The Penn's Grove record., 1896-01-03
NEWS THROUGHOUT
THE COUNTRY.
North. East. West. South.

North. East. West. South.
The Buffalo Traction Company has
been granted a charter to run cars 10
Buffalo, N. Y, the fare not to exceed
4 cents. with one cent for transfers.
General William M. Osborne, ex.
police commissioner of Brooklyn, who
has returned from Louisiana, fatty
denied the charge OF buying votes fol-
Mayor Mckinley in that State.
Policeman Henssler, of New York,
was handed q bundle by a citizen, with
the remark: Here's 4 Christmas gift
for you" The man disappeared, and
the policeman found he had a live baby
on his hands.
Thomas Quinn and Kate Mccarthy
were arraigned in a New York Police
Court and remanded on the charge oil
having stolen several thousand dollars
worth Of jewelTy and diamonds from
the residence of M. B. Curtis (Sam'l OF
Poeen).
A through freight on the Big Four
Railway was wrecked at Milford, In
diana, by running through a bridge.
The engine and one car passed over
the bridge safely, but the remainder
of the train, Is cars, went into the
river. The brakeman aud conductor
escaped serious injury by jumping.
Adespatch from Newfoundland, re-
ceiyed in Halifax, says it has uow been
learned there we're in all % persons on
the Inflated schooner Victoria, believed
to have foundered with all on board
off Cabot Island, on the Newfoundland
coast. Among them were a family
named Noteworthy, husband and wife
and five children. The stem of the
Victoria has been picked up at Horse
Island.
The magazine of the Smithdeal
Hardware Company, near Salisbury
N. c., containing 1900 pounds Of
dynamite and so kegs Of powder. blew
up. Two boys, George and Ira
Weaver, were hunting in the vicinity
at the time. 1t is thought that either
mischieyously or accidentally a bullet
from one OF their guns struck the
magazine. George WIS instantly killed
and Ira probably fatally wounded.
John Turner, aged Is, deliberately
turned a switch and wrecked a freight
train on the Ohio Southern Railroad,
near jackson, Ohio. Turner said he
chad been reading a novel about train
w~reckers."
Joseph Farrell, who was elected from
an indianapolis street car because he
was drunk and disorderly, threw Q
stone through the windows. He was
shot and killed by the conductor,
Roxey Williams.
AT Chattanooga. Tennessee, Wesley
Sprlggs, aged IL, fatally shot Walter
Brown, a lad of II, in the back of the
head. s'Spriggs was drunk and wanted
to have some fun making the boy run
from his pistol" 4
The Government OF Ottawa will es'
tablish a school for military instruction
at Montreal.
Forty members OF Liliuokalani'i
former royal band OF musicians are
stranded at Massillon, O,
Louis Schwartz, an old soldier, aftel
beng refused admission to the Soldiers
Home, at Dayton, O., hanged him
| self.
Four masked thieves held up a Mis-
sion street electric car, in San Fran.
'cisco, CAL, and robbed several Of thu
/ passengers.
Dependency, due to ili-health.
prompted John III. Hustled, q wealthy
Colorado miner, to shoot himself. a
Denver.
Pinkerton detectives have obtainet
! evidence that George Williams, for
merIy of GAINESVILLE, o., is one Of ths
gang OF tram robbers arrested in st
Louis, Mo.
Mrs. Margaret King, Of Greensburg
Ind, celebrated the one hundred ant
ninth anniversary of her birth OF
Christmas Day.
Henry Menier, Of Brooklyn, N. Y.
jumped from the big bridge at st. Paul
Mimi, Into the Mississippi River. HI,
wassnot seriously hurt.
The New York Life Insurance Com
pany will build a twelve story 'ofic,
building, to cost $1,0Qo. 600. ON tn,
site OF its present home, on broadway
New York.
George Mcdonald, of Way Cross
Ga, was shot and killed by A. ]. Nc
Donald.
During a quarrel about a girl, q
East Lynn, w. Va. Albert Adkinl
fatally shot Robert Carey.
DR.. James, Edmund Reeves, a dis
tinguished physician ct Chattanooga
Tenn, is in 8 dying condition.
A magazine containing 1000 pound
Of dynamite exploded at Lockport, Ill
and shattered several buildings.
DE- Eugene n. west, ttlou AOr mai
practice on Miss Addie Gilmour, at Sar
Francisco, CAT, has been acquitted.
The body Of Harry Hayward, who
was recently hanged at Minneapolis
Ind, was cremated at Gracelans
Cemetery.
While attempting to arrest q desper
ado in the Indian Territory, Unitee
States Marshal McHenry was shot ant
killed.
A. A. Jones, of Los Vegas. N. NJ.
has been appointed United States At
torney to prosecute suits for timber
trespass against New Mexican concerns
Twenty.three persons were crushed
or trampled to death in a panic a
Front Street Theatre, in Baltimore
and several others were injured, some
of them fatally. The panic was started
by a cry Of .'ire' in the audience,
caused by a leak in a gas pipe. Thers
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