The Penn's Grove record., 1893-06-16
THE NEWS,
Eastern and Middle States

Charged with embeZZlement from
Charles Ballejo. grocer, of Brooklyn
W.. l.. Bong was caught at San Anton
10, Texas.
Missing Moody Merrill, of Boston,
as president of the Franklin Land Com
pany, issued $40.0 600 worth of stock
and made no return of money re-
ceived.
Four men were drowned by the sink
ing of a crib, on which they were load
lug telegraph poles, at Pine Tree Har-
Dor, Ontario. 4
While at work on the roof of the
Court House, Brooklyn, John Baxter
fell and was killed almost instantly.
Four cars and the engine were de-
molishe1 in a train dersilment at James.
town, N. Y, and Fireman Smith was
scalded.
Daniel F. Beatty, of Washington,
N. j., has been held to answer for de-
%frauding, by use Of the mails. Postal
Clerk Coley, of South Norwalk, Conn.,,
is the prosecutor.
Greenwood g. Spray, aged 25 years,
slot and killed his wife, and then shot
and perhaps fatally wounded himself,
in Shirley, Maine. The couple separat-
ed about four weeks ago on account of
disagreements. .
William Webb, a boy, dived a dis
lance Of 30 feet into the Hackensack
river, at Newark, N. j., and was
drowned.
About 500, 900 damages was caused
by fire in the storage warehouse of j.
II. Hobby's Sons, New York city.
James Valentine, an Italian, shot
n OF his countrymen, name unknown,
at Cloversville, New York, killing him
almost instantly.
The confession Is rumored for Jose
Carreiro. alleged murderer of Bertha
Manchester, at Fall River, but the au-
thorlties will not talk.
| Seeing New York's sights, John Mas
terson, fresh from Montana, lost a
$1,000 wad of bills to a cordial friend of
an hour. l
Calling his wife out Of church, jeal-
Gus William E. Mitchell, or Boston,
fred a revolver at her, one bullet strik-
Ing her wrist.
William Fisher, albert Greene and
two unknown men were killed by the
e> plosion OF a boiler IN a mill at st.
Johnsbury, Vermont.
About sixty feet of the State dam
across the Hudson river, at Troy, New
York, gave way. 1t will be about ten
days before the break can be repaired,
and meantime all navigation on the
Ciamplain canal will be suspended. 2
A ~stone-cutter, who from a granite
VESSEL near Augusta, Me-, discovered
Prohibition Secretary ]. W. Mitchell's
missing body, got 500 reward for the
glimpse.
A six-story brick building in New
York, five floors of which were used as
: sweat shops,' was burned. Two hGn.
bred men and women were employed in
the upper floors, and In the wild,scram.
BILE for safety five were killed and a
number injured.
The body of Edward Slavin, aged "a
We re-, was founc lying on the tracks
of the Wilmington and Baltimore Rail-
road at Wilmington, Del. The head
was completely severed from the body.
South and West.
Jealousy over promotion caused
p. ivate Roberts to kill Sergeant
O'Leary at Fort Sherman, Idaho.
A band of six men, armed with rifles,
robbed the Peoples Bank, at Little
! Rock, Arkansas, OF $40, 1000. They
forced the bank officials to go before
and behind them when they left the
bank, to protect them from the people,
who, by that time, had assembled.
There was some shooting, In which six
men were wounded, but the robbers
escaped. They were closely followed
by a posse.
Finding a loaded gun, Artemus
johnson, a 10-year-old nurse, blew out
the brains Of his charge, 3-year-old
McAullin Jones, at Bowman, $. G.
About IL fine residences In San Frar-
cisco were destroyed by fire. and three
fremen were killed by falling walls.
The property loss is $2O0,000
Ten thousand people heard Talmage
lecture at the opening OF Clear Lake,
an Iowa summer resort.
Although his successor has been
named, Lewis E. Parsons, United
States Attorney for Northern Alabama,
declines to yacate, and denies Cleve-
lands right to displace him. 4
William Hunt was killed In a COL
lision between an express and freight
: train at Gothenburg, Neb.