The Penn's Grove record., 1882-07-15
NEWS OF THE WEEK

rOyed several stores n shops, LOSS,
500, 900.
John Gilbert, the veteran actor, is
seriously i'll at his summer cottage at
Manchester-by-the-Sea Mass.
The Republicans of the First Ar.
kansas Congressional district have
nominated ]. B. Miles, OF Helena.
Thomas Elzar, an accountant in the
Bank of Toronto, at Toronto, Ont,
has absconded with about $4,000.
The Republican Convention of the
! Seventh iowa district renominated
Hon. John A. Kasson for Congress.
T. HI. Donehue, aged thirty-eight
years, of Roosevelt street, New York
attempted suicide by cutting his
throat with a razor.
G.. T. Dumont, boilermaker at Gin
cinnati, has assigned to Paris c. Brown.
Liabilities, $4,000 F; assets estimated
at $40, 900.
General William r. Cox, of Wake
county, n. c., has been nominated by
the Democratic Convention for re.
election to Congress.
George NJ. Forney, aged fifty-three
years, at M time 3 prosperous mer-
chant of Baltimore, % nmitted suicide
by taking morphine.
r. w. Smith has been arrested on
suspicion,of having originated a fire
wifi1h burned the business, part of
Ho kiirton, Mass, on the Sd of April
last.
The American S ,cial Science Asso-
citation W Ii hold its regular annual
meeting at S ,ratoga September th,the
meeting to continue in session four
days.
William Houston, colored, cut his
wife's throat at Toronto, Ont, because
she refused to buy whisky. The
woman will probably die.
The Arkansas Republican C)nven-
tiop, in session at Little Rock, nomi-
mated Colonel w. D. Slack by accla-
nation as the candidate for Governor.
The steamer City of Alma, from
Philadelphia for New Orleans, put
into Morehead City, N. G. in charge
of Coast Pilots Hattrack and Haines,
for a harbor.
Isaac Booth, colored, and his wife
quarrelled a few days ago in Bruins
wick county, Va, and Booth became
so enraged that he stamped his son to
death. The murderer is in Jail.
Two inns at Grand Ledge, Mich,
were burned, and a man named Ben
M MILAN, who went to bed drunk,
persisted. He was a bachelor in good
circumstances.
The fish recei nts at Gloucester, Mass, /
for the first six months of 1882 show
a large increase in the mackerel catch
ove the corresponding terms of the
previous three years, while Goldfish
and halibut show a falling off.
James and Ernest O'Grady, who
belong to a gang OF morse thieves, were
arrested in a cave three miles from
Glens Falls, N. Y, after a desperate
encounter, the thieves firing several
shots at the officers.
district at Portland nominated Joseph
Dane for Congress, and then notified
the Greenback Convention of their
action, which was confirmed by the
action of the latter body.
Two cases of yellow fever were dis.
covered on the steamer Mark Lane,
which arrived at Boston from Matan-
Ease The patients were removed to
Galloup's Island Hospital, and the
IA er was thoroughly tumigated by
the polt physician.
The Executive Committee of the
American Bankers Association met
again at New York and continued its
preparations fer the convention at
Saratoga on the 16 b and 18th of next
month. On the first day of the con-.
vention a grand ball will be given.
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The body of j. H. Plant, a wholesale
clothing merchant who lately dlsap-
peared from st. Louis, and against
whom attachments were filed. was
found in the slough in East st. Louis,
having committed suicide, the cause
is supposed to be financial difficulties.
The body of Kiigour, the murderer
of Gardiner, who shot Marshal Bryant
while Bryant was trying to arrest him
at Cairo, ILL.,, and who was shot by
Bryant, was found about fifty yards
from the scene of the fight. 1t is
supposed he died soon after the shoot
ing.
LEONARD Knippenberger. a private
of Company l., Second Artillery, CON-
mitted suicide in the guard house at
Fort McHenry, Baltimore, by shoot
ing himself with his musket, while
&C guard duty. lie had been drinking
heavily OF late. The present was his
Iourth enlistment.
Stephen Raymond, said to be the
man who received a five years SEN
tence in 1877, when extradited from
England for forging a railroad bond,
was held in 1880 in a Police Court at
New York to answer a charge of car
rying a skeleton key which In his case
is a felony, he being an ex' convict.
While a party of young men were
c~arousing In the store of Thomas
Gardner, at Williamstown, N. c.,
Gardner handed a gun to John Dor
sey and told him to shoot the first
man who left the place. Dorsey who
was drunk, ooeyed, and rs Leroy
Clifton, a resident of Hamilton, n. G.,
left the building, shot him dead.