The Penn's Grove record., 1896-04-24
PENIS GROVE, N. j.. FRIDAY. APRIL "a. 1896.

murder Of Mr.. and Mrs. Douthetts,
cheated the gallows by cutting his
throat.
Captain Hughes, formerly of the
Bermuda, called at the Federal Build
ing in New York, and got his trunk,
which had been seized on that
steamer. 4
Bertha Dakin and Jennie Woodin,
12-year olds, were burned to death in
their home at Millerton, N. y.
The Mississippi River is rising at an
alarming rate, sweeping away bridges
IN Minnesota and driving settlers to
the hills.
Ex.President Harrison will preside
at the students contest of the Northern
O~ratorical League, in Chicago, Ill.,, gu
May l.
A collie dog drove 25 horses from a
burning building in Chicago, ILL.,, and
saved three others by leading them out
by their halters.
Thomas Brown, who was serving a
'even-year sentence in Jackson, Mich,
was shot and killed by a guard while
attempting to escape.
After bidding his friends goodnight,
Rev. John W. Harding, pastor Of the
Union Church, at Ormond, Fla. drop.
ped dead from heart disease. 5
Merchants throughout the country
are urging Congress to pass the Torrey
Bankruptcy bill.
Phi ip Purceller, of New York city,
who was disappointed in love, hanged
himself in a hotel in Troy, N. Y.
Mrs. Bell, who tortured her grand.
children in Ottawa, Ont, has been
sentenced to life imprisonment.
Mrs. S. NJ. Ashley, of Poughkeepsie,
N. Y, has obtained a decree of divorce
and the custody of her two children.
Thomas Haggerty, IS years old, of
Peekskill, n. Y, swallowed a lump of
chewing gum and is dying of ap-
pendictis. =
General Manager Perry S. Heath, of
the Cincinnati, (O.), Commercial Ga
aette, has sold his interest and will take
a long vacation.
John Van Brunt, a "peeping Tom,"
who terrorized women at Deland, Fla,
was dragged from his bed by masked
men and shot to death.
A satchel was picked up in Bridge
port, Conn, containing the body Of n
male child several weeks old, which
had been alive when placed in the bag.
Baker Charles Keith, of Chicago,
ILL.,, while feasting on mOlasses in his
bakery, wal choked to death by the
liquid flowing into his mouth from A
cask.
Bishop II. II. Turner, who is well
acquainted with Africa, says that the
of the loss of the steams' p
L~aurado, which left Savannah with
800 negro emigrants, is false.
James Sturgis, representative of the
Chicago, ILL.,, stock yards, in New York
city, has been appointed a Commits
sioner of the New York Civil s~ervice
Supervising Board, succeeding f. K.
Godkin. /
A Machias, Maine, despatch says
that Charles and Freedom Shaw, II
and IA years old, sons of Leander
Shaw, and Carl, the 10-year-old son of
William Matthews, were drowned at
North Cutler by the capsizing of a
boat.
two girls, aged 4 and 2 years,
daughters of James Morris, Of Lowell,
Massachusetts, were missed from home
and we're found drowned in the Merri-
mac river, elapsed in each others
arms.
A tornado passed ove Fremont,
Ohio. Two persons were killed and
another probably fatally injured.
Dispatches from points along the st.
Lawrence river state that the ice is now
rushing down stream, and that danger
of further floods is at an end.
Mrs. Catharine ANTI, aged % years,
shot and killed Angelo Dangello, at
Lattimer, Penna. lie had entered her
sleeping apartments at midnight and
returned in the morning to apologize.
Tom Price, colored, was lynched
near Westville, South Carolina, for at
lacking a young lady and her 11.year-
old brother. He shot the boy and shot
at the girl, but she escaped injury.
Price was discharged from the peniten-
tlary about 10 days ago.
Jeff Gardener, a negro, was lynched
neal Warren, Arkansas, for assaulting
a daughter Of Joseph Burrows. The
girls condition Is critical.
A number of glassblowers at Hart
ford City and Parker City, Ind, are
on strike.
The murdered body of Enos Law
renee was found in Black River, at
Holland, Mich. HIS wife has disap-
peared.
Booth fuckers English ways in
duced nearly 80 per cent. of the st.
Paul S%alvationists TO declare for Ball
ington Bo tn.
Secret Service officers at Spokane,
Wash, captured George Johnson and
George Craig, together with a counter
feiting plant.
During the temporary absence of
the attendant Emma Stone, and in-
sane patient at Dunning, Ill.,, scalded
herself to death IN a bathtub.
George Santry and John McCogney
have been arrested in connection with
the murder of Gus Collander at a Chi.
cago polling place in November, 1894.
Richard Henry Savage, the novelist,
has brought suit in the New York Su-
preme Court to o $4,000 alleged
to be due him by Frank Tennyson
Nicely, the publisher.
With a ticket to Germany in his
pocket Franc Kozak attempted TO
drown himself off the Battery, New
York, and fought desperately with
three men who rescued him.
Wesley Daron, II years old, of
White Pine, Tenn, has confessed that
he ovrdana Mo Hhartoa Givon and