The Penn's Grove record., 1914-03-27
General

Eight inches of snow fell at Rich
mond, Va.
The Coffin Makers Union is con-
sidering a general strike.
The United States submarine K-4
was launced at Seattle.
A seat on the New York Stock Elk
change sold for $4,000, a decrease of
$4,000.
Fire in the business section of Sid
ney, Ohio, caused damage estimated
at $250,OO0.
Thieves broke into the State bank
at Tonica, ILL.,, and escaped with 49,
800 in cash.
Nearly 200 brewery workers at
Reading, Pa, went on strike, demand
ing So a week increase.
Fire destroyed the Windsor Hotel
and several other buildings at Mil
waukee, causing a loss of $500, 900.
A lone bandit held up a Gulf, Colo
RADIO & Santa Fe train near Beau
mont, Texas, and escaped with
$4,000.
The bill making hunting on Sunday
a misdemeanor punishable by a SIS
fine, was passed in the New York
Assembly.
Lady Cornell" a famous hen owned
by the Cornell College of Agriculture,
is dead. She laid III eggs during her
five years.
Eight children of Mrs. Camille
Prados, of New Orleans, known as
negroes, were declared white after a
long court fight.
A body Of water in the Glacier
National Park has been named by
Secretary Lane, Lake Ellen Wilson,
after the wife of the President.
After being buried 81 hours under
the fallen walls of the st. Louis Seed
Company's building in st. Louis,
Thomas Burke was rescued.
Mrs. Maud Mock, of Brooklyn was
awarded $12,500 by a jury for the
accidental killing of her husband at
the city pumping station in Canarsia.
The New York Board of Estimate
approved the plan TO use schoolhouses
and other public buildings for regis
tration Of voters and on election day.
DR.. Edward s. Holden, graduate of
the class of 1870 and for IL years
librarian at West Point, died at New
burgh, N. Y. aged 81.
Rewards for Colonel Goethals and
othe- officers, who worked on the
Panama Canal will be outlined by
President Wilson and a House com
mittee.
Peter Pelinski, a 70-year old con
vict in the penitentiary at Mar
quette, Mich, refuses to leave the
jail. He will be allowed to re-
main until some provision can be
made for him.
Mr.. James Parker, a noted lawyer
an6 veteran Of the Mexican and civil
wars, died in his home in
Perth Amboy, N. J., at the age of
eightybthree years, of a complication
Of diseases.
The dreadnought Oklahoma was
launched at Camden, N. ].
The Atlantic Athletic Club at
Atlanta, Ga, was damaged by fire to
the extent of $4,000.
Fire destroyed the McClelland Hotel
and a Ave and ten cent store at Union
town, Pa, Loss $500, 900.
Three children were burned to death
III a fire which destroyed the home
Of Burt Fly at Mount Pleasant, Tenn.
Harry Thurston Peck, former pro-
fessor OF Latin in Columbia Uni
versity, editor, author and critic, com
mitted suicide in a furnished room in
No. 81 Bell street, Stamford, Conn.,.
A lone bandit entered the Union
Bank of Altoona, Pa shot the cashier.
and escaped in an automobile with
$500.
Flames destroyed the parish house
CT st. Stephens Observation-Disclosures
Church at SewickIey, Pa. Loss,
$50, 900.
Mayor Mitchel's police bills, sug
gested by Colonel Goethals, builder Of
the Panama Canal were killed in the
New York Assembly.
A mob broke into the county Jail
at I~verness. Miss, removed a negro
accused Of staying Samuel Lusco, ]
white man and hanged him.