The Penn's Grove record., 1891-10-09
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cent unsuccessful Investments.
south ana west
A telegram from Gainesville, Texas.
reports another food in the Canadian
river, and that 600 feet of the Santa Fe
track is washed away near Purcell, In
: dian 1,y.
The saw and lumber yards OF Bird
" Wells, at WausaumIe, Wisconsin,
9 were burned. Loss, 500, 600; insurance,
10000.
: James Bassdorf, a farmer, and bis
wife, Of Oak Gen, ILL.,, we're dangerous
ly wounded by VIM. Mantz, their hired
man, who was ''crszy drunk" at the
time.
J Charles II. Rothhaupt, a shoemaker
> OF Baltimore, Nd. committed suicide
!, by shooting.
. The first disappearing gun carriage
? built for the Wal Department Is now
being mounted at Sandy Hook, where
, it will be tested.
Mrs. James Evans, OF V~anoeburg,
KY, confessed to the killing Of her
son-in-law Carr, and said that Carr had
Killed her daughter and mortally
wounded his wife.
A collision occurred near Kent, Ohio,
between a freight and an excursion
train. W. II. Maxwell, road foreman
of engines, Fireman Glass and Mrs.
Dewey were killed and ~ others were
injured. 4
The will OF Hon. Merit Street pro-
vides for the founding of an industrial
school for boys and girls in Clay county,
Ala.
The Baltimore City Passenger Rail-
way Company refused to lease its lines
to the Traction Company.
Natural rain storms have driven the
Governments shower-makers out OF
Corpus Christi, Texas. to San Diego,
where they will explode bombs.
Theodore Schwartz, the banker, OF
Louisville, Kentucky, who has been on
trial at Shelby vile for grand larceny
for obtaining money from a depositOr
when his bank wa insolvent, has been
acquitted.
Prof. Renfro, a white teacher In q
colored school at Huntsville, Alabama,
was killed by Ebenezer Kahn, .
pupil whom he attempted to chas-
tlse.
Hugh Logan was arrested at Nash
vile, Tenn, charged with jail breaking
and with forgery.
A $4,000, COO hotel is to be erected
on the site of the Pope Theatre In vt.
Louis.
During a cutting ARRAY at NapsH.
Indiana, between VIM. Reckleman
and Jos. Sentup, the former was killed,
being stabbed q times. 1t Is thought
that Heckleman will be lynched il he 10
captured.
The preliminary trial of Terence,
Campbell, at Neosho, Missouri, for the
murder of his Ii year-old daughter, has
resulted in his acquittal. e.
A San Francisco despatch says that
terrible forest fires have been raging
for over a week in Eldorado county,
and that over forty square miles
have been burned over, destroying
many dwellings, barns, crops and much
other property. l
At a negro festival, near SheIbyvilIe
KY. Frank Ashby shot and killed Jas
Burly, both colOred.
The body of Engineer Moore, one Of
the victims of the explosion on tho tug
Parker, at Chicago, by which eight
lives were lost, has been taken from the
river.
Two freight cars were run off q
transfer steamer at Memphis, Tenn,
and four tramps, who were stealing
rides, were drowned.
Judge Wood, of the Federal Court at
Evansville, Indiana, sentenced Charles
Ritter, the defaulting teller Of the
First Matte nal Bank, of that city, to
six years in the p~enitentiary at Michi-
gan City.
With a bullet hole In his back, Nels
Lundstrum was found on the railroad
track at Republic, Mich.
Joseph Cullen, the ninth victim Of
the tugboat explosion at Chicago,
died.
While Gremen were at work In q
burning building at indianapolis, o
passing train caused a wall to fall,
burying Ave men in the ruins. VIM.
Mitchell, Walter Kerr and Richard Po-
land were fatally burned, and the Others
were seriously bruised.
While E. E. Doan and his son were
out hunting at Cascade Canon, Color
ado, the latter accidentally shot his
father in the head, killing him in
stantly.
A ~six-year-old son of Robert Kirk,
of Vincennes, indiana, was almost de-
voured by hogs and died Of hi, injur-
les.
Edward A. Cantley. of Marion, Ind,
pleaded guilty TO a series OF forgeries,
by which he had defrauded several &C
cident insurance companies, and was
sentenced to three years. imprisonment
in the penitentiary.
A fieight train on the st. Paul Rail
road, between Red Wing and
Superior City, Wisconsin, was robbed
Of three cases of goods, valued at sew
eral thousand dollars.
James McCann,a St. Louis bartender,
shot and fatally wounded Hugh Cor
ham, with whom he had had a long
standing grudge.
Dell Baum, at Salem, Ohio, attempted
to shoot his father, and while fleeing to
avoid arrest shot and seriously wounded
a letter carrier named Reed. Baum was
finally shot in the leg by the policeman
who arrested him.
Foreign BreYIues
The annual meeting Of the English
Liberal Federation will open at New
castle to-day. Gladstone is expected 10
speak for an hour.
In a speech at Saint-Die yesterday,
VI. Jules Ferry said the political affairs
Of France were in a quieter condition
than they have been for twenty years.
Robbing bakeries is no longer q
crime in Russia.
So many people starve to death m