The Penn's Grove record., 1894-09-28
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Eastern and Middle
States.

William J.. Scanlon, the actor, was
removed from Bloomingdale Insane
ASYLUM, New York, to the new build
ing at White Plains.
David UHearn, who is thought to be
partially insane, fired three shots from a
revolver at Judge Lawrence, Represen-
tatiye-elect to the Legislature and a
prominent lawyer, in his office, in Rut'
land, Vermont. None of the shots took
effect. o
DR.. Levi Wheaton Clapp fell down a
2O-foot embankment behind his house
al P~awtucket, K. 1. and was killed.
Augustin DAILY has been summoned
to nav $1,000 fine for bringing Elliott,
his property man, to this country I'M
der contract.
Lehigh Valley Engineer Connerton
chased and caught Tony Ross, who had
placed a rock on the track to wreck a
train near Batavia, N. Y. Ross said he
knew il was pay day, and wanted 10
rob the engineer.
The new science building of Bow
dom College, the gift of Edward r:
Searles, of New York, was dedicated
recently at Brunswick, Me.
There are untold millions in the
minds eye of Tea Dealer ]. w. Little,
who thinks he IS heir to one OF Brook
lyn's most valuable squares of property.
Mrs. Louise Nile was attacked by a
burglar in her house, in Jersey CITY,
early in the morning, and stabbed
twice in the thigh. The man left his
hat behind, and the police subsequently
arrested a b~areheaded man who is b e
lieved TO be the criminal. D
While cleaning q revolver DIR. w. A.
NJ. Wainwright, of Hartford, Conn,
accidentally shot himself and will die.
Disappointed at the few passes be
got, Tom Mcguire assaulted harry
Mann, Frohman's stage manager, IL
New York.
The Jury in the case of Pension
Claims Agent Moore, at Buffalo, N. J.,
tried for taking illegal fees, las brought
in a sealed verdict.
Anthony w. Dimock, once a promi-
nent New York financier, has just beer
evicted by Artist j.. Q. A. Ward from
the Pickamoose Club house in the Cat
skiIls. which Dimock claimed as his
home.
A gang of tramps attempted to hole
up and rob a party of bicyclists on the
outskirts of Newark, New Jersey, bu'
the wheelmen captured five OF the
highwaymen and held them until the
arrival of the police. l
A. w. Hodgkins, who was the tele
| graph operator at the West Portal o.
the Hoosac Tunnel at the time of the
| recent disaster. is On trial for man
! slaughter at North Adams, Massachu
| sets. Gross, the operator at the Eas
| Portal, admitted that he was reading
when the express train entered, ant
| forgot to report it to the West Portal
Theodore Blay, aged 80 years, col
ored, ~janitor of a church in Newark
| N. j., was arrested for criminally as
saulting his 13.year-old STEP, daughter
United States Secret Service agent
| at Delaware, ONO, nave arresteu Cnarie
Hardin, who is believed to be tn
leader of a gang of counterfeiters VIII
have been operating in central oni'
for some time.
Work has resumed at Troy, NeV
York, in the Bessemer Steel Works,
part Of the Troy Steel and Iron Com
4 pany's plant, which wentinto Receiver
ship some time ago. Between 400 an
SOC men are given employment.
General Willard Slocum died at Ash
land, Ohio, aged IA years. He wa
Inspector General of the Thirteenth
Army Corps before and during th
siege of Vicksburg, and was brevete'
Brigadier General. He was one OF tn
two delegates appointed by Governo
Brough I meet with loyal men oil tn
South IN 1866.