The Penn's Grove record., 1896-06-05
lEWs THROUGHOUT
THE COUNTRY.
North. East. West South

into the water 100 feet below. II il
thought that over 200 persons wen
down with the falling timbers and thai
over half of them persisted. Sixty-twe
bodies have been recovered.
The employees OF the Smell Cycle Fit
tings Company, of Toledo, Ohio, to the
number of 600, went on strike because
the company refused to discharge ian
Objectionable superintendent"
A strike of the street railway EN-.
ployes in Toledo, Ohio, is imminet.
The schooner Frederick Gearing, oil
Gloucester, Mass, has been seized al
Prospect, N. s., by the Canadian cutter
Aberdeen for fishing inside the three
mile limit.
A Key West despatch says that the
Mexican steam tug Asaturias, bound
from Laguna, Mexico, to Wilmington,
Delaw are, sank off Newport between
Alligator and Cary's Footlight. The
captain and crew were saved.
The ferry boat Katherine was struck
by a storm near Cairo, Illinois, and
capsized. Eleven persons were
drowned.
A Pan Handle switch engine ran into
a wagon belonging to the Howe Great
London Circus in Chicago, smashif g
the wagon and injuring its five occu-
pants, three of them probably fatally.
A fire at D~cseronto, Ontario, de-
stroyed the Ratbbun Comnanv,s Aonr
ILL AN-.E. -~I III H.
mill orehou ana elevator, the
shihgie ana lumoer uocks' = h9man
oa.1ollc cnurGn ana ABOUT Ivy dwell,
.ng nouses. Inc to'ai loss VIII eAceeu
Four business houses IN DALLAS
Texas, were burned, the loss reaching
$lOo,ooo.
The Union Depot, a hotel and other
property at Fort Worth, Texas, were
burned; loss Sloo, 600.
Mrs. Martin Frost. of Cleveland.
Mo-. drowned her three small children
in a barrel of water. and then cut her
own throat.
noouua No.,..a v.a.u pa.ah
olso Yea, "u Iey pau.op'
negloes. are ~ CUSTODY 'n naI.Iuloie,
in ,he murdarous assault nnon Inc
man,hers ~ tha p,x,on fsm;Iy Of
Ga;,harsb,.a Ma
IRWIN L.. Ford, the negro who was
convicted in Washington, u. ~, OF
the murder OF a white girl named Elsie
kreglo, was denied a new trial. .
Tho seorch for Raw F,ano;s usr-
mans tho Salt Iaka nreachar accnsed
90 serarai mnrders has not hasn snc.
oa.sfnI
81.
Euwaru Derg, an insane SAILOR VINO
1rleu 70 shoo. sesefai persons IN view
roIS Guy. co'hhhi''eu suicioe III 'he
Aohipe rrison.
A. p. Low, the explorer of the Geo.
logical Survey at Ottawa, Ont, has
started on another expedition in Labra-
dor and will return about November.
Frank Evans, aged 20 years, was
instantly killed and live other men
seriously injured by a boiler explosion
in Scudder's saw mill, in Clay City,
Ill. Evans's body was blown a dis
lance of 200 feet.
Nav Allison. a professional aeronaut.
in making a descent from a balloon
with a parachute. neal Baltimore. fell
into Back river and was drowned. She
was % years old.
Judge Cole. in Washington. sen.
fenced Irwin Ford. colored, the mur.
derer of Elsie Kreelo. to be hanged at
the District Jail on June 26th next.
The trial of Alonzo Waiting, indicted
for the murder of Pearl Bryan, for
which Scott Jackson stands convicted,
has been begun at Newport Kentucky.
l.. b. Baker, a wealthy cattle man Of
Houston, Texas, was found murdered
in the residence of Congressman j. G.
Hutcheson, where he had been living.
The motive for the murder was APP
parently robbery, as one room had
been ransacked and two bundles of
silverware we're found tied up near an
open window. 4
A district comprising 720 city blocks
in st. Louis was swept by the tornado.
Scarcely a building escaped injury,
and thousands are in ruins. The
~ W - SS"N poiuS oeAisS" ~
by h aid OF torches. In st, Louis l5l
bodies have been recovered, and the
number missing IS estimated from DO
% ooo. IN East 81 Louis the umne
d oead n missing IS placed at zo4
ihe persons injured NUMBER over a
thousand. IN audi1on 10 these ngures
scores OF people were Killed at places
',''ue y o. iou'
a s'.rm disastrous ~ y en- cls
swept nrough many OF the counties OF
DAMAGE was done in the ne;obhorhood
Of Columbia where several dwellinps
and mills we're wrecked. two men were
killed, ~ least thirLy-two Others were
more or less seriously injured, and fire
added TO the destruction of property.