The Penn's Grove record., 1896-05-08
News THROUGHOUT
The COUNTRY.
North. East. West. South.


Twenty school children were injured
by IL Runaway team in Milwaukee,
Wis, one probably fatally.
The police census of Baltimore, MI,
indicates a population of 625, $40 per.
sons, of whom 125,O4S are voters.
Charleston, S. G., has voted unanl-
mousiy To exempt from taxation for
five years any factories established.
there,
While crossing a river at Fairfield,
Me-, a boat containing II persons was
caI,sizcd and Wilbur Alan WAS drowned
Editor Carmack, being unable to
agree with the policy of the Memphis
tTenn.) Commercials appeal, has re-
signed.
The Old Dominion Line steamer
Wyanoke, while leaving her dock at
Newport News, Virginia, fouled the
cruiser Columbia, which was lying out
in the stream at anchor, and sunk
under her forefont. The crew and pas
sengers were all saved and taken
ashore. The Columbia Sustained some
damage above the water line and will
repair at Norfolk.
Ex-Convict john Crouch, while try
ing TO hold up Sation Agent j. b.
| Wolfe, at Pine Platts, Tenn, WAS fa-
tally shot.
The jury failed to agree in the ease
of ex-City Treasurer Henry BolIn, of
Omaha, Neb., who was tried for en-.
bezzIing $3.50 o
Charles Kuhn, an extensive real es-
tate dealer in st. Lonis, Mo, has dis
appeared, leaving unpaid claims to the
extent Of 800, 000.
In Prince Edward County (Va.)
Court Mary Alternately was found guilty
of murder l II the first degree for the
killing of Mrs. Pollard.
Walter X. Freeman, an electrical
engineer, was sentenced in New York
; city TO ten years imprisonment for an
assault upon a 15-year-old girl.
Cashier Robert A. Robinson, of the
Peoples and Drovers' Bank, Washing
ton Court House, O., has been in
dicted on ten counts for embezzle-
ment.
Dora Wagner, who was found dead
in her room in It. Louis, Mo-, is sup
posed to have been choked to death
by a Chinaman with whom she lived.
Deputy Sheriffs William Green and
w. J. Kelly, who left Trinidad, Col,
a week ago to arrest cattle thieves. are
supposed to have been murdered. 3
An attempt was made at ~Pawtucket,
from New York to Boston by piling
distractions on the track.
The Fire Commissioners of New
York city will send a team of fremen
to England to represent that city at
the coming tournament in London.
Crazed with jealousy, Albert B.
Keroy, colored. a waiter at the Raiuer
Grand Hotel, Seattle, Wash, shot and
killed his wife and then killed HIM
self.
The Standard Oil Company's build
ing, at No. &c Broadway, New York
city, will have six stories added TO
1T, making the structure Is stories
high.
Olga Nethersole, the actress, has
been sued in New York city by Ac-
tress Estelle Jordan. who claims So
600 for an alleged Infringement on
her rights in the play of Carmen
The Grand Jury at New Orleans,
La, has requested the production Of
| original kilograms from the Western
Union Company touching the Louis
lana Gubernatorial investigation.
At Maggie, Quebec, the house of
| Jean Louis Mercier was destroyed by
fire, and his wife, son and daughter
persisted IN the flames. Another
daughter had her leg broken by jump
ing from tie garnet window. MIR. Mer-
cier was slso badly burned.
The Denver Manufacturing Com
pany's big brass and lock factory, at
Lakewood, Colorado, was entirely de-
stroyed by fire. Loss over slOO, OOO.
White Springs, Florida, was nearly
destroyed by fire.
Forest fires are reported To lie devas-
taling farms and woodlands in Craw-
| ford and Clark counties. Indiana.
Reports reached Delaware, Ohio, OF
a cloudburst in the village of Waldo, a
few miles north of there, in which
four persons are said to have been
killed.
Mrs. Thomas Bailey and her 10
year-old daughter were killed at their
home in Raleigh, North Carolina, by
lightning.
Two men we're killed and two seri-
ously injured by an explosion of dyna'
mite at the works of the New Glasgow
Gold Company, at Goldenville, Nova
lScotia.
Judge Parker, at Fort Smith, Ar
kansas, sentenced six members OF the
Buck gang OF outlaws to be hanged
on July l.
At Newburgh, N. Y, ex-Mayol
Abram S. Cassidy, a lawy er, vel
known throughout the State, shot him
self in the region of the heart, Infilct
ling fatal injuries. He had suffered
from ill health several months and /:
supposed to have been mentally de
ranged.
William Paul wal hanged at Colum
bus, O., recently for the murder O
Jacob Yockey, his father-in-l law, il
September, 1894.
During the races at Lexington, Ky.
tom Meade, a we!l-known bOokmakei
Twas robbed of $1,000.
!, General Fitzhugh Lee took the oat
of Office and executed his bond as Cor
sui General to Cuba in Richmond
Va.
Mrs. Booth Tucker, the Salvation
e Army leader, is dangerously i'll at SaI
Francisco, Cal.
A line of steamers has been organ
: lied in Canada to ply between the d.
minion and France.