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The Penn's Grove record., 1895-04-26
Southern and
Western States

Two footpads in Chicago held up the
engineer and fireman on a switch en-
gIne and wounded the engineer when
he cried out
When A. L. Blanchard, of Huron
County, o., started to build a fence on
disputed territory, Mike Altman, a
neighbor, shot HIM dead.
DR.. N. J.. Nelson, a prominent ply
stefan at Chicago, respondent over his
illness, attempted suicide by taking
chloroform and cutting his throat.
After fatally wounding his wife, A.
Schleiter, an Ida Grove, Ga, business
man, killed himself.
Under the crazy impression that
enemies were after him, ]. t-enry
Doyle, Chicago inventor, shot him
self.
DR.. ]. P. Wall, of Tampa, Fla,
dropped dead while reading a paper be-
fore the State Medical Association.
While asleep in a Frisco saloon,
William Deadly, a politician, was
stabbed to death by ''Connie" Kloos, a
desperate character.
For advertising in a newspaper, DR..
w. L. Billiard, a noted specialist OF
Columbus, Ca, was expelled from the
Georgia Medical Association.
Haywood Williams rhot and killed
Grace White in Telluride. Colorado,
and then shot himself through the
stomach, infiicting a mortal wound.
John Wager, a weaIty farmer living
on the Guyorn river in West Virginia,
was beaten and fatally injured by four
masked burglars.
Ten thousand Mormons Will emigrate
from Utah to chihuahua, Mex, and
establish a colony.
For intimate connection with a gang
of house-breakers,' g. M. Poole, a Chi
cago policeman, IS under arrest.
A gas explosion in a c~olliery near
Sydney, N. s., burned to death Daniel
Hardy and Alexander McKinnon.
A mine cavern near Edwardsyille,
Ala, killed Foreman w. d. Stroud
and fatally hurt Abe Michaels and
Sam Harris.
William Headrick, who is wanted in
Ohio, North Carolina, Tennessee and
Kentucky for bigamy, is under arrest
Ia Middlesboro, KY, on a charge Of
The Penn's Grove record., 1895-04-26
PENIS GROVE, n. j.. FRIDAY. APRIL %. 1896.

horse stealing. "Seven deserted wives
will prosecute him." 8
A local freight train on the Seaboard
Road was wrecked, near Stever Station,
about two miles from Suffolk, Va, and
a colored brakeman was instantly killed.
E. L. Spalding, a Salvation Army
leader, of Butte, Montana, has been
arrested on a charge of counterfeiting.
During a quarrel in the street at
Alexandria, Indiana, Policemen Harvey
Painter shot and killed Arthur Snyder.
A stray shot struck an unknown by
stander and inflicted fatal injuries.
Harry Block, at Camden, Indiana,
shot and killed his sweetheart, Freda
Like, in a fit of jealousy, and then
killed himself. Otta Hasanpuss, who
tried to interfere, was shot in the neck
by Block.
y Matthew Galloway, a negro, was
hanged at Columbia, Tennessee, for
the murder of James Walters, also col
ored, last July.
David Wade, a negro, who shot and
killed James Beard, a farmer, of Col
quit, Georgia. was lynched.
Minneapolis police unearthed a fine
counterfelting plant and Michael Crow
ley and Frank Lee are under arrest.
An explosion of ether in the blue
print room of the Patent Office, in the
Interior Department building, in Wash
ington, caused a slight fire. Several of
the employees were slightly injured.
A freight train on the Vandalia Rail
road was wrecked at st. Elmo, Illinois,
and two tramps who were beating their
way were killed.
Frank ]. Msville, head sawyer IN a
mill at Saginaw, Michigan, fell upon a
circular saw and was fatally injured.
A dynamite bomb was thrown
against the residence of Herman
| Knopke, in East st. Louis, by some
unknown person. The missile was
thrown at the second-story front win
dow, but struck the easement and de-
molished the porch.
Annie Lewis, aged about i35 years,
was arrested in Baltimore, charged
with setting fire to the house Of Henry
Walthen. "Had it not beep for the
prompt action apd~heroic efforts of
Officer Ryan the entire Values family,
consisting of eight persons, wou. have
| been suffocated or burned to deaNh."
Rabbi H., NJ. Balm, Of Vickfburg,
Miss, committed suicide in Birming-
ham, Ala, by taking morphiR. He
was an applicant for the po4ttion of
Rabbi of the congregation of th4 Tenn
| Pile Emanuel, but was not giyNn the
place, and it is supposed that hi suicide
was on account of disappointment.
Elijah stewar.Ssr nets his wife
three times and tR-srl.hWsAlt IN
jackson Michigan. The coull Jhad
separate COZ
The Penn's Grove record., 1895-04-26
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Eastern and
fiddle States

The Chenango Valley Savings Bank
of Binghamton, n. y, which had tc
close on account Of defalcation, hal
reopened under new trustees.
The new Tietz block at Gloversville,
New York, collapsed, carrying foul
workmen down with the ruins. Wash.
ington and Abram Yeeder, painters,
were killed, and ]. A. Freeman and
John Kary, plumbers, were injured.
julius Albright, 4 colored bill poster,
So years old, was run over and instant
killed on the Ninth Avenue Eleve %
Railroad at Thirtieth street, in Rev
York.
For the murder of Alice Sterling.
aged s, A. F. Sterling, of Dorchester
Mass, has been indicted.
As a last hope, the counsel of DR.
Buchanan, the New York wife muir
dsrer, willappeal to Governor Morton
for clemency.
Mrs. Hannah Darby, aged "a years
living alone, was found dead and hor
ribly burned at Converse, Indiana.
The gas was turned on, but not lighted
1t is supposed that she was murdered.
Six cases of smallpox have been dis
covered in Paducah, Kentucky. Al
entire congregation at a church reviva
is said to have been exposed to thu
disease.
The Weehawken police have captured
Oliver Curtis Perry, the train robber
who, with others, escaped from thu
Mattewan Asylum.
At the foot OF a bluff on Noun
Tom, Mass, searchers found the son o
President L.. Clark Seelye, of Smith
College.
Because of her mother-in- Flaws un.
kindness, Mrs. William Architoli, of New
York, a bride of three weeks, attempted
suicide, and William will take he
away.
Robert Center, a well known clubmar
and sportsman, was knocked off hi
bicycle and crushed to death under th,
wheels of the a coal wagon, while rid
ing on Western boulevard, in New Yorl
city. 6
Unable TO cure a head trouble, Maur
ice Burnett, a London insurance agent
shot himself in a Boston hotel.
For stealing letters, which he hid il
waste pipes of a building, MailC Carrie
James Owen, of New York, was arrested
Suing Samuel Zevien, a New Yorl
manufacturer, for $40 for boarding
his wife, then single. Jacob Liebermanr
was defeated.
The queer death of Clerk William
Dinners, of New York, who expired
soon after unfurling a flag on a pole i
attributed to a shock from an electro
wire. l
Franklin Fairbanks, head of thu
scale company, is dying at his st
Johnsbury (Vt.). home.
Despondent from drink, George H
Riecker, editor of the Bristol Conn,
Herald, cut his throat, despite hi
wife's and sisters efforts to stop him.
Millionaire W. E. D. Stokes, Of New
York, seeks the indictment of Thoma
McAlister, the assaiIant of his butler
whom Mr.. Stokes fought with cham
payne bottles.
Louis de Frisco died ain Brooklyn hos
pital from a rifle bullet wound received
in a battle between two rival Italial
factions. Carmine Lesca was sho
through the lung, and is not likely Il
recover. Nine men were arrested 70.
completely in the shooting. 2
The Penn's Grove record., 1895-04-26
MATILDA MARY JAf

Fheze girls with fancy names
The only girls, 1t seems,
Whom poets and musicians cho.
As soul-inspiring themes.
And so she lives, the lovely lass,
The best of all the train,
forgotten, cause they christened Ler
Matilda Mary Jane"
She helps her mother round the house
She does the milking. 100,
And tides up the sitting. room, =
When all the chores are through.
It's there Seth comes ACQUIRING,
There's no meeting In the lane"
Nor namby PANTY nonsense bout
Matilda Mary Jane.
o, Bonnie Annie Laurie,
She was lovely years ago,
And Daisy-Ray or Dean or Bell
We're always pleased to know.
And Sweet Marie's a nice girl, too,
But give us something plain;
Let's have a tune or two about
Matilda Mary Jane.
The Penn's Grove record., 1895-04-26
Pennsylvania
~ Ite1ns.

Little Madge Shrader was fatally in
iured at Washington by a locomotive.
DR.. w. F. Marks tumbled Is feet
down a well at Reading and was badly
| hurt.
Daniel Drawbaugh will build a tele-
phone factory at Myerstown, to employ
so hands.
With a bullet hole in his head, the
body of Vante Marchetti was found
near Hazleton, being the victim of a
murderer.
On the road lear Wrightsville Joseph
Blotter shot himself to death.
Tons Of coal in a Plttston colliery
fell upon and crushed to death John
Glendenning.
The last of five prisoners who es-
capped from Smethport Jail, Fred
Maybe, has been captured near Olean,
N. Z.
Quick consumption is the ailment
that has brought Assemblyman M. b.
Lemon. of Allegheny, to his deathbed
in New York City.
Her clothing, upon which coal oil
had been spilled, caught fire, fatally
burning the little daughter of Wm.
Brennan, at New Castle, Schuylkill
county. 5
There were 1040 pounds of the oleo-
margarine recently seized at the Frick
Coke Company's stores at Uniontown.
Christopher Mall, Allegheny City,
com mitted suicide with poison.
One of the most noted army field
nurses, Miss Mary Vance, is dying al
Pittsburg.
A lamp exploded while she slept
burning to death Mrs. Mary Mccoy
mick, Pittsburg.
A leading Harrisburg confectionet,
IF. Mayer, committed suicide by III
haling gas.
jealousy caused a quarrel. in which
John Gratinzie fatally stabbed Miepas'
SAILOR, at Mount Carmel.
Professor Haynesrass~shed ths&& fur
niture of a Kittanning BUSHES 1ollege
ior unpaid salary aud closed the 1901.
The raising of squads for m ct is
a profitable Berks County indus
A branch of the Commercial raw
elers' Home Association has be ! or
ganized at Wiliiamsport.
The arrest of John Lucas n rank
Haines is expected to end a Ion cries
of robberies at Snow Shoe. i
Work is about beginning u ion the
Reading & Womelsdorf trolley.
James Kelly fell into the Hsnal at
Harrisburg, and was found deaf
For practicing medicine vi lout a
license, II. M. Trout, of York; 'oes to
jail a year and paysa 800 fin
An unknown man leaped om a
bridge at Wilkesbarre into the sque-
hanna River. and was drownedlt
In a runaway at Readingy 1bert
Holmes, member of the b. d of
Trade, was kicked in the 4 and
seriously hurt.
The Penn's Grove record., 1895-04-26

Some people often wonder when
dishonesty prospersm more than honesty.
1t works harder.
No man is to biame for his first
mistake, but he is tor his second one.
A little learned thoroughly IS superior
to an abundance that is superficial or
vague.
A man may run into debt, but he
seldom comes out at anything faster
than a walk.
The man who lives only for himself
will not have many mournars at his
funeral.
Men who keep within the pale of
the law may be outside the rale of
respect.
The Church cannot help you to
trade tenement houses for heavenly
mansions.
Give to man the meat of the banana
and he does not care if the skin Of it
kills somebody else.
The Penn's Grove record., 1895-04-26

Effeminate men are ridiculo
euline women repulsive.
y. W. Jones, of Robertst
has found a pearl on which is
feet outline of a mans ham
through a microscope even :
appear. II Is valued byexpert
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1895-12-05
way between that of a good uncle and

way between that of a good uncle and
a faithful and trusted domestic.
The feminine curiosity of Lady Lea
ton had been so much excited by this
mysterious lady and her strange at
tendant, that she had at length in
quired about her of the old FORTRESS of
the house. And 1t was from that gar
rulous parsonage Lady Leaton learned
to her establishment that the beautiful
stranger was no other than the Prime.
ess Pezzilini, who had not persisted In
the burning Palace Of Pezzilini, bat
who had made her escape with the
assistance Of a faithful servant, An.
tonic Mario, who, for her better Sc.
curity, had circulated the report of
her death, while he bore her off to
France. She was now living on the
fourth floor of that house, In great
poverty and seclusion, attended only
by her faithful servant, Antonio
Mario.
So much Lady Leaton learned from
the Fortress; but she lost no time in
delicately seeking the acquaintance of
the beautiful and unfortunate exile.
She found the Princess Pezzilini was
accessible to respectful sympathy.
She learned from her some further
particulars of her history-among 9th
er matters, that she had succeeded in
securing from the burning palace a
box of valuable family documents and
a casket Of costly family jewels. As,
however, these jewels were heirloons,
she was unwilling TO part with the
least one Of them until extreme want
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1895-12-05

"Madame, I thank you earnestly for
the interest you deign TO take In my
welfare: butt do not understand
you" said Lady Leaton. In surprise.
"And | do not understand myself:
but | must speak, for the power of
prophecy is upon mel Lady Leaton,
beware OF that Asiatic girl"
"Madame!' exclaimed Lady Leaton,
in extreme surprise.
Yes. | know what you would say:
She is your niece, the daughter of your
husbands brother. But l tell you that
she Is Of the treacherous, cruel and
deadly Indian blood! l have watched
her thoughts through this evening.
noted her look when Lord Leaton told
her that she was the next Eeiress after
Agatha. And l tell you that the gaze
of the deadly cobra-di-capella OF her
native jungles Is not more fatal tina
the glance Of that Indian girl!'
Madame, In the name of Heaven.
what mean youT" exclaimed Lady
Leaton, in vague alarm.
The voice OF the princess sank to its
deepest tones, as she answered
The deadly upas tree Of the Indies
suffers nothing TO live in Its dread
neighborhood. If you could trans
plant such a tree from an Indian plain
to a fair English park, as 1t should
grow and thrive, all beautiful life
would wither under its poisonous
breath, until nothing should remain
but a blasted desert, and the deadly
upas tree should be all in all! Lady
Leaton, beware OF the young Indian
sapling transplanted to your fair Eng
lish park"
Madame. you brighten me" ex-
claimed Lady Leaton.
mo; l only mean to warn you! l
spoke from an irresistible impulse.
And, having spoken, l have no more to
say but to bid you goodnight" said
the Italian, lifting the hand OF Lady
Leaton to her lips, and then with
drawing, and leaving her ladyship
plunged In deep thought.
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MY Niece, Eudora, Mr- MALCOLM
branches OF its encircling trees, and
the lofty sides Of it's surrounding hills,
behind which the full moon was now
rising.
While Malcolm gaZnd moOdily upon
the scene his attention was attracted
by a female form, clothed in black
and gliding like a spirit among the
trees that bordered the still lake. He
could not at first see her face. but the
ineffabie grace of her movements fas-
cinated his eyes to follow her every
motion. At length she turned, and he
caught an instant's glimpse of a dark
face. which. even in that uncertain
light, he fancied to be as beautiful as
that Of the tabled houri. The beauty
disappeared in the thicker foliage Of
the evergreens. and Malcolm Montrose
turned to greet his aunt, who now Ell
tered.
Lady Leaton was a oma of com
monplace, agreeable personality, mid
dle-aged. large. fat ard fair In body,
conscientious, discreet aid aTectionate
in mind. She entered the room now.
with her portly form dressed in wild
ow's weeds, and her fair. round face
encircied by a widows cap. Her eyes
were suffused with tears, and her
voice was broSen with grief. g she
advanced, held out her hand and well
coined Malcolm Montrose to Ailworth
Abbey.
A short and agitated conversation
sufficed to put Malcolm in possession
of the facts with which the reader Is
already acquainted: and OF the result
of this Interview IL is only necessary
10 say that Malcolm Montrose entirely
conceded in opinion with Lady Lea
ton and with the verdict of the con-
oner's jury in supposing that the late
Lord Leaton had died Of some obscure
disease. and not, as the doctor had be-
lieved, OF poison. 1t was a great re-
lief to Lady Leaton tn find that one 40
clear headed and true -hearted as Nal
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A few years only have elapsed since
the public mind was electrified by the
discovery Of a strange tissue OF crimes,
through which had persisted within
the space OF twelve months every
member of a noble family, and In
which was implicated the honor of one
OF England's h~aughtiest peers and the
Efe of one or her loyeliest daughters,
and finally. which added a recent and
thrilling domestic drama to those In
Client histories and ghostly traditions
that have long rendered Allworth
Abbey the resort OF the curious and
che terror OF the ignorant and the su-
perstitious.
The principal circumstances were
made sufficiently public at the time OF
the discovery; some at least af the
guilty parties were brought to justice,
and the effigy OF the chief criminal
snny even now be seen In a certain
celebrated Room OF HORROR" But
much also remained enveloped In mys-
tery, for, underlying the bare facts
that were openly proved, there was a
secret history, stranger, more atrocious
and more appalling, even, than those
ruthless crimes for which the convict
ed felons suffered.
The knowledge OF this secret history
came to me In n singular manner; and
with the purpose OF showing over
what fatal pitfalls the most innocent
feet may sometimes stray, l proceed
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beware of That Asiatic Girl"
Romans had fallen on the scaffold.
and others had been driven into exile.
Among those whose fate excited the
liyeliest sympathy were the prince
and princess PeZZiiini. The prince fell
g~lorions!!y III the cause of civil and
religious liberty, noa the princess was
said ia have persisted In the flames
when the Palace PeZzilini was burned
by the mob. This was the common
talk of Paris when Lord Leaton and
his family arrived there.
1t was within a few days after their
settlement in their apartments, that
the attention of Lord and Lady Leaton
was attracted by n lady who frequent
ly passed them on the grand staircase.
She va a tall, finely-formed, fair wo-
man. OF great beauty, clothed In
mourning. and wearing the aspect OF
the profoundest sorrow. No II could
have seer her without becoming inter
ested-no me could have passed her
without a backward glance. She was
sometimes attended by d stout, dark
~complexioncd. mlddle-aged man,
whose mauaer toward her seemed halt
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ton Said.
90 relate the story, entreating my read
ers to remember. amidst its strangeSt
revelations, that nothing Is so strange
as reality" and nothing more iEcredi-
BILE than truth:
Allworth Abbey. the scene of these
events, is one OF the most ancient
monuments OF monastic history left
standing in the United Kingdom. The
precise date of its foundation is lost in
the dimness of far.distant ages, and
remains 10 this day a disputed point
among learned antiquarians.
1t is a vast and gloomy pile of Gothic
architecture, situated at the bottom of
q deep and thickly wooded glen, sur
rounded - high hills that even at
MONDAY cast n sombre shadow over
the whole scene, which is one OF the
widest, loneliest and most picturesque
to be found on the northwest coast of
England. The surrounding country
may be called mountainous, from the
imposing heights Of the hills, and the
profound depth of the wales.
Nothing can be more secluded. sol
itary and sombre than the aspect OF
this place. The grim old abbey Turk
Ing at the bottom OF its deep dell, re-
nected dimly in its dark lake, over
Swallowed by its tall trees and closely
shut in by high hills. is just the OBJ
1ect to depress and awe the beholder.
even though he never may have heard
the fearful stories connected with the
place.
Allworth Abbey is rich in historical
as sociations and traditional lore. Its
cloisters have sheltered kings; Its
walls have withstood sieges; 1t pos
sesses its haunted cell, its spectre
monk and phantom maiden.
In the reign of Henry the Church
burner and Wife-kiiler. Allworth Alb
hey was the home OF a rich fraternity
of Benedictine monks. And at the
time of that tremendous visitation of
wrath which oyerswept the land,
when
'"The ire or an lnfuriate king
Rode forth upon destructicn's wing"
Allworth Abbey was besieged and
sacked by a party OF soldiers under
Lord Leaton. a baron of ancient lin
cage In the North OF England, and Of
great merit In the estimation Of King
Henry Rluebeard. The abbot was
&1iI at Inc ditdT, the DTetnTeH WERE
put 20 the sword, the abbey was given
10 the flames and the lands conferred
by the king upon the ~conqueror.
Lord Leaton rebuilt the ruined por-
lions Of the abbey, adapted 1t as a
family residence and constituted IL
she principal seat of his race in whose
possession 1t remained FROM that time
until the date OF those strange house
hold mysteries that ! an about 10 dis
close.
The last male representative OF the
Eeatons OF Allworth was Henry, Lord
Leaton, whose name has since become
60 painfully memorable. With an an
e.ent 4tifla. an ample fortune, a hand
some person. we'll cultivated mind and
amiable disposition, ne married, early
I'm life, a fair woman, every way o
thy of his affections. Their union
was blest by one child, Agatha, sole
daughter OF the house. who. at the
opening of this story, had just at
tafned her eighteenth year.
1t Is scarcely possible for a human
being TO be happier than was Lord
Leaton at this time. In the prime OF
his manly life. blessed with a fair wife
the maturity Of her matronly
aud n lovely daughter just
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-12-16
.C0LL|DEO At A LANDING,
The British Steamer Indiana
Badly Crippled by the
Zamora.
Hastily Towed Away and Beached to
Prevent the Vessel From
Sinking.

LIVERPOOL, Eng, Dec. 16.-While ap-
preaching the landing stage here this
evening the British steamer Indiana, Cap
tain Boggs, from Philadelphia, collided
with the fruit-laden steamer Zamora,
which was lying at anchor.
The Indiana had large hole made in
her port side abaft her bulkhead. Her
passengers were safely landed and the hole
was stopped up with mattresses. She was
then towed to the Cheshire side of the
river, whrre she was beached to prevent
her sinking. The Zamora sustained no
damage.
Another account of the accident says
that while the Indiana was at the landing
stage she sank two or three feet in the half
of an hour that was occupied by the pas
sengers in landing.
There was no panic among the passen-
gers. An attempt was made to plug the
hole in her side, but it failed. The steamer
was hastily towed across the river. as she
gave every evidence of laundering. In
fact, it was thought that she would sink in
midstream, and the engines of the tug
were worked to their fullest capacity to
prevent such disaster.
The Indiana arrived in the Mersey at
7:3O o'clock. While swinging around in
going alongside the landing-stage the tide
carried her lbroadside on against the Ia
mora and a hole was made in the Indianas 8
hull. Her pumps were used to keep her
as free as possible of the water that was
pouring into her. She is now beached at
Agreement below the water-mark.