The Penn's Grove record., 1896-06-12
Pennsylvania
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class postmaster at scott Raven.
Postmaster E. +. Bogert assumed
charged of the Wilkesbarre mail dis
pensary.
After a prolonged fight, w. Fills
Wise was appointed Chief of Police at
Williamsport,
Judge Clayton astonished a Media
grand jury by saying he had heard
that recently that jurors had been APP.
preached by those interested in cases.
Remonstrances we're filed in the
SehuIkiIl Court against the incorpora-
ton of a portion of Kline township
into n borough, TO be designated
Macadoo, the directors being mainly
saloon.keepers
While crossing the Northern Contra
tracks, near Troy, the milk wagon of
Vine Williams. 60 years old, was
struck and he was killed.
David O. Davis, of Bangor, was
struck by a derrick wheel, knocked into
a quarry and drowned in the 20 feet of
water in the bottom.
Miss Stella Bauer, living near Al
burtis, Lehigh County, has sued Frank
Schmoyer, of the same place, for $10,-
600 for breach of promise.
The Coroner's jury blamed nobody
for the Buck Ridge mine explosion,
which killed George Faust and John
Thompson. The others will recover
Legal proceeding have been begun
in the Schuylkill County Courts to test
the right of Charles y. Shindel to hold
the offices OF CHIEF Burgess of Tamaqua
and notary public at the same time.
The second 10-inch gun of the order
for 100 finished guns for the United
States army, made by the Bethlehem
Iron Company, was successfully tested
at the company's proving grounds. 8
A train at Cressona ran over and
killed Mrs. John Dalton, Of Schuylkill
Haven
Pottsyille Borough Council contem-
plates the building of an electric light
plant.
Orwigsburg, by a vote of its citizens,
decided to increase the municipal debt
10 enlarge lpe WateT Workb.
The trial of Policeman Hahn. who
shot and killed John Smith at Leba-
non, has been postponed until septem-
Der.
Mayor Smeltz, of Lancaster, is an
up-to-date official and recommended a
filtration plant at the city water
works.
Judge Clayton, of Media, declared
the act of 1877 relating to the protec-
ton of livery stable keepers as uncon-
stltutional.
The six Phnnixville boys who armed
themselves and started for the West to
hunt Indians were captured In Phila-
delphia and sent home. 4
The Providence Hosiery mills, at
Bristol, recently burned, will be re-
built.
s. A. Phillips was reelected for the
thirtieth time to the presidency of the
Mintrsville School Board.
Having his head caught in machin-
cry at a Bethlehem iron mill, Herman
Seipert was fatally mangled.
During the absence of Rev. T. s.
Haines and his family from Easton
burglars looted their home.
Aged Peter W. Frey, but recently
released from the insane asylum,
hanged himself at Millersville.
After shooting his wife, George Ur-
ban, at Millvale, Allegheny, put a bull.
ct in his own brain, The wife will
recover
The first steel freight cars eve built
have been made for the Carnegie Steel
Company and they will carry so per
cent. more weight than wooden cars.
By a vote of the stockholders, the
capital stock of the Westinghouse
Manufacturing Company, in Allegheny
County, was increased from $40, 0O0,-
600 to $15. 900. 0O0. B
John Mccarthy. of louisville, was
crushed to death on a bridge, at Mil
waukee, Wis.
The Dubois Eapress will be incorpor-
ated under the name, Express Printing
and Publishing Company. l
Five.year-old Alice Dreher was run
over by a trolley tar at Shamokin and
was killed.
Samuel A. Welsh, of Philadelphia,
has been appointed as temporary draft
ing clerk IN the Department of Internal
Affairs.
Samuel Oswald, a member Of the
editorial staff of the KMdnnin9 Frte
Press, committed suicide by shooting.
Valentine W. Wieanit, aged 73, of
Molltown, near Reading, swallowed
one and a half tablespoonfuls of paris
green and died.
]. w. Kelley, son of the late Eugene
Kelley, the New York millionaire, had
his ankle broken in a bicycle accident
at Stroudsburg.
The 14-year-old daughter of James
Bell, of Eleanor Mines. nea Dubois,
was killed by lightning while closing a
window.
Harvey Harner, n farmland, en-
pioyed by William sheppard, of Ply
mouth Meeting, has disappeared and
foul play is suspected.
Luigi Consondino. the star witness
in the Membreto murder trial at Nor
ristown, was sentenced to one year,
the full extent Of the law, for assault
and battery.
While suffering from typhoid fever
RhineharI R,var at SraIDinrtOWn,
neal Nanticoke, left his bed, and
throwing himself into the neighboring
canal basin, was drowned. 2