The Penn's Grove record., 1895-06-14
NEWS OF THE week,
and
Western States

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Mrs. Nellie Pope wa convicted in
Detroit Of having caused the death of
her husband, DIR. Horace E. Pope, in
February last, and was sentenced to
imprisonment for life.
The bite of a vicious dog caused the
death of Miss Mollie Shirley, in Spen-
Ger County, KY.
General H. G. Rollins, ex-State Sur
veyor OF California, has been missing
some time and is believed to have been
murdered while prospecting.
On the ground of defective indict-
ment, the suit against e~x-treasurer M.
]. O'Brien for alleged embezzlement of
$780, 900 from the Catholic Knights of
America, was quashed at Chattanooga,
Tenn.
F. Kano, the Japanese, who was ar
rested in San Francisco on suspicion OF
the murder of Miss Harrington, has
been released, no evidence having been
found against him. B
During a thunderstorm at Delaware
O., Miss LukenbilI, a telephone opera
tor, was badly shocked.
Unless Colorado militia guard the
sheep men, who are invading the State,
they will be driven away by the cattle
men, who are armed and desperate.
The entire Tennessee militia will dis
band unless the State authorizes re-
lieve General Carnes Of a $500 judy
ment, growing out of the recent Coal
Creek mine troubles.
James Connors, a patient at st.
Alexis Hospital, in Cleveland, deliber-
ately fired three bullets into Timothy
Donovan, another patient, and shot
James Cantillan, a nurse, once. Both
men were seriously injured.
The $50, 600 in gold bars stolen from
the Mint at Carson City have been re-
covered. The gold was found buried
in the garden of an employe. 5
Two elderly widows. Mrs. Wells and
Mrs. Leavins, who furnished meals for
the lumbermen in logging camp near
Montgomery, Ala, were murdered.
In attempting to arrest Ben Stand
y, a whisky peddler, at Spavinah. l
T.. Deputy Marshal Zeke Proctor was
shot dead.
In self-defence, Oscar Fischer, an
owner Of the Delray tMich.) Glue Fac
tory, shot dead Constable Hugh Nc
APIECE, who had assaulted him.
On the charge of granddaughter in
causing the death of Emily Hall, DR..
D. j. Seaman, of Detroit, and Mrs.
Alice Lane, her nurse, were arrested
and held for trial.
Thomas Founder, an engineer in the
Fire Department of Savannah, Ga,
shot and killed Frank keenan,, q dis
charged fireman, who blamed Founder
and had threatened him. 6
BY a fall over a cliff near Her mo
sillo, Mex, John T. Benton, = young
American, was killed.
In a jealous quarrel at Heavy, KY,
Postmaster G. d. Moore and Assistant
Postmaster Upton Stern, his brother
in-law, shot each other dead.
The alleged engagement of Howard
Gould and Miss Katherine Clenmons,
the actress, of San Francisco, is said to
be 9 months old and made with the
consent of Miss Clemonns' mother.
Miss Nellie Neff and a man named
~Shallbacher were drowned in the lake
at Washington Park, at Kansas City,
by the capsizing of their boat.
Garrett Cochran aud F. P. Obi, stu
dents of Princeton College, were shot
and seriously wounded on the college
campus during a disturbance, in which
two negroes, Conan and Scudder were
concerned. The latter were arrested.
Three men were killed and six seri-
ously injured by the wrecking of a
lumber train, on a branch road in
Ouachita county, Arizona. /
By a Court decision, the licensing of
Des Moines saloons was declared I'M
lawful and the city is again "dry.'
The bursting Of an ice machine In a
Columbus (O.) plant instantly killed
Fireman Fletcher Sells and terribly
scalded Engineer Oliver Reems.
A Big Four train broke in two, nine
miles west Of East Sydney, Ohio, on a
heavy grade, and came together with a
crash, telescoping eight cars. Eight
tramps we're riding in n of the cars,
and three Of them were crushed to
death and a fourth fatally injured.
The killing of w. II. Chapple, in
Omaha, proves to have been COM
mitted by James G. Ish, instead of by
Mrs. Ish, as was first supposed. Ish
| believed that his wife was unfalthful.
Four men were suffocated by gas in
Alpine tunnel, @ st. Elmo, Color
ado. The tunnel had long been aban-
doned, but was being cleared Of debris
in preparation for reopening. Q