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sult of the charge of George G. Ten
nant, county judge, to the Grand Jury
at Jersey City that the excise laws
must be enforced. In substance he
said it was the duty of the Grand Jury
to indict not only the saloonkeepers
but the municipal officers who per-
mitted the saloons to be open in vio-
lation of the law. Attention also was
called to the fact that the Bishop law
requiring the exposure Of the saloon
bars on Sunday was being violated
and the judge declared it was the duty
of the Grand Jury to find indictment
where it found such violations.
Judge Tenant said later he had
received numerous complaints re-
garding the alleged violations and
that the prosecutors office had like
wise been informed of the attractions
of the law. In his charge to the jury
Judge Tenant said he had talked the
matter over with Prosecutor Hud-
speth and the latter had signified his
willingness to cooperate with the
Grand Jury in seeing that the guilty
men were properly brought to the at
tention of the jury.
Cut Out Grade Crossings.
AS a result of a joint Inspection Of
the grade crossings in the vicinity OF
New street, West Paterson, the plan
for the eliminating of such crossings
will be abandoned and also the plan
for the change of grading on New
street. The members of the Board Of
/ Public Works, Mayor Andrew F. Nc.
Bride, City Engineer H. ]. Harder and
representatives of the Lackawanna
Railroad Company made the inspec-
ton. The Board of Public Works has
introduced a resolution at a recent
meeting to change the grade on New
street, in accordance with the plans
submitted by it's engineers. The prop
erty owners Of West Paterson oh.
jected and the resolution was never
finally passed, but laid over until the
Joint inspection. The ordinance may
never go through the board and the
conditions in the vicinity of New
street and the Lackawanna Railroad
will remain the same as they are at
the present time. The change OF
grade would have left 1EQe houses
below the street level.
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Foreign

Former British Ambassador Bryce
was the guest of honor at a dinner
given in London by the British Pill
grims.
Mendel Beiliss was acquitted by the
jury at Kiev, Russia, on the charge
of numbering the boy, Andrew Yush-
insky, in March, 1911.
Deputy Andreleux introduced in the
French Chamber a new constitu-
tional amendment granting to women
equal suffrage.
The Canadian Government has or
dered the gauge of the 277 miles of
the Government owned Prince Edward
Island Railway changed from narrow
to standard gauge.
The Japanese Foreign Ministry an
nounced there is no truth in the re-
port published in the United States
stating that country had requested
the abrogation of the Anglo-Japanese
alliance.
Arturo Guerrero, the CHILEAN Minis
ter to Mexico, is dead.
An automobile, driven by Prince
rIlSQIlCu VI L IuSo4d, Idu over
and killed a four-year-old girl in Pots
dam.
Robert Armstrong, a negro, was SEN
fenced to be hanged for murder at
Hamilton, Bermuda. His execution
will be the first in that country in SO
years.
Carrera Gomez, former secretary of
public works of Cuba. who was in
dicted for converting of public funds,
is missing and believed to have fed
from the island.
The Bell Telephone Company. at
Montreal, announced that owing to
the recent fire in the exchange in that
city, service will not be resumed for
80 days.
Italy has sold three battleships to
Turkey. They will be delivered after
the singing of the peace treaty be-
tween Turkey and Greece.
The October statement of the Lon
don Board of Trade shows an increase
of $3,551,5O in imports and $S,556,0 900
in exports.
Brazil has appropriated $500, 600 for
official representation at the Panama
Fair in 9 Francisco, 1915.
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WEEKS NEWS
STORIES RETOLD
Events That Made a Stir Con.
densed to a Paragraph.
WHAT WASHINGTON is DOING
News Of Interest That Trickles From
the White House and the Various
observation-disclosures of
Crimes and Casualties.
Washington

The profits to the government from
the operation of the new parcel post
system during the calendar year 1913
will be about $4,000, 900.
Postmaster-Genera Burleson has or.
dered that the red devil wagons of
the rural postal service be painted
green.
Senators O'Gorman and Reed Joined
the other committee Democrats in a
new lineup on the Currency bill ia.
vorable to the Administration. Sena-
N Hitchcock was the only Demo
1t to hold out against it.
he Senate Committee on Banking
Currency voted two to one to
Ike from the currency bill the
DIS, "or lawful money" wherever
7 occur, thus making the reserve
tired to be held under the bill
>e solely of gold.
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CORN CROPS
RECORD VALUE
Worth to Farmers S I,742,353,.
ole; Smallest in Years
500 5000, 900 BUSHELS SHORT
Damage From Drought overesti-
mated by 100000 Bushels
Statistics for Other Crops
Potatoes Higher.

Washington.-Based on the De-
partment of Agriculture's estimate Of
TOT cents a bushel, this years corn
crop, although some 500, 900, 900 BUSH
els below last years record output,
will be the most valuable ever pro-
duced. 1t will be worth 81, 741, 353, 019,
against $3.50, $4,000 in 1912.
Crop progress reports issued by the
Department, show an increase of 3d.
100000 bushels of corn over prospects
of October /. Further increases are
expected in next months final esti-
mates. Drought damage hit Kansas
hardest, with a reduction of 1913 BUSH
els per acre, compared with last year,
while Missouri's yield per acre shrank
from 80 bushels, in 1912, to 1875 BUSH
els now.
Buckwheat totals 14,455,00 bushels,
against 19,249,000 bushels last year,
but it will bring 75.5 cents per bushel,
just 10 cents per bushel more than
1912.
Potatoes will cost "a cents a bushel
more, while the yield is 92,147, 900
bushels less than last year; blu the
quality may compensate partly, with
99.3 per cent.
This year a measured bushel Of
wheat will be 5S.6 pounds, compared
with 58.3 pounds in 1912, while the
price-one of the few which is less
than last year's-is " cents per bush
ell, against 1913 cents the previous year.
Oats will bring 37.9 cents a bushel,
against 1876 cents, while a bushel will
be lighter by nine-tenths of a pound.
Barley has gone up, according to esti-
mates, g cents per bushel, while rye
will cost 6 cents less than last year.
Hay, which yielded 63,460,000 tons,
compared with 1851, 900 tons last
year, will command a price of $12.26
per ton, against $11.S0.
Even tobacco has dwindled to $685.
S75, 900 pounds from last years fig
ures of 1862, 1855, 900 pounds, although
against 1855 pounds last year and
1924 pounds as the ten-year average.
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allotted to the members of the lower
house was about so feet in length.
and modestly finished. AT n end
was the gallery, open to spectators
who might GOOSE to enter. The gall
lery had accommodation for 800 per
sons. The staircase leading to it
opened directly on the street.
The house of representatives in
session occupied the entire ground
floor, upon a platform elevated by an
ascent of three steps, plainly carpet
ed and covering nearly the whole
area, with a limited logea or prone
made for members and persons of priv
ilege.
The staircase in the clear story next
to Chestnut street led up to a similar
vestibule on the second floor. from
which ran a broad entry south to the
senate chamber, which was fitted up
in a style much superior to that of the
lower house. The ceiling of this cham
Der was lavishly decorated. A large
eagle, its talons gripping thunder
bolts, grapevine c~enterpiece, with ID
stars, likewise embellished the cell
ing.
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OLD CONGRESS HALL
Story of a Historic Philadelphia
Structure.
Third Session Of the First Congress Of
the U. S. Met There, House OF
Representatives on First Floor
and Senate Second.

PhiladelphIa.-With the restoration
and approaching rededication of Con,
gress Hall" it is worth while recalling
that the idea of the erection of the
building destined for so glorious a his
tory originated with that celebrated
lawyer, Andrew Hamilton. whose eff
forts had previously secured the State
House, Oh Independence Hall" AS
early as 1876, Hamilton effected the
passage Of a resolution in the Assem-
bly, OF Pennsylvania, providing for the
erection of a building for the use OF
the county of Philadelphia, to be used
for the holding of Courts" and as a
common hall" The project advanced
slowly, and when finally carried for
ward to completion, two different
funds were used for the purpose. The
first of these had a curious origin:
1t would seem that the early may
ors of the city cherished a time hon
ored custom of celebrating their es
cape from the labors and responsible
tiles Of Office by giving a public ban-
quet, to which their constituents wera
invited. In 1741, the son of Andres
Hamilton considered the ancient Gus
ON of more value in breach than in
the observance, and in lieu of the en-
t~erta1nment, donated the sum IF one
hundred and fifty pounds, to be used
toward the erection of an exchange or
similar building for public purposes.
Subsequent mayors followed his ex-
ample.
The second fund was raised in 1888
by the sale Of the old gaol and work
house" which overlooked the yard OF
the State House, or Independence
Square. On the 29th of March. 1887,
Is feet were added to the depth of the
lot by an act of the assembly. Soon
afterward work was commenced upon
the cellar by gangs of convicts called
"wheelbarrow men" The building
was finally completed in the spring
of 1889, just in time to insure it's i'm
mediate utility and future fame. For.
on the fourth of March of that same
year, the Assembly of Pennsylvania,
acting by authority of the representa-
tives of the city and county of Phil
adelphia, rendered to congress-, for
the temporary residence of the fed
eral government, the use of the build
ing lately erected on the State House
Square" Thus, on the sixth of De
cember, 1890, the third session of the
first congress of the United States
met at Congress hall, the house of rep
resentatives occupying the first floor
AID the senate the second.
At that time tn estate house in the
center of the square Quilt in 1922.
and the more modern Congress hall
were considered very imposing struc-
lures. Congress hall was described
By the press of the day as "a large
new building. finished in a neat and
elegant style" The square, traversed
by %curving gravel walks. was pictured
as a beautiful lawn interpreted with
little knobs or tufts of Towering
shrubs, and clumps of trees well dis
posed" In the hall itself, the room
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CATCHES HIS FALLING CHILD
Far Out From Window to
Greet Him.

Passaic, n. when it came tins
for her father to come home from
work, Susie Sabranno. five years old.
ran to the open front window of the
Sabranno home, on the third floor in
No. lat Fourth street. AS it was
growing dusk she leaned over the sill
so she would not miss him.
Hello. daddy" she cried. and
waved her hand when he came into
view. She saw a little package that
might have been a box of sweets.
tucked in the crook of his arm, and
leaned too far out to see 1t better.
Just as Sabranno was returning the
salute Susie slipped and tumbled out
of the window. Sabrsnno jumped
into her path. set himself, and caught
her. The force of the three-story
drop sent the max rolling along the
with his child clutched IN
his arms, but neither was hurt
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RIsH IN STORM

-~.-yeizaa. I.@- in Blizzard, in Peril
q Famine.
-Msra 4 shores of Lakes SUI
-eEt3r. E,-gn and Erie were strewn
1 Grac.age of a three days
gala and rgN storm, which cost the
of a. j=sst forty-one persons,
rr up in midlake a 300
re-t yes tn it's crew, wrecked
or %grUunueu numerous other craft
and caused a property loss which will
run into the millions.
The details of the storm, which
literally swept from the western end
Of Lake Superior to the eastern shore
of Lake Erie, became known only
when survivors began arriving in va
rious ports with tales Of hardships
and heroic rescues seldom equaled on
the lakes.
On land the storm hit hardest in
Cleveland, Ohio, where twenty-one
inches of snow fell, five persons were
killed and ten others lost.
About 100000 damage wss
caused>to property there, chiefly teie
phone and telegraph systems, thus
keeping that city out of direct COM
munication for two days.
The death toll is thus told:
twenty-five, perhaps forty, men,
probably drowned in the o~verturning
of a freighter found floating in Lake
Huron.
Five bodies washed ashore at St.
Joseph, on the Canadian side of Lake
Huron -four had belts marked "Wex.
ford" and one wore a belt marked
"London.")
Three bodies washed ashore on the
west shore of Lake Huron.
Two bodies washed ashore opposite
the position of the overturned boat.
Six members of a lightship drowned
in Lake Erie, near Buffalo, N. Y.
Cleveland, a city of nearly 100000
people, is ~desolate, buried under u
inches of snow and facing a food and
milk famine and a disease epidemic.
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sporting

E-~- - -+~ N--h1- +stt EH-e .-h t.
monarch of his class, defeated Leach
Cross in ten rounds of boxing at Mad
ison Square Garden, New York. The
bout was one of the greatest ever
seen in New York, and if defeated,
Leach Cross was by no means dis
graced.
In a sea of mud and with rain fall
ing steadily a greater part of the time
the Harvard varsity eleven managed
to defeat the Princeton Tigers at
Princeton by the slim score of 8 to O..
Harvard's points were accumulated
when Brickley drop-kicked a compar-
atively easy goal.
Harry Smith signed a contract to
manage the champion Newarks next
season. Last summer it was reported
that Smith might be engaged as man
ager of the Brooklyn team.
Eddie Plank, the baseball hero of
Gettysburg, Pa, and the victor over
Mathewson in the game that decided
the worlds championship of 1913, was
honored by his home folks when a
banquet was rendered him. Two hun
dred and twenty-five guests sat down
to dinner.
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Personal

T. Van Sittart Bowater was in
s. ID as Lord Mayor of London.
s. Marion S. Selfridge, "Boston's
most beautiful woman artist" has
filed suit for divorce against Earl NJ.
Selfridge, member of a prominent Mel
rose family.
Mrs. Woodrow Wilson and her
daughter, Jessie, who is to marry
Henry B. Sayre, November %, spent
the day in New York for a final fitting
of the wedding gown.
The list of persons and corporations
in New Haven, Conn, owning bonds
and stocks subject to a State tax
contains the name of ex-President
Taft, who is credited with owning
$150,000 worth of these securities.
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| upon which its main effort is now be.
ing concentrated, the committee has
been making a study of sundry model
laws and ordinances which are in eff.
feet in progressive communities, de-
signed to diminish the ravages of fire
and hopes shortly to secure the co.
operation of the Town Council in the
endeavor to improve conditions
locally, in so far as laws and ordi.
nances will produce such a result.
The committee is composed of Albert
E. Crane, Thomas d. Anderson. Clar.
ence E. Van Wrinkle and Frederick
Sadler.
New Post Office Dedication.
Jersey City's new post office was
dedicated in a reputable way. 1t cost
a million, which might have been
more wisely expended. There is also
in the town a courthouse for the
county, a city hall and a high school,
all of recent erection and consider
able beauty and adaptability to their
uses. Some of them have been scan
dalously expensive, and the graft of
the courthouse is a reproach upon all.
This takes much from the satisfac-
ton found in observing the improve
ments, but it does not take all. In
spite of the shame that fine public
works cannot be erected without bad
men using them for base selfshness,
the buildings are there and they still
convey a certain inspiration and will
have a future value. Did the con-
tractor for the Parthenon charge 10
per cent, extra to be used to appease
the Athenfan moh9 To-~0- ="
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An investigation by Secretary Lane
disclosed gross Misrepresentation of
Indian funds in Oklahoma.
A proposed amendment to the city's
constitution making women eligible to
appointment as notaries was defeated
by popular vote in Boston.
Vassar College has put on a double
force of night watchmen in ordef to
check the nightly appearance Of
"peepirg Toms"
Jim Stevens of Hammondsport, Ind,
ate his peas with a knife. They rolled
off and fell into his neighbor's cup
The couple fought and each was fined
one cent. I
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Orlages and Will be double-tracked.
To Fill Three Positions.

To Fill Three Positions.
State civil service examinations
will be held for a fertilizer sampler
and assistant at the New Jersey Elk
pertinent Station, New Brunswick,
and for a court attendant in Passaic
county. The pay is $50 a month for
the former position and 5000 a year
for the latter. Another examination
is scheduled for the position of rec
ord clerk in the Railway R~eformatory,
pay $3.50 per month. The examina.
tons for all three positions are open
to male residents of the State, Gard
ner Colby is the chief examiner.
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The United States Fish Commas
sion will plant $500 Maine Holsters in
the Pacific Ocean.
Fire destroyed many yacht houses,
yachts and motorboats at Canarsic, l..
l., causing a loss of $3.50, 900.
Crazed by drink, Stanley Jones, 10
years old, jumped down a 6OC-foot
shaft in a colliery nea Scranton.
The Purity Congress discussed
problem novels, affinity fats" the
new dances and drinking.
Henry Loeber, an engineer, was
killed by his own engine while throw
ing a switch in Jersey City.
More than 10000 grangers from all
over the United States assembled in
Manchester, N. H., to attend the 10
day session of the National Grange.
James Crowley, a butcher of Free
port, L. l., died from blood poisoning,
from freezing his toe in a refriger-
ator plant several years ago.
John Klein, IL years old, shot and
killed his mother while shooting at
flies with an air rife at Kingston,
N. Y.
1t was reported that Tammany
would give Governor Glynn a free
hand in the closing sessions of the
Legislature.
Ten to fifteen inches of snow Grip
pied rail and wire communication in
and around Pittsburgh and Cleveland
was cut off from the rest Of the world.
A train crew discovered burglars
blowing the postoffice safe at Licking
ton, Tenn, and gave chase, recover
ing $4,000 in cash and 5000 in stamps.
William Koch, of West Haven, VT,
shot and killed Charles Gordon, Of
Whitehall, while the latter was hunt
ing and trapping on the Koch farm.
The President sent to the Senate
the nomination of Dudley Field Ma
lone to be Collector of Customs for
the port of New York.
Governor Felker signed the extradi-
ton papers for the return of Harry K.
Thaw to New York on the request of
Governor Glynn. Thaw is charged with
conspiracy in New York County.
Patrolman Hughes, of Paterson, N.
r., brother of United States Senator
Hughes, secured a years leave of alb
sence to become chief of police at Ma
Mia.
At Richmond, KY, Mrs. Benjamin l..
Banks shot and killed her son, twelve,
and then killed herself, following an
nouncement Of the sudden death of
her husband.
Independent members-elect of the
New York Assembly affiliated with
three parties formed an organization
to fight boss rule and force through
a Statewide Direct Primaries bill.
Henry Brenlein, of Bremen, Ind,
and his two children were killed and
his wife seriously injured when their
carriage was struck by a locomotive
train near North Judson, Ind.
Lee Hoffman,, an ice dealer of Glov-
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NEGRO STAYS DOCTORS WIFE.

Decoys Her From Home; Kills Him.
self Beside Her Body.
Baton Rouge, La.--With the body of
her negro slayer lying dead beside
her, Mrs. Alice Ehlert, wife of the
resident physician at Angola Farm,
was found murdered The negro,
Harry Harriet, who was a convict on
the farm, had choked Mrs. Ehlert to
death and then killed himself. How
Mrs. Ehlert was lured to the place
of her death has not been determined
and probably never will be known.
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3 \
lau letter of the
the Postoffice at
from a Mercer,
Santa to visit him.
ere done away with
in Penitentiary in
300 convicts attir9d
forms watched the
in bonfires.
Woodhaven, L. l.,
ought the leak with
he resultant explo-
v was found dead,
She and two chill
iured and the house
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satIus 9oV,ovv.
Red Bank Farm Sold.

William A. Jamison, a summer resi-
dent of Monmouth Beach, has pur-
chased the Minor Brown farm at
Holmdel, paying s50,0 0 for the prop
erty. The farm adjoins Lewis S,
Thompson's Brookdale farm, and
comprises 1913 acres. Opposite is the
Gideon and Daily place, where some
of the greatest running horses in this
country were raised. Mr.. Jamison
will build a large house on the farm
and expects to make it his home al
the year. He will take possession
J pext month.
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Joseph w. Bailey, former senator
from Texas, denied he intended to
enter the race for governor.
John Mitchell announced at Butte
that he would resign as an American
Federation of Labor officer.
Governor Tener, of PENNSYLVANIA,
is slated for Presidency of the Ma
tional League of Baseball Clubs.
The entire National Guard of In
diana was ordered on duty in Indian
a2olis because of the street-car strike
riots.
A seat on the New York Stock Elk
change was purchased by Henry F.
Haines, for $4,000, a decline of $1,000
from the last previous sale.
Postmaster McGillvray, of Am
bridge, Pa, disappeared from his Of
flee while Federal inspectors were in
vestigating a $4,000 shortage.
E. Logan, a locomotive engineer, and
five trainmen were killed in a wreck
on the Panama Railroad zeal Pana-
ma.
DR.. Charles McBurney, one of the
foremost operating surgeons in the
country, is dead at Brookline, Mass,
aged So.
Through the efforts of Governor
Ralston the Indianapolis street car
strike was settled, the men being
granted arbitration but not ~recogni-
ton of the union,
Mrs. Bessie Wakefield, condemned
to hang March 4, for the murder of
her husband, arrived at the Connec-
ticut State Prison in Wethersield.
Suffragists moved to save her life.
Thomas J.. Giblin. defeated for Con-
gress, from East Boston, and James
E. Mcguire, an editor, engaged in a
fist fight, following the latter's edi-
torial remarks against the former.
Labor unions lost two cases in the
Federal District Court, New York, in
volving the open shop" the Judges
deciding hat labor has no right to
combine o prevent competition
among m }facturers.
Three c 'ren, the oldest aged six,
were burne to death in a fire, which
destroyed Z home of Mr.. and Mrs.
George Bae at Charlottesville, Mo.
THY had been locked in a room while
fhet mnt'.~- ----A shonninu
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cunhoard cortrivance.

Metal towel racks. that have fat
places at each curved end to screw
to a wall will almost double the ca
pacity of your closet If screwed to the
bottom of the lower shelf. 4 dozen
garment hangers may be suspended
from each one.
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Quick Dutch caL.

One cup sugar. one tablespoon but
ter. one u sweet milk. two cups flour,
and three teaspoons baking powder
Do with butter and sprinkle with Gin
namon and sugar.
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RouT CUBAN OUTLAWS.

One Captured and the Leader Ffees
to the Mountains.
Havana.-The Santa Clara outlaws
have been dispersed and one of them
captured while hiding in the town OF
Remidoes.
All of them apparently have aban-
doned their guns except the leader
who escaped into the mountains.
Comments l ntwo local newspapers
tend to confirm the report that GER
tain interests were backing the out
laws.
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uPsErs ILLINOIS LABOR LAW.

Judge Holds Compensation Act of 1911
Unconstitutional
Springfield, Ill.-The workingmen's
compensation act of 1911 vas de-
clared unconstitutional by Judge
Creighton in an opinion handed down
in the case of Joseph Hatcher against
the Chicago, Wilmington and Vermil-
ion Coal Company. The court held
that the act was not passed in a con-
~-stitutional manner The company had
settled with Hatcher for injuries he
had received in the mine.