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

Wives of the Cabinet members have
Joined the boycott of eggs.
The militia arrested 66 striking
copper miners for picketing near the
Allouez mine near Calumet, Mich.
Blair Lee, Senator-elect from Mary
land, spent STOP in the election, of
which 1852 was paid for postage.
Madge Ripley, Is years old, and her
brother. Theodore, aged five, were
burned to death in a fire which de-
stroyed their home at Thurston, N. Y.
A locomotive boiler exploded on an
engine lear Bluefield, w. Va, in
stantly killing the engineer, o. Verdi,
and seriously injuring the fireman.
Raymons Shaub, twenty-six years
old, a druggist of Quarryville, Pa, is
dead of p~ellagra, the second death
from his disease in Pennsylvania.
Fred Merler, impersonating Santa
Claus, a seriously injured when his
aeroplane, u on wires through a
store in Milwaukee, Wis, fell.
Lodema L. Hile, of Albion, ILL.,, has
written to Postmaste General Burle-
son asking him to appoint a younger
Santa Claus.
The Gatun Dam in the Panama Ca
nal is finished. Over 22,0OO,OOO cubic
yards of earth have been placed in the
dam since 1906.
The steamer Vandyck arrived at
New York, with 5000 quarters of Ar
g~entine beef and $50 of
lamb and mutton.
Phoebe Couzins, the first woman
lawyer in the United States, died in
st. Louis, aged Y years. She died in
poverty.
For the first time since the Civil
War, the enlisted strength of the
United States navy exceeds the $4,000
mark.
Mrs. Jennie Eaton, of Boston, who
says she contracted an indebtedness
of $4,000 while disproving the charge
of killing her husband, has asked the
State to compensate her for the loss.
A company of Cinnamon have or
ganized and have been mustered into
the military service of the United
States. They are natives of Honolulu
and are citizens.
Out of the $500 automatic train-stop
devices offered in answer to the New
Ravens 100000 for such a device, L.
500 have been tested and two will be
installed.
Transportation rates into and
through the Yellowstone National
Park, Montana, have been reduced 20
per cent. by an order issued by Secre-
tary Lane.
Texas militia companies were or
dered out to aid in the relief work in
the food-stricken areas of the Brazos
River Valley. Beyond the call for tents
from Navasota, no appeals for State
military aid have been received by
the Governor.
The Illinois Traction Company and
the Brotherhood of I%nterurban Train
men agreed to al bitrate the demand
of employees for a SO 1-13 cent wage in
crease.
L. Jodry, Philadelphia, who shot his
nineteen-year-old bride is dead. His
wife of foul weeks died the night pre-
vious. 1t is believed they entered
into a suicide agreement.
Following its prohibiting the COM
mon drinking cup in public places. in
Guiding Sunday Schools, the Pennsyl-
vania State Department OF Health is
considering a~bolishing the common
communion cup.
In a two weeks anti-rat campaign
at Kirby, Pa, 6,891 rats were killed.
Governor Hatfield, of West Virginia,
pardoned the Rev. John A. Graham,
imprisoned for life as a habitual Grim
inal.
The 1000 Ohio corn boys visited
the corn show and agricultural con-
ference at Philadelphia, where $3.50
was distributed among them for prize
exhibits.
The Pennsylvania Railroad has re-
anoed the working hours in it's Will