The Penn's Grove record., 1896-10-09

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Counterfeit fifty zen pieces have ap-
peared at shenandoah.
The boundary line dispute between
Union and Snyder Counties has been
settled on the survey of 1850.
While walking in the Drifton Mines
at Tamaqua, Caesar Calabanski wa
struck by a car and killed.
Burglars entered the store OF A. M.
F. Stiteler, at Byers, Chester County,
and stole $50 worth of shoes and other
goods. 3
N. Pearson has been appointed post
master at Peeley.
Jacob Schugart, a carpenter of Haz.
Teton, has been myste,iously missing
from home.
G. II. Graft, the agent of the United
States Industrial Insurance Company,
at Fast Mauch Chunk, has disappeared.
Albert Conrad, of Dunmore, shot at
sparrows and killed Harry NJ. Spencer's
hunting dog, for which a Judge says he
must pay 1877.
A trolley car on the Philadelphia e.
Delaware County Road ran into a flock
of sheep, near Clifton Heights, and
killed four.
Aaron Hahn, who, while a policeman,
murdered John Smith in Lebanon last
May, was sentenced to the Eastern
P~enitentiary for twelve weeks.
Harry Felenbaum, a countryman,
who had never before used gas, turned
it off, then on again and went to sleep
in his hotel room at Columbia, and
nearly died before rescue came.
The part of the cyclone that struck
Pennsylvania did about a million and
a half dollars worth of damage, killed
four people that are known and injured
a great many.
1t is believed that two men were
killed by the falling of the big Column
bia bridge over the ~Susquehanna River,
which entails a loss of ii quarter of a
million dollars. The bridge was a
mile and a quarter long.
Sixty houses were wrecked at Sha-
mokin, fire destroying eight of them.
Many people we're injured. People of
the Juniata Valley fed to escape the
foods.
Innumerable houses and barns were
unroofed, and railroad traffic was seri-
ously injured. Telegraph and tele-
phone lines were blown down, and
many cities we're cut off from com
munication. II was the worst destruc-
ton for years.
The extensive tobacco, grain and
fruit crops of the State are entirely
destroyed in many places.
John Knko, an alleged counterfeiter,
has been SEM from New Philadelphia
TO Pottsville Jail,
Jumping from a coal train neal
Scranton. Stanley Newton, u student
was cut in two by a milk train.
Having fallen asleep on the railroad
at Hszleton, John Dugan, of Mahsnol
City, was beheaded by ca wheels.
After much discussion Columtia's
school hoard has decided to have nc
Greek or German taught in the high
school.
A baby with the richest Of silk cloth
ing was abandoned in a Telescope va
lise on John d. KelIy's doorstep, VIII
Transport.
By the \ rays P%ittshurg physiciant
discovered a needle in a wonlan's ell
bow. which had worked up from he
hand.
Farnum Lyon, who killed William
Patterson, a contractor, while leaving
his wife's bedroom, has been acquitted
of murder at Coudersport.
Pittshurg police have stopped JOIN
P. Quinn, a reformed gambler, from
exposing gambling methods, alleging
that he does mora harm than good.
r. E. Campbell has been appointet
postmaster at GoodelI.
John Schmidt, of P~arryville, fell IN
der a locomotive and was cut TO pieces
James Burchili fell off a trolley ca
between Mt. Carmel and Shsmokln ant
was killed.
Two deaf mutes arraigned at Norris
town for stealing a bicycle PLEADED
guilty through an Interpreter.
Sixteen-year-old John Lynch fel
from a railroad trestle at Shenandoah
and sustained fatal injuries.