The Penn's Grove record., 1891-07-03
THE news OF A WEEK
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A construction tram ran OIL the
track at Million, near Richmond, Ken
lucky, killing four colored men and in-
| turing six others. The conductor was
dangerously injured. Those who re-
| manned in the cars were unhurt. Those
| who jumped out were caught under @
car that rolled over.
William Caldwell has been sentenced
| to be hanged, in Houston, Texas, on
| July 31st next, for the murder OF DR..
Cbamblin, in August, 1888,
Arthur Cosley and Henry Coates,
both colored, fought in st. Louis and
Cosley was killed by having his head
split open with q club.
Illinois women can now vote for
school officials.
A cloud-burst near Kalamazoo.
| Mich, shOwered big ha~il-stones.
Over 800, 900 has already been raised
at Detroit, Mich, for the entertain
ment of the Grand Army Encamp-
ments
Colonel N. s. Wood, a prominent
Kansas lawyer, was shot and killed
at Huge Farm by James Brennan, also
| q lawyer, the outcome OF the notorious
! Stevens county-seat war.
James Holden and an unknown ne
gro q~ualrelled v Q a game Of cards In
F~ostervllle, Tennessee. The negro was
killed, and Holden was frtaIly stabbed.
N. W. Mullins was killed in Mnr.
~freesboro, Tennessee, by z. T. Dis
mukes. Bad blood had existed between
the two men for two years.
William H. Cook, ex-Police Clerk of
Toledo, Ohio. pleaded guilty Of en-
bezzling 5000 Of the city funds. He
was sentenced to five years In The peni-
tiary and payment of a fne OF $40.
900. A
Judge Beatty Met lelland, of Indiana,
is dying Of paralysis, at 81
With q long butcher knife wealthy
James Jennings, farmer, attacked and
tried to kill Jacob liter, a rich cattle
dealer nea Brownsville, w. Va, while
both were on horseback.
Old eSidn Knowlton, Of Cummings
vile, q Cincinnati suburb, put a rope
around his neck on the street and said:
boys, Pm going to commit suicide"
Several practical jokers caught the rope.
hanged him to an awning and nearly
strangled him.
Frank E. Andrews, OF Albany, N.
T., q drummer and a married man. yes
terday eloped with Maud Barnett, an
16syear-old girl Of Saratoga, but the
girls 22-year-old brother followed and
caught them at Whitehall and marched
Andrews back at the point OF a pis-
tol.
BY q fall of rock In the shaft of the
Caldwell Coal Company's mine, near
Hamilton, Missouri. Paul Bloise was
killed and four others were badly hurt.
There was a cloudburst in Cherokee
county. North Carolina, Harvey Ag.
new and Jacob Newton were killed. A
number Of farms were inundated.
Alfred @. Green, j. A Walker, J..
B. Walker, George Walker and John
Lewbaugh, have been arrested In st.
Louis for c0unterfeiting silver coins.
Henry Memse, was bound and
ducked in the river by "White Caps"
near N~oblesville, Indiana. After get
ting away from them he showed fight
and was again immersed. 5
Edward Armster, late of Chicago, was
drowned before thousands of people at
birmingham, Ala.
The death of ssPicklesn Batteran at
Springfield, Ohio, three years ago, has
just been discovered to have been a
murder.
Three boys have been arrested for
attempting to wreck a passenger train
on the Great Nor hern road, in Mime
sofa.
Officials of the Worlds Fair have
given the Illinois Central Railroad "a
monopoly OF carrying people to the Ex-
position grounds. Spectators are par
alyzed.
A. r. Hill, a well-known attorney Of
Danville, ILL.,, has been sentenced to
one year III the ~penitentiary for stealing
and destroying Justice George Dlllon's
docket.
Col. Fl. s. Benjamin, the pioneer in
weston in Northern Wisconsin, and part
ner In the disc overy Of the GogebIc iron
range, has taken the "poor mans oath''
in Milwaukee to escape Jail.
harve Mullins, the leader Of the
notorious Mullins gang of moonshin-
ers, who have been making whisky and
committing murders and other
crimes In Mcdowell county, W. Va.
for I've years, has been arrested, to-
gether with p. Z. Copes, one of the
gang. l
Patrick Hageny, Richard T. Bonnl-
WITT and John FlaheIty were killed at
GAINESVILLE, Wis, by a falling wall, while
engaged in raising a school building.
A lodging house in Chinatown, San
Francisco. was burned. The charred
remains of a Chinese woman were
found In the ruins, and it was said that
five others were also burned to death.
James Corcoran, Of Boston, who
swallowed bis false teeth, and upon
whom an unsuccessful operation was
performed, died.
In Baldwin county, Ala, Jesse Cart
wright killed his brother John, and
then cut his own wife's throat through
Jealousy.
M. I. Lowery, for some years a gen.
eral agent Of the New York Life In
surance Co is under arrest in San
Antonio, Texas, on the charge Ut OBJ
tanning large sums Of money under
false pretences.
William Gates, colored, 20 years of
age, was lynched near West Point Mis-.
for as auiting the 16-year-old daughter
of g. Goodell. 2
Eastern and Middle States.
Lyman q. Clark proved an alibi at
Woodstock, VT. and was acquitted of
the murder OF his aged mother-in-law,
Mrs. Miriam Marst0n.
Charles Peterson, a Swede, has been