The Penn's Grove record., 1894-06-01
News in Brief.

After being missing several weeks,
James H. Parke, of a New York chem
cial firm, wal found stealing a ride on
a train near Birmingham, Ala. 8
The bodies of three sailors we're found
in one of the packets of the Govern
ment pier at Chicago. They were vic
tins of the recent storm.
Admiral James E. Jouet, U. S. N,
retired, was knocked down and run over
by a team in Washington. Beyond a few
bruises, it is said, he is uninjured, and
expects TO be out again shortly,
In a shotgun Array at Dorseyville,
La, Adolph Block, Jules Lebe and a
negro were killed.
The Columbian Museum at Chicago
will hereafter be known as the Field
Columbian Museum. 8
Fright in a runaway in a cemetery
at Quincy, ILL.,, killed Mrs. w. II.
Kendall. Later her horse also drop
ped dead.
For the first time in so years, Nor
fork, Va, will have q legal hanging,
on July IL. Madison Brown, the col
ored slayer, of Councilman Dollard,
will swing.
For saving a Panhandle Railroad
Worlds Fair express, containing
French passengers, from wreck on a
burning trestle, at Milford, Ind, last
summer, 1o-year-old Jennie Creek has
just received the Legion of Honor in
sigma from France.
A severe hail storm occurred in
Buchel, in Western Texas. "The
ground was covered to a depth of six
inches with hail stones, some of which
were as large as oranges. Crops were
totally destroyed, and many sheep and
poultry were killed outright. The
roofs of buildings were riddled."
Decatur, Illinois, is infected by a
pest of "seventeen-year' locusts,
Abbie stigers, an employee of the
Georgetown Hosiery Company, Viii
mington, Del, was caught by a revolv-
ing shaft and was being drawn into a
machine when a companion saved her
by cutting off her dress. 2
A riot occurred at st. Casimir's Polish
Roman Catholic Church, at Freeland,
near Hazleton, Penna., between
rival factions in the congregation. Six
persons are known to have been injured,
two probably fatally. A dozen others.
who were injured, fled to escape arrest
Wreckage indicates that the i'll fated
steamship Oregon has gone to pieces
off Long Island.
Obsequies of Philadelphia's drowned
Harvard student, w. s. Hockey, were
held in Boston.
Florence De Lipman, the actress, is
suing her husband, Max De Lipman,
the New York artist, for divorce, Max
had intended a similar move, but the
woman got in first.
X. F. Sutherland, the fugitive convict
and former Justice of the Peace Of
Gravesend, surrendered himself to
Sheriff Buttling in Brooklyn. 2
The State Fair will be held at Mead
vile, beginning September 9th, to
continue week.
PottsvilIe's treasury is empty, and
the officials have not received salaries
for a month.
Nicholas Wahlars, respondent over
the death of several children, hanged
himself at Lancaster.
Tax Collector Fred Boyle, of Schuyl-
kill County, convicted of embezzle-
ment, goes to prison for If months.
Thirty of the 50 colIeries of the Phil
adelphia and Reading Company were
put into operation.
Gladstone is rapidly recovering from
the operation Oh his eye.
A building that was being erected in
Berlin collapsed and killed four work
men and injured six.
A steer from Montreal with plcuro-
pneumonia is likely to bar Canadian
cattle from Liverpool.
Artist Henry Bacon, of Boston, has
received, for his picture, Little Bo-
Peep" the third class medal of the old
Paris Salon.