The Penn's Grove record., 1896-04-17
News THROUGHOUT
THE COUNTRY.
North. East. West. South.

trial III New York city for the murder
of Conrad Barber.
John Hunter shot and killed Angelo
Aborn, his brother-in-law, during q
quarrel at Crystal Lake, Conn.
Roland Scot, mail carrier between
ShaGkelfords and Gloucester Court
house, Va, has been arrested for rob-
bling the mails.
The New York Court of Appeals has
decided that under the Raines Excise
law clubs need not take out liquor
licenses.
While preaching at Curtis Bay (Md.)
Baptist Church, Pastor William 7.
Bailey's tongue was paraIyzed and ne
lost all power of speech.
Ex-Convict James Mckinney, of
Kansas City, Mo-, shot and killed
! Nellie Wagner, with whom he had
beeh living, and then killed himself.
William Biggerstaff, colored, who
killed Dick Johnson. the champion
pr%ize-fighter of Montana, in January,
1895, was hanged at Helena.
Major Joseph G. Pangborn former
ly of Baltimore, Md, has finished Il
tom of the world in the interests of
the Field Columbian Museum OF Chi
cago, Iii.
Timothy c. Mahoney, a clerk in
the package department of the New
York post Office, now under arrest,
has confessed stealing oyer a thousand
packages.
White Caps in Edmondson County,
Ky, logged Mrs. Nancy Blair and
Mrs. Duggers, and tore down their
house for harboring Farmer Hogan,
who had left his family.
Farmer Bastian, whose farm, near
Rock Island, ILL.,, Is Icing dug up in
IL search for human bodies, is accused
| by his neIghbors of three murders, in
Guiding the killing of IL two.day-old
baby.
In the Tohawanda murder trials at
Buffalo, N. Y, Captain Jesse Graves
pleaded guilty to manslaughter in the
first degree, and Irving Collins and
John Quirk to manslaughter in the
second degree.
William L. Midgely, a cused of APP
propriating S2f, 0O0 from the American
Casualty Insurance nd'Security Com
pany, of Baltimore, Md. of which he
was president, was acquitted by order
of Judge Newburger, in New York
city.
OHIO has Just enacted an anti lynch
/ W. which makes the county liable
10 the victims family for damages.
Field Marshal Yamagata, of Japan,
accompanied by his staff, has arrived
at Omaha, Neb., on his eastward
tour.
Alden J. Blethen, founder of the
Penny Press, at Minneapolis. Mimi,
has made a gift If the entire plant to
his employees.
Annie Clark, n comely young woman
has married the ''iurtle man." u de-
formed negro dwarf, in a dime mu-
scum, in New York city.
The steamer Gaelic has been quar-
antined at San Francisco because she
had landed AT Yokohama a passenger
suffering from the "Chinese plague"
The brick residence of Pito Studoll,
smelter, Pueblo, Col, was blown up
by dynamite by al unknown enemy,
but nobody was hurt.
While his accounts were heing ex.
amined Frank Saunders, agent of TIE
Great Northern Railway, attempted
suicide at Langdon, Mimi, and may
die.
Alexander Sternberg, who was last
seen heal Farmer Bastian's home, at
Rock Island, ILL.,, is supposed to have
been the seventh victim buried IN the
farm.
Charles Lamborn, his sister Annie,
and Thomas Davenport, her lover, are
under arrest at ~Leavenworth, Kan, for
the murder of the father of the Lam
borns.
Five men were killed and five in-
jured in a quarry near Ogden, Utah,
by the premature explosion of a blast
of giant powder.
Daniel McGinlay was killed by a
Pennsylvania Railroad train at Eliza
beth, N. J.. He WAS on his way from
church with his bride, to whom he
had just been married.
The Savannah Grocery Company's
building in Savannah, Georgia, was
burned. The loss is estimated at
$175, 900.
The Eden Park Cotton Mills at
Douglasville, Georgia, were burned at
midnight, loss $125. 060. About 100
hands were thrown out of work.
A search of the Bastian farm, near
Rock Island, Illinois, has brought to
light evidence which leads the authori-
ties to believe that Bastlan, who re-
Gently committed suicide, was guilty of
no less than seven murders. 4
Incendiary attempts we're made to
burn the post office and Two large bust
ness houses in Savannah, Ga.
About 1000 fishing nets of unlawful
mesh have been seized at Grand Haven,
Mich, by the State Game Warden.
Samuel Barrowe emphaticslly denies
that his son, Wallet Alsop Barrowe, is
engaged to marry Mrs, j. Coleman
Drayton.
New York State farmers near Can
andaigua are using potatoes for fuel,
the crop being unstable even at two
cents a bushel.
Lorenzo Hadd and Celia Stevens,
aged respectively 8 and 1 years, are
dead at Linwood, Mich, from eating
wild parsnips.
Frank C. harrington, of New York
city, has been convicted in Detroit,
Mich, of using the United States mails
for swindling purposes.
Assistant Paymaster Murray Tyler,
of the Baltimore Il Ohio Railroad, is
recovering from a serious nervous
attack at his home in Gainesville, Md.