The Penn's Grove record., 1896-05-15

The Mexican troops are killing the
Indians who rebelled against the au-
thorities at Oxaca, Mex Twenty-Five
participants IN the uprising have been
shot, and over 100 made prisoners.
Carl Bergman, an inmate of the
Wartburg Home for Aged, in Brook
Ign, n. y, who was accused of max
ing cigars illegally, says he would
rather be in the ~Penitentiary than in
the Home.
Henry Bolln, ex City Treasurer, has
been convicted of embezzling the sum
of $105, 500 OF public funds of the city
and school board Of Omaha, Neb.
DIR. w. johnson, colored, Bishop of
the Kansas district of the Mount Zion
Church." was arrested at Fort Scott on
an indictment charging him with max
ing false pension aiiidavits.
Judge Hosmer, in Detroit, denied
the application for a new trial in the
case of ex-Police Justice j. Blair Simp-
son, who was convicted a couple OF
weeks ago of attempted criminal assault
on a young woman, and sentenced
Simpson to six years imprisonment.
A. NJ. $. Hilgard, a prominent young
lawyer of Spokane, Washington,
climbed over the railing of a bridge
directly over the big falls, and, in plain
view of a large number of pedestrians.
fired a bullet through his brain and
dropped into the Spokane river, 46 feet
below. His body was swept over the
falls" !
John Stroud, a 65 year cid New
Yorker, blow his brains out.
Five firemen we're injured by falling
walls at a st. Louis fire.
The Premonterio mine, in Mexico,
has been sold TO an English syndicate
for 81, SOC, 600.
Between 300 and 400 Boston paint
ers went on strike for an increate of 10
cents Il day.
Failing to get work ]. II. Blewett,
of Wheeling, w. Va. committed sui
eide at Sparrow's Point, Baltimore.
The Collegiate Church, next to Trim
ity the richest church in New York,
celebrated its 200 h anniversary.
\ flying Chicago trolley a jumped
the track and injured NichoIas II.
Meyer, Mrs. Bessie Boettiger, Benia-
min Wegforlh and Emma Moses.
Martha Maturn, of Buffalo, follow
ed her lover, David II. Lane, 10 Cleve-
land. o, seriously wounded him and
| then tried to shoot herself, but was
foiled by her corset.
Friends of Colonel Hahn, the New
York elevated railway manager, indlg-
| nantly deny the suggestion that he
committed suicide. They say he had
gone into the depot to examine the
| workings of an airbrake and was struck
uuawares.
The steamer Harry Brown was blown
up by the explosion of her boilers in
the Mississippi, 30 miles below Nicks'
burg. Eleven person were killed, and
SIX others who were injured were taken
to Nicksburg.
The Professor of Geology of Tenn
lCollese and a number of his students
visited Evans, a mining town five miles
lwest of Oskaloosa, Iowa, to demon
strate. While il n mine, about two
miles from the entrance, two of the
students strayed from the party and
we're lost. 1t is feared that they have
wandered into some deserted room anC
have been suffocated by black damp.
Alex. Mckenzie, a clerk in the
offices of the Pennsylvania Railroad, il
cleveland, Ohio, was found dead in
,be1, and Mrs. James Everingham, the
woman with whom he was living, wa
drunk in the same bed. Tire man had
died from a dose of suIphate IF zinc,
which the woman had given him.
Irwin L. Ford. a negro, was indict'
ed and arraigned in Washington
for. the murder of Else Kreglo NJ
May A.. Ford pies ded guilty. Judge
Cole refused to accept the prisoners
plea, saying the case was of o. much
gravity to permit a plea of guilty. The
case was set down for trial.
"Johnny" Houlihan, % years old
who was knocked out by Patsy
Nolan in a prize fight al New Britain.
Connecticut, died. The police ar
looking for Nolan.
A despatch from Ures, Missouri
says that John Lebner and Fores
Moss, the two young men who lief
NOgales, Arizona, two months ago, L
walk to Guatemala, have been kille'
by Yaqui Indians, west of that town.