The Penn's Grove record., 1893-07-14

tn.sf, broke jail at Sedalla, Nc.
An escaped murderer named Fincher
was shot and killed, near Wheelervilie,
Ala, ty Deputy Sheriff Westby
Thomas.
Chased home Ivy Dave Brewer, with
a butcher knife, Ike Etheridge, OF
Unior, Ark, seized a gun and shot
blm dead, ending a weeks feud.
Joreph l.. Curtis, ex-Sheriff o
Brooke county, West Virginia, has
disappeared, and is said to be $4,000
short IN his accounts.
A negro giving the name Of G. Miller
was arrested at Sykeston, Missouri,
for the murder of the Ray sisters ut
Bard veil, Kentucky. He was sent to
Kentucky on q special train, AMI the
latest advices were that preparations
VI re being made to burn him at the
take on his arrival at Bardwell. B
Stopped by a secreted robber, who
overawed the engineer, "a train was
gone through near Neches, Tex, ny
tour m n, who got $500.
Striking q split switch at falkland,
Ind, two cars of the Big Four's Wo1ld's
FLYER were deraiied and passengers
hurled violently in a heap.
The Starr gang attempted to rob the
Littl. Rock Express at Hanson on the
Kansas and Arkansas Valley Railroad,
but the engineer opened the throttle
and escaped at the rate Of SO miles an
hour.
During a riot at Woodbine, Ken
tncky. City Marshal Morrissey, Bud
Smith and James Francis were killed.
Four others WIRE wounded.
Henry Merrill, OF Wardner, Idaho,
who was under bonds awaiting trial for
shooting an old man, was found dead
in a coffin. He had shot himself.
Mr.. aud Mrs. Seaman Is. Nils are
under arrest In Milwaukee for throw
lug their Child into the lake and drown
ing +.
John Martin, "a farmer near st.
Joseph, Missouri, sold his farm to three
men for $25, 600. They put the money,
which vas in large bills. into a bag and
left it with Martin. The farmer gave
the men $4,000 In small bills for change.
The $25, 600 was all counterfeit. l
Insane from family troubles, Frank
Bayes, a Wausson (tt.) farmer, butch
cred his young wife and then shot him.
self.
An open switch, causing freight and
excursion trains to collide, at Newport,
KY, killed Albeit Lang, OF Covington,
Nv onl hnrf cayan nfhoFu
Refusing to marry Nellie Harton, q
telegraph operator, @. r. Hagan, an
Oakland (Cal.l motorman, was shot
dead by the angry woman, who was
arrested.
Firing into a crowd at Chef Men,
teur, La, Rudolph Bienvenue, an idi-
otto deaf mute, wounded one man and
Wal th9n shot deal himself.
Frank Bayes, of Waus on, Ohio,
killed his son and his wife and then
committed suicide. lie is thought to
have bean insane 2
Robt ers who hell up a st. Louis
street car were driven off by the driver
and passengers and failed to get the
cash box.
A body found on Matonpkin Beach,
Va p, IS believ ei to be that OF Cicero Har-
rison Case, missed from the steamer
Guyandotte.
The skeleton Of James Murphy has
been found buried on a farm which
was cl.imei by John Haines, at Peace.
full Valley, WASH, and Haines has
fled.
Mrs. Minnie Estelle Williams was
and fatally wounded by Edward
A. Caldwell, a horse trainer, In Chicago.
She aud another woman had a drunken
carouse with Caldwell, who became
qnarrelsome, and a ially fred at Mrs.
Williams.
The hail storm which visited the
country around Texas Falls, Minnesota,
did damage estimated at mere than
$lC0, 000. 3