The Sentinel. [volume] (Trenton, N.J.) 1880-1882, 1881-05-28
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
East and Middle.

EFF1E PERSON, New York schoolgirl only
fourteen years DID, shot and killed herself
few days ago; but whether the death was sui
cidal or accidental is unknown.
HoN. ELI PERRY, ex-congressman and ex-
mayor of Albany, n. Y, died in that city the
other day aged seventy-nine years.
As four repairmen on the Sunbury, Hazleton
l. Wilkesbarre railroad were crossing the
trestlework at Mainville, Pa, on a truck car,
they were overtaken by freight train and
hurled distance of fifty feet. Two of the men
were instantly killed and the other two fatally
injured.
The mystery surrounding the finding of the
disfgured corpse of young woman in wood
at Gutenberg, N. j., opposite New York, has
been solved by the discovery that the body was
that OF Mena Kettler, who had been murdered or
her wedding day by her husband. The woman
had about her person quite sum of money
and her husband is supposed to have MUIR
dered and robbed her and then taken passage
on an ocean steamer for France.
THE army worm has made its appearance in
Northern New York, destroying all kinds OF
vegetation.
JAMES A. HEDDEN, the cashier of the First
National bank of Newark, vino was convicted
of misapplying the funds of the bank, has been
sentenced to seven years in the state prison.
The New York police arrested one Martin
Kenkouwsky, alias Louis Kettler, the alleged
murderer of the young woman whose corpse
was found "a the Gutenberg On. j. woods.
The man was supposed to have fled to France
He admitted having married the young woman,
although he himself has wife living, but
denied having murdered her.
THE Revised New Testament has Just been
published in this country. The interest in the
book may be judged by the advance sale, which
has reached $4,000 copies through the New York
and Philadelphia authorized agents of the Ok
ford and Cambridge Press. A large number of
passages many of them familiar ones-have
been changed by the translators
A MEETING was held in New York to protest
against the execution of Hessy Hoffman, at ST.
Petersburg, for participation in the late cars
murder, and a telegram of protest was sent to
the car.
COLONEL THOMAS A. SCOTT: ex-president of
house in Delaware county, Pa, few days
since, aged ffty-seven years Colonel Scott ives
born in London. Franklin county, Pa, December
2S, 1924. He received his education in the
village school Of that place. When ten years
of age he went to work in a country store near
Waynesboro, and was afterward employed as a
clerk in stores in Bridgeport and Mercersburg
until about 1871. In 1917 he left this position
and went to Philadelphia. His connection with
State improvements continued until 1850 in
which year he entered the regular service of the
Pennsylvania railroad company. In the early
part of the civil war Colonel Scott was for a
time assistant secretary of war. When the
death of the late J. Edgar Thompson, on the
18th Of May, 1874, made vacant the highest
Office in the company, Colonel Scott was elected
to succeed Mr.. Thompson. Colonel Scott early
became interested in the development of the
Southwest, and took an active part in the es-
Enlistment of the Texas and Pacific railroad
His close application to business and the want
of relaxation so affected his health that he was
ordered by his physician to take a foreign tour.
He returned to his home, however paralvtic.
and the shattered system declined by degrees
TO the point of death. He was for a long time
one of the best known railroad men in the
United States.