The Penn's Grove record., 1913-08-15

Southern bankers asked for half OF
the $500 0 900 to be deposited to aid
the crop movement.
James A. Emery testified that for
mer Congressman Watson, of Indiana,
was not employed by the N. A. NJ.
Elias Toy, a conductor of Philadel-
phia, who had charge of one train on
the Pennsylvania Railroad for fifty
BY the death of Senator Johnston,
of Alabama, the Democratic majority
for the Tariff bill was reduced to one.
James A. Emery and James E.
Ewell corroborated Colonel MulhalI's
testimony before the lobby commit
tee.
Mrs. Peter st. Louis, of Cameron,
Wis, was operated on for appendicitis
and in the appendix was found a brass
pin.
Mrs. Layton, of Binghamton, N. Y,
died from burns received in the disas-
trous fire in that city. She is the 32d
victim.
Two Italian policemen arrived in
New York to escort Porter Charlton
to Como for trial for the murder Of
his wife.
Jewels valued at $4,000 were stolen
from the summer home of Mrs. Will
lam F. Smith of Brooklyn, at Haines
Falls, N. Y.
The Federation of Women's Clubs,
of Chicago, voted that smoking on the
rOor rTotfnrrnc IF cfroof 40 ~ u-o not
Objectionable.
Knights Templar from all owe the
United States convened for the 32d
triennial conclave of the Grand En-
campment at Denver.
President Wilson has named James
j. Walsh, a printer, for the office of
collector of internal revenue in the
district of Connecticut.
Many fremen We're overcome in a
fire which damaged the Union Petro-
leum Company's plant at Philadelphia
to the extent of $1,000 0
The Bureau of Chemistry at Wash
ington reports that Numbered bills
are as good as newly printed one.
Counterfeits will not wash"
The summer home of Mrs. M. H.
Forrest of Philadelphia at Kennebunk-
port, Me, vas looted by thieves who
stole jewelry valued at $4,000.
The bunny hug" tango" grape
vine" and other dances are outdone
by the new one originated at Onset,
Mass, called the pussy sneak"
Reports from every corr raising
county in Nebraska indicate the state
will produce probably not more than
thirty-tve per cent. of a normal crop.
George and John Lebrati bought a
twenty acre tract in the heart of the
millionaire colony 1T Greenwich,
Conn, as a site for an amusement
park.
Gov. Sulzer gave out a brief but
sweeping denial of the charges against
him on the eve of the Frawley COM
mittee's report to the New York Legis-
lature.
Michael j. Garvin, as appraiser for
New York, has reported the estate of
Isador Straus to be worth $4,565,106
and that Of Mrs. Straus, who sank
with hiQ on the Titanic $325,57S.
Two laborers were arrested at
Bridgeport, Conn, charged with kill
ing Charles Lucas, a construction
camp cook. 1t was said the men dis
liked Lucas cooking.
The preliminary statistics showed a
production of oil, 900, 900 bushels OF
winter wheat. This is the greatest
harvest of winter wheat ever gathered
in the United States, exceeding the
record crop of 1902.
The Rev. George Chalmers Rich
mond of Philadelphia declared in a
sermon that Bishop William David
Walker of Western New York and
Bishop John Scarborough of New Jer-
sey ought to be asked to resign.
w. ]. Post of Near Hartman, N. Y,
unearthed the tusk of a mastodon
measuring five feet and four inches in
length and fifteen inches in circumfer-
ence while digging in a swamp.
H. Wilson Whalen, a member of
the Monroe County, N. Y, Board of
Supervisors, committed suicide be-
cause he was criticised for not work
ing harder to obtain an improved
roadway in his county.
That intervention In Mexico in any
form would be fraught with serious
consequences to American interests
was the opinion expressed by Fran
cisco Leon Da La Barra, who arrived
at New York on his way to France,
where he is to represent the Huerta
government.