The Penn's Grove record., 1883-10-06
NEWS or TIE. WEEK.

Shasta, Cal, aged 30 years
At Buffalo, n. Y, fire destroyed
the sternberg elevator, together with
s1O2,0 900 worth of wheat. Total loss,
$4,000.
Professor Brooks, of the Red House
Observatory, has been awarded the
Warner prize Of $500 for his recent dis
covery of the comet of 1872.
Dennis Dryer, a young unmarried
man of Thomaston, Conn, while out
cunning, was accidentally shot and
dangerously wounded by companion
named McCaul.
Henry Holloway was shot and kill
ed at Henderson, Ky. by Henry Pruitt.
The men quarreled because Holloway
wa whipping his wife, who was Fruits
stepsister.
David Cable, colored, shot and
killed his wife, who had run away from
her home at Bonneville, Mo-, apd re-
fused to return with him. He was
arrested.
AT a meeting of 1.-THE Republican
State Committee at New York, James
d. Warren of the Buffalo Commercial
Adcertiser, was chosen permanent
chairman.
Patrick NJ Cambridge, a coal miner,
was shot and killed by an unknown per-
son at E~dwardsville, Ill, during a row
at the Wabash House.
"A fire at Fairfield, Me, burned out
several firms, causing a loss of s24, 600
The heaviest losers are Allen q Tat
man, $4,000 Sumner Osborn, $1,000
and the st. Louis Flour Company, $1,000.
George L. Camm's jewelry store at
J~ohnstowR, Fulton county, N. Y, was
robbed. The safe was broken open
and $4,000 in money and fifty watches
stolen. The robbers escaped.
"A fire at Dallas, Texas, damaged
Slater & Wings general store, Michael
Roe's residence, Elliott's lumber yard,
the Atlanta Hotel and a couple of small
structures to the extent of $4,000.
The freight steamer Charles p.
Chouteau, which left st. Louis on Sun
day for New Orleans, sank near Com
merce, Mo-, fifty miles above Cairo.
She had only one compartment dam
aged, and is now afloat.
Owen Utterbaek, a prominent far
mer, was shot ard killed on his farm in
Pike county, Mo. Footprints in a corn
field zeal by were tracked to the home
of Wesley Collins, between whom and
Utterback there was a bitter feeling.
Collins has been arrested.
james f. Feeney, who attempted
to shoot British Vice Consul Hoare at
New York, was examined by physi-
clans and was found to be suffering
from ~melancholia, and from extreme
nervou debility. While not strictly
insane, it will probably be found neces-
sary to send him to an asylum.
WASHINGTON.
Secretary Folger will in his annual
report to Congress, recommend legisla-
ton to consolidate a number of customs
districts and to abolish others. He says
that there is even more need of CONSOLE
dation in the customs service than there
was in the internal-reyenue service.
Mr.. Miles Rock, Assistant Astro-
homer at the Naval observatory, has
been appointed Astronomer and Engi-
neer Commissioner of the Guatemalan
Government to locate the boundary
between that country and Mexico. The
boundary line is about 200 miles long,
and n OF two years will be required to
finish the work.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. IN MAssA-e
CHUsETTS.
LOWELL, Mass.-At a meeting of
the telephone companies under the
management of the Lowell sydicate,
the following quarterly dividends were
declared Maine, Il per cent. Boston
and Northern,3 per cent. Bay State,
q per cent. ; suburban, % per cent.
Union, Il per cent.
MARRIED woMAN's ELoPEMENT
FpIrsTp ArrED
WATERBURY, Conn.-The wife of
Henry A. Platt, of Watertown, at
tempted to elope with a good-looking
young Irishman employed by her hus-
band as a farm hand. She put all her
clothes in her husbands carriage, took
$3.50 in money and drove away while
the family was in attendance at an
agricultural Fair. The Irishman was
suspected and arrested before he was
able to meet her, and she left the team
and walked to this city, where she was
captured this morning. The couple
were living with the husbands faith
er, Mr.. Human Platt, a wealthy
farmer. Mrs. Platt has two young
children. She expresses regret and
promises reform, and her husband has
taken her back.
TARIFF DECISION.
WAsHINGToN.-SecTetar Folgerh has
just rendered an important decision
with regard to the construction of Sec
ton Z of the new tariff law relating to
packages and coverings of important
merchandise. He holds that the cost
or value of the outside covering into
which goods are finally put for land or
ocean carriage is not to be taken as a
part of or in addition to the value of
the goods to be considered as unchanged
by eason of that outside covering
having been put about them.
LEAGUE ISLAND NAVY YARD,
Mr.. Mullett, of the Special Navy
Yard Commission, says that the Com
mission is opposed to the continuation
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