The Penn's Grove record., 1896-03-06
NEWS THROUGHOUT
THE COUNTRY.
North. East. Wes,. South

North. East. Wes', South
Chief of Police Conlin, Of New York,
is urging the Police Board to appoint
1000 additional policemen.
Police Captain Jacob Helm, of Min
neapolis, Mimi, has been indicted I r
having made false returns on a search
warrant.
An agent of the Liberian Govern
ment is Org anizing colonies in Texas,
| promising land and cattle to all who
shall emigrate.
Mayor Swift, of Chicago, ILL.,, is ar
ranging fer a $780, 900 subscription to
defray the cost of the Southern States
Exposition in that city.
William Walters, colored, an employee
of the Knickerhoeker Cycle Company,
Of New York, poured napbIha IN a
stove and was burned 10 death.
Commits Toner of Public Works
Moore, of Long leland City, N. Y,
who is serving a FIVE days sentence
for contempt of Court, directs official
business from his cell.
CONSERVATION has been created IN
the New Orleans tLa.) social clubs by
a Supreme Court decision affirming
a charge of Sunday liquor selling
against the Louisiana Club.
The Federal authorities seized in
New York harbor the steamer Bermu-
da, flying the british flag; the steam
lighter J. 8. T stranahan and the tugs
| William j. McCaldin and McCaldin
Brothers. The lighter was loaded with
arms and ammunition, snd the tug
carried mer, TO be placed on the
| steamer Bermuda, which was then to
| sail for Cuba with the expedition. At
terward the tugs were released, and of
the 200 prisoners all Lut General Ca
Iixto Garcia, Captain Hughes, Benja-
min Guerra, Captain Brabale zen and
John d. Hart were discharged. The
four named were released on bail.
United states Marshals are still in
charge of the steamer aud lighter, 8
The thieves who attempted to rob a
bank at Wichita Falls, Texas, have
been arrested.
All freight traffic on the North Ala
bama Railroad is suspended by a strike
of employees.
Two hundred and fifty negro emil
grants will embark from Savannah, Ga,
for Liberia,
Jacob Dletzel shot his daughter,
Mrs. Henry dinner, at Chicago, ILL.,,
and then fred a bullet in his head.
Both will die.
Governor Mcintyre, of Colorado, has
committed the death sentence of muir
derer A. w. Van Houten to imprison-
ment for life.
The bonded whisky warehouse Of
William Vandeveer, at Engleman, Va
has been selzed for violations of the
internal revenue laws.
William Murphy, who had previously
quarreled with ex-Deputy Marshal
Frank Ellis, shot and killed him at
Stanford, KY.
Arrangements are / n progress for a
semi-C Centennial Exposition at Dallas,
Texas, in 1897-9S, the cost of which is
estimated at 81, 600. 900.
Charges Of incompetency and neglect
have been preferred against Com
mandant Wilson, of the Lincoln (Neb.l
Soldiers and Sailors Home.
The American Line steamer st. Paul,
which has been in the dry dock at
Newport News, Va, sailed from New
York for Southampton.
John Mckee, a lineman of the
Chesapeake d Ohio Telephone Com
pany, was killed by a shock at Wash
ington, D. O., while repairing a wire. 4
w. G. Bowdoin, of Alexander Brown
& Sons. Baltimore. Md, is critically
III with pneumonia.
Day and night gangs are at work
e~xpediting the fitting out of the Mon
itor Monadnock, at Vallejo, Cal.
AT Pekin, H., George W. Smith has
been convicted, and his wife acquitted
OF the murder of Lewis Perrill.
Ex-Sentor Thomas O. Plat was
painfully hurt by a fall on an icy side
walk near the Fifth Avenue Hotel, New
York.
Ex-Cashier C. H. Race, of the Bur
lington (Kan.) National BANK, accused
of embezzling $4,000 has been ac-
quilted.
Marie Engle, an opera singer, set
her night dress ablaze while trimming
q lamp in Boston, Mass, and was
painfully burned.
The residence of Jacob Dittmer, vice
president Of the Peoples Trust Com
pany, IN Brooklyn. N. Y, was robbed
Of jewelry worth $4,000.
Rudolph SpreGkels has sailed from
San Francisco, CAL, for Honolulu, to
answer a charge of treason preferred
by the Hawaiian Government.
The Iowa House has killed the re-
submission of the prohibitory amend.
me I by defeating the resolution es.ab-
fishing a motion to reconsider,
A freight wreck occurred on the
New York Central Railroad at Amster-
dam, N. ", destroying 25 cars and
seriously injuring Fireman George
Townsend.
John E. Searles has purchased the
old Clearing House site 10 New York.
on which the Western National Bauk,
Of which he is President, will erect 4
new building.
Kate Martin, OF New York, has sued
the New York Central Railroad Com.
TO recover $4,000 for injuries
received through the negligence of
employees. 5.
The steamship New York, Of the
American Line, ran aground during a
heavy fog, midway between SANDY
Hook Point and Staten Island. The
passengers and mail were transferred