The Penn's Grove record., 1896-11-20

epidemic of diphtheria is threatened in
a number of localities in Northern In
diana.
The entire Tomlinson family. living
near New Carlisle, six in number. has
been wiped out nv the deadly maiady.
Two new cases are reported at Otis,
Four children in one family at Auburn
have died, and general alarm prevails
In the stricken district.
Policeman Lyman, of Ocala, Florida,
shot and killed a negru named Harris
and wounded another. They had been
playing "'craps" aud refused to halt
when the officer called to them.
The house Of Frank Konjo. on the
outskirts of Detroit, was wrecked by Nm
explosion of dynamite and Konjo, Bob
Ewers and Konjo's daughter were in
jured, the first two probably fatally.
The Konjos charge a man named
Rozolski with having committed the
outrage.
Ia Slick, Missouri, Mrs. Abner Cox
shot her husband twice, MORALLY
wounding him, and then shot herself,
dying instantly.
A tollgate ON the Owenton pike, a
mile and a half from The Kentucky
State capital, wss blown up with dyna-
mite and burned at midnight by turn
pike,riders.
A fire at Elberton, Ga, destroyed a
plumber Of business housee, the losses
~aggregating 100000.
Chief Justice Lore charged the
Grand Jury of New Castle county,
Delaware, in regard to the election
frauds In Wilmington. He directed
the jury to make n thorough investi
gatiou of the cases TO be presented to
them.
Henry T. Clarke, Of New Haven,
Conn, surrendered himself to the San
Francisco police, and declared that
he had no recollection Of anything
which occurred during the past seven
weeks" He is charged with the en-
bezzlem ent of $500 in cash and
checks from his employers, Peck q
Bishop, 10 New Haven.
The Jennings State Bank, of Daven.
port, Nebraska, was robbed OF $270C
in cash and about 5000 worth OF jew.
elry. Nitro glycerine was used to blow
open the vault and safe doors.
Ed. Williams, a miner at ayrshire,
Indiana, attempted a criminal assault
upon q sick woman, and, failing in
that, assaulted her 14-year-old daugh-
ter. A mob pursued williams and
killed him.
One OF the upper stories of the
Hotel Highland, an eight story
apartment house, In Roxbury, Mas
sa%chusetts, was wrecked. A dyna.
mite cartridge was thrown down the
chimney and exploded in the kitchen
of the suite occupied by Henry I.
Burrell. Two other cartridges were
found on the roof. Two persons we're
slightly injured.
c. Rogolski, a Polander, who Is &C.
cused Of having exploded a dynamite
cartridge under a dwelling west Of the
Detroit city limits, has been arrested.
The only motive known for the crime
is the fact that Ewera, one Of the in
jured men, had cuffed Rogolski during
a small fracas on election night.
The second trial of Marie Barber
for the murder Of Dominica Cataldo,
on April &c, 1895, in New York CITY,
was begun in the Criminal Branch o.
the supreme Court, before Judge
GiIdersieeve.
Burrell Summer. OF Worth county.
Ga, was assassinated by Worth Congo
and John Gibbs because he bad given
information to the authorities against
them.
A Richmond, Va, despatch says
that,a lynching party ent 10 Prince
Edward Jail and attempted to lynch
Elisha johnson, caarzed with highway
robbery. The prisoner was badly
though not fatally wounded. 2