The Penn's Grove record., 1895-04-19
OF THE WEEK.
Eastern and
fiddle States

The mechanical department of tn
New York Institution for the Deaf and
Dumb, in New York city, was burned;
loss, $40, 900. Two men, who slept in
the building, were overcome by smoke
and had to be carried down the ladders
by the firemen. William McCaffrey
jumped from a window and was
severely injured. 8
Sick and melancholy, WIman G.
5colly, aged 40, of New York city, shot
himself in the head.
A huge natural gas veil was struck
1t Fulton, N. Y, and Standard Oil is
buying up the land.
Autopsy on Andrew Howe's body, at
New York, indicates that he was sand
bagged for the purpose of robbery.
In blasting rock at Melrose, Mass,
six Armenian workmen struck an old
blast of dynamite, and two were fatally
hurt.
As a last chance for DIR. Buchanan
the New York wife poisoner, Lawyer
G. ". Gibbins will appeal to the Fed
eral Supreme Court for q stay of execu-
ton.
Joseph Buck shot and killed Mrs.
Jessie Williams, in her home in New
ark, N. j., and then committed suicide.
The woman's two children were in the
house at the time. The police believe
that the tragedy is the result Of a love
affair. 4
Rev. Howard w. Smith, OF Black
wood, n. j., is called to the Fulton
Avenue Eaptist Church. of Baltimore.
Charles Orchaul, a tailor so years OF
lge, and an unknown m about
tive years younger, were found dead in
his room in Il boarding house in New
York. They had been a~sphyxiated by
gas which flowed from a burner that
was partially open, probably accident
ally. 6
By inhailIng gas from a burner
through a rubber tube, Mrs. Fannie
Dorian, aged "a, OF Brooklyn, a long
time invalid, ended her life.
On the charge Of gross disrespect to
a superior officer, First Lieutenant l..
H. Moses, of the Marine Corps, at
Brooklyn Navy Yard, was put under
arrest.
The pumping station, grinding de-
partment and store house of the North
American Rubber Company, at Sea.
tauket, New York, where burned.
Loss, $4,000; no insurance.
Governor Morton issued a proclama-
tons offering a reward of $1,000 for the
capture and return of Oliver Curtis
Perry, who escaped from the State
Hospital for Insane Criminals at Mat
teawan.
The mutilated body of Alice Sterling,
aged s years, was found buried in the
cellar of a stable in Boston, and Angus
D. Gilbert was arrested, charged with
the crime. The child has been missing
since Wednesday, l
Frank Brightman, of Fall River,
Mass, purchased at Sheriff's sale for
$500 the Tifiin, OhIoy Street Railway.
A flood without recent precedent has
washed out half a mile of the Concord
& Montreal Railroad near Bow juno
ton, N. Ii.
The steamboat Continental, of the
New Haven Line, which ran ashore on
Ward Island. at New York, got off.
She was not so badly damaged as was
first supposed.
DAVIS, one of the men who escaped
from the Mattewan Asylum. was cap
tured near Wappinger's Falls, New
York.
The New York police have arrested
three young men on the suspicion that
they are members of an organized
gang of incendiaries who have been
operating in the upper West Side of
the city. They are to have, hearing.
August Gilbert, who is charged with
the murder of S-year-old Alice Sterling,
of Dorchester. a suburb of Boston, has
confessed TO the police that he buried
the child's body in the barn cellar,
where it was found, but he claims that
he did not kill her. 2