The Penn's Grove record., 1894-08-03

Nischieyous boys have smashed
$1,000 worth of terra Gotta sewer pipes
ready to be laid in Reading streets
The Pennington Telephone Com
peny, of Pennington, Fayette County,
capital $500, was chartered .
Mrs. William Bckert, a Reading
pow-wow doctor, has been arrested for
selling charms and talismans to John
Herbein.
For stealing loads of his fellow
miners coal by attaching his tags to
them, at Pottsville, Thomas Dixon WAS
arrested.
A dynamite cartridge, mlslnid and
accidentally placed in the stove, scared
Thomas Brewers servant girl terribly
at AnnvIlle.
Skin grating has necessary
to heal the badly bruised knee Of Harry
Nutting, who was recently kicked by a
horse, at Lebanon.
One of Michael Stsphanie's feet was
almost burned off at the Pennsylvania
Steel Works, Harrisburg, by his step
ping into a pot of molten metal, 4
Young Samuel Adams took cram S
and was drowned while bathing near
Mahanoy City.
A Reading freight train pa.ted and
came together again at Mahanoy City,
wrecking % cars.
Sixteen-year old Joseph Cohen, of
York, shot and killed himself in front
Of a train at Black River Station. p
Beeauge his wife preferred low COM
panions, Samuel Oliver shot and killed
both her and himself at Pittsburg.
For being $1,000 short in his accounts
as executor of an estate, George Sarvis,
Reading yardmaster at Mahanoy Plane,
has been sent to jail.
Fireman Charles McCauley was ia
tally hurt, and others were badly in
jured, in the wreck of an engine and
eight cars belonging to the Carnegie
Company, at Braddock.
For trying to down neighbors' cats
Thomas Murray was sem to the work
house from P~ittsburg.
Disappointed in love, Daisy Fitting
er, of Drums, Luzerne County, swal-
lowed laudanum and died.
A hand crushed by a piece of falling
rock in a Luzerne mine caused lockjaw
that killed E. T. Havensteiner.
The lighting of a natural gas well at
Kane ignited and blew up a glycerine
magazine. 1t shook all that region.
Brakeman John Swartz, of Scranton,
slept with 1920 belonging to Switch
mems Brotherhood under his pillow
and woke up without it.
James Pitchers wife lodged a re-
volver bullet, which he fired close to
her head, at Towanda. He was ar
rested.
Mrs. Ann Hosie, a Scranton wash
woman, thinks she has fallen heir to
the Scotch fortune of 5000, 600 left by
Peter Stratton, of Dundee, her uncle.
Aged Mrs. Minnie Shealenstahler, of
Pittsburg, distrusted banks, hid her
savings for years (nearly $1,000 be-
tween feather beds, and was robbed of
the entire hoard.
A black snake over four feet long
wriggled into Jones, Simpson & Co.'s
store, at Archibald, scared a woman
customer silly, and was killed by q clerk
with q Ratchet. l
Murderer James L. Isell, at Harris
burg, has little hope of clemency at
the hands of the Supreme Court in
October.
A boardwalk gave way at Susque-
hanna and dropped $50 persons 20 feet
into a shallow creek. 35 of them were
bruised.
The body of a suicide, Minnie Clark,
of C~oolbaugh. daughter of a Justice of
the Peace, was found in Echo Lake,
near Stroudsburg.
John Hackett rode on horseback
over young Harry Miller, at MELVILLE,
and broke Miller's collar bone and
otherwise injured him.
Morrow, the desperate fellow whom
New York detectives had such a hard
time recapturing, denies in Scranton
Jail that he shot Constable Doughr, as
alleged. 9