The Penn's Grove record., 1913-05-02
Elgin butter dropped 8 cents to 80

cents a pound.
The bank of Tunica, Miss, closed
1t has deposits of more than $25, 900.
Col. Charles st. ]. Chubb, U. S., died
of heart disease at Galveston, Texas.
Secretary Lane announced that nc
M but a Civil War veteran would be
appointed Commissioner of Pensions.
Thomas M. Evans, president of the
McKeesport, Pa, National Bank, died
in Boston, following an operation.
The Uncle Sam Oil Co.'S refinery at
Kansas City, Kan, vas destroyed by
fire. Loss, $3.50 1000.
Mrs. A. M. Collvert, ninety-year-old
niece of President Lincoln's mother,
is dead at Idaho Springs, Col.
The German embassy has again
chosen Newport as it's summer head
quarters.
Five deaths have resulted from the
bubonic plague in Manila since Jan
uary 1.
The Wilmington, Del, garbage Gre
matory, which vas destroyed by fire in
April, 1911, was again burned out at a
loss of $4,000.
The 70 typhoid cases in Albany,
N. Y, are attributed to the flooding of
the filtration plant by the high water
during March.
The miners in the Paint and Cabin
Creek districts, West Virginia, on
strike over a year have returned to
work.
Henry Clay Pierce testified in st.
Louis that he had been the victim Of
misplaced confidence to the extent of
nearly $1,000, 900.
A bill providing free admission of
Fair, was introduced in the House by
Representative Kentner, of California.
Loans by the New York, New Haven
& Hartford Railroad to President Mel
len totaled $14,000,0 900, according to
testimony given in Boston.
The Honor Legion of the Police De-
partment of New York City will be
presented with the stand of colors
given by Vincent Astor on May 8.
Robert Fowler, an American aviator,
few from the Atlantic to the Pacific
across the Isthmus, carrying a photog-
rapher.
The 1900 t~elegraphers in the en-
ploy of the New Haven Railroad re-
ceived a wage advance of seven per
cent.
Mystery surrounds the death at
Colorado Springs, of young Miss Con-
ger, niece of the late Minister to
China.
w. L. Sheafer, a wealthy manufac-
turer of P%ottsville, Pa, left an estate
valued at $4,000, 900, of which $40, 900
goes to his wife with an annuity of
5000.
Ernest Dye, a negro, confessed to
the Sharon (Pa.) police that he shot
and killed a United States Army sol.
der in the Brownsville (Tex.) riots in
1906.
James Grim, Nelson w. Greenhut's
chauffeur, was instantly killed when
a motor car he was testing hit a tele-
graph pole at Springfield, L. l. His as,
s~istant, Thomas Conroy, was MORALLY
injured.
The Boston Chamber of Commerce
and Governor Foss have placed the
William Mckinley Memorial Hospital,
with headquarters in New York, on
the blacklist, asserting 1t has failed to
carry out the purpose for which it was
incorporated.
The nomination of George E. Down
ey, Judge of the Circuit Court of Law
~renceburg, Ind, to be Comptroller Of
the Currency was sent to the Senate
by President Wilson. Judge Downey
lives at Aurora, Ind.
A bequest of 5000, 900, the income Of
which is to be used for the study of
cancer, was made to the Rockefeller
Institute for Medical Research in the
will of Hentry Rutherford, filed at New
York in the ~Surrogate's Court. Ruth
ford, who lived in Grand Isle, VT, died
in the Hotel Aston on February %.