The Penn's Grove record., 1896-02-07
GEWs THROUGHOUT
THE COUNTRY.
North. East. West. South.

William Trout, a barber Of Mays
vile, KY, has lived on buttermilk
alone tor 81 days.
Whitelaw Reid has found his health
greatly benefited by his s~oiourn in
Phoenix, Arlz.
Chief Judge A.. G. Baker, of the
Supreme Court of Arizona, has been
charged with m~slfeasance in office.
Four-year.o old Willie Plufkebell
slipped through an air hole in the ice
at Highland Falls, N. Y, and was
drowned.
Several million acres Of pasture land
in the Creek Nation, l. T., are to be
thrown upon the cattlemen by dis
pensing with fences.
Mise Kate Stsggers, of Blauvelt, N.
Y, while on her way to a skating
pond, set fire to her dress at a bonfire
and was burned TO death.
Louis Gordon, a shirt manufacturer,
OF New York, who had over-insured
his stock, was convicted of arson, and
may get a s~eyen-years' sentence.
Barton Peek. a farmer, was robbed
near Lamar, No., by desperadoes, who
tied him to a tree, where he was kept a
prisoner, without food, for three days.
.'Kid" Moore and George Bridges,
Colorado desperadoes, who had been
ordered out of Durango, were shot and
killed by unknown persons in their
shanty.
The finding Of a diamond in a tur-
keys gizzard, at Bridgeport, Conn.,, has
given q boom TO the poultry market,
which is stimulated by dealers pl icing
a coin in an occasional fowl.
For having beaten tneirson to death,
Adolph Niese and his wife, of Coville,
WASH, we're sentenced to 81 year, i'm.
prisonment. while in cells both cut
their throats, and Niese is dead. 4
Frank Buddenklepper, a retired
business man, of New York, is on trial
for arson.
Captain Francis futile, of Port
Townsend, Wash, has been appointed
to command the evenue cutter Bear.
Mamie Brennesh, II years old, was
burned to death at her home in New
York, while dressing for a wedding.
A mob has been organized at Glen
dora, Mich, to hang the husband Of
Mrs. Ito, who murdered his wife re-
Gently.
William Thomas Dryer, of Bren-
ham, Tex, was killed by unknown
persons in his office, and his body
thrown in a well.
The New York Park Board has re-
tired on a Pension Policeman John Fa-
gin, of Central Park, who has served
since 1871.
Farmer John R. Haines, an Indiana
farmer. near Indianapolis, beat his
wife to death with q poker and then
hanged himself.
Charles R. Snyder. cashier Of the
Postal Telegraph Company, at Buffalo,
n. Y, has disappeared, and his ac-
counts are short.
Herman L. Mueller has been acquit-
ted of the charge of embezzling $l4,-
600 from the Schlitz Brewing Company,
of Kansas City, Mo.
Students Of the Ohio Wesleyan Uni
verslty, of Delaware, o., have refused
to organize against cheating in recIta-
lions and examinations.
Messenger John Phillips, of q New
York News Bureau. has been notified
that he lie heir to $32,0 0e by the death
of an uncle 10 Germany.
Roster Oliver, a colored youth, was
shot and killed by Julian r. Taylor, a
viii Q boy of IS, in revenge for an In
suit, at Richmond, Va.
The recent explosion in a railroad To-
connective, at South Charleston, o., in
which two men were killed, was caused
by low water in the boiler. 6
A cop1agration that ravaged the
heart Of the Chestnut street block be-
tween Broad and Fifteenth streets, oc-
Cured in Philadelphia. Originating
in the Haseltine Building, it completely
destroyed that structure and the one
to the west Of it, used by the American
Baptist Publication Society, consuming
in the latter, contents whose loss ia
simply irreparable, and in the former
paintings, musical instruments, books
and paraphernalia that will prove.a
severe prIvation to the score or more
Of artists and music teachers who had
/ their studios there. These ediices ex-
tend from Chestnut street 10 SAMSON
and as the flames started about the
centre Of the building (Haseltine's) the
Fire Department found difficulty In
promptly attacking them from either
side at first, and meanwhile they gained
great Roadway, extending to the roof
OF the Lafayette Hotel or the SAMSON
street wing and destroying the two up
per floors Of that section. Intervening
structures were more or less marred or
damaged, hut although the most COM
plete destruction was confined to the
two properties designated, it ia estimate
ed the loss by this fiery visitation will
be between 81, 250, 900 and 81, 500, 600.
Mrs, Sophia Grant vas murdered BY
some unknown person, at her home,
IN the Charlestown district, Boston.
Colonel A. B. Colt, who was in com.
mand of the militia company which
fred upon a mob of lynchers at Wash
ington Court House, in October. 1894,
and who was indicted for the murder
Of the persons killed, was acquitted a,
Columbus, Ohio. There are other
! cases to be tried.
! William Payne. aged " years, and
his wife, negroes, were murdered at
their home in Houston, Texas, Rob-
berry is supposed to have been the mo
tive.
A Cincinnati despatch says that the
horribly mutlated body OF an I'M
known young woman was found in a
cluster of bushes on a farm on the