The Penn's Grove record., 1882-01-28
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
General and Personal Epitome
HOME AND ABRoAD.-wAsH1EaroN.

Legislature on organization continues
The Opera House at Msnkato.
Mimi, was destroyed by fire. Loss,
s25, 900.
Sixteen cane fields on the planta-
ton called La Msjagua, near Laha-
nilla, Cuba, have been destroyed by
fire.
-Snith & Crawford's elevator and
several small stores were burned at
Franklin Grove, Ill. Loss, S25, 600.
George Brandon was married al
Bracket, Texas, and was arrested on
the Tuesday following for a murder
committed in 1877.
Jacob Chapman, colored, who was
to have been hanged at Bellevue, La,
escaped from Jail.
Rev. Seymour l.. Phillips, of the
Wesleyan Methodist Church, was
killed by a falling tree at EIenburg,
Clinton county, N. Y.
In a shooting affray at Jonesboro,
Texas, a young nan named Upham
was killed by another named Wolf
who was himself seriously wounded.
Mrs b. M. Nicholson, a highly
respected lady Of Chesterfield county.
Va, died from inhaling chloroform
while seeking relief from neuralgia.
Colonel Needham, the bank ex-
aminer in charge of the Pacific Bank
of Boston, yesterday turned the bank
over to the directors, and it is thought
business will be resumed within ten
days.
AT the Savannah races the mile
heats ace was won by Helen in l 40,
l.493. Bonnie Castle won the 1i-miles
dash in 2.164. Pride beat Keno in "a
mile-heats race in La, 1,4S4.
Adolph A. Calm, recently agent of
the Alaska Commercial Company at
Portland, Oregon, committed suicide
at San Francisco by shooting. He was
short in his accounts with the com.
pany.
Michael Rawlins, a juror ia the
case of Cooper, convicted at Troy N. Y,
of burglary, was never naturalized,
Judge Forsyth rebuked him and dis
missed him from the panel. Raw
lings had attested that he was quail
fed. /
The Marshfield Club of Boston,
celebrated the centennial anniversary
of Daniel Webster's birth by a ban
quet, and a meeting was held at Wash
ington, ID. c., at which steps were
taken to erect a monument at the cap
ital to perpetuate Webster's fame.
George Leppe1t, Jr., who has re-
Gently acted as agent of several Penn
sylvania graveyard insurance COM
psnies, was arrested at Port Jervis, N.
Y, charged with having used can
celled postage stamps. He is held for
examination.
AT Hornitas, Mariposa county,
CAL, Albert Branson was fatally shot
by his father-in-law, named Sammons,
who Immediately afterward shot him
self dead. The parties were carrying
on farming together, and the trouble
aros from business difficulties.
-Mordecai Lester, sixty years of
age, was convicted at Troy, N. Y, of
outrageously assaulting Elizabeth
Prue, aged thirteen years. One son of
the prisoner is in Albany jail on a
similar charge, and another in Jail at
Troy for horse stealing, lately tried to
burn the building.
w. g. Fitzsimmons 4 CO., propri-
etors.of the peoples Bank Of Tecum-
sch, Mich, have made an assignment
to E. B. Wood, of Tecugseh. The
matter creates surprise there. Mr..
FItzsimmons is o in Central Amer
lea, where he went last October in the
interest of railroad schemes.
The Irish World acknowledges
the receipt of 1891, 10 for the Land
League Fund. This is the largest
amount collected for any single week
since the inception of the movement
in America. The total amount re-
eeiyed by the Lrishs World up to date
is $209, 620.SS.
The annual meeting of the Society
of Civil Engineers has opened at New
York. The membership is now sos.
The next convention will be held at
Washington, ID. c., upon a date not
yet determined. Ashbel Welsh, of
Lambertville, N. j., was reelected
President.
Alfred Lyons, a shoemaker, aged
twenty-five years, of 80 Lewis street,
New York, indicted for murder in
killing Adolph Meyer, in November
last, pleaded guilty to manslaughter
in the third degree, and was sentenced
to State Prison for four years. He
mistook Meyer for a burglar.
"A bigamist, named Edward n.
Rarick, Il traveller for a New York
firm, turned up at Montreal under the
name of Roman. The father of the
second wife, a native of Skowhegan,
Me-, traced them to Montreal, where
the fellow made a clean breast of the
affair, He has a wife and three chill
dren living at Plainfield, N. Y.
Mexican reports say there is a
reign of terror in Jalisco. In a recent
election riot two men were killed and
four wounded by the troops. In the
same State ten bandits attacked a
train and killed one train man and
stole some freight. During the cleo
ton trouble at Guadalajara Lieutenant
Colonel Manual Ayata was killed by
Don Eusebia Barregan.
Washington.