The Penn's Grove record., 1915-02-26

Ex1President Taft declared the Unit
ed States is facing crisis in trying
to preserve its commerce with warning
European nations.
The Hers Island stock yards, Pitts
burgh, were reopened after being clos
ed two weeks by foot-and-mouth quar-
antine.
Fire in the center of the business
district in East st. Louis, Ill.,, caused
damage estimated at $500, 600.
The safe in the Citizens State Bank
at F~armersburg, Ind, was blown open
by burglars who escaped with $1,000.
The Delaware College, Newark, Del,
will receive an endowment Of $1,000
600.
Sheriff Conway of Marion County,
W. Va, appealed to Governor Hatfield
for militia to quell disturbances in the
miners strike at Pennington, where
a thousand strikers attacked a sher-
IFS posse, iniuring FIVE men, one IA
tally.
After killing a policeman and a
citizen in a pistol battle, a man believ-
ed to ibe w. F. Williams, OF Hot
Springs, Ark, wal taken from Jail and
lynched at Pleasant Hin, Mo.
County law officers throughout Ala
bama are warning property owners
that billboards or other sign adver-
tisements of whiskey are in violation
OF the new antiliquor advertising law.
Under the direction of the Depart
ment of Public Works, a "hire4a-man"
campaign for the relief of tke unem-
ployed was begun in Philadelphia.
Night riders again shot into the
cabins occupied by negro farm labor
ers near New Madrid, Mo. They plan
to drive all negroes from the district.
The plants of the Register" and
Leader" morning, and the Des
Moines Tribune" evening newspa-
pers at Des Moines, Iowa, were de-
stroyed by fire at a loss of 5000, 900.
John Fitch, of Windsor, Conn, and
not Robert Fulton, invented the steam
boat, according to Representative Lon
ergan of Connecticut, who spoke on
the subject in the House.
Charles R. Crane, wealthy manufac-
turer of Chicago, will change his legal
residence to Woods Hole, Mass, to
escape the tax laws of the State Of
Illinois.
A rush order to all all the Maine
ice houses vas received from the New
York headquarters of the American
Ice Company.
The Iowa House CT Representatives
passed the Clarkson bill for statewide
prohibition. This will repeal the
mulct law effective January l, 1916.
A receiver was appointed for the
La Toilette Iron Co. of La Toilette.
Tenn.
The old curfew law making nine
o'clock the time for children to go
home, was revived in Los Angeles.
The Boston & Worcester Street Rail-
way Co.'S barn al Westboro, Mass,
vas destroyed by fire at a loss of
500, 900.
A second daily paper to be pub
lished in the Chinese language, called
the Man Ho Po," was incorporated
in Manila, with a capital of $4,000.
Frank James, brother of Jesse
James, famous outlaw. died on the
farm on which he was born at Excel
sior Springs, Mo-, seventy-four years
ago.
The Vigo County (Ind.) Jail was
quarantined when it was discovered
that one of the prisoners had smallpox.
There are 140 prisoners in the JAZZ.
Fire that threatened to destroy the
town of Ebensburg, Pa, was checked
by the use of dynamite after thirteen
buildings had been destroyed at a
loss Of 100000.
While trying to keep order among
500 women at a bargain sale in Tren-
ton, Lawrence Clark, special police
man, received several broken ribs and
internal injuries.