The Penn's Grove record., 1896-05-01

two years ago.
The body Of a well.dressed young
woman was found in a ditch in 8
suburb at Chicago, ILL.,, but her identi'
ty remains a mystery.
The Southern National Bank, Of
Wall street, New York, will be consoll-
dated with Market and Fulton Nationa
Bank, of the same city.
Mrs. Mary j. Holmes of New Haven,
Conn, will sue DIR. A. G. Pulford for
disclosing professional secrets reflect
ing upon hor character.
There are indications of a strike OF
printers, pressmen, bookbinders and
tinishers in nearly all the large ID
and book offices in New York city.
Thinking it was a British lion, Fred
erlck Schmidt, a patriotic German,
twisted an animals tail in a circus at
Chicago, ILL.,, and was locked up for
hls offense.
Elevated railroad managers in New
York city are considering a PROPOSE
ton to build another story to the
siraddle bug lines and thus double the
carrying capacity of the systems.
Two electric cars tried to pass in OPP
posite directions on a single track in
Bay City, Mich. Twelve cut and
Bruised passengers decided that the at
tempt was a smashing failure.
A fire at Cripple Creek, Colorado,
destroyed four blocks in the business
portion of the town. The loss is estl-
mated at 81, 200, 900, the insurance at
$3.50, O00.
The house of Bernard Cullen, near
Chester. New York, wa burned to the
ground, Cullen and his wife perished IN
the flames. Morris Cullen. u son, and
George Thompson, a relative, escaped
by jumping from n third.story window.
John Kaufman was burned TO death
in his home, neal Burr Oak, Indiana.
A defpatch from Chihuahua, Mexico,
says hat the Santa Eulalla mines, IA
miles from that city, have cayed in and
67 men were entombed. Thirty-seven
have been taken out, 10 dead and 81
fatally injured. There Is little hope
of rescuIng the others alive.
Five people were killed and 20
wounded, three fatally, by a tornado,
near Clifton, in Washington county,
Kansas.
Three men we're almost instantly
killed and several others we're seriously
injured by a boiler explosion in a saw
mill at Altoona, Pennsylvania.
James R. Biera, a guest Of the Ma
haney Hotel, Dunbar, Pennsylvania,
was burned to death in a fire, which
destroyed the building and six adioin-
ing structures. Loss $15. 900. /
James Mccarthy was tarred and
feathered for insulting women at La
grange, Ill.
Eugene Newton, a former we'll
known Brooklyn organist. was burned
to death in his cottage at West Salem,
Ore.
Fifteen hundred men employed at
the Chicago Shipbuilding Company's
yards struck for higher wages and
| shorter hours.
Because he had been out of work
for three months, Joseph Liebish at
! tempted to commit suicide by hang
| ing himself in Central Park, New
York.
Aged Bernard CulIan was trying to
save his wife from their burning home
at Chester, n. Y, when he was over
come with smoke, and both persisted.
The Sioux City, (Iowa) police found
bloody clothes with knife holes in the
coat, in a box car, and believe that
John II. Brownrigg was murdered.
Robert Laughlin, in Jail at Mays
vile, KY, for numbering his wife and
| niece, has confessed that he also muir
dered Benjamin McCrackin, his
| brother-in-law, and an idiot child.
Governor Brad ey has pardoned
Judge Pulliam. of Breckenridge Coun.
ty, KY, who had served six years Of a
sentence of Is for killing Farme,
| Miller for intimacy with Pulliam's
| wife.
Steve Walters boarding house. in
| Moline, Illinois, a burned, and
| William Sage,s lodger, was suffocated.
The GLAND Brewery. in Dartmouth,
Nova Scotia, was destroyed by hFe,
together with the warehouses and a
large quantity Of stock. Loss, $780,
900. aiA
As the st. Louis and New York
passenger train on the Pan Handle
Road was pulling out of Dayton, Ohio,
a cut of five coal . cars on the c., II.
and d. crashed into it from a side
| track and struck a sleeper, in which
were ten persons. G. y. Grief, Of
| Cleveland, Ohio, was instantly killed
| Philip Meter, a New York merchant,
had a leg broken.
Four men we're injured, two fatally
by the explosion of a saw mill boiler a
Greene, Ohio.
A tornado did considerable damage
to property in Barnes county, North
Dakota. At Saiborn, Nels Munsor
was probably fatally injured by a fall
ing building.
A heavy rain, wind and hail storm
north and east of Dade City, Florida
did great damage TO the melon crop.
John Aiello and Robert Macke,
we're held up and relieved OF between
$4,000 and $4,000 by four masked mel
near Berwind, in Southern Colorado
The money, which had just arrived b.
express, was to have been used in pay
ing the miners.
Carl Firgenbaum was executed il
Sing Sing Prison, N. Y, for the mur
der of Johanna Hoffman, in New Yorl
city, in September, 1894.
Henry Luce, aged Is years, shot an
probably fatally wounded Eugen
Campburn at Upton, Michigan, an
then committed suicide. Luce ha'
haan keeninO comnanV with Camu