The Penn's Grove record., 1891-12-04
lHE news OF A WEEK
Eastern and Middle STATES.

Eastern and Middle States.
Tho stage at the Columbia Theatre,
New York, gave way and N Of the
horses used in the play, "The Fire Pa
troll" disappeared into the cellar.
The animal was rescued unhurt.
Inventor Edison Is engaged in a
certain modification of the photograph
for the purpose of fitting it to become
the successor of the raised letter sys-
tenn In the production Of books for the
blind.
Pulling over a loaded gun that stood
in a corner, David Miller's g.
year-old o shot and killed him.
self in Gallitzen, Cambria county,
Pa.
Eight business blocks and the Con-
gregationalist Church, at st. Adams,
Vermont, were destroyed by fire.
involving losses aggregating upwards
Of 500, 600. 6
Two men, giving the namesof James
II. Smith and William X. Collins, of
Florida, were intercepted in jersey City
while on their way to meet a dealer in
green goods" in New York city.
They were taken into custody and held
for carrying concealed deadly weapons.
With $3.50 belonging to his bride, in
his inside pocket, James @. Taylor, the
groom, deserted her at Niagara Falls.
N. Y.
Presumably stricken by ~apoplexy, the
body Of a weli-known au~ctioneer, Jere
Walk, of ChambersburQ was found by
the railroad track near his home.
At Carlisle, Pa, the Director Of the
Poor had to answer at court the charge
of neglecting to look after Joe Diller,
the bound boy whose death is ascribed
to maltreatment by Farmer Lafferty.
The store of Fl. & j. Schappert at
Nanticoke, Penna., was entered by
burglars, a safe blown open, and $40 10
in money and bonds stolen.
Daniel Brown, aged 40 years, while
adjusting a belt in a flour mill at Fleet
wood, Berks county, Penna., wa
caught and whirled to death in the
shafting.
A block of buildings at Lynn MS
sachusetts was destroyed by fire Mvolv-
ing q loss Of $4,000.
AS the Rev. DR.. John Hall, Pastor
of the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian
Church, New York. was passing from
the church TO the parsonage, John Ct.
Rath, a German, fired three shots at
him in quick succession, none OF which,
however, struck DR.. Hall. Rath, who
was at once arrested was found to be
Of unsound mind. L
Fire-bugs are making life a burden
and property q milestone at Castleton,
vt.
Mrs. Edward Lyon, % years, of New
York city, was burned to death, her
clothes taking fire while she was trying
to thaw out a frozen water-pipe.
Benjamin Berensen, a dry goods
jobber of Boston, IS reported to have
disappeared, with over $40, 600 in cash
and valuables belonging to creditors.
His wife ascribes his disappearance to
another woman.
A BEDFORD served as a rope with
which John G. Hill. Of Reading, Pa.
hanged himself in his attic.
John Bosbok, Bethlehem, Pa. was
Mortified to wake AMI find his bed-fel-
low, Andrew Wojeke, dead.
Rufians knocked down John Bau-
man, of Reading, Pa. broke his jaw,
and beat him into Inconsistencies.
Footpads have molested many pedes-
trians in the vicinity Of Allentown, Pa.
John McElroy and Andrew Baeffer
have been arrested.
He never read the newspapers, and
as a result Jonathan Clayforth, Var |
rlngton township, Berks county, was
buncoed out of $1,000. 81
Music Dealer G. II. 8. Weller has
disappeared from Reading, leaving
manv creditors.
The pottery works Of A. H. Hewes
4 Co., insNorth Cambridge, Massachu-
sets. were burned. They employed
about 200 hands. The loss is estimated
at $45, 600; insurance $25, 900.
Capitalists have purchased Rudolph |
Weber's brewery at Carlisle, Pa, and
will put $4,000 Into improvements.
Ex-President Andrews, of the New
YORK Standard Gas Light Company,
returned the $4,000, 900 worth of stock
to the Directors, as demanded.
The children's department Of the
Convent or Our Lady of Mercy, at
Newburgh, N. Y. was destroyed by
fire.
The freight steamer Pequot, from
Providence for New York, was sunk
in the East River by striking Mau-0f-
rDar RArH at fha cnttfharn anil Af |
BIackwell's Island. Her cargo will be
badly damaged. |
Mrs. Mary McVeagh, of Bradford,
Penna., who had tasted las days owing
to q cancer in her mouth has died. She
was 6S years old. 81
South and West.
No rain, no recompense, Is Rainmaker
Melbourne's proposition to South
Dakota people.
Viola Bank. the Wilbur Opera chorus
girl who attempted suicide at Louis
vile. will recover.
An express train on the Cincinnati ,
Southern Road, which left CHATTANOOGA
for Cincinnati, ran off the track six
miles out oil Chattanooga and $50 yards |
south OF he tennessee river bridge.
The engine rolled down a high embank-
ment, killing Fireman Patrick Wolif
and injuring the engineer.
Robert J.. Walker, son OF Mayor
Walker, of Helena, Montana, and said
to be a nephew of Secretary Blaine, |
While deliriousa at Tacoma, Washington,
walked out of his window on the
second floor of a hospital and was
killed. 6,
An Albuquerque, N. M, miner
placed a stick of dynamite In his mouth
and blew his head of.
Daniel Heston, aged 81. and Nancy