The Penn's Grove record., 1891-07-10
THE news OF A WEEK
Eastern and Middle States.

Death by apOpIexy In a s~leePlng-car
berth near Schenectady, N. Y, was
the fate of Brewer Charles M. Neum-
bauer, of Rochester.
Famous Jockey Bob Fitzgerald went
to Jail In New York for lack Of only 50.
He was drunk on the sidewalk.
Colored Nathaniel Couch, of Boston,
is convinced that he can't pick out the
right bunco card in Gotham. He bet
his watch against $50 that he could.
Philip Derringer, who beat his wife
to death, was sentenced to twelve years
and q half at hard labor in the New
York State prison by Judge Martin.
A $4,000 money drawer was what
Conrad Engel was watching. He was
caught hiding behind William Beste's
brass knuckles. Steel bracelets now
suit him.
In New York, Alexander We.sse, 40
years of age. shot Maria Hodid, and
then committed suicide. The woman
may ecOver.
The Coroner's jury, In New York, in
the case of Theodore Larbig, found
that he came to his death flom a pistol
shot. fred by Darwin Meserole and
that Mrs. Comstock was an accessory
to the killing. a
Central Park. New York, has a baby
camel 2 days old.
Mr.. Walker, the new United
| States Marshol for the Eastern dis
trict OF New York, is a Brooklyn COM
positOr.
Esther Fiegie. a New York nurse,
claims that in that capacity she was
decoyed to Seattle, Washington, by G.
Zeitler and wife, but was practically
abducted to engage in CRIME with the
pair.
Rev. E. J. Ross, recently ordained a
Congregational minister, was drowned
by the upsetting of a yacht in Long
Pond, at Jaffray, N. Fl.
A traction engine drawing a shanty
on wheels went through a bridge in
Wayne township, Pa. John Bryon,
Charles Newton and Chalmer Shaffer
we're fatally scalded.
Charles Fowler, foreman of the daily
Dispatch, in Shsmokin, Pa was fatally
injured by q newsboy, who was hand
ling a revolver and accidentally dis
charged 1t. b
Louis Mettens, As years OF age, was
fatally injured by the explosion of a
small cannon In Woodside, Long Island.
Henry wilkins, a sailor, was fatally
injured in New York, by the explosion
of q bomb.
Sheriff Robertson, of Scranton, was
seriously injured In the face BY the ex-
plosion of a giant fre-craeker. l
Broker Austin. of New York, IS be-
Iieyed to have been drowned In the surf
at Manhattan Beach.
A 800 diamond engagement ring
was recovered by a diver from twenty
feet Of water where a girl-witness
Of the boat race at New Haven dropped
it.
A bridal tour on their bicycles from
New York to CHICAGO will occupy the
honeymoon Of DIR. Winfield II. Bald
win and bride, welded at Norwalk,
Conn.
While trying to ave crazy Butcher
Patrick Corr of Taunton, Massachu-
sets, from drowning, achinl Mich
ael McGann was himself drowned. The
crazy nal chung to boat and was
saved.
Harry A. Herb, of Easton, a freight
train conductor on tho Amboy division
Of the Valley Road, was squeezed to
death between two "a at Neshamir,
Pa.
The press mill OF the Moosic powder
works. at Jermyn, Pa, blew up, killing
two men. 2
South and West
Walter Koening, a pianist and
violinist, who fOrmeri, played in the
Theodore Thomas orchestra, has been
arrested In Illinois. for horse stealing.
John War6sld, Sheriff and Collector
' Of Desha county. Arkansas, is missing.