The Penn's Grove record., 1889-06-01
NEWS OF THE WEEK.

james T. Kirby was shot dead In q
saloon quarrel in Baltimore on thu
evening of the 26th. The trouble
originated in q political dispute. Ben
jamin Steinman has been arrested TO.
dring the fatal shot. but there seems
some doubt as to whether Michae,
Mcmahon or EDWARD McCubbin dio
the firing. Henry Greenfield SchOrr,
Assistant Rector Of St. Paul's Prot
estant Episcopal church. III Baltimore,
committed suicide on the morning OF
the Goth. His father attributes the aci
to his sons worriment over a money
matter.
There was a heavy white frost in
the vicinity Of Dover, New Hampshire.
on the morning Of the 9th. Great
damage was done to crops.
As a passenger train on the Texas
and Pacific Railroad reached the out
skirts of Dallas, Texas. on the evening
Of the Gath, two masked men entered
the express car, beat the messenger
into lnsensibility, took his keys, robbed
the safe of $500. and escaped. Morgan
Speer, the 1~3-year-old son Of Alfred
Speer, OF tassalc, New Jersey, dis
appeared on the evening Of the 25th
with $1,000, which were to have been
used to pay of the employees. 1t was
learned that, In company with two
other boys. he went to New York. and
the police have been notified.
"A freight tram on the Erie Rail.
road was wrecked lei Blnghamton
N. Y, on the 18th. and John Flynn,
Abe Williams, Cornelius Larkln and
another man whose name is not known,
all tramps who were in a box car, were
badly injured. A cloud-burst Oc-
Cured at Nashville, Indiana, On the
23d. Cellars were flooded, and the
first floor OF business houses and resi-
dences were covered to q considerable
depth with water.
Wilson Vented, residing near
Reading, Pa, was shot and fatally
wounded on the evening Of the 25th by
Francis Curley, a farmer. 1t appears
that Vented was fishing at a dam on
|Curley's property and had been ordered
away, and, trouble following, the
shooting occurred.
Adam L. Brown, postmaster at
Bloomington, New Jersey, has been
suspended, and a deficiency of $1,000 Ii
reported In his accounts.
The vault in the registtie d letter
division of the post-oflce at Chicagc
vas robbed on the evening of the 26th
of 80 registered letters. 1t is believed
the robbery was done by some one
familiar with the office. George M.
Wood, Clerk in the Special Sessions
Court In New York city, was SHORT in
his accounts S72e5. representing fines
collected by him, but not turned in.
The shortage is attributed to careless
ness. Clerk Wood 8 father, Col. E. t.
| Wood, made good the amount.
Mrs. Ethel Harris, who went &c
Birmingham, Alabama, from Cincin
natl, with a man who claimed to bt
from Alaska, committed suicide or
the 9th. Her companion has disap'
reared.
Henrietta Smell, widow Of the late
Amos J. Smell, OF Chicago. has an.
nounced to the public that the reward
of $780, 00 heretofore offered for the
arrest Of William b. TsscOtt will hold
good 90 days from May 9th, 1889. OIL
the same terms and conditions OF for
mer rewards offered.
"A storm, cyelonic in its nature
did considerable damage In Quincy
Illinois, on the afternoon of the goth
The full force of the storm struck
cemetery in the southern part OF th'
city, and nearly every monument II
the grounds was demolished.
The small pox is reported to b
making terrible ravages In Guatemala