The Penn's Grove record., 1893-07-21
THE NEWS.
Eastern aid Middle States

Brooklyn. N. Y.
Edward y. Footc, entry clerk at
the Bellevue Hospital, New York, died
Of typhus fever at North Brothers Is
land.
A New York newspaper reporter
douglass Ayres, is reported to have
elopod with Ann }, daughter of Hotel
Proprietor Mel nersoD, of Norwalk,
Conn. A
An express train on the West Shore
road left the rails, at Newburgh, New
York, while running at the rate of 40
mile 8 an hour, and crashed into a freight
train standing on a siding. A crowded
passeng r car had a side torn off and
the trucks pulled out. Five of the
Injured, twoprObably fatally. Afreight
train left the rails at the same place a
few days ago.
A carriage containing Frank New
house ard Dexter Whitford was struck
by a train at jamestown, N. Y, and
both men were killed.
A carriage containing the appraisers
Of the National Building and Loan
Association, of New York. was run
into by a train at Spring Fl Il. West
Virginia. Captain f. NJ stone, Of
Charleston, West Virginia, was killed,
and F. w. Mcdaniel, special agent,
fatally injured. : 5
Burglar F. j. Summers, with a full
set of cracksmen's implements, was ar
rested while stealing a ride on a train
at Yonkers. N. Y.
Brooklyn Jail has a prisoner, Mrs.
Helene Schmidt, who says she will stay
in a cell forever rather than give up her
5-year-old daughter to her husband.
Broker David A. Easton, of Pitts
field, Mass, is likely to be arrested for
failure to apply any remedy, except
faith cure, to his painfully injured
horse.
Kansas coin crop promises to be the
largest In the States history, except
for the year 1889, when it was 273, 000-
900 bushels.
President A. &. DAVIS, who has sud-
denly disappeared from the West Viz
ginia College, at Clarksburg, had a lot
Of the students money. 1
Abandoning his wife, Fred q. Mont
gomery, jeweller, barber and Police
Justice at Round Lake, N. y, has
fled with stolen property.
After being missing a week, VII
liam Baxter, Of Holden, Mass, was
found murdered in a pasture and Ed.
Cunningham. last seen with him has
been arrested.
DR.. Henry Meyers, accused of poison.
ing to obtain insurance money, arrived
Ia New York, in charge OF detectives.
Cashier Bush, of the suspended Ma
tional Bank of EImira, New York, was
held in SO, 600 bail to answer the
charge of making false statements,
concerning the condition of the bank
for the purpose of deceiving and de-
frauding the stockholders and deposit
ors. z
James J.. Fiske. a prominent young
manufacturer, fell out Of a skiff and
was drowned at WayIand, Mass.
The 2-year.o'd son Of John Sweeney,
of Florence, N. j., who was gored by n
cow, died.
The house of John Mayhem, at
Woodbury. Heights, N. j., was struck
by lightning and the roof torn away.
John Berdell, of this city, was held
In $500 bail by Justice Williams, of
Atlantic City, N. j., for stealing a suit
OF clothes from John Walker. 3
South and West.
Fer the shocking murder of Joseph
Elder at Kansas City, his wife and
stepson are under arrest.
Three masked men held up and rob-
bed James Townsend, a Hartshcrn (L.
IT, cattlemar, of $1,000.
Judge R. T. Kerr blew his brains
out at Fort Smith, Ark, while men,
tally unbalanced.
Mrs. Kate Fecht, a victim Of the
tornado at Pc mercy, Iowa, died. There
are six or seven other victims likely to
die. There is a crying need for food,
the supply being exhausted, with the
exception of a few uncooked hams.
Isaac Mitchell and his family of five
persons, of Charleston, South Carolina,
were poisoned. Mitchell and a daugh-
ter died and the othtrs are critically
III. The autopsy in the case of each
victim showed arsenic to have been the
poison.
Over 100 persons at Mansfield, Ohio,
were poisoned by eating cheese several
days age, and IL of the victims are in a
critical condition. 4
County Treasurer James X. Arm
strong, of Upton, Indiana, is said ODE
$40, 900 short i'll his accounts. The
Deputy Treasurer, Cal Armstrong, was
reported missing.
Albert Bamberger, the Cando muir
deIer was safely lodged in the Jail at
Fargo, North Dakota. The authori-
ties at Grand Forks feared a lynching
and transferred the prisoner to Fargo.
The body found a few days since on
Metompkin Beach, Virginia, has teen
identified as that o. Cicero Harrison
Case, who was lost from the steamer
G~uyandotts. on the way from Rich
mond To New York. The body had
been robbed. 8
Leaving her Chicago lone for the
East because of her husban rs alleged
cruelty, Mrs. Z. Howard Morton was
stopped by the Cleveland police at Mr..
Morton's request.
l.. N. D~usenberg, cashier Of the srs-
pended Bank of Puyallup, Washington,
was arrested on the charge of embe7-
cling S4t,00 0 OF the banks funds
Four persoLs were drowned at Mount
Vernon, indiana. VIII 9 Allen ard
Willie Boyce aged s aud 8 respectively,
fell into the river while playing. Mrs.
Allen sprang in after them, but found
herself helpless in the rushing current.
Her 16-year-oli daughter, Anna, went
to rescue her mother, and all we're
drowned.
Joseph W. Thompson, aged 20 years,
OF Philadelphia, was drowned at SEA-
Girt, New jersey. while bathing. l
Laura Moore. tie actress, asks d.