The Penn's Grove record., 1894-08-24
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Eastern and Middle
C+afns

James II. Cummings an actor, shot
himself in the head, and died an hour
later, in New York city.
Police Captain DAILY, Of Newark,
New Jersey, has formerly charged
! Henry Kohl with the murder of Joseph
/ Preinel, whose body was found IN a
creek on June 16. 1t was supposed
that Preinel committed suicide. but on
the assertion of Kohl's wife, made last
week, that her husband had confessed
the murder of Preinel, the police made
an investigation, and claim to have
found sufficient evidence to conyic
Kohl of the crime.
Paris papers approve the acqulttal OF
the 80 alleged Anarchists and blame
the prosecution for trying to confuse
mere preachers and theorists with or
ldinary thieves.
Mt. Etna, the Sicilian volcano,
shows signs of a violent eruption.
Kafiirs in the north of the Trans
yaal have revolted and are pillaging
the homesteads.
Sir James Whitehead, advanced Lib
eral, and ex-Lord Mayor of London,
has Withdrawn from Parliament on ac-
count of i'll health.
The body of Nettie Douglass, aged
Is years, having three bullet wounds in
her head, was found at Henniker,
New Hampshire. She had gone car
rage riding with Arthur Mclean, Is
! years, who had borrowed a revolver
before starting. Mclean is in custody.
For smuggling Anarchist literature
Into Bohemia, four Czechs were SEN
te nced for terms of eight months to
eight years in prison. 3
After a prolonged debluch, William
Belts Lawrence, a wealthy. member OF
the Century Club, New York, shot
himself MORALLY on the club house
doorsteps.
Adams H. Snyder, formerly engaged
in the dry goods trade in Philadelphia,
and lately a representative of the ''Dry
Goods Economist" was found dead in
a hotel in New York city, mis- throat
having been cut with a razor, A
Emma Goldman, the Anarchist, will
be released from Blackwell's Island,
N. Y.
In a quarrel over a poorly-made
coat, Convict ]. ]. FANCY, of Sing
Sing Prison, severely stabbed Instructor
Charles Salisbury, five times with tail
ors' shears.
BY the bursting of boiler tubes in
the yacht Vanish, which was racing off
shelter Island, n. Y, Rev. ]. A. AS
pinswall, her owner, and the engineer
were badly burned.
The steamer General Slocum, which
ran aground on Rockaway Inlet bar,
New York Bay, could not be pulled off.
All her passengers, excepting 10 or IL,
who refused to leave, we're taken off by
other steamboats,. D
William II. Vogel, aged 80 years,
shot Louise b. Bartlett, aged about 80
years, with whom he had been living,
| three times, in New York city, Vogel
then fired two shots into his own breast
and fell dead. 1t is thought the wo-
man will die.
A carriage containing five young
women and a boy, aged s years, was
overturned while crossing a creek and
two women were drowned, near Shreve-
port, Louisiana.
The ship General Knox, of Thomas
ton, Maine, with a valuable cargo for
San Francisco, was burned nearly to
the waters edge at New York. Loss,
about 5000, 00U.
The Hawley silk mills, at Port Jervis,
New York, employing 800 operatives
and valued at $500, 000, were destroyed
by fire.
A freight train on the New York
Central Railroad parted on the outskirts
of Buffalo, and, the cars coming
together with great force, the oil tanks
caught fire and exploded, causing a
loss Of $4,000. l
Pool rooms at Lynn and Point OF
Pines, Massachusetts, were swindled
ont of large sums of money by "wire
tappers," who intercepted the messages
and delayed the announcements OF the
results of the races.
The body of a man about 40 years OF
age was found on the beach at Rock
away Point, Long Island. There was
La bullet hole in his left eye
and one in the back of his head
His right hand clu;ched a revolver,
which was in his pistol pocket. 1t is
believed he was shot by another as he
was about to draw his weapon.
A FIRE believed to be of incendiary
origin, at Bergen Point, New Jersey,
DESTROYED the agricultural implement
factory of Carr & Hobson, and badly
damaged the works of the Makite Fire
proof Construction Company and the
Otis Glass Manufacturing Company.
Malicious tampering with the fire hyd-
rants added to the difficulty of fighting
the flames. Total loss about $3.50, 900,
Lizzie Patterson, the ~17-year-old CIR
convicted of forgery in New York, was