The Penn's Grove record., 1913-10-10
General

A storm almost wiped out the town
OF Nome, Alaska.
The Aleutian volcanoes are again
I'M eruption.
New York City customs receipts on
the first day of the new tariff were
S923,374.
The Administration, it was an
nounced, would strictly enforce the
Sherman Antitrust law.
The Sulzberger and Sons Company,
New York, was fined $500 each in Spe-
cial Sessions on three charges Of hav-
ing spoiled meat in its possession.
Governor General Harrison arrived
in Manila and proclaimed President
Wilson's policy with regard to the
islands to be ultimate independence.
A posse found S10,600, which was
stolen from the American Velvet Co.'S
mills at ~Stonington, Conn, by burg
lars.
1t is reported that 80 per cent. Of
the $500 votes cast by the engineers
on the New Haven Railroad favor a
strike.
Plans have been submitted for the
construction at Dayton, Ohio, of res
ervoirs to prevent floods, at a cost
of $4,000 900.
Almost all the New York ~alienists
who have examined Hans Schmidt,
slayer of Anna Aumueller, are fairly
well convinced that he is sane.
The formal motions made in behalf
Of Governor Sulzer when the defense
opened were set aside by the Impeach-
ment Court.
An attempt was made to destroy the
plant of the Potter Enterprise of Cou-
dersport, Pa. The side of the building
was blown out by dynamite.
Adam Damn, a restaurant proprie-
tor of Sacramento, Cal, has begun a
search for more Damn relatives in
an effort to outnumber the He'll family
of Farrell, Pa.
Gertrude Ream, % years old, con-
fessed to setting fire to the $40, 900
home of William Decker, at Montgom-
cry, Pa, to shield several ~robberies
she had committed.
State Treasurer Deal of Missouri
transmitted 563 checks, amounting to
$8,146, to Confederate pensioners.
This is the first instalment under the
new law.
Marie Lloyd, the variety actress,
who arrived at New York on the Olym-
pic in company with Bernard Dillon,
an English jockey, has been ordered
deported.
The National Window Glass Manu-
facturers' Association received a de-
mand for IA per cent. wage increase
from the glass workers, in session at
Cleveland.
George Davis, a member of the Asso-
citation of Bridge and Structural Iron
Workers, was arrested in New York
after confessing that the association
had paid him to dynamite bridges
where non-union men had been en-
ployed, and Harry Jones, Secretary
Treasurer of the association, was ar
rested in Indianapolis.
Boston coal dealers advanced the
price of anthracite 25 cents a ton.
Frederick s. Boyd, l. w. w. leader,
SOhf ASbCu VI AoVlh6 1SAlO0 odbOId6O
in Paterson, N. j., was sentenced to
from one to seven years. Boyd ap-
pealed and his $4,000 bail was con
tinued.
In New York, the millionaire
jury brought in a verdict finding Hans
Schmidt, the discredited priest, guilty
of the murder of Anna Aumueller.
Schmidt resented a smile at an ora
ton of the Coroner by throwing coins
and two rosaries among the specta-
tors.
Wilson Evans, a negro, was lynched
at> Hazlehurst, Miss, for assaulting
Cora Little, IS years old.
Mrs. Evelyn Weeks vas attacked by
her sister-in-law, Mrs. Harriet l..
Johnston, in the White Plains IN. W
Court corridor, after Mrs. Weeks had
testified she had seen Mrs. Johnston
kiss the Marchese R~occasecca's foot.
Confirming the assertions of inno-
cence of Charles Gilbert, just dead
after serving forty-eight years for a
murder In Connecticut, a clergyman
said the prisoners father had con-
fessed on his deathbead that he, the
narent. had committed the crime. |