The Penn's Grove record., 1893-08-04
Pennsylvania items.
Condensed News Cleaned Fr0r
Various Points of the State.

An electric a at JermyD, Lacka-
wanna County, cut to pieces John Ed.
munds.
John Knettle, who was accidentally
shot by Q. P. Leibensperger, Of Nc
Keansburg, is dead.
PGoprietors of mountain hotels neat
Reading have begun q war upon gun
ners who infest the woods.
Heat spread the rails on the Lebanon
Valley Railroad near Hummelstown SO
that trans were stopped.
Mrs. Sarah D. Herr widow Of tie
late Dviad 3. Herr, who was killed at
Rose dlen, Harrisburg, wants $3.50 0
from the Reading Railroad. 4
Warren Fenstermaker Is in jail at
Berwick, accused OF setting buildings
on fire.
a 4.year-old grandchild Of George
Gibbons, of Freeland, drank medicine
and persisted.
A s~uspender buckle saved the life of
William Weaver, OF Chester, who was
shot by an unknown person.
Two locomotives and four freight
cars were wrecked on the Phila 'elphia
and Reading Railroad at Myers own. 5
Charging embezzlement Of 5000.
Frank NJ. Spr0hule, a Chicago jeweier,
has had Jacob w. Loewenberg, an
agent, jailed at st. Paul.
Herman Hirshberg, a dentist of
Co .umbus, Ohio, shot and killed Theo.
e1re X. Miesse. q grocer. Hirshberg
had gone to Miesse's store TO collect a
bill and a quarrel ensued with the
result stated.
Clifton IN. W prison officials deny
that the nan who exposed the recent
plot TO escape vas George Post, the
bunco steerer.
While contractors were blasting rock
at Northumberland twenty-sec0nd aud
Fourth avenue, New York. an explo-
sion ent a two ton mass OF rock Into
the side wall of 81 Ess; One-hundred-
and-twenty- second street, killing two
persons and injuring five others, two
perhaps mortally.
A dose of laudanum ended the long
spree Of c. l.. Lanc ister. an Augusta
tGi.) photographer.
Leo. NJ. Geismar, who was RESPONSE
BILE for the defective water works at
Even, Mich, (which were destroyed
by fire., left town to avoid threatened
hanging.
Arrested for forgery, W. J. Cham.
berlalp, an insurance agent, was lodged
in Jail at Walnut Bridge, ARK, and
committed suicide.
Frank Wilson essayed the peace
m .ker's role in a eight at Plain City
o., over a game Of cards, and Emerl o
Fitzpatrick shot and killed him, an
Is now in danger Of being lynched.
The stores of the l.. H. Harris Diu I
Company and of A. q. Henderson,
druggist, In P~Ittsburg, were burned,
loss about $40, 900.
Sister Sarah Bauman, the oldest sur
Vivlng inmate of the famous clolster
OF the Seventh-day Baptists, at Ephra
ia, Penns., died recently aged W year
The Bethlehem (Penna.) Iron Com
pany's steel mill, which has been ldh
for a month, has resumed work WIN
a full force Of men. l
Tower Clty's prevalence Of sickness
Is attributed by physicians to impure
springs, which they have condemned.
Two cars of a "Pennsy" stock train,
deTailed on Nays Bridge, near Lewis
town, plunged over the bridge and
Killed 70 cattle and 10 horses.
Miscalculation OF time caused a
collision between a Lehigh Valley pas
senger train and a coal train at Ma.
hanoy City, and Passenger Conductor
haley was seriously iDjure'. z
After two attempts, Samuel S;hneck,
Of Allentown, killed himself with pol
son.
A smooth tongued scamp engages
board at Reading residences to roo
them.
On a charge OF embs zzling funds OF
the West Reading Planning Mill, Book
keeper G. W. Hillegass is In jail.
Benjamin Schwarnbach, q Berks
County burglar, and in the penitentiary
ior TIRES years, has been pardoned.
The body OF Owen Coleman. who
disappeared from Heading last Sasur-
was found in the woods at Mohns-
vile. 3