Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-09-22
News at a Glance

wAsHrNgrOF, sept. e.. = Macaroni
vefTn,ceiil and noodles 10 the value OF more
than tis.ooo,ooo were made IN mmer'ea
statement by Director Rogers, OF the Cen
sua Rureau The factories numbered 313.
and they engaged the activities OF 1856 per-
sons Capital invested was te,eft2si sal.
aries and wages s2,SSs,4sS. and value OF
nroducta si2sss.57e In addition, there
we're tvyenty-two establishments which made
these products as n side line to the extent
OF $500. 723, making total value OF ti3,-
2et,302.
copENHAoEN, sept. 20. - The Danish
rr.iesrafon Company, saarted in 1899 on the
baels pf the valdemar poulecn invention OF
A recording telephone, and whose foreign
patent was transferred In 1907 TO the Tele-
grafton Corporation OF Maine. has gone
into liquidation. Its debts are 7se.6s0
kroner 022o,0Oo) assets. 465,000 kroner
Stai Ooo) in its own shares and s5,127.soO
in shares OF the Maine corporation
NEW YORK. sept. as.--Pisns for the
merger OF a number OF important California
packing companies became public today In
the announcement that William Saiomon a
Co and Pond a Goodwin would shortly
offer al sac a share 100000 shares OF the
California Packing Corporation. The or
ganIsation will acquire the business OF the
J. X. Arnsby Company the California Fruit
Gamers Association. the Central Califor-
MIA Gamers and the Griffin skeliey
Company, and will acquire upward Of ninety
per cent of the stock Of the Alaska Packers
Association.
OssININ1, sept. zs.-wardsn Osborne
has received word at Sing Sing Prison
that Frank Grabowski. the convict whose
escape has baffed the authorities here for
nve weeks, has been arrested In Easthamp-
ton, Mass. Nothing could be learned as
TO how the prisoner reached the New Eng
land town or how he came to be appre-
hended.
ALBANY, sept. 2a--wuh the smoke Of
the primary cleared away. II has become
evident that Governor whitman will fight
hard for reelection. The announcement
has been made that George 8. Weed, a
Democrat. and son of Smith NJ Weed. of
Plattsburg, had resigned as chief clerk of
the Prison Department and that George w.
Franklin. OF Troy, a former newspaper
man, Is to succeed him.
WASHINGTON, Sept. &c. - Secretary
Daniels has just returned from the south
| ern drill grounds. A spectacular feature
| on the grounds was a sea aeroplane flight
by Lieutenant Bellinger He was dropped
overheard in his machine and left to get
under way In rough sea. He was tossed
about for some time before he could ascend
He made flight of thirty miles.
| WAsHINGTON. Sept. 22.-The ordnanc
| experts of the War Department began 70.
| day an exhaustive inquiry to determine the
| type OF nitrate plant to be erected under
authority OF the national defense act passed
by the last Congress appropriating $40, ,ooO,-
| 600 for that purpose
| MINNEAPOLIS, Sept. s2--One man WINS
\ burned TO death. another seriously hurt
and property worth 100000 was DESTROYED
| by two fires in Minneapolis today The first
| fire originated in Campbells livery barns
| A second fire destroyed the Foster Robe
and Tanning Company.
GREENWOOD, 3. C., Sept, se.-Fifty.
| two thousand nine hundred dollars was the
price @. NJ Kinard got for 7s4 bales of
cotton here today. The average was about
l3 cents per pound.
SEA G1RT, n. J., Sept. 22.-The supply
| company of the First Regiment, under com.
mand of Captain Bert Patterson, which
left Douglas. ArL, last Saturday at noon
arrived at the State encampment reserya-
tion here today. The men arrived in good
| physical condition. -