The Penn's Grove record., 1896-05-22
NEWS THROUGHOUT
THE COUNTRY.
North. East. West. South.

III hhatohI VA iihIIg Iod, IL young
man, was burned to death.
Tho Illinois law closing barber
shops OF sunday has been declared
unconstitutional by the Supreme Court
OF hat State.
Constable ]. NJ. Tinsdale tried 10
arrest Ernest Gibbons, at Slmcoe, Me-,
but was shot by Gibbons, who then
killed himself.
Arrests are being made Of teachers
at 'chools in Orange Park, Fla, un-
der the law prohibiting the co-educa-
ton of whites and blacks.
The trial of Miss Lillian Eshley's
suit against Millionaire f. J. Baldwin,
claiming $50, 900 damages for betrayal,
is proceeding at San Francisco, Cal,
behind closed doors.
A Cleveland, Ohio, despatch says
that Gin six months from this date the
Standard Oil Company will close its
immense plant in that city and with.
draw n of the largest industries of
Cleveland" About 400 men will be
thrown out Of work.
The Premier Steel Works, at Indian
apolis, which has been in the hands of
a receiver since May, 1898, lying idle,
has been leased to a syndicate, COM
posed of he American Tin-plate Works
of Eiwood and the American Wire
Nail Company, of Anderson.
The statue of General Winfield Scott
was unveiled in Washington. The
President presided at the ceremonies
and made an address, and the Grafton
was delivered by Senator Palmer, of
Illinois.
Information has reached Memphis,
Tenn, of the hanging by a mob of
American mechanics at Puerto Barrios,
Guatemala, of Europe Adrian Harper
Dewitt, of Memphis. Dewitt had
killed a train dispatcher named Me-
Namara, and was in Jail for that crime.
He was a civil and mechanical 'engi-
neer
The woman who committed suicide
at The Colonnade Hotel in New York,
was identified as Mrs, Julia A. Biller,
81 years of age, of Newark, New Jer-
sey. She is said to have been men
tally deranged.
Jerome Council was placed on trial
in the Criminal Court in Baltimore,
charged with the murder Of Captain
Frederick Lang aud his wife in Novem-
Der last.
Simon Schullman. alias Stuldhaf,
who was arrested in Los Angeles, Cali
fornia, and taken to Denver to answer
the charge of arson, made a full con
f%ession. duplicating more than a dozen
Poles. 8
The places of the car strikers at Mil
waukee. Wis, have been filled and
street traffic restored.
Hostilities have broken out in Box
tuktown and Cedar Counties, /. T.,
and three murders have been com-
mitted.
Archbishop Fabre, of Montreal,
Can, has withdrawn mis- edict pro-
hibiting women from singing at public
church services.
Masked burglars bound the Raynor
sisters, helpless, In their home near
Middletown, N. Y, and robbed the
house.
Rev. Joseph f. Powell has been
sentenced to one year in the Penitent-
! larry for fraudulent registration al
/ Findlay, o., but an appeal has been
entered.
Rhinholte Dunsey and Michael
Rider have been arrested at Racine,
Wis, for placing ties on the tracks of
the Chicago d Northwestern Railroad
for the purpose of wrecking a train.
Thomas F. James, a laborer, was
found dead in the new city post Office
| building at Washington, DC, believed
to have fallen from an upper story
| while seeking reinstatement in en-
ployment.
Charged with embezzlement of funds
| from a corporation of Suffolk, Va, of
which he had been treasurer for seven
years, Major Claude W. Wright was
indicted but fled before he could be
arrested.
Charles ], Stewart, formerly OF the
| Haverly mlnstrels, and lately n OF
the managers of the Stewart aud
| Young graphophone combination, was
| shot by William Newell, alias kid
| Mccoy, an ex-convict, in a saloon al
Denver, Col. .
The Associated Liquor Dealers OF
| New York are formulating a campaign
against the social clubs that havt
sprung up all over the State with thu
evident purpose of evadlng the Raine'
Liquor Tax law, and a test case will b
made.
Earl Spencer and the Countess, hi
wife, who are making a tour OF tht
country, are at Buffalo, N. y,
Mrs. Henry Schwatka and he
6-year -old daughter were shot ant
killed by a Chinese cook at kreka
Cal.
Captain. f. S. S. Turner, of Wicomi
co County, Md, has been elected com
mander of the State fishery naval fore
OF Maryland.
The sum of $l15, 900 has been pre-
sented to Northwestern University b!
William Deering, of Evanston, Ind.
to swell the en- dowment fund
Samuel Gompers, president of tn
American Federation of Labor, ha
been summoned to Milwaukee, Wis.
at the request of the street car strikers
Major c. W. Wright. ex- Town Treas
urer, at Suffolk, Va, against whom
three indictments were found for EN-
bezzlement, has surrendered and wa
bailed in $4,000.
William Nj. White, a newspaper ma
who, while drunk, shot and killed Rob
!. ert Mitchell, a negro hackman, a
Jacksonville, Fla, in February, wa
acquitted.
Albert C. Kuttel,a fireman employe
on the steamship Normania, Of tn