The Penn's Grove record., 1914-02-13
General

The impeachment trial of Governor
Sulzer cost New York State $245, 900.
Six students of the Gettysburg (Pa.)
College were suspended for tangoing.
Christian churches in the United
States gained $4,000 new members
in 1918.
The municipal ferry boat Mayor
Gaynor built for New York was
launched at Camden, N. J..
Edward H. Briggs, a postal clerk at
Worcester, Mass, for rs years, was
arrested, charged with opening letters.
William A. Stone was burned to
death when his celluloid collar caught
ablaze, while he RAJ working owe a
fire in Hanover, N. H.
An effort is being made in New Jer-
sey to have the limit of the age for
children attending school changed
from II to 16 years.
Richard L. Metcalfe, Governor of
the Panama Canal Zone, will likely be
a candidate for Congress from Nebras-
ka this fall.
The George Walter Vincent Smith
art collection, valued at 1000, 900, was
b~equeathed to the city of Springfield,
Mass.
An express company has obtained
a contract to transport the mails from
the station to the p~ostof1ce at Win
sted, Conn.
Fire destroyed building $50 years
old, on the island estate of Mrs. James
McKeen, near Harpswell, Me. Loss,
$40,
John J. Cahill og Finlay, O., died
from cancer. A piece of skin was
torn from his lip ten years ago in re-
moving a clay pipe.
A bill was introduced in the New
York Legislature providing for a State
Baseball Commission to control all
| league games in New York City.
Abram Barnes and his brother Will
lam we're captured by a posse after
they had killed a policeman and
wounded a girl at WaynesboTo, Pa.
A conscience stricken burglar re-
turned $500 of 5000 loot stolen from the
| store Of William Spar at Passaic.
N. j.
Captain w. F. Fullum is now head
| of the Annapolis Naval Academy. sue
| ceeding Captain John H. Bibons, now
commander of the battleship Louisi-
ana.
Mrs. Mamie c. N. Maddox be-
oueathed $4,000 to Miss Bessie Beat
ty, a newspaper reporter Of San Fran
| cisco to be used by her in behalf Of
poor children.
John Caster, of Detroit, found his
16-year-old daughter, Alice, who was
kidnapped by her mother five years
ago, in charge of the Milwaukee po-
| lice, accused of begging.
Frank A. Trexler, of Allentown, Pa,
was appointed Judge of the Pennsyl-
vania Superior Court to succeed the
late General James A. Beaver.
Iodide of potassium has been sue
cessfully applied in Baltimore in three
cases Of bichloride of mercury pois-
oning.
Suffragettes plan another demon.
Il STraI1OQ D6IOT0 0Ou6ICoSs Mdy =
1t Is estimated that the Panama
Canal will cost $4,000 0 yearly to op-
crate.
WINDY" hickman, a ranchman OF
jackson, Wyoy was killed by an ava
lanche.
Representative Shere introduced a
bill to construct a naval m plant
at Erie.
A petition signed by 204,S29 per.
sons, was presented to Chicago's cleo
tions commissioners. asking that q
referendum vote be taken on the coli
struction Of a new subway.
Mrs. Flora Plumstead Of Kenvil, N,
T., was fined $500 for her connection
with the death of her ~15-year-old
daughter Ethel. who died following
an illegal operation.
The Caesarian operation was sue
cessfully performed In the record time
Of forty seconds at the Roosevelt Hos
pital, Philadelphia, according TO ply
sicians of that institution.
John McFadden, 20 years old, Of
Greenburg, Pa, In love with two girls
shot and killed Anna Lutz, one Of
them, wrote a note to the other tell
ing OF the crime and then committed
suicide.