The Penn's Grove record., 1913-12-19
General

Christmas Tree
Mayor Kline forbade tie use of
"ticklers" on New Years Eve.
More than $4,000, 900 damage was
done by the recent floods in Texas.
Senator Hitchcock attacked the
Democratic secret caucus on the Cur
rency bill.
The Anti-Vivisection Congress
adopted a resolution urging Congress
to investigate vivisection.
One carload of Argentine beef was
received by Armour & Co, at Chi
cago.
Sheriffs put an end to the rioting
in Calumet, Mich, by making II ar
rests.
A shipment of 4,O07 Holsters has
been made from Maine to the Pacific
Coast for transplanting.
The Chicago & Alton Railroad has
granted a $4,000 annual wage in-
res to it's 1,20O shop employees.
William H. Clarke, a noted organ
builder and author, is dead at Read
ing Pa. He was 73 years old.
A new steel plant, which will en-
ploy 1900 men, will be established at
Easton, Pa, at a cost of 81, 900, 900.
The Bank Of Vacherie, La, with a
capital of $15, 900 and deposits of $40,-
900, closed because of unsecured
loans.
Representative Porter of Pennsyl-
vania introduced a bill, proposing a
new $4,000 900 postofice for Pitts
burgh.
Mrs. Ella Flagg Young, former SUI
perintendent of schools, is likely to
become candidate for mayor of Chi
cago.
The New York Board of Estimate
appropriated $4,000 10 aid special
highways and canal graff>%nvestiga-
lions.
George Miller, II years old, was
awarded a verdict of $1,000 id New
York for injuries received when run
over by a horse and wagon.
The P~ostofice Department decided
to restore magazines and periodicals
to mail service in January instead of
transporting by fast freight.
Society folk of Indianapolis will pro-
test against the ordinance requiring
the presence of a police matron at all
dances after December IS.
Discovery that a large part of the
supply of cocaine for New York drug
users users I'M from Memphis has
caused an investigation of the activi-
ties of a wealthy druggist there.
De We're Hall, go years old, a cor
poration lawyer of Michigan, was
killed by a fall from the ninth floor of
a hotel in New York.
R. L. Metcalfe, Governor of the Pa
mama Canal Zone, will again seek the
Democratic nomination for governor of
Nebraska.
Magistrate Noll of Huntington, w.
Va, fined his grandfather five dollars
when the latter vas arraigned before
him on a charge of drinking.
Chocolate has been ordered from the
army rations by Secretary Garrison.
The new Burnett immigration law
provides for the exclusion and depor-
tation of "active m%ilitants."
The Netherlands Minister at Wash
1ngton agreed to accept Secretary
Bryan's international peace plan.
The Chicago police discovered in
that city a school where beggars are
taught tricks of the trade"
John Litza, a state assemblyman of
Wisconsin, and author of the bill max
ing co%ckfighting Illegal in that State,
was arrested in q cock fight raid at
Milwaukee.
A test vote tabling one of Senator
Hitchcock's amendments to the Cur
rency bill by a vote of 40 to 35 indi-
Gated the eventual passage of the bill.
Secretary of the Navy Daniels, by
buying Australian beef for the Navy,
forced the American packers to reduce
their, bids.
Heyer Hoskowitz, who had a Grim
inal record in Russia, was SEN to
prison for life on second conviction
of burglary in Brooklyn.
Four negro youths escaped from a
prison van in Holmesburg, Pa, by
cutting a hole in the floor of the
wagon.