The Penn's Grove record., 1915-04-09

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settled the suit of Susan M. WahIers,
who charged him with being the IA
ther of her two-year-old daughter, by
paying approximately 5000.
A seat on the New York Cotton Elk
change was sold for $11, 900, an in
crease of $500 over the last sale.
William K. Pierce, formerly a mil
lionaire radiator manufacturer, shot
and killed himself in Washington.
Four houses were robbed during the
Billy Sunday services in Paterson.
Many pockets were picked in the
crowds.
Three thousand mill workers and
wood workers in Chicago went on
strike, joining 5000 mechanics in
other branches already out.
More than Is, 1000 men and women
climbed Mount Roubidoux, near River
side, Cal, knelt at the foot of a huge
cross at the top, and prayed for peace.
A religious revival in New York
without Billy Sunday was further
planned at a meeting of rs ministers
at the Park Avenue Presbyterian
Church.
Secret Service agents declared that
S. and SO gold pieces are being made
in Chicago, and have been in circula-
ton for eight months.
The discharged Western Union teIe-
graphers at st. Louis were reinstated
|sand the strike settled.
Calvin J. Huson. who retired as
Commissioner of Agriculture of New
York, reported that the foot and
mouth disease has been eradicated in
New York State.
The largest of the ships of the New
foundland sealing fleet were ordered
to return to their ports because of
the danger from ice foes.
According to a story from Sarasota,
Fla, a LOO pound shark that had
to be landed by a mule team was
caught by a fishing party.
Five American army officers, at
tached to the German army in the
capacity of observers, were ordered by
cable to return home.
Contracts for 5000, 900 pounds of
meats and lards have been made by
the Commission for Relief in Belgium.
Sir Walter Raleigh, professor of
English literature at Oxford, England,
will deliver the Venuxem lectures at
Princeton in May.
Twenty persons were seriously hurt,
and hundreds injured during a blizzard
that struck New York. Ten inches
of snow fell.
Rowboats and small launches were
used to carry passengers through the
streets Of Norfolk, Va, owing to high
tides.
Robert Wolton of Independence, KY,
was arrested there by an S. p. G.. A.
agent when he kicked a mule that had
kicked him.
David S. Crater, aged sixty-nine,
Secretary of State of New Jersey,
dropped dead in Cortland street near
Broadway, New York, as he was on
his way to a train to go to his home
in Freehold, N. j.
The Chilean government formally
accepted the invitation of the United
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Pan-American financial conference, to
be held in Washington May "a.
State Department advices said a
vlrulent smallpox epidemic had broken
out in Vera Cruz.
Because, after a White House visit,
Secretary-General Applaud, of the Par
is Temps" cabled to France a pur-
ported interview with President Will
son on the war situation, the Presi-
dent will recveive no more foreign
journalists.
Two bandits held up W. Bershtein
and his brother Bernard in their jew.
elry store in Philadelphia and escaped
with $4,000 in gems in an automobile.
The New York Assembly passed a
bill a%bolishing the New York Board
of Coroners and substituted a medical
examiner and staff.
Several persons were reported miss
ing after a fire had swept the Niagara
Hotel in Toledo.