The Penn's Grove record., 1896-10-16
NEWS THROUGHOUT
THE COUNTRY.
North, South, East, West.

Rev Chauncey B. Brewster, rector o
Grace Episcopal Church, Brooklyn, N
Y, has Withdrawn his name rs candi
date for Bishop Of New York.
President J.. Tdwhd Simmons. Of
the Fourth National Bank, New York,
has been chosen president of the Clear
ng House Association of that city.
The American Board of Connie.
sioners for Foreign Missions is holding
its eighty-seventh annual meeting in
Toledo. The years receipts were $743,
104.
While testifying in a c urt in Chi
cago, ILL.,, Clifford B.. E,erham, Of
the Western Union Telegraph Com.
pany, was stricken viii heart disease
and died.
Two engines coIIIded on the South.
ern Pacific at Friens station, Albany,
Ore. killing two persons and injuring
four others. The dead are: Fireman
MtGoogle, of Portland, and Brakeman
Toigh. The injured are: Engineer
Porter, Engineer McCauley, DR.. Wall,
and Brakeman Lewis. The engines
were sent out from Rcseburk and Dill
lards station bound in opposite direc.
tons. There was a misunderstanding
over the orders and the collision occur-
red when they met at Friens. 3
immigration Commissioner Stump
sailed from New York for Southam-
ton He will appear before the Itsl-
ian Parliament in relation TO emigra
ton.
Mrs. Herman OsIrichs, of New
York, aud Miss Virginia Fair, her sis
ter, were served with subpsnas at San
Francisco, Cal, for their appearance
in Court, November 9, when the trial
of the Fair will case will ba COM
menced.
A disastrous tornado is reported
south of Edmond, o. T., in which
several persons we're injured.
Abraham Shepherd and William
Vanernun, b~ookmakers, we're held up
and robbed of $1450 by footpads in
Chicago, Ill.
A dispatch from Key West, Fla,
states that the steamer Leona, at that
port from New York, reports a large
steamer ashore on Elbow Key.
All the parsphernalia of the last
Peary expedition to Greenland, to-
gether with polar hears and Esquimo
dogs and a quantity of skins, minerals
and fossils, arrived in New York, and
we're taken to the museum of natural
history in Central Park. 4
Actor William Insel, a we'll known
German actor, hanged himself at Chi
cago, I'll.
A large tar still al the Standard Oil
Refinery, Lima, o., exploded, fatally
burning William Pstricks and A. ].
McElroy.
Ezra Rosco, the confessed murderer,
at Maryville, Kan, who was in danger
of iynching, has been removed to st.
Joseph, Mo.
The year-oid child of~Mrs. John
Clauer was burned to death in a New
York city tenement by a live coal ig-
hitting lis dress.
Pascoe ST.. Leger Greenfell. who
who made his home in New York city
was among the slain during the recent
Matabele uprising in South Africa.
The suit of the Hawaiian %exiles,
claiming 500, 600 damages each, has
been postponed 10 the Supreme Court
at Vancouver, b, c., until January 3.
The Government of Brazil has ap.
pointed a special commission to con,
slider measures OF financial relief, in
order to avert threatened bankruptcy
in that country. !
George Apo, the notorious witness
before the Lexow Investigating Com
mittee in New York city, has bee n
sent to an insane asylum.
John A. Green, editor CT the Gull
Breeze" and postmaster at Daphne,
Ala, il charged with the embezzlement
OF $3.50 Of post Office funds.
During a political meeting at Chap
lin. KY, Joe Preacher shot and killed
| William BeelIng; but the tragedy did
not stop the demonstration.
Earnest B. Hasseltine, of Columbia,
s. c., had pleaded guilty to breach o.
trust with fraudulent intent in using
$4,000 of the Bank OF Lancaster, OF
which he was assistant cashier, and
was sentenced to 81 months in the
penitentiary.
Granville Harbert and his daughter,
of Lima, Ohio, were poisoned by eat
ing biscuit made with Hour with which
rat poison had been mixed. othel
members of the family are in a preca'
| rious condition.
Boston will be recommended as the
torpedo boat station OF the service.
St. Panl's Universalist Church, Chi
cago, H., will advertise ITS services or
bill boards.
Charles Hadworth and Henry Welsh
were executed in Oklahoma Territory
for murder.
Frank Mccormick, of New York,
aged 16, was arrested Tor peing
chrome drunkard.
The British Museum, at Honolulu,
will build a $3.50, 600 aquarium for the
study of Pacific marine life.
While temporarily demented Mrs,
John Stewart, of New York, jumped
from a house top and landed on q IRE
escape. She may die.
In a suit for $40, 900 damages, Judge
Caldwell, in the United States Circuit
Court of Appeals, at st. Louis, Mo-,
decided that a railroad company must
keep its vestibules secure.
The great West Indian hurricane
ragged with great severity along the en-
tire New Jersey, Long Island and New
England coasts. Train service to the
various points on the New Jersey shor'
was entirely out off aud great damage
was reported. On the Long island
coast many buildings were washed
away. The wind reached a MAXIMUM
velocity of 50 miles an hour,