The Penn's Grove record., 1914-06-12
General

The strike of shoeworkeS, which
started at Portsmouth, Ohio, on
March 20, was called On by the I'M
ion.
The schools at Columbus, Ohio,
were closed because of the heat. The
thermometer registered 104 degrees.
Former President Taft delivered an
address at the centennial celebration
of the founding of New Harmony, Ind.
Men killed in coal mine accidents in
the United States in April numbered
346, as compared with 285 in April,
1918.
For tsS year ending April 80, there
were 1,S8,956 aliens admitted to this
country, against S96,568 the same per-
iod a year ago..
The House district committee re-
ported favorably on the proposal for
acquisition by the District of Column
bia of all street railroads in the dis
trict.
John P. Hurley, Of Pittsfield, Mass,
n Harry j. Hudson, Of Louisville,
KY, Wore drowned when their canoe
capsized in the Seekonk River, Rhode
Island.
A jury at Topeka, Kan, decided
that Mrs. Luella West is not entitled
to damages in her suit against Gov
ernor Hodges for assault and battery.
An artificial leg containing $4,000,
the property Of Henry C. Wise, who
died in Denver, is in the possession
of the public administrator awaiting
a claimant.
William H. Taft was the guest of
former Vice-President Fairbanks at
Indianapolis. The former President
planted a tree on the lawn of the
Fairbanks mansion.
Vlce-Admiral 7. Kuroi arrived in
San Francisco with the first class
Japanese cruisers Asama and Asuma.
The cruisers will leave for Puget
Sound.
Taraknath Das, a HINDU post-grad-
uate student in the University of Cali
fornia, was admitted to citizenship. He
is the fourth Hindu to become an
American citizen.
D. H. Graves and G. C. Williams
were attacked by two bald eagles
while fishing at Pensacola, Fla. Both
birds were killed. One measured
seven feet from tip to tip.
Chauffeur Johnson, of the White
House garage, was fined $40 for
speeding through Hyattsville, Md. at
the rate of 81 miles an hour on MAY
30. Miss Margaret Wilson was one
Of the cars occupants.
Mrs. Grace Patton, of Wellington.
Kan, was arrested as she placed
flowers on her husbands grave near
Wichita. She is charged with MUIR
dering him.
"Davy" Truax, an ~82-year-old pris-
oner at Leavenworth, Kansas. died
OF JOY after receiving his parole pap
ers. He was serving a lifo term for
murder.
n city OF Muncie, Ind, will be
without saloons in a short time. The
Circuit Cou upheld the validity of
the option election held In March.
President Wilson, it was again made
plain, is anxious for the Constitution
alists to be a party to the mediation.
because OF his unwillingness to have
to force them to accept the solution
OF the problem that may be reached
at Niagara Falls.
Governor McGovern of Wisconsin
formally announced his candidacy for
the Republican nomination for United
States senator.
w. s. Carter, president of the Rail-
way Fireman's Brotherhood at Chi
cago, declared that plans are being
made for a general strike.
Four persons were killed and sew
eral injured by an explosion of dyna-
mite at a construction camp near
Monongahela, Pa.
The Cummins bill removing the liza
bility limit of railroads on shipments
injured or destroyed was Passed by
the Senate.