The Penn's Grove record., 1895-05-10
OF THE WEEK.
Eastern and
fiddle States

By collision with the tug w. E.
Chapman, off pier 43. East River, New
York, the tug. boat Il. II. Smith was
sunk.
No verdict could be agreed to by TIE
New Haven jury in the case Of DIR. J.
Edward Lee, charged with causing
Maggie Schloss' death.
For his $19, 900 shortage in accounts
Of the American Church Missionary
Society, New York, ~ex-secretary w. A.
Newbold has been deposed from his
Episcopal ministry.
Bodro Florence, aged 46 years, tried
to kill his wife at their home, in New
York, and then committed suicide
The woman's injuries are not fatal.
Florence was insane.
The body Of Roy NJ. Culver, the miss
ing secretary of the Y. M. @. A., Of
Newark, New York, has been found in
the Clyde river. Culver had been
strangled. The body was weighed
down with railroad iron. Some days
ago Culyer's relatives received an anony'
nous letter stating that, Culver having
succeeded in proving his claim to 9
large amount Of property left to his an
cestors, the writer, who was now enjoy
ing its benefits, said he had no other
way to save himself but to dispose o.
him.
Governor Morton, Of New York, hal
granted another respite OF one week in
the a of DIR. Buchanan, the wife
poisoner. This was done on the re
communication of District Attorney
Fellows, as the ''easiest way out of the
complications which have arisen in the
clse."
A man who registered 81 "W. B
jackson, Baltimore" committed sui
eide in a Niagara Falls hotel.
From brooding over one brother
death and another's illness, Emily
Mundt, aged 26, of New York, vas led
to stab herself fatally with scissors.
Just as Secretary John Hunt, who
had embezzled $500 from the New
York Musical Protective Union, wal
about 10 flee to Canada, he was arrest
ed.
The President has granted a pardon
to Pierre Letendre, convicted in New
Jersey of violating the internal revenue
laws, and sentenced in November,
1894, to six months in the p~enitentiary
and to pay a fine of $4,000. The pardon
is granted on account of the fatal anc
crit ,al illness Of the convict.
A six-story brick building in New
York city, occupied by ]. IL. Mohl'
man & Co., wholesale grocers, col
lapsed, and fire completed the destruc'
ton OF the property. The structure
had been recently remodeled. and wal
supposed TO be Of unusual strength,
The loss is estimated at $3.50, 600. 5
On trial for the alleged shooting o.
Frank Westwood, Clara Ford, a Tor
into mulatto, was acquitted.
A collision between freight train
and switch engine at Syracuse, prob.
ably, fatally hurt Engineer William
Brown.
Warden Sage, of Sing Sing prison,
said that he would take no further ac-
ton in the Buchanan matter until the
case had been settled by the courts.
The steamer Seminole arrived at New
York from Jacksonville and Charles
ton. Captain Chichester reported that
after passing Sandy Hook Charles
Sharlock, a passenger from Charleston,
jumped overheard and was drowned.
In attempting to alight from a train
in New York, G. M. Redstock, of Chi
cago, Illinois, fell and was cut to pieces.
An unsuccessful attempt was made
at Waterbury, Conn, to wreck an ex-
press train on the New York & New
England Railroad.
James Herbert, aged 81, murdered
his wife, Mary, by cutting her throat
at their home in New York city, and
then went to the East river, cut his
throat and threw himself into the a
ter. Herbert, whose body was s.iDse-
quently recovered, was crazed by ex-
cessive use of drugs and liquor which
he took to relieve insomnia. 2
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