The Penn's Grove record., 1893-12-01
THE WIS
AND MIDDLE STATES

EASTERN AND MIDDLE STATES
w. S. Taylor, who recently disap-
peared from his home in Laconla, N.
H.. has been heard of at Baltimore,
where he applied to a Masonic Lodge
for aid.
A fire in Springfield, Massachusetts,
destroyed several blocks of buildings.
FIRST estimates placed the loss at ~
600, 900, but it is thought it will be
considerably less.
Mrs. Antonio Iedecky, aged 81, and
her daughter, Fannie, aged So, COM
mitted suicide some time recently in
their home in New York. 1t is thought
that the elder woman hanged herself
first, and that the daughter, finding
the body, cut an artery in her arm and
bled to death.
Mary Blackmore shot and killed her.
self in New York city. She was z
nurse, but had been compelled to give
up her employment by reason of i'll
health. 4
In his will, Milford Moore, of River
head, l.. l., warns his executors to be-
ware of thieving lawyers.
To console Mrs. Annie Van Houton
for breach of promise, Asa P. Morse,
of Boston, must pay her 40,000.
A Pennsylvania Railroad market
train, bound south on the Central Rail
road, collided with a Lehigh Valley
coal train at a crossing in Perth
Amboy, New Jersey. Engineer War
rem Mallory, of the Lehigh Valley, was
killed. 1t was his first trip over the
road; he had taken the place of one of
the strikers.
Walter H. Fish, of Rochester, New
York, fell into an open grave which
had been dug for his step-daughter's
remains. His neck was broken, and
he was found there, dead, just before
the funeral procession arrived. The
family were kept in ignorance OF the
death of Mr.. Fish until their return
home.
The boiler of a Lehigh Valley freight
locomotive exploded at North Hector,
New York, and the conductor and fire.
man was killed and the engineer fatally
injured. The crew were all new men.
The British steamer Ambrose, at New
York, from Para, Brazil, brought six of
the crew of the American schooner
George Twohey; destroyed by fire at
Para, on November 10. 1
Charges of securing certified checks
by fraud caused the arrest of T. C.
Brewer, of New York, at St. Johns
bury, Vt.
Attacked by a highwayman on the
street, Morris Narbrum, of New York,
knocked him down twice, when the vii
lain fled.
Innocent forging of the name of
Stephen II. Cutting, of Winchester,
Mass, on $500 worth of drafts got
Stephen H. Cutting, of Woburn, into
trouble.
Charles Lord, 80 years old, a member
of the Calumet Club, committed suicide
in his bachelor apartments, in New
York.
Frank H. Ellison, of New York, be-
gan his five years sentence at Sing
Sing for assaulting old broker Hen
riques.
Mrs Halliday, who is confined in the
Jail at Monticello, New York, on two
charges of murder, attempted to set fire
to her cell and refused to take her food.
Governor Flower has refused to inter
fere in the Ease of Mrs. Annie Walden,
who is dying in the ~penitentary in New
York city, where she is serving a life
sentence for the murder of her hus,
band. .
On a charge Of falsely im~prisoning
Samuel b. Bills, Constable John n.
Hamilton, of Bordentown, N. j., has
been held in $400 bail by Justice Fish,
er.
Dependent from poor health, H.
w. Haley, a dental instructor at Har-
ward, cut his throat, and will die.
The suicide of A. NJ. Serbia, ex-
Bank Examiner of New York, will seri-
ously hamper the Governments case
against Bank-wrecker Emo.
Alleged retention of $17, 551, due
Bowman, Thompson & Co., of England,
caused the arrest of A. F. Fuerst, OF
New York, their American agent.
An unsuccessful attempt was made
on Mondf night to burn the large
stores at the corner of Broad and Hop
kins streets, Woodbury., N. J.
Several thousand dollars worth of
wharf property along Pea Shore, N. j.,
has been purchased by Samuel w. Til
ton, the Camden ship builder, for the
purpose, it is said, of establishing a
shipyard. 5