The Penn's Grove record., 1893-10-27
TILE NEWS
EASTERN AND MIDDLE STATES
At Boston, Mass. Lucy Stone Black
well, the noted woman suffragist.

At Boston, Mass. Lucy Stone Black.
well, the noted woman suffraglst.
The body of DIR. 7. Thatcher Graves,
the alledged murder of Mrs. Barnaby,
who killed himself, was buried at Put
nam, Conn. :,
Having 10 cases of yellow fever on
board, the British steamer Merlulio
from Progresso, Mex, is held in quar-.
antine at Boston
Martin Foy, Jr., who murdered Hen
rietta Wilson, at Saratoga, N. Y, In
| May, 1892, will be e~lectrocuted in Dan
nemora Prison next Monday.
Under $15, 900 bail, Broker w. L
Patton, of New York, charged with
fraud in selling 100000 worth of
Robert Craig's securities, has got out of
Jail.
A great fire occurred in New York.
1t extended from St. Raphael's Roman
Catholic Church, on Fortieth street,
west of Tenth avenue, to the north side
of Forty-second street. Two large wall
paper factories and a number OF tene-
ment houses and dwellings were
burned. The loss will go into the mil
lions. 4
A great gilded cap has been put on
| the obelisk in Central Park, New York,
| which can now withstand all weather.
After "doing the town" in Boston,
| Edward A. Towle, of Westfield, Mass. ,
a college student, took laudanum in a
hotel.
The Battle Monument, erected at
Trenton, N. j., to commemorate the
battle of Trenton, fought on the 18th
of December, 1776, was dedicated with
imposing ceremonies. The Governors
of the various States contributing to
the erection of the shaft were present
and made addresses. After the dedi-
| cation ceremonies a military parade
took place, participated in by about
5000 national guardsmen and members
of the Grand Army of the Republic.
Five unknown tramps were killed in
a collision between freight trains on the
New York Division of the Reading
Railroad, near Trenton Junction. 5
Mrs. Annie Bobb, of Williamsburg,
N. Y, stepped on a match and was
burned to death.
The tobacco crop in the Housatonic
Valley, Conn, has an estimated value
of $1,000, 900, the highest on record.
Swallowing pure carbolic acid by mis-
take, Mrs. Malcolm w. Ford, Of Baby
Ion, N. Y, wife of the athlete was ter
ribly burned, but will recover.
A. misplaced switch caused a coils
ion on the Staten Island Transit Rail
road, at Tottenville. Conductor Frank
Davis was killed and Brakeman Wal
lace Bedell probably fatally injured.
During a fight in a tenement in
Newark, N. j., Joseph Gannitto. a
cripple, aged 81, and Joseph Francitto,
aged %, were fatally stabbed by Fran
cisco Sapacitto, who escaped. l
George Livingstone, of Maine, N. Y,
has been lost while hunting in the Adj
rondacks.
While hunting near Salamanca, n.
Y, the 1~4-year-old son of Mrs. Kate
Henry accidentally poured a fatal
charge into his elder brother.
Martin Foy, convicted of the murder
of Henrietta Wilson, was executed by
electricity in Clinton Prison, at Dame
mora, New York. He was 26 years of
age. 2
1t is not determined whether Marcia
| Woodman, who was found with a bull
let in her head at Woodsville, N. H.,
killed herself. She had been married a
year, and suspicion points to murder,
Many of the largest wholesale houses
of New York are opening retail stores
and trying to make business better by
jobbing,
Seventy Walter B. Need
ham, a wealthy Nashua On. H. res
ident, dropped dead of worry over a
breach of promise suit brought by his
former housekeeper.
A steel bridge for trolley cars is to
be built across the Niagara gorge, near
the old railway suspension bridge, by
E. G. Pew, of Toronto, and a stock
company capitalized at $500, 900. 8