The Penn's Grove record., 1896-02-14
news THROUGHOUT
!. THE COUNTRY.

THE COUNTRY.
! North. East. West. South.
Adjutant Martin Howe, of the Sol.
diers' and Sailors Home, at Grand
Island, Neb., has been dismissed for
mismanagement.
b. d. Mills, OF Lincoln, Neb., presi-
dent of the defunct State Bank, Of Re-
publican City, Neb., has been arrested
for embezzlement.
Judge Speer, of the United States
court, at Macon, Ca, has refused q
new trial to Mrs. Noble, under sent.
ence of death for numbering her hus-
band.
The schooner Compeer has arrived
at San Francisco, with the crew of the
British ship Nlnevah, who were picked
up at sea after DESERVING the ship,
which was sinking.
Richard Kloettke, a carpenter, shot
and killed his wife, his father and
mother and his three children and him.
self, in Chicago, on Tuesday night. It
is supposed that he chloroformed his
victims first. He had been out of work
for some time and had no money.
An indianapolis despatch says that
t'persons who were at the wreck on the
Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago and st.
Louis Railroad, at Tanners Creek, in
Dearborn county, declare that seven or
eight tranips were killed." Officers of
the company insist that but one was
killed.
In connection with the earthquakein
Northeastern Nebraska, a Butte des-
patch says that about Is miles north of
that place 'the ground ia very warm,
and in some places the smoke and heat
is SO intense that it is uncomfortable" 4
A hurricane swept the Atlantic Coast
from Florida to Maine. The path of
the storm centre was within, or very
nearly parallel to, the coast line, pas
sing close to Atlanta, Raleigh and
Washington.
The coast has been lined with wrecks
and all the harbors oil refuge are filed
with craft.
The New York State Assembly has
adopted a resolution providing for an
investigation of the alleged coal trust.
Mrs. Neuman, daughter of Captain
Dawson, D. s. A., has sued her hus-
band, Lieutenant b. 8. Neuman, of
the cruiser. Charleston, for divorce.
Martin Finell was killed and Joseph
Mcintyre and George Bradley serious
ly injured by an explosion of giant
powder near Anaconda. Mont.
Fred. H. Brun{ of Lyon County,
Ia, while visiting in Germany, Nas
held for mill tary service, and an APP
peal will be made to the State I. kart
ment. q
r. j. Moore, e~x-secretafy of the
Centralia, ILL.,, Building and Loan As
sociation, who signed recently, has
mysteriously diff ppeared.
John N~alkinville shot his fellow
crook, William Smith, at Winnepeg,
Manitoba, and buried him in the
snow, but Smith revived and had his
assailant arrested.
The Hon. Joseph Allison, President
Judge of court of Common Pleas No.
/, Philadelphia, died at his home, No.
42U7 Walnut street.
Adespatch from Velasco, Texas, says
that the Brazos river is higher than
ever known and that the town Is now
an island. Two white men and one
negro were drowned.
Thousands OF cattle were drowned by
the food In the Pearl river, Missis-
sippi.
The plant of the Tri-City Packing
and Provision Company, in Davenport,
Iowa, was destroyed by fire. Loss,
s125, 900, partially covered by insur-
ance.
Grace Presbyterian Church in st.
Louis, was totally Destroyed by fire; loss,
$50, 000.
A fire on Franklin street, New York l
city, cau,ed losses to the following 4
firms: w. N. Jennings, printers.
$40, 900; Simpson 4 Perkins, envel-
opes, S25, 900, and John Simmons &
Co.. iron pipes, 800, 900.
The West Virginia State Norma
School building, at West Liberty, was
destroyed by fire.
Minnie Specht, aged ., and Harry |
Botzen, aged z, we're killed, and Edw.
Hill, aged IS, was seriously injured in
Brooklyn, by The fall Of a brick chim-
ney at the ruins of a burned cottage.
Peter Atkins, a blacksmith, Of Mid
dletown, N. Y, and a companion. I
named Maud Kelley, were drowned in
the Wall Kill river, at Hopkins
Bridge.
II. II. Honeycutt, a preacher, aged
81 years. living six miles west of Nor
hilton, Ark. killed a 10-months-oid
child of a widow who kept house for
him. The child was crying and
H~oneycutt picked the little n up,
gave it a slap on the head, then shook
il, breaking its neck.
Wood, VINO is implicated in the
tragic fate of Pearl Bryan, whose MUIR
dered body was found some days ago
at Fort Thomas, Kentucky, near Gin.
cinnat, was forced to leave his home
at Green Castle, Indiana, as it was
feared that a l~ynching was imminent
The Norwalk Co.) Chronicle has ar
ranged for the full leased wire service |
of the United Press.
Hon. jeremiah Halsey, lawyer of
Nowwich, Conn. died at the Hotel
hamilton, Washington, D. O.. at the
Hotel Hamilton, D. c., aged rs years
The Anneke Jaus Company, Of
Cleveland, O., has been incorporated
to collect evidence in the Jams estate.
A train on the Cleveland and Cam