The Penn's Grove record., 1892-10-21

Palmyrs, Virginia.
Josephine Simmons, the 1S-year-old
daughter OF Frank Simmons. Of 1T.
Louis, was murdered at her home in
Sublette, a suburb Of st. Louis. She
was alone 10 the house at the time, and
the room 10 which the body was found
indicated that the girl had made a
desperate struggle for life and honor.
G. W. Webber, a travelling sal, imam
for q Philadelphia Arm, was found dead
In hts room at Hunts Hotel. C~incinna-
ii. He had committed suicide, having
used poison for the purpose. A non
winning pool ti,krJ procured at the
Latonia Races was the only clue to indi-
cate a cause for 81 Q aet.
The Cincinnati police believe that
Charles @. Doolittle, who claimed to
have been assaulted by q discharged
colored man, III realty committed sui
eide.
A freight train on the santa Fe
Road 3 into q cable car at the Fiji
teenth street crossing, Kansas City,
killing William Barber, gripman,
Cynthia Reviss, Edward Mckinney
and jefferson Secrist. The fagman
was absent from his post attending to
his lanterns when the accident oc-
CURED. 4
Investigation shows that the sup
posed murder OF Charles c. Doolittlo at
Cincinnati was a case OF suicide.
c. B. Baslin, Of Kernersville, N. o.,
shot q lawyer for appearing against
him and then committed suicide.
Fritz Schmitt, q bartender, was shot
and instantly killed In Chicago, by
Grace smith with whom he had been
wing.
The wife Of Joseph A.. Parker, a
promi lent Petersburg, Va, merchant
found his dead body under the back
porch.
Frank KeplInger and Geb Smith.
two runaway boys imprisoned In Kan
sas for burglary, have been cleared by
the confession OF n OF tine parties i'm
plicated, and Will be pardoned.
A Missouri Pacific train was held up
by train robbers near Caney, Kansas.
They forced the express messenger to
deliver to them the money in the
safe.
Masked men robbed the Santa Fe
Railroad station at Winfield, Kansas,
but only found $l5 In the cash draw
or.
The four negro boys arrested for MUIR
dering Richaid johnson and bis daugh-
ter, at Bells Landing, on the Alabama
river, confessed their guilt. The next
day they were taken from Jail, at
Monrosville and all four shot to
death. 8
Having married q quadroon under
the impression she wa q white woman,
Josh Cameron finds that the New Or
leans, La, Divorce Court won't release
him.
An explosion OF Q sky rocket at a
political meeting in 1t. Louis injured
IA persons.
Quarrelliug over the nailers' strike,
PudJler Belleyille. at Wheeling. w.
Vs.. fractured William Bayless' skull.
An explosion Of an oil tank at Cam
den. Indiana, when the oil from . now
ersher was turned on, injured Jacob
Listerfelt, a. M. Hyatt. ]. G. Graves.
Charles Wood and A. B. Walker.
A mysterious continual shower OF
mist has been falling over q space IL
feet square at the rear OF q Springfield.
O., residence.
In 4 ct Of passion William Donohue,
at Cleveland, o., threwa lighted lamp
at Emma Wilson, and she was burned
to death.
A skeleton dug up in Alameda
County, CAL, has been identified AZ
that Of J. A. Launtz, Of Grant, Neb,
Near was q letter 1atsd Lycippus, Pa.
Two boys at Leadville, Col, blew
up Adam L. Trueman's house with
gunpowder for fun, injured four IN
mates, but we're themselves blown to
atoms.
Two young sons Of J. h. McNamara,
of Des Molues, Iowa, were run over
and killed by an electric motor.
Race horses valued at 5000 were
killed in q freight wreck near Dallas,
Texas.
Otis Grey, Of Palatka. Florida, re
Gently disappeared from the Sound
steamer Pilgrim, and it Is thought lie
walked overheard In his sleep. 2
J. F. Edgar and lee Morgan were
killed in the explosion Of = powder
house at Mumford, Texas
John Wood has been arrested al
Richmond, Va, on suspicion OF know
ing something about the Borden mys-
te.y. He said he knew LIZA Border
we'll.
Because Mrs. Alice Princely, Of St.
Louis, would not live with her husband
Theodore Piincely. the latter shot hel
| dead in the street and then escaped
| The couple were young, an were mar
ried in January last, but Princely dranl
to excess.
The Cni'ad States steamer McArthul
lost her propeller 80 miles west o
| Humboldt, California. A boat from
| the steamer sent ashore, and q tut
went to the assistance OF the steamer
Fifteen buildings in ~Englewood, |
portion Of Chicago, were burned. Mrs
W. Butler jumped from a Building AM
was killed, while John Howard.
bakery employee, was caught In To
building and burned. The propert.
loss is $4,000. .
Foreign.
An American bullock with pleuro
pneumonia has been found in Eng
land.
Increasing competition has force!