The Penn's Grove record., 1891-03-06
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Eas tern and Middle States.

Eastern and Middle States.
Tie SA,em Evangelical Church, at
Mt. Holly. Cumberland county, Pa,
was burned The furniture and Sun.
day school library were saved.
The Big Mine Run Colliery, at Ash
land, Pa. shut down for an inde6ni 6
period. The suspension will affect 300
men and boys.
Frank Lingo, colored, in Camden,
N. j., pleaded not guilty To the indict-
ment charging him with the murder Of
Mrs. Annie Miller near MeIchantville
in September last.
Charles E, Pardon, who was wanted
in Connecticut for burglary, and
whom Governor Hill refused to hand
over TO the Connecticut authorities, was
set at liberty.
Major John T. Hill, President of the
Ninth National Bank of New York,
died OF consumption, at his residence
in New Brunswick, New Jersey. He
was SO years Of age.
Hermon, st, Lawrence county, N.
Y, was visited by a tire, which de-
stroyed $500 worth of property.
Twenty buildings were destroyed.
On account Of the scarcity of coke,
caused by the recent strikes, the fires
OF the two large blast furnaces at
IL ltidaysburg, Penns., have been
banked, and the employees discharged.
John Copeland, a wealthy store
keeper In Pamassus, Pa, shot and
fatally wounded his wife, and then
tired to kill his two children and com
nit suicide. but was prevented By
elghbors. He Is a rav.ng maniac.
Notice has been given by the miners
at Hastings, Pa, Of their intention to
go on a strike unless their demand
that the system OF pushing cars be
abolished Is complied with.
The fund for Mrs. Window will be
Increased to S100, 900.
Campanini. the tenor. will do choir
singing for SIC, COO a year.
There are O,OOO Russian Jewish
wOrkingmen in New York city.
Connecticut farmers are organizing
leagues and propose TO go into politics.
Ground will be broken April 81 for
the monument to General Grant in
Riverside Park, New York.
Four men of the fishing schooner
Unique. of Boston, were carried to sea
and lost in q storm.
One OF Troy's richest men, Charles
=. Conkey, was found dead In his
house, and there will be an investiga-
ton.
Many towns In the eastern part OF
Massachuse it's we're Visited recently
by a severe storm, accompanied by
Lightning. Considerable damage was
done.
Communication by rail between
Hudson and Albany was restored on
saturday. l
Miss Mary Linderberger, of Quaker
town, Pa, has completed a quilt, two
yards square, containing 23,225 distinct
pieces, on which she has worked for
over two years.
The rescued ~Jeanesville, Pa, miners
are now receiving solid food in sparing
quantities. All dream at night, and
frequently startle the nurses by their
cries.
A meeting Of business men was held
in New York to take steps in looking
to the erection Of ar equestrian statue
OF the late General William #. Sher-
man.
Two of a set of 80 boilers at the
Reading Company's Henry Clay Col
lIery, at M. Carmel, Pa, exploded,
dlsplacing eight others. Martin Koran,
samuel Haas and George Zimcolo we're
slightly hurt. The boiler house was
wrecked.
The Grand Jury In New York has
been instructed by the court to investl-
gate the recent disaster in the Harlem
Railroad tunnel.
John Tucker, a trusted employe of
the Singer Sewing Machine Company,
in Elizabeth, New Jersey, was arrested
On a charge Of defIauding his employ
ers by means Of ~overdrafts and false EN-
tries.
Mark Brophy, a young man, was
Aoobt Ntt 80 AbhSA1NhH ~" oSAoNJ .
1t is believed he was murdered.
The Philadelphia Mint I'LL was passed
under susI enslon of the rules, as 1t came
from the Senate, there being only &C
votes against 1t. 2
Thieves stole So 900 worth of family
plate from The house OF Assemblyman
George Kyle. Of Scotch Plains, New
Jersey.
James c. Mead, of Philadelphia, who
pie AIDED guilty to the embe element of
1852 30, the property OF John Wanna
maker, by whom he was employed as
q collector, was sentenced to two years
in the Eastern ~PeDitentiary.
J.. X. Tod& Co., OF New York, have
obtained a judgment against the Ken
lucky Union Railroad Company and
the Kentucky Land Company for $500,
loco.
The will of the late Oliver Hoyt was
filed for probate In New York. 1t con.
tains charitable requests to the extent
of 500, 900.
The Saturday half holiday law has
been approved by 10th branches OF the
Legislature in New Jersey.
South and West.
John A. Shriver died at his home IL
Baltimore, aged 20 years. He wa!
President of the Ericsson Line o.
steamers to Philadelphia. and the New
York and Baltimore Transportation
Line
J. T. Franeiscus, of Philadelphia
committed suicide IN Washington, d
C, by shooting himself through thu
heart.
A mass meeting was held In the
Court House, Vlcksburg, Miss, and
resolutions were adoptei protest
ing against the appointment Of James
Hnl, colored. as postmaster at Vicks.
burg.
A general fight between a number o
white men and negroes took place Ii
st. LOUIS, and resulted In the seriou
injury of eight Of the negroes.
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