The Penn's Grove record., 1912-09-20

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The United States gunboa, Wheel
ing has been ordered to Santo Domin-
go.
The public schools of Boston opened
with an enrolment of 10000 pupils.
Almost 100000 persons will be pen
sloners under the new Sherwood law
for the relief of Civil War veterans.
The Connecticut Republican State
convention nominated J. P. Studley for
Governor on the third ballot.
A terrific rain storm struck West
Point, N. Y, and so trees were blown
down on the parade grounds.
A smallpox epidemic is raging in
Pittsburgh, 16 deaths having been re-
ported last week with IL new cases.
The American Federation of Labor
will hold it's 32nd annual convention in
Rochester, N. Y, Nov. H.,
Taking testimony in the Govern
ment's suit against the International
Harvester Company was begun at Chi
cago.
A young Philadelphia woman had
to have both of her legs amputated
because of a disease contracted from
wearing tight stockings.
Martin Thompson, his wife and in
FAINT son were found murdered in their
home near Councils Blut1s, Ia. Their
heads were crushed while sleeping.
The Lehigh Valley Railroad has or
dered AZ new gasoline motor ears for
track work which are to replace the
old-fashioned man-power hand cars.
Mrs. Martha Washington of San
Francisco, seeks to have her wedding
annuled on the ground of cruelty of
her husband, George Washington.
Ethel Tage, nine years old, slowed
herself away On board a steamer ply
ing between Cleveland and Buffalo, to
go to her father in Florida.
Nathan Burman of New York City
was fined $50 for cruelty to a horse,
the largest fine ever imposed on a
charge of this kind.
Joe Parker, a motor cyclist, was
killed on the fair ground track at
Broken Bow, Neb., while trying to
take a curve at full speed.
The Gould interests are reported to
be organizing a 100000, 900 corpora
ton to consolidate all Washington
public utilities.
Frank Merrick, editor of the Gath
RE (Okla.) Leader, was killed from
ambush in revenge for killing a e
a year ago.
Chauffeurs of the Yellow Taxicab
Co. of New York threaten to strike be-
cause of the installation of "sneak
clocks" which record all stops and
changes of speed.
Fol the first time mass was cele-
brated on Hoffman Island, New York
Bay, after 600 Italians had protested
they could not perform their religious
duties.
The old wooden frigate Lancaster
has been mustered out of the navy
and will be used as a detention ship
of the public health service at Phila-
delphia.
Half a dozen women of Clarksfeld,
Ohio, warned an 1S-year old girl to
leave town and when she refused they
dressed as men and gave her a coat
of tar.
". L. Rand, a freshman at the Uni
versity of North Carolina, fell while
being hazed and cut his throat, dying
in nine minutes. Four sophomores
were arrested.
The steamboat Perseus, loaded with
New Jersey Democratic politicians,
struck a reef off College Point, N. Y,
and sank two minutes after her pass
engers had found safety on a pier to
which she had been towed.
John H. Ennis, of Philadelphia, adj
mitted in Gloucester, N. J., he was a
bigamist and an embezzler. He said
a bone in his head pressing on the
brain made him lose his memory. His
physician verified his story.