The Penn's Grove record., 1896-07-31
NEWS THROUGHOUT
THE COUNTRY.
North, South, East, West.

iNot ooahsp Aaohi
A cloud burst in Benson's Greek
four miles from Frankfort, Kentucky,
caused a food. AT least ten persons
were drowned, and a bridge on the
Louisville and Nashville Railroad was
washed away.
The reat coach of a train on The Chi.
cago and Texas Railroad fell from n
high trestle near Murpheysboro, Ill
inois, and fifteen of the passengers were
injured, none fatally. The accident
was caused by the collapse of the
trestle.
The main storage house of the Dia'
mond Match Company, IN Chicago
was burned. Loss $40. 000.
The weekly Iowa weather crop bulle'
tin show the oat crop in that State to
be almost ruined by rust. A majority
of the fields are not worth cutting, and
the total output will be less than one
third the heavy yield of last year.
An Amesbury, Mass, despatch says
that two unknown large three. masted
schooners are off Salisbury Beach dis
abIed. There was a heavy wind and
rain storm during the night.
The American ship Herbert Fuller,
from Boston for Buenos Ayres, arrived
at Halifax. Captain Nash, his wife and
the second mate were murdered at sea
All on board the ship were placed I'M
der arrest by the authorities. No de-
tails of the tragedy have been made
public.
Gorman Swain, a farmer, living near
Attica, Michigan, killed his three
youngest children, set fire to the house
and. then committed suicide. 1t is
supposed he was temporarily insane.
Mrs. Elmer Lemons was found in
her bed murdered at Sistersville, West
Virginia. Her husband is suspected
of the crime.
Miss Bessie Engle, of Philadelphia,
was drowned with bathing at Ocean
City.
William Taylor, colored, of Rich
mond, Va, was drowned while bathing
at Cape May. The body vas recov-
cred.
John H. Goodwin, colored, So years
old, was struck by a train OIL the AT
lantic City Railroad. at Lawnside, and
was fatally injured. 3
Mayor Strong, of New York city, is
nursing a bad attack of govt at Rich
field Springs, N. Y.
Six thousand operatives will be
thrown out of work by the stoppage oil
mills at Manchester, N. H..
Mrs. NJ. F. Clark, a well-known
Southern educator, was killed by q
runaway horse at Nashville, Tenn.
Governor Atkinson, of Georgia, has
Cancelled the lease of 500 convicts who
had been mismanaged by a contractor.
The people of Winsted. Conn are
exercised over the %elopement and mar
rage of ~19-year-old Roy Bennett and
Matilda Ellis, a pretty girl of is.
The car barns of the q Icago City
Railway Company on Cottage Grove
avenue, Chicago, were completely de-
stroyed by fire. One hundred open
cars, 1870 closed cars and about fifty grip
cars we're burned, besides fifty horses. a
large amount of feed and other sup
plies. 1t is estimated that the loss will
reach nearly $3.50, 900.
Commissioners George G. Pierre,
Joseph L. Tuil, M. Richards Muckle,
John A. Siner and George A. Castor,
appointed by the Court of Quarter Ses-
sions to inquire into t e propriety OF
dividing the Tweniy-second ward, will
Mrs. ]. II. Tolfree, who was Presi.
dent Cleveland's secretary while he
was Mayor of Buffalo, N. Y, poisoned
herself at Moiave, CAL, while temper
arily insane.
Mrs. Mary Jacobs, whose husband
was killed several years ago in the
Osceola mines, in Michigan, demanded
a million dollars from the cashier Of
the Houghton National Bank, but was
disarmed and semi to an asylum.
Heavy floods in the suburbs of Fort
Wayne, Ind, destroyed thousands OF
acres of growing crops
Two dollar bills, raised by an expert
counterfeiter to $40, are being circula
ted extensively in Chicago, III.
William T. Wiley, a ladies' tailor
of Cincinnati, O., shot and killed his
wife and then attempted suicide, ant
will o
Mr., aud Mrs. Henry Schwant, o
Fremont, o., died from the effect oil
eating toadstools, mistaking them fol
mushrooms.
ShipDuilder Louis Nixon, of Eliza.
beth, N. j., has obtained an attach.
ment againss the schooner yacht Colo
mia, owned by Clarence A. Postley, o.
New York, for SIS, 999, for repair
and alterations to the vessel.
Marshall Field is to endow the Fielt
Columbian Museum, at Chicago, III.
with a fund of 50, 00O, 900.
Twelve.year-old Eddie Chombs shot
and killed Sarah Allen, five years old.
with a rifle, at Helena, N. Y.
Beatrice Harden, the novelist, il
critically i'll at San Francisco, Cal. anC
her friends fear that her days are mum
bered.
Daniel Shroger was shot and killed
in Chicago, H., by George A. PottIn
ger, his s~on-in-law, who mistook him
for a burglar.
Mrs. Catharine Miley, of Boston,
Mass, was shot in the abdomen by hel
husband, who had not lived with hel
recently, and who went to his house
intoxicated.
Farmer James Clabaugh and hi.
wife were whipped by "White Caps
at Knoxville, Tenn, and in a subse.
quent quarrel with his assaiIants, Cla
baugh was fatally shot, and Aaron
and John McGill were seriously in.
jured.
Mrs. Charlotte Edison, an elderly
recluse, who died at Mortified, VT,
left about $14, 900 in bonds and hill,
hidden in an old orgaq.