The Penn's Grove record., 1913-02-28

The body of Joaquin Miller, the
. the Sierras, was cremated. The
ashes will be scattered to the winds.
Mayor Gaynor promised to review
the st. Patrick Day parade in New
York. He said he is a fighting harp"
Cardinal Farley, Archbishop of New
York, received an enthusiastic well
come at San Juan, Porto Rico.
The Singer Manufacturing Co. has
obtained 10000 acres of hardwood
timber land in Louisiana.
The Illinois Supreme Court decided
that butcher shops and moving pic
ture shows must close Sundays.
The Wilson inaugural committee
voted to exclude all donkeys and
"houn' dawgs" from the parade.
Mrs. M. Van Rensselaer,, aged 104,
oldest woman in northern, New York,
died in Saratoga.
A bill abolishing the death penalty
defeated by the Tennessee House.
similar bill was killed in the Arizona
Legislature.
The Senate amended and passed the
House bill for a physical valuation of
the property of all common carriers.
Edward E. Grosscup was sworn in
as State Treasurer of New Jersey, and
furnished a bond of $500, 900, which
has to be approved by the Legislature.
An effort is being made to have
John w. Kern replace Thomas S. Mar
tin as Democratic leader in the SEN
ate.
Marion Cantry, a young negro, ac-
cused of assault, was taken from his
guards near Manning, S. c., by sew
eral masked men and shot to death.
Frank Romea, a miner, convicted
of murder, was shot to death in the
Utah ~penitentiary. He tainted when
he faced the rifles.
The South Dakota House and Sen
ate have passed a resolution, for the
direct election of United States Sen
ators.
~sylvania House of Representatives is
n which prohibits the working of
horses more than IL hours a day.
Four children of Joseph Hatfield of
Brookville, KY, were burned to death
when the house in which they had
been locked was destroyed.
Whalers at Amagansett, L. l., sank
a harpoon into a 50-foot humpback,
which broke the line and got away
with it's $4,000 worth of oil and bone.
j. Salus, Assemblyman from Atlantic
City, pleaded in the United States Dis
trict Court in Trenton to a charge Of
shipping meat, which had not been
properly labeled.
Rosie Hertz, convicted of having
Kept disorderly houses on the East
Side in New York for the last thirty
years, was sentenced to serve a year
in the penitentiary.
Fire destroyed the plant of the At
lantic Cotton Compress Co., at Column
bus, Ca, doing damage at $1,000, 900.
About 1900 bales of cotton were de-
stroyed.
George D. Farovid, one of the lead
ing druggists of New Haven, was
fined $500 for selling cocaine without
out a doctors prescription. A clerk
IS fined 800,
Ed. Mcnamara, Ed. Gallagher and
James Kelly, auto bandits, who killed
Patrolman Leroy Bouker, in Cleve-
land, Thanksgiving Eve, were SEN
fenced to life Imprisonment.
Mrs. Ernest Sill of Atlanta saved
her baby by putting him in a steamer
trunk and dragging him through a
burning room She a badly burned
herself.
The seven children of George Smith
of Harrisburg, Pa, were burned to
death, when their horne was destroyed
by fire. The parents returned home
and found the bodies.
William F. Clark swore at Albany,
N. Y, that Joseph F. Scott, State Su-
perintendent of Prisons, and his
"underlings" ran a profitable pardon.
brokerage business, and that Super
intendent Russell received $25, 900 to
secure Thaw's release, $4,000 OF
which was handed back.