The Penn's Grove record., 1896-12-11
NEWS THROUGHOUT
THE COUNTRY
North, East, West and South.

Cured in New York, thousands being
present Carl Scburz spoke and emf.
nent singers sang.
Four children persisted in the burn
ing Of their home il Chicago.
A Russian family OF five persisted in
the u zzard on Thanksgiving Day at
Williamsport, Emmons county, N. d.
E. @. Lodeman. an instructor in
Cornell University, shot himself at
Mexico N. Y
chauncey johnson, a thief credited
with innumerable bank sneak robber-
les and with having stolen $500. 600. Is
again in arrest iu New York.
Enormous European orders for Ala
h,ma pig iron are reported at Birming-
liam.
Two Italian street sweepers iD New
VI rk have made Affidavit alleging that
they had been obliged to pay to get
jobs and hat the practice OF buying
cmpl ,yment was common.
l,sron Leopold Won Waldorf, who
Las made five unsuccessful attempts TO
commit suicide, is held for further ex-
animation ut ew York.
In De Kalb, Indiana, Henry L.
Bower killed his wife and p obably
fatally wounded his little daughter and
mother-in-iaw. Bowers, who was ln-
sane, then cut his throat with a butcher
knife, aud died in a few minutes.
Will am E. Counts, . druggist Oh
Reelsv.lle, Indiana, was murdered by
footpads.
The water at Chippewa Falls, Wis.
cs.nsln, is t1enty-seven feet above low
water marx, and is still rising. There
j. no hope of breaking the ice gorge
with dynamite, and the work has been
abandoned. 1t is the general belief
that the city ,s doomed. The ice
sorge is nov ov,r five miles long and
from thirty TO fifty feet high. 4
Robert j. Tanning, Of Boston, Mass,
i printer, tired TO shoot his wife and
h Q killed himself.
Burglars looted the safe Of the Ne.
hraska Loan Office. at Omaha, and
carried off $4,000 worth Of jewels and
c, sh.
Morgue Keeper White, of New York
sity, has been indicted by the Grand
Jury for illegally disposing of the dead
iodies left in his care.
The Boring Sea Commission is con
sidering the claims of the schooner
Caroline for $50, COO for Illegal seizure
by the United States revenue cutter
Corwin.
Mrs. Eliza H. Cummings, of Hills
borough. o., while suffering from in.
sanity jumped from the fifth story of
the Hotel Empire, in New York city,
aud was killed.
President Cleveland issued a procla
nation which suspends the law feliev-
ing vessels from German ports from
olnage dues and other charges in
American ports. This is done upon
evidence that American vessels are not
given those privileges in ports in Ger
many. 1t is retaliatory in it's ma
ture. 0
Daniel Ryan, aged 6 years, and Will
liam and Josephine Burk, aged z and
IL respectively, we're drowned in the
.Naugatuck river, at Thomaston, Conn,
by the breaking Of the ice.
Sophia Lawrence. aged 9; Sarah Law.
renee, aged 40, and a ledger, named
Sawyer, all colored yeople, were found
dead In their house, 10 Roxbury, Mass.
They had been asphyxiated by gas from
. leakey pipe
A Santa Fe train was wrecked twen-
,yfive miles north Fort Worth, Texas,
by miscreants, who placed distractions
n the tracks. Two of the trainmen
were killed and another badly scalded.
Iowa orchards suffered enormous
damage during the recent storm.
Because their demand for food and
shelter was not complied with, two
tramps set fire to and destroyed the
home of Sarah and Mary Leech, near
S~helbyyille, Ind. Mary Leech wal
probably fatally burned.
A fire in New Orleans, Louisiana.
destroyed the wholesale grocery of B.
II. Flaspoller 4 SON, and the store of
the j. G. Morris Co., dealers in wooden
and willow ware. Loes, 1855. 000.-
The First Presbyterian Church, Chica-
GO, was damaged by fire to the extent
Of about $4,000.
An incendiary fire destroyed twenty
one store buildings and Eve dwellings
at Shaws, Miss, the loss being about
S75. 900, partially insured.
The four leading railroads Of Mexico
are said to have entered into a pooling
agreement.
County Treasurer W. N. Coe was
arrested at Dallas, Tex. on q grand
jury indictment charging him with
embezziing $685. of Dallas county
funds. Coe claims to have been robbed
10 his Office by two men aud TO have
been shot in the back of his head.
United States Secret Service detec-
live in New York arrested Charles Pop
,,as, a restaurant keeper, and Annie
Krauis, ON a charge of making spurious
coin. Dies, moulds and a furnace for
melting metal were seized.
Az investigation OF the work of the
turnpike raiders in Kentucky shows
that 1900 miles owned by corporations
have practically been contiscated and
are being travelled free of toll. 1t is
estimated that the destruction Of toll
gates in the Blue Grass region has
affected $4,000. 900 worth Of property.
The steamer Dauntless, at Jackson
sille, Fla, has been seized by the
United States authorities Tiers, as she
u suspected Of preparing TO eugoge in
a Riibnstering expedition to Cuba. i
Jesse Wilmer and James Nelson, sus-
pected OF the murder of the wife and
two children of the former, we're taken
from Jail at Lexington, Mo-, and
lynched.
A collision occurred on the Baltimore
& Ohio Southwestern Railroad lei
Storr's Station, o., between q regular
trash and a special carrying leading
officials Of the road. Three persons
were killed and fourteen wounded, n
fatally.