The Penn's Grove record., 1895-12-20
NEWS OF THE WEEK,

NEWS OF THE WEEK.
The Cleveland Chamber Of Com
merce decided to erect q $780, 600
building.
For 1926, 900 Benjamin H. Morgan
Of London, England, has bought Is
gold mines ear Colorado Springs.
On his own veranda, Deputy Sheriff
j.. M. Brookin, Of Monticello, Fla, was
shot deadly an unknown assassin.
Ex-Congressman H. 8. Bundy, of
jackson, o., (father-in-law Of ex-Gov-
ernor Foraker). is dangerously i'll.
The dynamite gun tests at the Gold
en- Gate, Cal, were very satisfactory,
one shell shattering the side Of a moun-
tain.
By the death of his uncle, John
Michaels, at New Orleans, Henry
Ramp. a Waterbury Comm butcher,
inherits 500, 000.
After kissing his wife good bye,
Henry Brown, a New York weaver,
who had long been i'll. shot himself in
his room.
In a fit of jealousy Michael Lenni-
han, a paper mill employe at Orono,
Me-, wounded Grace Griffin and then
shot himself fatally.
A pardon was granted by Governor
Brown, of Kentucky, to Hume Clay,
the forger, who forged his grandfather's
name for CSC. 600.
While one masked robber held up J.
J. Bachar, a Carey (O.) jeweler, three
others robbed his store, securing $500
in money and jewelry.
Ghoulish students of the Kansas
College, at Topeka, stole the body of
Mrs. J. o. Van Fleet from the coffin,
s. A. Johnson 10 under arrest for the
crime.
In trying TO make peace between
Lucy Cook and Annie Devine in a
quarrel over lovers at Ballston Spa,
N. Y. Lily Vickerage was slightly
wounded in the head by a bullet from
Miss Cooks pistol. 8
A million dollars in gold was ordered
for l.. Won Hoffman & Co., for export.
The Michigan State Grange Exc Gu
tive Committee asks for the free COIN
age of silver.
A cotton exposition at Chicago next
year, under the auspices of the South
ern States, is probable.
Because of heavy losses in specula-
ton u. 8. Brock, of Omaha, turned the
gas ON in his room and died.
Little Hammock Island, off South
Norwalk, Conn, is being rapidly eaten
away and is likely to be gone by spring
BY the explosion Of a boiler at the
Pitts Agricultural Works, Buffalo,
George OConnell, fireman, was fatally
hurt.
While Walter Russell was robbing q
Chieago saloon, a bulldog chased him
up on an icebox and kept him a pris-
oner.
The Observation-Disclosures Line
steamship Rotterdam has been re-
ichristened Edam, q name borne by
two previous ships Of the line.
W. H. LantE, a travelling man for
the Genoa Electric Company, of Buff
falo, N. Y, committed suicide by
poison in q hotel at Fort Wayne. Ind.
Because the contractor charged fol-
the coal used in warming them, 81
employees grading the Lima Northern
Railroad tracks, at Lima. o., struck.
= Governor Morton, of New York, has
lexonerated State Superintendent of
Bank Presidents of negligence in con-
n ection with the failed Commercial
Bank OF Brooklyn.
Revenue officers raided Ed. Thomas
Illicit still in Hardin county, Tenn,
and shot him dead when he resisted.
BY an explosion in a Rich Hill (Mo.,
mine the entrance was blocked, en-.
tombing Dick Towes, James Donald
son and Owen Meals.
While riding home on a bicycle
John L. Wright, a Des Moinesbusinesr
man, was struck and run over by {
carriage, receiving fatal hurts.
Henry Bell shot and killed Charles
Maynard in Floyd county, KENTUCKY
Through jealousy ofMaynard's atten
tions to Miss Belle Starkey.
John Barker, a veteran, was drowned
near the Soldiers Home, at Leaven
worth, Kan, while John Van Dyn'
stabbed himself in the Ohio Soldiers
Home, at Dayton.
Six section men employed by tn
Virginia Coal and Iron Company wsr
killed by q fall of q rock from the sid
ef a cliff, near Big Stone GAP, Ken
lucky.
An express train on the Union Pa
ciic, Denver and Gulf Railroad RAJ
Into a trolley car IN Denver. Both th
train and a we're wrecked, and tn
motorman, Curtis J.. Wilbur, wa
: killed. The trolley conductor and th
engineer, fireman, conductor an
brakeman of the train were seriousl
injured.
The steamer Ranney, from Chicag
to Buffalo, with corn, wal cut down b
the ice and sunk, a few miles southeas
lof the Dummy Light in Lake Erie
near Amherstburg.
Bridget Monahan, aged % year
Z was fatally burned at her home i
Homecoming, Maryland, while tryin
to rescue other members of the tamil
from the burning house. IA
The Boston Clothing House, Beese
! 4 Benefits grocery store and the CAT
of w. d. Welson, at Hagerstown
Maryland, were destroyed By fire. Tn
total loss is about $50, 000.
st. Joseph's Home, an institution