The Penn's Grove record., 1893-10-20
SOUTH AND WEST.

The Court of Appeals of the District
of Columbia, in the case of Colonel
| Ainsworth and Messrs. Dant, Covert
and Sasse, indicted for being RESPONSE
BILE for the death of the victims of the
Ford's Theatre disaster, in Washington,
decided to hear the appeal of the ac-
cused from Judge McComas's decision
overruling their demurrer to the indict-
ments.
Thomas Sing, the Chinese mission
airy, who was indicted, at Tacoma, on
the charge of assisting 80 Chinese labor
ers to unlawfully settle in the United
States, was held in $4,000 bail, in Chi
cago, where he was captured.
1t is believed that the Malta has again
broken out in New Orleans. Policeman
Toole, who had his throat cut several
weeks ago by an Italian, was assaulted
by unknown persons.
Frank Hickey, charged with the
murder of John NJ. Clayton, of Arkan-
sas, was discharged, and the famous
case is as mysterious as yer.
Governor Northen has issued a call to
the people of Georgia for aid to the suf-
ferers at yellow fever stricken Bruins
wick.
st. Louis is agitated over the fact
that the Chicago Canal is polluting the
drinking water of the city, and Con-
gress may be asked to interfere. 4
Gustave Blanchard, of St. Cloud,
Mimi, has been held for the murder
of his father.
Twenty hunters were injured by an
accident on the Northern Pacific, near
New Rockford, N. d,
Desperate Will Horton, who burned
is railroad bridges in one night, is
dead at Calhoun, Ca, of wounds re
ceiyed in trying to break Jail.
Postmaster Peter Pearson, of Lew
iston, S, D., in a fit of jealousy shot
his wife, who was the mother of his
six children, and then killed himself.
George w. Morgan, a postal clerk
on the Great Northern Road, in Mon
tana, who stole money containing re-
mittances to Western mems families
in the East, is in Jail.
Judson Woolwine's ~12-year-old son
Herman, of Valley Bend, Va, applied
a match to a shell which had lain in
a field for so years, and the explosion
which followed only injured, did not
kill him. 5
A rear-end collision neal Paxico,
Kan, killed two collored tramps riding
under the mail car.
Colonel w. II. II. Taylor, State
Librarian of Minnesota, is dying at st.
Paul. He married the youngest daugh-
ter of General William Henry Harri-
son in 1886 and was General Harri-
sons private secretary when he was
President,
Paul Victor Neuenschvanger and
Frank Rebsomer, Swiss laborers out of
work, were killed by a Pennsylvania
Railroad train near Washington, d. C.
while walking on the track. A COM
panion named Hassenfratz was fatally
injured.
George Bachulin was burned to death
a fire which destroyed the Boy
dell Paint Warehouse and Harmonic
Hall, at Detroit, Michigan. The loss
is estimated at 5000, 900.
V. 7. Tyler, who has been separated
from his wife met her in Minneapolis,
Minnesota. They quarreled, and Tyler
shot her and then himself. She will
recover, but he will die. /
Thirty buildings in King City, Mis-
souri,, were destroyed by fire, causing
a loss of S150,000
Indictments have been found against
ex-Mayor John Loughran, of Hot
Ark, for grand larceny, and
ex-City Treasurer b. d. Rapley, fol |
enlightenment.
Colorado tramps are flooding Texas,
where they are fed at eating stations
and ride free on railroads.
With a shotgun, R. X. Peeler, of
Topeka, four times a husband and
father of 10 children, blew his head
off.
North Carolina got its first native
Episcopal bishop in Rev. DR.. Joseph b.
Cheshire, just ~consecrated at Tarboro
Three colored victims of Baltimore's |
City Jail fire have died.
Mrs. +. A. Moore and Miss Jennie
Mullen, of Lisbon Centre, New York,
were found unconscious in their room
in a Chicago boarding house. Mrs.
Moore had ignorantly blown ont the
gas, Miss Mullen died. 9
Sons of DIR. ]. ]. Turner, of Lincoln,
Neb., get his $40, 900 estate, because
his will, supposed to have left the
money to church missions, has dis
appeared by an alleged robbery.
During the dense fog the Pennsyl-
vania Limited dashed into a freight
train at Wellsville, Ohio. Four train
men were killed and three others seri-
ously injured. 1t is presumed that the
signals were all right, but the fog was
so dense that the crew of the Limited
could not see them.
The west-bound Chicago Limited, on
the Wabash road, left the track at
Namoka, Illinois, II miles from St.
Louis. Thirty persons were injured.
six seriously. The gas tank OF the
buffet car exploded and i and the chair
car were burned. Other cars went over
a siX-foot embankment.
W. X, Wrisley, of Riverside, Cal.
Killed his wife and himself. Jealousy.
Quarreling with DR., 1. NJ. Pratt, Of
near Waco, Tex, Constable W. C. Har-
ris shot him dead.
Charges of e~mbezzlement caused the
arrest OF Will Hanks, president of the
suspended Merchants National Bank,
of Great Falls, Mont.
After years of high rolling at cards
md the races, Money Order ClerL, w