The Penn's Grove record., 1895-07-19
OF THE WEEK,
Southern ana
Western States

: W. 1 bOOtgs
An explosion of oil blew to pieces
the Standard Oil Company's warehouse
at Harlem, ILL.,, doing $50, 900 damage.
Al a negro festival at Russellville,
KY, Walsh and Rufus Lyon, white.
brothers, shot dead Luther Ryan,
colored.
San Francisco authorities arrested
Charles Schlessinger, wanted in New
York for selling diamonds, given him
on commission.
By being crushed between a coal car
and a mine elevator at Pana, ILL.,, j.
l.. Dickson, a mine superintendent,
was fatally hurt.
After w. B. Lysle, bookkeeper for
lngersoll and West, of Sioux City, Ia,
disappeared, his accounts were found
$40, 900 short.
The sentences of Debs and his COM
panlons were reduced one-half by
Judge Woods, at Chicago, giving them
the original terms. 3
y genuine bull fight will be a feature
of a carnival of sports at Gillette, COL,
this fall.
For the murder of Policeman Minor,
who tried to arrest him, Alexander
Simms was hanged at Jacksonville,
Illinois.
Professor w. ]. Hussey, of Standard
University, ILL.,, will succeed Professor
Barnard as astronomer of Lick Obser-
vatory, Cal.
The gold mine found neal India,
Ariz., which is paying richly, is believed
TO be the ''Old Peg Leg mine, discov-
cred 90 years ago.
George Cheesebro, in Detroit, muir
dered his grandmother, Mrs. Levi
Price. The dead m quarrelled
with her daughter, Mary, aged 10
years, and it is said said George inter
fered. The two young people at first
%concocted a story that Mrs. Price had
been killed by tramps.
Mrs. Clarence Chafin shot and ia
tally wounded Minnie Overall in a
crowded street carin Huntington, West
Virginia. Jealousy was the motive for
the crime.
John Bockmayer, 70 years of age, a
prisoner in the Kings County (New
York; Penitentiary, committed suicide
by jumping from the third tier of cells
to the pavement below. 4
Denver police had to be called out
to suppress a riot in the Chinese quar-.
ter.
In trying to ford a swollen stream
near Iredell, Tex, Mary and Della Ar.
llington were swept away with theii
wagon and drowned.
With her hands and feet bound, the
body OF Carrie Padgett, a m Of
bad reputation, was found in the river
at Dublin, Ca, and her sister is also
missing.
An express struck a hand-car bearing
j. N. Goodrich, cashier of the Toledo
Il Ohio Central Railroad, at Fostoria,
TO-, his wife and son, and only Good
rich escaped alive.
At Murphy, North Carolina, Mrs
lJennys was shot and killed by her hus
band. She was driving with VIM
Wilkinson, and Jennys meant to xii
Ihim, but the bullet struck the wife in
stead.
At Jacksonville, Georgia, Mrs
William Mobiles and Gus families wer'
found guilty of the murder of William
Mobiles, and sentenced to be hung OF
August 16. Mary families was sen
fenced to life Imprisonment in thu
pcnitentiary for completely in tn
crime.
Without a sound, Jacob Baumbere
fell dead in the street, at Wheeling
w. Va, and was found to be shot b.
an unknown foe.
Negroes and whites in mass meeting
at Lake City, Fla, condemned tn
, Ilynching of Rev. Robert Bennett, col
ored, who took liberties with a whit
girl.
As the result of the inquest over Mrs
Jennyss, killed near Murphey, N. q.
Will Wilkinson, who was with tn
woman when shot, and r. L. Jennyss
her husband, are held for trial.
Cornelius Miller, aged 80, an EN-
Iploye in a pulp mill neal Cumberland
Maryland, fell asleep in the ''blow-ou
lpit' and the contents of a digester wer
, lemptied over him. His dead body wa
found 20 minutes later.
John Wilton and Bob Morrow Tough
; a duel at X. Diamond RANCH. in Okla
homa, because of a quarrel over tn
Ownership of a calf. Wilton was sho
twice in the legs and once 10 the body
and Morrow received six bullets. Tn
!. firing began on signal and the distanc'
was twenty PAGES.
In Detroit, Michigan, the jury il
, the DIR. Seaman case returned a yerdiC
of guilty on the third count. Dr
seaman was charged with causing tn
death OF Emily Hall. 1
!, Baxter Shemweil has been acquitte'
/ of the murder of DIR. Payne, at Lexing
ton, N. @.
Clarence Barr, the Chinatown guide
who was stabbed in San Francisco b.
IC. B. Henderson, is dead.
Pasduale Garofala, his son and Matt
, Mario were arrested at Chicago fo
, making spurious coins, and a lot @
pattern pieces were captured.
Fourteen cars loaded with whisky
tobacco and other merchandise wer
destroyed in a wreck at White Sulphur
0 o. Richard Hurley, a moulder, wa
killed.
In all the churches in the vicinit
lof Thompsonville, Michigan, prayer
IA we're offered for rain to put out tn
forest fires and revive the witherinI
crops.
Amob of several hundred peopI
called at the Owsley county jail, a
Bonneville, Kentucky, and after takin
three "alleged immoral persons" fror
the jail gave each one a hundred lash
ies on the bare back, afterwards return
ing them to the Jail.