The Penn's Grove record., 1896-04-17

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been appointed chairman of the Board
of Consulting Engineers of the New
York Dock Board, ito succeed General
Casey. 8
The Supreme Court of Iowa has af-
firmed the tive-years sentence to the
penitentiary of J.. G. Yecker, who
wrecked the C ,ss County Bank.
The battIeship Indiana has arrived
at Fortress Monroe, Va.
Trains we're in collision on the Erie
road at Sparrowsburg, N. Y, and
Fireman Crowley was seriously in
jured.
The wife of William NJ. McGann,
known as the "Boy Evangelist" of
Lowell, Mass, has obtained a divorce.
John Smith, the self. confessed muir.
derer of the Stone family in Akron,O o.,
was arraigned in Court and pleaded
not guilty.
Editor Frank C. Smith, OF North
port, N. Y, has been arrested for
grand larceny and forgery, the amount
involved being about $500.
In his latest confession" Murderer
Fl. II. Holmes says he kills 81 persons.
He admits that he murdered b. F.
Pietzel in Philadelphia and says that
he killed him by pouring benzine over
his face and clothing and igniting it
with a match.
Two trsmps entered the station OF
the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern
Railway, at Mishawka, Ind, and
robbed Agent M6Gladery.
The Brazilian Government will at
once order field guns in view of the ex-
tensive purchases of new ornaments by
other South American nations.
Efforts are being made at Washing-
ton, d. c., to bring about a union be-
tween the Sons of the Revolution and
the Sons of the American Revolution.
Two Pawnee Indians, Harry Rice
and Robert Taylor, fought a duel over
squaws, Rice killed Taylor and then,
when capture was certain, killed him
self.
Pugilist Frank Maciewski, of Gin
cinnati, o., who was blinded by a ne-
gro whose insulting remark about Miss
Clara Weber he had resented, has mar
ried her.
Appraisers of the estate of Mr.. and
Mrs. Henry Moore, who lived in West
chester County, N. Y, have found
more than SO, 600 in gold hidden
away in their old mansion.
Walter E. Bedler, aged 10, of Coop
ers, New York, committed suicide.
Mrs. Susanna Hood, a Chicago mid
wife, who was accused of malpractice,
committed suicide by drinking car
bolic acid. l
While suffering from erysipelas,
Frank Marso jumped from the third
story window of a Chicago hospital.
Charges of corruption are made in
reference to the purchase by Argentina
of several Italian war ships and trans
ports.
Aoki. the Jap, accused of killing
Mrs. Miller and Willie Traesda!e. on
Homer's ranch, near Denver, has been
captured at Pueblo.
The Ogden (Utah) Standard began
the publication of an afternoon paper
with the full United Press news ser
vice.
The New York detectives are looking
for a man who offered as collateral for
a $4,000 loan bonds which were stolen
from the Manhattan Bank in 1873.
The will of John Pope, vice presi-
dent of the American Tobacco Com
pauy, at Richmond, Va, bequeths an
estate of 81, $50, 900 to his brother and
three sisters.
While running at full speed the
steamer Transit ran into the coast
defense vessel Monterey, anchored at
Seattle, Wash, and loosened one of her
armor plates.
After many experiments, Professors
Pratt and Whitman, of Bennett Medi-
cal College, Chicago, declare that the
Roentgen rays will destroy cholera and
all other forms of infectious or con-
tageous germs.