The Penn's Grove record., 1894-07-20
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Eastern and Middle
States.

at South Haven, Michigan, Frank
Smith, a son of the captain, was
burned to death; Engineer Connell,
fatally burned, and Will Leroy, who
was almost suffocated, may not re-
cover.
The business portion of st. Glars
vile, Ohio, was destroyed by fire. The
loss is estimated at $50, 900. 8
P. G. Hanford, Vice President of the
National Linseed Oil Company, COM
mitted suicide by shooting at Chicago.
Free quarantine will be in force at
Charleston, S. c., beginning August /.
After driving his wife away by
cruelty, John Drake, of Anderson,
lnd., went and shot her, afterwsrd
killing himself. 4
Two more victims of the barge fire at
South Haven, Mich, have died.
Heart disease suddenly killed Leroy
Higgins, a travelling aeronaut, at Cres-
ton, o.
By a rear-end collision, caused by
absence of lights, Brakeman John
] Henry was killed at East st. LOUIS.
James Spears, aged II years, and
Howard Rainwater, aged 10 years,
fought a duel near Liberty, Alabama.
Rainwater was killed and Spears was
arrested. The boys were rival suitors
of a young woman. 5
Train wreckers failed in an attempt
on a West Shore train at Fort Plain,
N. Y.
After a long debauch with his wife,
John Stone was found dead in q pool
| of blood in his home at Somerville,
Mass. His wife was arrested.
A portion of the Lewes wharf, at
Boston, Massachusetts,, collapsed, and
five men, who were discharging coal
from q schooner, were carried down
with the wreckage. Michael Driscoll
and William Smith were taken out
dead and the three others were found
dangerously injured. 8
After nine days suffering from sui
cldal wound, Judge A. B. Wentworth
died at Dedham, Mass.
1t was reported at New Rochelle,
New York, that the Starin steamboat
Edgarton on a late trip to Glen Island,
ran down a rowboat containing two
men zeal the island. One man named
Sullivan, and another named Donohue
are reported as missing.
The fertilizng works of Williams &
Clark, of Carteret, near Railway, New
Jersey, were almost entirely destroyed
ny fire. Loss $500. 600. S
A Belgian "whaleback" steamer,
with a cargo from Mexican ports, Is at
tracing unusual attention at Brooklyn,
N. Y.
With an IRON pipe, John Hagan, OF
Brooklyn, fractured the skull of his
drunken son, who had abused him
shamefuIly.
Bernhard +. Gentsch, who served as
postmaster at Buffalo, N. Y, under
Harrison, and only relin9uished the
Office Two weeks ago, blew his brains
out.
Daniel Hagsn, aged 10 years. of
Brooklyn, was struck on the head with
an iron pipe, in the hands of his
father, and sustained q fracture of the
skull. The elder Hagan was arrested.
Irene Bolton was found wandering
in a dazed condition in jersey City.
She was at first committed for drunken
ness, but it was found that she had
been knocked down and assaulted by
an unknown a l
New York city is getting into the
swim. 1t proposes to cremate garbage,
just like Philadelphia and other big
cities.
Mrs. Lizzie Halliday won't die in
the electric chair. Her sentence for
murder has been committed by Cover
nor Flower to life imprisonment.
A man at Russell, N. Y, has sold
for $500 each four pearls that he found
in fresh water clans, and has another
for which he has refused $1,000.
False entries for $49, 900 in the
books of the Chicopee (Mass.) National
Bank, caused Cashier Emile G. Knapp,
to be sentenced to five years in Jail. 2