The Penn's Grove record., 1896-12-04
Pennsylvania Items.

John Burk, OF Dauphin County,
ws; robbed and stripped almost nude
by nigtwaymen near York.
n work of finishing the line OF
electric road between Pottsyille and
schuylkili Haven 10 TO be resumed
seou.
Theodore hoy was drowned, and
Reed BIO IN, his helper, held q prisoner
and crashed in q moving boom Of logs
IN Curry Run, near Clesrfield.
In default OF $1,000 bail Ross Alex
ander, colored, has been committed
ut Williamsport for the murderoua
assault upon Manufacturer Uriah Cum
mirgs, of Stamford, Conn.
1fmekeeper Ernest Warford, Of
Esston, employed in the Lehigh Valley
round house, at Phillipsburg, fell from
u train on the Delaware River bridge
as he was gong home, and was
drowned
Miss Kate Alindinst, preferring
death TO shame, set fire TO a shock OF
fodder and threw herself in the flames.
She died soon after.
Harry Lane, of Washington disap-
peared in 1898 and was thought dead,
is alive.
Robert s. Hood. former circus man
and partner of James A. Bailey, il
dead at Norristown.
Watchman John H. House wounded
Joseph Gilgallon fatally and William
Kelly slightly at Priceburg in self
defense.
By the death of Mrs. Jacob P. Jones,
Haverford College will receive several
hundred thousand dollars left the in
stitution by her husband.
Two parts Of a freight train crashed
together IN Ryal's tunnel on the Read
ing Road, near Catawissa, blocking
travel twelve hours
Constable Dougherty, Of Georgetown
shot Charles Muiligan in the wrist TO,
interfering with an arrest.
Rag peddler James Smith, of James
town, ives fatally hurt by three foot
pad, who beat him and threw him In q
river.
Charles Kline and Henry Miller,
boys aged about Is, were sent to jail
at louisville on a charge Of arson 8
Governor Hastings has returned from
he Chickamagua battlefield and it ID
bought at Harrisburg that he will moi
appoint Alexander Simpson, Jr., to the
vacant Philadelphia J~udgeship.
George E. shiHier. teller of the First
National Bank, Lebanon, has disap-
peared from home. Overwork and worry
over the bank'srecent financial troubles
had unsettled his mind.
Sixty guests at the celebration OF q
wedding anniversary in Huntingdon
county were poisoned by arsenic in the
chicken salad.
Wages of the employees of the Pitts.
burg Traction Company have been re-
duced, aud many OF the men were 10
favor Of striking at once, but finally
they decided to await a meeting of the
company's directors before taking ac-
ton. l
While respondent from Ill health,
Robert E. Marshall, superintendent OF
the Altoona Division of the Pennsyl-
vania Railroad, shot and killed him
self at the residence of his brother, 10
Washington, D. q.
Adam Shiffer, Republican candidate
for Assembly in Northampton County,
will contest the seat of William II.
Leh on the ground that Leh's nomina-
ton on the Jeffersonian ticket was I.
regular.
Rose McNsily, of Portage, aged Is,
was struck by a Pennsylvania Rsilroad
exr ress and killed.
The four men who robbed the North
ern Central station at Roaring Branch
were sentenced at Williamsport. Two
were given nine years each and two ten
years.
Jack Smith. a Boston crook, was
captured at C~oatesvilte, n OF his ss.s
named Mooney Writing to the polics
that Smith was in the town.
Leo Myers, "a Lancaster baker, Is
threatened with lockjaw and blood pois.
oning from a wound in the leg made
BY a sharp pallng. 2