The Penn's Grove record., 1896-07-17

sun Iost-Oilltt othtluii III nOuli LiISiS
wood, Ills, was shot and wounded by
William f. lermerise
Port jefferson, N. Y.-The store OF
F. f. Darling X Son, dealers in genera
merchandise, was damaged by fire.
Loss, $25, 900.
Matthew Cottrell, of Spencer, w.
Va, stabbed Isaac Ducey, an old man,
to death, and narrowly escaped lynch,
ing.
The boiler Of the United States shiI
Galena, which was wrecked off Mon.
tauk Point, will he placed in the Mas
sachusetts training ship Enterprise al
Boston.
James Pratt, William Weekley and
Roland Warner quarreled at Middle
borne, w. Va, and Warner cut Pratt
and Weekly so seriously that both viii
die.
Four men armed with revolvers en-
tered the office of the New York Bis.
cult Company, In CHI cago, ''held up"
the cashier and escaped with over
$1,000 which was being prepared to
pay off the employees. Five other
similar crimes were reported in Chi
cago during the day. In II of them
Policeman Saner was shot and prob
ably fatally injured.
Ex.State Senators George Iden and
J. u. Abbott, convicted of bribery,
were sentenced in Columbus, O., to
two years each in the Safe prison.
Execution of sentence was suspended
pending an appeal.
Rosenheim's dry goods store and a
block of other large business houses in
Nashville, Tenn, were burned. The
loss will exceed $500, 900.
A Raleigh despatch says that the
principal streams in North Carolina
are higher than they have been for a
number of years, and great damage is
being done by the floods. Roanoke
river at Weldon is thirty-seven feet
above gauge, and will go to forty.
William Gray. a horse buyer, of
East Buffalo, New York, was 'slugged"
by highwaymen at Williamsburg, Iowa,
and robbed of $500.
A despatch from Victoria, British
Columbia, says it is rumored there that
thirteen Victoria sealing schooners are
among the missing craft on the coast
of Japan since the big tidal wave a few
weeks ago.
An excursion train on the Chicago
and Northwestern Railroad was run
into and ditched by a fast freight at
Logan, Iowa, and thIrty-one persons,
of Omaha, Council Bluffs and Missouri,
Valley, we're killed and forty injured.
A disastrous collision occurred on the
railroad extension being constructed i'll
Jamaica under the direction of Ameri.
can contractors. Fifteen persons were
killed and many injured.
Becker and Creegan, who were
charged with swlndling the Nevada
Bank out of 500, 900, were convicted
in San Francisco.
Charles Stark, a saloon keeper, o
Springfield, Ohio, shot and killed Loui
Leiterman, his bar tender, and MOI
tally wounded his wife. The motive
was jealousy. /
Ed Ely, a noted fugitive Iowa train
robber, was captured in Lawson, Mo.
An earthquake shock, which lasted
about 20 seconds, was felt in Whitby,
Ont.
Hayden Roberts, of New Penn, Neb.
murdert d his wife and then committed
suicide.
Michael McGrath, 40 years old, of
Hamilton, o., was killed by a train at
Toledo, q.
The building intended to be a Ma.
tional Home for Poles was dedicated at
Chicago, Ill.
~Journeymen horseshoers of Buffalo,
N. Y, went on a str Ike for ten hours
and uniform wages.
Fighting over. a game of dice at
Kokoma, Ind, Horace Lewis was
probably fatally shot by Eugene Lee.
F. B. Rico, a negro clerk in the New
York post office, was arrested for steal
ing special delivery packages, .