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The Penn's Grove record., 1913-05-30
General

The Federal parole board has com
pleted consideration of 200 applica-
tons for parole in the United States
penitentiary at Leavenworth.
j. B. Webb, of Lombard, H., after
five years work has TRACED his family
back to 1850 revealing ten thousand
ancestors and relatives.
The Northern Presbyterian Assem-
bly,, in session in Atlanta, refused to
amend its constitution so that women
may become deacons.
Miss Winnie Colt, a runaway girl,
was killed and her body was partly
eaten by bears, about 20 miles from
Truckee, Cal.
William Messner and Leslie Yaker,
deaf mutes, were killed by a railway
construction train at Big Stone City,
S. D.
Robert Webb, auto bandit, was found
guilty, in Chicago, of the murder of
Detective Hart and imprisoned for
life.
Governor Fielder Of New Jersey
said strikers lawlessness must cease
or troops would be called out for riot
duty.
Borough President McAneny pro
posed to the New York Board Of Esti-
mate that the city make ice to sell to
the poor.
Health Board figures of thirty-hve
years ago and now show by cOmpari-
son that more children are being saved
in New York, but the chances Of old
age have diminished because OF siren
Uous modern conditions and too much
drink and meat.
The I. w. w. leaders at Milford,
Mass, began sending children of the
Draper Company strikers out of town
twenty-five being taken to Provi-
dence, where they will be taken
care of.
Chicago citizens have started a cam
paign to end unnecessary noises.
The steamship Somona arrived a It
Nee York from Australia with $4,000
pounds of veal, beef and mutton on
board.
Henry G. Rinker, street commits
SlOner OIL bdyOnne, n. j., IOuCneQ a
heavily charged wire and was electro
cuted.
Henry P. Dawson, partner of the
late j. P. Morgan, criticised President
Wilson and Secretary Bryan about the
new foreign policy and the govern
ment's withdrawal from the Chinese
loan.
The Clearing House Association of
Chicago has started a movement to
stop business In the city on July 4-6.
The Norfolk and Western Railroad
reports that 81, 900, 900 will be required
to repair the damage done to the COM
pany property by the recent Ohio
floods. An additional $780, 900 will be
used to prevent losses under like con-
ditions.
James S. Meng, executor of the late
Justice Henry Bischoff, filed suit
against the Emigrant Industrial Saw
ings Bank for $15O,000 Justice Bisch-
off was killed by a fall through an, ele-
vator shaft in the New York bank.
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Splendid Work Of Grand Army

To its members the Grand Army of
the Republic is a matter second only
to family and friends. They accord
it the same loyalty and devotion that
they did to the regiments in which
they once fought. 1t stands for their
record, for their past, and in that is
its strength.
1t was organized in Decatur, Ill, in
the interests of the surviving repre-
sentatives Of the federal military and
naval forces of the Civil war, the fam
lilies of those dead and such objects as
they should deem important to their
association. The membership COM
prises soldiers and sailors of the war,
h%onorably discharged or continuing,
and state militia on active duty sub
ject to call during the war. It's pur-
poses are fraternity, the commemor-
alton of events and the assistance of
old soldiers and their families. 1t has
been active in establishing homes and
memorials and in educating and sup
porting the orphans of soldiers.
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READY TO ADJOURN.
Legislators Expect to Pass Jury Re
form Measure and Go Home.

Legislators Expect to Pass Jury Re
form Measure and Go Home.
With Senator Samuel 7. Munson
of Sussex county, back from his Eu.
ropean trip earlier than he had ex
pected to return, and with the publit
announcement that he had already
made that he will vote with his Demo
cratic colleagues in the Senate fol-
the Chancellor-Sheriff jury reform bill
which has been held up for two weeks
because there was one vote short OF
enough to pass it, it is quite likely
that the agony of the special session
of the Legislature will pass into his
tory. The State will have jury reform
after a fashion, if the people accept
the terms of the new law at the No
vember election, but nothing better
than the present system until then un
less Acting Governor Fielder can
force through the Legislature with
the Chancellor-Sheriff bill his supple
mental bill, which is intended to pro
vide jury reform through court super
Flo4On uAtI1 Tic mann Ia" D0OOhA00 W
erative or is defeated, No one is sat
fsfed with the bill except the oppon
ents of jury reform, who see in it al
opportunity to defeat the object of the
pledge of the party platform of last
fall and to prevent any departure from
the present Sheriff controlled grand
and petit juries and the results which
they have been instrumental in pro.
ducing during the last few years in
different sections of the State.
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NEWS STORIES
IN MINIATURE
Minor Mention of a Weeks
important Events.
A HISTORY OF SEVEN DAYS
Paragraphs Which Briefly Chronicle
the Events of Interest as euIIe-
tined by Wire, Wireless and
cable-Foreinn News.
A HISTORY OF SEVEN DAYS
Washington

The Supreme Court in a far-reach-
ing decision affecting m~onopolies de-
clared manufacturers of patented ar
ticles could not prevent price cutting
of their goods by the retailers.
A petition bearing 5000 signatures
has been sent from Panama to Presi-
dent Wilson requesting the r%eopening
of the case of j. Frank Houston, OF
Kentucky, sentenced to ten years i'm
prisonment for killing Harry Stern at
Gatun February 8.
Secretary McAdoo has invited all
officials and employees of the Treasury
Department to make suggestions and
recommendations for the Improvement
of the department.
A stay was granted Samuel Comp
ers, John Mitchell and Frank Morri-
son until their appeal to the Supreme
Court is argued.
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Pleas OF Circuit Court Judge upoA al
least two days notice to the person
alleged to be insane, his nearest rela
tive or the person with whom he last
resided or the attorney of any of
them. If, however, a person be insane,
and so dangerous to himself and
others as to require immediate con
tinement, then he may be admitted to
a public insane asylum upon the ap-
plication of a relative, or if neces-
sary, the Mayor or police official OF
the municipality, upon the physicians
certificates.
In addition an order must be made
by a Judge of any court of record in
the municipality, temporarily commit
ing the insane person and directing
the time and place and the judge who
will hear the matter IN the final in
quiry as to the patients mental con-
ditior, thereby insuring him his day in
court, and throwing about him the con
stitutional safeguards that are essen
tial to the maintenance of his liber-
ties. This inquiry may be adjourned
by the judge who is to make the final
inquiry, if found necessary. 1t is pat
ent to everybody that the condition of
persons becoming suddenly insane,
and in many cases violent, is such
that it is absolutely injurious and in
many cases practically impossible,
under present humane methods and
ideas to retain such individuals in
their own homes. 1t requires the
doctors to reduce the nervous and
abnormal condition as soon as pos
sible. This absolutely can not be
done in the home or in a police sta
ton.
Copies of this act before its passage
were submitted to the present Secre-
tary of War, who was a Vice Chan
cellor of this State, and who wrote
the opinion which brought about the
change. 1t was also examined by other
persons learned in the law, and was
not changed as originally drafted, ex-
cept hat clerical errors were cor.
rected by Senate committee amend.
ments.
At all events no criticism that has
yet appeared in print seems to be cor
rect in its statement as to what the
act provides and all misrepresent the
present law. Printed forms which
amply explain the workings of the act
are now being prepared by the Stats
hospitals and will be in the hands OF
all those who need them. Immediately
following the decision of Vice Chan
cellor Garrison last summer, a method
of procedure, such as is outlined il
this act, was adopted at the State Hos
pital here and has been in force since.
Formerly a temporary commitment
could be made to a private institution
for the insane, and the new law now
provides that no temporary commit,
ment "a be made to a private insane
asylum, but that such commitment
must be made to a public insane asy.
lum until proper inquiry as to tbs
sanity of the person has been held
and final order made by the Circit
Court or Common Pleas judge direct
ing the confinement in a private in,
stitution. This alone is sufficient to
justify the law and to prevent tamper-
ing with it's provisions, and is prob.
ably the cause of the animus which
seems to exist in the minds of those
who are misrepresenting this act to
the public.
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Personal

Vilhalmar Stefansson left New York
for Ottawa on the first stage Of his
Arctic voyage.
Billy Arlington, known a generation
ago from coast to coast as n of the
leading minstrels of the country, is
dead at a hospital at Los Angeles, at
the age of IS. He was stricken with
heart trouble.
The wedding gifts received by Prin-
cess Luise and Prince Ernest of Cum
berland total 5 1000, 900 in value.
DR.. Charles McBurney, fast in a
quagmire, near Stockbridge, Mass,
cast to a tree with his trout rod and
line and pulled himself to safety on a
log.
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FOFei6n

Greeks and B~ulgarians are lighting
before Salonica.
Turkey has coded the Island Of
Cyprus absolutely to Great Britain
under a new agreement.
United States Ambassador Page ar
rived at London. He refused TO dis
cuss the protest made against him by
labor organizations.
Several British steamships. ranging
from 5000 to 5000 tonnage, have been
sold to Japanese buyers in the last
few days. These include the Narrung.
Benacre, Bentala and Eadala.
The prize fight aTena at Calgary, in
which Luther McCarty. the heavy
weight pugilist, was killed in a prize
fight, was destroyed by fire, supposed
i~ncendiary.
Many Venezuelans have been arrest
ed in Caracas, according TO Dr.. Leo
poId Baptisra, formerly Secretary-Gen-
eral to President Gomez Of Venezuela,
who arrived at Willemsta5 with Gen
eral Juan Pablo Penalosa after fleeing
from the Venezuelan capital
The French liner Senegal. which
struck a mine as she was leaving
Smyrna, was at once run ashore by
her captain to prevent her founder
ing Five persons were killed and six
others severely injured.
Military engineers blasted into frag
meuts the loose peak o. a mountain
consisting of $4,000 cubic feet of rock.
u-L;ah bo5 +broo+o1ad To Fou o,5 Do
stroy the village of Tormery, in the
Department of Savoie, France. ever
since its foundation as a cluster of
huts in the Middle Ages.
Germany's newest dreadnaught the
Koenig Albert, went aground off Dat
zig when starting on her trial trip.
No effort will be made to bring back
Captain SCOTS body or his com
panions, who had died with him in his
South Polar expedition.
According to the Italian central
feminist committee, 2S parliamentary
candidates have pledged themselves
in favor of woman suffrage.
Dr.. Bayard Hale arrived unan.
nounced in Mexico City as a personal
emissary of President Wilson to study
at close range the conditions in that
distracted country,
A dislocated neck caused the death
of Luther McCarty, champion white
heavyweight, during his fight at Cal
gary, Alberta, with Arthur Pelky, &C.
cording to information given out fol.
lowing an autopsy.
Fire destroyed the Indo-China pa,
vilion and two restaurants at the In
ternational Industrial Exhibition at
Client, Belgium.
General Hsu Paosan, generally
known throughout the south of China
as Tiger Hsu, who commanded the
Yang Chow troops during the reyolu-
ton, was killed at Shanghai by a
bomb sent to him In a package.
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Sporting

The c~oroner's jury e~xonerated Ar
thur Pelkey whose blow killed Luther
McCarty in a boxing bout at Calgary.
One Of these days some crew will
come along and defeat Cornell, but to
all appearances Charles E. Courtney
is the same old wizard. 1t was just
play for the Red and White eight to
run away from Harvard.
Word comes from Los Angeles that
Willie Richie, the lightweight cham
pion of the world, has agreed to face
Joe Rivers for the title on July 4 at
San Francisco.
George Stovall, manager of the St.
Louis Browns, under indefinite sus-
pension since May 8, has been rein
stated.
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NATIONS TRIBUTE
Decoration Day in the United
States Sprang From Spon-
taneous Desire to Do
Honor to the Heroes
Who Had Fallen.
Who Had Fallen.


The country was affected by the
sight. SO many men were caught in
the enormous bloody strife, in this
Moloch's nav, that nearly all who re-
NAMED could point to the grave of one
that had fallen, who was either a rela-
tive or a dear friend.
The cost of that struggle to keep
the Union has, indeed, been put in dol
lars, but the real cost, the lives lost
on both sides, places the sacrifice in
another light, and cannot be estimated,
for the sufferers were not only the
fallen ones, but those who remained at
home and suffered, too.
The south, naturally, was most Sc
verely shaken, and suffered the great
est loss, for the scene of the carnage
and of the greater part of the destruc-
ton of both lives and property lay
south of Mason and Dixon's line.
Therefore it seems to have been poetic
justice that there, in the south,
the first steps should be taken to an
nually pay tribute to her fallen sons
who, it must be remembered. also were
brave men, and where there were, too,
homes rendered desolate by the loss of
sons, fathers, husbands and brothers.
Within a year or two the Union
troops had gained possession of the
gulf sections of the south, and it may
be said that it was in this section that
the southern women first turned their
"
attention to decking the graves of their
soldiers. The idea may be said to
have been spontaneous, and like many
another custom, may be said to have
been instituted by public opinion in
several places at the same time. Ger
tainly it would be a work of much diff
ficulty to decide just where the custom
really originated in the south.
Spring visits the south a full month
before its first h%arbingers appear in
the north, and as a consequence it be-
came customary to strew flowers over
the graves of the fallen soldiers in
April, when flowers were fresh and in
bloom. For the first few years, and
until after the war, the custom was
only a custom, and had not been or
ganized into an institution. 1t had
nothing like authority back of it; but
it was persisted in with that tender
feeling for the departed that by sheer
public opinion it became one of the
strongest kind of laws, that born of
custom.
1t requires the authority of the rep
resentatives of the people to enact a
law making a certain day a legal holi-
day, but it does not require anything
more than custom to get the people to
turn out and pay public homage; and
they did turn out, carrying their arms
filled with flowers to lay on the little
mounds in the g~raveyards and little
cemeteries.
But while this was going on in the
south there was in the north, which
was quite natural, a similar feeling.
1t. too, grew spontaneously. 1t did not
require much to arouse the enthusiasm
of the people to a duty of this kind, and
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RECORD OFFICE

The estate of Mrs. Levi 2. Letter OF
Chicago is appraised at $3,672, 725.
A heroic bronze statue of the late
Rev. DR.. Edward Everett Hale, erected
near the Charles Street Mall of the
Public Garden, Boston, was unveiled.
General Joseph Cooke Jackson, law
yer and Civil War veteran, died in
New York, aged Is years. He took
part in q battles.
Washington women have collected
S., 400 OF a fund to be used in cleaning
up the slums. Mrs. Wilson contributed
800.
Police Commissioner Waldo Of New
York abolished the Wall Street Blu
reau" for detectives, established in
1879.
The Bureau of Fisheries will plant
100000 young Holsters in the Cape
May breakwaters, the pioneers Of a
large colony to be established.
John Baneskiewiz, of Baltimore, was
killed instantly by a baseball which
struck his cousin and glanced off,
striking Baneskiewiz on the temple.
John Kroose, president Of the Cen
trail Dairy Company, Of New York,
dropped dead while trying to catch a
train at Mount Vernon, n. Y.
Failure to end the strike of small
poultry dealers caused 100000 chick
n to be held up at the freight gate
ways to New York.
George Tillotson, IA years old. saved
Ernestine Kramer, ager 6, from drown
ing in the S-usquehanna River, near
Wilkes-Barre, Pa.
A census of Williamson, W. Va.
shows that of thirty-fve male babies
born since May /, twenty-five have
been given the surname of Woodrow.
R. w. Berry, a trainman for A
years, was killed by a train at Santa
Fe, n. NJ, He leaves an estate valued
at $4,000
A lump OF ambergis worth more than
$4,000 was found on the beach below
her home by Miss Ethel Terry, of Say
vile, L. I.
An engineer and a corps Of assist
ants have been employed to devise
plans for flood prevention al Dayton.
A 100000 fund was raised by citi-
zen to forward the work.
Madame Wesley, alias Mrs. C. H.
Harr, was sentenced to three years in
the p~enitentiary for swindling William
Free of $4,000 while he was having his
fortune told in York, Pa.
The high standard of cleanliness
| m intainc6 Of +ha rCr-o-Dr Ias---
at Annapolis won praise from New
York milk committee members who
visited the institution.
Former Police Lieutenant John J..
Lynch and former Sergeant Charles
Chobert of Philadelphia were fined
$500 on a charge of falsely arresting
reform workers.
After receiving increased wage de-
mands, 600 employees of the Corr Man
ufacturing Company, at Tauton, R. l..
struck because extra work was i'm
posed upon them.
Stephen J. Stilwell, State Senator
from the Twenty-frst District, the
Bronx, New York City, was convicted
of bribery. The verdict of the jury
was brought in after two hours and
eight minutes of consideration.
Daniel F. Cohalan, of New York
City, Supreme Court Justice, issued a
statement denying that he had prom
ised to secure John A. Connolly a lu-
crative position in return for a
promissory note for $4,000 from Con
molly.
Damage suits ~aggregating more
than $1,000, 900 and a grand jury in
v~estigation were said by city officials
of Long Beach, Cal, to be in prospect
as sequels to the disaster in which
t~hirty-six persons lost their lives when
the municipal pier collapsed during
the British Empire Day pageant.
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Their Memory Cannot Fade.

The time is not far off when their
last reunion will be held and the
Grand Army of the Republic will 30
no more. The mere thought of IL
brings sadness to the heart. But it
should awaken other emotions. 1t
should bring more of sympathy, Of
tenderness and of consideration for
these vanishing heroes who offered
the supreme sacrifice that the nation,
now SC strong and prosperous, this
nation that exists for all of uR. zhe,ld
not die.
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Want Commission Government.

Thirty-four members of the South
End Woodrow Wilson League attended
a meeting of the organization and all
but one of them voted for the adop-
ton of a commission government for
Newark. Thomas S. Henry voted in
the negative because he thinks COM
mission government is not democratic.
The league appointed B. w. Terlinde,
Conrad Brown and William ]. Heeb to
represent it in the central committee
of twenty-five which is to work for
the setting up of a commission govern
ment in that city.
The Penn's Grove record., 1913-05-30
LincOZn'S
Gettysburg Address

EOURSCORE and seven years
ago our fathers brought forth
on this continent a new nation,
conceived in liberty and dedicated
to the proposition that all men are
created equal.
Now we are engaged in a great
civil war, testing whether that
nation, Or any nation so conceived
and so dedicated, can long endure.
We are mel on a great battlefield
of that war. We have come to
dedicate a portion of that field as
a final resting place for those who
here gave their lives that that
nation might live. 1t is altogether
fitting and proper that we should
do this.
But, in a larger sense, we can
not dedicate, we cannot conse-
crate, we cannot hallow this
ground. The brave men, living
and dead, who struggled here have
consecrated it far above our poor
power to add or detract. The
world will little note, nor long
remember, what we say here, but
it can never forget what they did
here. 1t is for US, the living,
rather, to be dedicated here to the
unfinished work which they who
fought here have thus far so nobly
advanced. 1t is rather for US to
be here dedicated TO the great task
remaining before US; that from
these honored dead we take in
creased devotion to the cause for
which they gave the last full
measure of devotion; that we here
highly resolve that these dead
shall not have died in vain; that
this nation, under God, shall have
new birth of freedom, and that
government of the people, by the
people, for the people, shall not
perish from the earth.
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Heritage of GLORY
Theodore O,Hara.

MEMORIAL DAY is an n
nual baptism of patriotism
that makes the heart throb
with pity for the tragic sacrifice
of precious lives in the awful strife
of 50 years ago. II was a titanic
struggle, a harvest of death on
blood-soaked battlefields in which
grim, determined men in blue and
IN gray contended for mastery
with equal bravery and stubborn
courage. North and South, they
have left US a heritage Of deathless
glory, the example of men who
knew how to die for the cause
they believed to be right. 1t tested
the mettle of a world-conquering
race. Out Of this gigantic conflict
the nation staggered, gasping, ex-
hausted, bleeding, but still one
people and under oneflag. Itgave
u Lincoln and Davis, Grant and
Lee, Sheridan and Forest to add
to the nations scroll of fame, and
1t showed a doubling world that
the young American republic had
bred a race of men inspired by
ideals. Theysleep we'll and nobly,
the men who did this work.
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$3.50 for False Arrest.

Frederick A. Mallory, In editor of a
New York City newspaper, who re-
sides at 300 Lafayette avenue, Passaic,
was awarded a verdict of $3.50 oam-
ages in his suit for $4,000 damages
for false arrest and injury to his char
acter following his detention when he
oversight while travelling on the Erie
Railroad. While returning to his home
from New York City some time ago he
slept when the train stopped at Pas
;aic and he continued to Paterson.
When the conductor asked for the
svtra fare he refused to pay
The Penn's Grove record., 1913-05-30
Reports on County Institutions.

Reports on County Institutions.
Essex county branch of the State
Charities Aid and Prison Reform AS.
ISOLATION at a meeting at Newark lis
tened to reports of committees ap-
pointed to visit the county institutions
The reports spoke of lack of cleanli
ness at the House of Detention, i'm
proved conditions at the penitentiar,,
and undesirable conditions among VIC
men prisoners at the county Jail. A
pavilion for tuberculosis patients, an
industrial building and a woman ply
stefan were recommended for the Hos
pital for the Insane at Overlook.
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Goes Insane at Shore.

Harry E. Thomas, said to be a mem.
Der of a prominent family in Whining.
ton. Del, became suddenly insane at
a Tennessee avenue hotel in Atlantic
City. After his peculiar antics, includ-
ing threats to smash a large painting
of George Washington because the
figure failed to respond to mis- interro.
cations, Thomas dashed out Of the
hotel and ran headlong to the beach.
Police arrived just in time to prevent
him stripping off his clothes prepare.
tory to an ocean bath.
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Competition Mt Necessary.

The State Public Utility Commits
sion refused the application of the
Eastern Telephone and Telegraph
Company for the approval of ordi
nances passed respectively by the
Freeholders of Cape May County ane
the borough of Avalon, the commission
taking the ground that competitive
telephone service is not necessary
The approval of the ordinance was OPP
Telegraph and Telephone Company
constituting that part of the Pail sys
tenn.