The Penn's Grove record., 1893-12-08
|PLNNSY iyAh!i .iHNS.
Condensed News Cleaned From
Various Points of The State.

commenced q new court house.
With a bottle, John Patzeka struck
Michael Chatuck, of Freeland, a fatal
blow.
About 10, 200, 600 bushels of bitumin-
Gus coal will be foated down the Ohio
from Western PENNSYLVANIA on the
present flood.
Suit for $4,000 damages for in
juries received by his daughter three
years ago has been brought by Chester
Stevens, of Scranton, against the Scran-
ton Street Railway Company, 6
After hicoughing II days, Edward
Erbe, near Lebanon, has recovered.
Falling from a roof in Reading,
Nathaniel Paff met Il speedy death.
Joseph Gruyer was found dead by his
wife in his dining room at New York
1t is said that Mr.. and Mrs. Wright,
of Ilummelstown, whose daughter,
Agnes, was murdered by Benjamin
TENNIS, have asked for tickets to wit
ness the hanging, which will occur in II
few days.
Two freight trains on the Lehigh
Valley Railroad collided at White
Haven, and the wreck caught fire and
was consumed. The flames spread TO
buildings in White Haven, destroying
three hotels and several stores and
dwellings-about a block of buildings
in all. Three trainmen are missing
and supposed to have persisted in the
wreck.
William Gordon, aged % years, OF
Huntington, Penna,, while perform
ing a balancing act on the ice-coyered
side railing of the high iron bridge
spanning the Juniata river there, lost
his equilibrium, and, falling into the
water, was drowned. l
Coal miners in Washington County
threaten a strike.
Postmaster John S. Weaver, of Nc
johannesburg, has resigned,
The Fullerton, Lehigh County, post
office was pillaged by thieves.
Over $500 worth of provision was dis
tributed among the poor at Bristol.
Thieves raided the Wernersville sta
ton of the Philadelphia and Reading
Railroad
A premature explosion of dynamite
in Il ewer'eXcavation at Harrisburg
badly injured Henry Baltimore.
Five men were arrested IN P%itssburg-
at the instance of the Republican Com
mittee, charged with illegal voting.
The Edgar Thompson Steel Works,
at Braddock, will throw out the new
and reinstate the old process of making
lsteel rails.
When arrested in Pittsburg, William
II. Farrant had $4,000 in good money
in his pocket and $500 in counterfeit
bills.
Six deputy shefiffs have been sent to
Snowden, Allegheny County, where Il
coal miners strike is in progress.
Freight Conductor William Bercaw
was fatally squeezed by cars at Glen
ldon.
In attempting to mount a train,
Joseph Smith, of Shenandoah, lost
both legs,
A Pennsylvania Railroad train at
Newport ran over and killed Benjamin
Kessler.
A dispute over cards at Erie, ended
in Mike Lameri's shooting Joria Leone
dead.
On the rolls of the Cumberland
County Teachers Institute, which net
lat Carlisle, were 23S names,
1t was stated that j, O. johnson,
who was recently lynched at OF
tumwa, Ia, went there from Lancas-
ter.
Miss Minnie Larrabee, of Susque-
hanna County, was arrested in Bing-
hamton, n. Y, for stealing S32 from a
friend.
Stumbling on the stairs, Mrs. Sarah
Mcdonald, of Jo~hnstown, fell upon the
lamp she was carrying and was burned
to death.
Having to pay more for its water sup
Iply than it agreed to, the Tilt Silk
Mill has sued the members of Potts
%ville's Board of Trade for $1,000 dam
lagos.
The plea for Il pardon for George F.
Work, the Bank of America wreeker
of Philadelphia, has been postponed. ?
Lightning struck John Shaffer's
house at Uniontown.
Reading is to have a sewage pump
ling station, with Il daily capacity OF
5000, 900 gallons.
John Lawler was fatally injured at
Packer Colliery, Shenandoah, while
attempting to mount a car.
At Bennington, Blair County, in
Lloyd's coal mine, Il 500-pound stone
fell upon Joseph Stanalsky and crushed
out his life.
Benjamin Tennis forfeited his life
on the scaffold at Harrisburg, for the
murder of little Agnes Wright.
John Young, who recently drove q
horse into n freight train, killing It
and smashing the buggy, was convicted
at West Chester of malicious mischief,
While trying to avoid one train near
New Freedom, York County. Luther
Powell, of Oglesby, y, C., was struck
and killed by an express he did not
see.
Mrs. c. IIeplcr and her drughter,
Mrs. Flora Martin, were found butch
cred in their home, near Butler, Pa.
The daughter was dead and the mother
dying. The latter, before she expired,
recovered consciousness, and said the
: crime had been committed by her SON
/ in-law, Harper Whitmier, The latter
has fled. 3
t Frogs and toads lay numbers of
small eggs. They are dropped in the
water like fish spawn, in long clusters
, or strings. The Surinam toad carries
! her eggs soldered together like a hon