The Penn's Grove record., 1896-07-24
NEWS THROUGHOUT
THE COUNTRY.
North, South, East. West.

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Seven Chinese we're burned TO death
by an oil explosion In their dwelling
in San Francisco, Cal.
Luther Adams, colored shot, and
fatally wounded Mamie Hamilton, a
young white woman. at Columbus, o.
LIZZIE WeItzer, an old woman, sup
posed to be insane, was caught in the
act of setting fire to a tenement house
in New York city.
United States Consul Hruhle, at
Catania, Italy, reports the formation
there of a great sulphur trust by Euro
pean capitalists.
The sentenc, IS of the convicted forg-
ers, Carl Becker and James Creegan, of
San Francisco, Cal, have been post
poned to August z.
A traction engine and water tank
crashed through a bridge at Canton,
o., killed Charles P. Schall and fatally
injuring Charles T. Sebright.
Miss Nellie Evans, a 2O-year-old girl
of Yonkers, N. Y. who had been de-
spondent, took IL morphine pills and
was sent unconscious to a hospital.
Mrs. Lucretia Woolford and her SIS
ter, Mrs. Schlemaker, were burned to
death by the explosion of kerosene in
a lamp at their home in Baltimore,
Md.
Mrs. Edward Smith, of Brazil, Ind,
| Juarreled with her husband and killed
herself with arsenic.
Senator Mcpherson, of New Jersey,
narrowly escaped death from an asth-
matte attack at Denver, Col.
Harry end James Dalton, brothers,
have been reunited in New York city,
after a separation OF 40 years.
The Miners Union, of Cripple Creek,
Col, has ordered a strike of all men
employed in the mines there.
Tramps tried L take possession of
the Chicago mail train near Fort
J Dodge, Ia, but were finally beaten off
by the guards.
Henry Cook, a liquor dealer, of
Portland, Ore, shot Mrs. Mari, for
whom he had deserted his wife, and
then killed himself.
United States Commissioner Foote,
at Chicago, Ill.,, sustains the right of a
creditor to use postal cards in urging
the payment of debts.
The United States and Haiti Tele.
graph and Cable Company has been
incorporated at Albany, N. Y, with II
capital of 81, SOC, 900 by John w.
Mackay and others. 4
Grace Wilton. a variety actress,
ended her life with poison at Spokane,
Wash.
Eighty stran Ged gold miners from
Alaska have landed at Port Townsend.
Wash.
The polishers and buffers employed
in the Detroit Stove Works, at Detroit,
Mich, went on strike.
Farmer Frank Thomas, OF Presque
Isle, Me-, suspected of having muir
dered his wife, killed himself.
The town of Cheyenne, Wyo., ives
flooded by a cloud burst and $50, 600
damage done in five minutes.
The Pacific Mail Steamer, Columbia,
stranded on the Pacific coast, is
humping herself to pieces on the
rocks.
While bathing near Minneapolis,
Mimi, Florence and Birdie Mills and
Helen Cheney, young women, were
drowned.
The body of an unknown man sup
posed TO be w. I. Church, of Detroit,
Mich, was fished out of the harbor at
Baltimore, Md.
The Coroner's jury on the Union
Pacific excursion train disaster at Lo-
gan, Ia, holds Conductor Reed and
Engineer Montgomery responsible,
and they are under arrest.
The northbound passenger train on
the Grand Rapids and Indiana Rail-
road left the ack neal Page, Mich,
and Engineer Collins and Fireman
Royce were very badly injured.
A wheelman, claiming 10 be Schlat-
ter, ''the divine healer" rode into the
town of Guthrie, o. T., where he is
creating a sensation by "laying on of
hands" and blessing hundreds of hand.
kerchiefs. 8
The car barns of the G icago City
Railway Company on Cottage Grove
avenue, Chicago, were completely de-
stroyed by fire. One hundred open
cars, $50 closed cars and about fifty grip
cars we're burned, besides fifty horses. q
large amount of feed and other sup
plies. 1t ia estimated that the loss will
reach nearly $3.50, 000.
The Souvenir Sugar Refinery, near
Donaldsville. La, was destroyed by an
incendiary fire; loss, $4,000.
The town of Malvern, Arkansas,
was almost wiped out by fire. The
blaze was started in four different
places by two white men and a negro,
who were arrested and taken to Little
Rock to prevent a %lynching.
Charles ]. Mccarthy, formerly money
order clerk in a station of the New
York post Office, has been arrested in
the City Of Mexico, charged with en-
bezzling money order funds.
S. g. Flemming, CASHIER of the Ex-
change National Bank, at Eldorado.
Kansas, has been arrested for alleged
forgery and embezzlement in the sum
of $40, 900. The same bank was robbed
of SIS, 900 about a year ago.
The Superintendent of the Chicago.
Milwaukee and st. Paul Railroad has
applied to the United States Marshal
at Omaha for protection against ian
army of tramps' which has for som
time past been taking possession of
trains and defylng train crews and
passengers.
The mutilsted bodies of Joseph Hop
per and his wife, of London, Kentucky,