The Penn's Grove record., 1896-09-18
NEWS THROUGHOUT
The COUNTRY.
North, South. East, West.

near Middletown, N. Y.
) Drunken William Harris fatally shot
George Frank, of New York, IN the
street at Des Moines, In.
A fugitive burglar, Bob McQueery,
was shot and killed by pursuing de
t~ectives near Charleston, w. Va.
George Bunting shot and killed his
father-in-law, Thomas Thornton, dur
ing a quarrel near Temperanceville,
Va.
Financial troubles goaded Guy G.
Frost, day clerk of the Elliott House,
New Haven, Conn.,, to death, and he
inhaled gas till he expired.
Ex-senator Henry B. Payne, multi
millionaire, the father-in-law of Viii.
liam G. Whitney, is believed to lie
dying of paralysis at his home in
Cleveland, o.
Mistaking a loaded shell for a blank
cannon cartridge, a member of the La
fayette Artillery Naval Reserves shot
to death Charles b. Miller, a comrade
at Charlestown. w. Va.
As q common tramp Richard Arnold
Ntzroy Berkeley, who says he is a son
of Sir Fitzroy Berkeley, of Berkeley
Hall. Hauts, England has been sent
from Chicago, ILL.,, to the work house.
In drunken orgies dnring which
three young men were assisted by
policeman 4. M. Erwin to start with
their carriage for home, at Nashville.
Tenn, he was forced to fatally wound
Thomas Cox, who attacked him. 3
Relief supplies have run very short
for the fire scourged sufferers at Onto
nagon, Mich.
Farmer Henry Steinke. his wife and
daughter were killed by a train at a
crossing near Oshkosh, WIS.
F. b. Cutting, one of the best known
bachelor clubmen in New York society
is dying at Newport r. /.
The Minnesota Iron Company's
Evelith and Chandler mines have shut
down, throwing out of work 1900 men.
With a baseball bat insane William
White, a plasterer, beat his wife's
brains out, then cut his " throat
and died, at Andover, o.
Asphyx ated with illuminating gas,
Frank Ray, confidential clerk to grain
brokers, was found dead in his room
near Chicago, I'll.
Turpentine gas exploded in a drug
store at Wansau, Wis, ruined the
drug stock and seriously injured
Clerks William Borchardt and William
Bartel.
Placing a stick of dynamite under
his pillow, b, S. Palsey touched an
electric button and blew himself and
his house to atoms, near Webster
City, la.
Aeronant Don Carlos Stevens, of
New York, broke his parachute, and
had a fatal fall from a balloon at the
Huntington County Fair, lei Mon
treal, Canada.
Infected plants, which would de-
stroy all horticultural specimens with
which they should come in contact,
are being imported to Seattle, WASH,
from Japan.
Seventeen year-old Mrs, Annie Cons
molly was thrown from a fire-escape
and fatally injured in New York, by
her drunken husband, James, who was
arrested. 4
Cleveland, o., celebrated Commo-
dore Perry's victory on Lake Erie in
1881.
An accident disabled the Long Island
Sound steamer City of Worcester, off
Saybrook.
Jaurez. Mex, is alive with armed
men as a result of an attack on the
Custom House.
William r. Hall, a New York Post
Office clerk, was arrested for stealing
pecial delivery letters.
With a razor j. II. Edmunds, a
prominent insurance man at Birming-
ham, Ala, cut his throat and commlt-
ted suicide.
with great difficulty ]. Stewart Ross,
a New York lawyer, and his two sons
we're rescued from drowning in the
surf at Brighton Beach, l.. |.
Timely discovery of a fire in the coal
bunkers of the United States cruiser
Bancroft at the brooklyn Navy Yard
resulted in saving the vessel.
The Franco. Belgium Company has
finally guaranteed to establish The
steamship line from Boulogne and
Antwerp to st. John and Halifax, N. 5.
Worrying over the health of hi
Young son, wealthy Leo O~berwarth, a
wholesale cloak dealer in New York,
took gas and committed suicide.
Travelling salesman Charles Ryng
Fairchild, of Butte, Mont, has been
discovered to be insane and pswning
valuable jewelry samples at Spokane,
Wash.
President ]. d. Shahan, of the de-
funct Commercial State Bank, of
Champion, Chase County, Neb., has
been arrested for receiving deposits
when the bank was insolvent.
After forging his mothers name to
notes for $25, 900, drawn in his firm
name F. l.. Brigham, managing part
ncr of the Brigham Shoe Co, Syracuse,
N. Y, has disappeared. oil
Mrs. Eliza butcher and her little
daughter, at Halifax, N. s., we're
murdered and the house set on fire.
Blanche Walsh has left Nat Good
wins company, because he billed
Maxine Elliott as the new American
beauty.
Nineteen-year-old Emma Brachner,
the New York ballet girl, who recently
married wealthy Wescott I, Zittel,
took carbohc acid after a quarrel with
her mother, and almost died.
Young William s. Flynn shot and
killed himselfi in the presence of his 10
year-old sweetheart, Annie wilkins,
near Salem, Mass because he was a
Catholic and she a Protestant, and he
feared her fathers objection to the
wedding. i