The Penn's Grove record., 1913-04-25

Clinton Hitler, 20 years old, was
killed by being struck on the head in a
baseball game at Newark.
Rev. DR.. Wilson Phraner, of East
Orange, N. j., left $1,000 to philan-
thropic organizations.
Governor Colquitt of Texas vetoed
the bill making illiteracy a suffrage
disqualification.
Mary Radigan, two years old, was
trampled to death by a runaway horse
in Brooklyn.
Three men were killed and 20 others
hurt in a premature explosion of 21,-
600 pounds of dynamite at the Panama
Canal.
Otto w. Brodie, an aviation school
instructor, was killed when his aero
plane fell from a height of As feet in
Chicago.
Mayor Preston of Baltimore refused
to allow Helen Keller to lecture in
that city because she was charging
an admission fee.
The Federal Sugar Refining plant at
Yonkers, N. Y, closed by a strike, will
reopen July 1, if non-union men can
be secured.
A bill making children born out of
wedlock legal heirs of the father is to
be introduced in the Illinois Legisla-
ture this week.
Mrs. Anna E. Brown, rs years old,
who died at Danbury, Conn, left in
structions in verse requesting no
mourning and no e%rvices.
Robert c. Archer, a former alder
man of New Rochelle, N. Y, and who
grew the largest strawberries in the
county, is dead.
The work of moving away the Inter
national Harvester Company twine
mill at Auburn, N. Y, has been
stopped.
Postmaster General Burleson re-
ceived a silver loving cup from the
Texas delegation in recognition of his
fourteen years service as representa-
tive in Congress.
Amid expressions of amusement,
Herman Knoppes, fourteen years old,
of Elgin, ILL.,, confessed to killing Mrs.
Sleep, his guardians wife, and her
Two cnllQren just lot run.
Attorney Clarence S. Darrow re-
turned to Chicago after being absent
two years defending the Mcnamara
brothers and himself in Los Angeles.
He will resume practice.
Robert Dunbar, the ~four-year-old boy
kidnapped from Opeliusas, La, eight
months ago, was found in Columbia,
Miss, in the possession of an itinerant,
stove repairer.
Governor Mann, of Virginia, was
carried from the executive mansion,
Richmond, to Memorial Hospital in a,
huge basket and Immediately operated
on for appendicitis,
A bill to regulate the hours and con-.
ditions under which women may be,
employed in the District of Columbia,
fixing eight hours as the maximum for
a days work was introduced in the
Senate by Senator La Toilette.
The committee on amusement re-
sources of working girls of New York
Sent letters to members of the State
Legislature urging the passage Of
pending bills amending dance hall reg
ulations.
Following the death of Bill Allen,
who was killed in a boxing match,
Governor Ferris of Michigan has or
dered the sheriffs of every copnty to
enforce the laws against professional
boxing.
After he had been sentenced to life
Imprisonment, James B. Jennings,
allies Young Kid Carter" told a Bos-
ton judge he had not only murdered
William Mcpherson, but Mildred Don
ovan and several other people"
Floretta Whaley was received with
pleasure by friends in Hampstead, l..
L, but her grandmother refused to
forgive the unfrocked minister, Jere
Knode Cooke, with whom Floretta
eloped.
DR.. Irving w. Voorhees, attended an
inspection of tw~enty-eight tubercu-
losis patients who he'd been treated by
DR.. Friedman at the Hospital for De
formities and Joint Diseases, and
found that seven or eight showed
much improvement in their condition.