The Penn's Grove record., 1894-01-26

A thousand yellow flags tell the story
of Kansas City's epidemic of measles.
Chloroforming murderers instead Of
hanging them is proposed by an Ohio
legislator.
Thomas Higgins has been sentenced
at Chicago to be hanged March 23d fol
numbering Peter Mccoy.
By the bursting of a Big -Four
freight engine at Winchester, Ind.
Fireman Rankin was scalded to death.
o~verpowering Waterman Day at
Schultz & Co.'s factory, in GAINESVILLE,
o., three masked men made a $4,000
aul.
After three years silence, Rev. Ben
jamin Baldwin, a Methodist clergyman,
confesses to killing William Henshaw,
OF Richmond, Ind, his rival in love. 8
Grip is killing Indians like sheep ON
Pine Ridge Agency, in Nebraska.
Charged with trying 10 poison his
wife, Philip Bogart, an Oakland Gal
capitalist, is ON trial.
In a 81, 900, 900 infringement suit at
st. Paul, the Wood Harvester Company
beat the Esterly Company.
Embezzler Burke, who stole So, 0O0,-
600 from Louisiana, says he will return
from Honduras to stand trial.
While being initiated into sixteenth
degree Masonry, W. II. Boothroyd, a
Detroit publisher, dropped dead.
High railroad rates will make the
~Spreckels, of San Francisco, send 50,-
900 tons of raw sugar round the Horn.
On his way to the pe~nitentiary,
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
failed to explode,
Charged with helping her lynched
son to murder Mr.. and Mrs. Rhines,
Mrs. Elizabeth Parker, of Winchester,
O., was arrested. 4
Pleasanton, Kan, chose Mrs. Ann
Austin Mayor by eight majority, wo-
men casting 1913 votes.
With chloroform and prussic acid
II. B. F. O'Dell, a Chicago real estate
man, ended his life at Port Huron,
Mich.
In a desperate fight with officers at
Mercer, w. Va, two bandits, named
Mullen, were killed, with Sheriff Hall.
Oxalic acid, swallowed by Henry
Telskan, a Tombs prisoner, at New
York, brought him to a horrible death.
Angered by the rivalry of John F,
NORRIS in the detective business, James
McCane put a bullet throughhi his heart.
Three shots were fired at Mrs. Will
lam Owens, of Atlanta, while asleep,
and her husband WAS arrested for the
shooting.
For trying to blow up the Nelson
monument, at Montreal, Henry Mer-
cier and two companions were fined
$25 each.
On charges of robbing his wife's
Jewelry store of $1S, 900 worth of stock.
Lyonce LANCER, of New York, was ar
rested. 5
Robbers killed merchant L. Lip
schultz, at Waco, Tex, and fatally in
jured his wife.
Accused of setting fire to offensive
glue works, near his residence, William
Akridge, of Atlanta, is on trial.
Baltimore fire insurance underwrit-
ers have raised the rates because of the
alleged inadequate fire department.
Returning from a spree, Walter
Phipps, of Chicago, fatally shot Mrs.
James Mccormick and Miss Elma
Erickson in his boarding house, and
then killed himself.
L. N. ODell, an aeronaut, was killed
at Washington, North Carolina, by the
collapse of a balloon.
A tornado struck Oak Cliff, Dallas
and East Dallas, Texas, demolishing or
damaging than 100 buildings.
A boy was killed and a man seriously
injured. The total damage to property
is estimated at S100, 900.
A wagon containg six persons was
struck by a train near Findlay, Ohio.
VIM. Rodecker, Mrs. Henry Rodecker
and Henry Russell were killed and Mrs.
VIM. Herbey was fatally injured. l
A 30-foot vein of gold and copper
was struck at Prince Station, S. d.
In an insane fit, +. W. Plummer,
the oldest photographer of Wheeling,
w. Va, shot himself.
Assignment that revealed heavy em-
bezzlement drove Samuel G.. Mage, of
Wapanoketa, o., to suicide.
Simon A. Marx, a New Orleans cot
ton broker, blew the top of his head off
because he was unable to meet several
large notes.
A COW on l..e track derailed engine
and two cars of a passenger train near
Fitzpatrick, Ala, and Engineer Will
liams and Fireman Kimball were badly
scalded.
The operating rooms of the Ohio
Valley Telephone Company, at Louis
| vile, we're burned. Loss, 10000, .
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