The Penn's Grove record., 1894-01-12
South and West.

The University of Chicago gets
$50, 900 more from John D. Rockefeller
to buy books.
Governor Stone advises the Mississip-
pi Legislature to buy State farms on
which to employ convicts.
Attempting to shoot George Sturgis
in a quarrel, John Levicks, of Glasgow,
Ia, fatally wounded his 10-year-old
boy.
After 10 years of opium smuggling
from Canada, Donald Kennedy, a no.
torious criminal, was nabbed at De-
troit.
Insane on religion, Frederick A.
Names, of Ottawa, Mich, called at the
Chicago police station to secure Prem
dergast's release, and was sent to an
asylum.
G. F. B. Howard. otherwise John
Lord Moore, was convicted at Jackson,
Tennessee, of conducting extensive
fraudulent operations by the use of
the mails.
Conrad Durke's private bank, at
Franklin Grove, Illinois, was robbed by
burglars of from 800, 900 to $4,000.
A fire, which started in the Quale ele-
vator, in Toledo, Ohio, spread to the
King elevator, the Chamber of Com
merce, the Wonderland Museum The
atre, West & Truax's wholesale drug
house, Kings block and other proper
ties. The losses, SO far as known, al
ready exceed $S50,000. a
With a shotgun, j. F. Alfriend. a
Lee County (Ga.) farmer, blew his
brains out.
Clipping of gold coin Jailed Ralph
Wilcox and Mrs. James Wilcox, his
sister-in-law, at Chicago.
Breaking out of the Keyser Nv. Va
jail, five prisoners fled, but four were
soon caught.
Postmaster elsie, at Shandon, Bat
Ter County, o., has been arrested bal
appropriating money order funds.
Chasing three burglars, a Chicago
policeman seriously wounded Stephen
Conway, but the others escaped.
For Selling account books of the
Minneapolis coal combine seven Min
nesota legislators were fined $500 each.
Three witnesses for Grew" Mr..
Howard, convicted at Jackson, Penn,
of gross frauds, are jailed for perjury.
Found short $50, 900 to $50, 900 in
his accounts, Treasurer F A. Nelson,
Of Brunswick, Ca, was removed from
office and has fed.
John Kilroy, living near Tuscumbia,
Ala, went home drunk and to bed with
his lighted pipe, and burned himself
and two children to death.
James NJ. Bowling, the ex-cashier of
| the United States Mint, at New Or
| leans, who was accused of having en-
bezzled $685. 600 and started a fire in the
vault to cover up the crime, was &C.
quilted by the jury in the United States
| Court.
George Farrar, aged IA years, was
/ buOb anu kliltu hcul picSANlilcy Ala
bama, by Irby McCarthen. another
boy, who claims that he did the shoot
in self-defence. 6
Warned by an alleged revelation, Ida
Rux, a La Porte (Ind.) belle, has tasted
two weeks and will die.
Blowing out the gas in a Savannah
hotel, H. C. Mcdonald, of Hamlet, N.
c., compassed his on own death.
For half a million dollars, a New
York and English syndicate bought the
famous Victor mine at Cripple Creek.
Col.
Harlan Richards, a mine owner ant
politician, of Centreville, Iowa, wa:
fatally injured while inspecting his
mines.
Enticed into the woods at Birming.
ham, Ala, Lieutenant Walker, of the
United States Cavalry, was murdered,
and Desperate Eugene Byers was ar
rested.
A pauper burial was given DR.. Gin.
ton Cavendish, the English scientist,
at San Antonio, Tex, as he had only
worthless South American currency on
his person.
Judge Dundy, at Omaha, Neb., sen,
fenced Louis de France TO imprison.
ment for life for stealing one cent. Dc
France held up a mail carrier at Cor,
don and only secured a penny. The
punishment is fixed by laws and the
Court, in pronouncing sentence, said il
was too severe, but he had no re
course.
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