The Penn's Grove record., 1896-01-31
NEWS THROUGHOUT
THE COUNTRY.
North. East. West. South.

Ex-Cashler w. IL. Winstock, of the
Exchange Bank, of Sturgeon, Mo-, has
been arrested for embezzling $500.
A salt vein, 800 feet thick, said to
be the richest in the world, has been
found under the town of Little River,
Kan.
E. j. lucky Baldwin has mort.
gagged the Baldwin Hotel, at San
Francisco, Cal, and the Santa Anna
ranch for $50, 600.
Janitor Allen saved the lives of Mrs.
Waterbury and her son by carrying
them down a ladder during a fire in a
fiat house in Chicago, I'll.
The st. Louis National and CONNER
cial Banks, of st. Louis. have CONSOLE
dated, with William Nichols as presi-
dent and u capital of 81. 500. 900.
Officers from Chattanooga, who were
pursuing John Massengale and his
brothers, accused of murder, fred upon
the fugitives in a boat and killed two
of them. .
The residence Of Maurice s. Worm.
ser, SOL of the late Banker Isaac s.
Wormser, No. IA East Sixty.second
street, New York, was mysteriously
robbed recently of silverplate worth
1000. 8
Elizur Thrasher, a desperate, was
shot in a Bib County (AIa.) prison,
while trying to escape.
The National Grand Army reunion
may be held in Buffalo, N. Y, this
year, and special railroad rates to that
city have been arranged.
Citizen Dobbins, of Birmingham,
Ala, has gone to Houston, Tex, to
search for a swindler to whom he paid
$4,000 for a "gold brick"
By the breaking of a cable in the
Ohio Steel Company's works, a,
youngstown, o., Charles Wadmarsh
was killed, and three other men were
injured.
The Bessemer Mine owners have de-
cided that the shipments of ore for the
coming season are not to exceed ten
million tons, or POO, 900 less than last
season.
Mrs. Basil West, an actors wife, has
been granted a separation and ali
mony in New York for cruelty and
desertion. West is the villain in the
"Cotton King"
The report that Cornelius Wander.
bilt, Jr., is going to marry Miss Grace
o. Wilson, daughter of Banker Richard
o. Wilson, of New York, Is authori-
tatlvely denied.
Efforts are being made in Cincinnati
to have the reunion and Grand Lodge
meeting of the Order of Elks deferred
until after the National Democratic
Convention has met.
Two Poles, who attempted to wreck
the Philadelphia and Reading Rail-
roads trestle neal Buffalo, N. Y, by
saving the supports, have been sen.
fenced to six months imprisonment. 4
Five hundred Southern negroes will
sail from Savannah next month for
Liberia.
| John Chapman, al athletic thief,
stole a stove from in front of a store
in New York.
An explosion in the Ramapo Iro
Works, at Hillborn, N. Y, killed
Frederick Thorp and injured several
workmen.
Mayor Walbridge, of st. Louis, No.,
has announced his candidacy for the
Republican nomination for Governor
of Missouri.
Farmers Daniel Cort and Joseph
Bscker quarreled in a Court room at
Wsukegan. ILL.,, and Cort fired a pistol,
killing a bystander.
Murderer Arthur Schneider attacked
Deputy Sheriff Duggan in the New Or
leans prison and gashed him danger
ously about the throat.
Governor Morton. OF New York, has
pardoned Barry Mines, the clerk of
Drexel, Morgan & Co., who a con-
| victed of embezzlement.
Mrs. Jordan, of Huntington, w. Va,
was attacked by a pet bull, which was
recently bitten by a rabid dog, and has
gone to New York to obtain the anti
hydrophobia treatment. 5
The American liner st. Paul ran
ashore off Long Branch while a dense
fog prevailed. All the passengers were
safely landed.
Mobile is to have a $50, 900 bushel
| grain elevator built at ono
John E. Crawford has sued the First
National Bank of Chicago, ILL.,, and
others for 800, 900 for false arrest.
Mrs. Horace II. Saunders, of Collins
vile, Conn, walked into a snowbank,
after a two-mile tramp in her night
robe, while asleep.
Joseph Deyo, of Denning, N. Y,
claims to have been attacked by an
army of hungry crows, while at work
in the woods, and says he was COM
PEELED to flee for his life.
A collision occurred at a crossing
near Santa Clara, California, through
the blunder of a signal man, and a
Southern Pacific express was wrecked.
Seven persons were injured, one proba-
bly, fatally.
The first section of a Raymond &
Whitcomb excursion train, on the
Norfolk and Western Railroad, ran
into a fallen boulder at Crooked Run,
near Riverton, Virginia, and was
wrecked. A colored porter. named
Phillips, was killed and several persons
we're injured. All but four of the pas
sengers resumed their journey.
At St. Mary's. Ohio, a wagon con-
tanning 760 quarts of nitro. glycerine
exploded, killing San Angel, the driver,
and two horses.
A steam fire engine at Cleveland,
Ohio, plunged through a draw-bridge
at Seneca street. Two men who went
down with the engine were rescued,
but the horses were drowned.
A despatch from St. Johns, New
foundland, says that "ths worst snow
storm in 20 years. was experienced