The Penn's Grove record., 1896-04-10

commissioner McNlch0le, OF COOK
County, ILL.,, has been indicted for
bribery in connection With the selection
of Grand Jurymen.
! John T. Geary, who won the inter.
collegiate o~ratorical contest at Lexing-
ton, KY, had been coached by Colonel
w. C. P. Breckinridge.
Charles Burgess, the farmland, who
murdered Henry N. Whitlock, OF
/ North Victory, N. Y has been found
guilty of murder in the first degree.
Ex-Governor ,Br wn, of Kentucky,
has been retained by Governor Brad
ley to cue ex-Auditor Newman for pay.
J., ing $50, 600 without warrant of law.
j. A.. Roberts, of England, a cabin
passenger on the steamship Lucania,
which arrived in New York, died sud
denly during the voyage.
William Tubri, q business man OF
NorTalk, Conn.,, became ~entangled in
q vehicle by a horse running away and
and was dragged four miles and killed.
MISS Lizzie Mast, daughter of the
millionaire Mayor OF Springfield, o.,
. is engaged 10 marry Francis B.
Ioomis, a writer on the Cincinnati
CO., Tribune.
An appeal signed by the American,
IRISH and English Cardinals IN behalf
of a permanent tribunal Of arbitration,
with a view Of creating new guarantees
for peace throughout the world as a
substitute for war, has been issued.
Friends in New York city confirm
the truth of q report from London that
Anthony Hope tHawkins), the author.
Is engaged TO Evelyn Willard, the
English actress.
Rev. DR.. c. U. Brown, of Sam Fran.
cisco, CAL, who was acquitted recently
on a charge of immortality, has &C
cepted n call to his old congregation,
! at Tacoma, Wash.
William and Charles Mann and
William Gallagher were thrown into
the swollen Tennessee River at Chat
tanocgo by the overturning of a row.
boat, and Gallagher was drowned.
Armed and MASKED thieves broke
lI1tO LLt III uSt Vi TdTtntT bboubtIIy
near Emme'sburg, Ia, beat several
persons brutally, but were scared off
before they had plundered the prem
Uses. l
THE EX .PREsIDENT Welded TO MRS. DIM
MIC IN
A notably simple ceremony. The
marriage solemnized at twilight in st.
Thomas Church in the presence of
only thirty-six persons. A brilliant
floral display. The bride is a Pennsyl-
vania woman, who is ~well-known also
at the national capital.
The concurrent resolution in refer
ence to Cuban belligerency was dis
posed of by the House without further
debate and by a vote that differed very
little from that which marked the pas
sage of the original resolution several
weeks ago. The vote stood-yeas 245,
nays 81. The affirmative vote would
have been larger had the absentees
been paired strictly on the issue pre-
sented.
A despatch from Knoxville, Tennes-
see, says that five persons were
drowned by a cloudburst, in Mulberry,
Gap, Hancock, county.
francesca Russo, aged IS years;
Gsciento Crucio, As years, and Felice
Crucio, 26 years, were found dead in
bed in a b boarding house at Pittsburg.
Death resulted from asphyxiation, one
Of them having evidently blown out
the gas.
Daniel Leitch, go years old, and
William Cunningham, II years, were
killed and several others injured by
the explosion of a boiler in Watson's
Bros Mills, in Ridgetown, Ontario.
A huge tank of boiling japan, used
in the manufacture of varnish, ex-
ploded 10 the factory of the Murphy
Varnish Company, in Chicago, John
Latter and his son, John Latter, Jr.,
the only employees in that department,
were probably fatally burned.
William and Alice johnson, chill
dren, were overtaken by a prairie fire
and burned to death in Morton county,
Kansas.
Fred. Bemer, living seven miles
n orth of McLeansboro, Illinois, killed
his wife and 2-year.old child.
Richard Ingram, of Haverhill, Mas
sachusetts, was killed during a prize
fight, which he fought with Arthur
Bradley. The latter and several men
who we're present at the fight were ar
rested.
As a result of a fight among a crowd
toughs in Chicago. Thomas Monahsn
| was killed and Robert Ramsey Wal
shot in the legs and arms by a man
named Andrews, who escaped.
W. S. Ryder, . dentist, of Tslboton,
Georgia, shot and killed MISS Sallie
| Emma Owen, who had rejected his
addresses. He then tried to kill him
self.
E. W. Davids, a prominent farmer,
was shot and instantly killed near his
home, 10 miles north Of Fox Lane,
| Wis, by Julius Zilke, a farm hand
who was in Dasids' employ. Zilke
was angry at Davids for having pre-
vented him from striking a boy.
An unknown man committed sui
eide in Chicago, while being pursued
by the police. He was suspected of a
theft of which, it was afterwards
learned, he was innocent. 1t Is be-
lieved that he planned to commit sui
eide, as he had cut from his clothing
all names of makers, etc, and he had
not a paper on his person by which
his Identity could be traced.
The State Department has received
Geographic information from Consul
General Williams, ut Havana, that he
is expedihng the proceedings in the
case and expects the immediate release
of Walter G. Dygert, the young man
a-A uLnnis hnll In Ianinna Euhn On