The Penn's Grove record., 1896-01-31

there during the past four days.
Some OF the drifts in the streets were
10 feet high and business is at a stand
still. The outlying settlements have
not yet been reached for two or three
days, owing to the railway lines being
blockaded,
The New Jersey Rubber Company's
retaining mill. at Lambertulle, was
destoyed by fire. Loss, over $4,000.
The Matteawan New York; State
Hospital for the Criminal Insane was
damaged by fire to the extent of $780,
900.
The Bass Rock Hotel at East
Gloucester, Massachusetts, a we'll
known summer resort, was burned;
loss, $4,000.
A Columbus, Ohio, despatch says
that State Representative James A.
Spear, of Clinton county, has admitted
that he asked a constituent for $500,
to secure for him an appointment as
a guard in the State prison. Spear
has announced his intention to re-
sign.
Police Justice Simpson was acquit.
ted, in Detroit, on one Of three charges
of criminal assault pending against
him.
Edward Kirsebom, Treasurer of Ply
mouth county, Iowa, is missing, and
his accounts are said to be short
$25, o00.
/ While Constable Fielson was taking
two prisoners, Sam Foster and Peter
Smith, charged with murder, to the
st. Louis jail, a mob intent on lynch.
ing, surrounded, the wagon. The
Constable surrendered, but the prison
ers whipped the horses and got off,
Foster being shot in the hip. Fielson
finally caught up with the prisoners
and they were safely lodged in Jail.
Vera Freeman, an actress, died from
an overdose of morphine in New York
A telegram from Ures, Mexico, says
that the Yaqui Indians have made
another RAID upon the settlers in the
valley west of there. On one ranch an
entire family, consisting of husband
and wife and two children, were mas
sacred, and at another place in the
same locality the Indians killed two
cowboys who attempted to prevent the
driving off Of a herd Of cattle. There
is a large force of Federal troops in the
field against the marauders.
Mrs. Lease, the Kansas, Populist and
woman suffragist, is seriously i'll at
Window, Minnesota.
The United States gunboat York.
town arrived at Nagasaki. /
Young Elijah Cross was murdered
and thrown in a well at Knoxville,
Tenn.
Thirteen starving men were picked
up in a boat off Alaska by the steamer
Rustler.
| An ice gorge in the Maumee River
carried away a bridge near Toledo, o.,
worth $50, 900.
In the trial of Mrs. Ire Leonard
for the murder of her husband, at
Wichita, Kan, the jury disagreed.
Judge Brewer, at Vanceberg, KY,
married Clay Ridgdcn and Maggie
Treat as they stood upon a big stump
by the roadside.
Suspected of having committed a
long series of robberies on Long Island
Andrew J. Anderson was nabhed in
New York city.
A lighted lamp ignited oil in the
Bush Glass Works, at st. Louis, Mo-,
and William Conway vas roasted to
death in the fire.
On the steamer Furst Bismarck, that
sailed from New York, was ex-Post-
master General John Wanamaker, OF
Philadelphia.
Jealous of his young wife, Superin-
tcndent Frank Jones, of the Swanse
| Coal Company, at Birmingham, Ala,
shot and fatally wounded her.
Eugene Mosely, after quarreling with
his sweetheart, Mary James, at Biz.
mingham, Ala, murdered her by
stamping her with his peg leg.
Hugo KIoss, who wal shot dead in a
fight at Sacramento, Cal, was to have
married Miss Fay Underwood, of Kan
sas City, Mo. :