The Penn's Grove record., 1894-08-03
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Eastern and Middle
States.

Eastern ana q
States.
John Wells, ex-City Health Officer
OF Chattanooga, Tenn, has been arrest
ed for forgery.
By the caving in of a clstern's walls
at Winona, Mimi, three bricklayers
and Henry Guebach, aged 9, were
killed.
Robbers oyerpowered Dick Gales al
Frankfort, Ind, and threw him into q
lake. whence he escaped with difficulty
On the charge of embezzling $40, 900,
W. G. Kerley, freight cashier of the
Missouri Pacific at St. Louis, was ar
rested.
Charging executors with fraud, Mrs.
Sarah F. Hitler sues for 1000, 900 OF
more due from the estate of her
brother.in-law, ]. w. Ladd, Of Port
land, Ore.
A wholesale slaughter of whites by
negroes, in Simpson County, Miss.
was prevented by the whites learning
of the scheme. The negroes were
lashed.
In a desperate fight at Jacksonville
Qnd.) Prison, William Flower, a white
convict fatally pounded Bob Buckner,
colored, and was' himself terribly
| slashed.
A trestle on the Iron Mountain Rail
road, Just north of Little Rock, Arkan'
sas, was set on fire in an attempt to
wreck a train, but the engineer was
able to stop in time.
Twenty-eignt cars, piled up in a
Havana IN. W wreck, cover the body
of Brakeman Daniel Wright.
A woman forger, supposed to be the
much-wanted Mrs. Kate Bradford, Of
Brooklyn, N. Y, has been arrested at
Atlanta, Ga.
BY a train wreck at an open switch
| at Fredonia, N, Y, Richard Franklin,
aged 10, who was picking up coal was
fatally hurt.
For $50, 900, the Standard Oil Com
pany bought up the fields and franchise
of the Erie County IN. W Natural Gas
Fuel Company.
James F. Foyle was killed in Pater-
son, New Jersey, by being impaled by
the tongue of a wagon drawn by two
runaway horses. 3
A $75, 900 fortune falls to Michael
Welsh, in Boston jail for theft.
Sent to an industrial school for theft
Burt Webb, aged IA ofLockport, N. Y,
confessed to setting a costly mill a fire.
Two men entered the office of Will
liam Booth, at Ottawa, Out, and
bagged him and robbed him of $1,000
in cash.
Wayland Trask, of Kismet Temple,
Brooklyn, N. Y, has been chosen de-
putty imperial p~otentate of the Imper-
| ial Council of Mystic ShrIners.
With a dose of Tokay wine and car
bolic acid, Simon Sternberg, of New
York, aged 10, said to he an Austrian
of rank, tried to kill himself. 4
In a runaway at Rochester, n. y,
Wilson Soule, a millionaire, was thrown
out and killed.
For the alleged murder of his wife,
Margaret, John McManus, of Boston,
has been arrested.
The body of Herman Ludwig, a far
mer near Paterson, New Jersey, was
found hanging to a tree near his home.
He had a quarrel with his wife and
had not been seen since.
A German, supposed t o be Adolph
Lens, of Newark, New Jersey, com
mitted suicide at Elizabeth by drinking
carbolic acid.
To end his financial troubles Horatio
Henrioues, a New York reat estate
man. shot himself in his office.
For whistling in Court, Thomas Nc
Intyre, a Hartford, Conn. boy, was
fined for contempt, and indignant citl-
zens paid the bill.
George Bateman, IS years old, OF
Cambridge, Mass, swung a hammocR
from the chimney on the roof OF hi'
boarding house to escape the heat
The chimney collapsed and Bateman
was taken from the debris dead.
A Thomas Island, near Pittsfield,
Massachusetts, George b. Castle, ageo
90 wears, was struck by lightning and
instantly killed, and Charles johnson,
Henry Wagner and Lena Wagner, who
were with Castle under a tree. were
terriably shocked.
John W. Love, Cashier of the Ma
tional Bank of Watkins, New York,
who disappeared, it was charged, with
$40, 900 belonging to the institution,
has been arrested. l
Tuberculosis in "a COWS of James II.
Searles' Jersey herd, at Rome, N. y,
has been the cause OF their killing
Major John H. Searles, who was re-
GENTLY a witness before the Lexow Com
mittee at New York, was killed by a
cable "a there.
James Woods reported to the police
officials of New York city that he, with
his brother, Hugh Woods, George
Clippers, Henry Heblein, Jacob
Schmidt and John Schaefer, was sailing
in a Yacht on the Hudson river when
the craft was capsized in a squall and
Clippers, Heblein and Schmidt were
drowned.
A Lehigh Valley coal train was
wrecked near Ithaca, New York, and
the fireman instantly killed and the
engineer dangerously injured. The To-
connective came in collision with a num-
her Of cars which had run off a siding