The Penn's Grove record., 1892-05-27
.THE NEWS o. A WEEK
Eastern anu Middle States.

Theodore Diffendorf, ringleader Of
the wire tappers who won 1913 900 on
the >aratCga races, is jailed.
Gentle Hickman, a i~ve-year-old child
of Bethlehem, was set upon by a vicious
mastiff and severely injured.
Oliver Curtis Perry, the New York
Central train robber, on a plea of guilty,
was sentenced 10 43 years. imprlsOn-
ment on four indictments.
Joseph Miller, a Rehrersburg mer-
chant, sent a volley of buckshOt after
two burglars whom he surprised in his
store.
Falling asleep with his 2-year old
hid on his arm, Locksender Noll, of
near Bethlehem, Pa, awoke to find
that the little n had toddled off aud
been drowned in the canal. 8
A Boston colored paper says that a
negro secret society there has learned
now to make dynamite bombs and they
mean to avenpe the lynching of their
brethren In the South.
Charles Gayler. the pioneer of Amer
lean play wrights, is dying in a Brooklyn
hospital, aged IS years. He wrote over
400 plays.
Miss Kate Dooley, a school teacher
at Blaekwood, in Berks county, was
attacked by an Italian and was terribly
beaten about the head before she finally
succeeded in making her escape.
Estranged from his wife by his in
temperate habits, Isaac Parker Talbot,
of Gardiner, Maine, shot his vile, IN
ficting a fatal wound, and then killed
himself.
Jack" O'Brien, of FoIestville,
Schuylkil county, was fatally stabbed
by an Italian named Buckley, whom
he lad given a beating.
An Italian, known as PietrO, who
acted as stewart and interpreter for
several of his countrymen employed In
IA quarry neal South Lime, Connecticut.
was murdered for his money about
800.
The body of Frank Stitt, a locomotive
engineer, was found in the Swatara
creek, neal Harrisburg. 1t is thought
he committed suicide while temporarily
insane.
Two men, Howison and Bieubien,
have been arrested In Montreal fol
counter.eitIng American dollars.
Jacob Buzzard and Herman Kunz, OF
Newark, New Jersey, were struck by a
train on the Pennsylvania Railroad,
when Buzzard was killed and Kunz,
was seriously injured. They were walk
ing on the track.
John S. Jones, a farmer, of Sugar
Valley, Penna., committed suicide by
hanging himself to a tree near hi:
house.
James Ginley, of McKeespoit, Penna.
has been arrested Oh the charge of hav
ing driven his wife and her newborn
babe nut of the Eolse at the point of a
revolver. The woman is IN a critlca
condition.
During a trial in Pittsburg, Of tive
II en- charged with arson, an old maj
who wss supposed to have beef
burned to death In the fire which
the defendants we're accused of start
ing, made his appearance, alive an
Well.
Cora Nichols, the 26-year-old daugh
ter Of James Nichols, a Stowe towL'
sh,p, Allegheny county, farmer, wa
found dead in a barn by her father wit
IA bullet hole in her temple,
For using the mails to send an al
legged forged ord T for tobacco. John 4
Laucks, of R~it,ersvIlle, York County
Pa, ! as been arrested by the Unite
States authorities.
After eating a quarter OF a pOun
of poison with suicidal intent. Charlie
B. Myers, of M,untville, Lancaste
County, Pa, tent for a doctor an,
begged him TO save his life, but b
died.
Albert Gottschall, of Mahanoy CITY
Pa. was fatally injured by ialliu
from a scaffold.
A fall of coal killed Thomas Shaye
of New Philadelphia, o., IN a Potti
VILE, Pa, colliery.
South ami west.
Two hTghwaymen robbed the stage
Turner Canyon, California, and too
all the money and iewelry belonging
five passengers, nom of whom WEI
/, armed.