The Penn's Grove record., 1893-11-17
THE NEWS
EASTERN AND klBDLE STATES

EASTERN AND kiBDLE States
Eight carloads of provisions and
supplies from New York arrived at
Charleston, South Carolina. The Red
Cross will be consulted as to the dis
position of the supplies.
A package of dynamite saturated
with kerosene, with fuse attached, was
found alongside the house of William
Thompson, in Hackensack, New Jcr-
sey.
Lawyer Francis II. Weeks, who was
brought back from Costa Rico, and
who pleaded guilty to the theft Of SO,
900 from the estate of a client, was sen
fenced by Recorder Smyth in New
York, to ten years Imprisonment at
nard labor
An unknown tramp attempted to
assault Miss Rose CaIlighan, or the
railroad, at Seven Rocks, near Lam
bertville, n. j. A flagman ran to her
aid, aud the tramp ran to the river and
attempted to swim across, but was
drowned, /
Broker William L. Patton, Of New
York, charged with embezzling 500 GOO
from the Craig estate, has surrendered
to the authorities.
Nine members of the crew uf the
American ship L. Schepp, at New York
have brought charges of cruelty against
Chief Officer schipps.
New Hampshire, in competition with
twelve States and Canada, received the
first award at the Worlds Fair for her
dairy exhibit, and Connecticut was Sec
ond.
The alleged practice of medicinc with
out registry has led to the arrest in New
York, of DIR. B. Whitman, of Newark,
N. j., who charged a Mrs. Fisher So
600 for sixteen months attendance.
An autopsy held at Boston, upon the
bodies OF Mrs. Hannah Porter and her
daughter Margaret, who died after
drinking porter and eating chocolate
pie, revealed the presence in their stom-
achs of "enough cyanide of potassium
! to cause the death of 40 persons .
There are IL, 900 square miles OF
| coal lands in Colorado, or more than
the total area of Massachusetts, Con
necticut, and Rhode Island.
Twenty five years ago electricity a
a mechanical power vas unknown
Now 5000, 600, 600 is invested in various
kinds of electrical machinery
The first appearance of peanuts in
mercantile history was a consignment
of ten bags sent from Virginia to New
York for sale in 1894. In 1892 the
product was 2, 900, 900 bushels.
The Yellowstone region in Montana
has produced a prize yield of potatoes,
$40 bushels to tine acre, and is said to
grow wheat readily, but there is no
grist mill at Billings, its chief town.
Constant Agony was the sad nam
of a trackwalker on the Delaware an
Hudson Railroad who was struck an
instantly killed by an express train Il
Beekmantown. N. Y, q few days ago
Unable to get a husband, Lille Hug,
Of Brooklyn, took poison, but will live.
Part of a 81, 900 600 estate of an
English ancestor falls to Mrs. Leary
Riley, wife of a Fishkill N, W flag
man
Warren T. Putnam, President OF the
National Granite State Bank of Exeter,
New Hampshire, was arrested, in Bos-
ton on the charge of embezzlcmcnt
from the funds of hal institution. II
is said that the amount of his embczzle'
ment will reach over $780, 900.
To the girl who Will marry him,
"Blue Ribbon Joe" Thomas, of Rochcs'
ter, a bachelor of 40, will give $4,000,
half his property.
After a long hunt, ex-Cashier A. l..
Hillard, who stole $500, 900 from the
Chicago Tribune, was arrested on the
Vera, arriving at New York.
Charles Lenroll, 10 years old, shot
and killed himself at Saltwater, n. y,
through jealousy of his 17-ycar-old
f~iancee, Rose Sharon.
Arrested in Troy for shop-lifting, a
woman of so was recognized as the no
torious "Mother Hubbard"
A masked man entered the house Of
d. ii. Monks, at Fishkill-on-the-llud
and compelled Mrs. Monks, the only
person at home, to hand over $500 i'll
cash, He escaped. >
The steamer Alaska, of the Guiou
Line, which sailed from New York fol
Liverpool, is returning to port with a
broken crank-pin.
John Johnson, colored, convicted OF
the murder of two fellow conyicts, was
executed in the P~enitentiary, at Au-
burn, New York. His death, by cleo.
tricity, wss apparently instantaneous
and without pain,
By a fire in the village school al
CoopersyilIe, New York, Miss Porter,
the teacher, and John Willard, aged !
years, were burned to death. The hr'
started in a woodshed, and escape by