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

A charter was granted to the Boyer
Canal Company, of Scranton, SIS, 900
capital stock. -s
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The premature explosion of a blast
In Enterprise Colliery, Shamokin, killed
John Bruskie, a miner.
Falling into the cogwheels at a col
llery, near Scranton, little Andrew Deer
skin was ground to pieces.
Burglars looted the stores of Reilly
Brothers & Raub, Gausman Brothers
and A, A. Shelf, Lancaster.
Brakeman NJ. j. Jackson, of the
Lehigh Valley Railroad, residing at
Sayre, is in Jail, accused of raising a
check for 81. so to $75.
School Teacher Joyce, who for over
a week held the Archibald school house
against the directors, evacuated it at
the approach of a Sheriff.
For various ~burglaries at Christiana,
Jacob Short was sent to prison for sew
en- and a half years and Thomas Bar
mum for six years.
Creditors whose claims aggregate
about 500, 900 are mourning the alb
sence from Pittsburg of S. H. Connick,
proprietor of the Meadville Protective
Bureau.
Pittsburg Detectives will come to
Philadelphia to look at the two bunco
men caught here and who are supposed
to have feeced Jacob Trauger, aGreens-
burg farmer, out of $4,000. 4
Jumping from a train near Harris.
burg, Hugh Conn tumbled into the
river, but was not hurt.
In a gas explosion in a shamokin
colliery, Frederick Nicholas and Joseph
Strausser were badly burned.
Hurled to the ground by his run
away team in Easton, Joel Stout, a
miller, was found with a fractured
skull.
For stabbing to death Thomas Ter
IA, at Pittsburg, Vincenzo Pigano was
convicted of murder in the second de-
gree.
Indictments for embezzlement were
found against E. K. Smith and C. f.
Graybill, the Columbia bankers who
failed.
Benny salinger, aged 81 years, Su-
perintendent of the Central Newspaper
Union, died suddenly in Philadelphia,
while being taken to the German Hos
pital. He was found unconscious at
the Sixteenth Street Station of the
Reading Railroad.
A mass meeting of citizens will be
held in Johnstown to induce the Beech
Creek Railroad to extend its line from
Black Lick to that city.
Isaac Seaman, a peddler, wa en-
ticed into a house at Pottsville, robbed
and terribly beaten, and Peter lawson
and Anthony Fere are in Jail,
Flanagan and Gallen, the young
men captured at Williamsport were
taken to Allegheny County, Nd, to be
tried for the murder of a mine super
intendent. De
A Philadelphia and Reading freight
train smashed into a passenger loco
motive near Reading, w~recking. both
engines.
Linden Hall Seminary for girls, at
Lititz, will this year celebrate its cen
tennial.
Reading police are looking for two
game sharpers, who defrauded
Harry B. Schwartz.
1t has been learned that ~disappoint-
ment in a love affair caused the suicide
of Miss Hattie Dudley, near Port Allie
gheny.
Attempting to cross the railroad
tracks at Scranton, Isaac Winan, an
aged milkman was run down by a To-
connective. l
A big cave-in, caused by rotten mine
pillars, occurred in Scranton.
The Wilkesbarre and Eastern Rail
road was opened for freight business.
A sharper swindled a number of
farmers near Reading out of $1,000 on
horse sales.
Thieves got $500 booty in the Dun
canvllle Post Office and Postmaster
John Aker's store.
An emery-wheel, upon which he was
sharpening a saw, blew up, killing Will
liam Kahl, of Lewisburg.
A $4,000 parochial school is to be
erected at Pottsville by st. Johns Ger
mar Catholic congregation.
In a gas explosion at a Pittsburg
mine, Patrick Gallagher and James
McKane were critically burned.
August Alchert, who shot himself a
week ago because rejected by his sweet
heart. is dead at Scranton.
A charter was granted to the Brad
dock and Homestead Street Railway
Company, capital $500.
Andrew Yuhanos and George We'll
guchvick are in jail at Pottsville as a
result of the murder of Joseph Sabro-
ski, near Hazleton.
John Wellner, in the Scranton
Court, confessed the killing of John
Morganski, and his plea of manslaugh-
Ter was accepted.
Accused of robbing a Philadelphia
oysterman of $50 and George Sher-
brook, of Rockdale, of $2S, Richard
johnson was uabbed in Chester.
At the instance of Widow Mary A.
Robinson, Mrs, Jane Robinson, Viii
liam Robinson and Lewis Heacock
ITnJanJ for ran,nvino