The Penn's Grove record., 1895-07-26
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Eastern and
fiddle States

The hay crop around Binghamton,
N. Y, is a failure and the milk supply
is running short.
By a fall on the steps of a Boston
hotel, John I. Ellis, a Washington
correspondent, fractured his scull.
While sleeping on a fire-escape back
of a New York fiat, Thomas Dewitt,
aged 10, fell off and was killed.
cFalling out Of a boat at OgdcD sburg
n. Y, Captain John Saunders, a YES
sci owner of Kingston, Ontario, was
drowned.
New York police are looking for
Mike Fox, a ~deranged tobacco grower
of Cheatham, Va, who has been mis-.
sing two weeks. 3
Domestic troubles, ill-health and
lack of work led Israel E Thompson, a
New Orleans bookkeeper, to drink NOR
phine at fremont, N. Y.
Unable to bear a sudden stoppage Of
drink, John Healy, agent for the
Metropolitan Life Insurance Company,
at New York, cut his throat.
Five men IN the engine room of the
torpedo boat Ericsson were terribly
scalded by steam from a broken pipe,
while the vessel was making Il speed
trial off Bartlett's Reef, nea New Lon
don, Conn.
Arthur q. X. Newsan, formerly a
Magistrate on the Island of Trinidad,
was arrested in New York as a fugitive
from justice. The arrest was made on
a warrant sworn out by the British
Consul, in which it is charged that in
1892 Newsan committed forgeries to a
large amount, and that he fled from
the island to escape arrest. IL is alleged
that he got away with $3.50, 4
Two men we're killed, one fatally in,
jured and two others frightfully manned
by the cave-in of 400 feet of earth in a
sewer excavation at Harrison, n. j..
1t 10 said that the sides of the eHcava-
ton had been improperly braced, and
rain had undermined the sides.
The Fitzwllliam, New Hampshire,
Savings Bank has been enjoined by the
Supreme Court from receiving deposits
and from paying to any depositor more
than 25 per cent. of his deposit ac-
count. The bank has about $4,000
in deposits. Notices of Withdrawals
have been accumulating, and it was
thought by the trustees that safety re-
quired a temporary suspension. 5
Nails of every kind were put up so
cents a keg by order Of manufacturers
meeting at Boston.
By the runaway of his oxen Alexan'
der Pratt, of New Canaan, Conn, re-
ceived fatal hurts.
Mistaking his wife for a burglar,
William K. Evans, of Ta,cottville,
Connecticut, shot her, but she may re-
cover.
While bathing at R~ockaway Beach,
l.. l., Miss Rosa Sternberg, of New
York, burst a blood vessel and was
drowned.
A pleasure party of FIVE men, while
driving across the railroad track be-
tween Williamstown, Massachusetts
and Pownal, Vermont, was struck by a
train on the Fitchburg Road. Three
of the men were Instantly killed, one
died shortly afterward, and the re-
naming occupant of the carriage es-
capped injury by jumping.
David Cody, the second victim Of
the torpedo boat Ericsson disaster, died
at New London, Connecticut. Two
others of the injured men are still IN a
critical condition.
Charles Jenkins, electrical engineer
for the Montreal Park and Island Rail
way, and John Haynes, %bookkeeper,
are under arrest in Montreal, charged
with being members of a gang of fire
bugs which has been operating in Tor
onto and in the United States. l
Insurance Agent IL. c. F. Scholz
shot and killed himself in New York.
George Lacey stranahan, a student
at the Buffalo Medical College, was in.
stantly killed in a bicycle collision at
Erie, Pennsylvania.
A young Milwaukee pugilist named
Schmidt was killed in a "mill' near
North Milwaukee, Wisconsin. 1t Is
not known who his opponent was, >