The Penn's Grove record., 1896-06-26

chlluren INTO the room where the BODY
lay, nailed up the doors.
Edward Mccormick, who was &C
cnsed Of the murder of Mamie Gun.
mngham, May 80 last, was ~exonera,ed
by the Grand Jury i'll New York,
Joseph Ferrone, also known as Mareno,
who was the chief accuser, was in.
dicted for perjury.
Reverdy ]. D~alngerfield, one Of the
hest.known citizens of Alexandria,
Virginia, committed suicide at his
residence in that place by shooting
himself through the head. The cause
was acute insomnia. His brother
Henry committed suicide about two
years age on account of the same
trouble. 4
Eleven persons were killed and
many Others were injured by the ex-
plosion of the boiler on the steamer
Titus Sheard. There were twenty
seven passengers on board. and the ac-
cident occurred as the boat was APP
preaching Taylor Park, on the Erie
Canal, New York.
Alonzo Walling was convicted al
Newport, Kentucky, of the murder OF
Pearl Bryan, and the jury fixed the
penalty at death.
A blast in n of the strippings ci
No. 2 Silverbrook CollIery, near Halle
ton, Penua., resulted in the suffoca.
ton of n miner and the injury o.
three others.
J.. p. Hanson, the Fremont, Neb.
merchant, who fell from a window of q
New York city hotel was said to be
much improved; the chances for re-
covery being in his favor.
"Jack" McQuaide, one of the most
desperate burglars known to the police
of Allegheny, was fatally shot by acct
dent as he was endeavoring to escape
from a policeman.
A man giving his name as Harry
Ryder was arrested near B~urkeville,
Virginia, on suspicion of being the
tramp who assaulted Miss Meadows neal
SAKE, Charlotte county recently. He
was taken to SAKE aud positively iden-
titled by Miss Meadows.
A Lowell, Massachusetts,, despatch
says that the Middlesex Manufacturing
Company will close down for an ,indef.
nIto period. The mills employ 600
hands. 5
Two freight cars we're derailed near
Wall Station, not far from PIttsburg,
on the Pennsylvania Railroad, and the
first section of the Atlantic Express,
bearing returning delegates TO the st.
Louis Convention collided with the
wreck. No one was injured. The
other sections of the train which were
%signalled in time, carried the Quay
party, the correspondents train and a
private car. on which was Carrot A.
Hobart, the Vice Presidential nominee.
A violent wind storm at. Poughkeep.
sic, New York, uprooted over SOC
shade trees, wrecked several buildings
and broke electric wires so completely
that the city was in darkness.
An express train ON the Camden and
Atlantic Railroad struck a wagon al
Absecon, killing George Huber and
his son, Fred Huber, of Germania,
Harry Gessinger, of Philadelphia, aud
probably fatally iniuring Joseph Sahl,
a member of the Atlantic county Board
of Freeholders.
A train on the Lake Street Elevated
Road ran into an open switch in Chi.
cago and before the tram could be
stopped the combination motor and
passenger car shot over the abutmenl
and into the street below. Three per.
sons We're probably fatally injured and
several others badly cut and bruised.
Samuel c. Heude son and George
F. Miller were killed at kepdallville,
Ind, by the parting of an excursion
train. They were on the platform anc
when the drawbar broke they were
thrown under the wheels.
Frank johnson, % years of age. the
SOL of Jere Johnson, Jr., a well known
New York %auctioneer, and a young
man named Walsh, of Brooklyn, were
drowned at Great South bay, opposite
Babylon, Long Island.
Three colored men were drowned in
the Cumberland River, at GAINESVILLE,
Tennessee, by the sinking of a skiff.
j. w. Howry & Sons lumber yard!
at 1ineton Flats, Ontario, togetnel
with twelve million feet of lumber
we're burned.
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A Nassau, N. p, despatch says tina
the American bark Taria Topaz, Cap
tain Coombs, from Boston tor Cypriar
Pass, was wrecked on June is, on Nh
caras shoals. The vessel and her cargo
of jetty stones were lost.
News reached ST. Paul, Minnesota.
that 'the Pine river Government dan
has broken and that the water is nov
pouring in torrents through the valley
of Pelican creek to the Mississippi
Considerable damage has been done
already and at Brainard a serious flood
is expected.
Frank Thomas, q sewing machine
AGENT of Linkwuod, Maryland, shoI
and instantly killed Ambrose Wilson,
Il school teacher at that place, who, il
was claimed had slandered Thomas
intended wife.
Mrs. T~elesphare Landry and hci
adopted daughter, Madeline Hubert,
were murdered by two negroes in then
home near Bayou Goula, La.
William Scheffner, in st. Paul,
Mimi, shot at and missed his wife,
shot and probably fatally injured hi;
son Paul, and then cent a bullet crash
ing through his own brain. "Sclieff-
ner was drunk and quarrelled with his
wife, who was defended by the boy" !
BY the collapse of a building in San
francisco, three persons were killed
aud eleven injured. 1t is thought
there are still two persons buried In
the ruins.
While bathing in the Illinois river,
near, Morris, Illinois, Albert aud
Frank Hcilenbeck, brothers, were
drowned