The Penn's Grove record., 1896-09-25

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For bigamy committed at ShamokIn,
Joseph Kline, of Mahanoy City, has
been arrested.
Stepping in front of one train to
avoid another at Pottsville, Joseph
Monk was killed.
George T. Ensinger, of the Franklin
Hotel, Carlisle, has purchased the
Washington House, at WaynesborO.
Jacob A. Billger will be placed on
trial at Esston for the murder OF his
s%tepfather, Daniel Ehly.
The Little Butcher" George Wege-
mast, was sentenced at Easton to eight
years in the Eastern Penitentiary for
burglary.
Tried at wilkesbarre for the killing
of Michael Heidke, John Grossech
pleaded guilty to- involuntary man
slaughter.
The only apparent outcome of the
Allegheny General Hospital investiga-
ton is that a male superintendent will
be appointed instead of a female, to
guard against future scandals. 3
W. A. Gallagher was appointed post
master at Bryan.
Andrew Graftus, a silk weaver, was
found drowned in Bushki | Creek, at
Easton.
Falling coal in a Shamokin c~olllery
killed Michael Rokosh and injured his
brother George.
While cunning at Clearfield, b. F.
Chase, a lawyer, accidentally shot him
self and may not recover.
The Pennsylvania State Sunday
School Association will hold its annual
meeting on October 10 at Carlisle.
Elk Messenger Agent J.. NJ. Hall, of
the Allegheny Valley Railroad, shot
and killed himself at his Allegheny
City home.
We tern Pennsylvania coal miners,
who have been receiving "a cents n ton,
have reduced the schedule rate to that
figure from 70 cents. 4
A lamp exploded and wrought sad
havoc in Benjamin. Barnes house, at
Coatesville.
A Lehigh University student, John
Auer, had both legs cut off by q train
from which he jumped at South Beth
lehem. D
Wllkesbarre expects to have u pure
water supply within a few weeks.
A Pittsburg and Lake Erie train
broke all local records by running 6S
miles in "A minutes.
For personating Healer Writers, of
Ephrata, Levi Glassmeyer was arrested
at Palmyra.
Runaway horse, belonging to Jacob
Frank, ran bodily into the bulk win
dow of A. l.. Criswelrs store. at
Waynesboro.
Many empty whisky barrels, without
the stamps thereon defaced, have been
discovered by revenue officers at Leb-
uon
Frank Daniels, a convict, doomed to
the Eastern Penitentiary, was so violent
in Jail at Reading that he was chained
to the floor in the dungeon.
Hanover has lust had a visit from
veteran James H. McAllister, of Dau
phin County, whose ancestor founded
that town in 1864, and who himself
has been for so years Registry Clerk
in the Auditor Generals office. /
A car of iron broke down and
wrecked FIVE others lear Geigertown,
on the Wilmington Il Northern Rail.
road.
Seyenteen.year-old Thomas Me-
Hugh Owed 81 feet from the Point
Bridge, Pittsburg, to the Monongahela
River, and swan out unhurt.
One-armed John Murphy, a young
law student at Harrisburg, was killed
by a bullet through his brain from a
pistol he was cleaning.
While riding on a locomotive which
collided with another at Meadvllle,
Milton E. Garland and Edward Harris,
of ~Englewood, ILL.,, were killed.
After having a suicides body mis-
takenly identified as his own, John
Schaffer has returned from the ALE
gheny mountains to his home in
Easton.
At Hill, Mercer County, Martin
Jacobs set a gun in his barn, pulled a
string tied to the trigger and fright
fully wounded himself, but failed to
effect his suicide as Planned.
Governor Hastings has signed the
pardon of John Bardsley and it rs
expected that he will be released. 1t
is said Bardsley suffered a stroke OF
paralysis and this FASTENED the Gov
ernor's action. :