The Penn's Grove record., 1895-11-01
NEWS THROUGHOUT
The COUNTRY.
North, East, West, South.

AlglerS, a town across the river from
New Orleans, was almost wiped out by
fire and 700 people are homless.
There were 220 houses burned ard the
loss is $500, 900. The origin is sup
posed to be incendiary.
George E. Swain, an engineer on the
New England Railroad shot and killed
w. H.. Boyle and wounded his brother
at Hartford, Connecticut. He says he
was set upon and fired in self-defence.
The Grand Union Hotel, of Chicago,
caught fire and was slightly damaged
by water. The house is owned by
Chief Justice Fuller, of the Supreme
Court.
A despatch from Erie, Penna., says
a southwest gale brought a heavy
snowfall in the lake region, 10 inches
had fallen.
One inch of snow fell at Menominee,
Michigan. Two inches of snow fell at
Waterloo, Ontario.
The latest reports regarding the for
geries of A. X. Ward, of Memphis,
Tennessee, indicate that they will
tamounr to $500, 900. Ward and his
wife are on the way to Honduras by
steamer.
The village of RIVERSIDE, Michigan,
$50 inhabitants, was completely de-
stroyed by fire. The loss is $50, 900.
The south half of the Northwestern
Fertilizing Company's plant, in Chica-
go, was destroyed by fire. Loss $780,
900.
Nearly fifty vessels were driven
ashore by recent storms along he
northern coast of newfoundland and
many lives we're lost. A church was
blown down at Trinity Bay.
TO end a feud, Stephen Green was
shot and killed by Silas Browning, near
Lexington, KY.
Men cigarettemakers in New York
have begun a crusade against girls, who
work for low wages.
fremont Temple, Boston, is to be
furnished with 1000 p~erpetually free
seats by contributions.
The battleship Texas left Fort Mon
roe for New York to be locked for re-
pairs.
The F~lorida-Iowa Land Company
bought 1856, 900 acres of land in West
ern Iowa. .
DR.. Mabel Spencer, of Kansas City,
KAN, has been appointed physician of
Riley county, being the first woman IN
| the state to be so named. 8
Rev. George Mills, of Bowling
Green, Kentucky, objected to Charles
Clemens's attention to his daughter,
and fired a load of shot into Clemens,
who will probably die.
John c. Hanover, a real estate agent
of Cincinnati, Ohio, was arrested in
that city, charged with fraud in con-
nection with Kentucky lands.
The boiler of the Lomax Picket
Fence Company, at Lomax, Illinois,
exploded, killing two men and wound
ing two others. The factory was de-
molished.
A freight train on the Grand Rapids
Railroad was wrecked at a crossing in
Portland, Indiana. The dismembered
body of a 15-year-old boy was found
under the wreck.
A Baltimore and Ohio Southwestern
passenger train ran into a freight near
Fritchton, Indiana.
Smallpox has resppeared in Wheel
ing, West Virginia. Schools in the
| infected district are closed.
A new gas well struck near Ridge
way, Ont, yields 2 1000, 900 feet a day.
A rear-end collision of freight trains,
at East Greenwich, blocked the Con-
solidated tracks for nine hours.
Great pressure is being brought on
President Diaz, OF Mexico, to induce
him to accept a denomination.
Trial was begun at Ishpeming, Mich,
of Charles Wendell, aged 15, accused of
killing 6-year-old Eva Hafreiner.
All the bicycle works hands in To-
ledo, except the toolmakers, returned
to work, having secured the advance.
On the ground of insanity, Bessie
Fairbanks, who shot Isaac Cochrane
for jilting her, was discharged at New
York.
The attempt of burglars to dynamite
the safe of the Citizens Bank, at Ore
gon, Mo-, woke the neighbors and the
criminals fled.
Cattle on the track wrecked a freight
train near Max Meadows, Va, killing
Engineer George O'NeIll and Fireman
c. p. Lindman.
Many applications for space in the
International Exposition at the City of
Mexico are pouring in from the United
tates and Europe.
In trying to v his three children
from the burning Queens Hotel, at
Hamilton, Ontario, Anthony Koch, the
proprietor, persisted, but the children
we're rescued. 4
Crazy Amos Williams fatally shot
his brother-in-law, William Thompson,
near Bastrop, Tex.
The coal strike in the Massillon CO.),
district is ended, the miners returning
to work against the leaders orders.
While walking in her sleep, Mrs.
Henry Herzog, aged 81, of Albany, N.
Y, fell from the roof and was badly
hurt.
For insulting Mrs. Henry Dobbins,
Joseph Miller, a Chicago carpenter,
was shot through the heart by the
woman's son.
In trying to arrest George Washing
ton, colored, at GRAVITY. Ala, Town
Marshal Tisdale was fatally shot, but
killed his man.
Dying at Waterloo, Ind, in sup
posed poverty, Mrs. John Ak confessed
to burying considerable money, $4,000