The Penn's Grove record., 1893-06-23
THE NEWS.
Eastern AMI Middle States

The body Of Edward Slsvin, aged "a
years, was found lying on the tracks
of the Wilmington and Baltimore Rail.
road at Wilmington, Del. The head
was completely severed from the BODY
The steamboat Cepheus struck a rock
IN Flushing Bay, Long Island. and had
four holes in her hull. The 500 pas
sengers on board were safely landed
aud the boat was run ashore to prevent
her from sinkltg G.
Five men were injured, n fatally,
by the wreck on the Nickel Plate road
at Hamburg, N. Y.
The steamer Winthrop. of the NAL
lory line, from New York, was burned
at Esstpolt, Name, after arriving from
st. Johns. Tie vessel was valued at
1926, 0O0.
Alba, a village Of so population, in
Antrim county, Michigan is reported
to have been destroyed 10y lire. 4
Dominica Finnemore,a fugitive from
Philadelphia, charged with forgery,
was arrested in Jersey City, just as
he was about to sail for Antwerp.
The Long Island Sound steamboat
City of Richmond is aground and part
ly submerged off Port Washington, N.
Y. 8
john Mulvey, a Housatonie railway
brakeman, was badly hurt in a crash at
Norwalk, Conn.
Burglars entered two summer man-
sions at Strockbridge, Mass, cowed the
women, stole a $500 watch of David
Dudley Fields daughter-in-law and ss-
capped.
1t is stated that Jose Carreiro, who is
repcrted to have confessed the murder
Of Bertha Manchester, at Fall River,
Mass, has made many voluntary and
damaging admissions.
Peter Thill, a aster painter, wa
fatally wounded by Victor Gariere, in
New Brunswick, n. J.
John A. Heitz was arrested in Koch
ester, N. Y, charged with stealing dia-
mond rings, valued at $500, from
Wheeler & Wilson, pawnbrokers of that
city. II is believed that he disposed OF
the stolen jewels in Philadelphia.
eng Moy Toy, the last of New
York's Chinese leper colony, has died.
An unknown cause led Louis Pre-
vost, son of Hon. Wilfred Provost, Of
Montreal, to shoot himself through the
head.
By the burning Of the Suburban
Electric plant, the city Of Elizabeth,
New Jersey, wa left in darkness.
AT New York, Frank Davis, the
burglar, who robbed many hodses In
that city, was sentenced TO Imprison'
ment for "a years al d 6 months.
Fred. D. Van Koran. an agent for
the Anglo-American Savings and Loan
Association Of New York city, was
found dying in a barn at SIevens's
Point, a village five miles from Susque-
hanna, Tenpa. 1t is suspected that he
is the victim of foul play. 2
1t was an unknown man, not Harry
f. holmes, of Pitts burg, who leaped
over Niagara.
Adam Hellmer, a cooper, respondent
over i'll success in business, hanged
himself at New York by putting q
moose around his neck and rolling out
of bed.
A 10y giving his name as Benjamin
Weldon, and address as 1880 Chestnut
street, Philadelphia, was arrested at
South Berch, l.. L., for stealing a
boat.
Two trains on the Ninth Avenue Ele-
waited Road, in New York. eollided.
Five PERSONS were slightly injured.
By the explosion o. a boiler at the
stone crusher works at Ridgewood,
New Jersey, Superintendent John j.
Bosert was Killed and Engineer John
Harrington was probably fatally in
jured.
George Wood, the 12-year-old boy
charged with the murder of ~3.year-old
BERTHE Wagner. near Freehold, New
Jersey. was arrested in Williamsburg,
New York, 3