The Penn's Grove record., 1896-04-24
NEWS THROUGHOUT
THE COUNTRY.
North. East. West. South.

Masked burglars gagged the station
agent at ~Easthampton, Conn, and blew
open and rified the safe.
Mrs. John Loffan, of Charlottesville,
Ind, was so startled by a runaway
team passing her home that she died.
Pay Director A. I. Pritchard, U. s.
N, at Norfolk, Va, whose time has
expired, has been detached and ordered
home.
Mrs. Mary Newman, OF Brooklyn,
N. Y, who was assaulted by w. II.
Graham, one of her boarders, died in
II hospital.
Railway trains were in collision on
the Gascenade River bridge, near Her
man, Mo-, injurlng, several tramps
and wrecking cars.
Ex-Mayor Gilreath, of Greenville,
5. c., was found dead in his office
with a pistol by his side. He is sup
posed To have shot himself.
The Canadian Government is urging
the passage of a law providing that
horses shipped from Domini II parts
shall be inspected as in the case Of
cattle.
The Amsterdam astronomical expe-
dition, bound for Japan to observe the
total eclipse of the sun, will sail from
San Francisco, Cal, in the yacht
Coronet.
Philip St. George Bridges, "a medl-
cal student, in a Richmond Va.) col
lege, wrote a prize essay OIL appendi-
citis, and soon after reading it died of
that disease.
While his accounts were being ex-
amined Frank Saunders, agent Of {, e
Great Northern Railway, attempted
suicide at Langdon, MINI and may
die.
Alexander SternbeIg, who was last
seen near Farmer Bastian's home, at
Rock Island, ILL.,, is supposed to have
been the seventh victim buried on the
farm.
Charles Lamborn, his sister Annie,
and Thomas Davenport, her lover, are
under arrest at Leavenworth, Kan, for
the murder of the father Of the Lam
borns.
Five men were killed and FIVE In-
jured in a quarry near Ogden, Utah,
by the premature explosion of a blast
of giant powder.
Daniel McGinlay was killed by a
Pennsylvania Railroad train at Eliza
beth, N. j. He was on his way from
church with his bride, to whom he
had just been married.
The Savannah Grocery Company's
building in Savannah, Georgia, was
burned. The loss is estimated at
$175, 000.
The Eden Park Cotton Mills at
Douglasville, Georgia, were burned at
midnight, loss S125. 900. About 100
hands were thrown out of work.
A search of the Bastian fam, neal
Rock Island, Illinois, has brought to
light evidence which leads the authori-
ties to believe that Bastian, who re-
Gently committed suicide, was guilty of
no less thai seven murders. a
Incendiary attempts were made to
burn the post office aud two large bust
ness houses in Savannah, Ga.
About 1000 fishing nets of unlawful
mesh have been seized at Grand Haven,
Mich, by the State Game Warden.
Samuel Bsrrowe emphatically denies
that his son, Wallet Alsop Barrowe, is
engaged to marry Mrs. j. Coleman
Drayton.
New York State farmers neal Can
~andaigua are using potatoes for fuel,
the crop being unstable even at two
cents a bushel.
Lorenzo IIadd and Celia Stevens,
aged respectively 5 and 4 years, are
dead at Linwood, Mich, from eating
wild parsnips.
Frank C. Harrington, of New York
city, has been convicted in Detroit,
Mich, of using the United States mails
for swindling purposes.
Assistant raymaster Murray Tyler,
of the Baltimore d Ohio Railrc ad, is
recovering from a serious nervous
attack at his home in Gainesville. Md.
General William P. Craighill has
been appointed chairman of the Board
of Consulting Engineers of the New
York Dock Board, to succeed General
Casey. 81
Achille MasellI and his wife are I'M
der arrest in Chicago, ILL.,, accused of
having blinded their children in order
to induce charitable people to give
them aims.
The drought in Australia and wars
in Africa, have affected the American
watch trade, and the Waterbury
Conn Company has reduced its force
nearly so per cent 8
The coast defense monitor Terror
was put in commission at Brooklyn
Navy Yard.
Clarence Hammock, of Lake City,
Fla, was caught in the betting of n
mill and torn to pieces.
The Central School building in Sag
NAV, Mich, was wrecked by dyna-
miters.
A Sherift's posse at Tallahassee,
Fla, while dispensing negro rioters
killed one and wounded another.
Three hundred miners are showed
in, In the mountains of Alaska, near
Cooks Inlet, and many of them will
perish.
The Mississippi River has risen
rapidly from Grand Rapids, Mich, to
st. Paul, Mimi, and serious damage
is reported.
Professor Starr, of the University of
Chicago, has returned from a three
months exploring expedition in Guate-
mals and Mexico.
Seven shipwrecked seamen of the
Norwegian bark %Ssridderen, which
went ashore on the Mexican coast, have |
reached New York city.