The Penn's Grove record., 1894-05-04
PENN'S GROVE, N. j., FRIDAY. MAY A.. 1894

Mrs. . Elliott f. Shepard, of New
York, has given 800 to found a Shep-
ard scholarship at Lafayette College.
A coal trains wreck blockaded the
Philadelphia and Erie Railroad a few
miles west of Williamsport.
Running back in front of a runaway
horse to save his marbles, ~10-year-old
John Holloway was fatally hurt at
Mahanoy City.
Harrisburg's Boot and Shoe Manu-
featuring Company is to have the larg-
est plant of its kind in the world, to
turn out %, 900 pairs of shoes weekly
more than double its present capacity.
Fourteen-year-old Morris Dickert
disappeared from his home in Allen
town and came back with a dime novel
tale that he had been kidnapped and
taken to West Bethlehem. 8
All the illegal car riders caught at
Reading say they are on the way to
JON CoXey's army
Joseph F. Weaver, a former waiter
at the Pittsburg Club is charged with
iDiSluS u CiGth IOT SlODt.
The anniversary last evening of the
Rex Hook and ladder Company at York
was the occasion for a big celebration.
Charters were granted to the West
Penn sand and Stone Company, of Pitts
burg; capital. $4,000. Larin,er Licthing
Pillow Company, of Greensburg; capital,
$4,000. 4
Burglars got 800 worth of booty in
the Lehigh Valley Railroad station at
pittston.
Lizzie Siegle was fodnd unconscious
in Lancaster from inhaling illuminating
gas and she will die.
Only the intervention of friends pre-
vented Frank Rapp from drowning
himself in the river near Pottstown.
Three men, all badly burned on
their arms and necks, are going the
rounds IN Lebanon County, and it is
thought they are thieves who were hurt
trying to blow open a safe with dyna-
mite. 5
Warren Mix, of zeal Remove, who
was shot several days ago by Robert
Clark is dead.
Detectives captured eight men neal
Susquehanna, who are believed to have
robbed many freight cars in that vi
cinity.
There was another cave-in in the fatal
Gaylord mine at Plymouth.
William o. Bateman was killed in the
Short Mountain Colliery, near Will
Jamestown.
A dozen men and several women,
accused of many robberies, were Jailed
at Ebensburg.
Suspected of being the crook who
robbed the Pullman House, at Duryen,
John Dudley was jailed at Pittston.
The Pennsylvania Traction Com
pany, to expedite its Philadelphia and
Harrisburg trolley, has purchased the
Lancaster and Lititz turnpike.
There is a woman embalmer in AL
.legheny City, Mrs. Jennie Wood.
District Attorney Flood is after the
jack pot slot machinesin Berks County.
Five men dropped so feet in a mine
at Lykens, and none were seriously
hurt.
On the steps of Harpers' Hotel, in
East Hanover, Lebanon County, John
Kline dropped dead.
By tumbling from a building at Pitts
burg, Robert Gill was killed and Edgar
Jones badly hurt.
1t is announced at Susquehanna that
a new railroad is o to be built from
Deposit to Syracuse, N. Y.
Jerked from his seat by a jolt, James
Shell, a Reading teamster, was crushed
~lifeless under his own wagon.
Accused of w~recking a train near
Pittsburg three years ago, G. w. Gale,
sent to prison.
S~torekeepers in Pottsville are fighting
Evangelist Rice, who attracts custom
ers away by preaching in the streets.
Simon Savelle, charged with robbing
Isaac Garfinkel, a Philadelphia sales
man, was captured at Pittsburg. 2