The Penn's Grove record., 1896-12-25
aESSg Grove \. j. FaiDA9 .DRdGnHER v 1851

Reports of volunteers off ring their
services in the Cu1an army come
from many centres throughout the
country. II is likely that the provi-
sions of the neutrality law will be
evaded, the men going to Cuba 10
small attachments.
Alexander Hermann, the magician,
died 10 his private a as he was travel
ing from Rochester, N. Y, TO Brazil
ford Penna. s
William Lyman, of Middletown,
Connecticut, inventor Of the Lyman
gun sight, died in New York.
Silas A. Hudson, a first cousin of
General U. y. Grant, and ex Minister
to Central America, died at Burlington.
Iowa, aged 81 years.
The steamer Colorado, at New York
landed the captain and crew Of the
Gloucester fishing schooner Fredonia,
who were rescued from their disabled
and sinking vessel.
A freight locomotive on a side track
Of the Iron Mountain Railroad, ia
Gadshill, Mo, exploded. Engineer
Fitz 5era,d and Brakeman Frank Irby
were killed, and Brakeman James
Brady badly injured.
A boiler 10 the Kent wooden mill, in
C~enireville, r. L., exploded. Three
persons we're killed and one fatally IN
jured. One of the victims wa the wife
of one of the firemen. She had gone
to the mill with her husbands break,
fast.
The explosion Of a piano lamp in a
New York house resulted in the death
Of five persons.
Fifty horses were burned TO death by
a FIRE in Bernard Ivy's stable in Bro X.
Ign.
The Ryan Hotel annex and the
Schultz block and adjoining group of
business houses in st. PAU, Minne-
Gotta, were burned. Loss, $3.50, 0U0.
Aaron Goldsmith, his wife aud three
children were burned 10 death In their
home in New York city.
Four large business blocks at Bridge,
Mass, were burned; loss, $l10, 600.
ASwarrant was issued in Boston for
the arrest of Frank @. Miles. treasurer
of the Boston Safe Deposit Company,
charging him with the embezzlement
of $25, 0U0 fiom the Miles,
it is said, has absconded. his shortage
being estimated at $50. 900.
The discovery was made in Toledo,
Ohio, that 9 body o E e. Cart
wright, which was buried, had been
taken from the grave. II was found
in a box at an express Office, marked
for shipment to Cleveland. DR.. f. O.
HUT says two medical students sold
him the cadayer.
Sixteen or twenty stores and business
places In Fitzgerald, Ga, were burned.
A FIRE occurred in the Missouri Penn
Tertiary, at Kensas City, at midnight,
but the convicts were all removed to q
place of safety. Some of them help ed
fight the fire.
Four tollgates on the roads leading
into NicholasviIle, KY, were destroyed
by Regulators"
Chief of Police J. Kuhn and Patrol
man John Budd were probably fatally
shot in Alton, ILL.,, by three negroes,
whom they tried to arrest.
Hugo Wagner, in Buffalo, shot and
seriously wounded bis father end sister,
and later committed suicide. A quarrel
money matters was the cause. /
An explosion occurred in the Baltl-
more No. 2 shaft OF the Delaware and
Hudson Coal Company, at Wilkes
barre, while eighty men were at work.
Sixty Of the miners got out in safety,
but about twenty of them were i'm
prisoned for several hours and were
unconscious when reached by ~rescuing
after heroic work.
Judge Newburger, in New York,
sentenced Stephen A. Dutton to three
years in State prison and to pay a fire
of$5000 and to serve a days imprison-
ment for each dollar until the fine is
paid. button wal convicted of swind-
ing Miss Mary A. Godfrey OUT Of some
Washington real estate.
Jim Stone, a negro, charged with
assaulting Mrs. J. Nj. r. Green, Of
Msyfeld. Kentucky, vas taken from
the Jail at that place by a mob Of
masked men and lynched.
T~hirty-fye houses in Radford, Vir-
gina. were destroyed by fire, the dam
age amounting TO about $100, 600.
The Bee job printing rooms, in To-
edo, OHIO, were burned, loss, $50, 600.
At Ponchatouchs, La, Mrs. Foss
vas murdered and her mother was
'eriously wounded by a negro who had
been raised on their place. Robbery
vas the probable motive. The muir
ierer escaped.to the swamps.
Ernest Hurd shot and killed w. H.
in self-defense at Radcliffe,
,ol. Nottingham accused Hurd OF
Ilienating his wife's affections and tried
o kill him.
The sentence of John Lemmons,
lnder conviction for the murder OF
Lynch, has been commuted
~ the Governor of Tennessee to life
imprisonment. He was condemned to