The Penn's Grove record., 1896-09-04
gEVs THROUGHOUT
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yorced wife, and then killed himself.
Hugh O'Donnell, of Philadelphia,
was crushed under a train at Bingham
ton, N. ", and is dying at a hospital.
John A. Lightner, a farmer of Au-
gusta County, Va, was killed by being
thrown from his buggy on a pile OF
stone.
An explosion of gas occurred at the
Maui coal mine, at Princeton Indiana.
Charles Gasimer is missing and it is
feared that he was killed.
The British steamer Moldavia ran
into an iceberg on the Newfoundland
banks and sank soon after. The crew
took to the lifeboats, and thirty-five
hours later were rescued by the steam.
er CIrcassian. j
Charles Leonard, of Detroit, Mich,
father of Lillian Russell, was stricken
with paralysis.
Mr.. and Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt
Jr., sailed for Europe on the steamer
Majestic from New York.
The powder mills at Goes Station,
O., were destroyed by an explosion and
several employees were killed.
Kate Fields body, upon its arrival
from Honolulu, will be cremated by
the New York Cremation Society.
By a powder explosion at the Miami
ComFany's mil, near Xenia, o., Chas.
Higgins and Frank Richie were killed.
In retaliation for an insult Captain
7. w. Lund, of the Nshant steamship
line, horsewhipped General Agent
Flanders in Boston.
Abraham Hinson, a wealthy planter
neal Dansville, KY. was waylaid by
several brothers named Virgins, and
beaten to death.
Harold Morse, son Of Professor
Morse, of Amherst (Mass.) College
was accidentally drowned from a rafI
in Freshman River.
Efforts to arbitrate the differences
between miners aud mine owners al
Coronado Mines, neal Lsadyille, COL,
have proved a failure.
The New York Republican Conven-
ton. in Saratoga, nominated f. s
Black, at present a member Of Con
gress from Troy, for Governor, anc
T. +. Woodruff for Lieuten ant Gov
ernor. 4
an express train on the Boston anc
Maine Railroad was thrown from the
track by a defective switch at Co cord
New Hampshire. Fifteen persons were
hurt, several fatally.
An open switch on the Boston and
Maine Railroad, in Charlestown, Mas
sachusetts, caused II collision between
a passenger and a freight train. The
engineer and fireman of the freigh.
train, r. i. Tucker and William
Noyes, were seriously injured.
No lives were lost by the fire a
Ontonagon, Michigan, which destroyed
SIS, 900, 900 feet of lumber.
Burglars we're surprised in the stort
of Volney Noxon. of Birmingham
Michigan, and one of them was sho
dead, another captured and a thirt
escaped. Their identity IS not known
While playing in an alley in Chi
cago, Gustave Diebing, 10years of age
was shot and instantly killed by VIII
lie Ritzenthaler, s years old. TIT
latter was practicing with a rifle. l
General Passenger Agent F. nj
Drake, of the Big Four, dropped deat
in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
Lightning set fire to the Iowa State
Institution for the Predetermined a
Glenwood, and it was destroyed. entail
ing a loss of $500 U The inmate
we're removed in safety.
Forest fires are raging in the v%icinit.
OF Ashland, Wisconsin, and doins
great damage.
The distribution of supplies in tn
burned town of Ontonagon, Michigan
has been so impeded by the lawles
e ement, which found a stock of liquo
in Che ruins of a saloon, that it wa
necessary to call in outside assistanc,
to restore order.
BY the collision of two trolley car
on the electric railroad between Nortl
Attleboro, Mass, and Pawtucket, X
L., a number of persons Wee injured.
John Crowley, a tramp in the Ksla
mazoo, Mich, Jail, has confessed tina
he committed a murder for which
man named Swar Q is now serving
life sentence in prison. The murde
was committed seven years ago ant
Swartz was convicted on circumstantia
evidence.
Henry NJ. Cowan, clerk at Demo
cratic State Committee headquarters a
Raleigh, N. c., committed suicide b,
blowing out his brains. He was +
eight years chief clerk in .the Stat
Treasury and was IA well known Ere
Mason. Ills mind was affected.
Two schoouers Of the British Coluni
bia sealing feet have be en- seized in Il
Boring Sea by the American patrol an
otdered home. They were sealin
within the prescribed limits.
Phillip Kearney, a naval cadet iron
Missouri, has been dismissed from I'll
Naval Academy for marrying II youn
lady living ear Annapolis. 1t !
charged that he represented himself t.
be 20 years old, while heis but IL.
At Michigantown, Ind, leaking ga
blew up and killed Robert Hanna,
workman.
Signal Service Sergeant Ivy Baldwin
fell from his balloon and was fatal!
hurt at Denver, Col.
Wholesale liquor dealers and distil
lers from many States are at Cleveland
O., trying to combine.
Dependent because of the recen
death OF his wife, wealthy Emmett 3