The Penn's Grove record., 1896-03-27
News THROUGHOUT
THE COUNTRY.
North. East. West. South.

North. East. West. South.
Mrs. Barley, an invalid, from Bal.
timors, Md, dropped dead at the Hy-
geia Hotel, Old Point Comfort, Va,
from heart failure.
Two hundred and fifty indictments
have been found in Danville, Ind,
against druggists for violating the law
prohibiting the sale of liquor.
A freight wreck on the Ontario and
Western Railroad near Hancock, N.
Y, caused the death Of Conductor J..
Daily and Engineer James Head.
Special Customs Officer John Dem
neny, suffering with grip.a at Port Huron
Mich, blew out his brains while bis
wife was trying to get the pistol
from him.
Judge Slack, of San Francisco, CAL,
has dismissed the suit of the executors
against the will Of the late ex-senator
Fair, and the children have withdrawn
their contest.
The Canadian and Michigan Bridge
and Tunnel Company has obtained
authority from the Canadian Senate to
build a bridge, with a span Of HOO
feet, across the Detroit River. 8
L. Tyler, Pratt & Co., dealers in
metals, Of Boston, Mass, have assigned.
Senator Garfeld's bill to prevent the
corrupt use of money in elections has
become a law in Ohio.
Police Officer Fred Parlin was shot
and killed while attempting TO queli a
row in a cabin in Butte, Mon.
Mayor Strong, Of New York, has
placed himself On record as fully ap-
proving the Raines Excise bill.
The battleship Oregon is practically
completed at San Francisco, CAL, and
will soon be turned over to the Govern.
ment.
Farmers Simon Watts, Alexander
Grace and Allen Wollinger were killed
by the explosion of a boiler near Gale
donia, Ala.
While coughing violently Miss Nellie
Wright, of Delhi, N. Y, elected a
tooth from her lungs, and her health,
which had been critical, is improving.
Curfew bells are to be rung in oma-
ha and Lincoln, Neb., warning chill
dren under Is years to remaIn in their
| homes after 8 ?. NJ. in winter and 8 in
summer.
John A. Right, cashier of the Fifth
| Avenue Savings Bank, of Columbus,
o., which failed recently, has been ar
rested, charged with enbezziing $50,
| 900 of the bank funds.
A crowded stage coach was over
turned while descending a bill neal
| Cripple Creek, Col, and c. d. Pierce, Of
| Denver, was fatal y and several othel
I persons seriously injured.
Herman Oberman was held for trial
in a New York Police Court on a charge
of abducting Esther Blum, 16 years
| old, whose sister. a Philadelphia wo-
man was the ccuse
George Williams, alias George Hart
man, the notorious insurance fraud,
pleaded guilty before Judge Newberger
in General Sessions, New York, and
was sentenced to 10 years IN States
prison.
Jospeh ]. Cisco, a war veteran and
member of the G. A. R., employed IN
the Appraisers Stores, New York, was
| arrested, and stolen crockery and pad
locks belonging to the Government,
| and 1929 were found in his posses.
| sion. 4
At Fayette, Ohio, William scharg
and Archie Rogers, stonemasons, fell
70 feet from the scaffoldlng Of q church
in course Of erection and were instantly
killed.
The Masonic building in Providence,
Rhode Island, was destroyed by fire.
The loss is estimated at 100000.
The air compressors Of the Poorman
and ii err Mines, at Burke, Idaho,
were totally destroyed by fire. Loss,
5000, 600. The mines will be shut
down for six months until repairs are
made.
William H. McNutt, said to be ''tht
most notorious wiretapper in the
United States" was arrested in Chi
cago, on suspicion of being implicated
in The sensational overlapping case a
New Orleans. This was the CAGE il
which bookmakers all over the coun
try we're chit" for $3.50 900 on the
substitution of the wrong horse a
winner Of one of the races.
In indianapolis Albert Kinchlov
shot and fatally wounded his mothe
and then killed himself. He wa
recently injured by an accident, an
his mother was caring for him.
A train robber named McCole wa
shot and killed in an attempt to hold
up q Southern Pacific train between
Tulare and Goshen, California. Tn
robber surprised two deputy sheriff
on the tender of the action and in tn
duel which resulted McCole was kille
and one of the officers, Earl Daggett
! was seriously wounded.
Al Carson, Nevada, the jury engage
in the trial of John I. Jones, the foi
mer assistant meter and retiner at tn
J Carson Mint, who is charged with con
p!icity in the embezzlement OF bullio
valued at 1923, 600, disagreed and WEI
discharged.
Lee Glasscock, a member of th
Austin, Texas. City Council, has di
appeared, leaving forged papers o
which he obtained several thousan
dollars. D
The plant of the Pennsylvania sa
Works at Natrona, Penna., vas visite
by a destructive fire. A rough est
mate places the loss at $1,000, 0O'
: probably covered by insurance.
The building in Washington occ'
; pied by the Census Bureau was dan
aged by fire to the extent of abor
500, 900. Some Of the records WEI
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