The Penn's Grove record., 1896-08-28
NEWS THROUGHOUT
THE COUNTRY.
North, South, East, West.

e laboratory building at
the University of Illinois, at Cham
paign, H., was burned. 1t is supposed
to ! ave been struck by lightning. The
building was one of the largest and
best of its kind in the country. Loss,
$100, DOC.
A fire at Rockford, ILL.,, destroyed a
block of stores owned by Gilbert
Woodruff and occupied as a depart
ment store. Loss, 800, 900.
The Beacn side Inn, at Green's
Farms, Conn, was robbed by five
masked burglars. The Waterman was
bound and gagged, the safe blown
open with dynamite and robbed of
$500 in cash and $1,000 in checks,
and the guests we're kept at bay by the
revolvers of the burglars.
Two robbers in Chicago attempt
ed to hold up the saloon of An
drew Dabowski, but the proprietor
drew a pistol, and a fusilade of shots
ensued. One robber was wounded in
the shoulder, and Dab 1wski was shot
in the hand.
In a fit of jealousy Charles Nelson
shot and killed his wife and attempted
to kill his three-year-old daughter at
their home in Chicago.
Fire at Lancaster, Kentucky, de-
stroyed all the buildings on the east
side of the public square, including
the Post-otfice.
A building in New York occupied by
John Emmons, wholesale dealer in
wines and liquors, was burned. Ed
ward Gross. n porter, and two iiremen
were badly burned by an explosion.
Burglars entered the house of E. l..
Herring, at Massillon, Ohio, and after
chloroforming the members of the
family ransacked the house, securing
5000 in cash and other yaluables to
double that amount. Two bicycles
were taken also.
The Coroner's jury in the case of W.
F. Eyster, the Pennsylvania found
dead at Lincoln, Neb., found that he
was poisoned by Cliff Hagey, with felo-
NOUS intent, and that Maud and Laura
Clark were accessories
A drunken riot at Diltonville, a
mining town IN jefferson county, OHIO,
resulted in one death, while three
persons are suffering from injuries that
are likely to prove fatal. The fight
was between Hungarian and French
miners,
Henry Wild, a pedd er aged, 46
years, shot and killed his wife and
then committed suicide in Louisville,
Ky.
About 1000 Yaqui Indians, employed
OF placer mining in the Altar district
in Sonora, eighty miles from NogaIes.
Arizona, have arisen in sympathy
with the recent evolutionary move
ment.
The United States Inspectors at San
Francisco have revoked the license OF
Captain w. II. Clark, who was in com
mand of the Pacific Mail steamship
Columbo, when she ran on the rocks
at Pigeon Point last month. Captain
Clark was severely censured for his
unskilful navigation.
Anna Lamar, a negress, rcputed tC
be 104 years old, died in Chattanooga,
Tennessee. Twenty-nine children were
born to her, while her grandchildren
number l97.
An Omaha despatch says that as q
result of severe rain and hailstorm'
throughout Nebraska and adjacent
States, the thermometer has fallen 4(
degrees.
Thomas Hill, tn e landscape painter
was stricken with paralysis at San
Francisco, Cal, and may die.
M. A. Bond, a printer, known in
many cities, was knocked off a train
and killed in Chicago, Ill.
A snowstorm prevailed on Mount
Washington. following au aurors
borealis display.
The British Admiralty is arranging
to place more first-class war ships on
the Halifax IN. ST. Station.
Rev. John II. Stewart, aged 60, wal
killed by an engine while driving ovel
a railway crossing lear Cataraqui,
Ont.
White Caps rsided the European Cir
Gus, at Severville. Tenn, and a free
fight followed, during which twenty
persons were badly hurt.
A seven .year.old daughter of Georg,
Bl Sc died at st. Louis of CHAMBERS
transmitted from the family horse, ant
the child's mother is also dying.
Alfred Demorest, a hotel cheat
who claims 10 be a drummer for
Boston shoe house and is wanted il
half a dozen cities, has come to grie
at Baltimore.
Former Clerk Henry X. Brown, o
the Bullion and Exchange Bank, o
Carson City, New, is accused by Vice
President Williams of having stoler
$66, 200.
Henry Rosens arden, a typewriter
who was b~equeathed the bulk Of tn,
estate of Attorney John C. Simnonds
of New York city, finds that it con
sists principally of worthless mining
stocks.
A. Y. Alice, a desperate, was killeC
in a saloon at Laredo, Tex, by tn,
City Marshal.
George McCauley was held up auC
robbed Of gold ingots, valued at $l4O(
at Trail, b. c.
William Doxin, of Bloomington Ill.
who was found dead, is suspected Of
having been murdered.
A passenger on thu Big Four, peal
Lebanon, Ind, was held up and robbed
of $75 while on the car platform.
Two boys caused the wreck on th'
Cleveland, Canton and Southern Rail
road which resulted in the death o
two men.