The Penn's Grove record., 1896-10-09
NEWS THROUGHOUT
THE COUNTRY.
North. South. East. West.

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5 Tie loss of life and damage to prop
erty outside of the city may be greater
than now known.
Hardly a house In this city, escaped
without more OF less damage, though
there are few comparatively total
wrecks.
Reports from Brunswick, Ga, state
that the storm was very severe there
and at adjacent points. A number of
lives were lost and the property loss
will exceed a million.
A severe southeast hurricane struck
Baltimore. Houses were unroofed,
wires Frustrated, windows smashed
and sign-boards blown from their fast
enings. The high wind forced the water
in the harbor up into the bed of the
streets, and almost the entire northern
water front is submerged.
Several schooners that were tied up
at Pratt street wharf broke from their
moorlngs and are resting in the mid
die of Pratt street. The lower Aoors
and cellars of many warehouses we're
flooded.
The first case of leprosy ever dis
covered In Montreal has resulted in the
death of the patient.
John Dotson quarreled owe politics
with Tom Saunders, at Ottersville,
Mo-, and was shot and killed.
Miss Cora Mount and Mr.. and Mrs
Frank Coomer were fatally burned by
a natural gas explosion at Windfall,
Ind.
The North German Lloyd steamer
Sasle grounded on the bar of Flynn's
Knoll, heal Sandy Hook, but fioated
off at high tide.
James I. Newton, of Houston, Tex,
fatally shot his mother-in-law Mrs.
Thomas l.. Lyons, and her daughter,
and severely wounded his brother-in-
law.
Three desperate criminals escaped
from the jai in Sacramento, CAL, by
digging a tunnel under the walls. One
of them, Frank McCarty, was recap
tnred. .
Fourteen New York landlords were
arrested for renting to objectionable
tenants,
Albert George Whitehead, the ex-
Irish prisoner, has been committed to
the Asylum for the Insane, at Amity-
vile, n. y.
A report in New York city that the
R%othschilds had purchased the remain
ing half of Anaconda mines is author
itanvely denied.
Young William B. Flesh, recently
accused of killing his father in a New
York hotel, was too ill too appear fol-
a hearing,
The Twenty eighth and Twenty
ninth Streets Railroad Company, in
New York city, was sold to Charles w.
Truslow on a bid of $4,000, and it ID
believed he acted for the Metropolitan
Traction Company.
Attachments against the property Of
former Police Commissioner of New
York city, John McClave, have been
granted in two actions brought by the
Garfield National Bank to recover
1856, 900 for money loaned.
II wal reported that a disastrous
hurricane had visited jacksonville,
Fla, and that 40 lives have been lost.
Governor McLaurin, of Mississippi,
reports the cotton crop in that State IN
excellent condition.
Lawyer George w. Wilson, of New
York city, has been adjudged insane
and committed to an asylum.
August Kaiser, a steerage passenger
on the teamer Havel. from Germany
! drowned himself in mid-ocean,
Thomas +. Kelly, of Brooklyn, N
V, IS under arrest for marrying Mis-
May Scherrer while he had a wife liy
ing.
Toe United States steamer Alliance
sailed from Funchal, Madeira, for st
Kits, West Indies, homeward bound
Thomas Newkirk and Henry Ash
craft fought a duel over pretty Mar,
n Dean, near marlborough, KY, an(
o both we're xii ed.
U The paymaster Of the United State
steamship Boston was robbed by tw'
II seamen of $1,000 at Shanghai, but tn
thieves were caught.
/ General Nelson A. Miles made
narrow escape from serious injury
: while driving in San Francisco, CAL,
by the team running away ;
Ii Hung Chang, the recent distln
guished guest of Philadelphia, has ar
rived safely at Tien-tsln, China.
q George Rufus Willing, a stable nan
: ager at Niagara Falls, N. y, vii
claim the estate of Lord Dudlow, o
England.
Q William Sheppard, while stealing
ride, was pushed from a train by
brakeman near Stratford, Conn, an,
killed.
i n. A. Kenyon, II years of age, o
- Colorado Springs, Col, climbed to th
, summit of Pixies Peak and returne,
: in II bours.
? The ~five-year-old daughter of Mre
> Mary Koch, of Danbury, Conn, VIII
! was bitten by a dog two weeks ago, i
dying of hydrophobia.
The Pacific steamship NJ. Yama
guchi Hsru is four days overdue il
Seattle, Wash.
o d. r. Blount, commission mel
y chant, jumped or fell from a ferry boa
- at Norfolk, Va. He was saved.
The Hartford, Conn, Equal Right
Club has appointed a committee t
Y raise funds for the erection Of a statu
OF Harriet Beecher Stowe.
By the burning of Spencer Academ.
at Antlers, Indian Territory, fou
q Choctaw boys were burned to deaf
/. and five were injured.
The old deserted brewery, at Gutter