The Penn's Grove record., 1896-06-12
NEWS THROUGHOUT
THE COUNTRY.
forth. East. West. South.

forth. East, West South.
The Willamette and Columbia Rlv-
ers, ut Portland, Ore.. are rising rapid
ly, and there are apprehensions OF a
serious flood.
Postmaster Watson, of Crescent
Hill, KY, shot and fatally wounded
n of two thieves who had robbed the
post office of $40.
Counsel for Murderer Durrant, the
slayer of Blanche Lamont, in San
Francisco, CAL, has filed a lengthy
bill of exceptions in support OF a mo-
ton for a new trial.
George H. Mahan, of Norwich. N.
Y, is under arrest for embezzling
$4,000 from the Chenango Cooperative
Savings and Loan Association, OF
which he was secretary.
Charles Thompson, of Johns Noun
tam, is in Jail at Rome, Ga, charged
with the murder of Mrs. Tudor, his
housekeeper, whose body was found in
a well. Thompson confessed that the
woman wanted to commit suicide and
he assisted her by tying stones to her
body and letting her down the well.
During a quarrel in Chicago, be-
tween Michael Martins saloon keeper,
and ]. Sexton, an employe of the Illi-
nois Steel Works, Martin was shot in
the abdomen by Sexton and probably
fatally injured. Sex'on fled and, re-
fusing to stop, was shot in the side by
an officer. He was also probably fatally
wounded.
A man who gave the name of James
Williams was shot and fatally wounded
while robbing the post Office at Cres-
cent Hill, n suburb of Louisville, Ken
lucky. The shot was fired by the post
master, P. Watson.
Henry Mitchell Smith, a negro who
was convicted of assaulting an aged
white woman, was hanged at Lexing-
ton, Kentucky.
On Wood Island, in Saco Bay, Me-,
Frederick w. Milliken, aged 1874
fisherman, game warden and special
policeman, was shot in the abdomen
and fatally wounded by Howard
Hobbs, aged "a, a fisherman Hobbs
subsequently killed himself.
John E. Blair and his son, Alva
Blair, attacked the formers son-in-
law, Henry Anthony, on the street in
Nevada, Mo-, with revolvers and
knives. Over % shots were fired al
Anthony, and even of them struck
the victim The Blairs also cut An.
thongs throat.
John I. Price, a once well known
livery stable keeper of Washington, D.
c., committed suicide in that city as a
result of depression due to i'll h,alth
and financial difficulties. :
Chief P. NJ. Arthur, of the Brother
hood of Locomotive Engineers, was re-
elected at Ottawa, Ont.
After an absence of two months the
steamer Utopia returned to Seattle.
WASH, from Cooks Inlet, with report:
from the new gold diggings.
Seven people we're poisoned in Chi.
cago by a bottle of wine presented tc
Eva Little by an unknown man -Four
of the poisoned people are in n serious
condition and may possibly die. The
Little woman Keeps a house of ques-
ti0nable character and the wine was
supposed to be a treat for her and hel
boarders. The wine contained afro.
pine.
A despatch from Victoria, Mexico,
a y that Lon Hicks, an American
who, with his family, settled on a farm
near there a few months ago, muir
dered three of his children while in,
toxicated. He is hiding in the mount.
aims.
Harvey T. Weaver, a butcher o.
Allentown, Penna., shot and killed
himself in that city, in the presence o.
several hundred children, who were
being dismissed from school.
A. l.. Henderson, who was at one
time a director in the Chicago Board
of Trade, and one of the heaviest
spectators in the West in seeds and
grain, committed suicide IL that city.
John Hogan, at Doylestown Penna.,
who was convicted of barn burning,
was sentenced to forty years imprison-
ment. He is As years of age.
A Sacramento despatch says tina
Philip Oppeuheim, who had been or
dered by Judge Prewitt, of the Sacra-
mento Superior Court, to turn over Il
I. NJ. Yates, as receiver, some $40, 900
which he held as trustee for his
mother, has disappeared, and is sup
posed to be now in Toronto, Canada.
The Southern Pacific Company hal
removed from the black list the strik
ers who refused to work three year
sgo.
Lightning struck and instantly killed
Abram Carpenter, a Flemingsburf
(Ky.) farmer. j. r. Hall was fatally
shocked.
For no known reason Charles r.
Van Wickle, a prominent New Orleans
business man. blew his brains out.
Rev. DR.. Paxton, of New York
struck his eye IN a clothes hook at hi
summer home, East Hampton, L. l.,
and may lose his sight.
Philip Oppenheim, who was ordered
by the Califoria Superior Court to turn
over to a receiver $4,000 which b,
held as trustee for his mother, disap
peared and has turned up in Toronto
Canada.
Dunlop and Turner, who stole til,
Burden diamonds, and were captured
in London through the suspicious o
the jewellers to whom they tried To eel
some of them. arrived in New York. |
Two Swedish sailors, Samuelsen AMI
Harbo, started from New York TO
Havre, France, in an eighteen-foo
cedar rowboat. They carry provision
for sixty days.
A despatch from st. Johns, New
-lJ n that tho erhnnno