The Penn's Grove record., 1894-02-02
THE NEWS
Eastern and Middle

Unable to take food, Mrs. Laura
Schirmer-M spleson, i'll at New York,
must die.
On suspicion of crookedness, the
books of the Nicaragua Canal Company
are demanded by F. H. Hatch, a New
York stakeholder.
Trying to cross Findley's Lake, N.
Y, on a sleigh, Frederick Thor and
wife were carried into an ice hole and
drowned.
Grip is killing Indians like sheep on
Pine Ridge Agency, in Nebraska.
Charged with trying to poison his
wife, Philip Bogart, an Oakland Call
capitalist, is on trial.
In a 81, O00, 600 infringement suit at
St. Paul, the Wood Harvester Company
beat the Esterly Company.
Embezzler Burke, who stole $3,000,-
900 from Louisiana, says he will return
from Honduras to stand trial.
While being initiated into sixteenth
degree Masonry, w. H. Boothroyd, a
Detroit publisher, dropped dead.
High railroad rates will make the
S~preckels, of San Francisco, send 50,-
900 tons of raw sugar round the Horn.
On his way to the penitentiary,
Bank Cashier Redwiee, the Atlanta
| embezzler, absolved all other officials
from wrong-doing.
Striking coal miners at Salem, o.,
put a dynamite bomb against the door
of Operator John Evans Office, but it
sailed to explode.
Charged with helping her lynched
son to murder Mr.. and Mrs. Rhines,
| Mrs. Elizabeth Parker, of Winchester,
o., wal arrested. 4
Burglars entered the late John G.
| Whittier's home, Danvers, Mass, and
stole $500 worth of iewelry.
Before a fashionable assemblage at
st. Patrick's Cathedral, New York, Miss
Viola Livingston was welded to Count
Laugier Yillar, Paris.
Smallpox has broken out in the New
York City Insane Asylum on Wards
Island, where 1000 lunatics are ION.
fined.
A fire broke out in the city rink at
Brockton, Massachusetts, and, in a
very short time, spread to a number Of
adjoining buildings, includinga church
and several dwellings. 4
Lincoln, Mass, is excited over the
finding of mans body in a brook, in
dicating a murder mystery.
As a safegard against fire at sea, the
White Star Line will carry no more
cotton on passenger steamers.
The death of Edward NJ. Clark, Of
Hoboken, n. j., makes the thirteenth
from the recent Lackawanna Railroad
accident.
Missing from home for weeks, Miss
Minnie L. Porter. of Norfolk, Conn,
was found dead in the woods, having
wandered off while deranged.
Mrs. Emil Killar, of Auburn, New
York, in a fit of insanity shot and kill.
ed her husband and her nine-months-
old infant, and then shot herself in the
head, infiicting a fatal injury. 5
For $400, 900 Manager John Stetson,
of Boston, whose Globe Theatre was
recently burned, has bought the Park
Theatre of Lolita Crabtree, the actress.
The Sagadahock House; two national
banks, a savings bank and about a
dozen stores, at Bath, Maine, were de-
stroyed by fire The loss will probably
exceed $500, 900
The steamer France, of New York,
from London, brought the captain and
crew of IL men of the Norwegian bark
Havelock, rescued at sea on the 18th
instant. !
The loss by the Bath (Me.) fire wa,
$275,000; the insurance about $150, 900.
New York health authorities are
alarmed at the spread of smallpox in
the city.
John Kearney. who escaped from
Clinton, IN. W prison last July, has
been captured at Baltimore.
Burglars made a $500 haul in dia.
monds at the Pacific Iron Works office
in Bridgeport, Conn. .
Claiming infringement on stream fire
(engine patents. William Brickell sues
New York city for 81, 900 900 damages.
Breaking through the ice, Edward
Ford, 25 years old, of New York, wal
found drowned in a Central Park pond