to murder the
ex-premier of Japan, Prince Katsura,
was discovered by the Russian secret
police. The Prince, who has been Wis
iting st. Petersburg, will soon sail for
Toxic, accompanied by a special
guard.
Seeking &c. 900, 900 in buried silver
and gold, the hoard of the pirate Bonn
bosa, a party of Englishmen and
Americans, led by two young women,
will, reach Cocos Island, off the Costa
RIGA Coast, the latter part of next
week.
The rebellious Albanians have cap
tured Pristina, in the villayet of Kos
sovo. The Turkish garrison surrend-
cred. 1t is also reported the Alban-
ians have captured Prizrend and are
threatening Uskub. The Turkish
troops near Djakova are reported to
have been defeated.
A street cal running at high speed
jumped the track in Rome neal the
Roman Forum and mounted the ruins
of the rostrum where Marc Antony de-
livered Caesars funeral grafton.
Eighteen passengers were hurt.
The Turkish cabinet decided after
an all-night session to attempt to
avoid another revolution by ~abolishing
martial law, under which the city has
lived for three years.
The largest German national sanger.
fest ever held opened at Nuremburg
with more than 10000 singers from
the United States, Germany, Austria,
Russia and Roumania.
Two Americans giving the m of
Walter Thornton Lewis and Frederick
M. Shipley were banished from
France, being accused of tampering
with roulette wheels in order to beat"
casinos at Questionable watering places.
Leaders of the Military League of
the Turkish Army are in conference
in Salonica to determine whether to
give the new cabinet at Constantine
pie a trial or to march on the capital.
The Italian squadron in the Red Sea
bombarded a fort at Hodeida, on the
north coast of Arabia. 1t had been
deserted for some time.
MItsuhito, the one hundred and
twenty.first Emperor of Japan, died,
and Yoshihito mounted the throne.
The American training ship New
port arrived at Christianja, Norway,
with all on board we'll
The Penn's Grove record., 1912-08-02

He had been unconscious for many
hours before his death, and the En-
press, the Crown Prince and the most
prominent officials of the household
and government were at the bedside.
Haruko, now Dowager Empress,
yields to Princess Sadako, the young
Empress who is the mother of three
sons, of whom the eldest is Hirohito
Miti-no-miya. Haruko has Vol univer-
sal sympathy because of her untiring
vigil in the sickroom, where she re-
NAMED continuously for ten days.
Mutsuhito, Emperor of Japan, was
born in the Imperial palace at Kioto,
Nov. 8, 1852. He was the representa-
tive of the oldest living dynasty,
founded additionally by Jimmu Tenno
in $50 B. c., and existing historically
since the fourth century. The Japan
ese hold that Jimmu was descended
from the Sun Goddess, and have, ac-
cordingly, revered all his successors
as the direct representatives of divin-
ity on earth. This reverence Mutsu-
hito's genius and personality turned
into patriotism.
The Penn's Grove record., 1912-08-02
MUTSUHITO DIES:
SON RULES JAPAN
Mikado Succumbs to Acute
Nephritis after Long Illness.
He DID MUCH FOR HIS PEOPLE
His Personality Brought Out of the
Ruins of FeudaIism a Constitution
al Japan-Was Crowned at 16
and Reigned for A Years.

Tokio.-Mutsuhito, Emperor of Jap
an, to whom history will give the
credit of lifting the empire from the
deepest Orientalism to a plane Of
Western civilization rivalled only by
the great Powers of Europe and Am
erica, is dead and Y%oshihito, a son by
n of the p%rincesses Of the household,
reigns in his stead. r
Mutsuhito, who was the 121st EN-
peror of Japan, passed gently away.
The Penn's Grove record., 1912-08-02
Must Not Lock Cars.

AS an outcome of Investigations by
it's chief inspectors the Board of Pub
lie Utility Commissioners has notified
every railroad operating in the state
that it disapproves of the practice of
locking doors between baggage and
smoking compartments in combina-
ton cars of that type. In the event Of
an accident the board pointed out pas
sengers could leave the car through
the door at the end only and egress at
that end might be locked. Accom-
panying the communication is 4 rec
concentration that doors between
smoking and baggage compartments
in all cars of this class and end doors
in all carr in which passengers are
carried, excepting those that have blind
platforms, be left unlocked at all
times while in service.
The Penn's Grove record., 1912-08-02
BURIED IN MOLTEN METAL.
White Hot Fluid Entombs Foundry.
man Who Falls in Pit.

Pittsburgh.-Thomas Quinn, a fore
man at the plant of the United States
Cast Iron Pipe and Foundry Company,
at Scottdale, was killed when he fell
into a pit and two ions of molten
metal was poured over him.
Quinn was working with a ladle at
the edge of the pit. When he slipped
the big ladle tilted, engulfing his body
with the white hot metal.
The Penn's Grove record., 1912-08-02

Mutsuhito was crowned Emperor at
Osaka, Oct. 81, 1868, when he was
only Is years old. The next year he
married the Princess Haruko ("Spring
Maiden") Ichiso, two years his senior.
Yoshihito Harunomiya, the 123d
male successor to the imperial throne
of Japan, was born on Aug. 81, 1879.
On his eighth birthday he was nomi-
mated as heir apparent. He is the third
son of Princess Yanigawara, one of
the eight princesses of noble blood
who became members of the house
hold of Mutsuhito when it was seen
that no heir was to be expected of
Princess Haruko, his wife and EN-
press. The two older brothers of Yo-
shihito died soon after birth.
The Penn's Grove record., 1912-08-02
FUTRELLE's MOTHER DIES.

Parent Of. Author Lost With Titanic
Succumbs to Grief.
Adrian, Ga.-Grief over the untime-
ly death of her son, Jacques Futrelle,
the author, who went down in the I'll
tanic disaster, is believed to have
been the direct cause of the death of
his mother, Mrs. Linnie Futrelle, who
died here.
Futrelle visited his mother just be-
fore leaving on his trip to Europe, She
kept up braVeiy as long as there was
hope that he might have been rescued
The Penn's Grove record., 1912-08-02
Shorter Hours Adocated.

The moement for the lettering OF
the condition of clerks in the depart
ment stores is receiving a hearty re-
SPONGE from all classes. A number Of
the clergy have come out strongly for
the shorter hours. Probably one of
the strongest advocates OF improved
conditions is Monsignor Fox, who call.
ed the attention of his congregation to
the mater. The executive board of
St. Paul Church has also passed reso-
lutions condemning conditions and
calling on their members to insist on
better hours.
The Penn's Grove record., 1912-08-02
A Suggestion.

Fol the purpose of increasing prop
erty values in Hopewell Township it
is proposed to tax the $62 ,132,2 25 of
ratables in the city of Trenton. Hope
wells ratables last year, for township
and borough, were $2,20S, $50. If the
city is to be asked to pay half of the
cost of an improvement for the bene-
fit of Hopewell, why not go on and as
sess it for benefit of Ewing, the Wind
sors, Hamilton and the other town
ships that desire to have their realty
values increased?
The Penn's Grove record., 1912-08-02
PHlLA. MILK UP 2 CENTS.
independents Resent Health Depa

ment Order for Bottles.
Philadelphia. = Independent milk
dealers of this city advanced the price
of milk in this city from s to 10 cents
a quart as the result of the order of
the department of health prohibiting
the retailing of milk in any containers
except glass bottles or jars.
District-Attorney Rotan said that if
the dealers advanced the retail price
of milk he would Immediately begin
an investigation.
The Penn's Grove record., 1912-08-02
Igor on Trains.

The railroad regulations stopping
the sale of liquor on trains in this
State and Pennsylvania will cause
some annoyance to those who are ac-
customed to have wine with their
meals and do not see wherein they
wrong anyone by seeking the same
convenience on railroad dining cars.
The habitual drinker will simply carry
his own supplies, and probably sause
some annoyance to fellow-passengers
in that way, at times. The railroad
companies are not responsible, how
ever, for the change.
The Penn's Grove record., 1912-08-02
Crabs Are Abundant.

Crabs are thick in all the waters of
the State and grabbing parties are
just as thick. Every Snday Shark riv-
er is covered with rowboats, and at
times it is almost Impossible to use
long handle nets because of the boats
being so close together. The Shrews-
bury river is another stream that is
well hfished, and Raritan bay, Cheese
quake creek and the Raritan river are
excellent places. At Sewaren, when
the ffish are not biting well, the fish
ermen turn to grabbing, and this sat
isles better than a poor catch of fish.
The Penn's Grove record., 1912-08-02
1000 TO HEAR TAFT NOTIFIED.
President Appears at Office for First
Time in Week,

Time in Week.
Washington.-President Taft APP
peared at his Office for the first time
in a week.
Invitations for the notification meet
ing have been sen out to more than
a thousand persons. As Mrs. Taft is
returning from Beverly for the occa-
sion a number of women are being in
vited. A buffet luncheon will be serv-
ed at 1880 P. NJ, after the notification
ceremonies.
The Penn's Grove record., 1912-08-02
Fined for False Scales.

Following the payment of a SO fine
imposed upon him in the First Dis
trict Police Court by Justice Naar for
having scales in his possession which
are incorrect, Isaac Berkowitz, a gro
GER insisted upon talking about the
case. Justice Naar ordered him re-
moved from the Poylice Station. Seal
er of Weights and Measures ODono-
van was the complainant. The scales
were offered in evidence and attached
thereto was a piece of gas pipe which
Berkowitz claimed was necessary to
make it balance.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1912-05-23
EXPRESS ROBBERS ESCAPE
TWO MASKED MEN GET FROM
$4,000 70 $25o,ooo.
Bandits Blow Safe w IN Six Charoes
OF NitrceIycerin, Shattering
Safe ans Wrecking Car.

Hattiesburg, Miss "A fast train
on the Queen & Crescent road,
which left New Orleans, was held up
and robbed eight miles south of Hat
tiesburg by two robbers, and reports
say they got from $4,000 to $780, 900.
Railroad officials here are reticent,
but members Of the crew say the ban
dts got $250,000, one package con-
tanning $140,0 600 and another $110, 900.
The money is said to have been on
the way to st. Louis, New York and
Chicago banks.
The train was tagged by two
MASKED men, and when it came to a
halt the robbers covered the engineer,
fireman and express messenger and
held them while they PLACID six
charges of nitroglycerin in the ex-
press car, blowing the through ex-
press safe to pieces and wrecking the
car.
They searched carefully for cur
rency in the through safe, and 1t is
said that two bundles they found con-
tanned $250,000. How much else they
got is not known.
When the express car was blown
there was a panic among the passen-
gers, who expected that every mo-
ment the robbers would enter and rob
them. The bandits did not visit the
passengers, however AS soon as they
had gathered the money from the ex-
press car they made off.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1912-05-23
MISSOURI NEWS
WINS STATE SPELLING BEE.
Hugh ssppington Of %clarksburs Gets
First Prize in Contest.

Jefferson City.-The big feature Of
the convention of County Superinten-
dents which met here was the spell
ing bee held at the High School build
ing. There were seyenty-three on
testants from various parts of the
State, and the winner was Hugh
Sappington of Clarksburg. Monitean
County.
Helen Mccain of Scotland County,
but her Post Office address is Can
trill, Ia, got the second prize. and
two tied for third place, with IN av-
erage of 81. Ernest Campbell of In
dependence, Jackson County, and FL
van Allen of Adair County divided the
third prize.
The winner missed fourteen words
out of 200, four written and ten orai.
All the contestants did better on the
written test than on the oral. The
day was finished with a public exhi-
bition at the Jefferson Theater, where
the words were pronounced by Gov.
Hadley, Judge Henry w. Bond of the
Supreme Court and Mayor G. w.
Thomas. In this contest Myrtle Cook
Of Hickory County stood the longest.
The prizes for which they competed
were 500 in gold to the winner, $50
to the second and $25 to the third,
which was divided.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1912-05-23
ECUADOR MUST PAY DAMAGE
State Department Will Insist Govern.
ment Settle Debts Owed to
American Railroad Owners.

Washington, D. C.-Trouble is
threatened between the United States
and Ecuador unless the E~cuadorian
government comes to time in heed
ing the state department representa-
tons regarding the Guayaquil-Quito
railroad, an American corporation.
The state department has decided to
press Ecuador for payment of debts
owned by the government to the rail-
road, and Huntington Wilson, acting
secretary of state, has lots patience
with the alleged dilatory tactics of
the E%cuadorean government.
Strained diplomatic relations, with
the possible presence of an American
warship in E%cuadorean waters, is a
likely sequel if matters are not
patched up.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1912-05-23
Withdraws from State.

The Republic Oil Co. has not asked
the Missouri Supreme Court to modify
the judgment against it SO that 1t
may do business in the state. This
latter company withdrew from Mis-
souri, soon after it was prosecuted, but
it is under bond of 100000. The
Standard Oil Co, wants to continue
business in Missouri.
Aattorney General Major has not
filed any suggestions relative to these
companies. but he will do so and will
probably ask that they be compelled
to pay interest on the fines. Hager-
man, however, is of the opinion that
the companies cannot be required to
pay such interest.
Presumably, the Republic Oil Co.
is willing to pay its fine and keep out
of Missouri. 1t is stated that the
company has no property here.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1912-05-23
MOB TARS BEN REITMAN
Was Then Escorted Away
From San Diego, Cal.

Los Angeles, Cal.-Three YER
sions have reached here of an at
tack at San Diego on Ben Reitmann,
who is known as Emma Goldman's
manager. While they vary, it seems
certain that Reitman was taken from
his hotel to a ranch, tarred and feath-
cred, escorted to the border of the
county and warned never to come
back again.
One version has it that while Emma
Goldman was expostulating with a
crowd about the hotel, vigilantes
seized Reitman and carried him away,
warning him not to come back again.
Another is that before he was tarred
he was forced to kiss the American
flag, while a third has it that the mi
tials, II. w. W."-for Industrial Work
ers of the World-were branded upon
his back before the tarring.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1912-05-23
COURT BANDIT IS GUILTY
JURY DECIDES SLAYER MUST BE
ELECTRocuTED.
Chief Of Mountain Clan unmoved
When Verdict Is Read-WiH Be
Witness Before Sentence.

Wythevi!le, Va. = Floyd Allen
leader of the Carroll county gang
which shot up the court at Hillsville
on March IA, causing the death of
five persons, was found guilty of muir
der in the first degree. The verdict
of the jury carried with it a penalty
of death and he will be, electrocuted.
The verdict of first degree was only
after many hours of deliberation in
which some of the Jurors stood out
for a lesser penalty.
Floyd Allen was placed on trial on
April 80 for the tragic court house
fight in which Judge Massie, Prose
cutor Foster and Sheriff Webb were
killed. Two other persons died subse.
quently of their wounds.
The specific charge on which Allen
had been tried was that of the MUIR
der of Prosecutor William l.. Foster.
Sentence will not be pronounced on
Floyd Allen for the present. This ac-
ton was taken at the instance of the
prosecution, who will use Floyd Allen
In the case of his sons, Claude and
Victor Allen, whose trial will start
Monday.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1912-05-23
REPUBLIC OIL Co.
PAYS 100000 FINE.
ATTORNEY HAGERMAN FILES NC
REQUEST IN SETTLEMENT OF
TRUST PROSECUTION FINE.
SUIT BEGUN BY GOV. HADLEY
Corporation Follows Lead of Stand
ard, Which Paid a Similar
Amount-Will Quit State
of Missouri.

Jefferson City, Mo.-Frank Ha-
german of Kansas City, attorney for
the Republic Oil Co., sent a certified
check for $4,000 to the clerk of the
Supreme Court, that sum representing
the fine imposed on it by the Missouri
Supreme Court, and which judgment
has been affirmed by the United
States Supreme Court.
This made 100000 that the clerk
of the Missouri Supreme Court has re-
ceived during the week in payment OF
fines in the prosecutions against two
oil companies Instituted by GOV. Had
ley while he was attorney general.
the first $4,000 coming from the
Standard Oil Co.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1912-05-23
8 TITANIC VICTIMS FOUND
VICTIMS IN BOAT EVIDENTLY
STARVED TO DEATH.
Finding Of Life Boat Raft Disproves
Former Statement That All Life
Boats Were Accounted For.

New York, N. Y.-Bits of cork in
their mouths and tooth marks on the
cork and wood portions of the boat
indicated that starvation killed the
three Titanic victims whose bodies
were in a Titanic ~collapsible life boat
picked up by the White Star liner
Oceanic, which arrived here.
Two of the bodies were secured to
thwarts by pieces Of chains. The
body of a cabin passenger was identi-
fed by the clothing as that of Thomp-
son Beattie of Chicago. The other
two we're members of the crew.
A fur coat with the name Williams
inside the pocket and a woman's ring
inscribed Edward to Cordia," indicat-
ed that there had been others in the
life boat.
White Star line officials say that
the life boat is that mentioned by
Third Officer Lowe, of the Titanic,
who said that he left three bodies in
the life boat of which he had charge,
when his q passengers were trans
ferred to8thS Carpathia. This con
ficts with the evidence of starvation.