The Penn's Grove record., 1882-05-13
THE LATEST NEWS.

hNAAN 81 VII
of Pneumonia.
GeoT-e FULL tmes has accepted the
challenge Of Harry Gilmore to fight
for the lightweight championship OF
Canada and $50 a side. The articles
have not yit be n arranged.
The trustees Of Lane Seminary, at
Cincinnati, hsve rendered the Profes.
sorshIp of Church H STORY, made va
cant Ivy the death of DIR. Humphreys,
to Rev. Thomas Dewitt, OF Philadel
phia.
At Opelika, Ala, Harry Hart and
Willy Williams, both policemen, were
shot by Samuel and Robert Love, the
result of an old feBd. Harris wound
lie dangerous. The Loves are in Jail.
Poke Wells, the notorious train
robber, and Cook, who escaped from
the Iowa peniteDtiary by numbering
the keerer, were arrested by a farmer
and his con near Fort Madison, Iowa.
J. H. Mitchell, agent Of the Direct
Steamship line at Annapolis, N. s.,
and a colored man named Albert
Lewis, while out in a boat near that
place, were upset ny the wave and
drowned.
Judge G. 8. Demon, q pioneer of
Wisconsin, died at La Crosse. He
bad been a member of the Twenty
eight and Twenty ninth Congresses
from the Seventeenth district Of New
York.
Near Pilot Rock, johnson county,
Ark, Major George Douglass, q
fsrmer, was fatally shot by an I'M
known man who fired through IN
open window at Douglass, who was
eating bis supper.
The Trustees of the Poor at Will
mingtop, Del, awarded the contract
for the erection of a new almshouse
and insane asylum to T. w. Ferree &
Broth er, of Mill Creek Hundred, New
Castle county, at S141 300.
The body Of an unknown man was
found terribly mutilsted in the Fourth
venue tunnel at Sixty-third street,
New York. 1t is thought he was run
over and killed by a Harlem train
during the night.
John Charlebois was crossing a
lake in the Gatinesu lumber district
Of Ontario, when theice broke beneath
him, aud bis two children aged re-
spectively Z end II years, went to his
rescue, aud the whole party was
drowned.
Michael MCCluaky, a hricklayer,
while removing the props from the
ipsi6e OF an oven which he had just
completed at Wilmington, Del, was
completely buried by the oven caving
in on him, owing to the foundation
settling. When taken out he was
dead.
Gore ToIbert's residence at George
towE, Del, was burned. Mrs. ToIbert
and her three children escaped by
lesping from a window, the mother
sprain.ng her ankle by the jump. Mr..
Torbert is in the employ of John
Wsnamaker, Philadelphia.
Amos b. Theith, who was reported
to have left Boston, owing some
$500, Gays he did not ''step out" a.
alleged, to escape his creditors. He
emphatically denies the allegation of
di-honesty, and claims that he never
organized any peach company in
eiladelphia, though he lived there
some time.
John Reynolds, alias Rev. Jrhn
LeMesurier, who is suspected Of hav-
ing been implicated in the sale of
bonds stolen from a Paris postnan, as
well al in the Hstton Garden (Lon-
DOM post office robbery, was brought
before the Judge of Instruction at
Berlin, when he appealed to the
American Legation for protection.
Mrs. Anna Hagan recovered a YER
dict Of $500 in the Supreme Court at
New York against John Carroll and
Aaron Hershfeld, liquor store keepers
on Third avenue. The suit wa
brought under the Civil Damages act
by Mrs. Hagan for $4,000 damages for
selling liquor to her husband, and
getting him drunk, after repeated
warnings not to do so.
Morris Sollinger, aged q years, at.
tempted suicide at New York by in
haling gas. He shut himself in q
room in the paper cutting factory
where he was employed and turned on
the gas, but his groans attracted the
attention Of his fellow-workmen, who
rescued him. 1t Is thought he will
recover. His mind has been partly
unbalanced by the recent loss of a
child and the illness Of his wife.
At Dover, Del, the trial of Levi
Scott for the murder of Ephrsim Dill
was concluded by a verdict of man
slaughter, with q recommendation to
mercy. Scott was then sentenced to
three years imprisonment and a fine
of $1,000. Scott and Dill had quarelled
abont a woman whom Scott had en-
ticed away from Dill. The killing
was done after Dill had thrashed
Scott in the ~latter's own house, and
while Dill was leaving the place.
The wife of L. Y. Newton, an engi-
neer on the Louisville and Nashville
Railroad, residing at Louisville, KY,
swallowed a dose of morphine, and
administered one TO a 4year.old son
Of Amos Stusser. When found she
was Unconscious and the boy dead.
The oIns adopted tie child, who
was TIE son of her sister, and az his
FL hef IVES to be married she feared he
would take the child from her, hSnce
the murder and attempted suicide.
The woman may recover
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