The Penn's Grove record., 1893-10-27
NUMBER q.
PENNSYLVANIA ITEMS.


The new ~Schuylkill avenue bridge, in
Reading, cost $55, $50.
There were AZ new cases of yellow
fever yesterday at Brunswick, Ga,
Pottsville has a gambling epidemic
which originated in the matching of
pennies
A wildcat locomotive cut to pieces
and killed Miss Julia CavanaJgh at
Palo Alto.
Twenty five Italian laborers We're
driven out of Jeanette because native
Americans wanted their jobs.
Rev. W. S. Harper has had to vacate
the United Presbyterian Church pull
pit, at Beaver, for preaching too
plainly.
Mary Wade, Il prisoner, who had
served out her term at the Carlisle Jail,
stole three blankets from the prison
and was reincarcerated.
Otto Wells, a kiowa, and Mary Park
hurst, an Oneida, were welded yester-
day at the Carlisle Indian School, where
they were educated.
A boiler at Yorktown Colliery, near
Hazleton, exploded demolishing the
watchman's house and destroying the
boiler house to such an extent that the
colliery cannot work for several days.
The Coleraine collieries of W. 7.
lCarter & Co., at Beaver Meadow,
passed into the hands of A s. Van
Wickle & Co., of Hazleton.
Great distress is reported among
the miners in the Houtzdale district,
and those partially employed will divide
their time and wages with the unem-
ployed.
Indictment for forgery and altera-
ton of paw checks of the Government.
at the Pittsburg Arsenal, led E. II.
Carroll, the arsenal cash clerk, to shoot
himself fatally.
The horse stolen from John Collins,
of Schuylkill Haven, was found graz
ing in a field 25 miles from home.
Brave Mary Mesvine, of Morris
Ridge, only 10 years old, almost killed
Il brutal male assailant, who had at
tackled her near Mt, Carmel, by kick
ing him in the stomach. D
Typewriting will be taught in the
high schools at Reading.
State officials have demanded the EN-
forcement of the factory laws at Read
ing,
Berks County's youngest Jail bird is
7-years-old Elmer Bowman, who stole
rides on cars.
Mine gas exploded and killed John
Rossick; in the Mount Lookout Col
|liery at Wyoming.
Coal gas Frustrated and came very
near killing four members of the family
of Mrs. Jacob Druckenmillsr at Allen
town.
Escaping steam scalded to death
Joseph Covaloskie, fireman, at the Ed
son Electric Light engine house in Mt.
Carmel.
The $40 which Michael Wargosko,
of C%atasauqua, hid in a stove all sum-
mer, because he feared banks, was
mostly burned up when his wife kindled
a fire.
City Editor ]. II. Blackwood, of the
Scranton Tribune, swallowed q large
draught of ammonia by mistake, and
narrowly escaped death at Wilkeebarre.
A bush caught the trigger of George
Wilhelm's gun while he was hunting
near Frieland's Station, York County,
and the charge of shot was fired into
the arm of William, his brother. Fatal
blood poisoning is feared. l
Falling rock at Mahanoy City colliery
killed Miner Anthony Smith.
Tommy Watson, IL years old, is in
prison in Allegheny as a horse thief.
Robbers blew open the safe of Curry,
lCanan & Co. 8 store in Altoona and es-
capped.
A three-ton ice wagon crushed the
life out of 4-year-old Clyde Brobst at
lWilkesbarre.
Fire-bugs set the torch to Jacob A
Billet's and ]. V. Beck's stables stimuli
%taneously at York.
Aged Farmer Amos Faber, of Exc
ter, Berks County, was paralyzed by a
fall from a load of fodder.
Under $40, 900 bail Henry Wanner,
alleged murderer of James Hemmings,
near Lancaster, has been released.
Sarah Godalskie was burned to death
Iby flames from leaves which she had
, fired in a forest near Shamokin.
Death from blood poisoning followed
' a cut on a finger which 70-year-old
Farmer Levi Keiser, Of Alburtis, Berks
County, inflicted on himself while chop
. Iping corn.
Passengers were notified in time to
lsave their hives by jumping from an
Electric car that collided with a miners
, train at Big Mine Run, near Ashland.
In a trunk purchased by Isaac w.
: Keim at the recent sale of the village
r Iof L~obachsville were found complete
I records of the Lobach family as far
back as A. d. 513. 2
At Pittston, Thomas LOTUS, of Scran-
ton, was killed under car wheels.
G A train fatally hurt Frederick Ferry
man, who walked on the railroad near
Pottsyille.
Bunco swindlers at Lancaster tried
lin vain to get 5000 from Tilgham G.
Bach by telling him he had won $4,000.
William Stevenson, of Ailler's row,
' near M%inersville, was buried beneath
earth and rock at Beechwood Colliery,
d and will probably die.
= Insane Dennis Carr seized red-hot
irons from a Pittsburg blacksmith's
. forge and chased pedestrians until the
i irons cooled, and he was arrested. 3
Tho r.aat Ebino in this uorId il not 40