The Penn's Grove record., 1896-02-28
NEWS THROUGHOUT
THE COUNTRY.
North. East. West. South.

WI <aA
An explosion of gas in the Vulcan
mine, near Newcastle, Colorado. was
followed by fire. II is thought that
over fifty men who we're at work in the
mine are dead. 1t is supposed that the
explosion was caused by a high-lighted
fuse used by the miners in blasting
coal.
Burglars blew open a safe in the
bank at Richard, Mo-, and robbed it
of 5000.
The fo~ur-year-old son of John Ire
land, Of Mungen, o., was burned to
death in his home.
Thousands of miners in the State
Of Washington are prepar. ing to take
possession Of tho gold field in the Col
vile reservation.
Charles Nazworthy, a prominent
young lawyer OF Indianapolis, Ind,
shot himself through the head while
worried ovsr money matters.
Carey Holly, a farm laborer, shot
and killed James Combs and badly
wounded Mick Combs, on Old Buck
Creek in Breathitt County. KY,
An Indian doctor at Hoonah, Alas
ka. was killed by one OF his tribe
whom he had accused Vt ~witcacrsft,
and the doctors friends have retaliated
by killing the murderer.
By the explosion OF q great steam
kettle In G.. w. Chase &Son's candy
factory at 81. Joseph, Mo-, George w.
Ridley was killed and Edward OFT and
Edward Ziph fatally scalded. 8
Elk Governor George D. Robinson
has been stricken with apoplexy at
Chioopes, Mass, and is critically ill.
J.. L. Hopkins, ex-Supsrintendent Of
Public Schools, i Ypsilanti. Mich, has
bsen declared insane at Cleveland, o.
Mrs. Catharine vondersmith, for
merry of Brooklyn, N. T., q newspaper
writer. is suing for divorce at Fargo,
N. u.
M. oishi, managing editor of a jap
anese newspaper, has arrived at San
Francisco, and will make q tour Of the
world.
Mrs. Foster and Miss Irene saun.
derlin, of Church Hill, Va, were run
down and killed by q Chesapeake &
Ohio train.
The Michigan supreme Court has
affirmed the conviction of Nellie w.
Hope, who is serving q life sentence
for killing her husband.
@. E. Smith, Of Richmond, KY,
representing q New York syndicate, has
placed orders for forty million feet of
Kentucky oak lamber.
Miss Amelia Brock, one of the oper-
atives In the burned Troy IN. W collar
factory, and the only one not accounted
for. is supposed to have persisted in
the fire.
The confession of Mort Truesdall,
OF the murder Of q man named Shell
don, at Leadville, Col, has been cor
roborated, and his arrest has been
ordered. A
Rear Admiral Joseph Fyffe fretired)
Is critically i'll at Pierce, Neb.
Henry Fox, Jr., has been acquitted
at Houston, Tex, of the murder of
Daisy Douglass.
Minnie Radcliffe, an actress, is 500
to be married to the Duke Won Meter
nleh, Of Austria.
CudAhy Brothers, Of Chicago, Ill.
have purchased e4o0, 900 worth Of oil
lands near Decatur, Ind.
Comptroller Fitch, New York, has
accused the Reform Police Board ct
paying bills not warranted by law.
Charles Rodman, . Harper County
tKan.) farmer, was shot from ambush
and klllsd.
Matthew Gogovitch, a waiter In San
Esanotseo, CAL, believes he is heir to
$500, 600 from an Austrian estate.
Howard jackson, = 10 ysar-old boy
Of Baltimore, Nd, 10 under arrest for
the fatal stabbing Of Herbert Jenkins,
aged 1e.
Brayton Ives has resigned the presi-
dency Of the Western National Bank,
and John I. Scar y has been elected
president,
Michael Sales was killed in the drain
age canal at Chicago, H., by the fall
OF an immense boulder from a hoisting
machine.
The natural gas supply in Wabash,
Ind, was cut off during the regent
bliazard BY the bursting Of q main, and
much suffering from cold ensued.
Mail matters containing checks. ad-
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