The Penn's Grove record., 1885-05-16
NEWS OF THE WEEK

81.
Charles i. Fuller, Treasurer of
LinewOOd, Hamilton county, Ohio,
shot himself dead on ths 4th. 1t was
said the reason Of his suicide was i'll
health and grief for the loss of his wife
who died five months ago.
Governor PattIson on the 4th nom
mated j. NJ. Forster, of Dauphin, to
be Insurance Commissioner.
William NJ. Merrick, appointed to
fill the vacancy in the Supreme Court
of the District of Columbia caused by
Judge WyDe's resignation, was sworn
INTO Office on the 4th.
An attempt was made on the 4th,
the second within ten days-to burn
the Cmldren's Home, at COvington,
Kentucky. One of the inmates awoke
in time to give the alarm, and the
flames were soon extinguished.
General Grant was again at work
upon his book ON the 4th, and felt
strong and cheerful. lie dictated for
nearly two hours, bringing events up
to the return of the Army of the Poto-
mac to Washington"
President Cleveland, accompanied
by Vice President Hendricks, Secretaries
Endicott and Whitney, Postmaster
General Villas and Commissioner Black
on the 4th joined in the visit of the
Veterans of the Army OF the Potomac
to the battle field at Gettysburg. The
! Presidential party left Washington be-
fore 8 O'Clock in the morning and reach
ed Gettysburg at half-past eleven.
1t is reported from Taraton, MeXi
co, that the seyen-year-old sOn of a
wealthy resident named Lopez, was
kidnapped recently and the father was
notified that the boy would be killed if
a ransom of 5000 vas not deposited
in a certain place within two days. "By
accident the note vas not delivered I'M
til too late to negotiate. Al the expi-
ration of the second day the father
found the horribly mutilated body of
the child in his courtyard. The boys
sister, aged II years, Oh seeing her
brothers corpse, fell dead. The father
became a raving maniac"
The Legislature of Ono, on the
4th, adjourned sine die.
The House Of Representatives at
Harrisburg on the 9th, by a vote of 1lj
to 80, passed a bill prohibiting public
sparring or boxing exhibitions.
Governor Abbett's time for sign
ing bills passed by the last Legislature
of New Jersey has expired. Forty bills,
among them the High License measure,
remain unsigned.
Joseph Nimmo, Jr., Chief of the
Bureau of Statistics, las resigned, at
the request of the Secretary of the
Treasury, his resignation to take effect
upon the qualification of his successor.
1t is SAID that William f. Swit2ler, OF
Missouri, who was recently appointed
chief clerk of the Bureau, will be APP
pointed to succeed Nimmo, also that J.
N. Whitney, who was removed from
the Office of chief clerk and succeeded
by Mr.. Switzler, will be restored TO that
Office
General Grants Improvement con-
tInued better ON the 9TH. The General
worked on his book for several hours
and wrote twelve pages of the manu-
script himself. DR.. Douglas, remark
ing on his improvement last night,
said: 1T is simply wonderful"
The annual election in Red Bank.
New Jersey, took place on the 4th. The
liquor interest was successful, electing
the five Town Commissioners.
The 9TH of May, was observed in,
Mexico as a national holiday in com
memOration of the defeat Of the French
at Pueblo in 1872.
A fire in Vincennes, Indiana, Oh
the 4th, destroyed the Opera House.
post-oflice and several stores and dwell
ings, causing a loss estimated at 500, 600,
A fires in Miles City. Montana, on the
18th, destroyed Il whole square of build
ings. The loss is estimated at 500, 900,
The trial of Richard Short for muir
%derOusly assaulting Captain Phelon in
O'Donovan ROssa's office, some time
ago, was begun on the 9TH in New
York. Phelan was put upon the wit
ness stand. The trial Of Thomas Jud-
son Cluverius, charged with the muir
der of Fannie Lille Madison, whose
body was found in a reservoir on the
18th of last March, was begun on the
9Th in Richmond, Virginia.
One end of the New York Central
aud Hudson River Railroad grain ele-
vatOr A, at the foot of West SiXty-sec-
Ond street, New York, was forced out
on the 9th and fell with a loud crash.
THE bricks demolished the roof of the
engine house, which adjoinCd the ele-
vator, and the $500 bushels of corn that
poured out buried the engine and tore
out the south end and sides of the bull
ding. Fortunately no lives were lost.
The cause of the disaster is supposed to
have been the decaying or some of the
timbers of which the bins were built.
The damage will not exceed $4,000.
"A telegram from Norristown says
that William II. Turnbull, the atten-
dant at the Insane Hospital, now in
jail for causing the death of Theodore
+. Caster, a patient, has made a con-
fesslon. He says Caster, on the 4th,
dared Alexander Steele, another atten-
dant, to fight, and Steele knocked him
down and jumped on hIm. At Steele's
request, Turnbull concealed his knowl-
edge of the crime. Steele is also in
Jail.
The President on the 9Th, appoin-
ted "a large number of postmasters,
among them 5. Corning Judd at Chi
cago, in place OF Frank w. Palmer,
suspended. 1t was SAID at the Post
office Department that Palmer was re-
moved for offensive partisanship,'
The Postmaster General said that MIR.
Palmer was an active worker in the
recent campaign, and II of those Re
~publicans whose continuance in office
was not deemed advisable by the Ad-
! ministration."
Admiral Jouett telegraphed on the
9th, to the Navy Department that
everything is quiet on the lsthmus,
lie says the Colon sailed from Aspin.
wall for New York on the 7th, and
take back one half the marines sent t.
the Isthmus some weeks since.
The mandate to enforce the decis-
ion of the Supreme Court of the United
States in the Virginia Bond cases was
mailed to Richmond on the 9th.
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