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The Penn's Grove record., 1914-07-10
President Aids Waitress.

I President Wilson is interested in
helping to obtain the release from
Mercer County jail of a former wait
ress in his Princeton home, by having
a letter sent to Governor Fielder
through Secretary Tumulty. The case
was brought to the attention of the.
President by Catherine Welsh, of
Princeton, who recently was a prison
er at the institution. She saw the
girl in n of the cells, and promised
her, that when she was released she
would write to the President, which
she did.
Secretary Tumulty wrote to the
Governor. The latter, through the
county officials, probed the case, and
it was found that she had served 80
days for i~ntoxication, and was being
held because she had no place to go.
1t is said that her drinking resulted
from a broken love affair. Efforts will
be made to get her a position so she
can go to work when she gets out
of Jail.
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SHIP LINES EAGER FOR CANAL
Six Established Companies Ready to
Make Regular Use of Pana-
ma Waterway.

Washington.-Six established steam
ship lines have served notice upon the
Panama canal management Of their
intention to make regular use Of the
waterway. One vessel from the west
coast ports of South America viii be
at the Pacific gates Of the canal July
8. seeking to make her way to Liver
pool by that route, and start a fort
nightly service between Liverpool
and the west side of South America
An American steamship line operat-
ing four steamers on the Pacific side
and six on the Atlantic is awaiting
the opening Of the canal to merge all
ten into a regular line between San
Francisco and New York.
Hawaiian sugar, which has begun
to come through the canal on barges.
being transshipped at either end, win
be carried in unbroken cargoes from
Honolulu to New York as soon al
Governor Goethals gives the word
that regular steamships may use the
waterway.
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.CONVICTS co
ON STRIKE
Learn Prison Labor Contracts
Expired and Decline to Work
AGAINST WORK IN SHOPS
TO Add to the Mix-Up Head Keeper
Thomas 3. Madden Is Confined to
Home by illness and Has to Di-
rect the Institution by Proxy.

Especial Trenton Correspondence
Trentcp.-A strike threatens to tie
up work in the shops at the State
prison and the authorities face one
Of the gravest situations in its his
tory. Somehow the news that the
validity Of the prison contracts,
which are being continued from day
to day, is shrouded in doubt filtered
through the prison walls to a number
of recalcitrant convicts and, the first
day of July-the date set for the
abandonment of the prison contract
system-17 prisoners employed in the
shops refused to work.
The keepers were amazed and
some of the deputies for a time did
not know what it was all about. The
prisoners calmly told the guards that
the contracts expired July 1 and
were to be succeeded by the "State
Use" system. They said they did
not have to work upon an Illegal
proposition and then and there went
on strike. Next day more Of the
men went on strike. All Of the strik-
ers Immediately were punished by
being made to "stand in the centre"
and it was not long before five of
them consented to go back to work.
The contract work is not the only
grievance the men have, as many
Of them are demanding the return
Of mush and milk to the regular daily
diet. The mush and milk was with
drawn from the menu and this fact
created great dissatisfaction within
the prison walls. For some unex-
planned reason the Board of Inspec-
tors took it from the breakfast bill
of fare.
Taking advantage of the absence
Of Head Keeper Thomas B. Madden,
who is i'll, the convicts became I'M
ruly and the deputies were compelled
to in1ict punishment.
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General

The International League will finish
the season as at present constituted.
When a fire slightly damaged a
lodging house at Manchester, N. H.,
John Reed was killed by jumping from
a window and Frederic Caren and AL
bert LIE Chance were suffocated.
Raising one arm as he was driving
an automobile over a bridge at Bur
lington, Ia, it caught in a girder, was
pulled from it's socket and Clifford
Johnson bled to death.
A drought of AZ days at Fort Smith!
Ark, was broken when half an inch
of rain fell.
When an automobile driven by her
brother at Ottawa, ILL.,, turned over,
~17-year-old Tina Smith was killed.
An Illinois Appellate Court confirm
ed a decision that bylaws increasing
the rates of insurance of Modern
Woodmen of America we're not legally
adopted.
After serving more than 20 years
of a 50-year sentence for stealing so
cents, Frank Williams, an Alabama
negro, has been pardoned by Governor
O'Neal.
Governor Walsh vetoed the bill pro-
viding S0-cent gas for East Boston.
The first Federal building construct
ed in Porto Rico was opened at San
Juan. 1t cost $500, 900.
Governor Walsh sent out a nation
Wihn qnnpo1 for ho1n fOr fbo c,,foro.a
of the Salem fire. The Governor says
81, 100000 is needed.
The American Institute of Homeo-
pathy that it will erect a
$500, 900 hospital with college facilities
at Kansas City, Mo.
A remarkable rise in the Mississippi
River has caused great alarm. The
river is ten feet above high water
mark.
The validity of the new divorce law
in Nevada was sustained. Applicants
must reside one year in the State.
Forty sacred Hindu bulls were sold
to be converted into beefsteak It Kan
sas City, Mo.
An attempt will be made to fly
from Duluth to Chicago in one day by
Aviator Janus.
In New York City there was 11S
persons who met with accidents In
celebrating the Fourth.
Mrs. Della Wentzell, of Owensville,
Ind, was fined 81 for making faces
at her neighbor.
Plans were started at Salem, Mass,
to rebuild the city more substantially
than before its disastrous fire.
The ringing of church bells at sun
rise, noon and sunset was the only
attempt at celebrating the Nations
holiday at Salem, Mass.
Arthur Rybitsky, an aviator of San
Francisco, was killed when his aero.
plane was caught in an aerial eddy
Brigadier-General A. K. Evans will
be privately rebuked for his remarks
in New York alleged to have been a
criticism Of the Administrations
foreign policy.
President Wilson delivered q
memorable Fourth of July address
in front of the historic independence
Hall, Philadelphia. The President
addressing a great crowd, declared
that the Declaration of independence
must be re~vitalized with the spirit
and needs of the present generation
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Sporting

Manager George Stovall of the Kan
sas City Feds was fined $500 by Presi-
dent Gilmore Of the Federal League
for his action in Kansas City when he
is said to have started a mutiny among
his players because Secretary Harry
Nelly was discharged by the Kansas
City officials.
Pinch hitters, attention.! Alva
Williams of the Washingtons has
served in that capacity sixteen times
this season. He has made seven hits,
walked three times and sacrificed
once. That gives him a pinch hitting
average of $50.
The Harvard crew and the Union
Boat Club of Boston won the heats
in the Grand Challenge cup race at
Henley-on-Thames, England.
James B. Aver, of the Boston Union
Boat Club, won the fourth heat of
the Diamond Souls at the annual
Henly Regatta on the Thames. He is
the first American to cor
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Secretary of State Bryan has leased

secretary or State Bryan hPs leased
a summer home at Ashville, ~. G.
Four mountaineers were killed dur
ing Fourth of July celebrations in Pike
County, Kentucky.
OF Mount Clemens, Mich, was attack
ed by a lion and fatally injured.
The bank of Pine Bluff, Ark, was
ordered closed. The bank has a cap
ital of $1,000 0 and deposits of 81, 000t'
900.
Judge Martin L. Clardy, former sena-
tor from Missouri and vicepresident OF
the Missouri-Pacifc Railroad, died in
st. Louis.
The Wabash receivers filed a report
showing a deficit of $1,583,O32 on the
Wabash lines between July 1, 1913,
and April 80, 1914.
Fifteen persons were drowned when
the launch Superb, with % persons
aboard upset in Lynn Canal near
Skagway, Alaska.
The safe of the Chicago, Milwaukee
& st. Paul ticket office in Chicago was
blown open by three masked bandits
who escaped with $4,000.
Appropriation for a government
building at the San Francisco EXPOSE
ton was increased to 100000 in the
sundry civil appropriation bill report
ed to the Senate.
DR.. Ebert B. Cooley, of Danville,
Ill, estimated worth $5O0,O0 an
pornnod hic oopdidoov for Con GRASS
on the Republican ticket in opposition
to Joseph G. Cannon.
William B. Bateman, a gunner on
the torpedo boat Foote, lost his right
hand by the accidental explosion of a
one-pound souvenir shell in the home
of his sister in Washington.
John Anderson, a youth of Water
bury, Conn, is to undergo an opera
ton for the removal of a piece of bone
resting on his brain, which is believed
to be responsible for his mania for
burglary.
The British delegates of the Interna-
tional Congress of Chambers of Com
merce, held in Boston in 1912, present
ed to the Boston chamber a silver
cup as a souvenir of their visit to the
United States.
The Chicago Theological Seminary
has become affiliated with the Univer-
sity of Chicago.
National headquarters of the Pro-
gressive party were opened at Chi
cago and Senatorial and State cam
paigns begun.
The Supreme Court of West Virginia
decided that club members can drink
in clubrooms without violating law.
Governor Walsh asked Massachu-
sets legislature to authorize Salem
to borrow $500, 900 for reconstruction.
st. Louis voters adopted a new city
charter which makes radical reforms
in the municipal administration.
Colonel James w. Pender, who fired
the first gun in the Battle of Gettys-
burg, died at Ell Paso, Tex, aged SO
years.
Cardinal Gibbons celebrated the
fifty-third anniversary of his priest
hood and the twenty-eighth of his car
dinalate.
August Novak, a street cleaner of
Passaic, N. j., inherited a $4,000
estate in Germany. He says he will
continue to sweep streets.
Joseph Brown, twice Governor of
Georgia, formally announced his can
didacy for the United States Senate
to succeed Hoke Smith.
Absence of a majority caused the
House rules committee to postpone ac-
ton on the Hobson national prohibit
ton constitutional amendment until
August 1.
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CAVES ARE PUZZLE
Holes in Hills Near Tokyo Make
Psychologists Wonder.
Students Divided In opInIon-one Side
Says They Were Homes Of Earth
Spiders" the Other Calls
Them Beggars' Refuge.

The low hills around the village Of
Matsuyama, In the province of Saita-
ma, Japan, but a few hours journey
from Tokyo, T -honeycombed with
curious small ave which puzzle the
Psychologists. Students are divided
into two camps in their conclusions
about them. One side AYERS that they
are the ancient habitations of the folk
known as tsuchigumo, or "~earth-spi-
ders," who occupied Japan before the
coming Of the Amos. The other side
believes that they are s~epulchers that
haVe at different times been the refuge
OF beggars OF outlaws. Writes Eloise
Roorbach in The Technical World
Magazine: "The caves, at first sight.
seen back Of an isolated group Of
cryptomerta trees and over a matched
cottage, look much like a swallow
bank The resemblance is more no.
uceable upon nearer approach. for
they are set close together in uneven
rows and consist of a horizontal pas
sageway ending In a roomy excaYa.
ion They are on the south slope of
the hflls-a warm, sunny exposure for
winter weather. II the '~earth-spiders'
sat In their doorways, they could have
seen their enemies approaching over
the plain, while the latter were still
a long distance away. The position of
the cave is a strategic one, and adds
a point in favor Of the habitation the
CRY.
Though the caves vary in size.
their formation is the same. They
have a small, molelike entrance five
or six feet in depth, which expands in,
to a chamber about six feet SQUARE
and five or six feet high, in the case
OF the larger caves. Along either side
OF the chamber is a ledge seven or
eight inches in height and fairly broad.
that may have been covered with dried
leaves or grass for a bed. Marks Of
the scraping-tools that dug the rock
u are still to be seen. To enter the
larger caves one must stoop most hum
bly,, but to enter the smaller ones it
is necessary to get down on all fours,
or to worm oneself in, serpentine fash
ion.
Doctor Tsuboi Of the Imperial uni
versity OF Japan uncovered, during six
months Of e~xcavating work, over two
hundred caves. No doubt many more,
and perhaps many important secrets
are still buried under the grass and
trees Of those gently sloping hills. In
some places the sandstone has disinte-
grated so that the roofs have fallen
in, but on the whole the caves present
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Foreign

Mrs. Rebecca Clark, the oldest Eng
aged Ito years.
Customs collections at Nicaragua
during June totalled 100000 COM
pared with $3.50, 900 for June, 1913.
The fire loss in Canada during June
amounted to $1,267,416 compared with
So, 069,44o in June, 1913.
G. Legagneux, one of the most bril-
liant French aviators, was killed when
his machine fell at Samus.
The Norwegian Parliament voted
an appropriation of $27,000 for the
Norwegian official exhibit at the Pa
nama-Pacifc Exposition.
Joseph Chamberlain, pioneer advo-
cate of tariff reform, died in London.
A regiment of volunteers marched
the streets of Belfast, Ireland, car
rying rifles for the first time.
A woman who tried to see the King
of England at Buckingham Palace was
arrested. Two revolvers were found
in her pocket.
King George is likely to honor the
late Joseph Chamberlain by comforting
a title on his widow, formerly Mary
Endicott, of Salem, Mass.
New nickel French coins have been
issued. They are of the denominations
of five, ten and twenty-five confines.
The Cuban Government has decided
to send two companies of troops to the
Panama-Paciic Exposition at San
Francisco.
The hottest weather in three years
is being experienced in London, the
temperature being 80 degrees in the
shade in many places.
The Chilean House of Representa-
tives passed a bill raising the Chilean
legation at Washington to an embassy.
The Portuguese Senate appropriated
100000 for exhibits at the Panama
Pacific Exposition in San Francisco.
Prince William of Wied is expected
to abdicate the Albanian throne.
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Washington

President Wilson nominated Ira Mel
son Morris, of Chicago, to be Minister
to Sweden.
The House Committee on Appropria-
tons voted against granting an appro-
priation of 100000 for the relief of
fire sufferers at Salem, Mass.
Suffragettes urged Representative
Pou, of the House to call together
the Rules Committee and report the
resolution alloting time for ~considera-
ton of suffrage in the House.
President Wilson received ]. P. Nor
gan at the White House.
In a speech to the House, Represen-
tative Humphrey, of Washington, Re-
publican, called on President Wilson
to tell the world where he stands on
the suffrage question.
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Reasons for PROGRESS.

Why am l to cultivate myself? Sim
ply that / may make this knowledge
Of myself the most complete of all the
things here on earth, as perfect as l
can. Why am l to serve my fellow
men? Because / would help them a
little in the struggle which would lift
them toward God. Both of them are
reasons; but both lie within the one
great reason which exists In the mys-
terry of the union of all men, and the
existence of all life, in God. I am to
serve myself, l am to educate myself.
because 1 am a part of God, because I
am fulfilling this life, which is part of
Gods life.-Phillips Brooks.
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Work In the PhlllnpInea

Mrs. Lorillard Spencer. a New York
society woman, has taken Miss Tracy,
an Episcopalian ~deaconess, with her to
the Philippines, to begin work among
the Mohammedan Moros Of the Phil
ippines. The plan is to start a dis
pensary, farm school for boys and
industrial school for girls, and even
tually to connect the enterprise with
the work OF the Episcopalian Board Of
Missions.
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SAYS "Mop" OWES U. S. 100000.
Nebraska Representative Declares so
Year Old Loan Was Never Paid.


Year Old Loan Was Never Paid.
Washington.-That the Missouri Pa
ciic Railroad owes the United States
government approximately $4,000, 900
on account of a hundred-mile line built
in Kansas with the proceeds of SUBJ
sidiary bonds issued for the purpose
some 80 years ago, is the substance Of
a charge made by Representative Bar
ton of Nebraska, a Republican.
On motion of Representative Barton
a resolution was passed calling for the
secretary Of the Treasury to inform
the House why the government has
not been reimbursed for these sub
sidiary bonds. The charge is made
that the bonds issued to the amount
of $1,600,00O were authorized with
the understanding that they should be
paid in full, and until reimbursed, the
road would carry the mail free, the
cost Of carriage to be credited to the
line.
On motion Of Mr.. Underwood, the
resolution was amended to provide
that the information sought should be
forwarded to the House eff not in
compatible with the public interest"
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Illustrations by courtesy Of the Technical
World Magazine. Chicago.
a remarkable state Of preservation.
It is difficult to estimate their age, but
the weapons, jars and household i'm
plements found in them are generally
believed to belong to a race who lived
there long before the days Of the
Amos.
During the years 1925 and 1853
rs, fierce Japanse civil wars were
waged on the wide plains that are now
waving rice fields. The combatants
may have taken refuge in the caves at
that time. But whether those wild
Japanese, in terror of other wild crea-
lures stronger Of limb and sharper Of
tooth than themselves, burrowed into
the ground in order to find safety from
such dangers, or whether it was their
custom thus to bury their dead, they
have left a mystery for the scholars"
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Army Worm Busy in Jersey.

Franklin Dye, secretary of the State
Board Of Agriculture, said:
THE crops attacked by the army
worm have suffered greatly. The In
sect works it's way into the roots OF
plants, and finally undermines them.
The wheat crop is most seriously af-
fected.
Although the ravages of the insect
have ceased, farmers will feel their
effects at harvest time. The worm
caused considerable damage in Sus-
sex County, and also invaded Hunter
don and Monmouth Counties and 9th
er parts of the State.
1.-The long drought has affected the
hay crop, and that means a shortage
unless the second crop proves to be
extremely large.
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Scouts Aid Fire wardens.

Scouts Aid Fire Wardens.
With rural mail carriers and boy
scouts cooperating with the small
army Of fire wardens and their dep
uties in fighting forest fires and aid
ing in advancing preventive meas
ures, greater protection has been af-
forded against the usually disastrous
fires in South Jersey woodlands this
summer.
The latest step toward increased
protection has been taken by the
State Forester in sending letters to
scouting masters in south Jersey ask
ing the aid of their troops in COM
batting the fires and reporting seri-
Gus violations Of the fire laws. 1t
Is expected that the scouts will be
able to render valuable service be-
cause of their hikes through sparse
ay settled districts.
Rural mail carriers received their
instructions early in the spring from
the ~postofice department to assist
fire wardens in their districts by
promptly reporting any wood fires
they might discover.
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START CAMPAIGN AGAINST RATS
Cleanup Along New Orleans Water
front to Prevent plaque.

New Orleans.-Rat determination to
prevent the spread of bubonic plague
in New Orleans was undertaken un~er
the direction Of DR.. French Simpson,
who was ordered here from New York
by Surgeon-General Blue of the Pub
lie Health Service.
Several hundred men have been en-
gagged by the city authorities to as
sist DR.. Simpson and the expert rat
catchers who + expected from San
Francisco. Of the several thousand
rats caught to date, none has shown
traces of the disease. A general
cleanup along the river front was be-
gun.
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Camden Paving Halted.

To review an ordinance of the city
Of Camden, Justice Garrison has
granted a writ of certiorari in the SUI
preme Court to Andrew w. and Rich
ard w. Mellon. This particular ordi-
nance provides for the paving Of Fer
ry avenue, between Broadway and
Mount Ephriam avenue, Camden.
The prosecutors aver that the or
dinance was passed after a remon-
STRANGE, which contained the sigma
lures Of 81 per cent. of the owners of
land abutting on the thoroughfare,
had been filed against it.
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MExIcANs KILL vELAsco.
Band Of zapatistas Had Demanded
LARGE Ransom for Him.

Vera Cruz.-Delay in the payment
of a ransom of one million pesos has
resulted in the execution by Zapatistas
of Juan Velasco, the manager of a cot
ton manufacturing concern, VINO was
taken prisoner near Atlixco, State of
Puebla, according to Velasco's brother,
VINO left Vera Cruz for the purpose
Of obtaining his release, but re urned
from his unsuccessful mission.
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Mad Dog In Trenton.

One woman and a half dozen dogs
were bitten by a mad dog that ran
through the streets of South Tren-
ton for an hour before he was killed
by an officer.
The woman bitten was Mrs.
Mary Fuchs. The animal jumped
at her as she passed and fastened
his teeth in her hand.
The mad dog was finally shot by a
policeman and all of the dogs bitten
have been placed under observation
by their owners
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Schools for Schooling.

Schools for Schooling.
Social centre work canot legally be
carried on in schools of the city, ac-
cording to an opinion rendered by
City Counsel Charles E. Bird and
Counselor Malcolm G. Buchanan. The
City Commission and Board of Edu-
cation refused to request mone from
the Board Of of School Estimates to
carry on the work.
The school authorities claimed they
had no right to do such work and
the Social Centre League claimed
that they had. The advice of coun-
sci was then sought. The lawyers
agree that under the school law the
school board has no power to expend
money for other than school pur-
poses.
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FOUR SLAIN WITH Ak.
Whole Family Wiped Out by Mu

Whole Family Wiped Out by Muir
derer in Chicago.
Chicago.-A family of four was
wiped out by blows from an ak in the
hands of a mysterious assassin in
their home in the German settlement
of Blue Island, a suburb.
The victims were Jacob Neslesla, 70
years old, street sweeper; Mrs. Mes
Tesla, wife of Jacob, 65 years old;
Mrs. Martha Mansfield. "a years old,
daughter Of the above; 2~-year-old
daughter of Mrs. Mansfield.
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Pays $500 for Auto Death.

Rather than contest a suit institut-
ed by Rev. Wright Eckersley, now Of
Pleasantville, and former pastor of
the Pennington Methodist Episcopal
Church, who sought damages for the
death of his wife, William Trudel, OF
Pennington, settled with the minister
for $500.
Mrs. Eckersley died a year ago from
injuries received when Trudell's auto
mobile struck her. A coroner's jury
exonerated Trudel from responsible
ity.
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Let's All Repeat Eerxentlx.

One of the most concise and meaty
prayers ever offered was that OF an
earnest New England deacon: Lord,
give us grace to know thy will and
grit to do It,"
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s4,ooo,ooo ATTACHMENT FILED.

Hampden Railroad Brings Suit Against
the Boston & Maine.
Springfield, Nassau attachment
fol $4,O00.OO0 on property of the Bos-
ION & Maine Railroad in Hampden
County vas filed by the Hampden
Railroad in Hampden County Registry
of Deeds.
An attachment was previously filed
in Suffolk County in a suit charging
contractural liability. This is the larg-
est attachment ever nled in Hampdea
County.